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What it costs to build here, how long it takes, how to read a lot before you buy it, and what goes into the houses we put up. Plus progress on what we have going right now.

The finished two-story house at 2701 S Jones Street in Fort Worth

How long it takes to build a house in DFW, month by month

Most DFW builds run eight to twelve months from lot walk to keys, and the parts people expect to be fast usually aren't. Here's the honest month-by-month, and where schedules really slip.

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Living room with a shiplap fireplace wall and floating oak shelves at 1442 E Allen Avenue, Fort Worth

Twelve questions to ask a builder before you sign anything

Most people interviewing a builder ask about price and timeline and stop there. These are the twelve questions that actually tell you what it will be like to work with someone for the next year.

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Fort Worth neighborhood streets and lots from the air with the downtown skyline on the horizon

Where we build: Fort Worth, Arlington, Dallas and Sherman

Nineteen homes across five cities, and every one of them builds differently. What we've learned about lots, permits and neighborhoods in each part of the metroplex we work in.

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Two-story great room at 2416 Jewell Drive with a full-height blackened steel fireplace and white oak slat walls

What goes into every house we build, and why

Most of what makes a house good is invisible by the time you walk through it. This is the list of what we put in, where we spend more than we have to, and where we deliberately don't.

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