Meeting with Our Builder During the process of having our home built we met several times with our builder. These meetings served various purposes from paperwork to making decisions about different aspects of the home. The initial meeting focused on giving our final approval to the floor plan and how the house would be situated on the lot (we had already discussed most of this via email). We also went over the timeline for building the house and the kinds of options that we would have within the floor plan we had selected. We could choose among various flooring options, counter tops, interior paint colors, and exterior finishes and colors. But we didn't really get to see these options during this meeting. The builder did take time to answer many of our questions. Here were a few of our questions. Q: When you pour the concrete can we have you pour additional slabs for sheds, etc? A: Yes, we would do that towards the end at a cost of $4 per square foot. Q: Could the exca...