Couldn't have asked for a better builder – When I started my building process I obtained a quote from Stroud and another quote from a bigger builder. Both plans were pretty comparable however it was clear that Stroud were much more organised even at this point as they were able to provide me with answers to my questions way quicker then the other builder. Despite the clearly better organisation from Stroud when the quotes came in Stroud were nearly $30k more expensive. I wanted to go with Stroud and I asked them to look at their price again letting them know that the other guys were giving me pretty much the same thing for way less and Stroud said that what happens is that other bigger builders start low at this point then add huge amounts on later once I was too far committed with them. Stroud also advised me that the other company will also go very slow to get to contract and to slab down which is actually a strategy they use to increase the price. I put all of these questions to the sales person from the bigger builder and they swore black and blue that none of that would ever happen. Because of that I decided to go with the other builder and pay the initial deposit with them. Exactly what Stroud said would happen did happen. They other builder took forever to get anything moving so I started to get very worried about price rises. The other builder would never ever put in writing to me that they guarantee no price rises and would also not guarantee me a start date for the build. I finally wrote them an email saying that if I don’t have some sort of a guarantee from them within 5 days regarding price I was going else where. They got back to me withing the 5 days but it was with a $40k price rise! They would still not guarantee no further price rises or a build start time. Needless to say I left the other builder and went back to Stroud and was extremely glad I did. Basically from the moment I signed up with Stroud I received a detailed email letting me know time frames of all the steps leading up to the start of the build and was told very clearly that meeting the set out time frames meant no price rise’s. We met all of the time frames set out and there were no price increases. In fact there were no price increase during the entire build which, from what I am hearing form other people going through the build process is extremely rare right now. We were further reminded that we definitely made the right choice by going with Stroud when we could compare two other builds being built near ours at the same time by the other builder that we were looking at going with. Stroud finished the home way quicker and we barely ever see any one at the other builds, at the time of writing this email they are still way off being finished and they are getting close to a year under construction. It was clear from the start the a Stroud were just more organised and they are extremely good at continually giving us updates and communications on our build. There were complications with some delays and some materials not being available, for example our tiles were discontinued and we had to pick new tiles however Stroud were quick and talking to us about this items and were able to find good solutions which meant that we were never worried for too long. Even with a few delays and a few material issues we are extremely happy when we compare them with other builds going on at the same time and definitely recommend them to anyone looking at building during tough conditions.