Who is selling whom?

We met with "Builder A" and the realtor tonight to show them the plan we liked and how we envision us combining this plan with one of his pre-builts. We had only been there maybe 5 minutes and I was ready to walk out the door. What an arrogant. . . . . . Sorry - still too fresh in my mind. We got the sense that we were trying to convince this guy to build a house for us. He is the builder so we were looking for him to lead the conversation on how we may be able to combine a couple of plans to come up with a house that we wanted. The image of a dog chasing it's tail would be a good visual for this meeting. The realtor had to leave about 45 minutes in to the conversation. Once he walked out the door, it was like a turn of events. All of a sudden the builder seemed to change his demeanor and it was actually a good dialog. We agreed that he would take our ideas and plans and give them to his draftsman and come up with a very preliminary drawing. We stressed that since we have no idea on how this will shake out, we did not want either parties spending a lot of time and money on this. He agreed with us. The 2008 Parade of Homes was only 2 weeks away so he was rather busy right now. Not a problem, we told him. Give us a call when you have something for us to look at.

Had my Jo Nel not kept the conversation going, we never would have seen the other side of this conversation as I would have been home downing my Miller Lite's in rapid succession out of frustration. We are trying to figure out if he was feeling a need to put on a show in front of his son in law. Whatever the case, I am not completely sold on using this guy to build my home.