"New" homes is one to be careful about buying. We had been looking at older homes, and seeing prices, we looked at some of the new home builder's work. One "builder" in one addition had a model home and a couple being in the construction phase. We looked at the two homes under construction and they were building with studs on 24" centers instead of 16".
A 2x4 is 9 bucks now.. Sure they weren't 32..lol..