Are you literally going to build the house yourself?

If you have to ask, of course you are. Kits are never the cheap choice. A timber framed anything is always going to be at the top of the cost charts. And require expert experienced labor. And a crane.

kits are 3/4 the cost of a house while providing. labor is 1/2 the cost of building a home. Kit+labor = 1.25. roughly.

That makes ABSOLUTELY NO sense what so ever. Where are you? Do you pay $20/sf for framing?? Can you break it down? Is this the cost of labor for framing/plumbing,elect, brick, roofing, etc?

robin0919, what?

@millworkman,

Genius is never understood in its own time (Bill Watterson.)

More like, a genius is never understood in his own rhyme. And no reason.

Had an interesting interview with a prefab home builder in the late 2000s. They had discovered the need to hire GCs for "site prep" project managers for efforts than sometimes ranged in the few hundred thousand dollars along with assembly, foundations, plumbing, utilities, roofing, etc. Their numbers were already higher than local site built before those adds.