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I have also noticed that plywood and lumber costs to be lower
I got a salesman at a hardware supply thats a good 2.5 hour drive round trip from here to discount a truck full of stuff about 15% below what home depot and lowes would do, and waive the delivery fees.
The contractors and building suppliers are all a little nervous and many short on work/customers, but they're all thinking its just going to be a month or two stall. I think it'll last a year or more, so the bargains might get better.
Customers are leery of spending money on their homes for the same reason people dont like to buy stocks when they're deeply discounted. Banks are leery of loaning money without putting people under a magnifying glass. New construction cycles that used to take a few weeks to a month to go from someone wanting to build something to getting a loan and getting on the job might stretch into 3-4 months.
My BIL's been home building for decades. Just had a customer cancel out on him for a new custom home in the 11th hour, and he's getting put through the wringer by the bank on getting financing for a new small subdivision he wants to put up.
So he'll be doing a LOT of work on our house over the next couple of months...