Your sellers, if they are retail, have more of a choice to stay put and wait out this tipping into a buyer's market vs. the seller's market that it may have been resembling before COVD-19.

It is based on a common "basket of goods" and if you look at those items they include it is made up of weird things that don't resemble my life at all.

(Note that the numbers below are fictitious, but resemble our situation.

Don't expect it for anything resembling free. 

If I new how to put pictures on the threads I would send you some of ours you would be astonished to see the resemblances  .I am currently building out in the Oregon wine country and we did use the attic space for bonus room.. by simply changing truss design.. we added 700 sq feet for about 11k.. added cost of truss's got the framer to just do time and materials building the stair and framing in the room..

Looking at the population graph, it resembles a mini Detroit.

No way you have anything resembling a real buyer if you can't sell that to them.

I can copy and paste them as text to a word document but they don't really resemble a receipt anymore and the home depot logo disappears.

Ever though about hosting an event resembling "Tuff Mudder" there?

If you understand his formula, then deliver houses that provide that and your problems are solved, assuming you have enough margin for yourself.In other words, find out what he wants and needs, if you actually understand that, and you figure out how to supply that, you dont need to spend much time trying to build relationships, building a relationship will become almost automatic if you supply his needs and yours are met as well.I have had many newpeople buy me lunch, ask a list of "good" questions, but ive never yet had a wholesaler bring me anything that remotely resemble what my criteria, which are reasonable.