@Josh CookI know the framing's in place but in case anyone's looking for tips on insulating basement walls to create finished space and finds this thread: polyiso foam board with a reflective front and an interior vapor barrier with the reflective barrier facing out for the rim joist bays and the wall, glued in place with construction adhesive, the foam walls sealed with Tyvek tape and the bays with Great Stuff foam.

That was my cookie cutter when I got started, mainly because that was what I was trained to do. 

@Jarrod Cook I think the forum is most informative and useful when you keep it to factual responses and not making it personal.

@Jay HinrichsI think it is just some people's "thing" ... like the folks who show up at your door with  cookies or fruitcake when you move into a new neighbourhood.

@Dustin Cook I like it.

There is no cookie cutter answer for this question, only you know what your time means to you.George

You can have more confidence in a builder in higher priced homes, the cookie cutter median priced howms are a volume enterprise, more subsinvolved and a dollar saved is a dollar earned, sorta.

When I click the link in the email, it takes me to the first new post that I have personally not read yet (this is very easily done with a tracking cookie and pulls up that post number in the thread).

I'll follow the cookie crumbs =D

Send everyone cookies and thank you notes.This is the step by step process I've brainstormed thus far in my wholesaling education.