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A friend is looking at both of these for a prospective kit purchase.

I have a suggestion for your friend that is an answer to a question you
didn't exactly ask, but good advice to anyone about to plunk down money
on a kit.

The single best piece of advice I could have got two years ago when I
was in the "research" stage would have been to look hard, very hard into
each kit company's financial health, customer satisfaction (especially
recent builders), and business practices. This is not meant to be a
statement about either of the kits in question, rather it is about all kits.

I wasn't so shrewd before I got ripped off by the now-bankrupt Skystar.
It took me about an hour at the time to think to myself, "They've sold
a lot of kits, been around a long time, that's good enough for me."

Hey, we all make mistakes, hopefully others can learn from them and then
you move on