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Thinking about self-contracting our new home build
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<blockquote data-quote="BrunotheBoxer" data-source="post: 16874796" data-attributes="member: 132046"><p>My wife self contracted our house on cape cod and did a gut job on the interior totally by herself and it came out awesome. But she is extremely picky and drove the workers crazy but she paid top dollar to do it all high end so bullshit excuses at any point were met with Hitleresque responses. She’s 100% Aryan. She don’t **** around.</p><p></p><p>Her conclusions. She wouldn’t do it any other way. She was in total control of every aspect of everything that went on.</p><p>When contractors started to blame another contractor like plumber vs electrician shit she’d force them to show up and have a meeting face to face to figure shit out. </p><p></p><p>You can’t skimp on shitty materials. If you can’t afford to do it top notch wait until you can because the low end shit is pure shit now a days.</p><p></p><p>Don’t pay anyone for anything except materials and have everything delivered on site. If a contractor won’t agree to this. **** em.</p><p></p><p>As they start to do the work pay in small increments. Don’t pay anything at all in full until the work is 100% perfection. If they want large sums of cash before they do any work. **** em. Move on. They’ll probably **** you in the ass. </p><p></p><p>She would have gotten ****ed on the hardwood floors on certain boards that got scratched up. She made them fix it. They didn’t want to so with the money she owed them she could have hired another contractor to come in and fix it. The original contractor knew this and threatened legal action because she still owed them 50%.</p><p>She welcomed a court date. She’s wicked smart. Has never lost to any contractor for anything. </p><p>Document everything. Dates worked performed etc in case you end up in court. She had a guy take her to court for a different job. She shows up to court with dates times. Everything. 5 minutes in. She won easily because these contractors don’t usually have solid records of anything. They get dates wrong and the judges come to the conclusion they are lying. Srs. </p><p></p><p>You have to be home or someone that knows what the **** they are doing has to be on site when the work is going on and everything has to be checked every day work is done to catch potential issues early. If you don’t know what you are looking at don’t self contract.</p><p>She works from home 4 days a week and her job is flexible. She doesn’t have to go into the office at all so for this project she was home 99% of the time. </p><p></p><p>Have a friend who knows about project management would be a plus also.</p><p></p><p>I’m sure I left shit out because I was not on the cape for any of this.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrunotheBoxer, post: 16874796, member: 132046"] My wife self contracted our house on cape cod and did a gut job on the interior totally by herself and it came out awesome. But she is extremely picky and drove the workers crazy but she paid top dollar to do it all high end so bullshit excuses at any point were met with Hitleresque responses. She’s 100% Aryan. She don’t **** around. Her conclusions. She wouldn’t do it any other way. She was in total control of every aspect of everything that went on. When contractors started to blame another contractor like plumber vs electrician shit she’d force them to show up and have a meeting face to face to figure shit out. You can’t skimp on shitty materials. If you can’t afford to do it top notch wait until you can because the low end shit is pure shit now a days. Don’t pay anyone for anything except materials and have everything delivered on site. If a contractor won’t agree to this. **** em. As they start to do the work pay in small increments. Don’t pay anything at all in full until the work is 100% perfection. If they want large sums of cash before they do any work. **** em. Move on. They’ll probably **** you in the ass. She would have gotten ****ed on the hardwood floors on certain boards that got scratched up. She made them fix it. They didn’t want to so with the money she owed them she could have hired another contractor to come in and fix it. The original contractor knew this and threatened legal action because she still owed them 50%. She welcomed a court date. She’s wicked smart. Has never lost to any contractor for anything. Document everything. Dates worked performed etc in case you end up in court. She had a guy take her to court for a different job. She shows up to court with dates times. Everything. 5 minutes in. She won easily because these contractors don’t usually have solid records of anything. They get dates wrong and the judges come to the conclusion they are lying. Srs. You have to be home or someone that knows what the **** they are doing has to be on site when the work is going on and everything has to be checked every day work is done to catch potential issues early. If you don’t know what you are looking at don’t self contract. She works from home 4 days a week and her job is flexible. She doesn’t have to go into the office at all so for this project she was home 99% of the time. Have a friend who knows about project management would be a plus also. I’m sure I left shit out because I was not on the cape for any of this. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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