"For months, I caused a likeable young couple who desired to develop a home on the very tight budget. Finally, rather than reduce how big the work, they elected to terminate our relationship and decide on a builder whose prior experience was entirely as a painter and small-scale remodeler. He agreed to give them whatever they wanted for 15 % lower than I would have charged. delaware
When construction got arrived, it moved slowly, using the project taking greater than doubly long as normal. Quality was, to set it kindly, "uneven." Both builder and the owner were lucky to avoid worse problems--namely the builder going bust and leaving the customer having a partially built house.
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The builder later confided if you ask me she ran away from money a long time before the job was over, could complete a couple of seconds after putting her life savings in hock, and also then walked an economic razor's edge towards the end. It's not the initial, nor will it be the final, time I lose an excellent project with a contractor struggling to accurately project the expenses to build it." --David Gerstel
