"For months, I caused a likeable young couple who desired to build a new house on a very tight budget. Finally, instead of cut back the size of the project, they elected to terminate our relationship and go with a builder whose prior experience was entirely like a painter and small-scale remodeler. He consented to let them have whatever they wanted for 15 % less than I would have charged. When cobasementsnstruction got arrived, it moved slowly, with all the project taking a lot more than two times as long normally. basements
Quality was, to set it kindly, "uneven." Both builder and the owner were lucky to prevent worse problems--namely the builder going bust and leaving the customer using a partially built house. remodeling
The builder later confided to me she ran out of money well before the work was over, was able to complete it only after putting her lifetime savings in hock, as well as then walked a financial razor's edge to the end. It isn't the first, nor will it be the past, time I lose an excellent project to a contractor not able to accurately project the expense to build it." --David Gerstel