CHAPTER 28BUILDING CONTRACTORS
If you refuse everything but the best, you very often get it.
—W. Somerset Maugham
One of the most perilous projects you can get yourself into is home remodeling. I have known people who were out of their house for a year when it was supposed to be three months. Others had to spend twice the amount budgeted. It is even more fraught with the potential for breakdown than building a new home because you are disrupting an ongoing life without something new in place. So,if things go wrong, you end up being suspended in time.
This agreement put the structure on a down-to-the-studs $300,000 renovation of 75 percent of a residence. Fortunately, this was not the primary residence of the owner during the project.
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