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Actually doing quite well, don't let the media fool you, we are far from being dead and gone here.
That's getting pretty bad, next thing you know they'll want a permit to change the drapes, or repaint a room.
Glad to know that, we got a double punch here. First the economy, which in the counties I do biz in, was all construction based. The death knell was the oil spill, lots of people canceled contracts on homes, including 4 I had signed contracts to design, which were beach houses.
I was just in Missouri, my home state, trolling for business. I have a daughter that just went to Napa, Culinary Institute of America to become a pastry chef, gotta scare up some biz somewhere.
And you are totally right, the next thing I see happening here is permits for landscaping, not kidding!
That's getting pretty bad, next thing you know they'll want a permit to change the drapes, or repaint a room.
Don't they already have "change orders" where if something is changed in the building contract you have to fill out a change order form and go through a really long annoying process?
Don't they already have "change orders" where if something is changed in the building contract you have to fill out a change order form and go through a really long annoying process?
The way that works, you agree to certain things in the contract that you sign to begin construction. You decide to change things after the contract is signed, thats a change order, it has to be signed by the owner, the contractor, and always involves $$$, and a slowdown in the construction process.
I worked on a house once where there were over 100 change orders, at 1k a pop, not counting materials. I started taking Xanex through that one......and I did the interior design for that home, too.
I have stiff penalties built into my design contracts, suffice it to say it was a nightmare job, and one of the examples where the couple divorced after it was all over.
Bad thing was, the market had already started to crash here, so they couldnt break even when the house sold.
The house and property were valued at over 5 million during the bubble, I believe it sold for less than 2.
There was a mega McMansion going up in the town I grew up in years and years ago. Builder went bankrupt while building. Bank did nothing. We went by a good 10 years after they'd walked away and couldn't believe it. The rafters had all caved in. The basement they'd planned on using for a 5 car garage and a massive playroom was flooded. The hot tub / bath tub was still sitting on the second floor never installed. The pool had filled with nasty green water. And there was plant life of some kind on every single floor. Was kinda cool but creepy to be wandering around there. And looking back now, it was probably dangerous too.
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