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Building your own home
On Dec 30, 9:32*am, Boater wrote:
Tom Francis wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:44:06 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: Tom Francis wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:03:49 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote: We are thinking about using this downturn in the housing market to build a new home, and acting as our own General Contractor. *Has anyone in the group done this and do they have any words of advice? Yep. Don't do it. I don't know, Harry was very successful GC'ing his N. VA home. That's Harry. *Harry is successful at everything he attempts. He's the Leonardo DaVinci of modern times. *To date, Harry has proven extensive knowledge of a whole host of subjects including, of all things, opera. *I mean roof loads, foundations, plumbing, electrical - he's got the knowledge base - apparently. So it follows that Harry would be the General Contractor for his own home - he has nothing but time on his hands (as is obvious by the number of posts just yesterday) which is a key element in being a GC for your own home. It's hard for the rest of us mere mortals to understand that. Reggie, of course, is full of schitt. I was successful with the house in NoVa because I had to be. If I had let the original GC get away with his shenanigans, it would have been a financial disaster. And all successful at the time meant was that I was able to complete the project a little over budget. It was a hellacious, time-consuming, aggravating project, and I would not do it again, especially these days.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Pussy. |
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