letthewookiewin
<font color=blue>"That's 'cause droids don't pull
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Congrats!! I've been wanting to see that. Hopefully now that my sis is back in Texas, we can go to things like that when they come through DFW.
Congrats on the December trip!! I still want to do a December trip sometime, but would love to go when Edward James Olmos is doing the CP.
Oh, girl!! I am sooooo sorry you are going through all this!! Since we are in the 'business' and this is what we do for a living..... Number 1, Mike meets our prospective clients and they usually go over house plans first day. If they have their own they bring them, if not they tell him what they are looking for...and what they can spend, etc.
After the plans are finished or they show him their plans, he works on the bid. He usually takes his time...you dont want to underbid and have $$ trouble later. He takes a couple of days if he is really busy on other houses...not as long as your builder!! Anyway, then they meet again...talk about price, what allowances that is for EVERYTHING. Appliances, flooring, electrical....what they can spend on all of it. If for ex. he says: For flooring, this is the place I use, you can spend up to $3 a square foot on your tile. IF you go over that, the extra comes out of your pocket...when the flooring is ordered/done--whatever. You know when you leave with him how much your house is going to cost.Period. (Unless thoughout the job you change your mind..then you talk about prices for change orders and extras for upgrades, like appliances, fixtures, etc.)
I am shocked it's been 3 months and nothing is done. You should be halfway through your building by now. We are usually done around 4 months...depending on square footage...and your house is about the size everyone is building around here. This is ridiculous....he's buying time. don't use him! Definitely pray about it.....but I would be very leery of him. Do you know anyone that has used a builder they would refer you to? You need to see some of a builders work and talk to some customers! And the first girl you talked to about financing is nuts!! We refer people to our finance companies all the time and our clients love them!! She didn't need to act like that. And---if he referred her, I think that shows poorly on his character as well!!! Building a house should be a wonderful experience....not a nightmare!!!
yes, you have a right to be angry. He is un-professional and giving you unfair treatment!! Is he just tooooo busy? I would let this be a sign that the Lord is holding you back for a reason.Just drop it and go find someone else. Be thankful that this isn't happening halfway through the project and you are stuck with him and he's adding costs at every turn! I don't want to scare you, just let you know that some builders are not worth using. Keep me posted..pm me if you have specific questions. Hey, move over here and we can build you a house right down the street from me!!!!
I totally agree with Shawna. I would take all these problems as a sign that he is not the builder for you Soliel. I'm a big believer that God tosses little pebbles at you and if you ignore them finally tosses a big boulder on your head to get your attention. Maybe those are your little pebbles that you need to find a different builder.
My DH's parents got stuck with a bad builder. The house they bought was halfway through being built when they bought it. The person had backed out halfway through it being build, which should have been a sign to them. Once they moved into the house, things they promised would get done didn't. They had huge holes in their walls in certain room where this expensive intercom system was supposed to go. It was included in the coast of the house. Finally after several years my father in law, not the building filled in the holes. He had found out that the builder put the intercom system in his son's house down the road. My father in law was also in a house fixing an appliance at a home down the road from him, built by the same builder. My FIL was puzzled when he entered the home and it had a fireplace b/c there was no chimney. Yeah the builder had forgotten to build the chimney. I could go on about the problems they had, but I won't.
I went to my first English class this weekend. My professor is great!! She just doesn't teach from reading from the book, but from her life experience in writing papers. She is really funny, and made the time fly in class (which is 4 hours long.) The only thing I hated was that it was raining cat and dogs. We needed the rain, but I hated walking from the car to the buildling with my computer. We had to write an "observing" essay do by the end of class. I, of course, wrote mine on WDW, well Main Street to be more exact.
) They had a good talk. G was pretty firm on some things. I think he's getting nervous about losing our business, since he just lost J&A's so he's willing to work with us on some cost to get it to where we want it. G is meeting with him tomorrow to figure it all out. Please pray for wisdom on G's part.
What a lovely way to start to the day (well... church isn't until 1pm, so we had already been up, but still!). We have no idea what's wrong with it, but tomorrow Logan is going to take the battery and have it checked. We're really hoping it's something he can fix himself, because otherwise we'll have to get it towed somewhere, and I'm really not looking forward to that.
I hope the stress is lifted soon 
This too shall pass.
