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Originally Posted by id10t
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I seem to lose money on changes all the time, and so do many builders.
I recently asked a former employer about this and he gave me a few tips on how to manage this.
I cannot wait to try them out, should work better for both sides.
I've heard of one building outfit which will not make any changes. They build it exactly as drawn, and if you want it changed, you pay up front and they rip out the old work and rebuilt that part. Seems wasteful but prevents a lot of unnecessary changes from happening.
The 5,000 SF house I have going up in North Dakota had so many changes that I hardly recognized it. The building inspector was there and asked me for "As-Built" drawings which is unheard of in residential. They later backed down, the owner is an attorney and convinced the locals that the outside inspector/consultant didn't understand
their ways.