HELP! How would you handle this flooring dilemma?
Beth Bickel
5 months ago
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Comments (16)Go hug a tree :) You may feel you are an outstanding citzen/human by being a teacher. WHOOP DE WHOO!!!! You chose that profession and obviously get more of a reward from patting yourself on the back than your pay check. Its teachers like you that make me want to home school my children. You do more harm than you realize by your judging, and arrogant attidue/ ego. I hope none of your students learn that trait from you. I provide safe, clean, affordable, and for the most part quiet homes. This is obviously a very important issue and housing is considered a bigg need. Basically I interpret your commets that anyone not parenting/ educating/ or contributing to the world in a way you deem worthy is selfish. I do make money renting out property, and my family is financialy stable. Being financially secure I am able to donate money to multiple charities and spend hours each week as a volunteer. But that type of work and those organazations have little to no benefit to anything which means its not a WORLD contribution. Perhpas with all my money and time I will go back to become a teacher and CHANGE THE WORLD!!!!! On a side note I do teach a class every week to K-8th graders. Its called J/A and its one of the most impactfull courses todays youth will ever learn. In case your not familier with Junior Achievment, it teaches youth about personal and world finances. Something our local criculum has been falling short in. But that to, must be a waste since learning a tv isn't a need and how to save money for college/ retirment isn't important. Why don't you check yourself in the mirror next Monday and start being a model citzen instead of talking about being one. I'm not saying you don't have an important job or don't help out todays society, but what I do is important to many others also. Keep judging all you want, people ask for opinions and I give them my honest opinion....See Morehow would you handle this? (long)
Comments (31)"I had hoped he'd want something like a nice watch for his graduation gift, so he'd have something more tangible as a keepsake." Your son will always have the memories of this trip. He might lose the watch. No one can take his memories away, but the watch could be stolen... "It's not where they sleep that can cause problems...it's where they're awake! LOL Young people can be awake anywhere, anytime. Most are not as straight-forward with their parents; many don't consider birth control." This made me chuckle. When I was a freshman in college, one of the girls who lived next door to my parents was a junior in high school. I'll never forget the shock in my mother's voice when she told me that Carla was pregnant! Carla's mother was very strict with the curfew -- both daughters had to be home by midnight, because, Heaven knows, there's nothing to do after midnight except to have sex... So, Carla's parents were stunned and horrified to find out (when Carla was in her fifth month!) that she was pregnant. Carla's boyfriend's parents both worked, and didn't get home until around 5:30. School got out at 3:15. Yep -- Carla and her boyfriend went to his house every day after school and had a couple of hours of "alone time" which, of course, is when they'd "do the nasty."...See Morehow would you handle this situation?(poor job by contractor)
Comments (1)You will have to stick with them if timing is important. Back-orders are tough on everyone. Popular items are almost always back ordered (that's part of what makes them popular). I'm sorry you have had a hard time communicating with them. Now that you have a contact on the 'inside', you will need to continue with that person. I'm surprised they attempted to send someone out "the next day". That is INCREDIBLY rare to hear that an install can be done "next day". I'm sorry you have to go through this. The $1000 discount is for the delays in the second part of the job. The first part is done. If you have negotiated the $5000 will remain "held" until the job is completed, then keep it. Once the job has been finished, you pay it out. Withholding MORE than what was negotiated is a bad idea and is unwise from a legal stand point. Your move in date is fixed. There is nothing you can do about that. The first job ran over by 2-3 weeks. It would be natural to conclude that another delay is not only possible....but very probable (past actions indicate future actions, etc). How important are the "office desk" and the "garage cabinets" to your living situation (functionality of the house...food, electricity, running water, heating system, etc)? There are always ways to deal with construction delays. They happen....in fact they are pretty much guaranteed to happen (I always suggest 30% over time and 30% over budget). I would continue to negotiate for discounts/rebates for each week the delays occur. Right now you have negotiated $1000. It is possible that you can negotiate to the $5000 point. Do NOT put up negative reviews until the FINAL tally for the rebates has occurred and the final workman has left the house - all items on the 'to do list' have been completed. And then you will want to be diplomatic in your review. You can state the FACTS and ONLY the facts. Anything beyond that will cause problems. The COURTS have been very GENEROUS in rewards for libel - against the person who WROTE the review. Be very, very, very careful with big companies like construction companies. They will have a legal counsel and they will not hesitate to use them. I would wait, move in and continue to negotiate larger and larger discounts for the delays....See Morehow would you handle inaccurate room sizes??
Comments (10)Please explain what the process was for you to build this house (as others have noted). If, by semi-custom, you mean that you made some changes to one of the builder's plans, then you have more of a tract home with a builder that allows changes. If you purchased a set of plans online, had a designer modify them, then brought them to a builder, then that's semi-custom. If you own the lot and are financing the build, you may have more leverage with the contract, but you need to read the contract. Most contracts for this type of build have some language that allows the builder to modify plans and not get penalized for it. FWIW we are building with a builder that does both custom and tract homes (they have 2 divisions). We are building a tract home with them. The builder allows some changes but didn't allow framing changes due to how busy they are right now. Our daughter's bedroom was listed in their literature as 11x15, but the front elevation we chose resulted in that bedroom losing 1'-0". I wasn't thrilled about that but it is what it is. We are also financing the build and own the lot - and we still don't have that much control over things. This is the world of tract builds, I'm sorry to say....See Morecpartist
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