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[quote=Anonymous]Oh also be super clear with the draw orders during the early stages! Don't trust them at their word, make sure everything is in clear writing. Our contractor kept promising everything and use any vagueness to get out of doing work or not paying for what they verbally promised.

Another giant mistake we made was buying finish materials early. Our contractor had opened up a finish materials show room and insisted that buying early would save us money and time in the long run which might not have been bad advice but when dealing with a large project and alot of unknown variables it became another painful reminder of trusting the wrong people and at the end of the day you need to protect yourself. Again if this was a smaller project it probably would have been minimal damages.

In hindsight I would have broken the project down into smaller projects of max $30k with multiple independent contractors so if one link failed I could still keep moving rather then trusting one company to do it all. [/quote]

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