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[quote=Anonymous]Ask the company you are interested in working with for references, and call them/ask to see their houses.  We were able to visit a home the design build company was working on (just finishing up, family had moved out during renovation - I don't know if they knew others were in their home).

After, we asked about the finishes in the home we visited, and they proudly talked about those finishes (because they were within the allowances in the contract).  We hated the finishes!  Spouse is in commercial real estate, and he knew it was all cheap crap that was used throughout the home.  We did not use that company.

Another company we interviewed gave us a list of clients to call, and then proceeded to bash about 2/3 of the people on the list as difficult in one way or another.   We knew we didn't want to be on that list and bashed, so we didn't use them either.

This was in 2006, so while I remember our process, I don't remember the names of those companies.  We interviewed 7 (all companies friends of ours had used and recommended), asked for bids from 3, and chose a small 2-person company that we would NEVER recommend[/quote]

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