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[quote=Anonymous]"Some will charge a clean percentage of the construction cost." There's really nothing clean about it. First, it incentivizes the architect to make the project expensive rather than inexpensive. Second, on a complex project, the "construction cost" isn't necessarily a simple, single thing. For example, designing kitchens is usually done by a kitchen designer. Does the architect get a piece of that, even though he had nothing to do with that? If you decide to upgrade the cabinets does the architect get a bonus? What about the appliances? The reason I'm pointing these out is that they create built-in conflicts. Construction is expensive and stressful enough when everything goes perfectly, you don't want to be creating unnecessary conflicts. Flat fee or hourly is the way to go. [/quote]
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