Why do so many people have home construction nightmares?
For most people, a major home addition or renovation or the building of a new house represents one of the largest purchases of their life. However, you cannot approach construction the way you would approach buying an oven or car or television. First of all we are talking about much more money. Secondly, it is an entirely different type of purchase. You pay for most of it before it is finished. Unlike a product you can buy and touch or test drive, your construction project is built after you decide to purchase, not before. If it is a custom home design, then in all likelihood, the product has never been built before. In other industries when they build a new product, they make samples, models, and prototypes which they test, debug and discard. In construction, your custom designed house is the prototype. If you analyze most construction nightmares you will find a common theme: the consumer was seduced by a low bid. If you are buying a television and you shop at different stores and you
