Why Hire a General Contractor?
So you don’t end up like this Source of information: The Well-Built House by Jim Locke “I encourage you to hire a custom-builder and, in many cases an architect. A custom builder or general contractor comes with few strings attached because his work history is broad, not repetitive. If you put decent price on your time, you’ll lose money at general contracting your own house. If you have little experience and plan to build your house yourself, look at it as a hobby or a fling. If you seriously want a good house built well, without medical side effects, hire it done. And to do that, you’ll have to decipher everything in advance, starting with yourself.” – Jim Locke Read the Foreword by Tracy Kidder Funny, yet true! “About ten years ago, I set out to fix up an old house by myself. Not knowing most of the names of the parts of a house or of the tools for putting one together, I went like waif to lumber yards, where I begged for morsels of information. I didn’t know I needed a lot more hel
