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CHOOSING THE RIGHT REMODEL CONTRACTOR
You are about to embark on perhaps some major demolition and reconstruction of your largest asset. And, you are about to invite a contractor and his/her workers and trade partners into your home and daily routines for a while. Choosing a home remodeling contractor is not nearly as simple as picking the lowest bid for the job. The low bidder is usually just the apparent low bidder. Here’s a good quote explaining why:
“QUALITY! There is hardly anything in the world that some men cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s more unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it’s well to add something for the risk you take. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.” John Ruskin, Economist