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Two hard earned home renovation lessons

1. Hold back as much funds as possible until project is comp...
Bearded kink-friendly school goyim
  01/16/26
I just hire Mexicans and pay them when it's over. They never...
Laughsome Juggernaut Fortuitous Meteor
  01/16/26
Their quality of work is generally low and they often leave ...
Bearded kink-friendly school goyim
  01/16/26
you have to find the right ones. We had a Mexican dude do w...
Laughsome Juggernaut Fortuitous Meteor
  01/16/26
I had a carve out for white dude electrical work. He turned...
Bearded kink-friendly school goyim
  01/16/26
both very cr lol at blaming the GC for #2 though. you're ...
vibrant digit ratio
  01/16/26
Yeah, it was an expensive lesson. Not the GC’s fault I...
Bearded kink-friendly school goyim
  01/16/26
it's ok we know that your wife insisted on it and that it wa...
vibrant digit ratio
  01/16/26
Other than color and backsplash design, why does the wife ha...
aphrodisiac seedy abode twinkling uncleanness
  01/16/26


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Date: January 16th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: Bearded kink-friendly school goyim

1. Hold back as much funds as possible until project is complete. Contractor finish work on average is absolute dogshit and they drag their feet with the proper finishes.

2. Do not do any carveouts from the GC with preferred vendors or family. The GC and the vendor or family member ends up pointing the fingers at each other and you end up having to babysit and mediate a couple of preschool toddlers, which is annoying as fuck. The GC must be responsible for everything.

You’re welcome.

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Date: January 16th, 2026 8:19 PM
Author: Laughsome Juggernaut Fortuitous Meteor

I just hire Mexicans and pay them when it's over. They never demand money upfront.

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Date: January 16th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: Bearded kink-friendly school goyim

Their quality of work is generally low and they often leave a mess / don’t clean up

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Date: January 16th, 2026 8:22 PM
Author: Laughsome Juggernaut Fortuitous Meteor

you have to find the right ones. We had a Mexican dude do wainscoting and it's like artwork. He got so busy, he raised prices. Wanted to do our hallway for $8k, but we'd have to find out own painter. We hired white guy general contractor who hired white dude to do wainscoting. White GC was 12k. White dude took 2 weeks to do a job that Miguel would do in a weekend and his work looks like crap.

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Date: January 16th, 2026 8:24 PM
Author: Bearded kink-friendly school goyim

I had a carve out for white dude electrical work. He turned out to be an unlicensed scam artist and I had to hire a licensed Mexican company to fix his work from scratch

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Date: January 16th, 2026 8:52 PM
Author: vibrant digit ratio

both very cr

lol at blaming the GC for #2 though. you're paying him to build your fucking house. let him use his people. you're imposing yourself on the process by trying to use your own people and you're only hurting yourself and your own project

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Date: January 16th, 2026 8:55 PM
Author: Bearded kink-friendly school goyim

Yeah, it was an expensive lesson. Not the GC’s fault I did the carve out or that it caused massive and unnecessary friction, my fault for doing the carve out. Lesson learned

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Date: January 16th, 2026 9:06 PM
Author: vibrant digit ratio

it's ok we know that your wife insisted on it and that it was really her fault but you should have told her no but that would have been just too difficult and honestly it was probably better to just take the financial hit than tell try to put your foot down and tell her no

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Date: January 16th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: aphrodisiac seedy abode twinkling uncleanness

Other than color and backsplash design, why does the wife have ANY say in the process?

Who runs that house?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823047&forum_id=2,#49595492)