Building Contractor's Worst Nightmare
There is nothing worse than a homeowner who doesn't know
what they want or what they want the project to actually look like. This
has got to be the building contractor's worst nightmare and I would like
to send a special message to any contractor who hasn't been through this
nightmare before.
If you're a building contractor and you've been through this process
before, I can sympathize with you, but if you're a building contractor
who has never had an indecisive clients, I would like to warn you about
a few problems that you might run into, if you don't take care of a
couple of things first.
If your client doesn't really have a good idea of what they want, don't
rush them and never and I mean never tell them that everything is going
to look great. If they don't have a pretty good idea, how the final
project is going to look when it is complete, you could find yourself
with some problems at the end of the project, when the homeowner tells
you that this isn't what they had envisioned.
Why am I telling you this, because this has happened to me more than a
few times. I thought that the homeowner understood what the projects
were going to look like, before I started working. Only to find out
later, after I was almost done, that they weren't entirely happy and
weren't planning on paying me.
Don't get caught up in this and make sure that your clients understand
exactly what you're doing. The bigger the project, the more problems you
could face, especially if you don't have someone who has a pretty good
idea, what the finished project is going to look like.
I'm at a point in my career, where it's not even worth my time to
convince anyone that something is going to look great. Keep something in
mind here, just because you have a great idea and understanding about
what something is going to look like, doesn't mean that anyone else
does.