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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundance" data-source="post: 1874267" data-attributes="member: 24487">My wife and I had our house built in 2007. It had a lot of ups and downs. We checked the Home Builders Association when looking for a contractor. All said and done I think I could have contracted the work out myself and saved us some money. You do need to watch what they are doing at all times because in our case we never saw the builder/contractor, just the sub contractors. We lived in a fifth wheel on site while it was being built and I'm glad we did. There were several mistakes made along the way which we caught by doing daily inspections of the work. Things like square corners vs bull nose corners, the sheet rock guys were not too happy when we told them to redo all the corners in the house because they were wrong. The contractor forgot to tell them... The plumber put in cheap fixtures instead of the brushed nickel we had in the contract. Needless to say he had to replace them all. BE SURE TO HAVE A CONTRACT and be very specific about all the little details. Anything left up for question will be done as cheaply as possible. The stress level between the wife and I was due to the fact that we thought we would be in the fifth wheel for 4 to 6 months, well , 11 months later we were able to move in. I didn't mind that as much as she did, it was like a long camping trip to me. We are very happy with the house now, its set up the way we wanted. Don't know that I would do it again though...</blockquote>

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