When the contractor is over the timeline, by A LOT.

[Mandi Martinez]

I’m on my first flip, and the official start for renovations was November 1st 2018. I was told it would take 12 weeks to complete the project and now we are well past that and still having issues. All of a sudden I need a new electric panel, and as of today “something” is wrong with the plumbing, and little things that I could (and should at this point being that I’m so frustrated) just do myself are taking too long.

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My questions: How do I expedite things, and how do I prevent this in the future? I’m very new so go easy on me. I have made too many mistakes to count and have beat myself up worse than anyone else could.

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Off topic: is having panic attacks a normal side effect of real estate investing? Asking for a friend.

[Jared W Smith]

Originally posted by @Mandi Martinez:

@Brian Pulaski ok that is good to know. See he actually created the SOW which in hindsight is not as detailed as it should have been but it did not have an electric panel.

They are close to being done. It really is just little things that are incomplete. They are dragging their feet and I’m not sure why? Don’t they want to get payed? As far as the plumbing : last week it was the toilet, then three days ago it was the shower draining, and today there were people under the kitchen sink.

 First thing's first, you never let the Contractor create the scope of work. And if they do, you should be reviewing it against the property to make sure everything is included. Usually a set of engineer or architect plans would detail everything that is needed and the Contractor would price the project off these. 

It's a huge conflict of interest for him to determine his own work and fee and you being a novice, he likely left these items out of the SOW so he can now charge you for it and say "oh it wasn't in the original SOW." No way a good Contractor wouldn't know by his first walk through if a toilet or sink needs to be replaced. Quite suspect if you ask me.