As I was looking through my Google Reader feeds at the end of last week, I ran across a great post by my friend Andrea Goldman (@andreagoldman) at her Massachusetts Builders Blog. Her blog is a great resource for Massachusetts home builders and their attorneys. In her post, she points out something that contractors (whether primarily commercial construction or residential construction) should not forget: it is up to you, the construction professional, to set expectations and to educate the owner as to how the project will run.
Andrea focuses on residential home builders and projects because she, like I, has seen an uptick in residential construction issues recently. The combination of the easy money of a few years ago and the sudden downturn in the residential housing market has caused some homeowners (and unfortunately a few contractors) to cut corners and seek to run jobs themselves in a way that may or may not be conducive to a well run project.
