Employing the Appropriate General Contractor for Your Apartment Rehab

Have you recently acquired an apartment complex and you need a general contractor to help you on the renovations?Getting your apartment fixed is not that different from hiring somebody to help re-model your house although, the latter is quite the bigger undertaking.

To start the project, you have to first check the references of this person and the jobs he has done for his company in the past six months up to a year respectively. It is highly recommended that you call several companies or former customers or better yet, drive over to see them! A general contractor who wishes to get hired will always carry around with him either a driver’s license or a valid I.D. so that there would be no suspicions or doubt when it comes to who he really is. It would be to your advantage if you verify their credit report. You can do the following verifications if you really need to. Start a background check and see if there are any criminal records you should be worried about as you can do this as well as the aforementioned validations in quite a nick of time. These are important precautionary measures that you should take especially if he is a new general contractor.

Wikipedia defines a general contractor as a group or somebody that does a contract with another organization or usually the owner of the company for construction work, remodelling or demolition of a structure, road and buildings.This description applies if the general contractor is the signatory as the builder of the major construction contract for the development scheme.

You have to try and see if you can rely and trust that person and that at the end of every project or transaction, you are able to draft that check for thousands of dollars to that individual or the company he represents. Find out if the company he is working for or working with is a part of the Better Business Bureau. Double check his background or his company’s validity by placing a call, if a person answers you then that’s fine but if you do not get any response, then it’s probably worth the investigation. Check whether his general liability insurance is updated by having his office fax you over a copy of it.Ensure that it is an insurance and not bonding as bonding only involves a single job.

Professional general contractor outfits are highly aware of this long process and they would not mind going through it time and time again. You have to be extra careful when it comes to these things because you are spending a whole lot of money for your apartment complex project and it will be quite disappointing if it all goes to waste. Get the company’s commitment in terms of how long the project is going to take; how much it is going to cost you and how are they going to get all of their waste and of course, when they will commence the work.

It is advised that all monetary exchanges and transactions are not done on the onset.Also, try to look into the payment schedule that is formed in the scope of work papers.This pertains to projects that take only a few months but can be changed to comply with your requirements. The point of the whole thing is to always owe way more than the general contractor has cost into the job.

If there are questions that you want to know, like who are the different subcontractors he plans on using, then be sure to ask right away.It is not at all pleasant that after 6 weeks into the project and for some reasons you have an issue with the company responsible of the roofing and then you end up relying too much on that company.

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