Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Pre-construction meeting. Both underwhelming and exciting

So on 8/8 at 8 AM (seriously, this occurred), we finally had our Pre-construction meeting--and it was efficient, effective, and a little disappointing. I believe one blogger once said it best when they stated that you'll be your PM's best friend, if you don't ask for a lot of (or any?) non-standard requests. So in part, because we aren't "those guys", I think that's why the meeting went so smoothly.

The process essentially involved our PM going over all of the "things he cared" about when it came to building our house. Which isn't as harsh as it may sound, because honestly, he's primarily concerned about the structure, and materials ordered, and sort of the "major" things--as opposed to him going through our selection sheet line by line and reviewing with us each and every color, siding, and trim and carpet color etc., that we've chosen.

To be honest, I didn't do a good job of writing things down. But our PM did do a good job of addressing almost every question we had. He's definitely got a professional demeanor, and I think that's all that's really important to the process. I don't expect him and I to be bff's or expect him to bend over backwards because we chose to spend a whole bunch of money on building a home. He didn't force us to do it, and he didn't sell us on anything.

Our PM discussed his approach, expectations, hours of operation (in terms of best time and methods to contact him), the things he's responsible for (e.g., if it's about pricing or change orders, contact our SR. But if it's about schedule, timeline, and/or basically anything that involves the site or structure, contact him). Of things he addressed, he spoke of our timeline and how he'll be able to give us a reasonable completion date as soon as they get under way building. Which, is tied into the developer getting a road put into our portion of the development (More on that later).


Before
After?


I'll take some time and re-post the questions and answers, as best I can recall, that I wrote about here
Pre-construction meeting questions

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