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We have moved!!! YAY!!! June 27th. The house was completed approximately 7 months after demolition. We are now OPEN FOR BUSINESS (so to speak- give us warning to put the guest sheets on the bed after we go buy a guest bed)

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Monday, October 8, 2007

A minor setback...

well... looks like we need to get a new architect.
We were on our way towards getting our finalized architectural plans but a series of "excuses" and "complications" compiled by a lack of respect and unproffesionalism (is that a word?) has led us to kind of square one.

Amy's Guide to Hiring an Architect: useful points and questions if you or anyone you know is planning on hiring an architect. (no offense to those of you good architects out there)
  1. Are you easy to get a hold of? How long will it take you to return phone calls?
  2. Do you own and make use of a cellphone? Do you have an email address that you check on a daily basis and reply to in a timely manner?
  3. Do you have now or have you had recently and debilitating colds, coughs, flus or anything of the like?
  4. Are you restricted from working on a regular basis by an ongoing medical condition such as muscle cramping and/or neck pain?
  5. Do you make excuses for not doing work by saying your doctor told you not to?
  6. Do you make appointments and then cancel them without any reason given, then not return a call or show up for your rescheduled appointment?
  7. If you do contract with other builders, do you overbook yourself so that work that was accepted and given a priority is suddenly put aside and there is no way in heck that you can get all the work that you have taken on done in time?

1 comment:

SarcastiCarrie said...

I would think with the housing bust that all kinds of highly-qualified, respectable architects would be at the off-ramp of the expressway with signs reading "will sketch for food" or "will dimension for donuts".