My Subcontractor - My Friend??
Okay, so you hire a "friend" as a subcontractor, didn't bother to check his references...what could go wrong?
Oh my.
This totally happened to us.
This totally happened to us.
Lessons learned:
- Just because your kids go to school together and you live in the same town, doesn't make you friends. Got it, "acquaintance".
- Just because your acquaintance runs a business, doesn't mean they run a good business. Got it, should have checked references.
Advice:
- Always check references before you hire someone, always. Big job, little job, shouldn't matter. You want it done right, correct? You want a company that stands behind its work, in case of a problem, correct?
now that's a rant -- short and sweet! and I hope you got the end product all worked out. ~jb
ReplyDeleteThank you jb, still working through it, I think we will.
DeleteReferences indeed are good tools sometimes taken for granted and I think because of our technology nowadays we can simply look for references to rely on.
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