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Remodeling Forms
Every project must start with a good contract.

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“Remodeling requires disruption of a household for days and weeks on end. If the occupants aren’t off balance soon after it starts, they will be by the time it’s finished. By then they are ready to attack at the least provocation. Minor grievances can become full-blown confrontations.”

All contracts should be fundamentally, foundationally and functionally the same. The devil is in the details. Every field of construction has a specialty. Even specialties have specialties. While the fundamentals of residential contracts are the same, there are specialties. First understand the various specialties of residential remodeling:

• Remodeling, (Kitchen, Bathroom, Room Addition, Second-Floor)    OR

No matter what type of residential property improvement, the contract is an Agreement every homeowner, every property owner, needs to give very serious consideration to prior to beginning any type of major property renovation or addition.

There are a lot of remodeling contractors out there. Not all are experienced or reasonable or fair. The same is true of contracts.

A remodeling project, no matter how small or extensive, is going to cause disruption. There will be some stress. There will be changes and disagreements. It’s wise to minimize all of that at the start.

There are two ways to help minimize problems in the beginning.

• "Be sure to select an experienced, professional Remodeling Contractor. There are many resources available to make that determination. The Contract is a whole ’nother story. Little has been publicly said or written about that....until now.
  
  
• Be sure the contract is right. That’s the document that’s going to tell you what exactly is going to be done and how much it’s going to cost.and then, there are the Terms and Conditions (the "fine print"). That, more than anything else, is what should make you sleep easier at night.
  
  

Some contractors buy their contracts right off the shelf. There are many ready–made, one–size–fits–all, contracts. The contract will give you some idea of the experience, professionalism and thoughtfulness of the contractor.

A contractor who wants to be professional but just doesn't quite know how may use the family lawyer or an 800 lawyer to prepare a contract. Of course that contract will be all about protecting the contractor.

Experienced, professional remodeling contractors have been around long enough to know what needs to be in the contract to cover every circumstance and minimize problems. Yet even that contractor may not be considering the consumer.

A real professional, one who expects to continue to work. takes into consideration not only all the consumer protection laws but also basic fairness.

There is such a contract. Originally created over 50 years ago by a nonprofit organization and updated every year since, this contract has become the professional standard all over the nation.

The chances are extremely high that you will be going back to that contract sometime during the process. You don’t want to find out then that you’ve been the victim of an inexperienced contractor, or worse, a very clever contractor.