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RESIDENTS: ULTIMATE HOME  PROJECT  MANAGERS

(Significance of Managing Home Projects Well)

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In this guide, we are emphasizing the inescapable fact that in the moment we take possession of the dwelling, we have the inherent accountability for managing it well. This responsibility is often extended to the surrounding plot or acreage on which it rests.

Subsequently, when we consider enlisting contractor support for our home projects, we are inadvertently anticipating conditions for more responsibility toward decision-making. How we manage this is largely dependent on our frame of priorities. Do we think if applicants are licensed that we need to look no farther? Or if adequately skilled, that should suffice for hiring? If the person has small children, is this indicative of a reliable, honest, caring professional?

Focus

We may want to consider our focus. Traditionally, management of the home project was left in the hands of the people hired to engage the actual physical aspects of the projects: residential contractors or those who are selected and hired to maintain and improve residential properties. Of course, when we normally think in terms of home improvement, many of us do not consider the fact that our projects, in most cases, must be adequately managed from “within.” In other words, the best way to ensure we get our money’s worth (or more) from those we opt to hire is for us to have intact protocol to that effect. No doubt, it is crucial that we have a standard procedure firmly in place for researching contractors for our own protection. It has to be a working set of house rules for guiding our decision-making.

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