I said I personally would avoid GC's (I did not say "you" or "everyone" or "people" should avoid GC's" like you accused me of). You further assumed that they were all the same contractor. My experience is based on multiple unique accounts using both GC's and individuals. I feel like I explained why pretty thoroughly. Sorry if you misunderstood something. As I have also said multiple times now, YMMV and I'm sure there are exceptions everywhere but that has been my experience. I have only had bad experiences with GC's and only good experience with individuals, so for my next job I will hire an individual again for all of the less specialized work. Someone who had an amazing experience with a GC would probably go the GC route - I don't get what's hard to understand about that. We're all just here sharing our experiences for the benefit of the OP, he can weigh them and make up his own mind. Anyways you seem rather passionate about this issue that is of incredibly minor importance, so I assume you are a GC or have one in the family? If so I did not mean to offend.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Regardless of how they came about, if you have had multiple bad experiences with option A and only good experiences with option B, what are you going to pick next time? I don't think it's that hard to see my side of things based on my experiences. I'm not going to roll the dice on something that important.