We requested Chad to be the project manager on the house, but were unaware that Chad was also project manager on 7 other homes across a three county area stretching across 50 miles from the South Carolina border to 10 miles south of the Tennessee border. Again, in hindsight, one might say that Chad was hardly ever at the project site and trusted Americas Home Place 'low-bid' contractors to perform their work correctly in his (Chad's) absence when work was being performed by independent sub-contractors.
I had built houses in the past and was very much aware of the necessity of being on site whenever a subcontractor was on site based on my own building experiences in the past. And, unfortunately, as I was called away on business for several months when the house was being constructed--I missed the foundation, framing, decks, plumbing, electrical and HVAC phases of construction. However, based on the results, it seemed that the project manager (Chad) was also not present and didn't cross-check the work of his sub-contractors.
Again, in hindsight, when one is having a house built by Americas Home Place, the future owner of the house should know something about construction or hire a independent inspector to view the home in various stages of construction before and after the walls are sheetrocked.
My spouse, who I will call Jane (names changed to protect the innocent), believed with her whole heart, that Americas Home Place was working on her behalf, and that it was unnecessary to monitor the construction phase because "it's what I am paying them for". Jane learned to eat those words over and over again until her new motto became "I'll drive my car through their office window". More about that in future posts as this is a chronological log of dealing with America's Home Place.
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