Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Construction Monitoring/Liaison

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

Scott Cowley scott.cowley [at] aclis.utah.edu
is the author of the message below but due to a problem it was posted
by the Fred the list manager: owner-cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org
Note that this message was rejected on May 21 but I just noticed it.
Sorry.  Fred  
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$30,000 divided by, say 25 households, is $1200 (cost per household).
You don't need a full-time construction manager, but you do need a good
part-time one.  Someone needs to be on site every day, prodding and verifying.
In our case it might have saved us about about 4-5 months on our 9 months of
project delays. (And we got the construction company with the best rep in the
area!).

  So... 4 months x $600 (ave. rent-per-month) = $2400 (actual cost per
household).  We would have "made" money and saved the credibility of the
"construction liaisons" team.