Gee Grenouille

at least they got the cool glasses on

I bet those are nice

That last guy gonna get raysussed for the donkey term.

also, ESPN football crowd view is gonna look a lot different in three years

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Are you using dialup?

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For whatever reason my tv offshore runs slow on live tv. So I let the game get about 10 minutes ahead. I’m not even sure if that helps lol

How about you worry about what you’re doing and not what everyone else is doing

it just goes to show you that nothing will ever be enough

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They are a racket and if you are building near you in Bogalusa, you won't need one anyway. Permit office around there won't be like dealing with a more strict parish or city. Just hire a decent architect and they can handle the permitting. If you just hire a plan room or drafter, then you will have to handle permitting yourself.

Just like every OT thread about building a house, it's rocket science that only GCs can figure out in the OT's hivemind. It's always hilarious. If you set exepectations for yourself and your trades, you will be fine. Yes, your trades will abandon you at times because they have to service their bigger clients. So your build is not going to be as efficient as a regular builder. However, if you have held enough of their money, they will come back. Built 5 of my own houses and every house there is one trade that you end up getting crossways with and you have to find another.

Most GCs these days are simply schedulers. They don't know how to actually build anything. They have realtionships and stay current on the process where they build. They can't do plumbing, electrical, framing, trim, etc. My dad was a carpenter/cabinet builder when I was growing up, so I actually did a bunch of the actual work on my own houses. He built 4 of his own houses and helped me on all 5 of mine.

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All of this is my experience. Someone saying there's no way my plumber DOESN'T work for GCs, or would prioritize them over me, just doesn't understand small towns, or at least where I'm at.

I'm not saying that what some of the GCs are posting here isn't true for them and their area. But I have personal relationships with the following

Plumber-best man in my wedding
HVAC- the plumbers first cousin and a lifelong friend
ELEC-Worked together when we were in school, still does work at my house, hang out periodically
Architect-lives around the corner from me
Concrete- owns the concrete plant, went to school with since 2nd grade, has a crew
Cabinets-went to school together, done 2 other houses for me
framing/siding/flooring/roofing/windows/insulation-went to church together our entire childhood, still does work for me
Materials-the two guys that own the lumberyard are personal friends, one a general contractor just for fun. They'd bring me a 1/2 plumbing fitting at 2 in the morning if I needed it. If I missed anyone I might need, these guys have someone.

Also, all of those people listed have issues with the permitting office. They just make shite up and it changes day to day, person to person. And none of them drop work to run to a GC and take are of them first. It's just not the business model for them. Mainly because the GC wants people they can use that way, and a guy with a solid business doesn't need their work.

I'm not saying there aren't places where a GC is needed. And if you don't know all these people I could see where you would need someone. But it really ain't that complicated when you have good people.

The problem is always the permit office. I'd rather hire someone that knows how the process works, with an understanding of the actual codes, than deal with them myself.

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In many scenarios the folks at the building department are the enemy.

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Do we live in the same parish?

Kelly was never really allowed full control of his program with Woodwards PR meddling. So he put it on auto-pilot. He had legit offense when he had terrible defense, and the opposite of that the next year. He was a mediocre defense away from Winning a natty with Daniels. The defensive problems got Woodward involved.

We’re getting ripped off for 2 trillion a year in fraud, no doubt about that.