Change order

We were looking through the home building part of Reddit, and I thought this was a great question that we've kind of touched base on or we've definitely dealt with a lot.

This person writes, my ADU contractor keeps adding change orders.

What should I have done differently? So their story is we're about halfway through a detached ADU build.

So far, we've gotten four change orders.

The latest one is about $7,000 for tile and fixtures.

But the thing is, we already picked everything from the builder's own option list.

And that's probably what happened here was some of the allowances were appropriate and some of them weren't, but you didn't know the line items.

Right.

We've talked about choosing the right contractor.

We've talked about change orders, what those look like.

We've talked about protecting your investment because spending money on your home is an investment.

We've talked about designing your home for the future.

I

love it.

Because I never knew about change orders till us.

And I know we were going over our summary of the big dog game plan about change orders.

What, what is the word when there's unforeseen circumstances where they're like, "Oh, this is a little bit-"

... change orders.

Cha- that's the word.

We probably paid double that.

I have a spreadsheet that I have, but yeah, it was, it's, it-

Well, can you-

A lot of it's change orders

I saw a giant boat once on a business trip.

I'm walking through the harbor next to a restaurant, and there's a huge, huge boat, and the boat was named Change Order.

That makes sense.

So we don't do that kind of stuff.