GU demands a price increase on the entire house

I find it astonishing. How does he want to keep the prices then? Especially in today’s times…

Do you know the King of Queens episode where Douglas drinks vodka with the mold company and makes a fool of himself so they come back and finish the job? You can imagine it like that.

Talk calmly to the boss and make it clear to him that your money is limited and that it’s not a small amount to just brush off. You will probably get much further with tear-jerking and calm words than with a lawyer, banging, and a ruling from the OLG Hamm that you as a layperson probably won’t even understand properly.

Keep in mind:
Even if you are right, it can take years until you are right in the final instance, maybe the general contractor won’t even exist anymore then... it’s currently not unlikely that some companies won’t survive the crisis. Can you endure such a lawsuit for years? Do you want that?

We are quite familiar with our current one by now and have also talked about it. He said everything has become immensely expensive. For him, a lot works because of available liquidity. He basically already ordered the heat pump weeks before signing the contract as soon as we signaled to him with a handshake that we wanted to build with him. Otherwise, he also buys more building materials in stock that he used to just buy during the construction phase. And he said the rest is his entrepreneurial risk, the rising prices were foreseeable and he calculated accordingly. This is an excerpt from our contract:

I think the lawyer just wants to save us from a legal dispute. I also informed him about the disclosure. He immediately said he won't do that. I will tell him tomorrow that if it goes to court, he will have to disclose everything anyway. In my opinion, a price increase is not for that. Rather, it is to compensate for the increased material costs.

That's a reasonable clause. Not such nonsense like with me...
If I ever build again (which I hope not), I will pay more attention to things like that.

Of course he has to disclose something.... Strange answer, I would politely(!) decline the additional costs No threats, no anger, legal disputes don't help anyone. However, after your answers here, I would pay zero cents more