Yes. That happens. For example, I have been supervising a developer project for 1.5 years. Neither the structural engineer nor the landscaping company have shown up anymore. We are talking about a project with almost 300 apartments. Meanwhile, there is a delay of almost a year.
That is actually what life on a construction site is like. Even on the large sites.
No one denies that either. But what do you get out of that? The judgment will be in 2023, the next instance in 2024. Are you waiting for the end of a process?
No. That’s not true. Especially the small providers have problems. They are now selling their service or the house and only in 2022 are they stocking up on craft workers and materials. Until then, costs have slipped away from them. That is normal too and has been the case for a few years now.
No, you are then the tough guy telling his family "I am right – you just have to wait a little longer for the new house. We can handle the double burden of rent and interest from the loan. Also the move to the holiday apartment, since we have terminated / sold our current house / apartment." Yeah right, sure.
You still apparently don’t understand – even after the 100th time – that this was never basically my statement.
Out of 10 builders, 2 say: I don’t want to pay that – 8 just pay.
The 2 who don’t pay get away with it because the general contractor simply "pulls them through". Ultimately, in most cases, nothing happens at all, your house is built normally, and the general contractor just gets paid due to the fixed-price agreement.
It was mainly about Post #5. Simply accepting everything you are presented with because you think you MUST and otherwise the general contractor won’t build the house... Typical fearmongering because you’re scared...
We are already at a point in this thread where I have to tell my kids/my wife and all relatives that we might file for private insolvency in the next 3 years :D
Take it easy :)