Special services / Special requests

Hello

our developer did not allow trades to be removed. That was fine with us. Everything we wanted ON TOP simply cost extra.

A developer also has fixed costs and wants to allocate them when something is removed. What was agreed regarding this? Or have no contracts been signed yet?

Maybe you have the better negotiating position, but it could also be that contracts have been signed or, even worse, he has 10 potential buyers who are currently going along with everything in the construction boom.

It’s often like that... Surcharges are high, credits are low. You can’t do anything about it, the developer dictates the prices, after all you signed a contract at some point.

Hello Florian,

Your question is a good example of how important it is to have contracts checked in advance! Then the consultant would have recommended to you to name the EL already in advance; possibly to fix it in writing, to carry out one rescheduling free of charge by the BU – you would have talked about your ideas. Thus, the following scenario would not have occurred in the first place.

my name is Florian Neumann and I have owned a condominium (new building) for some time.

The contract with the developer has therefore been signed.

My question to you is as follows: Do I have to accept the stipulated prices of this offer? Most of my special requests are carried out by myself or by a contractor I know. However, in addition to the amounts credited to me, numerous costs for the architect’s work, ventilation planning changes, sanitary planning, heating load calculation, etc. appear in the offer’s listing, although I actually only exclude key points. In addition, electrical installations that are actually included in the overall apartment are charged again after spatial changes.

Does it make sense to raise an objection personally or to bring in an expert directly? It seems to me that the amount credited to me is being kept low through the aforementioned key points.

What exactly is the expert supposed to contribute regarding the actual point of dispute?

You are making changes to the trades within your EL, which must be reworked by the BU into the existing execution planning. That requires personnel and thus causes costs – regardless of the scope of the changes. By the way, the heating load calculation is not made by the BU, but by the manufacturer of the heat generator. The electrical plan must also be newly created according to the actual situation after incorporating the special requests so that the electrician does not deliver shoddy work, etc.

You will have to bite the bullet; even an expert cannot save you from that. At best, a personal conversation on equal terms with the contractor.

Rhenish regards