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Lakesrider · 12-15-2010, 06:53 PM

So you go to an Architect...who should fully know the costs of building a house and the cost per sq ft of said house. I'd have to ask what they had to gain by designing a house so over budget that it would never get built other than bad press like this right here. But say your budget is $500,000. They designed a house that would cost $1.25 to $1.5 million to build and don't think anything is wrong with that? I certainly would out them and never use them.

So yeah now you have a bunch of plans for a house that will never get built? Man another business I got to get into....
"Oh you want a small cottage....well here are your plans for a Taj Mahal....Now pay up!"

However I have to ask where were you in the planning stages? Did you not get to see what they were designing and go over costs during those planning stages?
I would have been wanting to see the design plans almost daily to see what was being developed before it got out of hand to the tune of 2-2.5X the allotted budget. If you wanted one thing and they were giving you something else, it should have been seen early and stopped post haste.

Good luck with it all.....Lawyers, Attorney General's Office....I would say this is fraud.
Taking money for something you did not ask for...Fraud.

Now off I go to get my Architect license.....

12-15-2010, 06:53 PM	#7
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	So you go to an Architect...who should fully know the costs of building a house and the cost per sq ft of said house. I'd have to ask what they had to gain by designing a house so over budget that it would never get built other than bad press like this right here. But say your budget is $500,000. They designed a house that would cost $1.25 to $1.5 million to build and don't think anything is wrong with that? I certainly would out them and never use them. So yeah now you have a bunch of plans for a house that will never get built? Man another business I got to get into.... "Oh you want a small cottage....well here are your plans for a Taj Mahal....Now pay up!" However I have to ask where were you in the planning stages? Did you not get to see what they were designing and go over costs during those planning stages? I would have been wanting to see the design plans almost daily to see what was being developed before it got out of hand to the tune of 2-2.5X the allotted budget. If you wanted one thing and they were giving you something else, it should have been seen early and stopped post haste. Good luck with it all.....Lawyers, Attorney General's Office....I would say this is fraud. Taking money for something you did not ask for...Fraud. Now off I go to get my Architect license.....