From: Marina .
HI,
Our builder has asked us that he wants to take professional photos of our house to show clients and for their office and who knows what other purposes.
He had also stated that the company wants to out the house in Home Beautiful magazine and enter it into a House Industry awards.
My question is what value do I place on the above knowing full well all this will increase the Goodwill of the business, their reputation and will get an increase in clientele.
They expect and want to give us nothing in return.
We have allowed them to take prospective clients through the house whenever they want, but doing all of the above at no benefit to us is an entirely different matter.
We have had a stressful and nerve breaking experience with the building of this house to say the least. A lot of bad experiences, and it has put us off building another house with a builder for life. Yes, it was really that bad.
Now that you all know how I feel, can you tell my why I should just hand over my house to the builder for free, and let him do whatever he wants with it.??
This is no ordinary house and I know because of the response we have had to it. It has been overwhelming and something we did not anticipate. It has taken a lot of sweat and tears (yes I did cry from stress) to get it to this stage.
Sure the shell of it was the builders design, but every single detail came from hubby and myself.
If we let the builder do all of the above, his business, sales people and all of the workers will profit, but what about us??
They are putting a guilt trip on us after we said give us an offer / proposal.
"We did not know you were like this"
"After everything we have done for you"
"Look at the capital gain you have made"
"We underquoted you on the house, we lost money on your house"
We are not high income earners and we decided to do something for ourselves and our future. We got out of our comfort zone, and went into huge debt for all of our IPs.
It was a risk we were prepared to take and we got alot of negativity from all around us.
But we soldiered on and slowly but surely things are working out and now we are hooked like everyone on this forum.
It has not been an easy road at all, we had to make a lot of sacrifices, and we both worked 2 jobs for 10 years to get to where we are.
Just so you are aware this is our dream home, but we are leasing it out ( more negativity from people) and in the meantime we are living in an old 15 square home. This is a sacrifice in itself.
We are also raising 2 small children as well on an average income.
So it really annoys me that the builder can say how lucky we are, how unreasonable and selfish we are, etc etc. to ask for some form of renumeration or gift.
HOW DO WE HANDLE THIS SITUATION OR ARE WE BEING UNREASONABLE AND SELFISH.?
Thanks
Marina.
HI,
Our builder has asked us that he wants to take professional photos of our house to show clients and for their office and who knows what other purposes.
He had also stated that the company wants to out the house in Home Beautiful magazine and enter it into a House Industry awards.
My question is what value do I place on the above knowing full well all this will increase the Goodwill of the business, their reputation and will get an increase in clientele.
They expect and want to give us nothing in return.
We have allowed them to take prospective clients through the house whenever they want, but doing all of the above at no benefit to us is an entirely different matter.
We have had a stressful and nerve breaking experience with the building of this house to say the least. A lot of bad experiences, and it has put us off building another house with a builder for life. Yes, it was really that bad.
Now that you all know how I feel, can you tell my why I should just hand over my house to the builder for free, and let him do whatever he wants with it.??
This is no ordinary house and I know because of the response we have had to it. It has been overwhelming and something we did not anticipate. It has taken a lot of sweat and tears (yes I did cry from stress) to get it to this stage.
Sure the shell of it was the builders design, but every single detail came from hubby and myself.
If we let the builder do all of the above, his business, sales people and all of the workers will profit, but what about us??
They are putting a guilt trip on us after we said give us an offer / proposal.
"We did not know you were like this"
"After everything we have done for you"
"Look at the capital gain you have made"
"We underquoted you on the house, we lost money on your house"
We are not high income earners and we decided to do something for ourselves and our future. We got out of our comfort zone, and went into huge debt for all of our IPs.
It was a risk we were prepared to take and we got alot of negativity from all around us.
But we soldiered on and slowly but surely things are working out and now we are hooked like everyone on this forum.
It has not been an easy road at all, we had to make a lot of sacrifices, and we both worked 2 jobs for 10 years to get to where we are.
Just so you are aware this is our dream home, but we are leasing it out ( more negativity from people) and in the meantime we are living in an old 15 square home. This is a sacrifice in itself.
We are also raising 2 small children as well on an average income.
So it really annoys me that the builder can say how lucky we are, how unreasonable and selfish we are, etc etc. to ask for some form of renumeration or gift.
HOW DO WE HANDLE THIS SITUATION OR ARE WE BEING UNREASONABLE AND SELFISH.?
Thanks
Marina.
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