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Is this how you'd go about finding and dealing with a contractor?
1. Start the process without a defined description of work or budget?
2. Call for estimates from the yellow pages without checking to see that they have Licenses, Insurance and References before they come?
3. Rely on TV commercials to supply you with "so called" qualified contractors?
4. Go to contract without a defined scope of work, start and finish dates?
5. Give a 30% deposit before they start?
6. Fail to get required permits before project starts?
7. Make partial payments whenever the contractor asks for them?
8. Fail to get lien releases from all subcontractors and suppliers?
Will you hold enough of final payment to insure all "punch list" work is completed to your satisfaction?
If this is how you would go about hiring a Contractor, you will probably wind up with shoddy and incomplete work, and a lot of AGGRAVATION.
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What is an Owner's Representative?
• Serve as an objective, experienced owner's representative to protect the best interests of the client and the project first and foremost.
• Reduce overall project costs, usually well in excess of their fees. Savings include enhanced competitive bidding, contract negotiation, value engineering, reduced change orders, reduction in the time and elimination of unnecessary or duplicative scope and cost.
• Centralize communication, acting as project liaison to fully and seamlessly integrate all participants.
• Advise the client on retention of the best qualified and appropriate project team and manage them to bring out their best.
• Enhance quality controls to reduce potential for defects and poor workmanship.
• Provide realistic and reliable budgets.
• Optimize and accelerate the design and construction schedule.
• Provide cost effective document controls, including balancing contract advantages and disadvantages, negotiation and issuance on standards AIA forms, insurance review and substantiation of invoices of all project participants to ensure correctness.
• Protect the owner from unnecessary liability.
• Provide project management and technical expertise, depth of experience and ability to apply resources wherever needed.
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Services
ADDITIONS, RENOVATIONS, & NEW CONSTRUCTION
Services Include
• Scope of Work with Budget
• Qualify Contractors & Obtain Competitive Bids
• Contract Review & Draw Schedule Payments
• Post Notice of Commencement & Secure Permits
• Total Project Supervision & Invoice Approvals
• Complete Punch List Final Inspection & Lien Releases
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Testimonial
-Tom Maher
"We met and I showed him what I had in mind. Immediately he went to work. Tony suggested a line of cabinets, and we got a number of bids. Tony told me what we should be paying, how long each step should take and what was involved. We chose the contractors and work began. From beginning to end (including moving a door opening took only one month.
Tony e-mailed me, updated work schedules on a regular basis and called me with any changes. Any time I needed to reach Tony he was always available and glad to answer any questions I had.
I would be proud to have Tony Fania do any work for me or my family in the future.
The best part of the entire experience was the fact that Tony saved me over $4600.00 on the entire project."
Testimonials
SPECIAL RULES REGARDING FLORIDA'S LIEN LAWS
IF THERE IS A DIRECT CONTRACT BETWEEN AN OWNER AND A CONTRACTOR RELATING TO IMPROVEMENTS ON PROPERTY THAT ARE A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING, OR MULTI-UNIT DWELLING UP TO AND INCLUDING FOUR UNITS, THE CONTRACT MUST CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE IN NOT LESS THAN 18 POINT CAPITALIZED BOLD FACED TYPE.
ACCORDING TO FLORIDA'S CONSTRUCTION LIEN LAW (SECTIONS 713.001-713.37 FLORIDA STATUTES), THOSE WHO WORK ON YOUR PROPERTY OR PROVIDE MATERIALS AND ARE NOT PAID IN FULL HAVE A RIGHT TO ENFORCE THEIR CLAIM FOR PAYMENT AGAINST YOUR PROPETY. THIS CLAIM IS KNOWN AS A CONSTRUCTION LIEN. IF YOUR CONTRACTOR, OR A SUBCONTRACTOR FAILS TO PAY SUBCONTRACTORS, OR MATERIAL SUPPLIERS OR NEGLECTS TO MAKE OTHER LEGALLY REQUIRED PAYMENTS, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OWED MONEY MAY LOOK TO YOUR PROPERTY FOR PAYMENT, EVEN IF YOU HAVE PAID YOUR CONTRACTOR IN FULL. IF YOU FAIL TO PAY YOUR CONTRACTOR, YOUR CONTRACTOR MAY ALSO HAVE A LIEN ON YOUR PROPETY. THIS MEANS IF A LIEN IS FILED YOUR PROPERTY COULD BE SOLD AGAINST YOUR WILL TO PAY FOR LABOR, MATERIALS, OR OTHER SERVICES THAT YOUR CONTRACTOR OR A SUBCONTRACTOR MAY HAVE FAILED TO PAY. FLORIDA'S CONSTRUCTION LIEN LAW IS COMPLEX AND IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT WHENEVER A SPECIFIC PROBLEM ARISES, YOU CONSULT AN ATTORNEY.
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