Bingo.

You represent the problem with your industry. Not everyone in the industry, just the bad ones.

Dear Pound Sand (David) VP Customer Service, I suggest you study the concept of bait and switch. You’re contract doesn’t provide a direct feed from the pockets of the unfortunate people who hired you. If you want an increase be prepared to justify it – and defend it – in court. The gravy train has come to a stop.

Most builders will never resort to asking for more money, they’ll just take much longer and wait for cheaper supplies/labor.

Everyone has expert legal advice on the internet, don’t they?

Don’t forget to use a real lawyer though, because your pre-sale contract has an escalation clause that says you’re liable for any overages they incur because it’s an *ESTIMATE*.

It doesn’t matter how much you complain on redflagdeals, I wouldn’t build a client a home wth my own out of pocket expenses. Pound sand.

Exactly. Lawyer up. Start a threat on redflagdeals or something to find the others.

Legally defend yourselves from this fleecing.

This is exactly it. Isn’t the whole reason business make big money is because they are supposed to shouldering risk? And here they are facing the downside and turning to the buyer to strong arm them into shouldering that risk.

Criminal

My favorite is the clause, where they force you to accept possession but its not really done. Wtf?

Logic goes like this.
If we make profit this is fair and we get to keep it.

If we loss because of poor planning this is unfair and we need to be compensated.

Capitalism has never been so good. Risk free profit for all.

It’s a house, not a rocket ship. The list of suppliers might not exceed 20. Find the other buyers and demand an audit of every supplier contract to get transparency. Contracts that were not fulfilled by the developer should be examined to determine the cause of the nonfulfillment. Something went wrong somewhere, and the buyer had nothing to do with the problem.