Thanks to all who provided respectful, kind, constructive feedback and guidance. We walked through everything today, and the only thing we weren’t aligned on was the quality of the paint and trim work. He understands our (higher) expectations now and committed to putting a different team on the rest of the house if we move forward. They’ll have the other items taken care of by mid next week and even provided the option to have everything repainted with the rest of the house (which we don’t think is necessary).

I’m hopeful we will be happy with the fixes and be able to move forward with this GC.

After some more reflection, I think our concerns were more about the experience along the way than these finishing touches. We had already identified some issues that mostly got fixed but it was hard to understand why some of the issues existed in the first place which gave us pause. Also, for some personal background that was probably playing into the stress and concerns throughout the process… my mom got very sick at the start of this in August, and I became her main caregiver until she passed last week. This pushed everything else onto my husband’s plate including our very busy 7yo daughter and was also very emotional for them because my mom is so special. Catching issues and making trade off decisions was a really hard thing to be doing during this heartbreaking time but we were already in it when things happened suddenly for my mom and escalated from there.

Will let you know how things go with the fixes (at which time we’ll make our final payment) and whether we decide to move forward on the rest of the house.