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Residential Construction Management

When you build with Carina, you?ll find we have a different approach to the home-building process. We call it Residential Construction Management. Our customers call it the best way to build a new home. Residential Construction Management is a process that gives the customer control, open-book pricing, huge cost savings, with a honest and qualified builder managing and overseeing the entire construction process. Our customers tell us the home building process with Carina?s Residential Construction Management process is fun, cooperative, and saves them thousands of dollars.


Construction Manager vs. General Contractor

-Working on Your Side
-Seeking Your Best Interest and Satisfaction
-Open Book Pricing
-Fixed Fee for Management of Project
-Seeks to Build Under Budget
-No Mark-up on Routine Change Orders
-Customer Involvement Welcomed
-Customer ?Sweat Equity? Encouraged
-Known Built In Contingency Funds(Money
that is returned to Homeowner if not used)
-Selects Sub-Contractors with Owners
-Approval
-Working for Himself
-Seeking to Maximize His Profit
and Build as Cheaply as Possible
-Closed Book Pricing
-GC Wants to Increase Costs During
Construction (More Work = More Profit)
-Change Order Mark-Ups of 15 to 25%
-Owner Involvement and Sweat Equity
is - Discouraged
-Unknown If a Contingency is Included
by GC in the Bid
-Selects His Own Sub-Contractors