So we put the job out for bid by four General Contractors we'd talked to beforehand.
Two begged off for this season, due to being very busy. One never responded. And we have the preliminary bid back from the fourth.
Which bid is (a) beyond our budget, and (b) scheduled (assuming an immediate start date) to run through Christmas. Neither is practical.
Soooooo … we're going to (a) review how the project can be scaled back some (there are some obvious points we can do that), and (b) approach the contractors who bowed out to see if they are interested in bidding for doing the job in the spring. We're also going to find some additional contractors.
Neither of these options is particularly pleasant, but while we have big dreams around this project, we're not going to be (too) stupid on it.
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