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A Beautiful Mess Podcast

#135: Is a General Contractor Worth It?

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today Elsie is sharing her first experience with hiring a general contractor - the pros, the cons, and whether it is worth it or not. We are also answering a listener’s question about making an initial plan for what your home needs as you are still house shopping, plus our unpopular opinions on blogging.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to The Beautiful Must Podcast today I'm sharing my first experience with

0:09.2

hiring a general contractor, the pros and cons and whether it's been worth it to me or

0:13.6

not.

0:14.6

We're also answering a listener question about making an initial plan for what your home

0:18.2

needs as you're still house shopping.

0:20.7

I love house shopping so I'm looking forward to that.

0:23.8

Okay.

0:24.8

Before we jump into general contractor stuff, is it worth it, is it not worth it?

0:29.6

I'll see his experiences with it this time around.

0:31.7

We want to do a little personal segment.

0:34.3

Oh, this is actually really funny.

0:37.1

Okay.

0:38.1

So a few weeks ago, or maybe I don't know, like pretty recently, I think in a couple

0:43.0

of podcast episodes, I talked about like how I loved a block people and I do, which

0:49.1

I do love it, but like I think I overrepresented how happy I am to block people and now what's

0:56.5

funny is our listeners are constantly saying to me on Instagram, I have this little bit

1:02.3

of feedback.

1:03.3

It's like something that's not even mean and then they're like, please don't block me

1:07.3

and I feel so bad.

1:08.8

So I wanted to address it here and be like, okay, first of all, hardly anyone is getting

1:13.2

blocked.

1:14.2

I was mostly joking.

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