Our Amish Contractor Keeps Missing Deadlines For Our House
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.4 | My family started a large home edition project last year in July. The project were paying about |
| 0:15.8 | $313,000 for the project, and it was supposed to be done by Thanksgiving, and it's not anywhere |
| 0:25.5 | close to being done right now. And so we are new to this kind of project. So initially, we |
| 0:34.2 | just kind of trusted our contractor. But as a time go, went on, it just things didn't seem like it made sense and the timing that he was giving. |
| 0:43.0 | And as Thanksgiving went by, he kept on giving us, oh, it will be done by this other date. |
| 0:47.9 | And it's not done. |
| 0:48.9 | And it's not done. |
| 0:50.2 | And I just wanted you guys' advice on how to proceed with just not, you know, goals not being met on the project. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.6 | Is he just not showing up, Susan? |
| 1:01.3 | Like, are there days and days and days that he's not even there or does he have any crews there? |
| 1:07.4 | There's not days and days and days. |
| 1:09.6 | But maybe there's like a couple days that he says |
| 1:11.6 | they will be there, but they're not there. |
| 1:14.1 | Um, but then they show up. |
| 1:15.5 | And so he keeps them communicating with us and, um, he shows up, but it's not consistent. |
| 1:23.2 | Okay. |
| 1:23.9 | Is it, is there any, is he giving you a reason for why this is happening? |
| 1:29.2 | Is it material? Yeah, what's he saying? What's his reasoning? |
| 1:32.8 | Well, we are using an Amish crew in Indiana. And so the Amish, they have butchering days where they can come because they all have to butcher. |
| 1:44.0 | They have a car breakdown. He gives |
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