The Most Efficient Thing You Can Do on a Complex FF&E Project
Email chains on FF&E specifications have a way of disappearing. A finish sample goes out for review, feedback comes back in pieces over two weeks, the revised submittal gets sent, and by the time the third round of comments arrives everyone has lost track of what was actually approved and what is still open. We […]
How $247,000 in Change Orders Shows Up at the Worst Possible Moment
Picture this. A GC sends over a change order log at the start of the finish phase. $247,492. Submitted all at once. Nothing in that log is fraudulent. The work was done. The changes were real. Most of them were documented. The GC signed a standard AIA contract and operated within it. But from the […]
What to Check Before Your FF&E Budget on a Hotel Acquisition
When developers and investors approach us about hotel acquisition FF&E procurement, the first question is almost always about cost. What is it going to take to refresh the rooms? What does a full renovation budget look like? Those are the right questions. But there is a set of questions that needs to come before them. […]