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Posted by Warm Worm on November 14, 2007, 6:57 pm
Don wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>>>> Well it appears for the very first time I have a client attained
>>>>> directly
>>>>> from my website.
>> Congrats! Let us know how it goes.
>>
>>>>> Never before has that happened.
>>>>> She's in Birmingham, AL and I spent 3 hours on the phone with her this
>>>>> past
>>>>> Mon.
>>>>> Yesterday she overnighted her package of ideas to me which I will
>>>>> receive
>>>>> today.
>>>>> She's an attorney and I already did the websearch on her.
>>>>> The site is 9.85 acres in a very rural area 20 miles south of
>>>>> Birmingham on
>>>>> the top of a high hill, the foot of the Appalachians.
>>>>> Supposedly you can see 25 miles from the top of the site.
>>>>> She's sending me aerials and topos and I've already viewed it in 3d on
>>>>> google earth.
>>>>> The front of the property is level with the road, which is a gravel
>>>>> logging
>>>>> road, and then abruptly and steeply slopes down toward the rear
>>>>> property
>>>>> line where there is a stream and a pond.
>>>>> She has some unique upscale tastes and has subscribed to Architectural
>>>>> Digest, her bible, for the past 20+ years (gasp).
>>>>> She has collected antiques from all over the world and wants to
>>>>> incorporate
>>>>> them into the design.
>>>>> (a pair of 13' high mexican mesquite doors-hand carved, a pair of large
>>>>> scale moroccan hand pounded iron gates, 17th century wood and marble
>>>>> corbels, stained glass transoms from the 15th century, etc., etc.)
>>>>> One of the interesting parts is that her husband is wheelchair bound
>>>>> and
>>>>> always wanted a treehouse when he was a kid but never had one, so now
>>>>> in the
>>>>> creation of their dream home she wants to incorporate a treehouse into
>>>>> it
>>>>> somehow, wheelchair accessible of course.
>>>>>
>>>>> No money has changed hands yet but I expect to have her under contract
>>>>> by
>>>>> the middle of next week.
>>>>>
>>>>> I likes these kinda projects, they stretch your synapses almost to the
>>>>> snapping point from all directions and you've gained so much when you
>>>>> come out the otherside.
>>>>>
>>> Well, her package of stuff arrived a few hours ago and the first order of
>>> business will be to break her heart...gently.
>>> She has money, no doubt about that, as indicated by the hundreds of
>>> thousands of dollars worth of antiques she owns.
>>> But shes unrealistic in what its going to take to make this whole thing
>>> work.
>>> Just off the top of my skall I'm thinking she needs at least 3000 sf and
>>> a budget of $500k +++.
>>> A half a mil doesn't go as far as it did just a few years ago.
>> Is part of an architect's or designer's challenge to help the client save
>> money?
>
> Value engineering is included in my standard format, no extra charge. :-)
Nice. :)
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