How Material Suppliers Cheat

When you are doing your house construction lot of contractors, labours do lot of things if you are not aware of the possible scam that can happen with you. I recently came across one such video on my facebook account. I thought to share this video so you will be aware of such incidents. Here is the video link: https://www.facebook.com/Vijayatimeskannada/videos/796087938458553/ In the above video you can see how labours dumping only 75% of the sand and taking remaining 25% with them…...

June 30, 2024 · P K Arun

Trusting

Yesterday, for some reason, I got to see so much content related to Trust. So, I decided to share today’s email about Trust. While building your house, you should not rely on the TRUST factor more. It would help if you always thought about the Give and Take policy. It could go wrong if you trust any service provider with your Money or work-related stuff more than necessary. Always be the “first product, then take money” mindset....

November 18, 2023

When one of our CCTV cameras didn't work

A few days back, my brother and I installed CCTV cameras that we bought during this Amazon big billion sale. Installation was also over. When we switched on the DVR, we noticed out of 10 cameras, 3 cameras were not working. Again, my brother attempted to fix the issue; out of those 3 cameras, 2 started working, and 1 camera had some issues. Did you know why 3 cameras had such issues?...

November 13, 2023

Before paying advance amount read this

Hello… Hello… Hello… Cut call. Our old cook acted like he could not hear my voice and cut the call. For the past 2 days, I tried to reach him. He is doing the same kind of acting repeatedly. This time, I got confirmation that he was intentionally acting. I got up from my chair and went to the hall to inform my dad. My dad: Okay. Me: For the second building, I was feeling happy thinking this time, none of the contractors played any extra game because of following my house construction tracking system....

November 9, 2023

Company's new way to deal with fraud

Last Saturday, my brother and I went to a battery shop to replace our dead car battery. Usually, all battery shops take old batteries at discounted prices. So we took our old battery to replace it with a new battery. The owner first asked us if we needed to recharge or if we wanted to buy a new battery? We know recharging the battery is a temporary solution, so we went with replacing the battery itself....

October 18, 2023

How did this guy get scammed out of $82,000 by a Contractor

I subscribed to many email newsletters by marketers that I love learning from. A few days back, one guy shared his story of getting scammed out of $82,000 by a contractor. This guy is not from India, so the currency is in dollars. Even though this story is from a different country, I believe this is relevant here as well. This guy paid a contractor $82K to construct a 30% pool in his house....

July 21, 2023

His Electrical contractors feels like a fraud…

Today I got a comment on my temporary electricity connection article. Below is the exact comment: -– How much does it cost to make permanent connection from Temporary connection taken while construction of the house.. Our new contractor from this layout is telling us to Pay 2 lakhs rupees which includes NOC 800000 and rest all amount for DD and connection itseems. I feel he is fraud. Could you please tell me the correct procedure....

July 19, 2023

How contractors give fake RR numbers

I just finished watching the Karnataka election result. I hope Congress fulfills all it’s free guarantee to all the houses 😅 One of their guarantees is to give 200 units of free electricity to all the houses every month! I still don’t know what rules they will add. I just calculated how much it costs to the government monthly from our house. We have around 10 meters + 10 meters + 1 meter....

May 14, 2023

Size Stone Price for House Construction and Few Tips

If you want to know the size stone price, you are in the right place. I will share the Size Stone price per piece or per load in this article. When constructing our House in Bangalore, we bought size stones for our foundation work from different size stone suppliers in Bangalore. Usually, size stone is supplied per load bases and not per piece bases. So price usually depends on the vehicle they use for transportation....

March 23, 2023

How Hollow Blocks Unloader Cheat

This incident happened today morning around 7 am near my home with someone else site. I was watching outside and noticed this incident. Today it was raining outside. Usually, that building owner monitors every time any delivery vehicle comes. But because it was raining outside.. he was not there on the spot while unloading Hollow Blocks. Unloaded hollow blocks So the unloader unloaded blocks and informed the owner on the phone, telling unloading was done while keeping around 50 to 100 blocks inside the vehicle....

November 8, 2021