A young friend of mine who’s mom and dad were friend’s way before had asked me to work for him. Well after a while I managed to escape unscathed from another company who was trying to bully me around. My friend Andy had been under my wing from his first experience in construction to fifteen years later with a beautiful family and a really nice home. I’ve been invited to some of the family functions like Christmas Eve Christmas Day or whatever. Such great full people.
To start with Andy really hit it hard and had all his ducks in a row. I never knew this kid had it!! I wasn’t really ready for it because the market was up and down and he caught me on the down side. He ended up in the painting drywall union for a few years and he really paid attention to what was going on. He saved every penny on his goal to start his own company meanwhile raising a family. He asked me one day to come and join him. I was committed to another company and said that person was my friend too! Well the word got out and i was running for my life. It was quite a disruption in my plan cuz I just bought a house and
Andy’s new style didn’t fit me at all. He was top end finish work and and it required a little more attention. Andy went right after it and landed some pretty cool contractors, but they
were high end and demanding. We managed to get along with them very well and met their schedules without any disruption. It was rather a neat experience to see what some of what wealthy, really wealthy people like. I’m sure they
hired interior designers to do it all and never stepped foot in these places till the job was completed. One person in particular was a huge Google guy just to put things in perspective. Just a vacation bungalow.
Andy had taken over some contacts that others had mismanaged and flaked out badly. The inexperienced really showed wha
t they were incapable of doing. But they are still in business. That’s what gave us or Andy more confidence to stay on it. Andy took over a thirty six unit condo project on Semiamoo spit in Blaine and one person turned around and sold one 300k more than what he paid for it. That’s always exciting except I didn’t think about that. Here’s some pictures!!
