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10 CHANGES TO MAKE TO YOUR BUILDERS CONTRACT
10 Contract Tweaks To Save You Thousands
A Practical Guide for Subcontractors
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Still signing builder contracts as-is?
You might be agreeing to risk, delays and dodgy payment terms without knowing it.
This free checklist shows you 10 changes every smart subbie should be making before signing the dotted line - so you can protect your cash, push back on unfair risk, and stop getting lumped with impossible obligations and no means to protect yourself.
Written by a construction lawyer who’s worked on site (and used to be a builder contract administrator) - this guide picks the 10 clauses that will reduce the most common risks.
If you’ve ever thought..
- “I'm asking for changes but I'm not sure if I need them...”
- “What do I say if the builder says I misunderstood the clause?”
- “Is every subbie struggling with this, or is it just me?…”
This guide is for you
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What's inside the Guide?
- Clauses to be aware of that quietly shift all the risk onto youÂ
- What your builder’s really worried about (and how to use that to your advantage)
- Practical phrases you can actually say to get the builder to agree
- The Good Bloke approach to push back without blowing up the deal
If you are currently doing nothing else to tackle your builder's big scary contract - start here.Â
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Meet Michelle
Michelle Cirson is the Principal Lawyer and founder of Subcontractor Legal and creater of the Subbies' Toolbox by Tricks of Your Trade.
She’s a construction lawyer, adjudicator, and former builder’s contracts administrator with formal qualifications in both building and law.
Michelle has drafted and managed contracts from every tier on the contract chain - and now she teaches subbies how to manage their builders' contracts, and get paid on time.
If anyone knows how to win the builder game - it’s Michelle.
What my clients are saying...
"Michelle taught us what to say when the builder would give dodgy excuses for not paying us..."
"We got Michelle involved in 2017 when one builder started showing signs of financial distress. My intuition told me that something was off but I didn’t know what or how to do anything about it.
Michelle taught us what to say when the builder would give excuses for not paying us. With these strategies we were able to bring in most of our payments before the builder went broke and thankfully our trade credit insurance covered the rest.Â
Just knowing what to say and having someone to give us some insight about why our builder was behaving the way it was made a huge difference to our situation – both in business and for us personally throughout the ordeal.Â
We could have been the best subbie in the world and those jobs would still have gone sour because the builder's own problems were bigger than us.
We now recognise that behavior when we see it and we are able to act faster and make better business decisions for working with Michelle."
Phill Davison - Storm Electrical
"Michelle helped me raise our contractual issue properly in a gentleman’s way, without inflaming the problem..."
"We never usually have issues with builders but recently a job looked like it was going to go south due to a discrepancy in the head contract.
I wasn’t keen on conflict but I knew we couldn’t let it get out of hand.
Michelle helped me raise the issue properly under the contract in a gentleman’s way and when the time came she helped me get my spiel in order for a meeting with the builder.
It was great having help from someone who understands technical aspects of plans and construction and can talk the lingo with builders but also keeps you on track with the contract too.
It’s not something I would have done on my own but it was highly effective.”
Simon Parker – Parker Carpentry
10 Changes to Make to Your Builders Contract
A Practical Guide for Subcontractors
An educational guide for subbies who want to negotiate with confidence and reduce their contractual risk.
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- The 10 clauses to check and change in your builder's contract (so you don’t wear the cost later)
- What to change to the clause (and recommended wording)
- How to push back without blowing up the deal (phrases we use to get builder's to say yes to our departures)
You'll get it all when you download my free guideÂ
