It’ll take at least a couple of weeks if not longer for your solicited general contractors to get back to you with high level numbers.  Make sure you set expectation on when they should get back to you by.  When their proposal and bid is ready, meet each general contractor to go over the numbers.  Don’t be surprised by the range in which the bids come back.  Our bids ranged from 620K to as much as 820K.  All bids being way over our anticipated numbers.

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