There's a whole television network devoted to doing it yourself, and several others with multiple shows teaching us how to build our own or fix our own homes. I have personally remodeled two homes. I know when to hold and when to fold. In my kitchen of my last home I did the tear out. I painted. I installed lighting. I did not lay tile or hang cupboards. I did not install the appliances (although I did in the next job). I've got some skills.
But I know my limitations. In this picture I did the paint and the moulding. The hand thrown Brazilian floor tiles were professionally installed as were the cabinets and countertops. I can tell you that in future jobs I installed the appliances, but I did not do it in this remodel.
When it comes to doing your due diligence, don't leave it to your buddy Sal, hire a professional.
I recently had one of my listings in contract and the buyer instead of hiring a professional to do their inspections had their buddy come by and look at it. At the end of the day, they didn't get a report from him, nor was he, after a curory check of the Contractor's Licensing Board, the "contractor" that he professed to be. He said (or so I'm told, he also didn't speak English) that the roof and the foundation were bad. Yet he was unable to provide a written report as to what the issue might be with either. Mystical water intrusion in a house with a 6 year old roof and an imaginary "deep crack" in the foundation. No photographs, no written report, nothing. And the buyer's bailed out.
This was not a professional inspection and investigation, this was some guy just trying to make a buck. Now the buyer is squimish about the home and possibly for absolutely no good reason. It might have just been a scam all along. How sad for those buyers.
Hire professionals. It's fine to cut some corners, but know your limitations and don't let opportunity slip away because some less than scrupuolous clownfish wants to make a buck for himself.
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