Front loading sounds good...
How do you front load a light fixture package or gear package that is worth about 1/2 of the project? Under most contracts, you cannot bill for schedule of value line items, until they are installed or properly stored. Storage is not always allowed.
Typically you can be looking at delays on the job that will prevent you from billing items for months sometimes.
Will you play bank for that long..
What about the suppliers?.. How many of them will deal with the " You get paid when I get paid if I get paid" terms?
Old-timers always brag that that's the way it has been since bread was a nickel.
Any tricks to take the bite out of very large material packages by including Deposit style line items on the schedule?
Does that fly.. or are we really more in the banking business than the Construction Business?
I have witnessed large Jobs with well known GC's and End-user Clients where there was no cash flow for 3+ months after starting a project. Yet many people still appear to agree to this type of abuse.
