| Cabinets can make or break a kitchen. | | | | Sometimes In-Stock can be an even exchange or |
| Countless hours of research, many trips to | | | | even get a full refund if the difference is |
| the store, phone calls and appointments with | | | | in your favor. |
| the professionals have all yielded valuable | | | | |
| information that I will share with you here | | | | Lowes has a nice maple, raised panel cabinet |
| today. This information alone could possibly | | | | on the shelf and comes already assembled and |
| save you hours upon hours, even weeks or | | | | is the best value in my opinion. They are |
| months of research, which is about the amount | | | | not the quality of the Contractor's Warehouse |
| of time it took me to gather. I know for the | | | | cabinets mentioned in Part II of this article |
| busy real estate investor, time is money, so | | | | but you can't beat the price and the fact |
| consider this my gift to you. | | | | that they are in stock is a must. |
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| Unless you have a strange configuration that | | | | Contractor's warehouse on the other hand, is |
| would require going with custom cabinets, I | | | | one of the best in stock resources for a |
| would strongly suggest only using In-Stock | | | | better quality cabinet and I love the |
| cabinets and here's why. Say you order a | | | | increased options of things like spice racks |
| non-stocked, 4-6 week lead time cabinet and | | | | and decorative details. They even stock the |
| after they arrive you discover that either | | | | crown molding if you are using it which I |
| you have measured wrong or they shipped the | | | | would highly suggest in giving a finished |
| incorrect item. Either way, you will have to | | | | look to your kitchen project. They offer a |
| wait for the replacement to come in. Not | | | | beautiful maple, white and an awesome higher |
| only will this eat heavily into your timeline | | | | end cherry wood product straight off the |
| but you can bet that if the error was your | | | | shelf. This is more of a do it yourself |
| fault the vendor may take the full 4-6 weeks | | | | place so don't count on the service you might |
| to process and reorder. | | | | get at some of the big box stores. You will |
| | | | have to figure out your needs and make sure, |
| The delays only help to make the problems | | | | if you do have to return something, that is |
| snowball because the completion of the other | | | | hasn't been touched, meaning installed. They |
| items namely, the counter-tops, are dependent | | | | are not quite as easy to work with as the |
| first on the completion of the cabinets. You | | | | other larger stores but the products offered |
| cannot even measure for countertops until the | | | | are exceptional in certainly most, but not |
| cabinets are in and placed. If you will be | | | | all, cases. |
| using tile, you can figure supplies | | | | |
| mathematically, but in the case of solid | | | | Home depot offers an In-Stock product as well |
| surface tops like Corion, granite, quartz and | | | | but it comes KD (knocked down) so I avoid |
| the like you must have your cabinets placed | | | | altogether. If you are super handy and plan |
| and set before they will even measure, much | | | | on doing it yourself go for it since the |
| less start the order. These are the kinds of | | | | price point is a fair amount less than all |
| problems you don't want to deal with so, I | | | | the other options but the time it takes to |
| have found that using only In-Stock products | | | | assemble eats into my precious timeline for |
| helps to eliminate the problem. | | | | the completion of my project so this for me |
| | | | is not even an option. One thing that |
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| Another great reason to go with stocked | | | | Read Part II of this article for The Real |
| product is that many times the goof ups | | | | Bonus. |
| (incorrectly ordered cabinets) can be | | | | |
| returned for full value and another picked up | | | | Hope this information was helpful and |
| in its place, regardless, of whose fault it | | | | remember, that when you ask someone who |
| was. This amounts to a huge savings if you | | | | knows, you save yourself countless hours of |
| compare In-Stock goofs only cost you time | | | | research and time. Our aim is to help you |
| whereas, special order goofs can cost you big | | | | discover powerful lessons learned from real |
| money as well. Not only will you need to pay | | | | estate investing nightmares that will make |
| for replacement costs, but freight also. | | | | you a fortune. |