Teamwork

I can't believe what I saw on Property Ladder tonight.

That guy Nathan is a piece of work -- and not in a good way. He wants to call the shots but he doesn't contribute. Even if he's not a handy person, he could have helped during demo. Doing demo isn't rocket science. What work did he do was "create" a so-called budget that resulted in a $12k estimate. Then he doesn't want to show his two partners this supposed budget because he can't guess at the ACTUAL amounts because they've never done it before. So all he did was research things online or at stores on the costs of things. Well, couldn't he have shown that to his two partners?

What thoroughly drives me crazy is that he showed up at the flip with his MOTHER. I can see that it was to show off. That this flip is what he was doing. That he ordering the other guys around. What a jerk! Those two guys are his friends. And he didn't lift ONE little finger to help them with any of the work. He held up work because HE couldn't call a person to pick up the trash? He actually equated picking up a phone as manual labor? Jeez christmas! Nathan actually thought the foil on the cabinets and then the initial painted cabinet doors looked good. They looked like CRAP! He was willing to have that crappy looking stuff?

Funny how their 2-week timeline ended up being a 16-week job. And their $12k budget turned into around $25k -- doubled the cost. Staging might look nice but the actually look of the place? Not so good. No hardware on the painted cabinets. No closet doors? No new shower door in the bathroom? No bathroom exhaust fan? I wouldn't have skipped hiring a staging company and put in better finishes & put in the final touches. They could have just "borrowed" furniture from Nathan's Mom, eh? Ha!

It's just interesting how negatively Nathan acted the entire episode. I wonder how his family and friends are going to respond after they watched the episode (it's a repeat). Hopefully he learned that when he's got partners that he needs to act like part of the team.