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Originally Posted by FloridaGuy66
I had a neighbor in TV that had his front patio redone with hardscaping late last year. He said the cost was reasonable. After I went to look at the work I figured he probably got ripped off and paid $8-10k for a job that probably would've cost $5000 if it was done outside of TV. At a later time he let it slip that he paid almost $20k and that the company that did it said that was reasonable.
The poor guy has since been moved to assisted living for mainly declining mental capacity, physically he seemed quite fine. I have no doubt that he was taken advantage of due to his declining condition. These kinds of things make me wish people would more openly share what things should cost.
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As people get older, and they have been out of the workforce, and they lose perspective, they occasionally listen to a sales rep or vendor (always a mistake). They also get funny and more trusting at times, because of the slow loss of independence
However, your judgement is from one perspective, and he is happy with his judgement from his perspective. . it's all perspective about the value of money, and of life. If he doesn't have much time left, he might be all happy about getting it done!
with humans, there is no reality, there is only a perspective.