I don't work or live in Houston, but have family there. There is always new construction going on. No chance in the world would I live there.
is it that bad or is it crime
is it that bad or is it crime
Super:
I’ve lived in Houston all of my life (I’m 62), my wife and I live close to downtown, raised a family here, have kids/grandkids. I love Houston and would not want to live anywhere else and I don’t think crime is any worse here than other cities, honestly I seldom think it.
The market here is great, the best I’ve seen here in 40 years of building new homes. I build a handful of rather expensive homes (2 million$ and up) each year, both custom and spec. I think the prognosis is the market will be good here for 4-5 years, but who knows. I really don’t know what the job prospects are for superintendents here but I assume strong. I have a very experienced project manager and actually hired a young man 5 months ago to train as his future replacement.
Good luck if you decide to come here, Houston is a very vibrant City.
Allan
Houston is the only City where I had 25' trailer busted into and half the tools stolen (brand new in the box that was purchased in Biloxi) while catching some shuteye at a motel. SOB's got caught when they rolled their box truck on a freeway loop and spread THEIR new tools all over the road.
Houston is the plague in my opinion![]()
Does OSHA make a lot of residential site visits? There on just about every other commercial job I do just because there aren't many going on right now, and there for the wrong reasons, I'm all for making safety a priority and OSHA isn't there to help you be safe but to write citations which is wrong!
Secondly, can you submit prints to the building dept. in houston for a house without an architect and MEP stamps or is it a requirement?
On residential here OSHA comes and goes, I've gone years without seeing or hearing from or about them. In 2012 they were hitting builders sporadically, I actually had an inspector on one of my homes and framer was fined $12,000.
You can submit plans drawn by a building designer, they do not have to be registered architects, do not MEP stamps, but structural engineer stamp and design are required.
Allan