Hawaii GET sits on construction contracts whether mainland owners remembered it or not. Retainage sits there too. Jobs stall at the end because someone treated closeout as a mood instead of a deliverable.
Put it in the first number
GET, shipping, permit fees, and retainage rules belong on page one of the budget. A surprise tax is not a tax surprise. It is a reading failure.
We show it. You decide. Nobody gets to be shocked in month seven.
- Retainage. A defined percentage, a defined release at substantial, a defined final.
- Lien waivers. Collected as you pay, not hunted in December.
- Change orders. Written. Priced. Signed. Verbal extras are how friendships end.
Closeout is a trade
As-builts, extra tile, warranties, and training on the HVAC. We put a person on it.
JD Pacific Hawaii will not beg for the last inspection because a warranty booklet is in somebody's truck. That booklet is on the look-ahead.
Paying on time is a construction method.
Owners who have been burned by sloppy closeout tend to become our clients. If you want a Maui job that ends on paper as well as in the building, start the contract that way.