When Your Project Back Home Goes Wrong

A practical guide to assessing the damage, protecting what remains and planning your next steps from abroad

Your project back home has stalled. The work is incomplete, the spending is unclear, or someone is asking for more money before you understand what has happened.

Making the next decision from another country can be difficult, especially when contractors, relatives and suppliers give you different accounts.

When Your Project Back Home Goes Wrong helps you establish the facts, organise your records and assess a realistic way forward. It focuses on troubled building and refurbishment projects, with practical steps to follow before committing more money or appointing another contractor.

What you will learn

• Respond to immediate concerns and arrange suitable local help.
• Reconstruct what was agreed and what has actually been delivered.
• Gather evidence and commission an appropriate independent assessment.
• Check payments, materials and money held on your behalf.
• Separate past spending, unpaid obligations and potential claims.
• Assess requests for further payments.
• Compare continuing, replacing the contractor, reducing the scope or protecting and pausing the project.
• Prepare a recovery budget using verified available funds.
• Organise information for local advisers and relevant complaint processes.
• Manage a handover, restart in stages and track outstanding actions.

What is included

• 26-page practical guide in PDF, with 16 chapters and three worked examples.
• Editable Word version of the guide.
• 16 editable tools in Word, with a printable PDF copy.
• Excel workbook with seven sheets covering recovery funding, future costs, actual payments, issues, evidence and actions.
• A matching cover and start-here instructions.

The worked examples cover a stalled renovation, missing materials where a relative handles funds, and a comparison of continuing, replacing or pausing a project.

Who is this pack for?

People living abroad who need a structured way to assess a troubled building or refurbishment project back home and make informed decisions about the next steps.

Published by EveKay Practical Guides, part of The Diaspora Back Home Guides.

Digital download. No physical product will be supplied. This global edition provides general management guidance and does not guarantee financial recovery. Country specific legal and technical matters require appropriate professional advice. The worksheets are not legal notices or contracts and do not certify building safety or compliance.