I agree there are lots of differences in each property, but are you guys really saying that a land owner goes into building a pond with "absolutely no idea" of what the costs are going to be?
I just find that hard to believe.
If I were to build an additional say 5 acre pond on my property and had 2-3 pond builders out to give me a bid/estimate and some of them said..."look I have no earthly idea how much this is gonna cost you...could be $25K ...could be $150K or more" then I would not move forward with that builder.
I imagine most land owners get some kind of window of probable final costs or they would not move forward because most people don't have that kind of money ($100K sway) to throw around. How many people could really hand a pond builder a blank check and say "ok go build me a 5 acre pond". There must be some kind of pre-construction estimate or rough bid as to final costs.
