Reddit mentions of Tips & Traps for Hiring a Contractor (Tips and Traps)

The mother of all open-ended questions.

Let's assume you're in Nuuk, Greenland and you're building a custom Yurt in the Qinngorput neighborhood. I can make this assumption since you didn't provide any useful information in your post. Well, you're only choice in Building contractors is Rasmus Rasmussen and I don't think you'll have a lot of room to haggle or get his price down. He's a nice enough guy, if a little gruff, but since he's also the CEO of Greenland Mining Services, as well as the operator of Viking Diving Company, he just doesn't have a lot of time for getting the run-around. As for materials, it's really all about what you brought in; and when the crate will arrive, so the quality is mostly up to you. I could go on about best Yurt building practices, if you're interested?

You could try providing some useful information about the proposed building (climate, soil, lot size, finished house sq. footage, occupancy, etc.) or you could try this or this or this or this or this.