unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about what went wrong is guesswork
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about what went wrong is guesswork. Accused the wrong party publicly and it was my storage. Correcting it here was the most uncomfortable post I have made and the right one. Escalating faster than the schedule allows is…
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.
Left up. It is honest, it is specific, and somebody at that exact point will read it.
money lost to a shop with nothing on file is the recurring story
Careful with naming anybody. The board rule holds even here, and especially here.
Careful with naming anybody.
marit_sandvik is right that it was procedural. The procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure
What do you want from posting it — advice, or just to have it on the record?
buy small first is the lesson that keeps being learned expensively