From abroad

Running a site from another country

What to settle before the first spade goes in, so you keep control without being there.

Published September 2, 2026

Distance is not a trust problem so much as a tempo problem: decisions arrive as messages, out of order, and nobody can say any more what was agreed. The remedy is documentary before it is human.

Settle in writing

• One payment milestone per phase, tied to something observable.
• A retention, released after handover.
• A fixed day for photographs, always the same, framed the same way.
• Who decides on site when you cannot be reached.