Best Source For Finding Sub Contractors For REHAB?
I am looking to find sub contractors to handle painting, carpet, and landscaping to rehab a house. Where is the best place to look to find workers that can do this without out going through a contractor?
What should the order be for who does what job first?
Thanks. :-?
generally painting, then carpet and you can do the landscaping at any time.
Get referrals from your local RE club.
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First repairs, then painting, then carpets and at the last with the doors locked the landscaping.
It is best if you are there most of the time. You get to correct the mistakes prior to completion. It is at completion you get the shrugs and the reversion into their native languages.
Also try and cut in and learn the trade a bit. Makes the next easier. Lots of little tricks and also gives you a chance to know good work from just slap and run.
I go to the suppliers. I hang around other jobs that I see in progress. Oh yes I on occasion go to the pubs on Friday night that they frequent. I change my clothes and adopt their attitudes and dialects.
Has worked for years in construction and almost everything else I have been involved in. With the recent increase in the costs of materials it pays to look alive.
Cheers Lucius Oh yes do not hire the Adams and Williams, that is unless you want your fortune told.
Suppliers is good. Other job sites is good. I have been known to stop guys walking down the street with painters clothes on.
Here's a trick I've had luck with. Run an ad in the newspaper employment classifieds. Run it over the weekend. You'll get tired of answering the phone.
Your next steps will be learning how to qualify them and manage them without paying too much. There are tricks to these things.
Good luck!
Get the yellow pages out and call the guys who don't have ads, just the free one line that came with their business phone, these are the smaller guys who usually work as subs.
This is an excellent article on rehabbing. I just passed it along to another friend who has several homes and he was very impressed. Good Luck
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