Percieved Overload...

[learnteach]

Simplify, Simplify....land sale requires tracking down 3 people who are not answering phone. House needs much work. Work has expanded...

Either I'm sleeping or I'm leaping about, and both ways do not generate enough work done. Time to hire contractors!

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ooh, contractors!

[judith-s.livejournal.com]

Do you have some? I'm looking for some. I hate contractors as a class, because if they realize that you know less than they do, they tend to try to screw you over. At least that's been my experience. If you have a secret handshake or something, that'll help you identify the nice & good contractor, let me know, OK?

As to tracking down people... that can be hired out as well. Contact me if you want a pointer.

Best of luck remember to do the important things (breathe!)...

Re: ooh, contractors!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Hey, Ms. J (s), that's the independant sales/marketing thang. But yeah, house contractors are like auto mechanics like car salesmen like etc...you just need to haggle a little from knowledge. Of course, how to get knowledge? Having a sales engineer with negotiation experience handy could help a lot, if you've got one, who is willing to "go to the mat" with the men.

Even then, like realtors, the work is more expensive than you would expect.

I had one really good contractor, but he got liver cancer and isn't doing much. No, seriously...

Thanks for the offer of help; the people I need to track down aren't that hard. I'm finding them, slowly, through normal channels.

Cheers!

Re: ooh, contractors!

[selkiediver.livejournal.com]

You should have posted this as a regular post. A number of the guys who dive at/with the folks at Stan's (http://www.stansdiving.com) are contractors. I have heard some are quite good. I also know a guy who may be more of a handyman-type through hotline. He just did some (painting) work for one of the other volunteers and I hear it was good.