By Greg Vanden Berge
It's time to remodel your home, and you're looking for a
contractor that you can trust and someone who will give you a reasonable
and fair price for your remodeling project.
There's nothing new here, people have been looking for
the same thing for years. This is probably one of the best home
remodeling or home repair magazine topics and will continue to be for
many years.
There are thousands of remodeling contractors out there who seem to do
pretty good work. Some of these remodeling contractors even separate
themselves by doing exceptional work and over delivering.
So how do I actually find a good home remodeling contractor? I've looked
in the Yellow Pages, I've asked all of my friends and they all tell me
the same thing. I have someone that I would recommend, they do pretty
good work and I think that you would be happy with them.
I don't think this is what you're looking for, when you're trying to
find a good, and I would like to emphasis the word good home remodeling
contractor. You're not looking for a referral from somebody who was
satisfied, you're looking for a referral from someone who was extremely
happy.
Where are these contractors located? Here's the best piece of advice
that I could ever give anyone who is looking for a home remodeling
contractor. Stay away from online services. Some of these services
charge hefty fees to their contractors. I know one that charges 10% of
the total price of your job. In other words if you hire a home
improvement contractor from this particular online contractor referral
service, you can expect them to add at least 10% to the overall total
cost of your job.
Most of the referrals that I have gotten and seen others receive, often
seemed to produce the same results as having a monkey select someone out
of the phone book. In other words, I have met quite a few homeowners who
weren't very happy with their referrals.
I would like to leave you with the best tip that I could possibly give
any homeowner who is looking for a remodeling contractor. Go with your
gut feeling, write down a few questions to ask your contractor and asked
them. If you're not comfortable with his personality or any of the
answers that these contractors have given you, try to find another
contractor who you get along with.
It's not always going to be the best price, the lowest estimate, the
best referral or even hiring a contractor who has completed the greatest
number of jobs. Sometimes, you simply need to use your intuition, along
with the information that you have gathered to make the best decision
about hiring any remodeling contractors.
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