Hiring Contractor Secrets You Need to Know - Cheapest Isn't Always Best

One of the richest people in the world, John D.went with me. This kind of stuff just doesn't happen
Rockefeller was extremely frugal, but understood thethat often.
importance of hiring skilled professionals. EvenI can't stress it enough and will continue to inform
someone who was as frugal as John D. Rockefeller,people all over the world about the problems
wouldn't have hired the cheapest contractors and I'mhomeowners are having hiring the cheapest
going to tell you why.contractors they can find. It's not getting better, it
There is a big difference between cheap andseems to be getting worse. Today I drove by a strip
valuable. The minute that you understand and acceptmall where two men were mixing cement about 3
this, it can change your life forever. It happened tofeet in front of the main entrance to a convenience
me about 15 years ago, when I realized that beingstore.
the cheapest contractor wasn't providing valuableCould you imagine a small child playing around the
service to my clients.cement mixer, while her mom's in the store
Cheapest Isn't Always Best. Hiring the cheapestshopping? What about a customer who trips over
licensed contractor that you can find, doesn't alwaysone of their tools in the parking lot? I could go on
work. Recently I gave someone an estimate forand on, but I'm not going to. You need to seriously
some termite damage and they told me that theythink about the next contractor you hire, who's giving
were going to use another contractor, whose priceyou the cheapest bid. They might not be providing
was 50% lower than mine. It doesn't take a rocketyou with the most value, even though they're
scientist to figure out, what's going to happen to thisproviding you with the lowest price.
homeowner. It's not like he's going to call me and tellThere is a big difference between the value and
me that things didn't work out and he should havepricing.