On The Deck - Finding a Home Contractor

Jamie Breneman has some tips on finding the right contractor for your home projects.

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We are heading into the busy season for a lot of home contractors and daily minimum attendant exteriors is what we need to now can what Jamie is doing well.

I so we were just talking that it is getting busy season for you know a lot of consoles a lot of in office meeting, tell us what is going on.

It is run as a busy time, advice, planning the project fo what they want to do in the spring when the weather clears up what were we stay busy in a year-round time.

Most construction is really busy right now so there some things that you need to look at when you're planning your project right so what we need to know that we kind of highlighted.

This is the top things to know when selecting a contractor in the course when it you or someone else.

He is to be informed, soon to make main thing is you want to ask your friends ask your neighbors who they've used what projects they done for them, things like that no thing is make sure their losses and ensure that you can go onto the Tennessee website and check that out.

That's in Tennessee or Georgia or Alabama Whichever ones you may select the other things that you want to look at is Mike sure if you're planning a you know is sodding project.

Make sure thei specialize in siding, you know, because a lot of people.

I do a whole lot of stuff but if you'r specializing is something make sure that that contractor is specialized in that project some other things that you may want to look at us is look at the Better Business Bureau and check with your home builders Association.

Make sure that the other members.

Make sure they have a good track record and there's a lot of people out there that there's no record of them whatsoever and ending people hire them in and they don't show up in the hero's horror stories and I think their money and I wonder, you just do your homework.

Take take the 30 minutes an hour to do your homework and then you'll be a lot be a lot pleased.

In the en, what are some of those risks.

I mean, there may be someone eating a couple of girls fighting among my friends cousin you can do this job or you should check them out.

And maybe they're not licensed or you don't know a lot about them One is risk that you run with hiring someone to remain there today, you know, we meet with people all the time met with th two people yesterday.

One of them had a bad experience with innovative took their money they had to go fight with an in court and so the money was held up in the project was held up and so over a years time they finally got there money back but they wasted a year and all this headache and anxiety and stress.

It was, not really.

If you they would've done the homework to find out.

This guy had done this before in the past he wasn't licensee wooden insured.

Yes, i just you know and in the reason I'm doing this is to make sure that arise protected and make sure they make good, wise decisions relating now with all of our online resources.

Check someone's reviews are in there.

His 3-D have some favorite resources online.

Yeah, I mean this one is in Outlook.

It Facebook you can look at their own that you can look out there for Angie's list Better Busines Bureau dirt.

There's quite a few amount there.

There's almost to many now and I think some of those are getting smaller and smaller and so the big thing is just I would always ask my friends and family and people that I trust her.

The neighbors that I they just had the same project done to their house.

You know list check with them.

Make sure they were happy okay so we've narrowed our list family having a way to talk to you and maybe one of them personally have the concert that no homeowner with the product in my mind what I needed.

Be prepared with an S of the big thing is you want to have your project sorta detailed in writing.

It's always tell people is hey have clear vision of what this project is if it's if it's sodding only if it siding and windows.

Here's the things that I want.

There's the things I want to achieve and here's my expectations and so you have that in writing.

So when you meet with you know was two or three different contractors.

Make sure you plan that out and discuss that with each and every one of them don't don't give it to want to not give it to the other, you know, just had it written now in writing and that way it's it's out ther and the expectations can be met and being the professional that you are the professional that w need to look where your return as a proposal that has all that information and it correct if she is the main thing is make sure everything is in writing on some never go by in Ohio wrote it on a piece of paper in and most of its verbal make sure everything is in writing.

If it's not, you don't have something that you want written down on the proposal as the contractors are rotted on that proposal.

It's so much easier to get everything in writing on th beginning and then also you enter a contract with somebody don't.

I would advise you not t do it on a handshake and I know a lot of so I trust him.

I do this.

It's it's so much the so much accountability there.

When you enter a continent is connecting ourselves that way it's been both sides are protected enough so you know in in most contracts it's paved there's things that protect the contractor and things that protect the homeowner so it's a you enter into an agreement and it's a win-win agreement.

I had only get started with you.

I know you have a fantastic showroom.

So maybe if we don't know exactly what we want to do.

Yes he can swing by 179 Hamm Rd.

Were rover on the North Shore or you can reach out to u online@ChandigarhSears.com or call us at 805-3000 I perfect fit with you are ready to start that project.

Laura your new dad name is in deciding the doors and windows.

Whatever you need.

We can give you calling a starter with that consultation to meetings or doing the wrong thing.

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