Adding more Contractors, Supervisor, and growing.

[Tony Deal]

Hello all,

Please correct me if I am posting in the wrong area.

We are already extremely busy but have a great opportunity to grow and need to add 10-12 more good rehab crews to our roster in the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus Ohio Markets. To do so, we need to bring in another "Estimator/Rehab Crew Manager" to help manage these crews with me. Ideally, this would be someone that already has experience in this arena, such as someone who has worked for AH4R or some other local high volume flipping and wholesaling company that can bring their experience to our firm.

I truly don't know what that title or position looks like so I'm reaching out for suggestions on how to find this person?! All I know is we are busy and as the Rehab Division Manager I do not have enough time to handle this much further expansion. Whether this is a full time Field Crew Manager, Rehab Coordinator or Just an employee that does nothing more than build and price our job scopes, perform field QC inspections for draws and scheduling, etc.

For those of you who do 10+ rehabs per month (or 30 where we're going) what positions do you have that cover this and how do they work with each other? I need to find ways to find the correct candidate who can bring great crews they already have experience with, but be an office/field employee and not just a GC with 20 subs under him. We need direct crew control, yet someone to manage them. Obviously finding someone and stealing them away from another company and paying them more is easiest, but I'm looking for ALL suggestions!

The hardest part of the entire job, as I'm sure you all know, is finding the right crews who are used to investor friendly pricing. It's always that delicate middle ground balance between avoiding the complete idiots who do terrible work, and not being able to afford the top quality contractors who would charge too much to make the deal profitable for us. We pay $1.40-1.50 for paint per sqft on a normal house including materials. 2000sqft pays $2800-3K. Installing a toilet pays $65. Hanging a ceiling fan pays $35. These are a few quick examples of where we are with our other 15+ crews.

I am wide open to any suggestions and help as the boss has tasked me with this and we need to make this happen by 02-21-2017 for onboarding a new client!