Has anyone had a good experience ordering from Home Depot?

[Mike Trzaska]

Has anyone had a good experience ordering from Home Depot through the Bid Room? Would anyone be willing share their systems to make ordering material more efficient?

I'm a newer investor, on my first BRRRR most of my time was spent making runs to Home Depot or Lowes to pick up material or on the phone ordering through the Bid Room or talking with customer service about my order. I vowed to improve the process on my next two properties, but the same thing is happening. I created my SOW and Material List, then built my order on HD online. Of course you can't just put something through the Bid Room online, so I spend 45 minutes on the phone with my local home depot placing the order. Only for them to find that most of the stuff is out of stock and the cabinets would have to be ordered online anyway and picked up in store. The kicker is on a $2100 order I ONLY saved $5 bucks on an exhaust fan by going through bid room?

Is there a secret I am missing here? I'd really like to make a coupe large orders per project, have them dropped by HD at the property, and save 10-20% by going through bid room.