Ask me how to spend $35,000 on bad contractors in Tallahassee, Fl

[Lowell "Champ" Crawford]

I can not seem to activate the rabbit's foot in Tallahassee when it comes to contractors. I've completed many projects throughout the SE Region and always seem to run into a Rockstar contractor. However, that has not been the case in Tallahassee, Fl. We have been struggling to complete a mostly cosmetic rehab in Tallahassee, FL for the last 5 months now. It seems as though the contractors in the city are either too busy to take on new investor clients or entirely too expensive to meet an investors margins. I even went to the extent of sending a contractor from Atlanta to Tallahassee who's completed jobs in the past for me and he struck out too. Maybe its just something in the Tallahassee air 🤷🏾‍♂️

Nonetheless, if you have any recommendations please send them my way!

Thanks

@champbuyshouses

[Mike Conner]

@Lowell "Champ" Crawford I agree with you completely on the contractors. There are what I call retail GC's here who have outrageously high prices and only a few that will price within reason. My last rehab where I bought all the materials, contractor's quoted labor from $26k-$34k. I finally found a guy to do the exact same scope of work for $7k, but he decided to raise prices after that project. I've had good luck with home advisor recommendations and apparently a lot of the contractors use that service. 

I work for the largest home builder in Tallahassee and with the current quantity of houses/apartments being built and renovations going on contractors can pretty much name their price. Not to mention COVID has caused so many material prices to sky rocket. We were paying $7 per 4x8 sheet for OSB now they are $26. If you DM me I can send you a couple of contractor's I've used in the past. Good luck