Finding and vetting out Contractors

[Warner Alexander]

I'm a new real estate investor in the Kansas City, Missouri area looking to close on a property by the end of year and I've finally managed to figure out how I'm going to finance a deal when the time comes using a 203K FHA loan. However my biggest hurdle is that I don't know of any contractors or where to find them.

Since I'm going through a FHA loan I read they can be pretty strict on the requirements that the contractors have to have in order to move forward so I'm just trying to figure out the following below.

• 1. where is a good place to find contractors?
• 2. questions to ask contractors to minimize risk of hiring sketchy workers?