Where & How to find contractors in Oakland County, Michigan

[Zachary Yelder]

Happy Saturday everyone! This is really for all my Michiganders and out-of-state investors that would like to contribute. For the last 3 years I've been investing in my home state, Michigan. For much of it I travel back n forth between my new home, Phoenix, and oversee projects for weeks at a time. I haven't done that this year because of Covid so its been difficult. In that time I've completed 20 projects in the city of Pontiac, Westland & Michigan, as buy & hold and flips. I've been through nine contractors, which is nine to many in my opinion, two of them I pursued legally and won, one is currently being pursued for poor workmanship. I have five projects I've done here in Phoenix that don't have half the problems I do in Michigan. For all the projects I've done they came referred by just people I know or other investors. I'm at my end at this point and I'm thinking of other routes to find good, reliable contractors. I can't network at events because I don't live there full time so I started thinking of apps like HomeAdvisor or Angie's List. Do those really work and are there other applications I could try to hire reliable contractors? My business partner and I are acquiring a large portfolio in Pontiac and I would like to have someone I can trust do some repairs and upgrades for us and hopefully keep for quite some time. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated!