Starting your own contracting company

[Sonya Brown]

So my husband and I recently purchased 2 rehab properties, the problem is getting contractors to come and give you an estimate. They either show up and don't get back to you, don't even show up at all or the ones that did get back to us, the price ranges were all over the place.  My husband and some of his friends and family members are very familiar with various types of construction. We are considering just starting our own contracting company to get started and would like advice on how to go about it and what type of estimating books or software does anyone use for labor and material costs??? I did purchase both books by J Scott by the way.