How’s people finding reasonably priced help to work on rehabs

[Joe S.]

How’s folks finding new help to work on properties? It seems like even the unlicensed, uninsured, and no company name etc. is pulling prices out of the hat thinking they can get it.

[Jay Hinrichs]

I dont have an answer but its an issue and with the younger generation forgoing the trades I suspect its not going to get better .

If I look at my Oregon trades its heavy to Hispanic  with Russian eastern block doing all of our flooring and hard surfaces in the home.  Our framing crew is all Caucasian which is fairly rare.

Our siders are a branch of Mennonites as well as our painters but they hire Hispanic labor..

But when it comes to just rehabbing houses as cheap as you can thats usually bottom barrel type labor pool Lots of missing teeth etc.