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.

[Joe S.]

Quote from @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.

About seven years ago I hired some folks off of craigslist and I had to stay at the property while they worked or they would not have worked that much. I hired them by the day. My time is way too valuable now to do that. It was real, but it was not real fun. It was not all bad, but it was not all good either. I’m trying to avoid something that drastic. I did find one man that was confident enough that he rehabed the number houses for me without needing to be babysitting. You can only imagine how many duds I had to go through.