Scaling BRRRR beyond DIY, compensating contractors

[Matthew Banks]

We're in a rust belt city (upstate NY) where home prices are 250-400k, and have done 4 BRRRs, mostly by ourselves. It's time to bring on help for our future projects. Any advice on how to compensate contractors/tradespeople to ensure that you get good people who do good work? Any specific wage, compensation suggestions? We're not hiring people full-time long-term (just for days, weeks, months) so would it be reasonable to require them to have worker's comp and general liability policies?