Trusted vendor lists are gold as a RE investor...curious how people built theirs?

[Bryan Schwartz]

I'm working on building mine with the hopes of eventually dumping my current property manager and curious to hear from others:

1. Did you use traditional marketplaces like yelp, thumbtack, angi?

2. Is it common to protect your list or are you open to sharing with fellow investors your know?

3. How do you store it? Google sheet? Do you use software?

4. Do you have multiple for vendors per trade?

5. How or where have you typically found the best contractors? Online forums? Referrals? FB Community Pages? Nextdoor? etc.

6. Do you perform regular preventative maintenance to avoid emergencies or are you more reactive?