I currently work in Finance for an automotive supplier and I used to work in Purchasing and Supply Chain.

The surge in homeowners, investors, builders working on homes has left the trades people and their suppliers very busy.  

Where I am the gas electric comes from the same supplier and the water comes from another supplier (the city).

Now we Shaw Summter Plus exclusively. .89 since per square foot.I suggest sticking with major flooring suppliers.

They used to be the least expensive, and are pretty solid quality, but at least Cincinnati started adding the Chinese tariff into their pricing that put them more in line with other suppliers, but still well below retail pricing.

You may need to coordinate with some local suppliers of porta potties and tent rentals so it's a one stop shop.

Hey all,
Does anybody know if you can buy prefab Quartz slabs anywhere in Columbus, OH? In CA there's loads of stores where you can buy a 8-9'x26" prefab slab for $200-300. Does that exist in Columbus anywhere?
Cheers!

Basically the suppliers to the suppliers, and maybe another step down from that. 

@Raj SHa you can try east/south or South East Austin...Elgin, Manor, Del Valle (DV)...you can get something for 275-305K and you can pretty much break even with rents around 1400-1800 but u put 25 -30% down...however this part of Austin is not preferred due to low household incomes, poor schools etc....but DV is now new home to Tesla with 50% of employees to be within Travis County itself with salaries around 50K/yr typical blue collar jobs and these are ideal folks for long term rentals..plus google velocity/domain type mall under construction etc...plus there is huge possibility of Tesla suppliers moving here as well.

@Justin Kwan Everyone here makes solid points, but one of the really cool benefits of a LLC is that you can open up business accounts with some of the large suppliers and get HUGE discounts.