Closing assurance, putting in the best bid, and making hard money deposits are all good strategies.

It is very hard to get a bid from contractors, according to PM.

Ok posted about Bid Four Assets above and it was starred out.

I have gotten bids on everything around the traverse city area anits very interesting .

The extremely wealthy and the international wealth is still here bidding.

She should.Then you could 1099 her and not worry about payroll taxes - for agent-type services.For the maintenance work she does, also 1099 her by having her bid each job separately.Of course, speak to your tax professional about all this first, to make sure this would all meet IRS self-employment requirements.

You get bids from their contractors and choose the one you want (or none of them).

You can get great prices from young and scrappy subs if you're willing to put in the legwork to find them and get multiple bids. 

Simply ask around in the California forums and you might get lucky.If not I would simply do some calling and some quotes and let them bid each other out to try and get a good quote.

Hello, everyoneIt's been tough to find a GC for our project: we found 8 teams/companies, and only 5 were GCs, we had 5 bids, we liked the systematic approach of only 3 of them, and none of them still have any time to start the project.