On more than one occasion this has alerted the tenant of a water leak or alerted us that something was wrong and we were able to mitigate the damage.Establish a good relationship with your HVAC repair company, electrician, plumber and carpet cleaning company.

As soon as the footings are dead you will need to have your electrician and your plumber on the job.

Im the sole electrician on a US Military Forward Operating Base outside of Kabul.

What I mean is that, I now have access to the areas best contractors, electricians, handymen etc, so you no longer need to hit the yellow pages, you just have one number to remember, mine.

I doubt it would slam into the regular round meter pan, and if I have to have a new meter pan wired in and deal with all the permits and electrician bill, it would really have to be worth it.

I have run into to many crooked licensed plumbers, Electricians, and HVAC people.

Do I need to have an electrician and plumber or anyone else for individual jobs lined up or is that something the GC typically handles and already has within their network? 

. - demo first- roughs next- finishes last Important people: electricians and plumbers - * also do nothing to the property and sell it to a buy and hold investor for $150k Great deal for them - great deal for you! 

A lot of tradesmen like plumbers, electricians, etc, will do stuff on the side for easy cash, but with that I'd just make sure to verify employment.    

However, I am having the electrical panels upgraded and several new circuits run to get up to code.My electrician has asked me to get a general building permit to make it easier for him to get the permit for the electrical and said the permitting office may require it.