vas@lzaz.UUCP (V.SNYDER) (11/14/85)
How does a novice at hiring contractors go about hiring one? We just bought a home a few months ago and have not had much good luck getting anyone to do work or show up! We hired a contractor to do prep and paint work and had to let him go because he was causing more damage than getting anything done. We ended up doing all the work ourselves. We can't hire a lawn service to do our lawn. We've called 15 places in the Monmouth County area and no one returns calls. Some one showed up to give an estimate on fertilizing our lawn and said they would be by Monday for the first application. That was three weeks ago and no one has shown up to date. We hired an unemployed person to rake the lawn and mow it. He called two hours later and said he didn't want to do the job because it would take two days!! The next day, my husband and I did it ALL by ourselves!! Do we have the word SUCKER written all over our face or what? We live in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Does anyone have any hints? Agencies with information? We gladly will pay the going rate just to have some help! I'm 5 months pregnant and work, my husband works 2 jobs and we still manage to do all the work above. I don't think we'll be able to last much longer. We need some additional work done on this house.