The storm estimate

The other thing that aggravates me is contractors providing extremely high estimates after a storm.  People are opportunists.  When a major storm hits, some contractors will take advantage of customers.  The customer is desperate to get their home restored and some contractors will capitalize on that with really high prices, charging way more than they would normally charge.  If you have a conscious and you have integrity, just be a good person and stay consistent with your pricing no matter what the situation is.

I get a lot of calls on this because the customers get unusually high estimates after a storm.  Yes, they call it supply and demand but my prices for my services stay the same no matter what the situation is. Then you get everyone and his brother coming out of the woodworks as a drywall expert. We had a customer in Kemah who asked for a bid after a major storm.  He chose to hire someone else.  A group of young men.  He even gave them 5K up front.  I didn’t require a down payment at all.  A month later he calls me back out and I go look at the work that they did.  It was horrendous.  It could not be salvaged.  The only thing that could be done was to remove the drywall they hung and start over fresh.  It was a crappy job.  I think a group of third graders could have done a better job.

Another woman needed roughly three sheets of drywall replaced in her garage.  She had several estimates well over 2k.  We ended up doing the work for about 700 dollars. Like I have mentioned many times already.  Just be honest, be yourself, keep your work constant.  Don’t be an opportunist.  You will go a long way to preserving you own integrity.  Customers will appreciate your honesty and you will develop long standing relationships.