While masked behind boots and tools and trucks full of lumber, contractors you want in your home are professionals. The real kind.
Like doctors, like lawyers, like managers. Like, well, you. Except not exactly. You probably go to an office. Ours is somewhere between our trucks, shops and on your roof. Unconventional to say the least.
Still, many of us are half-way decent at running a business and managing relationships AND talking art, sports, current events (never politics; it serves no one), whatever Elon Musk is doing, and being proud of our kids.
However, many homeowners don’t view contractors as such and as a result, spend too much time on very minor details.
Sadly, a collegial, professional relationship is much easier and more efficient than a questionable one. Even funnier, those of us who know the ‘tells’ start ratcheting up the price as problem-child customers give themselves away with truly asinine questions.
So, if you’re the asker of these questions, chances are the ‘deal’ you’re trying to finagle from the person who you think is dumber than you is costing you more time and heartache by the minute.
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