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Old 08-05-2021, 07:13 AM
Jerry Leinsing Jerry Leinsing is offline
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How do you know it’s reasonable. Heads up. General rule. Never give a job on only one price. It is unbelievable how many people don’t check out 3 vendors and their prices. Ex: we put up a stacked wall in the front yard based on my drawings of what we wanted. Got opinions. Asked the most popular recommended guy for a price. Over $11,000 and all neighbors who used him said it’s the going price. The second price was Around $8,000. The third guy was $2,300. He, his brother, and father did it in 2 days. I watched everything installed and they did an excellent job. We did the vetting and saved $9,000+.
Also no matter what any tradesman tells you, get approval from the villages in writing. If told the job can be started in a couple days or approval is not needed, they can start that fast if they don’t have approval that can take one to four weeks.
Anything you do to the outside that requires any kind of construction, be weary of what you or they THINK is the property line. Get a real surveyor to find the pins based on the property datum. We know two people who had to rip out all work because it didn’t meet the boundary requirements. Cement pads removed and relandscaped back to original settings. People here get taken all the time and usually because they think they got the going price and didn’t.
Always contact Seniors vs. Crime(free) and check out anyone you think you want. Old people always think they sre smarter than the average bear and that is their downfall.
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