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Originally Posted by villages07

All good points and generally how we go about hiring contractors....the thrust of my question was, after all the due diligence of research and bids and you've settled on the vendor and solution you like best, do you simply accept their cost proposal or attempt any negotiation?

And, bike42 you are so right, different vendors bring in all sorts of proposals...cost, materials, scope, terms, etc. hard to do any apples to apples comparison.


For the record, up to now, we usually just go with the price quoted by the contractor we felt most comfortable with after soliciting and evaluating several bids.

We usually tell a vendor we like that we wanted to use their services but we have a better price from XYZ. If the costs are not out of whack we have always gotten the contractor we wanted for the better price. From driveways to house painting my wife has always negotiated a better price. She is gooed!