Any perspective home builder should watch all of the home building videos you have made. There’s a lot of knowledge in those videos. Thanks 🙏🏼 for sharing.

I've been hearing the same thing from Matt Risinger down in Texas, and from Scott Wadsworth in Oregon. Solid advice, thanks.

Great Advice!!! Thanks!

In Northern NM wr found that builders picked the clients they wanted to build for based on lack of involvement. If at any time during the preliminary process they figured out we might be checking their work weekly they immediately lost interest in working with us. In 2004 we settled for a little one bedroom modified A frame with an open loft. Not at all what we needed or wanted, but it has a couple hundred feet of river frontage.To this day we haven't been able to find anyone interested in doing the addition that would triple the size of the cabin. Most of the tradesmen are perfectly happy collecting unemployment comp through the snowy season, which leaves only 4 to 5 months to build.

Another great informative video.

Solid advice, checking references and seeing previous jobs would be a great start

Said it all perfectly!

Access the Electronic Civil Court Records and you will find most contractors. Search both past and present (open) cases.

In a booming building area like here in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, it can be tough to get contractors to even return calls. They pick and choose their clients so there is no way to pick the contractor you want to use unless you are willing to pay and wait. We have gotten wildly different estimates. We figure some of them didn't need the work so they gave us crazy high quotes. One friend needed a concrete pad built, called 10 contractors and not one called back. He had to go 50 miles away to get one.

Thanks for sharing!!👍

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Do you see a time when the boom up here comes to a halt, Perhaps a hard winter slows things down.

I know we wish now that years ago when we hired a general contractor that we would have gotten some references from him. We didn't realize he was a crackhead until he took us for a few thousands of dollars. He said he need a couple thousand for seed money to buy materials and stuff so we wrote him a check first big mistake. We did not know that he smoked up the first $2,000 because he said he had to pay some laborers that came to help me work that day so I wrote him another check for $1,000 to pay the laborers come to find out he smoked if that thousand dollars too but we didn't find that out to 6 months later. In this partner finally finished what we hired them to do but it took him 8 months to do it it should have took in 2 weeks. But we stopped writing them checks and told him to have the businesses he was dealing with the bill is directly and we would pay them directly once we found out that he was getting high on our money... He was none too happy about it but at least it wasn't smoking up my money no more and my work did get done. Then he went out and took other jobs and calm people into paying him down payments and then he got indebted to some of 32,000 to people and he saw no way out but to commit suicide. Yes he was a crackhead yes he knew all about crackhead anonymous and he went to the meetings but he didn't listen to what they told him to do. So I got high one last time and hung himself in the garage and his girlfriend pulled in the garage and so I'm hanging there they had to be an awful sight to see... Breaks my heart because he was a really nice guy he is very smart guy could have gone good places and done good things in his life he had the skills to really make himself a millionaire but drugs got in the way...

Mr essential mountain homesteading do you have any updates on the fouch family since I seen you in their channel before ?