It seems like all the contractors with good reviews absolutely won’t come out and give u an estimate. Do you have to pay them? How do you find one when you re first starting out?
Contractors with good reviews have a lot of customers, and aren't super motivated to come out and give estimates, free or paid. As a contractor, I can say confidently that there are LOADS of tire kickers out there who will just never pull the trigger, and it's infuriating for me to have crawled all through there mess and spent hours working up an estimate to hear things like: 'Oh so much, my cousin could do it for half' or 'Ok great, if I start saving now I can afford this in like, 2 years'
You're going to have to lean into your contacts pretty hard to coax out couple contractors at first, and once you get some projects out there and some work done, it'll get way easier.