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Ben Sears
  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Farmville, VA
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Contractors Showing Up Late (or not at all!)

Ben Sears
  • Flipper/Rehabber
  • Farmville, VA
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How is everybody dealing with contractors who are late or absent? We have a pretty experienced team (and hold a contractor's license ourselves) and have had two contractor issues in the past two days. Yesterday, our HVAC tech showed up an hour late for our first appointment which set him back 45 minutes for our second appointment (We purposely scheduled heat pump service on two properties back to back thinking this would be quicker). Today, we got our demo crew going on a new property we just purchased only to get the run around from the dumpster company. First they had driver issues so it was going to be lunch time instead of first delivery. Then by 3:30 when it hadn't arrived, they had "mechanical issues" and the truck "broke down". We've been promised for the morning or Monday at the latest but I'm not holding my breath. I know delays are inevitable, but we hold a fairly tight schedule in order to get properties turned over. It's been a frustrating week so thanks for letting me vent BP!

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