Construction companies have poor presence on BP

[Joshua Howaniec]

I was just going through some of the construction companies in Indianapolis, for my own related work purposes, clicking on links and such. I found a lot of the links go nowhere and or the phone numbers are no longer set up to that company or what not.

There needs to be a better way construction/building/rehab companies can maintain a presence and network. There really aren't that many by the city and like I said, the ones that are here are mostly dead or inactive. 

Us blue collar industries gotta be better at coming together and gathering the talent in the same place. 

Ideas? 

[Jay Hinrichs]

I think part of it and based on my personal experience in Indy.. is there are two opposing forces working.

the investor who wants to buy and rehab a property for as cheap as possible to make the numbers work.

and contractors who give honest quotes but don't get a lot of work with rehab investors because there is no money in it for them doing 15 to 30k rehabs.. 

that leaves very much bottom of the barrel hand to mouth contractors running around that will take on those small jobs.. they have no money to buy materials.. and we as consumer take on huge risk paying in advance.