Looking for a Vendor List for Inland Empire

[Brian Ash]

I am setting out to make a vendor list for Inland Empire (plumbers, electricians, painters, etc.) and I am sort of starting from scratch.

Anyone in the Inland Empire area already have any that they have relied on in the past and would recommend?

[Aaron Mazzrillo]

I think you'll have a hard time getting people to cough up their go to vendors on a public forum. I'm certainly not going to freely hand out information that took me years to compile and is a constant ongoing process - good contractors go bad all the time. 

Also, I basically work my a$$ off just to keep my good contractor busy so I know where he is when I really need him. I buy houses I don't really need just so he has a job! For example, he's here at my house right now doing busy work for me while we wait for an eviction to go through and an escrow to close on another house just so I can actually put him back to work. If I gave him the week off, somebody else would grab him and he'd be GONE. I only got this guy because another investor made his millions by selling off all his rentals and said he no longer needed him, but was thinking of flipping a few houses a year just to keep him busy so he'd know where to find him when he needed him again.

Yeah, finding a good contractor who is REALLY good will keep you in the game because that is the biggest challenge in this business. It is much easier to find deals than it is to find competent help. 

You know what every business owner will tell you is the worst part about having a business? Employees.