What are your FAVORITE QUESTIONS to ask a contractor?

[Jacob Smith]

Please post your FAVORITE questions to ask a contractor!  I'm beginning to call contractors to build my team and I need some help with questions to ask.  Please mention if it's trade specific (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, etc.) What is your go-to question and what is the answer you want to hear??

Thanks!

[Austin Youmans]

• Are you licensed?
• Do you have insurance?
• How long have you been running your own crew?
• How many guys do you employ?
• References?
• Where is there office? (If they are not an established company but a small LLC it is easy for them to vanish)
• What scope of jobs have you worked on?
• How often do you communicate with customers?
• What is your work load like right now?