San Antonio Contractors

[Adriana Jimenez]

Good Morning,

My husband and I are looking to do our first flip in the next month or so. We have our eyes on an abandoned house in the neighborhood we grew up. The house has been abandoned for at least 10 years or so. I have already found the owner through property tax records and we have financing figured out, the only thing missing from the equation is a good contractor. I want to have all our ducks in a row before making an offer on the house. Can anyone recommend an efficient contractor that works in San Antonio? 

[Chad Clanton]

I've done a few flips here in SA, and been a contractor and inspector as well. The core thread is the joy of finding the right contractor. Or the right contractor for the week. Or... Point being, finding good contractors here is an adventure. In the past couple years, there's approximately one out of the 50 or so I've worked with that I'd even consider recommending, and he just does AC. Half the others should really have been taken to small claims court (though that's often a waste of resources), and a few others weren't straight up prosecuted because SAPD either doesn't fully grasp or care, one or the other, about things like fraud, money laundering, and significant theft of service, etc. It's pretty unregulated (from a real world perspective), which can be great but often ends up being a pain. Here is a link to a post I did on vetting contractors here in SA, perhaps it'll provide some insight. Let me know if you'd like to go over anything; take care and best of luck!