Take My Money.. PLEASE!!!

I don’t know why but I am having a really hard time spending close to $5000. I am trying to hire someone to put a new roof on my house and just having a devil of a time. If you look in the phone book there are dozens of roofers. I do not want to just call people and hire someone at random thought. So I asked everyone for referrals and got quite a few. Armed with this information I was sure the work would be started soon. Well that was three weeks ago and I am still taking bids.

The first few numbers I called had voice mail messages that they were closed for the season and to please call back in April. April, nah, that is just too long to wait. I got this money burn’n a whole in my pocket. Plus I’d like to get the roof completed before the heavy spring rains come. Now I do understand that not all roofers work during the winter but let’s face it – it just hasn’t been that cold lately. And I see roofers working all the time so I guess it was just my bad luck to try those.

I did finally get a hold of one guy after calling around to several numbers over a week or so. He said he was interested and would come by to give me a bid. So we set up a time to meet. Well he did not have time on the scheduled day so he called up and rescheduled. That is fine; I’m only home on Friday and the weekends so of course it would have to be for the following week. Well the appointed time the following Friday came and went, this time no call. Well I’m certainly dune with that guy. Thanks JM but your guy just didn’t show any interest in taking my money.

So this week I got a recommendation from CQ. His guy called me back a hour or so after I left him a message and actually seemed interested. He was the first to ask a few probing questions about the job and he was the most flexible with his schedule to come and give me a bid. So hopefully tomorrow I will have my guy. I have a few other bids from larger companies but they are from a while ago and would have to be updated, not to mention probably a little overpriced as well. So hopefully I can get a good deal tomorrow and someone will finally take my money!