Damn contractors!

[makoshark]

Originally Posted by Northeast Rod Run

hmmmm...................

That may be fine, but I would stick with someone you can get a recommendation from someone you know. You never know on those type of sites who the person is giving the review.

As for contractors not calling back, I'm a contractor, and I have recently experienced just that on a job I was on. I cannot explain as to why they are doing it. If I ran into a job I simply did not want to do, then I would either tell the potential customer I was just too busy to do the job or give an overly high estimate. Construction work has begun to pick back up, so many are busy. The pickings are slim compared to pre-2008 as many contractors couldn't tough out the recession. I would say, if the contractor doesn't do a follow-up with you, then do not bother calling them back. You're just asking for future grief if you do manage to get one of them to actually start working on your project.

Pay my traveling expenses and room and board and I'll come knock it out for ya

[OOCustoms]

Im no longer in the roofing biz directly since Im in the Air Force now but a site I was and am still on is Roofing.com. It has many very good contractors on it. I know your looking for a general contractor as well so you might try going on there and see if anyone is on there in your area and maybe has general contractors they know and use. Like I said Ive been on the site for a couple years now and there are plenty of very good roofers on there. Im not talking about just guys who roof for a living but guys who live and breath roofing which is very rare. Anyways I hope this helps and if you need any advice on roofing just let me know.

Marc