hydeisland
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- San Diego,CA
Thanks for all the advice guys! Sounds like pounding the pavement and calling around is the way to start out for me. As far as the GC's I ve worked for as a journeyman/ foreman alot of them do work out of my league as most of my work as a foreman has been for a large EC doing fairly large commercial projects, the kind of stuff I m not financially ready to take on. I have called a couple of the supers I ve worked with and let them know I now have my license.
This sounds like what I might have to do but all I ve heard in contractors school and in all the books I ve read is that this is the number one reason for contractors failure:low bidding. I wonder how i could avoid the trap of "well you did it for this much last time, why the higher price"
Sounds good, except:
Most GC's already work with 2 - 3 EC subs that (wether is true or not) they consider reliable and quality.
In order to push yourself in you have to be lowest price. Much lower. They won't take your word that you're more reliable and do better quality till you work for them a few times. And those few times you'll have to be WAY lower than their normal EC, as if you're close they will give their EC's the opportunity to be the lowest.
This sounds like what I might have to do but all I ve heard in contractors school and in all the books I ve read is that this is the number one reason for contractors failure:low bidding. I wonder how i could avoid the trap of "well you did it for this much last time, why the higher price"