Part Three

[US Small Residential Personal and Commercial Investment Real Estate Enhancements]

Introduction

Today’s article features ‘Part Three ‘of the new virtual article series, ‘How Do You Decide To Pay Contractors.’ This series offers key facts that can enhance your contractor hiring approach. This is mentioned since it’s fact that some owners usually have a false sense of assurance that ‘all you have to do’ is use your own sense of expertise or ‘gut’ feeling when you hire someone for your remodel, or other critical home enhancing.

It’s obvious that many homeowners [including landlords and ambitious realtors]can harbor false senses of ‘I’ve got this’ to only experience the reality check in relation to how much they ‘didn’t.’ Then when they take stock of how …. and if they’re honest, they’ll tell you what they missed. They’ll even boast about how much they learned about the contractor …. after they’ve been hoodwinked. The irony is that had they done that before making the hiring decision, they might’ve been spared the embarrassment.

In effect, ‘Part Three’ of this continuing article series begins to delve into very basic approaches that’re missed in something ‘so simple’ as selecting quality contractors. No doubt, if it were that ‘simple’ there would be no epidemic throughout our country. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that way with average owners since it’s something that often ‘quietly occurs’ in most regions, even in the same neighborhoods, but it isn’t as reported or newsworthy as it could be. But home improprieties occur daily on a national scale. However, it doesn’t have to happen on your property if you don’t let it. You’re it. Lean in.

 Brush Up. In the last moments of Part Two, we closed at the final section: Mistaken Identity. Perhaps our biggest takeaway leading to the necessity for the current Part Three is this passage ……

·         ‘In fact, the usefulness of contractors isn’t always sensibly measured by surface appearance. And this is something that’s known by innumerable property owners. Moreover, what’s also acknowledged is the fact that, despite being aware of this morsal of common sense, quite a few private home decision makers hire them anyway. Why? The reason is that there are other factors which come into play that caused them to deny their own awareness.'

This is often true. Regardless of the vast array of fraud prevention data available from multiple sources, there’s evidence to suggest that some homeowners recklessly cast it aside in favor of conflicting values, or for reasons that weren’t sensibly relevant to the caliber of anticipated performance. Included on the list of ‘other causes’ for making potentially unreasonable hiring decisions can be outside the bounds of what we usually consider rational thinking. Here are three:

• Friends. Although friends can be known as  typically trustworthy in as many ways as possible, when it comes to significant home projects like remodels, they may not have what it takes to do them affordably, safely, and professionally. They might not have the skills required to deliver consistent with what’s expected for your nature of project. And, of course, the aside is that, in their home enhancing efforts, they’re technically operating in the capacity of contractors [paid or not]. That’s to say, even if friends, there are times it’s more sensible to say, ‘no chance,’ than to encourage ‘be my guest.’ So you might want to think twice if by chance they ask to do significant projects like build a fence, porch, or deck, especially if they’ve never done it before …… satisfactorily. That goes for anything else impacting the safety, stability, and sustainability of the home environment [gas leaks, included].

• Friend of A Friend. This is often a tricky one. The reason is that this also calls into play sympathetic values above practical ones. In other words, since we normally have good feelings towards our friends, when an unknown friend of a friend is introduced to us, we either like the person or we don’t. But when our  friend is convincing enough about the other person’s record firming up homes, usually we might believe it. And on occasion, we can hire that individual, and find  out too late that he/she was scandalous.

• Shared Values: Military vets often have a soft spot for contractors who also served. Persons of shared religious faith, favorite sports teams, political preference, familial experiences, academic backgrounds, and such along these lines, have regularly been known to hire contractors largely on these premises. And what’s also very common is that innumerable homeowners who selected contractors on these soppy bases, experienced results in kind [soppy].

Conclusively, there’s more to mention regarding commonsense hiring ethics in relation to the quality of contractors [now inclusive are personal acquaintances who can also work on the property in those roles]. In the upcoming Part Four of ‘How Do You Decide To Pay Contractors…..,’ we finally broach Integrity. As we recall, there was mention of that when we launched Part One.’

• Upcoming Part Four of this new article series is slated to be available ON THIS SITE: 

Saturday, June 6, 2026

In the meantime, please feel absolutely free to not wait for the release of our sequel while there’s still more you can discover about being better positioned to make the best possible hiring decision, NOW:

https://homeprojectdefense.com/ 

God Bless You, Your Family, And Your Home!