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lightningspore | 3 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Currently negotiating with a plumber and electrician concurrently. They’ve been here over an hour and they keep going out to the car to “call the boss” for like 20 minute at a time. 

This fucking electrical engineering degree is worthless I should’ve been a plumber
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lightningspore | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The plumber is a prolific mushroom grower in his spare time, at least that is fun! At least he doesn’t think I am a crazy person based on what my basement looks like.
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Theory of Everything | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Never trust anyone you pay by the hour. They only have your best interest at heart while you are paying them.
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Dylan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I know a local plumber that accepts bitcoin if you need a second opinion from another company.
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lightningspore | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes I really need this for next time! What sort of sucks about the trades is that negotiation and shopping around for pricing is difficult, as each one feels obligated to make a trip to your place to give a quote. 

There needs to be a service which can inspect a job and then get valid quotes from multiple companies.