How do I deal with contractors who keep having life events conveniently happen? I’ve had an electrician get halfway done and have his dad get sick. A drywallers dad died. Another drywallers dad “fell off the roof”. All within the span of 1.5 weeks.

I’m 95% sure these are just excuses, so how do I handle them? Otherwise I guess im an asshole

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You have to negotiate the pay to be bigger on the backend. They don’t get 30% or 40% until the job is finished or something like that. I’ve set it up where I ask them when they can complete the job (let’s say 10 days). I say okay, if you complete it within 12 days you get a 5% bonus. If you complete it in 13-15 days you get exactly what we negotiated, and then if it’s 16 days and above, I start docking a couple percent. It’s worked great, especially with subs I don’t have a previous relationship with

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That’s a great strategy, thanks for sharing

You must be a real peach to work for/with.

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I pay my contractors enough to show up or make arrangements for when they can’t. OP’s total lack of empathy and belief they are all lying already shows a lack of respect and I’m pretty sure they have picked up on that.

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Structure payment so that the bulk of it is due upon completion

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Are the electricians and 2 drywallers all brothers, by chance?

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These drywallers Dads must have been awful dads as their sons have no concerns about the bad juju they're throwing their way.

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