15: DIYing vs Hiring Contractors For Your Next Home Project

In this day and age when qualified contractors that actually have availability and can offer a fair rate is increasingly hard to come by, the decision about whether to DIY or hire out your next rehab or renovation project has become all-the-more important.  It's never black and white, though, since many factors go into your decision-making process, including but not limited to the scope of the project, your budget, preferred timeframe, personal experience and schedule, availability of licensed contractors in your area at any given time, and more.

In this episode, I delve into my own recently completed basement DIY project in Bayonne, NJ, as well as another basement project we finished recently in the Catskills, where we decided to hire out the work to a trusted contractor.  I go into a lot of detail and provide a transparent account my experience, takeaways, and thought process, in the hopes that it will help you analyze and decide on your next project.  

I hope that you find it useful,  and if you do, please take a minute to rate it, share it with others in your sphere, and to leave a review on Apple Podcasts.  

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Theme music excerpted from:
Feelin Good by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3744-feelin-good
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