Reply #27: the man i hired ended up making over $100 an hour [View All]

[pitohui]

and we also had to buy and pick up all of the materials, and my husband had to assist on the job, yeah, we way overpaid, but there was no choice, we could not live w. a hole in our house forever and we still know tons of people who have six figures of work left to do but no workers to do it with

insurance settlements are leaving people with four, five, sometimes even six figures of money that could be spent on repairs -- if only they were able to get workers

people are not coming here all the way from guatemala because there is no money to be made, they are coming here for the $$$, now i accept that some people can't tolerate prosperity and will sit on their hands and just hope the opportunity passes...but i am lacking any sympathy for that type of individual this time of century

now if a person has a handicap or for some other reason they can't do the work, that's different

but the claim that there is no work is a flat-out, full-bore, dead-on lie

as i said, come down here and say it w. a straight face that there is no work

i recently talked to an 80 year old man in biloxi who is back in the construction business because of the storm, "i'm retired but it's too much money not to work"

i mean, crap, if homeowners are hiring the 80 year olds...that is desperation

the opportunity is here, no use saying it isn't