Wednesday, January 9, 2008

ServiceMagic Provides Pre-Screened Home Improvement Contractors

Part of protecting your assets includes having a job done right when you have a home improvement project--a quality job done for a fair price.

The ideal situation is when you can be referred to a contractor by someone whom you know personally and whose opinion you trust. When you don't have this luxury, you can use ServiceMagic.com to locate pre-screened home improvement contractors for the job.

We used Service Magic to find an electrician to install an electrical outlet outside our house that we needed for a sprinkler system (he had to drill through an external concrete block wall in our yard to do it), and also to find a contractor to put our manual sprinkler system valves underground and automate the entire system.

How ServiceMagic Works: You simply determine the category of job you need done, provide relevant details, and ServiceMagic will match you to several contractors that match your need. Once you get a list of the contractors that have been matched to your job, you can go to the ServiceMagic.com website and review the ratings they've been given by other people that have contracted them to do jobs.

The contractors will typically call and/or email you, get any additional information they need, and then provide you with a quote for the job. If you decide to hire a contractor, after they complete the job you get to rate the contractor on the ServiceMagic website.

We've used ServiceMagic twice in the past couple of years and are very satisfied with the results. In both cases the contractors were prompt, courteous, and did a quality job. The next time you need a home improvement project done that you don't want to tackle yourself, consider ServiceMagic.com!


ServiceMagic - Get Matched to Local Contractors, Maids and Handymen

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2 Comments:

Blogger Nathan said...

Wow, this really works. I needed to get the filters on my Reverse Osmosis unit changed. So I created a request and viola within an hour I had three quotes. I picked the cheapest one, and he showed up the following day and did the job. Also the contractors on ServiceMagic are computer savvy since they have to use the website, so right out of the gate you get savvy contractors. Thanks J. Mark for saving me some $$$

January 22, 2008 at 1:16 PM  
Blogger Mark Minks said...

Glad you had a good experience. It's amazing what a leveler of competition the internet is, and how we can use it to put people in competition for our business!

January 23, 2008 at 7:47 PM  

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