But most of the attempts refuse to take on any liability for themselves, and half the reason to use such a company would be accountability and reduction of personal risk.
For the various home projects I've done before, it always feels like such a gamble with a ridiculous amount of information asymmetry, although thankfully the internet has made great strides in fixing that part of the equation.
The market for contractors is basically a market for lemons. There's 10 bad to downright criminal contractors for every good one, and most customers have no way to judge the actual quality of the work until it's months later and something falls apart.
Some great gentlemen who realized that for skilled-tradesman, the real bottle-neck is lead generation. And more importantly, they respect and treat their partners and customers with the utmost of care and regard.
UT picked them up for a major "refreshment" of thousands of units of campus housing and they've completed some stunning work in the short-term-rental market here in Austin with investment properties.
The last time I talked to one of my friends over there, they were focused on the short-term-rental/AirBnB reworks of investment properties as it was lucrative and exploding.
They've only experienced organic growth from what I know which is really remarkable considering their success so far. I'd love to see them meet up with a formidable equity partner and see what they could do at an even larger scale...
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