Your Ultimate Guide to Hiring Companies in HomesBIS

1. Find Inspiration

Before beginning any renovation or build project, it’s important to have a solid idea of your end goal or what you’d like the final result to look like.

Therefore, it’s a good idea to have some ideas and questions about your project before you get started because having solid ideas keeps you on the budget, expedites the entire process, and ensures you get the results you wanted.

Here are a few tips:

• Find inspiration and ideas by looking online for photos or designs for your project. (Visit “Designs Library”)

• Find articles that give you an idea of what you are looking for. (Visit “Ideas & Advice”)

• Visit forums to get help and ideas from experts and those who did projects similar to yours. (See “Discussions”)

• Join a group that share ideas about projects similar to yours. (Visit “Groups”)

 

2. Get Quotes

The saying goes that renovating and building costs twice as much and takes twice as long as you expect, and in many cases that what happens is this.

Great companies aren’t hard to find, but never limit your options to a single company either - it’s very important to get between five to three quotes at least from your preferred companies if you want to be sure you’re getting a good deal.

Here are a few tips:

• Make sure you get multiple quotes from different companies to compare pricing, warranties and quality. (Use "Get Free Quotes" to get up to 10 competitive prices)

• You can explore our unique and well categorized companies’ directory to find companies or professionals that doing projects like yours. (Visit "Professionals" to discover top rated companies)

 

Note:

• Determining the cost of a small project is usually fairly simple. Just make sure all the contractors bidding the job are providing the same services and materials.

• For more complex projects, it often takes a few conversations with contractors to define the project to the point where they can begin determining costs.

• Don’t ever assume that the cheapest is the best choice by default – the last thing you want is a company who has to use cheap materials to make a profit.

 

3. Choose the Right Company:

It’s hard to overstate how important it is to choose the right company. Cringeworthy stories about cost blowouts, disputes and miscommunications would be far fewer and further between if people were better informed about what they should be looking for when choosing a company for their projects.

Here are a few tips:

• Check out their HomesBIS profile for reviews, photos of ex-projects, and Before & After photos if any. (Each company has a HomesBIS profile that include all what you want to know about it)

• In more complex projects, you have to interview the companies in person to better ensure they are the right fit for you.

 

4. Hire and Start Your Project

Building your house is obviously a big deal – there are all kinds of fascinating things that can go completely wrong, and there’s a lot of money involved. Thankfully though, there’s much you can do to avoid unnecessary grief and to ensure everything goes off smoothly.

Here are a few tips:

• Once you’ve found the right company, so make sure you get everything in writing before you do any advance payment or start the project. (Homeowners’ profiles allow you to track and manage your projects request)

• For some projects, make sure that contract is created with a full detail like, start end dates, payment schedule, and detailed description of the project as agreed upon.

 

Note:

• Each project request on HomesBIS will have all your submitted details, and price offer from all companies that joined the quotation.

• You can ask any company to send you official printed quote through our system or by your personal email.

 

5. Leave Your Review

Online reviews are valuable because help other homeowners make smarter hiring decisions and they also help the company improve.

They are a trusted source of recommendation that are easier to access now more than ever. Often, a customer will leave a review after they’ve had a great or poor experience or feel something was not done to satisfaction, and all these reviews are important for HomesBIS community.

Here are a few tips:

• After your project or job complete. We encourage you to write a review about your experience with the company. (Each company will display review rating)

• Let company and homeowners know what you like, don’t like and what could have been done better. (HomesBIS provides you with high reliable review system)