How to Choose a Contractor — The Scorecard That Gets It Right
About this episode
Bill Reid discusses how to effectively choose a contractor using a weighted scorecard methodology.
How to choose a contractor from three bids using a 7-category weighted scorecard — the same methodology commercial developers use on multi-million-dollar projects, adapted for homeowners. Get Your Free Contractor Scorecard Tool! Most homeowners get contractor selection completely backwards — and they do not realize it until the project goes sideways or the change orders start arriving. Knowing how to choose a contractor the right way means separating objective evidence from emotional bias before the final call is made. That is what Episode 54 is built to do. In Episode 54 of Your Home Building Coach, Bill Reid delivers the complete contractor ranking scorecard: a 7-category weighted evaluation framework organized across three pillars — Track Record, Process, and Fit. This is the same methodology commercial developers use when evaluating contractors on multi-million-dollar projects, translated into a tool any homeowner can run tonight with the bids already on the table. This is the payoff episode of the Estimating Your Project Cost sub-series within the World of Construction series. Episode 50 defined what a real estimate is. Episode 51 covered when to gather estimates. Episode 52…
People in this episode
Host: Bill Reid
Topics covered
- contractor selection
- weighted scorecard
- home improvement
- project management
- estimating costs
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