Remember when contractors wouldn't show up to your job? Or maybe the crew made you feel like they were doing you a favor as you paid them thousands of dollars. One housing crash later, and times sure have changed. Here are the three tips you need for hiring a contractor today.
Jill Schlesinger, CFP® is the Emmy-nominated business analyst for CBS News. She covers the economy, markets, investing and anything else with a dollar sign on TV, radio (including her nationally syndicated radio show), the web and her blog, "Jill on Money." Prior to her second career at CBS, Jill spent 14 years as the co-owner and chief investment officer for an independent investment advisory firm. She began her career as a self-employed options trader on the Commodities Exchange of New York, following her graduation from Brown University.
