| 20 January |
As Housing Downturn Continues, |
Remodeler Alan Hanbury thinks somebody must have disconnected the phone in his Newington, Conn., office and not told him. After a record year for his company, House of Hanbury Builders Inc., in 2007, he says clients are not calling at all this year. “My client base is doing nothing, not even getting prices. In 30 years in the business I’ve never seen it like this,” he said here last week at the International Builders Show.
But most of the way across the country, in Farmington, N.M., Lonny Rutherford, of Legacy Construction Inc., says his area of the Southwest could use more remodeling contractors to keep up with all the business. (more…)