“A good friend of mine USED to have a drywall business here in SoCal”
USED to is right. Now all the bidding is done wilh illegal labor, so an honest bid is impossible. Sick!
I read this morning that a landscape company, with a major State contract, that included the Governor's Mansion and the Capitol building in Delaware was using illegals and state officials are claiming they had no way of knowing and no way of stopping it.
An honest guy simply can’t compete with 6-10$ an hour under the table the illegals are getting for this. My buddy would bid job low, and would still be undercut by 25-35%. No way he could stay in business, even working for himself.
At least he was honest enough to walk away.