Beel
Active Member
I wanted to test the waters and get some opinions on today's environment for guys wanted to jump in and go for it. My focus would mainly be infrastructure jobs, sewer, irrigation, boxculverts, septics, embankments. I worked for a big company for about 10 years and always wanted to jump out on my own, however I just get a "feeling" that it might be a long up hill battle right now. I look at bid lists on city and county jobs here in Florida and there are always 8-10 contractors bidding with the top 5 within a few % of each other. With most cities and counties broke these days, seems the infrastructure spending here in South Florida is very thin. I would be more inclined to start in a less competitive environment, but am here for family reasons. How do you even get your foot in the door these days? I have no bonding capability, no equipment storage, labor is a joke here in South Florida. More or less looking to see what its going to take these days, besides patience