Trying to Find Great Contractors Takes Time

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I have talked quite a lot on MyLot about our lake cottage in Pennsylvania. We own it with our daughter. We always counted on our late son-in-law for the minor repair that we needed. Now it is pretty much Kasey and I trying to get business done. Three years ago we developed a leak in a hot water pipe from our hot water heater, which is in a small basement we have, to our bathroom. It is underground and most of the space between the heater and the bathroom is a crawl space since our house is on piers. I contacted a plumber to give us a price for the repair. I looked for some who came highly recommended. The plumber gave me a price of $3600. He said it would take 2 men 2 days to do the job. Call me crazy, but this is a small home, it can't be 24 feet from the heater to the bathroom. The price seemed very excessive. So we didn't get it fixed and as a consequence, we turned off the water and didn't visit the cottage for 3 years. Fast forward to this year, we no longer have our pool and we wanted to use the cottage again. I looked on the Internet to see if I could find someone to help us. I emailed and left message on several contractors. One in the town next to us called me back. He told me he no longer did plumbing but he offered to recommend a plumber to me and i also asked for an electrician. I called the plumber he recommended and they said they would be at the cottage in a few days to give me a price. They came when they said they would and looked the job over and told me it would be about $700. They completed it that day and also did a few other pipe repairs and added a new toilet (our was leaking). The complete price $1325. I also asked them for recommendations for a handyman and an electrical. we have other jobs we need to be done and I was so happy with the job they did. This is the method I used in Florida, I asked our pest control man for a plumber and he gave me a recommendation which I was very happy with.