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Nice. It's good when you can find folks like that whether Dentist, Dr, mechanic, plumber, etc....

It's far, far too easy to find the other guys.

I wanted to have all of the valves for all of the sinks and toilets in the house replaced. THe house was 40-50 years old and I didn't want to deal with stuff breaking. I called a plumber that seemed to be busy in my area, always seeing their vans, etc.... They came out and quoted something like $1200 to replace them all. I told them thanks but no thanks. They had told me ahead of time, "it's $50 for us to come out, but if you use us, that comes out of the bill." I was happy to pay them. I called the next guy. He came out and was "the guy" for the place and his wife had answered the phone. I think he charged $500. The sad part was that he was done in 15-20 mins. But I'm certain that if I'd put a wrench on any of the valves, I'd have ended up twisting the pipes off inside the wall or something.

My wife is the same with dentists and eye doctors. And yeah, now that we've moved, she still drives into town (80-120 miles depending upon the service) to go to the folks that she's been using. Years ago, she had an opthamologist that she used for many, many years that was not on our insurance, but kept using him because she liked him. Fortunately, we've found someone else that's great AND on our insurance.