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This is certainly a lesson I learned the hard way. This town has a well-established group of independent skilled professionals (plumbers, contractors, etc...). They obviously have something the big boxes don't as they manage to stay very profitable. That said, I never posted the problems I was having with drywall contractors pryor to this. It ended up taking so long to get a contractor lined up that I had finished the work myself before I found someone. I had one promising to fax me his estimate "in five minutes" for 3 weeks!