Interesting experience today regarding flooring. [View all]
In late spring we bought a house in Tucson. It was a fixer and we are in the process of gutting it and turning it into our little dream house. It's a modest house by Tucson standards in a neighborhood where folks take a shower AFTER work but the bones are here and a house like this in the SF. Bay Area where we are from would only be obtainable if we won the lottery.
Today we had some folks out to give us some prices on carpeting a couple of bedrooms. We got some rough quotes by phone and today Empire came out. We picked out something we liked and the sales guy did some calcs. He came up with a figure of almost three grand for two bedrooms. We freaked and told him we had gotten phone estimates that were much less than that and that three grand is way more than our budget. He said, "Let me see what I can do". He re-figured the numbers and came up with a price that was less than half his original quote and he threw in upgraded padding. $1,400 for both rooms. Still more than I was hoping for but Jeeze, half off because I balked at the price? Ya gotta wonder. Also, in this day and age, you gotta bargain.
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