We recently had a bid down to replace our split rail fence in our yard and was shocked when we got the bid in the mail. What we had originally asked for in the bid was to replace the parts of the fence that needed to be replaced, not the entire fence. That was the first thing that I was not very impressed when I got the bid. There was a bid for removal of the entire fence, and a bid to replace the entire fence and a bid to replace 2 of the 3 sides of the fence, but that's not what we asked for when we got the bid. They wanted almost $500 to haul away the old fence, when the garbarge man will take it away for free! The bid to replace the entire fence was extemely expensive and one that I actaully laughed at when I opened the bid envelope. They charged our neighbor less than half of what they gave us a bid for!
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