Your economic confidence - A thread for painter

[PeterDragon]

Any contractor worth his salt should be very busy now

Only residential. I am a contractor in commercial / industrial, and now we are slow - poor stock prices mean fiscal conservativeness for business means less expansion, means less commercial contracting.

I wonder how long the residential market will keep though - if people's stock portfolio plunges, they may not feel like undergoing big expenses.

On the other hand, rising housing prices has caused several people I know to spend the money on expansion, rather than try and move to a bigger house.

You might as well make money, while money's good.