I could never figure out why so many well established electricians paid for such expensive ads in the yellow pages, then a friend/elec.contractor told me why. He said it was better business to deal with the end user, the customer, directly. He had many financial difficulties working as a sub for contractors, late payments or being practically held hostage for your money and having to do some unpaid extras to get full payment. It's best only to work for GC's you know. Sometimes you have to ask yourself why a GC, whom you never met before, wants to give you the new guy thousands of dollars worth of work. He most likely thinks he will make more money for himself with you, one way or another!

Andy