After our first set of revisions were done, it was now time to start soliciting bids from general contractors.  There are many ways to do this, and we chose to engage with five general contractors and then narrow down the field to a negotiated bid with a select vendor.  All but one of the general contractors we engaged with were referred to us by either friends or by our architect or by both.  The general contractor that we ended up going with was referred to us by a stucco subcontractor that we had spoken to previously because we liked his work and wanted him to do our stucco.

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