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Steve,How many Drywallers,Landscapers, Roofers, and Siders do you know who do not use mexican labor?
Your doing the right thing. I have restructured my entire business to the point where we do everything in house except Electrical as Im not licensed for that but I use a company who has the same ideas we have. We also have more work than we can do so it works and people know the difference and are willing to pay more to use an all American workforce.

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Sam, I am in the process of moving every job to "in house" status also. As to how many of the local subcontractors DO NOT use illegal labor, I would guess it to be less than 50% for sure, and shrinking quickly. For many years I was a "volume builder" on the southwest fringes of the Kansas City metro area. At a 5%-7% net margin, it did not take much to "tip the scales" toward the guys using illegal labor. In addition to moving most of my operations back to "in house" status, I have transformed into a regional builder, doing higher margin jobs, anywhere within a 250 mile radius of my original area. It sounds like I'm serving a similar need here in the midwest, now if I can only keep diesel prices below 3$/gal.