{"id":166,"date":"2009-05-12T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/building.wordpress.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:54:16","slug":"nyc-contractors-painters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"NYC Contractors: Painters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the no news is good news department, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had to consider bringing in someone to help with a project. However, it&#8217;s about time a few things\u00c2\u00a0outside the house were painted professionally.<\/p>\n<p>Task #1: Removing rust spots and repainting iron gate and fence.<\/p>\n<p>Task #2: Sanding, re-sealing and painting the second floor deck railings.<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing the &#8220;Painters &#8211; External&#8221; category on Angies list, I wasn&#8217;t able to find a company with more than one review. Then I remembered that I had used <a title=\"Mr. Handyman of NE Queens\" href=\"http:\/\/building.wordpress.com\/contractors-used-and-recomended\/handymangeneral-contractor-mr-handyman-of-ne-queens\/\" target=\"_self\">Mr. Handyman<\/a> for some work in the past. A quick check on their <a title=\"Mr. Handyman of North East Queens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrhandyman.com\/MainFranchisee.aspx?loc=4557\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> verified that they do <a title=\"Mr Handyman Task Checklist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrhandyman.com\/MainFranChecklist.aspx?loc=4557\" target=\"_blank\">paint and handle fences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The inevitable supersizing of the project happened, only this time\u00c2\u00a0just as I was reading through the list (and typing this up) I started thinking of some of the other projects I&#8217;ve been meaning to get to, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ignore the somewhat destabilized back fence until it actually falls over<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Watch free HDTV with an outdoor antenna\" href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/4520-11249_7-6264597-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Install<\/a> and run wires for a <a title=\"Testing a Digital Converter and Antenna\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/business\/technology\/2008\/03\/05\/testing-a-digital-converter-and-antenna.html\" target=\"_blank\">T.V. antenna<\/a> to all apartments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think this post is going to end here, until I call and receive the first estimate. =P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started as just a project to re-paint the railings surrounding a 2nd floor deck. Now, the estimate will probably include sanding and repainting one fence, anchoring another and possibly installing an off-air antenna for free HDTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[25,35],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contractors","category-improvements","tag-hdtv","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}