In my area of the US, you have to move mountains in order to get a plumber, electrician, carpenter, etc to show up. To get work done on my house, it involves le

In my area of the US, you have to move mountains in order to get a plumber, electrician, carpenter, etc to show up. To get work done on my house, it involves leaving messages with at least 10 people, getting callbacks from maybe 1-2, and hoping to god the person actually shows up (when they do show up, it's probably a month after the first call). (Private equity is capitalizing on this by buying out local plumbing/electrician/hvac companies to merge them into full service companies with a call center, CRM for customers, tech-enabled scheduling and dispatch systems... which is all good, except they charge 2-3x higher rates compared to your local plumber... so the option is <call PE-owned plumbing company and pay 2-3x the price to have someone show up tomorrow> or <call 10 local plumbers and pray that 1 of them calls you back and actually shows up>) I imagine house builders and contractors have more reliable networks of workers to draw on compared to the average homeowner. But maybe the availability of workers to build a house isn't what it used to be?