The about page.
You want to know who's behind the website before you trust the number. Good. Stay suspicious. It's how you ended up reading an about page instead of answering a call list.
The short version
FairlyQuoted is a small company in the Temecula valley. We tell you what your home project should cost, then we find you one local contractor who does that work, checked against the state license board, and we book the walkthrough. Free for homeowners, forever. Contractors pay us a referral fee, and only after they've been paid. Nobody's contact information is for sale. That's the whole business model rant, and we'll get back to it.
Why we built it
We got tired of how getting contractor quotes works, so we built the thing we wanted to use. Took forever. You're welcome.
Somewhere along the way, asking what a fence costs became a lead-generation industry. You fill out one form; three days later your phone thinks it's a customer service hotline. The same file. Sold four times. The big sites earn money when your phone rings, so they make sure it rings. The contractors buying those leads are getting played too: four hopefuls paying for the same job, one of them gets it, and the lead fee ends up buried in all four quotes. Everyone loses except the company selling the file.
We think you should get a number before anyone gets your name. So that's what we made.
What it actually is
You photograph the project and answer two questions. Our software works out what it should cost around here and shows you an honest local range, in 2-3 minutes, anonymously. If you want the work done, you give us an email and we go find you one contractor. We check the local contractors who do this work against the state license board and their public record, rank them on fit, and call them one at a time until one takes your job. You get one email with their checked facts and the times they can come. You pick. They quote you directly after the walkthrough, and you decide. Your phone number and street address stay yours until you pick a time, and then exactly one contractor sees them. Not a marketing promise, a mechanical fact: the form that collects them doesn't exist until that moment.
Jobs under about $500 are too small for us to run the introduction, so for those you get our top two or three picks by email, same checks, and you call them yourself.
No sales team. No call center. No newsletter. We checked.
How we make money
The contractor pays us a referral fee on jobs we manage, due only after the homeowner has paid them. If nobody gets hired, nobody pays anything. Every contractor in the network pays the same rate, so the fee never decides who we call first. Homeowners pay nothing, and the estimate is never bumped to cover the fee. The whole agreement contractors sign is public at /referral-agreement.
Who's behind it
One person, mostly. FairlyQuoted was built by Ralph Cockburn: the estimator, the matching, the phone calls to contractors, this paragraph. Ralph lives in the valley, so the launch market wasn't a strategy-deck decision. It was the driveway. And when you write to hello@, the founder is the one reading it. There's no ticket queue to hide behind. We checked that too.
Where we are
We're based in the Temecula valley in Southern California, which is also where we launched: Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Wildomar, Winchester, French Valley. When your estimate says local, it means our own backyard. We drive past these fences.
Talk to us
We answer email: hello@fairlyquoted.com. We're also on Facebook and Instagram, posting at a pace best described as "when there's something worth saying."
Anyway.
That's us. If you have a project, the estimator is over there. Use it or don't. We're not going to follow up either way. We can't. We don't have your number.