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Home Services work in Bridgeport
Bridgeport is a city of renters and older houses, and the home services work that gets searched for here follows that. A large share of the housing stock is multi family and pre war, so landlords, property managers and owner occupiers all search for repairs and upkeep in the same months. The trade in Bridgeport runs on a mix of owner operators and small crews, with some franchise names in the larger categories. Paid search in the home services categories here is contested by the franchises and by lead generation companies buying clicks, which tells you the demand is real and worth paying for. The searches themselves are local and specific: people type the neighbourhood or the street they live on, and they search on a phone, often the same day they need someone.
