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Home Services work in Oakland
Oakland is a city of older houses. Much of the housing stock went up before the war, and the bungalows, Victorians and stucco fourplexes in the flats and the hills all need the same trades: roofers, plumbers, electricians, foundation and drainage crews, painters, gutter and window people. The work is spread across a lot of small owner operators and a smaller number of larger firms and franchises, and the searches follow the housing. A homeowner in the hills with a 1920s house searches for different things than a landlord with a fourplex in the flats. The demand is there all year because the buildings are old and the weather is wet in winter and dry in summer. What people type is specific: a neighbourhood, a problem, a kind of house.
