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Home Services work in Portland
Portland holds a steady base of home services demand because so much of its housing is old. The bungalows and foursquares of inner southeast and northeast Portland are past the age where roofs, gutters, sewer lines and wiring start asking for attention, and the newer build on the edges of the metro brings its own work. The trade here runs from one or two person owner operators to regional firms and a handful of national franchises, and the franchise vans are most visible in the suburbs while the inner neighbourhoods still lean on smaller local names. Paid search in this market is competitive enough that the sponsored slots above the map fill up for the obvious terms, which leaves the longer, more specific searches as the ground where a local business can be found without bidding. That is the demand available in Portland: steady, spread across the metro, and tied closely to the age and type of the housing.
