I felt then as I do now that three very important things in this business of contracting are “relationships, relationships and relationships.”
We did share information with other contractors at local association meetings, but not until after we gave one of the low bidders in the group the usual, “I don’t know how he can do it for that price” - unless, of course, we were the low bidder. Sometimes this was the case and sometimes it was not. But nonetheless, we did talk about problems and did get some suggestions.