When the pro I normally use was not available, I used Home Advisor to find another. It was an emergency project to satisfy the requirements of my HOA, which gave me only 8 business days to get it done. (They claim it's 15 days, but they count the time in the mail for their notification letter and they count weekends.) One drawback: After I hired someone, I kept getting calls, including one from a man who was quite irate--he said that there was supposed to be a notification when the job was no longer available.