Owning your own home

I think there is a bit too much variability. So for your example of add a socket it could be really easy into an internal partition wall with easy access and a circuit with loads of capacity or it could be a solid wall that crumbles when you start drilling it on an ancient circuit with knackered cables. An electrician can spot a lot of that and quote when they visit the property but it would be really hard to do from a photo. So then you are into the decent tradespeople are too busy to want to bother with small jobs and when they do people don't want to pay for the travel time (could easily have 2+ hours travel for a 1 hour job).

But yeah, it sucks. It took us a decade to get round to some jobs because of the hassle factors.

I am thinking if I were a tradesperson with no track record yet, I'd love a platform where I could just pick off some small jobs if I were just starting out, to build a reputation. Getting work done on your house hasn't been revolutionised by the internet yet

All these kinds of people are raking it in subbing for builders who have sold big big jobs. Doing small shit jobs for mrs. jones is crappy and they don't want to do them, better to do small shit jobs for Building co who is a less annoying customer and has loads of small shit jobs to do on-site at once so less driving around, less risk, less marketing, less comms, less haggling...

You are better off DIYing or saving the small shit jobs up in to one big ass project that a builder will be interested in.