So contractors have offered their services free to help rebuild the diner, work that is expected to cost about $350,000.
By one account, they were drawn here when a contractor offered a few of them jobs building mobile homes.
A contractor offered to build the house of Qwilleran's dreams.
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Civilian contractors offered to help and were put to work filling sandbags to protect the new gun positions.
She added that some contractors have offered to donate building materials.
The contractors offered a more modest, second estimate: $100,000.
If they were lucky, a contractor would cruise by in a van and offer them a day's work for $60, $80 or $100.
The authorities are also trying to determine whether a contractor working in the house offered the housekeeper a job to change her story.
A local Jewish contractor offered an unsecured loan of $50,000.
