My career in restoration has been an exciting one, taking me from the West Coast to the East Coast and back again. I began estimating for my own business starting back in 1989. Since then, prices for things have gone up, as you well know, as has the complexity of the estimating process. What was once a simple act has grown into a technical field all its own, and this development has led to a lack of good qualified estimators in the disaster restoration industry.