Get local jobs for a flat $5 a talk

If you run a crew - hauling, junk removal, moving help, lawn and leaf, handyman, pressure washing, tree work, scrap, plumbing - FiveToTalk is the board built by a man who does this work. Sign up free, get email alerts for jobs in your towns, and pay one flat $5 only when you want to talk to a customer.

The math, next to the big apps

Here is how the national platforms make their money, from their own pages and public reporting - and how this board does it instead:

• Thumbtack charges per lead, and the price moves - set per service, adjusted by Thumbtack, charged automatically the moment contact happens on matched jobs. Third-party trackers put most home-service leads around $25-$75. FiveToTalk: $5, flat, every trade, every job - and only when you tap to unlock.
• Angi charges per lead at prices Angi sets - third-party reporting puts typical leads around $15-$100 - and the fee is owed whether or not you win the job, or the homeowner ever answers. Angi has also run an annual membership, cited by the FTC at $287.99 a year. FiveToTalk: no membership, no annual fee, and if the customer never answers within 48 hours your $5 comes back as credit on its own.
• TaskRabbit takes a cut of the job itself - a service fee reported around 15% plus a Trust & Support fee reported at 5-15%, and the job money runs through the platform. FiveToTalk: zero cut. A $3,000 job pays you $3,000. You and the customer settle up direct, like grown-ups.
• The board itself is public here. On the national apps you often cannot even browse before handing over your details. Here, every job - trade, town, size, the customer's own words - is free to look at before you spend a dime.

What you get

• Email job alerts matched to your trades AND your towns - both have to fit, or you never hear about it.
• A pro dashboard - your unlocks, your customer contacts, your credit balance, your alert settings. Sign in with an email link; there is no password to forget.
• A public profile with your real Talked and Hired counts, and reviews that can only come from customers who actually talked to you.
• The ghost rule, automatic. Customer never answers in 48 hours? The $5 comes back as credit without you asking anybody.
• The fake rule, automatic. A fake post gets killed, and pros who paid on it get refunded.
• No auto-pay traps. No auto-bought leads, no expiring credit packs, no budget sliders quietly spending. Money moves only when you tap pay $5.

Where the jobs are

Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina - 18 NC counties and 10 SC counties, opening town by town. Home turf is Henderson and Buncombe; Greenville and Spartanburg anchor the Upstate side. If your town is not hearing alerts yet, signing up now puts you first in line when it opens - signup is free either way.

New here? The help page answers every money question in plain words, including exactly how refunds and credits work.