re: Not even tradesmen want to work. Keep getting ghosted for a fence repair.

there are good tradesmen and available tradesmen. Pick one

also, and no offense to anyone as I am a contractor just giving it to you straight…there’s very little chance a good contractor can make any money on a small one-time residential job. It costs more to go look, price up, get scheduled and get out there than he/she can realistically charge

Someone mentioned 5K above…again just being honest, that’s pretty much a minimum charge regardless of the work for anyone besides a handyman. If you want something some for less, there’s guys in the lot at the depot