Took a trip to the body shop today.

If you don't have the time, skill, or tools to do it, you will have to pay someone to do it. Also what is your time line on the car? Is it going to save you time to have someone else do it? Or is the car going to sit for years before being done anyways? Also if this shop is a fairly large shop it depends on it's collision work to make money... your car may sit and get done as fill in time.