Re: Pre-paying on buildings and such!!!!!

Posted by 01gentdc on August 20, 2015 at 07:44:33 from (184.16.150.146):

In Reply to: Pre-paying on buildings and such!!!!! posted by JD Seller on August 19, 2015 at 17:52:10:

My son is now running the home improvement business I started in 1975.AND DOING QUITE WELL ,as I did ,...there are 2 sides to everything ,, most the time I simply had a signed contract ,, and let people out if they decided to go with someone else ,,. no problem ,, ALWAYS had more than I could do or train others to do ,,. in the beginning , I mostly worked for farm families on old farm houses siding and trim , insulation , windows , gutters ,, if someone was not in a hurry , I gave them a hundred bux off when I completed the work , especially if they were on the books for 6 monthes waiting ,,had a roof job that waited for 2 yrs ,,,good people ,,storm damage ,,, I made the repair and told them to get someone else ,,they waited for me ,, ,,. anyway ,ABOUT MONEY PAID DOWN ,,. when special ordering windows , I always got half down for the window package ,, like cabinets ,, you cant resell them at your full price,if anyone backs out ,,. speaking of backing out ,,With society as goofy as it has become ,,, I cannot blame the hoop building people for wanting a third or more down ,, for something that will be delivered 2-6 monthes later ,. BeLIEVE ME ,, I have seen the damdest things stupid livestock people will do , that will have you the contractor in a hale of a tailspin trying figure out what to do now ,, death is one thing that is excuseable ,so is being called up in the reserves , and those always turned out well ,I Had It ALL !!,. getting tossed in jail ,divorce , burning their own house !!! ,, I tell you some people are plum nutz ,,.. depending on the situation , , I usually required 10 percent on signing , that lokt people in , to keep them from shopping anymore for a better deal , if I did not mind the job slipping away , during intense times , I never mentioned it ,, even though it was printed in my contract ..you knew you had good people when a chek arrived a few days later xplaining they read here they needed to put 10 % down ,....All in All It was a good business .. BUt ... glad to be done with all that ,,. it is a young mans business ,..that can make you old if you CARE...btw ,,ALSO , having to play thew role of daddie to some of the help runs a fella ragged looking for kingsize HUGGIES ..back in the 70s everyone you hired was responsible , sober,cival and Christian family taught and well raised and capable ,, by the mid nineties , when it evolved to where 80 % of my work was new construction easy work , finding help like that was the exception to the rule.. some of these KIDS were in their 50s , and I would not keep them a week . the only thang they were good at was talkin a line !. deer gawd!!!

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