Anyone else get the Fannie Mae email that AMS will no longer be assigning work for the state of Michigan. It's now going to be GTJ.
Ohnojim - you are in business partially thanks to the guys that used to do 50k a week, and a thousand lawns per cycle. Those guys, the ones that used to employee a staff that handled all the "big" jobs that the little guys couldn't do in 24hrs, they are the ones that "just handled it" for whomever back in the day. If the banks and management companies relied solely on the little guy, there'd still be piles of trash neck deep at these places.
I'm not bitter, I know other former business owners, they aren't bitter, some got out sooner than others. Most of us survived the storm and moved on to other things.
Whatever you are doing a month, it fits and you are happy, great, more power to you but have an exit strategy.
Way too many people, myself most of all, deposit "big" checks and think they are on top of the world - then you find out all your deductibles are gone, payroll taxes, the workers comp audit etc.... the really big bills start filtering in and you start realizing what it really costs to work - that's a bad day.
Again, you're doing great, no worries, soldier on dude, protect your share of the pie and eat as much as you can handle but sooner or later the pie will be gone for you too just like it is for us with employees.[/QUOTE
until the Amish knocked the bottom out of the market, I did replacement windows for years until everyone with a pick up truck killed that market. I also see what goes on in the field, and who exactly is doing the hack work. More times than not it is the big guys who just can't support their model at current pricing that run through jobs, and do not complete their contract. I get it. However the attitude conveyed on this forum is often one of contempt for the little guy, and at times attempting to project an image of a hack, when in fact it is far more often the guy with the big overhead, who can not afford a second trip/or his sub, that makes a mess. As a matter of course, this may not happen everywhere, but we all know, or should know that the numbers will always build the model.