Been there done that.....NO MORE. Is that the moral highground than so be it. $200k per month is chunk change in the industry till one day you wake up and you have 60 guys working for you and they (service company) decides that they will farm out to another company all the work. All the brown nosing, butt kissing does not matter to the bean counters since really.....you are nothing but a number.
Wait till you have 3-4 Subs get sued (in 1 month) for securing a house that is not abandoned....Not occuped but not abandoned....Big difference Boys and Girls. Wait till a Service Company has you do a trashout on debris/personals and the dreaded Lawyer Letter shows up with $160,000 of personals are in the landfill when you, the contractor, know that there isn't anything of value period but......the prior homeowner submits an inventory list showing tons of stuff recreated from old pictures...yes you will pay...no court will show mercy on the big bag trashout man. No matter how well you have the property documented the Service Companies throw it in YOUR lap and say "make the problem go away".
Is being BIG in this business worth it? Dunno anymore. Personally I would be a 1 man/2 man band and fly low under the radar. Bigger means more exposure. I still have a friend (yes hard to believe for some:whistling) that has 20+ contractors full time and 70+ subs BUT he has a lawyer on STAFF to document and provide due dilegence on every initial secure. At the end of the day everyone is paying their bills but the company owner.
For some of us that has been in the industry since the 90's we have been giving fair warning that the contractors today are "time sensitive"....time is up on an industry in its current format and is coming to an end. Also, for some of us we already have been given a picture of whats coming and its not pretty. :no:
Develop your Exit Strategy AND Make the Big Bucks NOW if you can. :thumbsup:
Rant Over