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Trade: General Contractor
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,370
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Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
By the rules of this site you need to be a professional contractor to register, but besides that let me tell you what I can offer you.
Hello homeowners, I am a General Contractor in the Chicagoland area. Have you joined this site to get an honest opinion of what kind of pricing you should expect from a professional contractor? You are not alone. In the past I have fielded many questions about honest pricing. I have priced everything from foundations to rooflines, and have done so honestly. Big project? Small project? Doesn’t matter, I know the maximum price you should pay for any sized project. I am not going to be nosey. If you would like a price on, lets say, building a house, I do not need to know what location of the country your intended project is, all I need to know is the total square footage of the house and the exterior color. That’s it! For a kitchen project, all the information I will need is the approximate size. No need to measure though, just tell me if it is small, medium, big, or enormous. With that alone I can get within $100 of your actual price. But lets be realistic, my kitchen price will not include an allowance for your appliances. Should you wish for pricing to include appliances just ask. That’s it! So it’s is really as easy as this; If you are looking for a price on a medium kitchen without appliances all you have to post is: “Peladu, Kitchen, Medium, No Appliances”. After I do about thirty seconds of research I will have you a number that will be within $100 of the maximum price possible you should pay. Decided you need a new bathroom and want an honest price? I have them, and it’s even easier than pricing a kitchen. All I need to know is the total square feet of your entire house (please include attached garage square footage into this number) and if you are wanting ceramic on the walls or not. That’s it! So you would ask, “Peladu, Bathroom, 2000sqft house, No Tiles,.”, and boom, fifteen seconds later I will have your price within $50 of the maximum you should pay in an open market. It’s that easy for me, remember I am a General Contractor, this is what I do! Let me explain why this is so easy for me. I went and purchased a Special Contractor To Contractor (SC2C) coupon number. I have been fortunate enough to be able to afford the $250,000 it cost to buy the SC2C number and the $5,000 yearly membership dues. What this number does is entitles me to get the lowest price imaginable, I am a GC that’s how I make my money. For example, I helped a former homeowner member from this site, like yourself, get the best possible pricing on her new kitchen and all she asked was, “Peladu, Kitchen, Small, Appliances, Thanks!” That was it! I took in those variables, because face it they are really all that’s needed for an accurate quote and punched them into my proven excel spreadsheet and bam! There it was, her special pricing amount. When she went to her contractor, and I never did find out where she lived, and told him that she had the SC2C pricing and handed over a printout of our postings, I guess his mouth fell open. But let’s face it, I am missing some important questions from our homeowners who are doing price checks, when they post in all different places on this site. I am running from Roofing, to Painting , to Carpentry just to cover my bases. I do not particularly enjoy when a member gets angry with me because I missed their posting requesting a price for a foundation and it was all the way over in the Excavation section. (You know who you are) If you are a concerned homeowner and a member on this site looking for a price, just ask me here so I have one place to check every day! That will make life for me easier then running around. To make sure you are given accurate pricing please enter your information as I outlined above. “Kitchen, Large, No Appliances” or “House, Big, Royal Blue” or “Bath, 1500sqft house, No Tile”. For the other jobs, use this format also, for example, “Roof, Big, Brown” or “Dog House, Chocolate Lab” or “Paint, Bedroom, Blue” or “House, Blue, Exterior” or “House, White, Interior” It’s is really that simple! All I ask is you give me at least 24 hours to respond to your request. Thank You and let me see what you want priced! By the rules of this site you need to be a professional contractor to register, but besides that enjoy the free pricing from me, Peladu. Disclamer: Prices are only good for 30 days. |
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Trade: General Contractor
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,370
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Trade: General construction and remodeling
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Waterloo, IA.
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Trade: General Contractor
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,370
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
I figure that this would be a good place to re-direct members looking for pricing.
This way I will be able to give them very accurate numbers all within the same thread. I am all for customer satisfaction....that's just me. |
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
What? I get the feeling this is a joke because homeowners are not allowed on the site to begin with. Is this your way of telling them to get lost?
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Trade: General Contractor
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,370
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
Why is it that Painters are so easily confused?
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Trade: General construction and remodeling
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Waterloo, IA.
Posts: 2,302
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Back from the dead...
Trade: Paperhanger/Painter
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 6,544
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
This thread almost deserves to be a sticky!
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General Contractor
Trade: Class "A" Contractor with "BLD" Classification
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Chesterfiled, VA
Posts: 145
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
That's it, Im out! I can't compete with the SC2C pricing.
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Trade: Carpenter
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 6,484
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
This gels and smells with the bells of a classic, Pel . . .
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Pro Painter
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
I saw where you were going. I was only confused by the overall adolescence of the post.
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Painting Contractor
Trade: Painting Contractor
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Pekin, IL
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
Peladu, Congressional Campaign, Kickbacks, Special Interest Money, Green.
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"My clients’ wishes are the center of my attention." -- David Guido, a contractor in Woodstock, N.Y. New York Times, July 20, 2006 |
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New Guy
Trade: Remodeling
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 20
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
Paledu,
Can you please see if you can help with a sound estimate??? A good bid with ensure this job! (Rocking needs to include hanging/tape/float/texture/paint) REPLACING SHEETROCK IN CEILING - 641 sq. ft REPLACING SHEETROCK OVER PANELING ON WALLS - 1955 sq. ft COMPLETE DEMO OF ALL LANOLEUM FLOORING AND REPLACING WITH TONGUE/GROOVE PRE-MANUFACTURED WOOD FLOORING- TOTAL SQ. FT = 645 sq. ft If there is anything you can help with please feel free to email me @ uwannabme44@gmail.com! Thnx in ADVANCE! Houston / John Under-R8ed Contractors |
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Three Rivers Services LLC
Trade: General Contractor
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Federal Way, Washington
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Trade: Doors-Windows-Decks
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: MA&RI
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
This is sort of funny, if you spell the OP correctly it is a bad word?
See---> ****** Wrong spelling Peledu The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above. Suggestions for ******: 1. pealed 2. paled 3. palled 4. peeled 5. palladous 6. pallida 7. payload 8. payloads 9. palladia 10. Palladio Spelling Help Powered by Franklin Electronic Publishers Franklin Electronic Publishers puts a world of knowledge in your hand
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Mod / ArchiBuilder
Trade: Design/Build Outdoor Living
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: ArkLaTexOma
Posts: 6,611
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!Quote:
Feel free to pm me and I will explain the situation with his name being blocked from the forum software.
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Celtic's #1 Fan
Trade: electrical
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,581
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
I just spoke with the original poster of this thread, he's on safari in the Serengeti. Luckily I have the number for his satellite phone for just such emergencies.
The truth is, he was so successful with this program, that he only has to work 1 day a month now. Normally it costs $119.95 to purchase all of his secrets that will show you how to create incredibly wealth, but since he's set for life, he's decided to continue offering this information for free to select people. Well, after a he made a few calls (he's got the phone, but no internet) he called me back and said that the job should be.... $3,265.36 That's the price that the SC2C pricing spit out. Good luck and hopefully you can soon join him in the Outback... |
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Pro
Trade: Outdoor contracting: fences and decks
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,437
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
Pel, are you also able to build cars? I want
-red, -2 door -convertible -700 horsepower -4 wheels How much, and when can it be delivered? |
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Pro
Trade: Outdoor contracting: fences and decks
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,437
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Re: Price Your Project Here! Honest Prices Given!
Oh, by the way. Can you also build women?
5'10" 38-22-36 blond; no, redhead brains optional |
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