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Old 10-24-2009, 01:31 AM   #1
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Howdy from South Texas
I've been checking out the website while I've been keeping my head afloat starting up into the residential remodeling business. I was laid off from a commercial construction company in Dallas and decided to move my family back to San Antonio where I have been attempting to get back in to the remodeling business with aspirations of moving from worker and boss to just boss. I have a degree in Environmental Design from the best University in Texas-Texas A&M, and I enjoy using my design skills to complete projects that come in with very little profit; it's a problem I have been trying to get over. Already, reading many your posts has been encouraged me to not wince when I hand potential clients an estimate. I've decided it's better to have them react a little painfully than smile and immediately ask when I can get started. It's just good to know others experience the same problems and issues in this business that I do. So here's to the "free" (somehow, it never really is) exchange of ideas.

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Old 10-24-2009, 03:28 AM   #2
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wellcome to CT . i know your struggle the market is dismal in central florida but i remain optomistic.
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Old 10-25-2009, 10:18 PM   #3
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Welcome to the forum! Never, ever let 'em see you wince!
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Old 10-25-2009, 10:30 PM   #4
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I have finally learned that it's better for them to wince than for me.
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Old 10-31-2009, 09:21 PM   #5
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I may have missed it, but "michael", where ya at? what kind of work do ya do? what license(s) do ya hold?
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Old 11-01-2009, 03:44 PM   #6
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Who's "michael"?
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Old 11-01-2009, 03:58 PM   #7
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Who's "michael"?
Don't worry about it CutTwice, JF is asking these funny questions all over.

I gather that "michael's" post are being deleted some how.

See this, http://www.contractortalk.com/f44/newbie-67144/

Pretty strange things happen here around Halloween.

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Old 11-01-2009, 04:32 PM   #8
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Charging what you need to keep the business going and make a profit is what you need to do. Once you start closing 75% of your jobs, raise prices 10%!

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Old 11-01-2009, 08:26 PM   #9
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Yea, I've found that I like charging more. I like it even better when they say "yes" to the bid. I have been slowly charging more the last few months and it has been paying off. It's pretty nice not having end of job regrets. I have also found that growing a beard helps. Somehow it garners a little more respect. It also is getting prematurely gray. I think that helps even more.
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Old 11-01-2009, 08:58 PM   #10
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If I grew a beard I would look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo! Somehow I don't think that would help me.
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