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Fixing Problems
Trade: Remodeling
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: TX
Posts: 25
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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.
Last edited by CutTwice; 10-24-2009 at 09:48 AM. |
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Registered User
Trade: finish carpenter
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
wellcome to CT . i know your struggle the market is dismal in central florida but i remain optomistic.
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Kerdi & Ditra Specialist
Trade: Tile and Stone Contractor
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Posts: 75
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
Welcome to the forum! Never, ever let 'em see you wince!
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Fixing Problems
Trade: Remodeling
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: TX
Posts: 25
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
I have finally learned that it's better for them to wince than for me.
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You did what??
Trade: Carpenter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: North of Atlanta
Posts: 6,586
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
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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Fixing Problems
Trade: Remodeling
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: TX
Posts: 25
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
Who's "michael"?
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Contractor
Trade: Excavation, Foundation, Concrete
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Maryland
Posts: 3,270
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
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. Welcome to the site. Last edited by tgeb; 11-01-2009 at 09:10 PM. |
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Its all ball bearings
Trade: Tile
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Will County, Illinois
Posts: 16,756
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
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%!
Welcome!
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Fixing Problems
Trade: Remodeling
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: TX
Posts: 25
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
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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Hammer
Trade: Home Improvements Bathroom kitchen remodeling fini
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Macomb County, MI
Posts: 39
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Re: Howdy From South Texas
If I grew a beard I would look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo!
Somehow I don't think that would help me.Welcome to CT
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