Interior Apartment Painting

TimAZ

I am done with apartment painting! I used the paint pad and whipped through those things (2+2) in about 2 hours by myself -- just walls and same color. You have to hussle for the money! I usually only sprayed ceilings in them.

I worked with a guy who was way ahead of me in volume and almost insane. He said that it could be Worrld War III outside and you wouldn't know it!" He was referring to the isolation of working by yourself at such a break-neck pace. At the time, I was up to about 800 apartments, and he was at about 1500. I ran into another guy who claimed to have painted 2000 apartments. I told the guy I worked with this number, and he said, "great, at least I'm not the lowest life form out there!" I went back and told the 2000 apertments guy this and got a nasty look while he flipped me the bird and walked away! It turns out that the 2000 apartment guy told one of the apartment managers I knew -- a week earlier -- that he had painted 1300. I think it is amazing how he did -- by himself --700 in the following week...!

It turned out for me, that I started going insane after about 1500 apartment repaints. That was it... no more apartment vendor lists for me. I went through serious burn-out after about 1000. But, I still had rent to pay...

So... Anybody have any idea what the maximum limit for the number of apartments that any one person can paint?

Any apartment fish stories?

Humble Abode

I bid apartments for a huge complex in downtown Milwaukee the second year I was in business. I gave bids for each of their floor plans, four of them.

My bids ranged from $550 to $750 per apartment. She called me back a few days later and said that in order to get the work I would need to come down to where the other "painters" were.... $150 to $225.

I laughed at her, I couldn't help myself. I would rather sit home with no work than paint apartments... and I have...

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Traditions

Maybe this is a different type of painting than i am used to. I would charge alot more than this for two bedrooms and two bath. Hell just the other day we were talking one bedroom prices for a 12x12 and people were anywhere from 350-600+! WHat am i missing here?

furiousstyles

if you could hustle and bang out three of those a day it might be worth it but otherwise you are basically their employee using all your stuff. I guess it depends on how hungry you are.

Humble Abode

It's usually one coat, no wash, no sanding, no prep!

Covering up the stains from the previous tenant... if it takes you more than an hour and a half for a two bedroom you lose money.

I know that there's money in it but that's not really why I'm in business is it.

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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. Kurt Vonnegut, (1922 - 2007) from the Novel 'Hocus Pocus'
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Milwaukee Painting Contractor