Ok guys.
This has happened to me three times in the past three months. I gotta find a way to nip it, and I dunno how.
Scenerio: Lady wants a price on a LR, two BRs, and a hallway. I go over get out my contract with all its superb language ( thanks to a member of this board).We are in the house, I'm talking to the lady, and taking notes on what she wants done. The entire time I'm ofcourse jotting down what needs to be done, when we're finished I tell her gimme about 30 minutes and I'll have a qoute ready, so I excuse myself to the truck and start. Under scope of work on the contract I detail everything that needs to be done.
When I'm finished and I have the total, I go back in two copies of the contract in hand. I time everything....took me 40 mins on that qoute. I first give her a short description of what it is I'm about to give her along with some info about this prep, that prep, yada, yada. I then hand the contract to her. Shes looking at the scope of work and the price, everything seems cool, I ask..any questions? She says no, I will get back with you. I say ok and come home, next day followup call, hows it goin I say, were you able to make a decision yet, no still thinking..ok I say. 2nd/3rd followup same thing. I ask are you sure there's no questions? Nope she says..still thinking. Never got a call back.
That happened a couple times...time spent detailing a contract with no sale.
So I decide ok, I'm not gonna waste my time detailing contracts, they want an estimate, I'll jot down a few paragraphs in job scope on my cheap Home Depot proposals, and give em a price ..total time 10 mins. I give the lady the proposal she takes it looks at it, flips it over to see if there's anything on the back, I tell her thats a general description of scope of work, with the firm qoute. I say if you should decide to accept the bid I will write a detailed contract. I got the distinct feeling from her that she expected the detailed qoute first.
I'm not in the business of writeing qoutes I'm in the business of writeing contracts. It takes too much time for write a detailed contract for no sale. :evil: How do you guys handle this, do you give a short proposal with a firm price, then the contract?
I really could use some input here.
This has happened to me three times in the past three months. I gotta find a way to nip it, and I dunno how.
Scenerio: Lady wants a price on a LR, two BRs, and a hallway. I go over get out my contract with all its superb language ( thanks to a member of this board).We are in the house, I'm talking to the lady, and taking notes on what she wants done. The entire time I'm ofcourse jotting down what needs to be done, when we're finished I tell her gimme about 30 minutes and I'll have a qoute ready, so I excuse myself to the truck and start. Under scope of work on the contract I detail everything that needs to be done.
When I'm finished and I have the total, I go back in two copies of the contract in hand. I time everything....took me 40 mins on that qoute. I first give her a short description of what it is I'm about to give her along with some info about this prep, that prep, yada, yada. I then hand the contract to her. Shes looking at the scope of work and the price, everything seems cool, I ask..any questions? She says no, I will get back with you. I say ok and come home, next day followup call, hows it goin I say, were you able to make a decision yet, no still thinking..ok I say. 2nd/3rd followup same thing. I ask are you sure there's no questions? Nope she says..still thinking. Never got a call back.
That happened a couple times...time spent detailing a contract with no sale.
So I decide ok, I'm not gonna waste my time detailing contracts, they want an estimate, I'll jot down a few paragraphs in job scope on my cheap Home Depot proposals, and give em a price ..total time 10 mins. I give the lady the proposal she takes it looks at it, flips it over to see if there's anything on the back, I tell her thats a general description of scope of work, with the firm qoute. I say if you should decide to accept the bid I will write a detailed contract. I got the distinct feeling from her that she expected the detailed qoute first.
I'm not in the business of writeing qoutes I'm in the business of writeing contracts. It takes too much time for write a detailed contract for no sale. :evil: How do you guys handle this, do you give a short proposal with a firm price, then the contract?
I really could use some input here.