gutterdog

Not knocking the quality, just the competition. I miss the carolinas!! Lived there 12 years!!! Round here no mater what price you give its too much lol!!! Me and Jeff were jokin other day!! Gutter clean for 19.95!! Customers resonse... lol!!! 19.95!!! c'mon I got kids and a family!!! Cant you come down on that some!!! What I'm saying is people around here are more savy?... More savy than me sometimes, lol!!! Just how it is up here...and I'm still doing the southern hospitality thing. They already have there response to price before I give it! lol!!! I might do better down there, but here I am to stay.

Hey Bobby! The thing is with roofs bro is getting the chems up their as close to full strength as possable. So thats a sure flow or a pump up sprayer. Sure flows... Roof I did cple days ago was 3 stories high and a ridge bout 4 stories? What i understand, some sure flows cant push chems that far? I could be wrong. Pics comming up tomorow evening of roof and washing house tomorow for a great before n after The roof was rinsed with a garden hose!! Is that LOW pressure or what? hehehe

Randy I looked at your website. I dont do that often. Heck I never do it, lol!!! Maybe i need to be a little nosey! .... Must not be alot of competition round you way. LOL!

just doin my ownthing with the lil bit of knowledge I got here.. thanx.

yaes spele ck is 2 hadre!!! hehehe

How did you survive the recession. Did you survive? What changes did you make to win the recession?

Sorry...., I dont understand? But I know I'm getting some ice cream later!!!!

Yes many of the companies offering way cheap gutter cleaning do offer new gutters etc. I wonder how many new gutters they sell to people just wanting their gutters cleaned? Not many I think? From 49 to cple thousand!!! Wow what an upsell!!! I wont go that low, lol!!! You cleaned gutters for 67.... Hey that is lower than me??? hehehe!!!! There is some way they are advertising these low prices. AND making money. Either upselling or volume or something.

Yea I understand that. What he charged her per square foot, I thought, was kinda high on the driveway. Either way I didnt get the roof job.

hehehe!!!

Nevermind.

Youll understand later. This weekend I sold every job!!! Its dramatic when you pull every resorse to survive. To get back up where you were at. My friend... You have a full time job... Things are not cherry! believe what you want. The hunger to go full time is there, wait.

You guys that can afford that..... cudoz to you! Wish I could go. Next year. Lowballed myself in a hole. You were right, bout that stuff. I'm diggin myself out!!! lil bit by lil bit

I want to meet everyone. The plain painter too!! Wish I could make it there but just gettin things together again. Bobby said if I could walk there do it! I'll be there!!! A few years ago before I had friends I had money like that! Networking is a very strong thing. Especially now.

or a good friend.

I'm not like a neighbor

Gettin some good avice over the phone!!! I'm a freakin co., lol!!! It was told to me 5 years ago. first comercial job. Dont let anything go to my head.

I lost a job in NW (high dollar) because i bid it to low etc. He asked bout low pressure stuff like you do. That was a cple months ago. Why i was so needy. Lost the job. I wanted to do it the way you gus do. ahhhhhh lost it. I wasnt ready yet. stil aint.

yea you have alredy been there done that! Like everyone else in here. And you have!!!! And rose above it. like alot in here. I'm next or very soon!

Not to many people have forgoten my earlier posts. WELL FORGET THEM!!! LOL!!! Thanks Beth!!!

I am usually the first to get there and give an estimate. Sometimes there not home. So I call and leave a message. I dont give the price. I want to hear the tone of their voice, feedback. I just say got some prices for ya cal me back!

Insurance is important even in lawn care isnt it? Today a customer asked me if i was insured and bonded. AS always yes im insured bonding is for theft. Heard a story years ago. Hope i remember this right... The guy was cutting her grass and he twisted his ancle or some thing? Went after her insurance.(she beat it in court) Nother thing. What if a rock flew from mower and hit a window? I carry 2 mil insurance for apt complexes. IT'S NOT THAT MUCH A YEAR!!! You will be surprised how cheap it is!!! For me its less than insurance on the truck!! I live inside the beltway so prices are inflated. Accidents everyday round here. Before you say you dont need insurance, check out how cheap it is. Go through the threads man. Be a lil more gentlmanly to the women also. ( nuthin brown on my nose. They earned my respect) loose the 2550 power washer you got!! ROFLMAO!! Just like i did bro years ago. The dewalt...Kick ass engine and pump. The rest.... LOL!!! I wish I had found this site years ago when i was using 2 - 2550's

The washers in here have a wealth of knowledge, that I am learning from. Im NOT up to par with them in wood restoration so I dont sell it. The demographics I'm in cant afford it anyway. That is going to change. The demographics and improving wood tecniques. You have to do your own reasearch first. With house washing buy a stronger power washer and learn the xjet or downstreaming. I dont have the money to go and invest in a deckster, or a sureflow or anything right now. Times are tough after spending more money on truck. I cant wait to do my first deck in the teachings in here!!!!! Came back to say this, I wish I had found this site a long time ago.

Invest!!! My bad, LOL!!! Invest in a trailer! Go through the threads man. 200 ft hoses, hot water,...

I hadda come back and say this! You got all that money! Heck! Man invest! if there is no other companies round you like me???? In vest brother get the shoppin malls!!! Everything man! make your own prices but be fair cause someone take that away from ya real quick! Keep your prices secret. "Cause someone under bid ya real quick, they want what you got. I eyeball everything compared on what i sold before. soooo You gotta feel your own market. Start a lil higher than what you think. If they choke you can always come down, or add somethin quick for free.