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Anyone in or near orlando can you post a location where I can get a bag of oxalic or citric acid please.

I use a font type called max's handwriting. It's as good as hand addressing the envelopes yourself imho. I also address the homeowner as "our neighbors" as well. I get a good response with my mailers, but it's VERRRRY time consuming to prepare them. I never used postcards before, but I will this year. Hopefully I'll get a similar response with postcards. If I don't oh well back to mailers!

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This is my first year in the yp. Its been out for two months now and all the calls that I have received where price shoppers. Things may change come spring time though.

Have leads for a few petsmarts. Locations includes vero beach, boca raton, coral spring. For more info email or pm me. michaels@michaelsexteriorcleaning.com

Hey Terry, Where did you purchase your plotter?

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If your main purpose is to blow out gutters and blow off decks. Then I would go with something hand held. Your chances of falling are reduced vs having 30lbs of counter weight on you back. Stihl or Echo are my personal choices.

Nice music! Good video! Commercial like!

I bartered with the owner of a neighborhood newsletter. She wanted her daughters front store cleaned. I ended up making over 2500 for the exchange in services. Great experience for me.

For those who make there own housewash mix have you ever added sodium hydroxide?

I have a really really big house(3 story) to clean next week and would like some input on what size tip to use to downstream to that height. I really love using my xjet but sometime its just to much of a hassle. Tangled hose, carrying 5 gal buckets around, keeping an eye out to not tip the bucket over in the customers carpet green lawn etc. Any suggestions? My unit specs are 4gpm at 4000psi with 200ft of hose. Thanks!

What rinse tip would be optimal for my machine specs?

Will I go through a 5gal bucket as quick as the xjet downstreaming?

You can always ask the customer most will know, or you can get it off of your local property appraiser website.

Barry nice work! Great before after pic for a postcard. Good to see you keeping busy. What are you machine specs.

This year will be my first full season of pressure washing, and I'm not fulltime as of yet. I have done countless hours of research, and asked many questions before the start of the season trying to develope a strong marketing plan. Well, my strategies are paying of really well and I have been strongly contiplating(?) leaving my full time job and diving in full time pressure washing. I love the freedom of being my own boss and doing something I love to do and making good money doing it. I have already tooken 3 days off permintly and use these days exclusively for pressure washing. Some days I can make as much as 2 or 3 times what I make working my full time job. Writing this it sounds like a no brainer as to what I should do, but I have a wife and she is very very scared and insecure about what I am doing and what I plan to do, which ultimately is to be a full time pressure washer. If any of you full time guys had this problem how did you handle it? Any advice

As of right now I'm only doing three things. Mailers, Newsletters, Trade Magazine, and Distributing flyers when I can. I will be getting my yard signs and truck magnets next week. This should boost my leads a little more.

All the above questions yes. Although, I dont think I'll ever go through a 42 day rainy streak without getting some work done.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ernie Greese This is probably why Michael's wife has her concerns, too. The point is, if you wait until things are guaranteed, you'll wait forever. Hell, he could lose his current job tomorrow. Anything CAN happen, and if you sit around worrying about them, you'll just be a bundle of raw nerves. Instead of waiting for something to happen, get out and MAKE it happen. Quote: Mike Williamson writes He could be in business 5 years and go bust. The economy could take a serious dump, he could be injured, there are lots of things that could happen. This is probably why Michael's wife has her concerns, too. ERNIE and MIKE, you guys both have good points.

Hey Mike, I don't mind sharing. Its $720 a week after taxes. Like I said in the previous post I can make 3x as much as this (SOME WEEKS). I swear the more I post on this topic the more obvious it becomes. Some tell me I should just put my foot down and do what I need to do. But I love my wife and I respect her feelings. I hate being stressed out and at the same time I hate my current job. Celeste, great ideas I will try to implement them.

That is exactly what I was thinking.

Barry, sounds like where some what in the same boat buddy. It can be very stressful on me at times but I keep on pushin. I figure anything worth having wouldn't be easy to get anyway. Sometimes I just wish I dont have that extra hurdle to jump over if you know what I mean.

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I'm estimating my first deck tommorow. It will be cleaned and stained. Does anyone have a form that they could email me or fax me. Email: michaels@michaelsexteriorcleaning.com Fax: 407-292-9158 Any help, please!