Also an electrician. Own a small company down south. Commercial and residential. Was doing about 1500 homes per year and loving life until the market crashed. Now I'm bidding jobs all over south Fl.
I hear ya.. I was doing like 150,000 in wood flooring every year.. now the economy is crap im just bidding and getting underbid by non licensed and non insured handymen all the time.
The decline in good work by non licensed and non insured handymen has been a major factor here to ole boy!My buddy closed up his siding and roofing business because of them!!!!!!!!
You have to try to stick it out because the slowdown in work will weed out the moonlighters and it will come back. I'm losing jobs to bids that are at cost. These guys are just trying to flip cash to stay alive a little longer.
You have to try to stick it out because the slowdown in work will weed out the moonlighters and it will come back. I'm losing jobs to bids that are at cost. These guys are just trying to flip cash to stay alive a little longer.
the same here.. i will not go under becsuse when things get better the guys who stuck it out will get paid!. I just heep my license info up to date and pay all my insureance..
I get a lot of "buyer's remorse" work from folks who went with price first, then found out it cost them more in the long run, and hire me to do it right. Then they're out the money they paid some Chinese dude or highschool kid, plus what it takes for me to fix the mess then do it right.
Used to have the same type of customer when I had a body shop. Someone would want a price to repaint their car, I'd give them a fair price, then they'd balk saying "I can get it done at Econo-Bake for $200!". So I'd thank them and return to what I was doing. Sometimes a few weeks later they'd come in with the car looking like crap, and want the same price I gave them before to fix the mess. Sorry, the price just doubled or tripled, depending on their attitude!
