All Forum Posts by: Bill Kramer

$1000 for the tub and surround materials cost. 2 days labor strip to stud, mount everything direct to stud. Generous labor fee of $2000.

You got played hard. 

I hope like heck they ain't gluing that to those tiles. That's a failure from the get go, and you will NEVER get them to honor any warranty. Far from industry standard workmanship.

Why an agent? I have people lined up ready to buy. No hood houses though

350 sqft to the gallon. You have to account for unusable paint that sticks to rollers, pans, etc... Also, some painters put it on thicker than others, and there goes that 350sqft down to 275.

if your bleeding out your equipment, scrounging every last drop, 400 sqft it is. A safer bet is is 350 though. Wet mil thickness plays a key role in paint usage. Everyone applies paint differently.

Quality of paint is another massive variable. If you go cheap, you sacrifice hiding ability and coverage, requiring yet more coats and more paint.

Time is cheaper than materials. So always buy excess materials to save time and money. Whatever any calculator tells you, add a gallon so you don't have to stop and make a run.

Payroll services are dirt cheap. Pay yourself as an employee first and foremost. Pick any number, but pay yourself. How can you sell a business that isn't profitable enough to pay employees?

Many ways to build credit. Secured cards being one of them. Talk to your bank, maybe they will do a se used loan for a few hundred/thousand dollars.

Go buy a cheap car on payments and make them on time.

No way you have a million dollars and don't know this basic info.

I believe you already know the answer, but want to hear it from someone else. Cut your losses, and get that job done asap. 

Property managers have "their guys". And if you didn't hire their guy, they are going to pick his work apart to make him look bad so you won't hire them again. Been there, done that. It's a markup they don't get, and they want that markup.

What you want is called a a "ballpark quote" not a full blown estimate or bid. Any Contractor worth his salt can give you a ballpark and not take too much time. Ask to get a quote to the nearest five thousand dollars if it's a big job, thousand for medium, and hundred for small jobs. 

If that number sounds feasible, then get an full blown bid. I had 24 hours of bid time on my current job. But I had a ballpark in 15 minutes.

something like this? Weird that i am doing that very same thing right now.

See how the additions roof is 90 degrees different from the house, yet ties into it? On this house that addition has a flat roof, with something dumb built on top. We are ripping it all off so the rafters can run to the edges. Currently there is 3 feet of flatness around the edges. Which gave us a 6 foot ceiling, so we are raising it to 8 foot and doing it the way it should have been done.

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Use a painters 5 in 1 tool. Easy peasy

Time to send a repairman in to get a final list together of every complaint they have. It's gonna be a long list, but the tenants need a chance to vent it out. Then review that list and act accordingly.

I have done this many a time with problem tenants. We make sure this is their last chance to complain, and anything after that will be treated as tenant damage. And have them sign off on it. Suddenly, the complaints will stop.

From now on, give your tenants a move in checklist to find any and all defects to filled out within 1 week of move in. This will go a long ways towards nipping it in the butt.