All Forum Posts by: Matthew Paul

 Contractors do , BUT we are spending large sums with them on a regular basis . Honestly the suppliers I deal with dont like dealing with anyone but contractors .  They spend 1/2 an hour with us and make a $25,000 sale . They spend the same 1/2 an hour with a homeowner and make a $300 sale . 

I would give them a 30 days notice to vacate .

The PM is a for profit business , they are not there to "save" you money , they are there to get the job done .

You can ALWAYS get things done cheaper , but is your PM going to schedule 3 contractors for estimates and wait 1/2 a day for them to show up for free?  

I am a contractor , I am not there to save the customer money , I am there to solve a problem , I am in business to make money .  If you want to save money , do it yourself or find your own contractors , and at that point expect your PM to put you on the back burner . 

@Jeremiah DunakinA half an hour job ?   You forgot getting the toilet , carry it up the stairs , assemble the toilet , fix the broken toilet flange , disassemble old toilet carry down the stairs , trip to the landfill .   I estimate 1.5 hours just to replace a wax ring ( Including travel time )  

 When you have over 8 million people come to a country , they have to be housed somewhere , cities are filling hotels , shelters are full .  

 Most carpenters , electricians , roofers , landscapers are male . WHY ?   Maybe women as a whole arent interested in these jobs or flipping houses >

Buy busses and airplanes 

Round up is your friend , 2 or 3 times a year and no grass , no weeds . 

There are basically 2 ways to bill doing service work , strictly by the hour , and then a flat rate . By the hour is strictly that , if it takes 4 hours to do a task you get charged for 4 hours , but you wont know the charge until AFTER the job is done . 

Flat rate is assigning a charge to each task , now if they say before the job they charge 2 hours to change a bulb , thats what you pay , if it takes 10 minutes , or all day . 

Is it fraud , no they are telling you the cost up front , you accept or decline . 

Remember a PM company is out to make a profit , they up charge everything they do .

What you are saying isnt unheard of in Maryland , I have heard similar complaints from other landlords in the Anne Arundel county area 

 Arent big institutional buyers companies on the stock market , which are owned by stockholders , who could be you or me ?

 Jobs and wages are regional as is the cost of housing .  I have been to different areas of the country and in lots of areas , I would be wealthy , in other areas I would barely survive . 

I dont use it , but I keep my CDL ( commercial drivers license ) And if I really needed to , I could have a job tomorrow paying $30 an hour .