Your market is saturated with snow removal technicians I guess.
But gas, insurance, trucks, plows...food, mortgages...taxes...these things cost the same everywhere...I don't see how you guys can live on earnings like that..$80 plowed and shoveled and walk sanded?
I'd get $250 for that all day long where I am, and the walks would be extra. Ill show you guys some sat views of properties, and what I charge to do them here. Talk about me setting myself up for a flame job lol..... Salt at the same time $100, separate salting, $150 ( I use Magic Salt)
Yes liability is a huge concern these days. And everything is a write off for businesses, so if you provide a superior response time, and practice excellent communication skills from marketing to execution it is entirely possible to put higher than average numbers on commercial properties.
Geographic area certainly dictates, and I'm not saying if I were living in the areas people claim getting $75 on that lot would be standard I wouldnt do it. But certainly not around these parts, not if you wanted a decent job done in an acceptable time frame.
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I'd get $250 for that all day long where I am, and the walks would be extra. Ill show you guys some sat views of properties, and what I charge to do them here. Talk about me setting myself up for a flame job lol..... Salt at the same time $100, separate salting, $150 ( I use Magic Salt)
Yes liability is a huge concern these days. And everything is a write off for businesses, so if you provide a superior response time, and practice excellent communication skills from marketing to execution it is entirely possible to put higher than average numbers on commercial properties.
Geographic area certainly dictates, and I'm not saying if I were living in the areas people claim getting $75 on that lot would be standard I wouldnt do it. But certainly not around these parts, not if you wanted a decent job done in an acceptable time frame.
See post number 10.
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I did see it, and I agree with you. One thing if anything I've learned from being here on this site is that the market varies wildly from one area to another. Even pricing on equipment is drastically different from one area to another.
Everyone needs to take into account their specific situation and location when taking advice from others. That's why I put the geographical disclaimer on the bottom of what I wrote.
Heck, if I charged the price you suggested I'd have twice the work load and half the income, vice versa, If you tried charging my prices out where you live, you'd be flat broke because no one would hire you.
Unless my kids were starving, and I was about to lose my house, I would never even think about doing that space for $75 bucks. Thats like 40 bucks after insurance taxes and gas.....
Thank you all for your replies. I have settled with the client and am on board. However I am still wondering over the charges per visit.
I look at it this way, the per inches are basically a per visit charge and since you are hitting them multiple times sometimes a discount is nice and encourages repeat customers and word of mouth advertising.
Thank you all for your replies. I have settled with the client and am on board. However I am still wondering over the charges per visit.
I look at it this way, the per inches are basically a per visit charge and since you are hitting them multiple times sometimes a discount is nice and encourages repeat customers and word of mouth advertising.
We settled for $125 for 1-3" with shoveling the walk...Salting extra....
The client was under the impression of $125 dollars per push, however I am giving them a slight discount for each additional push. Which seems to be the standard for this area after discussing with some other contractors.
However some guys in this area get a fortune for resi driveways, I've heard they wont even show up for anything less then 75
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