Midweek with Tyler: Developing Accurate Scopes of Work and Budgets
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Tyler Grace discusses his experience pricing a job for an existing customer and meeting with subcontractors on site to develop accurate scopes of work and budgets.
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| 0:00.0 | how am I going to fit two hours into my day to do this while I'm trying to wrap up another job and start another job? |
| 0:06.7 | Like how can I spend this much time when I'm not being paid for this? |
| 0:11.7 | You cannot be going and spending two hours |
| 0:15.7 | with each and every sub to price a job. |
| 0:18.5 | You're taking a half a week or a week |
| 0:20.5 | out of your year that you depend on making money to help bit a job that you may not get. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to another midweek modern craftsman. Hope everyone is having a good week. I'm a little |
| 0:40.2 | bit tired this week. Can can't lie. So I have an existing customer, a return customer who is an attorney and he also owns some commercial real estate so I've worked on he is a so I |
| 0:58.7 | started working with him through my plumber my plumber has been his plumber for years and he needed some worked on his house I did some |
| 1:06.4 | work on his house and then he needed some work done on a property that he rents out it's pretty |
| 1:12.1 | close to me what he rents it out to |
| 1:16.8 | a health care company. |
| 1:18.6 | So he asked me if I could do some work there, |
| 1:22.0 | which I do a little bit. |
| 1:24.3 | It's usually quick stuff, but he needed a utility room essentially waterproofed. |
| 1:30.4 | And I knew I couldn't get in there until like six o'clock. |
| 1:36.0 | And I just, so I'm working in there from like six till midnight or so, |
| 1:42.0 | last night was a little bit earlier and I priced it |
| 1:47.1 | with like an inflated rate and I spelled that out budgeted that hey this is like more than my normal rate so it's decent money but I still |
| 1:58.6 | coming from the residential world and coming that this is a residential customer. |
| 2:05.2 | I feel like I could probably get twice what I'm charging for this job. |
| 2:10.3 | You know if somebody else had to go in after hours and do this. |
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