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I still live with my parents and I'm trying to grow my business. I can't seem to explain to my mom that little investments in equipment make a little bit of money. Big investments make a lot of money.

I am in a small town and refuse to go into Charlotte or Gastonia because they are little Chicago. I scaled down the number of customers and do it less. I work only with my son it is his side hustle we can do all of the jobs before lunch. We are faster than 5 guys when they were doing it. I got rid of everyone because they not dependable. I had to sit in court two days with a employee that got back on meth. Nope done with people. I also pick up one extra lawn each year and usually drop one. I stopped doing lawns as a main income and started doing fiberglass repair also. If the lawns fall off I can keep doing pops old boats my other CZcams. By the way I just ordered my second roll of timer line. I made over 80k off one roll if you break it down over 7 years. I drastically down sized. Went from 12 lawns a day 6 days a week to 15 customers. I actually keep more money each week now. Debt free of course.

Soo much value!❤ thanks man

Thank you for sharing.

I can relate sir. Have a good size landscaping business here in central Florida I bust my ass and so do my guys. Good living indeed

Family lawn and landscape followed by that's how tough this shit is. Lol

I hate customers who try it on when they know the price and try not to pay

Dude…. You MIGHT have a bigger problem with condensation build up between the batt insulation and the shit foam….. #microclimate

I fucking HATE computer prompted answer services…. The result that that system provides for “Michelle”…. Once you finally get to her…Is a very pissed off customer right off the bat… This is a great indication of the customer service to be experienced in my humble opinion….

Good for you

Looks awesome !!! Thanks !

People demand to be paid on time.

Pay late.

George, why do you prefer the Makita over the Stihl? I was looking into them but they are discontinued.

Congrats......great to see your continued success

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Great space. Been following your journey and inspiring how far you’ve come and where your going. Always great when a new video pops up. Thank you for your time posting real information it has definitely helped me.

the office turned out fantastic! great job! mosquito business is growing big time

How deep are your "treads"?

Thank you for your advice ! I tried it. It really works perfectly well ! 🍻

I had an automatic door rewire job at a hospital. I had to interface card readers, electric panic hardware and add miscellaneous sensors. I quoted 4 hours. Turns out, due to unforeseen problems, it took me 10 hours. So another door came up that needed the same work. I realized it may or may not be as complicated as the first door, so I told them I would rather just charge time and material. They said no they needed a quote.. Not wanting to be shot in the foot again, I quoted them 8 hours. They agreed. I completed the job in three hours. They wanted a discount because my labor was way less than what I quoted. I asked them if they were gonna give me more money for the door that took me 10 hours. They said "no why should we, you're the one that quoted the job! " 😅😅

I hope most customers would’ve been really happy with all the extra work you did and generous, also I thought the mosquito police company was local to Wisconsin but the channel says Florida.

Punishment for being a extremely hard worker, he should of been overjoyed,

Your crooked man, you stole his pen lol

He'd be shiting out teeth

I thank so. Thank you for the vid.

I would have paid you extra for doing it fast!!! Respect. The work that you and your men do is so difficult. Yet, this man would probably think nothing of paying hundreds of dollars to hear a doctor or lawyer talk to him for 5 min 🙄.

Just like a Trumper. No foundation, just build a giant building and then complain about condensation. Plastic sheets are put under the concrete foundation to prevent moisture in the building.

WOW! I am just shocked I can not even believe these type of people exist.

Every electric tool is corded and running off the generator? Compressor? Bet he has battery tools now!

I have been fitting flooring ie carpets vinyl laminate real wood safety flooring you name it and i can put it down on the floor and i put it dow properly i would rather walk away from a job if the customer is trying to cut corners because when you cut corners its always the finished look that it wrong i have even told customers that they have purchased the wrong glue some times or the wrong flooring like pergo flooring for there wet room that will blow out within 1 week... As i said i have been futting flooring from the age of 15 i am now 49 years old and my knee are now bad but its all part and parcel of floor laying and this mite surprises some people but when you have qualified from your apprenticeship you do get faster at your job and the longer you do your job the faster you become because you're doing that job dnd day out for years some people don't like the fact that you can complete a job within a couple of hours where they think it should take you all day and when you are good at your job you take on more people to train up as apprentices and give them full-time jobs after they have finished their apprenticeship and start a team so going back to this man story it's not his fault that he knows what he's doing and works efficiently and quickly because she's been doing that job for years he could have spent all day there but you probably doesn't like tea or coffee or will not that much to your coffee but yes me I can sympathise with you I had one person once I went to fit a flooring when I arrived in the house there was rubbish all over the floor sore I politely ask the customer where I was fitting the vinyl the customer income said in the kitchen I replied the kitchen needs tidied do you want me to come back the customer income said to me for the price of charging of £40 you should pack up all the rubbish and remove the Old floor covering before you start I tried to explain to the customer I had a charge for uplifting old flooring and cleaning furniture from rooms but not rubbish the customer said I am not interested just yet my effing job done boy so I got the black bags for the rubbish and I new there was going to be a problem getting paid so I said to the man of the house if I sm picking up all this rubbish like egg shells tea bags and other nasty things I would need paid b4 I started the customer said I don't work that way I said to the customer I don't pick up rubbish so anyway he paid me the £40 I spent 2 hours and 30 minutes cleaning his kitchen for him I even washed the worktops down now this job was only 9feet by 9 feet and should have taken me 30 to 40 min but I had to clean up this mess so after that I put my tools in the van an politely said to the customer that's me finished thank you very much for your orders and I'll see you again as I was walking down to the van I heard the man shouting you have not fitted the vinyl to watch I replied yes you're correct the next time the bin man comes ask him to fit it he then shouted I'm going to phone your boss I replied good do you know my wife

first late person is fired.

One time happened to me. Paid me with a check , they didn’t put a date. Yeah big mess. But the customer knew what they were doing. And it bought them time to get the funds. But it was due upon completion not whenever you feel. Nice work handling that customer!

Had George not checked up on this place he definitely would have lost the account. the "manager" probably had hobby out of work i.e. beer drinking. Didn't focus on his work, what puts food on his table like he said.

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Wow - great idea, thanks

I had a weely cleaning job for a family as a teen. Dust, vacuume, bathrooms, floors. Took me an hour and a half. They had a little talk w me, concerned it was under 2 hours. Going forward, I laid around in their basement for 20 min, to stretch the time. Dumb.

Liked because you got paid 😂🤘🏼👏🏼👍🏼💰. 4 hours nice job well done 👍🏼

After paying 25% off the gross revenue, how much does a partner retain as profit from the 75% take on average?

POS people want to punish you for efficiency….

I just caught your video, and it's nice to see some pushback on, as you said it, asshole customers. I've been in retail for close to 50 years. This happens in all of areas of business that deal with the public. They will try everything to screw businesses over and seem to think that their owed something more than good service and courtesy. The problem is that companies accept this behavior because they claim, "we can't afford to lose any customers." The customers that return expired food, because that overbought, rotten food that they left in their trunk, and so on. I always say that those are the kind of customers that we can afford to lose.

My wife and I purchased an American Steel barn for our property 500 miles away. On the week of arranged delivery and construction we received a phone call as we we driving out. They informed us they would not be able to deliver our building because there were no other deliveries in the area. This was never explained to us in the multiple meetings we had had with them previously. We were both highly confused because we knew that it was physically impossible to put more than one building on the delivery trailer. As I was driving it fell to my wife to talk with them. I was thinking "God help that person on the other end of the phone" as my wife negotiated million dollar contracts in her profession. I could sense that poor person shrinking minute by minute as my wife was chewing them a new one. Needless to say they found a way to deliver our structure. I had to flag down the crew on the highway as it is a bit difficult to find our remote property. The crew was nice, but sadly misinformed about just how early it gets dark in the mountains, they thought they would be finished in just one day. They were not prepared to do an overnight, so I arranged a motel in the local village that would sleep 3. I told them where to get a good meal close by. They were very thankful the next day and worked doubly hard to get it completed. If I were to do it over again I would choose another company, but such is life. Despite vigorous research a company can still fall short of the mark.

I use to help my dad build the under ground tubes for MCI back in the late 80's and when he was done for the day, they would issue the check and then when we left to go deposit it in the bank, they(MCI) would stop the check. so I had my gf at the time take me to the bank, cash the check, and then come back to the job site and give the money to my Dad, a welding and fabricating shop.

This is nice man

Hello sir…awesome work maybe video the work with your clients pointing out what needs to be worked on…. Great video sorry you had a bad day….

Hello sir nicely done video….next time no freebies

'Normal'people are happy when you finish early! I always say its going to take longer than i think it will, just for that fact! Because heaven forbid you say 3 days, and it takes 4.

Good job , people like him do not deserve the extra work.

Great video, thanks! It has been 10 years now. I'm curious how these steps have held up? Are there any improvements you'd recommend? Do the limestone screenings allow for drainage? What are the dimensions of the boards you used for the steps themselves? I'm in the planning stages of building steps down to a creek.