Alpine Story #1

[alpine692003]

Welp, I have a story to tell you guys.. Its nothing fancy but interesting and just thought Id like to share with you guys!

Tmrw I am going to be meeting an elderly lady at 1330 to discuss some maintenance work on 5 of her residential houses, these houses are in a 500k and upwards area, I haven't seen the houses yet but I can tell by the location...

She pays people $12/h to do maintennace work on her 5 houses, meaning she puts an ad in the paper for a JOB to take care of her houses!

(Lawn mowing, hedge trimming, edgining, garden bed work, the maintnenace stuff)

I proceeded to call her on this and we had a conversation and she told me, she will be looking for someone next week to take care of the houses..

I told her, I am an owenr of a maintenance/landscaping company that does maintnenace and landscape work.

She goes oh okay, well would you be interested in working for me at $12/h I will provide all the quipmment for you to use!

I was like uhh, no sorry, I use commercial equipment and I do not want to use other people's equipment because I am familiar with my equipment!

Anyways, I will be meeting with her tmrw and discussing how we can work this!

I can't believe some people! especially, elders!

[Phillip Baker]

Do you think you can sell her on you!!!! Or will you just be wasting your time?

[alpine692003]

I have no clue, I can only try!

[Phillip Baker]

Good luck. old women pinch every penny!!!!! in fact i think copper wire was invented by 2 old ladies fighting over a penny!!!!!!!

[Ground Works]

U are awesome

I would sale how professional honest and can do a much better job then a guy for 12$ an hour sell yourself first and then how good u are and why its better to hire u then for that guy off the street and u ahev insurance so on

Lin

[Stephen M.]

I wouldn't waste my time. As owner of the company, your time is worth more than $12/hr and it's not like you're trying out for an employee position. Not all jobs are worth taking if you can't make decent money and recoup your overhead--equipment cost and repair, gas, wear & tear on your vehicle; office supplies; etc. You should be charging at least double that and sell yourself as an expert. $12/hr ain't alot of money for growing a business.

[imograss]

Another thing you need to look at is, there must be a reason she doesn't have (or able to keep) someone to do this work for her. Especially in a high end areas. If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.Also like stated in the above posts, 12.00 per hr. really isn't alot for your time. What will you do if you do this work for her and she tells some friends that you do nice work for 12.00 hr? It's hard to raise prices 50 to 100% when youve been paid alot less. I understand that when you first start out you take anything and everything to get work, but just be careful so you don't end up working for free.
Tim