Category Archives
11 posts filed under this category, 6 shown on this page.
Small jobs carry almost the same fixed costs as big ones. Here is how hourly, minimum-plus-hourly, and flat-rate pricing each handle that, and which one holds up.
Continue reading Pricing a Two Hour Repair Call Three Ways, and Which One Stops Losing Money
Several different deadlines run at once in any disagreement, set by different people for different reasons, and the earliest one is usually the least advertised.
Continue reading The Clock on a Dispute Starts Well Before Anybody Knows There Is One
These are the maintenance tasks with the widest gap between what they cost to do and what they cost to skip, ranked by how quickly that gap opens.
Continue reading An Hour Now Against Four Figures Later: The Household Jobs Worth Doing First
Retention money usually gets spent on whichever lever is easiest to pull. The options differ enormously in how long the effect lasts and what it actually costs.
Continue reading Does a Raise Keep Somebody Longer Than a Better Schedule or Better Tools?
Spring brings the largest volume of home improvement work and the largest volume of arguments about it. Some of the effective routes are free and rarely used.
Continue reading Spring Job Gone Wrong? Several of the Useful Remedies Cost Nothing at All
A boundary disagreement is the clearest example of a problem where an attorney is unnecessary for nearly all of it and genuinely essential for one specific part.
Continue reading A Fence Six Inches Over the Line Took Four Months and One Billable Hour