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Ten years ago you hired a person. Now you often hire a dispatcher who hires a person. Here is how to sort the upkeep jobs worth paying for, and who you are really paying.
Continue reading Paying Someone to Clean the Gutters? Find Out Who Is Actually Coming First
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
The first week of funeral arranging has a real sequence, and the memorial decision sits later in it than most families are led to believe.
Continue reading Arranging a Funeral This Week? The Order the Decisions Actually Have to Happen In
The order matters considerably more than the effort, and two of the steps take under a minute each. Almost all of the eventual cost is set before lunchtime.
Continue reading Water Is Coming In Right Now and the First Two Hours Decide Most of the Cost
Somebody collecting three quotes cannot assess the work itself. They can only assess the paperwork, which means the document is doing more selling than the price.
Continue reading A Customer Comparing Three Estimates Is Judging the Documents Rather Than the Work
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