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An exclusion is a maintenance instruction written years before the claim. Five things to check in the form your insurer filed, and what each one asks you to do now.
Continue reading Five Checks on an Exclusion Clause That Change What You Repair, Not Just What Pays
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
Winter fingers, holiday bench queues and the stamp inside the shank all change what a jewelry repair costs and what protections apply when you hand the piece over.
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
Utilities and big landlords handle overhanging limbs and disputed lines hundreds of times a year. The habits that make that work are mostly free to copy.
Continue reading Your Neighbor's Tree, Your Roof. The File a Utility Opens Before It Touches a Limb
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