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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
All three feel like costs of earning a living, because they are, and all three are generally not deductible. One piece of reasoning explains every one of them.
Continue reading Commuting, Lunch, and Work Clothes Are the Three Costs People Assume Are Deductible
The four year degree is treated as the safe choice and the thing to do while undecided. It is a large commitment and it deserves to be chosen rather than defaulted into.
Continue reading Choosing at Seventeen With Half the Information? The Default Option Is Not Neutral
A first meeting with an accountant is a two way interview and most people treat it as an application. Six questions settle it in about twenty minutes.
Continue reading Twenty Minutes and Six Questions: How to Tell Whether a Preparer Is Right for You
A big customer's contract is written to protect the big customer, which is normal. Most of it is negotiable, and knowing which parts to push on is the whole skill.
Continue reading Handed a Large Company's Standard Agreement? Five Clauses Decide What It Costs You