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Old 05-20-2008, 09:05 PM
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Interesting quote:

"In this area 25-30.00 sqft is normal"

In my area, its normal for guys to bid $10 a sq foot walkways and then wonder why they can't afford to pay for $4 dollar gas or afford health insurance for themselves. Guess I HAVE to use that as my guide though...gee, that sucks, I feel a cold coming on.

As for fancy numbers, they mean nothing. I can give you those too.

Here's a number I would like to here from everyone giving me justification to sq ft pricing.

Take the TOTAL number of hours you spend a year working. And I mean TOTAL, as in, in the field, in the office, on estimates, in the garage, in meetings, whatever. Take that number, and divide YOUR income by it. Not the company's. YOURS. What did YOU make per hour.

Does anyone have the balls.

I'll tell you my friends who had 45 guys at one point and did close to 3 million in work, and who, by the way, LOVED sq ft pricing............ $7.50 an hour. Guess what, I did 250k in work last year and guess what...............I beat him!!!!!! not by much though....LOL!
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