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Old 07-20-2008, 11:40 PM
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I don't really have any to add to the conversation going on, except to suggest to sas to look at general contractor home builders. I know one who's only tool is a cell phone. He farms out everything, and makes 10-15% on every house he builds. He's been doing it for years and is a respected builder. I would find it very hard to believe that if I were to place calls to 5 different landscape firms in your area for a paver driveway and full landscape for a 1/2 acre property, I'd get 5 bids that were within a few hundred dollars of each other. They'd vary by thousands. And every one of those companies is getting work based on those pricing models (or they wouldn't price that way).

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