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Mar 30, 2013#1

jekjr

Do any of you do 12 month contracts where the customer pays you the same amount every month for the entire year? What all do you do on this contract and what do you furnish?

Mar 30, 2013#2

exotion

jekjr said:
Do any of you do 12 month contracts where the customer pays you the same amount every month for the entire year? What all do you do on this contract and what do you furnish?

I do this I only offer this to people who I have done all seasons of work there (limits risk of exreme underbidding) people really like this option I take all the totals from last year divide it by twelve and I get paid for nothing in the winter

if they want something not on the contract that's what a work order is for.

Mar 30, 2013#3

Carscw

exotion said:
I do this I only offer this to people who I have done all seasons of work there (limits risk of exreme underbidding) people really like this option I take all the totals from last year divide it by twelve and I get paid for nothing in the winter if they want something not on the contract that's what a work order is for.

You do this or does the big name company you work for do this? As you only moonlight doing yards on your own

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Mar 30, 2013#4

exotion

Carscw said:
You do this or does the big name company you work for do this? As you only moonlight doing yards on your own

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

I don't work for the big name guy anymore I quit so I could pursue my own business and so I do this as protection I have 60 percent of my bills paid by these 12 month contracts and more than enough to start this year I have a goal of. Having 125 percent of my bills in contracts and 100 percent of my bills paid non contract so I can save and have a nice nest egg

Mar 30, 2013#5

wjjones

exotion said:
I do this I only offer this to people who I have done all seasons of work there (limits risk of exreme underbidding) people really like this option I take all the totals from last year divide it by twelve and I get paid for nothing in the winter if they want something not on the contract that's what a work order is for.

Same here I dont do snow removal, or any of that so a 12 month contract wouldnt apply if they want gutter cleaning, leaf blowing, etc I just bill them seperately for those jobs. I only had one customer that would pay for the season up front but our season for mowing is about 7 months and he wouldnt hear of a contract.

Mar 30, 2013#6

Carscw

exotion said:
I don't work for the big name guy anymore I quit so I could pursue my own business and so I do this as protection I have 60 percent of my bills paid by these 12 month contracts and more than enough to start this year I have a goal of. Having 125 percent of my bills in contracts and 100 percent of my bills paid non contract so I can save and have a nice nest egg

So in 9 month you started your own lawn care and already paying 60% of your bills just off your contracts

Contracts are for those that are scared to lose the yard

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Mar 30, 2013#7

exotion

Carscw said:
So in 9 month you started your own lawn care and already paying 60% of your bills just off your contracts

Contracts are for those that are scared to lose the yard

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

I have been moonlighting for 3 years lol and my company is affordable option lawn care. The 12 month contracts offers my customers who don't have a lot of money have real year round landscape maintence. 1200 contract is only 100 a month with that they can get 6 months of mowing spring and fall clean up and year round shrub bed maintenance. With my mowing I offer free fertilizer to keep my grass cutable.

Mar 30, 2013#8

Carscw

exotion said:
I have been moonlighting for 3 years lol and my company is affordable option lawn care. The 12 month contracts offers my customers who don't have a lot of money have real year round landscape maintence. 1200 contract is only 100 a month with that they can get 6 months of mowing spring and fall clean up and year round shrub bed maintenance. With my mowing I offer free fertilizer to keep my grass cutable.

I hope the yards you where doing on the side was not in the same neighborhood as your real job

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Mar 30, 2013#9

exotion

Carscw said:
I hope the yards you where doing on the side was not in the same neighborhood as your real job

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Yah they were that's why I had to quit working for him

Mar 30, 2013#10

Carscw

exotion said:
Yah they were that's why I had to quit working for him

Yeah I would have fired you. It's kinda like steeling ???

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Mar 30, 2013#11

exotion

Carscw said:
Yeah I would have fired you. It's kinda like steeling ???

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

No what I do after I'm clocked out was no concern of his I never took any of his customers nor do I want to.

Mar 30, 2013#12

Ric

jekjr said:
Do any of you do 12 month contracts where the customer pays you the same amount every month for the entire year? What all do you do on this contract and what do you furnish?

I don't do contracts, never seen any use in it. What are you going to do if the person you have under contract decides he 's not going to honor the contract? As far as I can see you have no recourse so in reality what good is it.

Mar 30, 2013#13

Carscw

exotion said:
No what I do after I'm clocked out was no concern of his I never took any of his customers nor do I want to.

It's just wrong on so many levels.
Your lucky I was not your boss I would have fired you as you hit the ground.

You worked for him any yard you get in that area should have gone to him.

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Mar 30, 2013#14

jekjr

Ric said:
I don't do contracts, never seen any use in it. What are you going to do if the person you have under contract decides he 's not going to honor the contract? As far as I can see you have no recourse so in reality what good is it.

I have one so far and am looking at another one. The idea is to do everything concerning the lawn and get paid 12 months out of the year. It is good for the customer because he has everything spread out over 12 months instead of paying a lot some months and little some. Also in that agreement I pick up paper, cut grass, trim bushes, and ever straw beds, and spray roundup on the gravel drives.....good deal for him cause he does not have to be concerned with that part of his business. Good deal for me cause I get a check every month even in winter... Here in LA we don't have to worry about snow.

Mar 30, 2013#15

Ric

jekjr said:
I have one so far and am looking at another one. The idea is to do everything concerning the lawn and get paid 12 months out of the year. It is good for the customer because he has everything spread out over 12 months instead of paying a lot some months and little some. Also in that agreement I pick up paper, cut grass, trim bushes, and ever straw beds, and spray roundup on the gravel drives.....good deal for him cause he does not have to be concerned with that part of his business. Good deal for me cause I get a check every month even in winter... Here in LA we don't have to worry about snow.

Ok, but my question is what if like three months into the contract the guys decides he's not paying anymore, what recourse do you have. I can see a contract if you have a commercial account worth a lot of money but a residential that's less than 3K a year I can't see the worth. Don't get me wrong if you want to do contracts that's fine but if should cost you more to enforce it than what it's worth I guess I just don't see the sense in doing it, I guess that's my point.

Mar 30, 2013#16

exotion

Ric said:
Ok, but my question is what if like three months into the contract the guys decides he's not paying anymore, what recourse do you have. I can see a contract if you have a commercial account worth a lot of money but a residential that's less than 3K a year I can't see the worth. Don't get me wrong if you want to do contracts that's fine but if should cost you more to enforce it than what it's worth I guess I just don't see the sense in doing it, I guess that's my point.

Its just another option for the customer yes it has risks but what doesn't? The point is the checks in the winter. I make work orders for everything in the contract that the customer signs when I do the work and come november he decides to stop paying me I either take him to small claims court. Or sell his debt to collections both of which I have done and will continue to do. Protect your self with proof of work nothing should be verbal....

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