Post by sparklingclean on Apr 14, 2008 11:42:48 GMT -5
Whew,
all this reading has made me dizzy. Don't feel too bad because I obviously way uderbid my project. My friend has a regular client that she does 3 times a week. She referred me to a friend of her lady and that lady off the bat says to me"well I can't afford to pay 20$ an hour like so and so" (although her husband is a doctor and there are many other tell tell signs)but I take her for her word. Then I Look at her house and it looks clean already to me plus she says all I want you to do is vacuum and touch up the bathrooms and mop the floors. Sounds like a cake walk right? Not! I settle for $10 an hour. I come back and the house is a wreck. She had even had a party.She wanted all that work done for $10 bucks an hour. The only thing that sort of saved me and only 'sort of' was that I had her sign a contract of exactly what she wanted to have done and I did only that tooand I took my time. But she didn't want me to leave. She even asked me if I did laundry and dishes! I told her I charged considerably more for that but we could sit down and work out another contract if she wanted. She let it go.But she still keeps calling for me to come back. So she must have liked my work!I do go but only when I can and now I am very specific about what I can do.
all this reading has made me dizzy. Don't feel too bad because I obviously way uderbid my project. My friend has a regular client that she does 3 times a week. She referred me to a friend of her lady and that lady off the bat says to me"well I can't afford to pay 20$ an hour like so and so" (although her husband is a doctor and there are many other tell tell signs)but I take her for her word. Then I Look at her house and it looks clean already to me plus she says all I want you to do is vacuum and touch up the bathrooms and mop the floors. Sounds like a cake walk right? Not! I settle for $10 an hour. I come back and the house is a wreck. She had even had a party.She wanted all that work done for $10 bucks an hour. The only thing that sort of saved me and only 'sort of' was that I had her sign a contract of exactly what she wanted to have done and I did only that tooand I took my time. But she didn't want me to leave. She even asked me if I did laundry and dishes! I told her I charged considerably more for that but we could sit down and work out another contract if she wanted. She let it go.But she still keeps calling for me to come back. So she must have liked my work!I do go but only when I can and now I am very specific about what I can do.
