Introduction: The Reality of Landscaping Jobs

so you know you hear me talking about all these jobs where we make $2,000 in an afternoon or we do put two yards of mulch in and we make $1,100 in a couple hours those jobs do exist don't get me wrong but today we're going to actually talk about jobs that to take a big fat dooker on your profit margin because as contractors you're going to have almost as many of those opportunities as you have success stories and I want to make sure that we understand both sides of the story we cover a wide Grand wide range of uh issues today including uh a skid bloater that got buried in the bottom of a swimming pool uh commercial job that I did $90,000 retaining wall guess what I didn't get paid a nickel on that project about the city coming in and making your life living hell on another job and so on and so forth they don't always work out and today we're going to go over a few of those jobs I don't know if it's going to be beneficial to you guys or not but you see me doing these push-ups it's because if I didn't sometimes I feel like my head would explode because it drives me insane on some of these jobs they're just so stressful so tough this is how I get rid of it this video is for you guys to show you it's not all easy work all right I've talked to you about compartmentalizing your bids in the past I've talked to you about trying to build profit into each component of a job because they're not always going to go the way you want them this project right here is a prime example of how parts of this job went amazing and parts this job went South on us and we actually had a loss okay so I want to flip you around I want to show you the patio there used to be a swimming pool here this all went great we filled the swimming pool in went fine built this patio went amazing but as we look over here where I dropped the ball as the estimator was in bidding the removal of all the brush trees and shrubs this used to be a jungle back here and what happened was it grew I bid this in August of 2014 we got to the job in August of 2015 and in that time everything got bigger Fuller and expanded out I had originally