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Business Operations and Project Details

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at 21 he's landing $100,000 landscaping job after landscaping job

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Joseph runs his business as an LLC and utilizes QuickBooks for automated financial tracking, with bank feeds categorizing expenses. He dedicates long hours, often from 6 AM to 10 PM, splitting time between fieldwork and office tasks, including paperwork and coordinating subcontractors. He describes a recent $100,000 project for a school building involving demolition of existing walls and reconstruction.

Goal: Outline Joseph's business structure, financial management, work ethic, and specific project examples.

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  • QuickBooks QuickBooks — Automated financial tracking and expense categorization

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F350 and F450 Ford 67s. And then where do you park all your equipment? And we're going to get I'm going to ask him very deep detailed questions in this interview cuz I want I want the meat and potatoes, man. I don't want no general BS, I want the meat and potatoes. Yeah, I got like a little shop that I keep all my stuff parked at, all my equipment in there and all that. How much you pay a month for the shop? 600 bucks right now. Okay, and then the shop has an office attached to it? Correct. Okay. hope to be buying that. Right now I'm just renting it, and I hope to be buying it in the near future. Is your business an LLC or S corp or what is LLC. Mhm. You got insurance and all that? Yeah. Yep. And then so the money from these jobs you put it right in your your business account and then you pay all your labor, you got everything thing nice and organized. I saw his Excel spreadsheet so far of how he tracks everything and that's one of many things you're tracking, but it was like very organized. I was very impressed. But how are you tracking all the money? Are you using a CRM? How are you tracking your business? What are you doing? Quickbooks. And then that's automatically with my bank feeds sent right to there. That automatically categorizes and sorts everything for me. And then are you going on Quickbooks late at night and and doing your paperwork? Yeah, from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., maybe even later I'm working. Out in the field where we work four 10s usually, so that's from 6:00 to you know, whenever it gets dark usually. And then anything beyond that I'm in the office. So this $100,000 job that you're just closed, you just have to get the signature when we get back from Miami or what is it? Yeah, I get back, I sign the contract and then we start it in spring. And then what does the job consist of? A lot of work around a school building, wall work, demolition of the existing wall and then reconstructing a new wall. I'm going to be doing a majority of it and then I'm going to have a sub there along with me. Are you actually personally physically moving the blocks or supervising? So I'm supervising, handle a lot of that, yeah. Um I have foremen though, they take care of it, but obviously Mhm. someone needs to see oversee them as well. Then you being 21, the whole mommy daddy giving you something or something being handed to you, what have you had handed to you? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Nothing? My dad bought me a lot when I was younger. Yeah? Yeah.…

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