Assessing a Complex Job for Time & Material

no way that I can even see what I'm getting into in a case like this I'm going to protect myself by giving him an hourly rate I'm going to give him a generalized idea of what it would take to do the job I can't just say hey we're going to charge $65 an hour and that's it most homeowners they don't like that open-ended feel to it they don't know who you are but if you say hey I'm going to charge you $65 an hour we believe it's going to take probably 20 hours to clean something like this up we believe it's going to take about 20 hours what we'll do at that point is at the 20 hours as we get closer we're going to ask you to come out to the site and make a determination where you want to spend the rest of your time maybe at 15 hours or 18 hours we'll ask you to come out take a look at where we've gotten within the time frame that we've quoted you and if there's any priorities that you want us to wrap up or do you want to extend the time out or how do you want to handle the rest of the job so you can see that you can safely use timed material to protect not only yourself but it'll also help you when you frame it in the right way it's going to to help you land a job you can't just go out and quote $65 an hour that's what we get in this in Minneapolis Minnesota in your neck of the woods it may be 55 it may be 45 it is what it is it doesn't matter the rate itself in this video isn't important but I want you to understand when to lump some and when you're coming into the jungle and you can't see what's going on underneath there you don't know what you're getting into you're going to want to switch over to that time and material quote now you won't make as much profit but you're also not going to lose it's a guaranteed not lose situation unless the customer decides they don't want to pay you for some reason so that's how we're going to handle a