A couple of just curious questions.
1. Have you ever had a homeowner ask you if you were paying your workmen properly, paying benefits such as health care, if they were legal, or any similar quality of employment question?
1a. Do you market yourself as being on the right side of those questions.
2. Ever done a job for, sold a house to, etc., to anyone who had one of the bad mortgages we keep hearing about that are causing such a crisis.
My guess is that even the most affluent, socially conscious customer has never inquired about how the workmen are treated. Of course I don’t ask either when I go to the grocery store or auto repair shop.
I also doubt if many have been involved with bad loans, that they are mostly a tract home and resale market thing.
Just curious,
John
Replies
1) Yes
1a) Yes
2) Not that I know of.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Generally speaking...if they have a loan going bad, they don't have money for remodeling.
I have a friend who owns a landscaping company. He gets involved with cul-de-sac neighborhoods/ home owners associations that want him to bid the whole neighborhood for lawn mowing, leaf raking, etc. Usually, he gets asked why he is charging more than other people. He then shows them proof of insurance, paper work showing that all his guys are local guys (also legal) paying for college, family men etc, and that all have health insurance covered by his company. He also shows that all of the debris is taken to a site where it is composted. He has one neighborhood go for the cheaper company in five years.
I meditate, I burn candles, I drink green tea, and still I want to smack someone.
Ditto Jeff B.
Yes, Yes, dont think so.
The big quetion I get is "how long have you known so-and-so". I made the mistake of telling someone once that I just started this worker out on his job, he was so freaked out.
Hey, people have to start somewhere, right?
Ever since that little experience I don't let the conversation steer towards the help.
Your help can make or break you. I've got enough helper stories to fill ten threads.
I gave a very fair estimate to a guy who lost his house due to one of these adjustable rate mortgages, never hired me, loser anyway. A typical example of the type of person who would be in that situation.
"A typical example of the type of person who would be in that situation."This statement says more about you, than you might realize. Rod
i ..guess we should go to the stereotype thread....
since he didn't give all the information that made him form that opinion...
you kinda jumped the gun... which speaks volumes about you... now doesn't it...
p
I guess opinions are like azzholes right?Reread his statement, maybe pick up a dictionary while you're at it.Typical, by defintion, doesn't need "all the information that made him form that opinion".It is , by it's very definition......typical.In fact, look at his previous statement, " a loser", why??? Just because he didn't accept his proposal? And because he didn't accept his proposal, he is a loser, typical of people in that situation?Sounds like he might be a bit of a sore loser.No jumping the gun here.just calling it like I sees it.And you are welcome to do the same.
Rod
no the way you reacted made it sound like you were like the person who was forclosed on and were offended...
fast to jump on someone doing the right thing... and fast to defend someone who maybe wasn't...
of course it's never the fault of the person who doesn't repay a debt... typical would be living beyond ones means, lack of financial planning... lack of insurance to cover the unforeseen...
most people forclosed on fall in that typical situation...
you were very quick to condem with far fewer facts than the one who used the word
"typical"
which is just a typical knee jerk reaction without all the facts.... quick to mouth off ...typical
P:)
Pony, I see that you have not opened your dictionary yet.Here's the deal..........This morning I cooked pancakes for my granddaughter, then we watched a Tom & Jerry cartoon. After that we went out into the back yard and raced each other around. (She's 3 years old and won every time)Soon we are both going to be rooting for Jimmie Johnson.I hope that you decide to have some fun today too.Maybe catch up on your reading.
Rod
still didn't look in the mirror..did you...
watch'n the race now... jimmy might win... but sure would like to see someone outside the top teams win... maybe the 96..
we had snow today very very rare... spent the morning at the park with about 20 friends and all the kids.. a big hill and alot of sleds... built a snow jump for the kids... so i stll got to build something today :)
p
The only thing they would lose out on by not accepting my proposal would be the high quality of work I offer. In that sense, then they're losers. They've lost my business.
Gee, how did this topic get so off course??
JUSt LET IT GO!
Can we move on to bigger things please...
Of course we can.
Rod
Obviously not everyone who lost thier house due to a bad mortgage is a loser, but isn't it a strange coincidence that the two people I knew who lost thier homes just so happened to be the two biggets losers I've ever known in my life?
Look at it this way, you've played a game with the bank...you lost your house... you're a loser... You took a gamble and you lost.