cuteyoungchic wrote:
OceanArchitectural, investing isn't "hard work" physically, although other people involved with rental properties can make life very stressful at times.For most of us though, it's what we need to go without that makes investing such "hard work," particularly for the first couple of properties.   One also needs to be rea…[Read more]

sapphire101 wrote:
The only way out of your dilemma ttman, as I see it, is this. You have to tell your prop. manager you want quotes on everything before work is done. You want to know the hourly rate for the electricians, plumbers, handymen etc they hire and no account gets paid from rent and is sent to you personally.If the rates don't suit,…[Read more]

free wrote:
I am not sure if this has been posted in any of the posts before.

below is a website created and owned by Justin Herald

http://www.trustytradesman.com.au/

http://www.justinherald.com

The WILL needs to stronger than SKILL.
Free??

Thanks for that link. It’s the first free advertising I have seen for many years, just hope it works

The only people that will come out & work for what you call fair prices & what we call peanuts are the handymen who can’t do any job properly…

Richard the sparky

Also cuteyoungchic…
We don’t charge like wounded bulls, we charge what we believe we are worth & all the other trades we work with are all doing quite well.
I have never been called back to a job as we believe do it once, do it properly & charge accordingly.
Your ok with your lawyer charging $350 per hour, but we are ripping people off by…[Read more]

Hi cuteyoungchic
Yes, if you average out my annual net profit it works out just over that.
Some weeks I don’t get paid at all, but we do domestic which we get paid on completion & commercial work which we get paid in 30 days from invoice date.

Ohhhhh…
Sorry forgot to tell you the best part!
I’m only 25!
Most of my mates are still in uni & where bagging me leaving school at 15 to start my apprenticeship..
Now I have properties & drive a porsche which they are still living at home…
I have just got my builders license & am in the process of setting up my next business so I can semi…[Read more]

Hi ttman. As you can tell from my username I am an electrician & really don’t appreciate your comments.
You say there’s not much to know about electrical & plumbing, I’m very interested to know what you do for a living as your views on our profession are very disrespectful. If it was so easy to do an apprenticeship & get a contractors everyone…[Read more]