treeman82
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hey guys. i am not very happy. here is what happened. about a month ago i had talked to some guys about wanting to get a large tree account nearby. so they did some talking for me and i got an appointment with a manager. i bid the work for just get it to the ground and cut up, they do the rest. that is how my other big account is, because both places have large maintenance crews. so i submitted that. didnt hear from them. went back to check up on how it was goin, she told me what they wanted done. i said to myself, ok just rebid it. well one day lead to two, two lead to three. and then last week i saw somebody there cuttin trees. i talked to the guys who got me the appointment, they told me, "matt, you had your foot in the door there. you were gonna be set" because they see these people almost every day. the account is about 1000 acres. the owner has millions upon millions of dollars. the house he is building on the property, house alone is gonna be 26 million dollars, and he is spending 3.1 million on landscaping. its a big horse farm, so a lot of it has trees needing work. i went back today to see if i could get in there for pruning, a tree care program, i was polite, i asked if it would be possible for me to talk with them about a tree care program, and just the way she said "no" made me really kick myself. so i guess i gotta do more fenagling now. more talking. because even if all i get is the pruning, it would keep 2 climbers busy for about 5 or so days a month, every month, for a good year, just to get around the driveways. forget about by fences and lines.