Pricing a mini job

[treebilly]

Ok mckeetree, I should've been a little more clear. That's when I'm out to give the estimate. I always carry a felling saw with me. Basically for those flop and drops or small limb laying on the ground calls. You really can't justify charging mobilization or a crews wages for something that takes me 30 minutes. Last week I had a customer that walked down the street while I was working and asked if I would plant two potted shrubs. Took ten minutes while the other guy finished cleanup. Hundred bucks. He knows the minimum. Handed it to me while asking. I make a lot of money on that stupid stuff. Didn't mean to sound "unbelievable"

 

[fordf150]

Ok. This thread has gone ridiculous now. Most of that didn't really make any sense to me but that $17k a year got my attention...that is below the damned poverty level. No, no I'm not working for people below the poverty level. My average client has an income of around $250k a year. Some more...much, much more. Like I posted somewhere else...in ten years as a member here this place has taught me at least one thing, that at least 75% of us are basically working for peanuts. A guy that I bought some stump grinder teeth from emailed me a photo about five years ago of some dude in New Jersey holding a sign at an intersection that read "will do tree work for food". Now, I wrote that off as a joke but the one that sent it to me swears it was 100% real. He claimed at the time the photo was a couple of years old but he knew the guy and the guy was actually a decent climber and wasn't known to be a bum. I still didn't believe him at the time...but now...now I actually do. After the sh!t I have read in this place the last five years I do. $17k a year for an average client's income is plenty pitiful but someone, I can't remember who it may have been ropensaddle but I'm not sure, said their average client's income was $15k a year.

I'm on the corner of 3 counties.... 7,8,9% unemployment. One of my regular customers (tree service/lawn care) contract climbs for $12 hr plus $50 per tree. One of these days I will go out on a job and take pictures of trees these guys do and what they charge.

One plus to living where I do, a 3 bedroom, 2 story house on a 1/4 acre lot can be bought for well under 50k and with patience you can find one for under 20k.

 

[mckeetree]

I'm on the corner of 3 counties.... 7,8,9% unemployment. One of my regular customers (tree service/lawn care) contract climbs for $12 hr plus $50 per tree. One of these days I will go out on a job and take pictures of trees these guys do and what they charge.

One plus to living where I do, a 3 bedroom, 2 story house on a 1/4 acre lot can be bought for well under 50k and with patience you can find one for under 20k.

$20k here gets you a storage building.

 

[no tree to big]

$20k here gets you a storage building.

Does it come with land?

I just got done building a 10 by 30 shed for 10k not including concrete slab...

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[fordf150]

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/579-Chestnut-St_Newcomerstown_OH_43832_M34224-99190



http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Newcomerstown_OH/sby-1

8 places under 50k and one of them is in the country with 3 1/2 acres

 

[no tree to big]

**** buy a house cash for 25k n you would barely have to work to pay your bills. I'm moving to Ohio do one removal a month by yourself and pay your bills then sit on the front porch the other 29 days.

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[mckeetree]

**** buy a house cash for 25k n you would barely have to work to pay your bills. I'm moving to Ohio do one removal a month by yourself and pay your bills then sit on the front porch the other 29 days.

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Wow! I could move to Ohio and those hot Ohio milfs would think I was rich! Hot damn!

 

[mckeetree]

Does it come with land?

I just got done building a 10 by 30 shed for 10k not including concrete slab...

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Not usually.

 

[fordf150]

Wow! I could move to Ohio and those hot Ohio milfs would think I was rich! Hot damn!

lifted diesel pickup, atv, and a case of busch beer will get you a long ways around here lol

 

[jefflovstrom]

$20k here gets you a storage building.

Here, 20k is a down payment,,,
Jeff

 

[no tree to big]

lifted diesel pickup, atv, and a case of busch beer will get you a long ways around here lol

Hah my dad drinks Busch and we're from the fancey burbs of Chicago!

Here, 20k is a down payment,,,
Jeff

Yup we put 20 down on our place 205k for a small 2 bed cheapest house on the market at the time! 12 years later you can dig up a crap hole of a house for 150 k

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[BC WetCoast]

The real estate market in Vancouver right now is unbelievable. Up 27% in the past year. Virtually every house sold this year has gone over the asking price. The cheapest teardown shack in the City or inner burbs is $800K minimum.

If you can find an apartment for under $400k you know the crackheads are living there.

Most of it appears to be Chinese money driving up the price.

I could sell my house and move to Ohio and never have to work again. But then I would have to live in Ohio.

 

[mckeetree]

I could sell my house and move to Ohio and never have to work again. But then I would have to live in Ohio.

Don't forget about the milf's. That's important.

 

[sir1]

Well this sure has been an interesting thread. Lol

 

[BC WetCoast]

Don't forget about the milf's. That's important.

I don't think my wife would agree.

 

[BuckmasterStumpGrinding]

I have a $75 minimum for stumps and a $200 minimum for tree work. If I feel like it is too much I let them know what my minimums are and tell them that they are too much for the little thing they need. Then I tell them they can pay me what they think is fair. Sometimes I get the minimum, sometimes I get half, some old ladies give me a $20.

 

[Magnus-treecare]

for small jobs i usually work at an hour-rate and try to agree with the owner to do it whenever i'm in the neighbourhood.
Those things are great to make a short day's work into a full day's work

 

[OLD OAK]

Our min is $300 for tree work and $100 for stumps. If it is a repeat customer i might take 50 off the 30o if it is something small and quick ( like 30 min quick) just because they remembered us and hopeful they will remember us in the future. I Feel anything less is working for free.

 

[MSgtBob66]

I am transitioning from $75 min for stps to $100. Small/non-technical trees, $50/hr, 1 hr min. Saw work is cheap to do! Labor rate for everything is $50/hr, and I make a lot of money with stump clean ups and brush clean ups. $80/ load (3 pickups into my trailer ), take the brush to my buddy, and he charges a case of beer to dump, plus I have to help him drink the beer!