Re: $500 budget - hmmm...

[Moe Szyslak <none@xxxxxxxxx>]

Crash Gordon wrote:

>
>Build yourself an Excel spreadsheet with your most commonly used parts and
>prices. Takes me less than an hour to design, spec and price out a proposal.
>I still have to type it up, but I'm working on that aspect.

I'm working on that, in the meantime I'm using the estimate feature of
QB.  I select the parts and input quantities and it adds up my cost
for the stuff.  Then I take the list over to a Word doc and do my
markup in there.



>Hey...there's still a niche for the small guys. My average residential jobs
>have been running between 2500-6000 lately...so don't underbid and put a
>profit on everything. So I don't get every job I bid these days, but what
>the heck...if there's profit in it I don't have to rush and can take my time
>to design and install it with pride. Don't compete with the idiots...they
>eventually disappear from the phone book.


That's a good chunk for resi jobs,  you must be doing big ass houses.
Thanks for your advice.