Re: $500 budget - hmmm...

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yah, I've been messin with QB too, not sure if I like it for estimates or
not.

Yah..big houses. This quarter alone I've done 2 million dollar ones and one
3.5 million dollar one. The numbers below were just for the security not the
rest of the stuff we put in. And, they weren't even bid out, I just give
them a price and we pull wire. Seems like the puny little jobs are the ones
that get bid out to 20 other companies!


"Moe Szyslak" <none@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| 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.
|