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Message:: [QUOTE="Frank Speak, post: 11402755, member: 181425"]Here’s the lesson of the day for everyone so pay attention, or I’ll bite your collective necks all the way through! Well, maybe not that, but this is good stuff so.... Do you know why house cleaners and yard mowing outfits can’t charge much for their services? Because people won’t pay very much for a service they can perform easily themselves. “It has to be cheap or I’ll do myself” is the attitude. Example, we pay our house cleaner $75.00 and she’s at our house for a good 3-3.5 hours and she brings her own supplies and mop and vacuum, etc... Hell, I save enough in cleaning supplies cost alone to pay a good 25% of her pay. 3.5 hours of our time is worth more than that. On the other side of the coin, call an electrician to wire up your storage shed. They’ll charge you $75.00 for the service call alone before doing anything. You’ll end up paying hundred time the job is done. Why do people pay? Because they can’t do it themselves so it’s either pay or it doesn’t get done. The moral here? If you wanna be an O/O,  you better learn how to work on crap yourself, or you better start squirreling away a hell of an escrow for maintenance and repairs.[/QUOTE]