Both my neighbors and I have gotten new roofs in the past year or two. All I saw was incredibly hard working, short, non-English speaking men who started the tear-off early in the morning, and stayed up there until the job was complete as the sun was going down. They cleaned up thoroughly. You just have to find good crews, and manage them properly.
I completely get the beauty of being a one-man show. That's the whole reason I closed down my kitchen showroom, fired my installers and sales rep, and picked up my tool belt. My thieving sales rep would steal leads out of my showroom and one of my installers would do the work Friday-Monday.
The installer used his pregnant wife as the excuse to always miss those workdays. Being a good guy, I would either go on Monday to get the next job started, or go on Friday to wrap up the current job. I never once docked his pay.
You could imagine how betrayed I felt when I caught on to what they were doing.
Karma is a beech though. The fired sales rep started a competing refacing company, and he had the audacity to use the exact same contracts I had developed over the years, except he changed the logo and address.
I schemed on how to get him back. I formed my own LLC with a name very similar to his, but before him in the phone book. The plan was for people to hear his advertisements on my favorite AM radio station, then they'd look in the phone book and call me. Bwahahahaha!
I eventually just let it go, and left him to the refacing sector. I focused on traditional remodeling, which he didn't do. I hated refacing anyway.
He had to sell the business a few years later because he went deaf. That made me very happy.
So, yeah, one-man-show is the way I like it, but the reality is I can't keep doing it forever.
Why do flatbed over van/reefer? I don't see the extra money
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