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Good Contractors Don't Sell Themselves Short
Tue 22 Sep 2009 - 20:34
Good Contractors Don't Sell Themselves Short
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Greg_Vandenberge]Greg Vandenberge
When I was young, I had dreams of becoming rich and successful. These dreams were changed, once I started working in construction. If you notice, there are very few billionaires in the construction business. It seems like most contractors live in a dog eat dog world and will often take jobs cheaper than other contractors, simply because they don't know any different. Most contractors that underprice themselves, cannot afford health insurance for their family and usually live just above poverty level.
How do I know this, because this is what I use to do. When I first started contracting, I felt obligated to give every one that I worked for the lowest price that I could possibly give them and still make a couple of dollars. I was usually working six to seven days a week and it was mostly seven days a week and rarely six days a week, just to make my house payment and feed my family. If you're a contractor and you're living a life in survival mode, there's a good chance that you're underbidding your jobs and selling yourself short.
There's an easy way to fix this, you need to get rid of the clientele that you have built up and start looking for people that are willing to pay you what you are worth. Often real estate professionals and property management teams find the cheapest contractors or handyman to perform home repairs or minor remodeling of their properties. I have often found these people to be the cheapest by far and usually take advantage of unsuspecting contractors who don't know any better.
These professionals, usually make six-figure incomes but don't think twice about paying someone $10 an hour, to remodel a bathroom. This isn't good for the contractor or anyone, trying to make a living today. Reevaluate your situation and try to start raising your prices gradually. You will definitely lose some of your customers, but those aren't the people who you want as your clients anyway.
Start looking for people that are willing to pay you a little more money and soon you will find yourself working for a better class of people. This is how I got away from homeowners and professionals who really didn't think I was worth the money that I was being paid, even though they were paying me less than market value.
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Greg Vanden Berge is working on the internet to promote the education for creating simple to follow guides and home building books to help professional building contractors as well as the weekend warriors. He has just finished a Home Buyers Guide to take some of the frustration out of home shopping.
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