All Forum Posts by: Manolo D.

@Marisa Alvarez sorry it didnt turn out the way I wanted to, the reply above.

@Michael Plaks that's unfortunate, hopefully he moved to a greener pasture. i agree that the three who replied are of equally qualified, just offering the original poster additional resources.

@Yoichi Kato Nothing slowing down in industrial/government side here. Procurement is slowed down but is coming back up again. Our company implemented all materials delivered on site and employees distance 10'. Each city can make up their own rule, but there is no mandate for county and state wide as far as construction goes. We have projects in San bernardino, riverside, orange, and los angeles counties - so at least I can speak for those. In general, most cities are still working but closed to the public, inspectors and building & safety should be open over the phone -- at least my inspector comes to my site on a daily basis.

@Alejandra Tapia I think @Logan Allec is local and an investor himself. If memory serves right and I'm not a professional when it comes to this but only a knowledge since I have a business, if your LLC is active in CA, you still have to pay that $800/year to EDD/CA - activity or not.

@Jean Santiago Welcome Jean!!

@Steve Kirsch My average is around $20-$750/sf.

@Jake Sablosky 130/hr for a handyman, meeh. 130/hr for a professional company, you’re in the ballpark for Oregon. Im licensed for EPA renovation, im NOT A UNION contractor, there are certain things i can do to “renovate”, however, if there is positive lead, i can’t abate. Asbestos is a diff issue, more severe, so someone saying lead and asbestos is not a big deal concerns me. Check his license at the EPA website, if he’s not there, he can’t work on your property, assuming you have positive lead, which im 90% sure it has. Pre-1978, not ALL paints have lead, MOST paints do.

@Tristan Cottarel Yeah, 14 hrs is a lot of work time. So, i could ask you, are you flying there to get all the materials? do you know what he needs and all he needs to do is go there and install it? Will you do the grout and do the clean-up the next day? And at the end of the day, do you have his check ready? If so, please cut his time in half.

@Matt Michaelis Best way to do it is put penalty clause. I.e. mine is usually around $1,000/day and say 60 calendar days. I’ve done 120 day projects in 4 weeks. My clients tho are not investors, usually i carry 100k before i bill them, i.e for a 50k project, i bill once at the end after the project, before the punchlist, they withold 10% of my contract and have 35 days to pay it, so any kinks, they have that timeline to call me and have it addressed. Some contractors are being burnt by clients where they have to chase their money (same goes to investors towards contractors), so to control those, have them make milestones or just pay a “line item” (i.e framing $2000, drywall and taping - $5000; just pay 2000 when they pass framing inspection). Be careful with overloading (i.e framing $6000, drywall and taping $1000; they can actually finish framing and leave your job without the law chasing them). Hope this helps. If they have “very detailed” scope of work, they know what they’re doing, so it’s easy for them to put line item price per work phase.