All Forum Posts by: Manolo D.

@Lily Boudon My advice is, after you sign up for basic webpage subscription, once you could afford seo, build a website. remember it takes 6-12 months before you get 1st, if you get 1st rank, needs to get updates every now and then, but when in marketing, it should be worth it.

this is not an expert's opinion, but i have had an outsource website company before.

 Great post @karen margrave , the mention didnt work. I have one set of petite house that I have been pushing back on building, 2+2, what do they usually require say if i paid for the land and the cost to build is around say 100,000, how much can they lend? since you are in orange, i might be able to use the company you use. Thanks a bunch.

@Brian Jones Post the actual deal on marketplace. im sure you will get a ring. From what I understood, they will just fall into your lap. That is what I have read in the forums.

Im a pretty simple guy, so i use colored pens and an 11x17 or full size for my pm schedules. I took thr time to modify some of these but it worked well on me.

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/excel-project-management.html

I know somebody who recently got a false claim that his worker got injured while working on the site, good thing before releasing the check, they practice a toolbox meeting every monday and let all employees sign a waiver where it states that they have been paid in full for the last week and did not get injured before the check was given. This could be a $300,000 suit waiting to happen, specially because they wont spend a dime suing you.

We pay around 20k (up to 50k/year payroll) to have work comp every year, together with GL and in my case, more than that because our company has extensive insurance coverage that gets layers and layers of protection for both clients and contractor. We also insure that our subs have them and issue us waiver as additional insured before they can even be considered as sub. Paperwork IS money, it costs, it protects. If you hire a handyman you need to have work comp and GL at the least. GL protects you from everything else, work comp only protects you from worker injuries.

Be careful on homedepot guys, they are wreckless, only asks for cash/hr, doesnt know what employment are always lazy. If you choose to go with handyman service, be sure they have at least GL and WC, I have heard from some states that they allow these kind of license. Imagine they worked for you and they make a false claim, and you didnt do the paperwork, lawyers will go after all your assets that you built for decades.

If it would be not much trouble, or if you are to be doing this long time, then setup llc to hold the transactions, i would say max of 4 houses per llc, since CA is very expensive and you have to pay FTB 800/year to do business plus all other govt fee requirements.

This is just advise from businessman, not a professional.

 These are great stuff, I am searching for Hazel OCR equivalent on windows since Im not a mac guy, i too have a paperless system, and basically have almost the same system, never used smartsheet, would like to try that. I built a manual for efiling, but would love your input so I could improvise. Didnt use evernote tho, i might take a look at it. Thanks.

@Alex M. For Karens post above.

@Karen Margrave These are great plans, what will be the budget/sqft and SP on these row houses? Just the house. I have a small parcel somewhere and would like to build something like this. They are nice and neat.

Thanks.

@Brad Rust Do you work with seasoned commercial / government contractor expanding into residential RE/ground-up construction? Can you send us your terms? When is the best time to call? Thanks.

@Clint Kreider I would like to attend, [email protected] / [email protected]