Lets say you were powerwashing a house...

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MVPPOWERWASH

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Lets say you were powerwashing a house in a development (Subdivision of around 100 homes) and had contracts on 15 of them from referrals. Then while you are cleaning around the front porch, you see someone walk up to the house's mailbox and put a flyer for pressure washing on the mailbox. Let alone every other house in the development?

I'm all for free enterprise, but to me it took a lot of "nerve" for this guy to come up to even the house I was working on to put the flyer on the mailbox. Didn't bother me much because I am getting these houses left and right by referral and he only did one deck, not even a house in there, but just ticked me off that he "had" to come to the house we were working on.

Anyone else have an experience like this?
 
Call the postmaster as it is illegal to hang anything on the mailbox, connect anything to it or hang anything off of it. With that many flyers, they will get a call from the postmaster or another from the post office.

This has been discussed in the past but you can be looking at postage for every piece that was placed there but they will usually round it up to so many blocks and possibly a fine on top if that, ignorance of the regulations is no excuse like they say about the law.

OR

You could have had a helper follow them and take them off and wad them up and properly dispose of that trash for the homeowners.
 
We did take the flyer off of the house we were working on. Needless to say I followed the guy to the next house after I realized and had some words with him. Try to keep things professional especially since customer are all over the development and the last thing I need them to see is their contractor getting into a verbal argument. He said that he told his employee to put "4" flyers on each side of the house he was cleaning the deck at. I laughed because if he was supposed to put out 4 flyers, after the kid didn't come back for 40 minutes and took a huge stack of flyers he should have known he didn't just do 4! Needless to say, they obviously weren't good because I up front even told him I charged $275/house in the development and told him not to kill the industry and charge $150 like some of the other gypsies that have come and gone. What's he do? Quotes everyone $240. I can live with that. I must be doing something right though, been in that development doing 14 more houses and haven't seen his truck! :nanner::dance3::woot:
 
Because after 19 years I have nothing to hide! Word gets around and I am not one of the super secret pricing people. I'd rather everyone know my price and price thier jobs accordingly. If I didn't tell him, he probably would have done the same houses for $150 and where would I stand with my customers then? We have lots of fly by night companies that have been showing up in our areas charging $99 for a house wash in over 55 developments we used to get $250 for. Now those customers think we were overcharging them. They don't understand the "Splash and Dash" technique that the other guys are pulling, even when explained. They care about $$$ and that is. I want these guys to know they are killing our industry by low balling.
 
Actually, in the time I've been in business I have seen more wannabe's attempt to the industry and fell on their face trying to lowball than I care to even remember.
 
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