05-31-2013, 08:15 AM
Had two carpet jobs booked yesterday 5/30. They both booked on 5/29, one was a lived in home the other I was told was a rental and the tenant kept asking me how fast can I do the job because they needed to get their security deposit back by Friday 5/31. (Red Flag).
First job went great, did work got paid.
Now I have a sense about things and when it tells me something is up it usually is, I don't know if it's from getting older or just dealing with people all these years.
So on the night of 5/29, I was in bed and in my head came the idea of cash on arrival on the rental job, no pay me when the work is done type thing that we all do.
So on the morning of 5/30 I call the rental job tenants and explain to them since it's a rental and house is empty it will be cash before I start the job. He says sure not a problem.
So we drive 50 mins in traffic to get to the job and no one is there, my two older kids are with me, so we wait 15 mins and no one, shows. So I call their number and it goes into an answering machine, I tell them we are at the job site and to call me back and we wait another 15 min and nothing, so we left. Never a phone call.
Now either I hurt their feelings or I caught onto their game of trying to cheat me, you know: Hi, start the job and I will run to the mac machine and be back in about 30 mins to pay you. Then you never see them again and since it's a rental you have no other address and so your out of money after you did the work.
Like my kids said "Dad you know when you get this feeling it's always right". Anyway, I wasted an afternoon, but at least I was out with my kids and we had McDonalds after.
So much for Craigslist customer's, I guess you get what you pay for.
First job went great, did work got paid.
Now I have a sense about things and when it tells me something is up it usually is, I don't know if it's from getting older or just dealing with people all these years.
So on the night of 5/29, I was in bed and in my head came the idea of cash on arrival on the rental job, no pay me when the work is done type thing that we all do.
So on the morning of 5/30 I call the rental job tenants and explain to them since it's a rental and house is empty it will be cash before I start the job. He says sure not a problem.
So we drive 50 mins in traffic to get to the job and no one is there, my two older kids are with me, so we wait 15 mins and no one, shows. So I call their number and it goes into an answering machine, I tell them we are at the job site and to call me back and we wait another 15 min and nothing, so we left. Never a phone call.
Now either I hurt their feelings or I caught onto their game of trying to cheat me, you know: Hi, start the job and I will run to the mac machine and be back in about 30 mins to pay you. Then you never see them again and since it's a rental you have no other address and so your out of money after you did the work.
Like my kids said "Dad you know when you get this feeling it's always right". Anyway, I wasted an afternoon, but at least I was out with my kids and we had McDonalds after.
So much for Craigslist customer's, I guess you get what you pay for.