100% Commercial Guys

Over the years, I’ve never had employees, but have helped get other guys started with their own routes - “teach a man to fish” stuff. They’ve covered my stuff and helped when I needed help on bigger stuff and likewise me with them. Feels very karmic.

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I think this is the only thing that holds me up from taking any commercial/storefronts . I don’t want to be skipping them a lot , since I like to take my days off

I had this back home , tight nit group of guys that we would help each other on big jobs

This is only a problem for Storefront as commercial is rather in your control when you do the job as most commercial is quarterly if your lucky not weekly.

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Second that

We are currently 85 commercial, mostly hospitals, office buildings from 4-30 story campuses. The 15% residential has been decreased each year as we are trying to just get out of that end.

Tough part is these residential’s we’ve been cleaning for 15 - 17 years so we built a good relationship with them and they do not want us to pull out but slowly been removing the residential’s and probably two years will be completely commercial.

We just have a longer season with commercial, guaranteed work no matter rain, snow or heat.
One commercial job is the same price as 20 home. I prefer more work one location less down time especially when it comes to employees and hourly wages traveling to sites.

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Totally agree. I’m kinda in the same boat although I’m solo at the current time. Ready to let go of the resi but then the 600-700 home comes along. Maybe I’ll just drop everything that’s worth less than 500

I price to sell exterior only. I do offer the option of individual interiors by appointment the day of. Or, if there’s too many to do the day of the exterior service I schedule them another day.

98% prefer not to purchase the interior package. It’s best for me that way because interiors drag down my profit.

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That’s what I’m talking about.

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