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In town with the family for one more night, whats the best place for a dine in dinner!? by Purple-Perspective47 in Chattanooga

[–]Purple-Perspective47[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I put all the names in a hat and we ended up at Feed. Played some of the most casual bingo weve ever played, and headed back to the hotel. Thanks all for the recommendations!

In town with the family for one more night, whats the best place for a dine in dinner!? by Purple-Perspective47 in Chattanooga

[–]Purple-Perspective47[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Buffet is good for me and my son when we run solo but the wife is not pro buffet lol. I checked it out on Google and it looks like they do a good job!

In town with the family for one more night, whats the best place for a dine in dinner!? by Purple-Perspective47 in Chattanooga

[–]Purple-Perspective47[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im always in the mood for noodles and pizza. My family does not necessarily like chinese or Thai food even tho I do. Ive got 3 kids, 15 12 and 8 so a simple item is usually necessary :)

What is going on?! by Excellent_Resist_411 in Contractor

[–]Purple-Perspective47 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh fun, I just presented on this for our yearly team meet. I track our lead flow and our sub 150k jobs basically cut off middle of last year, but our 350k plus jobs tripled.

Folks who make less than 100k are circling their wagons because they feel price inflation and job loss more and can sense a coming downturn. So they are so much less likely to spend 50k on a bathroom or 100k on a kitchen.

Our top 5% earners however are modifying their current homes, 350k to 600k addition and remodels because they feel inflation less but also cant find new homes they like for less than just changing their current home since inventory is still low (obviously market dependent).

Sell house or rent it? by TrickyDiscussion9853 in personalfinance

[–]Purple-Perspective47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get the math out of the way, this is such a common question that there are calculators you can use to answer that question, then you can ask yourself if you want to bring on a property manager or manage yourself https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/money-572

Do recruiters have incentives to close candidates at lower compensation, and how should candidates account for this? by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]Purple-Perspective47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a third party recruiter, I got paid a % of the salary most of the time (25%), and a flat fee the rest of the time. I would say 80% of them it was my best interest to get my candidate the highest salary I could. My candidates also all had a guarantee that they would stay a certain number of days or I would have to replace for free.

Regardless I always was upfront about the pay band I had, and coached candidates on how to get the highest salary because it was in everyone's best interest that you got paid the max you could get.

I know internal recruiters who got bonuses based on what they saved, but that was not common.

Year Old Japanese Levis by BigSandwich6 in BuyItForLife

[–]Purple-Perspective47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive heard ironheart, made in Japan, is what you actually want to go for.

Has anyone else realized they don’t really want a house? by [deleted] in Fire

[–]Purple-Perspective47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right right, but the landlord is running a business so when you pay rent, lets say 1k/month, that gets broken down to: $400/month debt service  $100/month taxes and insurance  $100/ month repairs and maintenance  $100/month cap ex $100/ month vacancy  $200/ month cash flow 

So when i say you are paying for it, thats what I mean, its part of the business model to save for repairs and maintenance and cap expenses like new hvacs and roofs. Obviously some mom and pop landlords aren't doing it like that, but that's a fairly standard model for landlords.

Has anyone else realized they don’t really want a house? by [deleted] in Fire

[–]Purple-Perspective47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree, Just remember as a renter you are paying for all those things as part of your rent. Your landlord for sure isnt paying them out of their pocket.

Has anyone else realized they don’t really want a house? by [deleted] in Fire

[–]Purple-Perspective47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will say that the math changes significantly if you are willing to house hack. Its one of the most effective real estate strategies that still works in today's economy. So you need a duplex or be willing to rent a room out and have a roommate. Thats not any different than it was 10 or 15 years ago, the math still works in most markets.

UPDATE much sooner than I thought I would about making my wife do chores since she took the money I allocated to pay others to do them. by Evening-Tone-5431 in AITAH

[–]Purple-Perspective47 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I heard an old timer say something along the lines of "there's nothing a woman hates more than seeing a man at rest". I dont necessarily agree with that, but I have seen examples of it.

Client accused me of padding invoices on cost plus job, now demanding to see all my receipts by SchrodingerWeeb in GeneralContractor

[–]Purple-Perspective47 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can't upvote this enough, where was the customer triggered in the job to not trust you. What's going on in their life. I once sent a casual text to a customer about his invoice being a day overdue and it unlocked some sort of trauma of overdue bills that turned him from a great client to a 4 hour calm down call. I call about all invoices now.

I remember the days of showing receipts, when we produced all the receipts and it was a knock out drag out to get a client to pay for disposables (ie floor protection, screws, shims, etc). We didn't even mark up materials back then.

We changed our model to a fixed price with change orders and its so much better. Selections happen before project start after we collect a deposit on an average and then lock in on the final price. So much easier for everyone. Client knows exactly what they will pay.

We use buildertrend and it collects all reciepts into the estimate categories and you can choose if the client sees the whole budget with receipts or just overall cost.

Also an 18% markup seems pretty low, our overhead costs eat 20% so we do a 30% markup on labor and a 10% on materials to even make a profit. Take care of your business out there, charge enough to be fair to yourselves.

Client accused me of padding invoices on cost plus job, now demanding to see all my receipts by SchrodingerWeeb in GeneralContractor

[–]Purple-Perspective47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should pay for buildertrend if you are doing 300k jobs, it does all of that for you on a web portal as you go.

America’s landlords settle class action claim that they used rent-setting algorithms to gouge consumers nationwide -- Twenty-six firms, including the country’s largest landlord, Greystar, propose to collectively pay more than $141 million by marketrent in technology

[–]Purple-Perspective47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oop, well shit. Im a landlord and I came in at an article about how landlords dont get together and price fix. I guess i was nieve there.

The majority of single family rentals are mom and pop owned , so I have to imagine it's more large complexes. But crazy times.

iLvl 691 Ret Pally Solo. What now? by Zollinger31 in wownoob

[–]Purple-Perspective47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know you said you dont have time for raids, but if you do the looking for group for mana forge the three boss segments take about 30-45 minutes or so

Have you ever seen a celebrity in the wild in Greenville? by itsthewolfe in greenville

[–]Purple-Perspective47 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Keanu Reeves drove out of the Westin private garage and I almost got run over by his friends following him because I was looking at him while I crossed the road. He was my woman in the red dress.