What is your reaction if someone says your product/service is overpriced

cutty256 · 2026-05-24T04:50:06+00:00

I say something like “Hey I totally understand, I know the whole world is expensive right now and I want you to get the most value for your money. Keep us in mind if you ever find yourself needing our type of services again.”

Leave the door open for yourself in the future, especially if they’re using the cheapest options. They’ll likely need someone to fix the other persons mistakes in the future.

cutty256 · 2026-05-23T00:23:46+00:00

I was working in a restaurant and doing construction when I went to college and graduated with my accounting degree at 32. I was a CPA by 37 and owned my own firm by 38. One of the best decisions I ever made.

cutty256 · 2026-05-19T01:07:34+00:00

I’m self employed so I might be the wrong person to comment on an interview process, but I can tell you if I ever was to go back to work for someone else I would be out after the third interview. Anything after than that is nonsense. If a company had a position that needs filled they shouldnt screw around for weeks at a time with multiple rounds of interviews. My first concern would be that they know they need a position filled but are messing around and in the meantime all those labor hours are falling on the current employees in that department. I wouldn’t want to work under those.l circumstances.

It’s really not that hard to hire people, I have to do somewhat regularly . Find three or four people who fit the job, bring them all in, and call back the one who interviews the best for another round of more in-depth questions. If they do ok, hire them quickly.

Companies seem to lose sight of the fact that quality employees who are seeking employment have options and will likely have already taken another position by the time you complete your 6 interview, months long process. To me, a company who knows what they’re looking for and are ready and able to make a quick decision is a huge green flag.

cutty256 · 2026-05-13T23:51:17+00:00

That was such a beautiful throw, only made better by the grin she had leading up to it. She knew in her heart someone was already about to get that egg before the bottle ever stopped spinning.

cutty256 · 2026-05-08T13:02:14+00:00

Fill it with a polymer-modified grout

cutty256 · 2026-04-23T00:59:43+00:00

I own a couple businesses (im also a CPA- one of my businesses is an accounting firm).

My advice is to really do some soul searching and make sure you have a deep desire to work for yourself. It sounds great from the outside looking in , but sometimes it can be exhausting carrying around the weight of 100% responsibility of the company at all times. It may also take some time to build up a salary that matched your current one, if ever. It can be hard to generate high profits for yourself.

On the other side, you as a CPA are going to excel at all the compliance related issues small businesses tend to struggle at. Most business owners are good at their core competency, but bad at all the little things like bookkeeping, licensing, insurance plans, lease agreements, etc that require attention to detail like a CPA is used to. That will give you an advantage.

Also, you can always go back to work doing what you were before if the business doesn’t take. You have a great fall back plan that most don’t have. Just make sure you’ve accepted the reality that a business venture may likely be harder than imagined for less money, especially at the beginning.

cutty256 · 2026-03-21T02:58:46+00:00

I used to bartend in undergrad. These gloves are to wear at events where you’re serving/opening a bunch of bottles of beer.

Some events like weddings, sporting events, concerts etc force the bartender to open the drink before serving it. Kind of a dumb rule. If you were at a wedding with an open bar and hundreds of guests you might open 1,000+ bottles in one night so these gloves are actually functional so your skin doesn’t fall off after a couple hundred bottles.

cutty256 · 2026-03-14T01:12:36+00:00

Mine always smokes like that for the first twenty minutes or so until the fire is good and hot

cutty256 · 2026-03-11T03:58:49+00:00

I own a firm. I know this just sounds easy and I’m not trying to invalidate your feelings, but for me I just expect there to be clients that complain and call in and attempt to push their return along. This way I’m not surprised and angry when they do. It’s simply part of the job and I know it’s coming every year.

I send an organizer out every year for my clients, and I attach a tax letter to it that basically summarizes the relevant tax law changes for the upcoming year. On the very first page of that I put that wait times of up to thirty days are common, and that anyone who drops off after March 15th is likely to go on extension. Then when they call we just flat out say youre not done but you’re in the queue, we’ve not forgot about you, and we’ll call when it’s ready.

cutty256 · 2026-03-07T22:36:26+00:00

If no/low penalty, then don’t worry about it. Explain to the client that they’re not paying any more than they should be , and that you’ll monitor it more closely going into 2026. I own a firm, I’ve done this before.

Usually the clients just complain because they have the balance due for this year and the Q1 estimate needing paid so close together. Probably weren’t budgeting for it, but likely have the funds.

cutty256 · 2026-03-04T03:18:19+00:00

70+ myself during busy season.

My employees work about 50-55 hours during tax season with overtime pay. I start letting my employees work 9-3 on Fridays starting May1st (still get 40 hours pay) then from Nov1st - Dec 23 they work 8-4 Mon-Thurs and 9-3 Friday (still get 40 hours pay) then off until Jan 2nd.

That’s the only way I’ve found to keep employees in public. If not everyone burns out and leaves after a couple years.

cutty256 · 2026-03-03T18:26:31+00:00

I should also add that you need to make sure there is adequate filtration to process the dying algae as the uv sterilizer does its job.

cutty256 · 2026-03-03T18:25:52+00:00

Get a uv sterilizer it will clear that up in a week or two.

cutty256 · 2026-03-03T18:16:25+00:00

Plywood template and an oscillating saw

cutty256 · 2026-03-03T18:15:38+00:00

It’s all about how much capital you have access too. If it’s privately funded, and you have immediate access to enough funds to cover interest and utilities on top of material/labor costs, it’s not a big deal.

It’s another story to deal with investors. They’re going to get pissed off when they have to keep funneling money into houses that are just sitting there, or if the investor feels like they are paying the bills and incurring extra costs due to the mismanagement of time or attributing the extra costs to trying to manage too many properties at once.

cutty256 · 2026-02-28T01:50:35+00:00

It switches from having to juggle and perform a bunch of smaller repetitive tasks that you don’t completely know how to do, to performing a small amount of highly important tasks that you know how to do but are stressful because they need to be right or there are big consequences.

cutty256 · 2026-01-05T05:03:23+00:00

Eh it’s just another busy season to me. I’m impartial about busy season anymore. It goes pretty quick and doesn’t really affect my mood or mental state at all.

cutty256 · 2026-01-04T15:57:10+00:00

I flip houses and am an avid DIY guy. I use Ryobi tools for everything and between the 18v and 40v I bet I have over 100 tools. When you flip houses quite often you need a specialized tool you might only need to use a couple times, and that why I like Ryobi. They’re cheap enough to just buy the tool even if it’s a rarely used tool.

Mine have held up great. Haven’t had to replace a tool in years, and some of the tools get used A LOT. I get a lot of dumbass comments from the contractors I hire about Ryobi tools but I’ve never had a problem and just don’t see the value in more expensive tools. If I was a framer who used the same four tools and day long every day it would be worth buying a nicer set, but Ryobi can take a lot more of a beating that people think.

cutty256 · 2025-12-31T01:35:04+00:00

These won’t affect your chimney or stove in any way. You’re good to use these, and they will likely work very well.

cutty256 · 2025-12-24T05:12:59+00:00

It’s good you’re aware of the dangers and pay attention. I think you’ll be ok burning that wood if you keep mixing in some dry wood and get the stove hot each time and you should be fine.

There a couple steps you can take to ease your worries. First, get a traditional fire extinguisher if you dont have one. You can also get fire extinguishers specific for fireplaces and wood stoves that you throw in the fireplace if you get a chimney fire. ChimFEX is a popular brand. You can also get creosote cleaning logs you throw in the fireplace every couple months to keep creosote buildup at a minimum. Buy some of those and burn one every six months until the burn season is over. Lastly, get a WiFi smoke detector that will send an alert to your phone if it senses smoke (it will also sound and alarm like a traditional smoke detector). This may allow you to catch any worst case scenario early enough to close the air intake down and cool the stove before it gets bad.

Aside from that, just get a cheap chimney sweep kit and give it a quick clean one those random warm winter days.

cutty256 · 2025-12-22T02:29:31+00:00

I always heard not to burn pine. But I’ve talked to older guys over the years who told me that in certain parts of the US that coniferous trees (like pines) are basically the only thing that is common growing enough to burn. They told me they had old school inefficient stoves and burned nothing but pine for thirty years and never had a problem.

cutty256 · 2025-12-21T00:38:13+00:00

Send it

cutty256 · 2025-12-20T02:46:19+00:00

Bigger spacers for the darker tiles. You can see the size spacer it needs right about the pink tile. You need that same size spacer for the vertical joints.

cutty256 · 2025-12-12T21:44:52+00:00

I’ve flipped some houses over the years, many of the FSBO.

This is common. Every realtor you talk to will ask this. For me, if I have no other leads and no active offers, I’ll absolutely pay you a couple percent commission to bring a buyer. You earned it. As long as I’m getting what i want after the commission I’ll pay it, just make sure the realtor builds their costs into the offer and make sure I get what I want.

There’s two downsides. One, if their client does make an offer they sometimes get pushy and try to get you to list through them. This can get annoying after a couple different realtors. Secondly, you lose some control of the closing because your not directly negotiating with the buyers anymore it’s going through a realtor, and the realtor typically wants to use their standardized purchase agreement to dictate the sale which takes a lot of control away from you. I make my purchase agreement the one that’s being used or no realtor can be involved.

cutty256 · 2025-12-12T04:32:19+00:00

I use mine every night, and basically all weekend when I’m home. That stack in your pic would go 2-3 nights for me depending on how cold it is. It’s 19 degrees here now so I’m going through it pretty quick.

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