Far too easy to prick your self.....is your life worth it...If I see anything like that I walk and bill for time taken thus far, and inform them of situation, a specialist is required. My life is worth for more than what they or anyone could pay...
Dean & Michelle Hicks
Owner/Operator Gremlins Property Services
Townsville and Surrounding Areas
We always ask for money upfront, it has happened that we were told by the tenant just off to the bank...back in ten. okay we get started on the lawn. Then they said sorry can't get the money today. We said sorry no mow then! Our motto is no dough..no mow! It is a lot harder to get the money later, by that stage the lawn will be overgrown again.
Same as Geoff, stuff that! Be very very careful! Tell who ever it is to get a specialist company into to collect them before you return to the site. From memory we used a company called duratech to do this back in QLD. Junkies don't care for themselves why would they care if they put anyone else in danger...
Cheers
Bluey
Adelaide Home & Garden Solutions
http://www.ahgs.com.au
"Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when everyone is watching."
I Have done a lot of renters while I find them unrealiable for regulars "touch wood" I havn't been stung .. yet!
I attended to a weeding and mow job last year when i found 3 syringes and alcohol swipes in the garden bed.
I was damn lucky to have the garden rake in my hand at the time when i did a quick sift through the garden bed.
I threw the rake back in the truck and told the people inside " I'm not doing this job because theres syringes in their garden.
They said they will get rid of them. I said i dont care. No means no. And walked.
You just cant trust people like this. They may have had more syringes in the garden bed I would not have seen.
I had these so and so's ring me up right in the busy time of year wanting the yard tidied and mowed
" RIGHT NeoW !!! becuse uf ut didn't git done by Thearsday they are going to charge us another weeks rint !!!" (guess which country they were from).
At the time my trailer actually did have a broken spring so I told them that I'm not going anywhere until I get this trailer fixed, have to order parts, it'll take a few days before I'm on the road again.
Remember that one guys if you want to get out of doing a 5hit job, I've got a trailer with a broken spring and I can't go anywhere till I get it fixed.
yes just got burned $200 by a tenant last week that was out going! Did and said all the right things...other than pay me. A little disappointed in myself for giving a tenant the chance and now it will be harder for other tenants, all tarred with the same brush. There is no trust!
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Cheers
Bluey
Adelaide Home & Garden Solutions
http://www.ahgs.com.au
"Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when everyone is watching."
Got a call this afternoon for a lawn I said I can quote today , she said ohh I thought it would be just a standard price , I said I always quote first.
On turning up it was knee high thick and lush edges never been done, note on door demanding tenant call agent immediately!
Left the quote, a big one but it will be cash up front or NO MOW!
Yep I did a similar quote yesterday. Kikuyu knee high on a big corner block. Brain dead drug addled fruit loop answers the door and tells me what he wants. I work it out and say it is gonna cost ya $350 plus dumping. He says the last one was only $35 and I am only a pensioner. I laughed and said good luck and walked away.
Cheers
Bluey
Adelaide Home & Garden Solutions
http://www.ahgs.com.au
"Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when everyone is watching."