In the construction field mostly everyone will try to tell you that the only guy that is professionally able to finish a specific type of job is one who has been trained to do that type of work, I think that’s not true.
If you have the desire for it, the passion to learn and some resourcefulness you are able to learn to do anything you want. Never let anyone tell you any thing else!
Many years ago I said "Goodbye" to a secure middle management job with a major company. I got tired of seventy-hour work weeks. I got bored of reporting to many bosses. I got tired of managing many people. I got really tired of never seeing my family and being busy in work when I did, because of that I quit.
I put an advertisement in the paper, only one column inch with a big black border that causes the following:
At the time, a building boom was on and I received almost of five calls weekly from that little ad. It kept us going while I spent many nights thinking and trying to decide what I going to do for a living. I worked as a handyman for $15 an hour and charged my customers for supplies as it cost. I didn't relies I had any overhead, so I didn't add that into what I was charging. So after a year I found myself doing very good, I have almost twenty regular customers, a 95% closing ratio on estimates, a very good tools but no money. I worked just about every day and I was just getting by.
For me I thought that everybody is making money but me.
New houses were selling like hotcakes creating more than a handful of overnight millionaires. Plumbing subcontractors were driving new Corvettes. Drywall finishers were making $500 a day with little more than a bazooka and a van.
Despite that, people where still calling me to do some handyman jobs.
By then I had discovered that I did indeed have a lot of overhead- tools, insurance, gas, truck repairs and payments, ads, telephone calls and so forth. I had also decided that it was damned hard to make much money on what I had been charging. I kept accepting the Handyman work to pay the bills until I had lined up some real work.
I got a good job, a small apartment in a turn of the century Nondescript style house in a ratty neighborhood north of here. My estimate was for $18,000. I hired subs and worked on it for four weeks. It was in pretty good shape when I was done. I paid everyone off. I got paid. Keep in mind that I used a standard estimating book. By the time I got the last insurance payment I had made a grand total of $1,800 before overhead and taxes.
I want to show you how to cash in on the most consistently profitable business within construction and obviously YOU WANT TO LEARN, which is why you ordered my book.
The Handyman business is getting bigger. There is far more work to be done each year than there are qualified people to do it. If you have a head and a hand for construction work and you are ready to follow my instructions, you will find yourself to be the proud owner of a TRULY SUCCESSFUL small business with these benefits:
* HIGH PROFITS
* LOWER OVERHEAD
* NO EMPLOYEES
* EXCELLENT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS
* VERY ENJOYABLE WORK
* VERY FLEXIBLE SCHEDULES
* VERY LOW RISK
