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Old 06-20-2007, 11:47 PM  
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Generally, spring, summer, and fall are incredibly busy for me. This year has been slightly different. In fact, this last month has been rough. I bid a few good jobs and felt confident I would land several. For various reasons (usually because I was outbid), I didn't. So a couple weeks ago the wife tells me we're running short and I needed "X" amount of dollars by the end of the week.

I had been talking to a member of this board about doing his basement, kitchen, and painting his house exterior so I contacted him and told him I'd paint his house for peanuts. Literally, I bid it for about 40% of what I'd normally charge just so I could generate some cash flow.

Obviously, the guy jumped all over the deal and I started painting and repairing wood rot a couple days afterwards.

Then comes the surprising part of the story.... Bill Lundberg approached me and told me that he and his wife had spoken and they weren't going to allow me to paint their house for the amount I had quoted.... They were going to double it - and they did. I just finished touching up everything tonight and got my final check.

I'm not sure if they knew how much it meant to my family, but it couldn't have come at a better time. I didn't really want to tell this story on the board, but I wanted to thank Bill Lundberg and his wife for their generosity and decency towards me.

I don't know anything about how Bill Lundberg runs his mortgage business, but he's earned my business the next time I'm in the market. So, if you're looking for a virtuous individual to handle your mortgage I'd expect this guy will definitely take good care of you.
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:23 AM   #31
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:23 AM   #32
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Heh. That was for the portfolio and to save Brian some money.

That's still one of the coolest jobs I've done in terms of design elements. I loved the finished product.
Did you ever calculate what the bottom line was from that job ? I mean when you add in the stolen truck and all.
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:24 AM   #33
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Replacement windows are easy bud. Save yourself some money and put them in yourself.
If you saw the tile job I did in my last bathroom and the crown molding job I did in my last Bedroom, you wouldn't suggest such a thing.

Handyman jobs are not my forte
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:25 AM   #34
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If you saw the tile job I did in my last bathroom and the crown molding job I did in my last Bedroom, you wouldn't suggest such a thing.

Handyman jobs are not my forte

Well, those are a totally different beast. You can do replacement windows.
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:28 AM   #35
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Well, those are a totally different beast. You can do replacement windows.

Well, shoot. Now I am really going to wish you had stopped by, let the kids jump on the trampoline and you and I could have put one up to show me the way....
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:33 AM   #36
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Did you ever calculate what the bottom line was from that job ? I mean when you add in the stolen truck and all.
-$15k

But insurance took care of me about 10 months later.
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Well, shoot. Now I am really going to wish you had stopped by, let the kids jump on the trampoline and you and I could have put one up to show me the way....
Nah, My wife would not have allowed me to get involved in a project while on vacation. I could have given ya a quick 1 2 3 on it though.
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Nah, My wife would not have allowed me to get involved in a project while on vacation. I could have given ya a quick 1 2 3 on it though.
I don't know if I can talk my wife into letting me EVER get involved with a project.....
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:36 AM   #39
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Go to the HOC, if you haven't seen that thread.
I think most the pics in that thread are dead now.

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-$15k

But insurance took care of me about 10 months later.

It's amazing how slow that process with insurance companies can go, nearly a year later, may just be pretty good, considering.
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I think most the pics in that thread are dead now.
Even without the pics, that's a great thread.


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I don't know if I can talk my wife into letting me EVER get involved with a project.....
I would love that. My wife is always trying to start a project with me. She is just now starting to hound me about the bathrooms. I have been dreading doing those. I want to do the kitchen badly though.
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I would love that. My wife is always trying to start a project with me. She is just now starting to hound me about the bathrooms. I have been dreading doing those. I want to do the kitchen badly though.

It's not much better, think about it. You hear "Honey can you start this project" and I hear "Honey can you hire someone to start that project"


we both get hounded, it's part of our job description....
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Anytime, dude. Bathrooms .... are my favorites.


Nice story bud glad things worked out for ya, I have always thought highly of you and I firmly believe in the "what goes around comes around" theory and you got what you deserved
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