I have gone through alot of the reviews of Task East on here. But what I am kind of nervous about is giving them my bank account info. Has anyone used them and did it end up being ok with them having your account info?
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x2. I don't sweat to hand away $1.00 bills to another man who sits in an office anyway. Uncle Sam does enough of that already. I don't need another big brother.
I'd pay that 14% to a marketing professional if I wanted more clients.
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This will be all I say about this topic. Haters gonna hate and I don't give a flip!
The third day after my taskeasy yard the pay was in my account. I timed the yard against my rates and came out ahead. I have no idea what the client fee is but I actually made $13.00 more than if I would have bid it. It all seems like a good company. They did exactly what they said they would do.
I am NOT affiliated with them at all. This company is simply an option. I tried it, it worked for me. May not work for others. I always give credit where credit is due.
The third day after my taskeasy yard the pay was in my account. I timed the yard against my rates and came out ahead. I have no idea what the client fee is but I actually made $13.00 more than if I would have bid it. It all seems like a good company. They did exactly what they said they would do.
I am NOT affiliated with them at all. This company is simply an option. I tried it, it worked for me. May not work for others. I always give credit where credit is due.
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If you are affiliated you are, if your not, you're not. In reality, who cares? But let's say that your not affiliated with them, if your not, your new to business. If you live in a hot climate, I'll give it a year, and you'll be working for yourself rather than the middle man. Heck most companies, the previous company I worked for paid $500.00 a week and you don't have paper work, don't have to pay for equipment, expenses, nor put wear and tear on your own equipment. Are you making $500. a week from task-easy. If not, I'd go work for a company rather then putting wear and tear on the equipment. Heck I'm thinking about dropping 50+ customers (bi-weekly) and switching to only weekly clients due to the wear on my machines and expensive equipment repairs. Does this site allow you to dictate your customers mow schedules as needed? Sounds like they can let it grow for three-four weeks, have you to give a bid on it, and off you and your expensive equipment go to mowing. No thanks, a year, couple of $50.00 belts, and a $4k mower later, report back and let us know how it's working out for you.
My name is Eric Crimmins and I lead operations at TaskEasy. I recently came across this thread and thought I would share a little more information on TaskEasy. As far as our actual performance, I'm clearly biased so I'll let others independently weigh in once they've tried our services. But hopefully I can answer a few of the most common questions.
What is our approach?
Our goal is to help contractors build and grow their businesses, ideally, in as efficient of a way as possible. Part of the benefit of TaskEasy is getting new customers. While we often get orders for individual homes, we have a strong niche among individuals with second homes, travelers, and property managers. In many of these cases, it is ideal for the customer to order and manage their properties from one location. Regardless of the customer, we strive to work with great contractors who know the area and deliver quality work.
In addition to customer acquisition, we give contractors additional technology and tools to help manage and grow their businesses more efficiently. This includes smartphone apps, billing infrastructure (including credit card processing), marketing, and customer service management. These types of tools are not typically available to contractors without large investments, additional office staff, or working nights and weekends. We allow our contractors to use all of these tools for the 14% fee. Many contractors have partnered with TaskEasy to support their entire book of business by letting us deal with all that noise, in exchange for the 14%.
How do we price the services?
We are mathematicians and have done statistical analysis in 403 metropolitan areas (where 99% of people live in the U.S.) to determine fair market price for services like lawn mowing. Our prices are designed to be "fair." Not premium and not lowball. Occasionally we get the pricing wrong, and we rely on our contractors and customers to give us good feedback to improve. In cases of overgrown lawns, we work with the customer and contractor to determine extra fees and if they have the proper equipment.
How do you assign jobs?
When a customer orders a task, we contact one of our nearby contractors. Before assigning the job, we tell the contractor exactly how much money they will make. They then have the option to accept or decline the task. There are no penalties for saying no. We try to assign tasks within each contractor's territory to prevent driving all over town. When a task is too far for any contractor, we call around to find a new contractor, which is how some of you may have originally been contacted.
How do we pay?
We pay via direct deposit, which means you get paid 3-5 days after work is completed. If preferred, we can cut paper checks, which take 10-14 days. We use an industry-certified 256-bit encryption to protect your data against theft and fraud, so all your information stays safe.
Apologies for the long post but I wanted to hit on some of the basics.
What is our approach?
Our goal is to help contractors build and grow their businesses, ideally, in as efficient of a way as possible. Part of the benefit of TaskEasy is getting new customers. While we often get orders for individual homes, we have a strong niche among individuals with second homes, travelers, and property managers. In many of these cases, it is ideal for the customer to order and manage their properties from one location. Regardless of the customer, we strive to work with great contractors who know the area and deliver quality work.
In addition to customer acquisition, we give contractors additional technology and tools to help manage and grow their businesses more efficiently. This includes smartphone apps, billing infrastructure (including credit card processing), marketing, and customer service management. These types of tools are not typically available to contractors without large investments, additional office staff, or working nights and weekends. We allow our contractors to use all of these tools for the 14% fee. Many contractors have partnered with TaskEasy to support their entire book of business by letting us deal with all that noise, in exchange for the 14%.
How do we price the services?
We are mathematicians and have done statistical analysis in 403 metropolitan areas (where 99% of people live in the U.S.) to determine fair market price for services like lawn mowing. Our prices are designed to be "fair." Not premium and not lowball. Occasionally we get the pricing wrong, and we rely on our contractors and customers to give us good feedback to improve. In cases of overgrown lawns, we work with the customer and contractor to determine extra fees and if they have the proper equipment.
How do you assign jobs?
When a customer orders a task, we contact one of our nearby contractors. Before assigning the job, we tell the contractor exactly how much money they will make. They then have the option to accept or decline the task. There are no penalties for saying no. We try to assign tasks within each contractor's territory to prevent driving all over town. When a task is too far for any contractor, we call around to find a new contractor, which is how some of you may have originally been contacted.
How do we pay?
We pay via direct deposit, which means you get paid 3-5 days after work is completed. If preferred, we can cut paper checks, which take 10-14 days. We use an industry-certified 256-bit encryption to protect your data against theft and fraud, so all your information stays safe.
Apologies for the long post but I wanted to hit on some of the basics.
I believe you may be a real company, but I've been waiting for a week with this
"An invitation has already been requested with this email address. No further action is required at this time. We will send you an invitation when we have customers in your area"
popping up every time I attempt to login.
I'm in metro Atlanta, so I find it hard to believe there aren't any customers out there
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I tried them out this year and wasn't impressed. They don't spend the money on advertising like Home Adviser or others. The biggest problem I have is the customer chooses them not you. So you have no bond or relationship with the customer. This is a recipe for disaster in the business world. Plus they pay you have what the market going rate is. I wasn't happy and don't use them any more.
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and I had a customer complain that I didn't mow there lawn correctly. I use a 48" scag and the mowing lines of the picture they sent in was a 22" homeowners special. Task easy refused to pay me. I could even make a case. Again if you had a relationship with the customer this wouldn't happen. And like stated above I live near Boston and was given one customer. It seems like if they spent more money on advertising then useless staff they would have more customers. Like this joker who joined this site just to post on this thread. Again making no relationships with anyone just typing in facts and data. In My Humble opinion....useless.
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I've been a taskeasy contractor for a couple seasons. They pay fair and timely. I'm quite sure there are several ATL area contractors already, so perhaps they have not had a need to add more recently. They pay what I feel is the going rate for the area. Yes, I've had a couple that were one and done, and a couple others that were 3-4 cuts and they canceled. I've got two that are season long and they have been great customers. I speak of the integrity of Taskeasy, on a couple occasions they missed the square footage and quickly adjusted the price. On one occasion they were unable to contact the customer when I went there for the initial visit as the square footage was off. I cut the yard anyway and submitted a revised lot size outline, they apologized and put additional funds into my account to offset the difference. The customer accepted the new quote and has been a season long account this year. When I 1st became a contractor for them I could take several hours to reply and accept the job. Lately, if I miss the call or txt, the job is assigned to another contractor within the hour. So if you sign up, try to answer or call back quickly if you want the job. My route is very full, but occasionally I like to add a job if it is smack in the middle of my route, Taskeasy has allowed me to work in additional business several times over the last couple years. In an ideal world, the calls come in and you fill your route, in the real world, we use all resources available to make a living.
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Eric Cummins,
I appreciate you coming to "clear things up" or "explain" things, but I'm with the many others above. I don't agree, nor am I welcoming to your services. If another what you call "contractor" needs work and you can provide it to him, so be it. But it's not for me, nor do I agree with your services, nor will I ever will. We have low ballers, we have illegals, we have non-tax payers, we have bad weather days, and everything you can think of against us on a day to day basis. We sweat enough during the day to get middle manned by the credit card processors and uncle sam, I don't need another man sitting in the air conditioned office taking a cut of change to. For what? When we can reach the same customers? We can reach just as many customers as you can? I need to fill my schedule? I put out a thousand flyers, and wholia. I have more year around customers that (I'M GETTING PAID IN FULL FOR) not giving a cut to you, nor your executive sitting in the office. I'm glad your not low-balling, or what I call the "sweat shops" as some of the others here doing the same thing you are, but that doesn't change the certaintyaa, that I don't agree with what you are doing, nor do I agree with it. Thanks for the offer though.
I appreciate you coming to "clear things up" or "explain" things, but I'm with the many others above. I don't agree, nor am I welcoming to your services. If another what you call "contractor" needs work and you can provide it to him, so be it. But it's not for me, nor do I agree with your services, nor will I ever will. We have low ballers, we have illegals, we have non-tax payers, we have bad weather days, and everything you can think of against us on a day to day basis. We sweat enough during the day to get middle manned by the credit card processors and uncle sam, I don't need another man sitting in the air conditioned office taking a cut of change to. For what? When we can reach the same customers? We can reach just as many customers as you can? I need to fill my schedule? I put out a thousand flyers, and wholia. I have more year around customers that (I'M GETTING PAID IN FULL FOR) not giving a cut to you, nor your executive sitting in the office. I'm glad your not low-balling, or what I call the "sweat shops" as some of the others here doing the same thing you are, but that doesn't change the certaintyaa, that I don't agree with what you are doing, nor do I agree with it. Thanks for the offer though.
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I just took my first job from Task Easy and everything went very well. It was an easy to manage property my up charge for overgrowth went through with no issues. I was paid the agreed on amount within 3 days and the customer liked my work and is now a weekly visit.
Yes they get their cut. but I still make profit and this is one customer I may not have come across with my current mid-summer marketing efforts.
Yes they get their cut. but I still make profit and this is one customer I may not have come across with my current mid-summer marketing efforts.
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I been doing work for them for over a year now. I have two full time accounts from them that average me $1.50 per minute....always get paid no problems
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I don't like having someone take a cut any more than you do. It sucks.
But, I have to ask myself, do I have a completely full schedule? The answer is usually no. Am I making money off of the job they give me? Let's say we are. As long as I'm still making money, there's no rational reason not to take it.
Could you acquire customers elsewhere? If the answer is yes, then you should have no excuse for a non-full schedule. For many people, the answer is no. Craigslist generally sucks, since you only get low ballers and one-timers who want a 15% discount anyway. Plus you have to bid those jobs. Spending a whole day passing out 1,000 flyers may get you something, but it may get you nothing mid-season. Plus, I'd rather spend my sunday with family.
So just because somebody is taking a cut doesn't mean you shouldn't take it. I do work for a local company like the one mentioned that places jobs from big realtors. I know they take a cut, but I fill up my route and I dont have to spend money advertising. And I have multiple crews that I'm paying.
The question shouldnt be "are they taking a cut?". Rather it should be "am I making money from the job they give me?".
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Task easy calls me every now and then and I ways take the yard most time small and easy and seems to be with the yards I have got from them its always every 2 week mows. Direct deposit never had any problem with it.
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They are bidding properties way to low. They sent us some commercial properties and it wasn't worth driving my truck to the property for the price they told me. You can do better doing it your self advertising.
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They contacted me again last summer with a difficult yard. Rough terrain and hard to get to. I didn't want it but told them I would for a decent up charge. Client agreed and made good money! You win some, lose some. So far I've done well with them. No complaints.
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Here's a recent Q&A we did at Turf Magazine with the CEO and co-founder of TaskEasy: www.turfmagazine.com/technology/taskeasy-links-property-owners-with-contractors/
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