Andyinchville
LawnSite Senior Member
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
Hi all,
Just wanted an opinion from you all....I had a chance to bid 30 Residential rental properties fairly close together...The owner is a lawyer who is not satisfied with the current lawn care co's quality (he wants half mowed every 2 weeks and the other half mowed once a month from April 15 until October 15). I gave him a price for all of them....I was over his budget by $350 per month....I told him that I'd rather not do the once a month jobs but would do the every 2 week jobs (I told him once a month could be done by his current company since appears quality is not an issue to start with , with a once a month cut) . Any ways he agrees to my price on the remaining 16 Properties to be done every 2 weeks but has a problem with a couple of terms in my contract namely : 1) In the event that the account becomes delinquent , customer arees to pay for any and all costs associated with the collection process including but not limited to : Attorneys fees, court costs, Collection agency fees, internal costs to the company etc.....and 2) The companys records are deemed official
(That was put in because in the past I've had several clients argue that a job was not done on a certain day even though I was the one doing it! ...I wanted to keep situations like this from happening in the future.....I bill monthly and of course during the growing season if 5 days pass it's hard to "see" or "prove" that it had been mowed especially if you have to go to court over it a month or 2 later)....So what do you think....Was I wrong to stick to my contract and potentially lose the 16 yards or shoud I delete this from the cotract to get the job from this lawyer (Yes seems like I'd be on the short end of the stick being that he is already a lawyer).....What would you do?
Just wanted an opinion from you all....I had a chance to bid 30 Residential rental properties fairly close together...The owner is a lawyer who is not satisfied with the current lawn care co's quality (he wants half mowed every 2 weeks and the other half mowed once a month from April 15 until October 15). I gave him a price for all of them....I was over his budget by $350 per month....I told him that I'd rather not do the once a month jobs but would do the every 2 week jobs (I told him once a month could be done by his current company since appears quality is not an issue to start with , with a once a month cut) . Any ways he agrees to my price on the remaining 16 Properties to be done every 2 weeks but has a problem with a couple of terms in my contract namely : 1) In the event that the account becomes delinquent , customer arees to pay for any and all costs associated with the collection process including but not limited to : Attorneys fees, court costs, Collection agency fees, internal costs to the company etc.....and 2) The companys records are deemed official
(That was put in because in the past I've had several clients argue that a job was not done on a certain day even though I was the one doing it! ...I wanted to keep situations like this from happening in the future.....I bill monthly and of course during the growing season if 5 days pass it's hard to "see" or "prove" that it had been mowed especially if you have to go to court over it a month or 2 later)....So what do you think....Was I wrong to stick to my contract and potentially lose the 16 yards or shoud I delete this from the cotract to get the job from this lawyer (Yes seems like I'd be on the short end of the stick being that he is already a lawyer).....What would you do?