Rain City
Crew Member
My clients get my discount on everything with original receipts. No markups. That includes my plumbers price on fixtures and equipment and my designers rate on tile. I insist on this out of all my trades. Essentially my fee pays for itself. 100% transparency. I actually don't work with trades that ask "what do you want to tack on?". I hate that stuff. There's enough money to be made without being a criminal.I think what you wrote isn’t the norm and likely why you appear to be quite successful . Honest question here. If I hired you to build my house and my framing package and trusses were 150k retail but under my personal account was 135k and under your account was 130k which would you charge the customer and which does the 10% get added? I only ask because I know what most guys do and in the end it ends up a lot more than 10% for the customer. Most builders I know would charge customer 150k and add 10% to that. Meanwhile the builder paid 130k.
And yes the vast majority of builders do those kinds of things. A lot could care less about the details. Most have far too many projects on the go. But there's some good guys and in Vancouver I'm lucky to work beside and compete against some of the best.
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