My first instinct was to jump in front of the computer and hope that Google had the magic answer...
And although I got some good tips and reminders on what I knew I should be doing as a construction business owner (but as always, was too busy to implement)...
....nothing really stood out and offered me that solution...that magic answer I was looking for.
So after spending a few hours searching, reading, and going deeper down the rabbit hole (which only further added to my confusion and despair)....
...I decided to distract myself, reminisce, and started browsing through old folders of completed projects....
...looking at some of our very first projects where we didn’t have a worry in the world...
...the good old days, when we were first starting out, and taking on a new job was an exciting time where we woke up every morning and went to work as builders, loving what we did....
And then something caught my eye.
Amongst looking through our past projects, I came across a Preliminary Agreement document hiding within the folders of one of our first renovation projects...
One of the first projects we had taken on where we had also partnered up with an old acquaintance who was a veteran builder...
This guy had been around for over 30 years operating as a one man army and was known for his high end, and then as we found out, high profit work, where he’d make a killing from each job that he took on...
And I knew he was making a killing when we went out for a celebratory dinner one night after we’d finished our first project together and he was ordering $1500 Penfolds Grange as casually as someone ordering a glass of water (mind blowing for me having not long ago just finished uni and still getting use the idea of not having to ration my weekly expenses!)....
But back to business...
I remember we had done a few jobs together where he was using us for our carpentry hands and site supervision and we used him for the work he was able to bring in (he had a waiting list of high end clients wanting to use his services).
It was an envious position for us to want to be in at the time with the work he was able to bring in and now I could see that on this job,