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Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 19, 2014 @22:24

                              
Why does everyone always assume their time is so valuable in dollars and cents when it is really not.
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Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @00:02 [ Reply ]
I mak$85/hour. If I have to spend time to purchase, replace, mend outside of normal wear and tear, then darling, my time is money, just as much as if I were to pay someone else.37t
    Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @09:24 [ Reply ]
    Do you really make $85 per hour hanging blinds? You have not figured out how to do it cheaper. You take time from an $85 per hour job to hand blinds?
      Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @12:18 [ Reply ]
      "Do you really make $85 per hour hanging blinds?"

      Of course not. That is not what the poster said. He/she was simply saying that time is money, and if they have to take time off work where they DO make $85/hour, then hanging blinds is more expensive than the $5.00 that bayoupots was talking about.
        Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @13:10
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    Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @09:27 [ Reply ]
    Did you perhaps make a typo? $85/hour amounts to $176,800 per year ($85 * 40 hours per week = $3,400 * 52 weeks per year = $176,800).

    The going rate for a handyman or someone to hang blinds is not $85/hour.
Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @00:04 [ Reply ]
Your time may be worthless. Mine is not.
    Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @19:53 [ Reply ]
    If your time is so valuable why do you have rent property? With your valuable time you still have time to clean toilets and mow yards?
      Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 21, 2014 @00:53 [ Reply ]
      Newsflash: many of us who own rental property don't spend our time cleaning toilets and mowing grass. If that's your goal, so be it, but it's not mine and I don't do it.
        Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 21, 2014 @20:36
Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @00:15 [ Reply ]
I wholeheartedly agree with the posters above. I make in the same range as the first poster, and I'm very busy, so spending time fixing something like blinds can quickly get expensive in terms of lost revenue.

Also, as KatieKate said above, she pays a handyman to take care of these types of repairs. So, she definitely needs to include the cost of his time as part of the charge to the tenant.


Re: Blinds by Katiekate (New York) on August 20, 2014 @04:12 [ Reply ]
I PAY a handyman. His time is billed to me. Home Depot can take an hour easy...between the drive and waiting for someone to cut the blinds.

Like I said...$25 is the actual cost to me for blinds.



    Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @09:21 [ Reply ]
    The rent you collect is supposed to pay for something.
      Re: Blinds by Anonymous on August 20, 2014 @12:22 [ Reply ]
      But it's not supposed to pay for items that the tenant damages. If we all charged ahead of time for items the tenant MIGHT damage, no one could afford to rent our properties.
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