treeman82
12-02-2001, 02:29 PM
Hey guys. I have been a little bit irked lately because my shop is still full of garbage. It was supposed to be getting cleaned out weeks ago, but the owners have been stalling about it, because they have been really busy. I was told on back on the 30th of August that I would be paying $500 a month for outside storage of a truck and trailer, plus inside storage in their 32 x 32 garage. The rent is being bartered off. I have to cut 1 lawn every week (lawn costs $125 to cut) and do some other stuff in the winter to take care of those months. Lately they have been asking for misc BS to be done... clean up at the other owners' houses, put down a yard of top soil, fertilize, etc. The winter rent was supposed to be worked off by grinding some stumps at one owners house. (bout 35 stumps or so) plus remove 2 ash trees located over a shed and garden. The stumps are gonna cost the one owner somewhere around $3500, havent looked at them in a while now. The 2 ash trees should be somewhere around $1000 - $1600. Now I have no problem with being ahead with my rent. I figure by the end of this month I will be about 2 months ahead. By the end of the winter I will be somewhere around a half a year ahead. It's just that the garage isn't cleaned out. Now I must say on their behalf that our agreement had been that I would be moving my stuff inside once they finished construction upstairs. They finished construction though either a month ago, or 6 weeks ago. I think 6 weeks may be the right one. These guys are all really nice guys, and they get me other work. But this is just startin to bother me here, that I am doin this stuff for them, and all that is sitting there now is a 16' trailer along with a few rakes and shovels. The place is a local deli, which is not even 2 miles from my home. They have really good food too. The owner who has the stumps and the ash tree also owns a killer pizza place.
My thinking is to come up with just a rough bill itemizing the jobs that I have done for them within the past 3 months and sit down with them and have a talk. I don't think that any problems would be caused by this. However what would showing them a bill really do in either party's favor? An idea just popped into my mind to ask them to cater a small party for me for some of my associates. I figure if I get like a big wedge and some salads and sodas... take that down to the lawn mower shop. Or even when I do get into my shop to have them cater a small party for me in there. Any thoughts?
My thinking is to come up with just a rough bill itemizing the jobs that I have done for them within the past 3 months and sit down with them and have a talk. I don't think that any problems would be caused by this. However what would showing them a bill really do in either party's favor? An idea just popped into my mind to ask them to cater a small party for me for some of my associates. I figure if I get like a big wedge and some salads and sodas... take that down to the lawn mower shop. Or even when I do get into my shop to have them cater a small party for me in there. Any thoughts?