I recently bid on painting a 3 bedroom rental condo. Somebody else came in at half the price that I quoted. I racked my brain, trying to figure out how anybody working for a living could to the job at that price, and live to paint again.
Everybody wants a good deal - I understand that. And there are a lot of painters in Santa Clarita, so naturally I want to be competitive. But half of my price? Do these cheap painters have a truck? ladders? paint brushes and rollers? a sprayer? Do they maintain their equipment? Do they pay their employees? their taxes? Are the licensed, bonded, and insured? I suspected not.
After the painting was finished, I was called back to that condo to look at some other work, which the customer did ask me to do. I walked into the condo, and from across the room, I could see right through the new paint to the old paint, which was a different color than the new. It was so obvious, so unprofessional, so hideous, that I had to call my customer and ask if they had been to the property since it was painted. She had not, so I described what I saw.
My customer apologized to me, and said had she known how bad it would turn out, she would have given me the job at the price I quoted, citing the old adage, "You get what you pay for!"
The moral of this story is, there are 3 kinds of painting: Pretty good, Excellent, and Crap. At Executive Painting and Texture, Santa Clarita's professional painting contractors, we only do excellent.
I have the other guy's phone number if you want crap.
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