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The foreman who told me to quit negotiating every counteroffer was spot on
At a job site in Austin last spring, an old foreman told me to just say 'no' to every lowball bid instead of negotiating, because it filtered out the bad clients fast. I figured he was lazy, but after I tried it for 2 months, my crew stopped wasting weekends on picky homeowners who never paid on time. Has anyone else found that walking away from haggling actually lands you better work, or did I just get lucky with the market?
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craig.mila1mo ago
You do realize two months of decent weather in Austin might just mean the market was stacked in your favor, right? I tried the same thing when I was framing in Houston and all I did was sit idle for three weeks while the guy next door took every cheap job he could find. That foreman probably had a reputation already, so he could afford to drop clients, but for a smaller crew that's a fast way to starve. Lowballers are annoying, sure, but sometimes they pay in cash and that's the whole game. Sounds like you traded one problem for a slower schedule, and you just got lucky the good jobs showed up. Not exactly a strategy, more like a gamble that paid off this one time.
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