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CYA! Try to cover as many potential issues as possible. I have a section where the homeowner can consent to letting me use before and after photos of their home in advertising such as websites, flyers, etc. You will want to make sure you run it by a lawyer no matter what. Its pretty cheap for a review.

Good point Matt, never assume anything. I'm sure you have run into more than one homeowner that thought they were going to get a free gutter cleaning out of the deal.

-- Edited by wheelingwdc at 23:08, 2009-03-02

Besides selling, contracts are the most important part. What good is being able to sell someone if they can just quit on you when they want. Any one can clean a roof but not everyone can sell them! once you have worked to landing that deal. you have to lock it up tight. in NC theres a 3 business day grace period. After that they are contractually binded. put your states clause in there but don't talk about it when your selling. you never want someone to think they can cancel. after that 3 days if someone cancels on us they are liable for paying for damages. ie. drums we bought for their house or time involved in mixing the day before. no one wants to be in that position of paying you for nothing so they won't cancel. our contracts were done by an attorney and cover everything from cancled credit card transactions to plants and leaks and so on. so make sure your contracts are great. Also use 3 ply carbonless so every one has a copy including the cleaning crew. Hope this helps some of you.

my attorney is on a hook up basis cause my sister works for him. But the charge is usually about 2-250 an hour for decent an attorny and it shouldn't take more than 3 hours to draw one up.so your only talking a thousand bucks possibally under for a good contract. i have no problem helping you out with clauses and verbage but cannot just let you take ours and run with it. we are in the process of copyrighting and tradmarking all of our content. ie. sales books contracts slogan etc. intellectual property rights i think its called. we will also be franchising soon and our offering agreement and materials have to be locked down to this company only before we file with the state.

-- Edited by mescalera on Tuesday 17th of March 2009 12:40:42 PM

No problem, Hey and also i saw were you were viewing our web page. i even now what pages you looked at how long and everything about your internet system. we have a neat tracking service on our site. when your up and running let me know and i 'll show you how get it. very useful when finding your customers and tracking. those counters online are useless. the ones that showed how many people visited.

-- Edited by mescalera on Tuesday 17th of March 2009 01:38:05 PM