San Diego Josh ☀️🌴🚲

Lots of new followers from the La Jolla post. I’m a general contractor just north of there, in Encinitas. We mainly do kitchen and bath renovations and TI projects. I also invest in real estate in Indiana, where I’m from. I usually post about construction, RE, taxes and cars.

@ToddLlewellyn @stevehunsaker1 Savage. Is the electric also going to make entry there? What’s the plan to finish?

@stevehunsaker1 They should be fired just for cutting that giant ass hole around the plumbing.

Kitchen cabinet guy asks for 50% deposit to get started. Which I’m down for and give (cash) Now he’s asking for another 25% while the kitchen looks like this. (Never communicated the installment schedule prior) I am actually all for taking deposits for material but this is weird. There’s not even doors yet. Am I insane here?

@simplesamtx @stevehunsaker1 Custom fabrication? 50% for production makes sense, but also, paid upon completion. This looks to be getting the payments ahead of the work. 😬

Cabinet guy here. We get 50 percent to be put on the schedule and the other 50 when install is completed. In 5 years we have never had an issue with this. If he got 50 percent down before production there is no need for him to get the rest until it’s completed. He most likely outsources his doors, drawer fronts and drawer boxes and needs the money to cover the cost of outsourcing. You would be surprised by how many cabinet makers don’t actually make their own fronts and drawer boxes. We do everything in house.

@stevehunsaker1 🚩 The 50% should cover materials and markup. He should also have terms with the cabinet people, if that’s his main gig. In CA, we (contractors) can’t charge a client until work is performed or materials delivered.

I did a bunch of posts about it at the time because I was doing demo in the area… You had to opt in or out of the army COE. Their plan only covered the footprint of the home and they weren’t exactly gentle with anything else. So I’d you had a pool or flat work, they wouldn’t demo but might damage and bill your insurance. Private contractors needed a placard to enter the area, for each job. Permits for demo, hauling, etc. All debris taken to specific locations. Only accepted with hazardous materials license.

@BoredElonMusk @TMZ @spencerpratt @KarenBassLA @GavinNewsom This might be a stupid question but is even the cleanup/demo gated by permits?

This is where I live. If you’re not below an 80 IQ, then you understand what those words mean.

@jasonc_nc We don’t all have yacht money to spend on contractors… 🤣

@JoshInEncinitas Good god man

Let’s see AI take this plumber’s job. 💪

@WarhorseDiv @Polymarket It does when they come back to do it again…

@Polymarket Doesn’t make a difference when everyone has expired tags and stolen plates.

NEW: Home Depot & Lowe's to install parking lot cameras with license plate readers amid a surge in shoplifting.

@Cody_Is_Boring “Thanks for your interest. It doesn’t sound like we’re a good fit for your needs.”

Those of you in construction, how would you respond to this email? Would you even bother responding?

@TiredBambooLaw @LA_Multi_Fam It’s hard to when candidates make statements like that. 🤷

@JoshInEncinitas @LA_Multi_Fam Did you see the one where I said people aren't engaging with anything in good faith

It’s been genuinely embarrassing to see 95% of Yimby’s not understanding how a growing group of Angelino’s are frustrated with the state of crime and homelessness. Their candidate has continually voted to keep encampments next to schools, supported needle handouts and given us soft on crime rhetoric and policy. She’s disqualified for many of us.

@colindhernandez @LA_Multi_Fam The “commodification” of housing would be a good thing. Ubiquitous, plentiful, interchangeable, competitive. You’re thinking of the financialization of housing, which would still be fine if politicians allowed supply.

@LA_Multi_Fam You want crime & homelessness to end? Then house people. The commodification of housing has exacerbated homelessness & thus crime. Housing people makes us safer. Feeding & educating our kids makes us safer. Making sure people's basic needs are met makes us safer.

@TiredBambooLaw @LA_Multi_Fam Treatment or jail. What’s yours?

@LA_Multi_Fam Like it's a dumb fucking thing to say. But it is also true that the homeless person does not just go away becuare they're not by a school, and all you're doing is displacing them to another district. And luckily for all of us, that measure still passed. So what's Pratts plan?

@TiredBambooLaw @LA_Multi_Fam Did you see the one where she blames Toyota for making catalytic converters too easy to steal?

@LA_Multi_Fam I have seen the video. That was one vote. It also isn't engaging with her point in good faith at all, which is to say that criminalizing homelessness does not actually solve the problem of homelessness. One stupid sentence does not actually represent her whole position

@LA_Multi_Fam Two guys who don’t have to deal with it. Cool. Cool.

@pmtiegs Should be less. Find a Honda mechanic.

Family friend's van was making some concerning sounds, I had them go get it looked at. 2014 Honda Odyssey with 150k miles. Repair will be $10k to put in a used (50k mile) engine. Do you repair or cut your losses and buy a different van?

@Soaringeagle45 A pack of paper shims and we’re good.

Time for Sheetrock! 💪

@levelsio Google Sheets for your accounting?

Americans might be "why would you need an invoice?" which is also why it's so hard to get invoices from American companies and also why you get the meme about Germans who have the most strict IRS in the world and will always email you a year later "rechnung bitte!!!" (invoice please!) So in the rest of the world accounting usually works like this: You spend $1, now you need to account for that $1 with a bank or card transaction which you tie to an invoice/receipt If you can't account for that with an invoice/receipt, your accountant won't account it as an expense, so it won't be a cost, so it won't reduce your profit, so you will pay more tax If I can't account $100,000 I spend as a cost for my business with an invoice, I will pay ~$20,000 in corporate tax for that money, which was a cost infact! No way around it In my opinion this accounting only helps to reduce GDP, because hours spend every month by a business owner like me could be spend building more cool stuff which people pay for and which give me more money In another way it reduces GDP because as you see it makes me stop spending my money on costs, I try reduce my costs to $0 not just because I like it, but because bookkeeping for expenses is such a heinous waste of my time Expense accounting in the rest of the world should work like it does in America: you spend money, there's a bank/card transaction, and that's sufficient. Then if the IRS decides to audit you, you simply go back and get the invoices then, not when you spend the money, much easier! Stop wasting business owner's precious time 😊

One time I cut down on a pair of wire crimpers to go through TSA with exactly the tools I needed to go fix something for a customer. The gate agent that confiscated a tool prior was the same one that tried it a second time until I made him get a tape measure. He was visibly disappointed🤣 I then asked why a flathead screwdriver was allowed because it could actually kill someone but was under the length 🤦

@ph43701 @photoncmndr I wonder about that with my Milwaukee screwdriver with removable bits. Literally on a flight right now and almost chanced it.

@photoncmndr Product idea - pliers - cutter - etc., with removable handles to clear TSA

@mnolangray @Barchart Isn’t the source literally on the chart?

@Barchart This is too large of an account to be stealing charts and reposting without attribution.

BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market Home Sellers now outnumber Buyers by 630,000, the largest gap ever recorded 🤯👀

@cashrulesNC They either weren’t alive or weren’t paying attention in 08…

The people that think it would be easy to buy a house if we had another housing crash amuse me