Waiting on Estimate

[Janet]

Thanks, you all are the best. I know $800 doesn't sound like much really, but it is to me when all this guy would do is walk in and paint. I'll get it done, not sure if I can get it done before school starts, but I'm going to try.

I informed my son that he will be helping getting the first coat on, then I will do the 2nd coat myself..to cover up whatever mistakes he makes....LOLOL. I'm so picky, but I want it nice. I'm sure it won't be painted again for quite a few years.

[DianaB]

Having Ricky help is a good idea.......free labor!!!!!!

I don't think that I'd pay $800 either especially to "just" come in and paint. If it was later in the fall I'd come and help you.

[HALEY]

Janet, i feel you pain, i was painting the house when i was pregnant trying to get some of the rooms done before the baby was born, and with the baby on the way we had no extra money to hire anyone, to busy buying baby stuff.

[Janet]

I told Ricky that I would show him the correct way to paint and that he could only do the first coat until he was really good at it....LOLOL...I shouldn't be so picky, but I am. I'll do the second coat to fix whatever is wrong with the second coat.

Get this....the guy that gave me the high estimate called today. He lowered his estimate to $750 if all he had to do was paint. Well, now of course I don't trust the booger, so I'll still continue on with my plans for Ricky and I to finish it. Geesh...can't find good help in this town.

[Tink]

Janet, I think this is yet another area where you and I are alike. No way will I hire someone to do what I CAN do myself... even if it almost kills me to do it. lol

[judy]

Getting Ricky to help is a great idea! If he can move the furniture for you, it will give you more energy to tape up and to do the second coat.

He's such a good kid!

I agree - $800 for a few rooms, with you supplying the paint, moving the furniture and taping is ridiculous. Bunch of crooks!

Can you imagine paying $7000 for a paint job? I could buy a decent used car for
that. She is a dear friend, and is used to living large, so I kept quiet about it.
She and her ex just sold their 2 bedroom apartment, in a very exclusive part of Brooklyn, for about $900,000. The people who bought it then gutted it and renovated. Crazy money!

Have a ball at the hot dog fair. How many hot dogs are you planning on eating?
I'd try for 16 over to days.

[Janet]

ROFLMBO!!!!!! I never eat hotdogs outside of home very often...too afraid I'll get sick. I just don't trust eating hotdogs in hot humid weather...LOL..so I won't have any, but may have another elephant ear...yummy.

Must be nice to sell something for $900,000, even nicer to be able to afford to buy something for that much and then tear it apart...LOL...man...I screwed up somewhere along the line.