I fully agree, it's the same here in Europe, only the government wins with raising the minimum wages. The people who get the raise lose and so does the middle class. Result is that businesses have few staff means they need todo the work for five people with four, when employees complain they are being told: "You just got a pay raise...."
I'm a real estate investor by profession and I really can't complain. These rising costs have forced me to learn every trade and actually be pretty decent at most of them. I bought all the needed tools and use them skillfully. It's been a blessing. I've added an unimaginable amount of skillset to my abilities and they're ones I'll carry for life. No complaints here. I turn over properties at lightening speed and wait on no SOB to hand me my ass with their estimates.
yea I hope you have some cash somewhere else. I forecast a real estate collapse this year. I was right in 2005 about 08 made millions on the down market.
Whole lot different loading a hand masker than flipping a burger . It’s hard to pay out 25 hr in the feild for a painter even with 5 years under there belt tuff trade to fine good help in .
I don't understand, don't you factor labor into your bid? It's not like it's money out of your profit margin. The HO should be paying for your hourly guys.
I have to paint my house. The HOA is threatening me, $100 per week fine at this point (I live in Las Vegas), that's why I found your channel. I can't afford to hire a contractor, but I sure wish that I could (I earn $500 per week). This has become a much bigger job than I anticipated. Don't want to be in this position again, that is, I don't want to be broke where I can't afford a contractor. I should NOT be getting up on a ladder at my age. (Pray for me!). BTW, your channel is very helpful. I took up one of you tips, am going out to buy some flat-head spray tips instead of those fancy ones.
hey yea I get it when I am 10 years older getting up a ladder will be serious. the older folks need the contractors but the prices from the inflation are not affordable. I hate charging that much.
My advice is ditch the airless and brush and roll. Yes, it's time consuming. Spraying opens the door to all kinds of things to go wrong. Hint-pros carry overspray insurance. Not to mention less margin of error as far as technique goes. If you can't hire a pro brush and roll. Buy good paint. Be patient.
This is a common problem in all of the lib states! I'm in NY (not for long) and the same thing happened here, the government always takes care of themselves at the cost of the people. Those of us that live in these problem states are painfully aware but others may not know what's really going on so thank you for this informational video.
yea check out what happened to Louis Rossman. He is out of there. great youtube channel roamed all around then moved his business to Texas. doing well. NY city is still sending him bills they want to collect on. Business owners in CA and NY are TAPs.....tap into your money.
I think you guys should come to Australia, Tradesman, Painters included will not even look at a job below $120 per hour US +- $90 and that is for one person, Concreters show up with 6 guys to pour a 100m2 slab, and they demand concrete on time, and a concrete pump, so $3000 for concreter + all his drinking buddies, concrete pump with 1 guy $800-900 and the concrete, $4000. and you pay from the time they leave home and return to home. So $8000 for a 100m2 slab. AND they take 1 and a half hours breakfast and lunch break. Then they still got the cheek to ask for 24 beers for the "boys". Come to Australia we have a massive shortage in tradesmen, you will all become millionaires if you take all the jobs you get offered.
11K. My brother just got his house painted, lives in the mid-atlantic coast of Florida, not the urban areas, not the fancy high priced areas. 22K was the price. Now, he does have a big house 3000 square feet, but wow.
South Bay Area 2 months ago we were charged 15k by siders to redo a chimney. 8 sheets of t-111 total. And we supplied the paint. Afterwards the same crew bid 14k to do the rest of the house. Another company that subs out bid 24k. The house Is not easy. I've been doing it myself. Since late Oct. Almost finished. 24k was hard to stomach. And having siders paint a whole house also seemed bad. They do ok work, they aren't great at siding nor painting but the HO and I could not get the old siding off ourselves so...the house Is 2300 on zillow but has two add ons that make it significantly larger. Also the second story is stucco the bottom is t-111. Crazy trim there's both a belly band and wood drip edge that goes around most.of.the house. Two sections are about 50-60 feet each. And theyre 9 or 10 feet off the ground. LoL
@@mikethepainterif you don't mind me asking when you bid a job how do you factor in overhead? What's your overhead on say a two story full exterior repaint? I'm talking insurance workers comp taxes whatever it costs out of pocket to do a pretty big to average job? This does not include material costs paint tape sandpaper etc. Also ballpark what does labor actually cost you owning a business? Say you pay $25 hourly after taxes and all that get factored in what does a man hour of labor really cost?
Absolutely correct, but nobody has the common sense to research the topic. Insurance is INSANE in Illinois, same with trying to find decent help. I could keep bitchen , but you know the story...
I completely agree with you Mike 👍 thanks for doing this video so more people know what's really going on with the whole increase minimum wage thing here in California happening In Jan 2024 it really sucks for everybody
I appreciate all your overspray videos. Being super mindful of tip angle to the wall and pressure has really helped me reduce my pompei effect. You are spot on about CA and to think Big Blue may run Newsome to bring this garbage to the rest of America. People need to start talking about the problems.
I live in California, and this liberal crap is outta control. I’m financially secure and I’m fortunate enough that I can still shrug the higher prices, but I have family members who can’t. I feel for the middle class and the poor.
you bet these laws they have signed screwed the middle class and the poor.....the very people they say they are helping. The worst part is most of them dont even know it.
I never paid them 10 an hour.....But the ones I know that were making 10 an hour now they say at 20 they feel like they are making even less. Now the ones I was paying 15 to 20 need 30 and I just cant pay that. I think you dont understand why it is better to have low wages. Some guy who knows nothing now is entitled to 20 an hour......He knows NOTING......Can you pay a guy who knows NOTHING 20 an hour?????
@@mikethepainter I do agree that everything else goes up when minimum wage goes up. I also know CA real estate is a joke and has been for decades. It is way overpriced . You can't charge more to make up the difference because other contractors will under bid you and use illegal immigrants for labor.How many contractors do you know that are using illegal immigrants instead of Americans ?
The real problem with the whole thing is people believing in politics period, thats what they want everyone to do pick a side, either left or right so they can keep us divided. If everyone would stand together on the Constitution in which this country was made on then we wouldn't have to worry about them an making up laws or lying straight to us for votes. We need to get rid of both political parties an go back to the old ways
I understand what your saying but this is REAL....Government is making laws that are just plain hurting businesses. Ignoring the problem just makes it worse. Raising minimum wage to this point has made is just about impossible for a lot of businesses to survive. That is why people are leaving. They just cant make it.
BTW your right if they would just follow the constitution. Gavin newsome and Brown make gun laws that they blatantly know are unconstitutional. They know they will get thrown out of the supreme court. Then once they do they change a few sentences and resubmit them.....It is criminal. but it is legal.
I disagree. I was taught auto refinishing the right way and the body man who taught me took a lot of pride.being perfectly clean at the end of the day. If you can paint and be clean at the end of the day you're a pro. It's the sales reps who just bid jobs you shouldn't trust. Or painters with paint all over their pants hands etc. Caulking on their shirts don't hire guys like that.
@@Mike-qo4kp I agree 100%. I painted 4 months a year for 8 years for a company, high end residential new construction, and every year I would get picked on buy a new guy or two. I absolutely loved explaining how taking paint and caulk home from the job site on clothing was theft, 😆.
yea too bad it is Fast food workers. OMG.....they just want to outlaw fast food in CA. I noticed Ikea stopped using disposable plates a few days ago....makes them not fast food anymore.
I fully agree, it's the same here in Europe, only the government wins with raising the minimum wages. The people who get the raise lose and so does the middle class. Result is that businesses have few staff means they need todo the work for five people with four, when employees complain they are being told: "You just got a pay raise...."
I'm a real estate investor by profession and I really can't complain. These rising costs have forced me to learn every trade and actually be pretty decent at most of them. I bought all the needed tools and use them skillfully. It's been a blessing. I've added an unimaginable amount of skillset to my abilities and they're ones I'll carry for life. No complaints here. I turn over properties at lightening speed and wait on no SOB to hand me my ass with their estimates.
yea I hope you have some cash somewhere else. I forecast a real estate collapse this year. I was right in 2005 about 08 made millions on the down market.
Whole lot different loading a hand masker than flipping a burger . It’s hard to pay out 25 hr in the feild for a painter even with 5 years under there belt tuff trade to fine good help in .
I don't understand, don't you factor labor into your bid? It's not like it's money out of your profit margin. The HO should be paying for your hourly guys.
I have to paint my house. The HOA is threatening me, $100 per week fine at this point (I live in Las Vegas), that's why I found your channel. I can't afford to hire a contractor, but I sure wish that I could (I earn $500 per week). This has become a much bigger job than I anticipated. Don't want to be in this position again, that is, I don't want to be broke where I can't afford a contractor. I should NOT be getting up on a ladder at my age. (Pray for me!). BTW, your channel is very helpful. I took up one of you tips, am going out to buy some flat-head spray tips instead of those fancy ones.
hey yea I get it when I am 10 years older getting up a ladder will be serious. the older folks need the contractors but the prices from the inflation are not affordable. I hate charging that much.
My advice is ditch the airless and brush and roll. Yes, it's time consuming. Spraying opens the door to all kinds of things to go wrong. Hint-pros carry overspray insurance. Not to mention less margin of error as far as technique goes. If you can't hire a pro brush and roll. Buy good paint. Be patient.
Your views are your views and people should respect that, great vid thanks
This is a common problem in all of the lib states! I'm in NY (not for long) and the same thing happened here, the government always takes care of themselves at the cost of the people. Those of us that live in these problem states are painfully aware but others may not know what's really going on so thank you for this informational video.
yea check out what happened to Louis Rossman. He is out of there. great youtube channel roamed all around then moved his business to Texas. doing well. NY city is still sending him bills they want to collect on. Business owners in CA and NY are TAPs.....tap into your money.
I think you guys should come to Australia, Tradesman, Painters included will not even look at a job below $120 per hour US +- $90 and that is for one person, Concreters show up with 6 guys to pour a 100m2 slab, and they demand concrete on time, and a concrete pump, so $3000 for concreter + all his drinking buddies, concrete pump with 1 guy $800-900 and the concrete, $4000. and you pay from the time they leave home and return to home. So $8000 for a 100m2 slab. AND they take 1 and a half hours breakfast and lunch break. Then they still got the cheek to ask for 24 beers for the "boys". Come to Australia we have a massive shortage in tradesmen, you will all become millionaires if you take all the jobs you get offered.
kind of where its heading here. So expensive. I just dont know where it will stop
11K. My brother just got his house painted, lives in the mid-atlantic coast of Florida, not the urban areas, not the fancy high priced areas. 22K was the price. Now, he does have a big house 3000 square feet, but wow.
yea that out here would be about 13 to 15. if its not crazy detailed. 7 years ago about 4500....all goes to the current admin agenda.
South Bay Area 2 months ago we were charged 15k by siders to redo a chimney. 8 sheets of t-111 total. And we supplied the paint. Afterwards the same crew bid 14k to do the rest of the house. Another company that subs out bid 24k. The house Is not easy. I've been doing it myself. Since late Oct. Almost finished. 24k was hard to stomach. And having siders paint a whole house also seemed bad. They do ok work, they aren't great at siding nor painting but the HO and I could not get the old siding off ourselves so...the house Is 2300 on zillow but has two add ons that make it significantly larger. Also the second story is stucco the bottom is t-111. Crazy trim there's both a belly band and wood drip edge that goes around most.of.the house. Two sections are about 50-60 feet each. And theyre 9 or 10 feet off the ground. LoL
@@mikethepainterif you don't mind me asking when you bid a job how do you factor in overhead? What's your overhead on say a two story full exterior repaint? I'm talking insurance workers comp taxes whatever it costs out of pocket to do a pretty big to average job? This does not include material costs paint tape sandpaper etc. Also ballpark what does labor actually cost you owning a business? Say you pay $25 hourly after taxes and all that get factored in what does a man hour of labor really cost?
Absolutely correct, but nobody has the common sense to research the topic. Insurance is INSANE in Illinois, same with trying to find decent help. I could keep bitchen , but you know the story...
I completely agree with you Mike 👍 thanks for doing this video so more people know what's really going on with the whole increase minimum wage thing here in California happening In Jan 2024 it really sucks for everybody
I appreciate all your overspray videos. Being super mindful of tip angle to the wall and pressure has really helped me reduce my pompei effect. You are spot on about CA and to think Big Blue may run Newsome to bring this garbage to the rest of America. People need to start talking about the problems.
I live in California, and this liberal crap is outta control.
I’m financially secure and I’m fortunate enough that I can still shrug the higher prices, but I have family members who can’t. I feel for the middle class and the poor.
you bet these laws they have signed screwed the middle class and the poor.....the very people they say they are helping. The worst part is most of them dont even know it.
Starting tomorrow, all small gas engine tools are banned for sale here in Cali
yea 4 hours drive to Vegas. I guess we will be doing that more often. Or Phoenix. Bullhead.
2027 generators are gone too.
People who don't work dictate value.
Follow the money and you will find corruption!
pew pew 5.56
So it was okay for your workers not to be able to survive on ten bucks an hour while you were comfortable ?
I never paid them 10 an hour.....But the ones I know that were making 10 an hour now they say at 20 they feel like they are making even less. Now the ones I was paying 15 to 20 need 30 and I just cant pay that. I think you dont understand why it is better to have low wages. Some guy who knows nothing now is entitled to 20 an hour......He knows NOTING......Can you pay a guy who knows NOTHING 20 an hour?????
@@mikethepainter I do agree that everything else goes up when minimum wage goes up. I also know CA real estate is a joke and has been for decades. It is way overpriced . You can't charge more to make up the difference because other contractors will under bid you and use illegal immigrants for labor.How many contractors do you know that are using illegal immigrants instead of Americans ?
Free health care for all illegal immigrants 🙏🆓😘💅😔😀😁😺
sounds lovely......I just wonder who will pay for it....I think we should tax Gavin Newsome's winery.
Benjamin Moore regal exterior 98$ per gallon
absolutely affordable LOL
The real problem with the whole thing is people believing in politics period, thats what they want everyone to do pick a side, either left or right so they can keep us divided. If everyone would stand together on the Constitution in which this country was made on then we wouldn't have to worry about them an making up laws or lying straight to us for votes. We need to get rid of both political parties an go back to the old ways
I understand what your saying but this is REAL....Government is making laws that are just plain hurting businesses. Ignoring the problem just makes it worse. Raising minimum wage to this point has made is just about impossible for a lot of businesses to survive. That is why people are leaving. They just cant make it.
BTW your right if they would just follow the constitution. Gavin newsome and Brown make gun laws that they blatantly know are unconstitutional. They know they will get thrown out of the supreme court. Then once they do they change a few sentences and resubmit them.....It is criminal. but it is legal.
Never trust a clean painter. Thank you for your words of wisdom.
I disagree. I was taught auto refinishing the right way and the body man who taught me took a lot of pride.being perfectly clean at the end of the day. If you can paint and be clean at the end of the day you're a pro. It's the sales reps who just bid jobs you shouldn't trust. Or painters with paint all over their pants hands etc. Caulking on their shirts don't hire guys like that.
@@Mike-qo4kp I agree 100%. I painted 4 months a year for 8 years for a company, high end residential new construction, and every year I would get picked on buy a new guy or two. I absolutely loved explaining how taking paint and caulk home from the job site on clothing was theft, 😆.
@@Turning-Guns that's a good way to look at it actually. Wipe it somewhere useful, never on your clothing.
yea there is a guy who never has paint on his shirt.....I dont think he is a real painter.
Minimum wage? Now you can stop tipping.
yea too bad it is Fast food workers. OMG.....they just want to outlaw fast food in CA. I noticed Ikea stopped using disposable plates a few days ago....makes them not fast food anymore.
Ironic that as you make this video pointing out how raising min wage hurts in january min wage is going up yet again.