Friends and neighbors

Be careful when doing work for friends and neighbors. This can get ugly really quick and can cost you some relationships.  Imagine doing a job for a neighbor and they get really pissed off at you.  Ultimately you finish the work.  Then you have to chase down your money.  Now they won’t speak to you because of some stupid silly BS that occurred during the job.  So, day after day you get that cold icy stare from once was a friendly daily greeting from thy neighbor.  It’s childish but it does happen.

The really crappy one is the friend. You have been friends with someone for over a decade.  They call on you for some work.  They are well off too.  However, once you start the work they become this incredibly anal, nit picking, annoying pain in the ass customer to the point where your employees are like F this, we are not going back to that house.  So, you try to work it out but nope.  So, you just bill them for the time incurred and they tell you that they are not going to pay you.  Well, there goes a decade long relationship down the drain.  You think you know someone but do you really?  Just be careful with friends, family, and neighbors.  Proceed with caution.  A shit load of caution.