[WGB]

..and offered to sell his round. Says he has about 300 custys with most on 4-5 week cycle which brings him in between £2500- £2800 roughly each month. He's selling for 5grand. Has been established for 17 years, reason why he's giving up is because he has bad back which I know is true. I know he is legit because know people on his round and is well known. My only worry is his work might be a bit lower priced than mine. Would you buy at this price?? Has offered to go round with me and pay in instalments too.
Advice anyone??

Wayne

[Scrimble]

buy the round and employ, take the leap of faith

[p1w1]

If that was offered to me I would take it even if was slightly underpriced

[Mick Kent]

Without a 2nd though for that price id have it

[SB Cleaning]

Yes definitely

[WGB]

And says he's 60%wfp 40%trad, I'm about 95% wfp so would be wanting them all that way so may lose a few..

[MWC]

Get it bought! Where abouts is the work?

[richard groves]

trad or wfp ? and how long does it take to do ? but at the price of being cleaned twice sounds a great deal to me. 

[PoleKing]

buy the round and employ, take the leap of faith

+1

[8weekly]

Around £8.50 a house? I wouldn't. If you employed and paid £10 an hour that's £1,600 a month. If you add the overheads, holiday pay etc I reckon it's got to be over £2,000 a month. Obviously you could pay less wages, put the prices up etc., but your margins on those figures would rule it out for me in the south.

[johnny bravo]

employ a young lad who will apreciate the cash,    they will be happy with £5+, to begin with,     after training give him a rise.     loyal employee,    p/t basis.  the round will pay that extra to pay him

[SeanK]

And says he's 60%wfp 40%trad, I'm about 95% wfp so would be wanting them all that way so may lose a few..

I would be looking to know why 40% of the work is not wfp as I have no interest in working from a ladder.
Also check out how long the round has been converted from trad to wfp.
There's a development near me about 3 to 400 properties that don't take well to the pole. I used to clean about
40 of them but replaced them all with properties elsewhere as they were a nightmare to get right.
They have been the downfall of many a new start wfp'er.
If 40% of the properties are like this you could be buying a headache.
 

[Small but perfectley formed]

snatch his hand off , sell the trad work and get 3 or 4 x value back 

[KS Cleaning]

And says he's 60%wfp 40%trad, I'm about 95% wfp so would be wanting them all that way so may lose a few..

I would be looking to know why 40% of the work is not wfp as I have no interest in working from a ladder.
Also check out how long the round has been converted from trad to wfp.
There's a development near me about 3 to 400 properties that don't take well to the pole. I used to clean about
40 of them but replaced them all with properties elsewhere as they were a nightmare to get right.
They have been the downfall of many a new start wfp'er.
If 40% of the properties are like this you could be buying a headache.
 

He may pole the tops and trad the bottoms at the mo??

[KS Cleaning]

Around £8.50 a house? I wouldn't. If you employed and paid £10 an hour that's £1,600 a month. If you add the overheads, holiday pay etc I reckon it's got to be over £2,000 a month. Obviously you could pay less wages, put the prices up etc., but your margins on those figures would rule it out for me in the south.

But if you are paying out £10 an hour on wages and you have enough work to give an employee 35-40 hours per week they should be bringing in over £4000 a month. If this work brings in £2500-£2800 per month it will be around 100 hours work per month for 1 man, give or take. The £8.50 average per house means nothing, it's the average hourly rate that matters.

[AuRavelling79]

I reckon you could make that work.

[edward1]

 c if he will sell u half of it .
sounds a good deal tho .
very tempted.

[robertphil]

youre going to have to employ.   because theres a lot of work there whoever you employ is going to have to learn fast or you will lose the bulk of that work due to poor quality work.
  i personally would try and poach a skilled worker off another firm , to get it off to a good start

[ben M]

Around £8.50 a house? I wouldn't. If you employed and paid £10 an hour that's £1,600 a month. If you add the overheads, holiday pay etc I reckon it's got to be over £2,000 a month. Obviously you could pay less wages, put the prices up etc., but your margins on those figures would rule it out for me in the south.

+1

[ants]

Priced at less than x2, established and you can pay in installments,its heaven sent mate.