attorney threatens to sue me

On hot, miserable, and unlucky days when your cramps from the last job are still contracting and your daughter called to tell you she wants to tag-along on a swordfish longliner out of Portugal for a few weeks and some wild alleycat just spewed-out a half-dozen kittens on board your boat and two tires developed slow leaks overnight far from any compressor or available spares...do not rush a bid. Go home, have a couple beers, take a swim and try again tomorrow. The difference in the happy end product is like night compared to day.

Also watch out for gutter companies that are more than happy to estimate a dent you made that the homeowner insists be replaced instead of fixed.
 
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Unless they prefer to have you climb the tree first to give a quote, which will then be a charged estimate/consult/inspection. It would certainly be a more accurate way to bid a large, thick tree...

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It would be a good option for a customer to have. Then there could be a small fee for inspection climb, say $20 dollars (as an example).

Also, it would be stressed that if you do the inspection climb, then the bid for the tree trimming would be a solid bid.

Hmmm.... For some of the nasty large trees I do out here, I'm gonna try that.
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Your not being fly by night... and, your also not superman, unless you can see all the defects in a tree canopy from the ground. Now if you climbed the tree prior to giving the estimate, then yes, you made an error. Do you climb each tree before you give a quote?

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I always put in writing (or try) "Remove liability dead limbs over 2 inch diameter", or give them a price to remove all dead wood. Only once did these 2 boyfriends claim to NOT know what Liability means. After the work was done.
I ask if they had the minimum vehicle insurance required by the great State of Texas, Liability insurance.
Then I stalled returning until the leaves grew back. It appeared to have more dead twigs because a storm had blown leaves off the outer canopy of this Willow tree. I told them this but they wouldn't believe me.
Since I go for referrals I did what I could to make them satisfied. Their neighbors were watching. Actually birds of a feather flock together( what I mean by this is BAD customers) so I really didn't want their referrals but did the job for some insane reason. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. They made "THE LIST" of fired customers. Not preferred clients.
 
I would have told him to pound sand. What is he going to sue you for? Really. Damages done to his property by his tree that he wanted to keep. Pffft. You got took, hard. Anybody can sue anybody for any reason they want. It costs $40 to file a lawsuit in small claims court around here. I can sue my neighbor for having a funny hair cut, would I win.......I doubt it. I hope you see that threats will be made by lowlifes in this industry, you just have to nut up and tell them no.
 
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