I own a hair salon. Typically, November is my busiest season. It has been SO quiet. A lot of my colleagues are also saying the same thing and have had to close up shop because of it - or get a second job.
People keep saying it will get better and the economy will bounce back but I don’t know. I am so close from just throwing in the towel, closing up shop and getting a corporate gig.
are you finding that people are more hesitant to sign the contract or nothing has really changed from the past couple years? I’m in NOVA as well so we aren’t dead by any means but bigger sales are harder to come by (or my sales guys just suck)
Actually when a contract is involved, people typically like that better so they have a legal document. I’m in Lynchburg, and everyone around here does so much on handshakes, which I’ll do for other contractors that I know and I’ve worked with for years, but anyone unfamiliar I’m writing a contract every time. But it helps when the customer already knows what they want and the price is close to what they expect. But all in all I don’t think it’s changed much from what I can tell, except homeowners are more cautious bc it seems the “fly by nights” and sketchy guys were so abundant for a while that people are afraid they could get screwed.