First Job Not quiet

Hasn't happened yet. The sealer seems to be having tpoubles. Not enough money to buy a pump for the sealer,Took a draw for paving material. Pulled off this job to do concrete work to meet payroll. All this makes me a little shakey about my money and refering him for sealing any jobs I can round up.(3 in the wings now). Just venting cause I'm sitting on bought paint untill he finishes the job.

Go ahead and delete that other post before Don does But how did you meet up with this sealer? I would personally go and try to find a sealer who is more reliable, your reputation is at risk, and this being your first job and all if you are the one who landed the job and subbed out the sealing, the burdon is on your shoulders. Trying to explain to the PM why the job was not completed by X date due to my sealing guy running out of money would make me look just as bad as the one who ran out of money. Call around and have a thorough talk with some sealers and ask all the right questions. Think of it as a interview for a real job, "Are you reliable?", "How neat do you work?", "What problems have you encountered on the job, and what did you do to solve them in a timely fashion?". Just because people sealcoat does not mean they are efficient nor reliable, you need to find someone with a good head on their shoulders and someone who isn't going to be a burdon on yours. Just my two cents. Good luck! Sean Paramount Asphalt

Not sure about the delete remark but I agree with Sean, This guy seems "iffy" to say the least and if you are lining up the sealing jobs your reputation will take the blame in the customer's eyes, not his. You need to keep looking. I talked a lot about "strategic partnerships" but to give you some personal experience, my best "strategic partner" is a large paving company. 3rd generation, in business since 1933 and known around here as being the best (also the most expensive). He was always very polite when I talked to him the first few times (I'd try him 2 or 3 times a year) but it was 3 years before he started sending me work. Quite some time later he complimented me on something I had done for one of his customers (the quality & how happy they were) and I gave him a kind-of "well I kept telling you so" answer. He surprised me when he replied "I know but everybody says that. I have a reputation to protect and you never knew it but I watched your jobs for years, ever since the first time you talked to me, to be sure I could count on you taking care of my customers before I called you for anything". He's a very smart man, by far the most successful paving contractor in this area and with that spotless reputation. It made me realize how important that was to him. So important that he watched me for several years before he would put his reputation on the line by recommending me. The reason we've worked so well (and to our mutual benefit) together is over the years we both had the same reputation...more expensive, but the best work. Then whenever we sent each other work there were hardly ever any other bidders and the customer already expected to be paying more because they knew the quality they could expect. It doesn't get any better than that.

Just thought he was trying to put the "Spell checkk" post under this one as an edit, not trying to start a new topic. Sean Paramount Asphalt