eSignature Snow Removal Contract Made Easy

E signature snow removal contract

so here's a biggie what is the difference between seasonal contract a per vent contract and a per occurrence contract when it comes to snow removal we get this question quite a bit a seasonal contract is it's a gamble for you as a company and for us so we have to take into consideration the average snowfall in our area okay and now if you're doing a seasonal contract you're probably gonna so our area we get anywhere between 25 and about 33 inches we've gotten up to I think I think 43 inches one year I can't remember but somewhere between 25 and 33 inches so if we're doing a seasonal contract we're probably gonna base it off probably 37 to 38 inches just to give us a little bit of wiggle room in case we do get a bit bad year and so we just give you a price let's say it's $20,000 for instance and we just take care of 100 percent every time it gets to an inch or two inches will plow it off and we'll salt and that's for the whole season so typically what I've seen is seasonal contracts are not that great in our area they get done last if you need to pre salt or not you know companies typically lean on not doing it because then they're saving money you know they're already getting paid for the service so or you know they're only getting paid one flat rate so the less they do the more money they make so seasonal is not my favorite type of contract I do know and other markets seasonal is very common like up in Toronto I was talking to a guy and he said that's all they do is seasonal contracts that's that's what's normal there in Indianapolis we honestly don't see very many seasonal contracts for the reasons I stated as typically the contractors trying to take advantage of the the property so that's why we don't see it a ton the next thing but but seasonal contracts can also be really good if you're trying to create a budget for your business and let's say hey I know that every year I'm gonna pay out twenty thousand dollars for snow removal for the seasonal contract well even if it doesn't snow you're still on the hook for that twenty thousand dollars so if it snows nothing you got to pay twenty thousand dollars if it snows fifty inches you still only paid twenty thousand dollars so it's a good way for businesses to budget there's death there's pros and cons to every different type of contract you have the next one would be per event so what a perv nth is is you let the snow snow and and then when it stops after it stops that's when it's plowed so typically you'll see a one to two inch a two to three you know two to four four two six six to eight so then at that event after that event that company will go out and they'll measure the property at a couple different locations and let's say you get six inches of snow the company will plow out the parking lot and they'll charge you whatever the four to six inch Freight was and every you know one to two inches is one rate 2 to 3 is another rate 3 to 4 because got more snow that's on the ground the longer it takes to plow it the harder it is on your equipment that's why it costs more so you can do it that way that's called per event and then salt after that or you can do what's called per occurrence and per occurrence is when you hear more about the trigger depth so per occurrence means every single time a contractor goes to your property you are getting charged for it so if we get 8 inches of snow and it's a 2 inch trigger then that means every 2 inches somebody will come out and plow so our two inches someone will come plow when another 2 inches comes down that would be 4 total inches for us storm it'll be plowed when another 2 inches comes down which would be 6 total for the storm it will be so in an 8-inch storm with the two inch trigger you'll be plowed four times and you'll get salted after each event you'll probably get a pre salt so after each plowing and then a post salt after the cleanups done at the end of the day it's very similar in price it's the same amount of wear and tear on the equipment but we can keep your parking lot clear throughout the day clear throughout the night to help prevent liability which is what you see so those are the three different types of contracts there's pros and cons to each one of them we have seasonal we have per event and we have per occurrence we do a lot of per occurrence work we don't do we actually don't have any snow no we we do have some seasonal we have a couple per event but the majority of them is per occurrence is typically what we see here at greens lock here if you have any questions comments concerns feel free to leave them below if not we'll see you in the next video