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Abriza’s three easy steps to managing your business provide contractors with an efficient and easy solution by finding work for you, allowing you to scale your business and make more money.
By providing you with real work orders Abriza makes you more money by eliminating wasted time:
Select work orders that match your availability and talent:
- Abriza sends you opportunities to perform specific maintenance and repair taks
- Select only the opportunities you want
- Abriza collects the money when you complete the work
- Get paid within two weeks
- Share 20% of the labor fee with us for marketing, customer service and software to manage your business
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Contractor StoryLife of a Contractor
Homeowners contact us for repairs that often could have been prevented through maintenance. When something breaks down, it is an emergency for the homeowner. The situation at home is typically emotionally charged as something isn’t working that keeps the home running smoothly. Given the chance, we could prevent most break downs before they happen! Homeowners often lack the expertise to explain a problem sufficiently for us to prepare with the proper equipment, tools and parts in advance. This is costly for the homeowner and for us. Once we arrive on the scene, we must assess the situation and make a trip to the local supply store to get parts. The lack of good communication costs the homeowner money and time. Much of our time is spent on estimates that don’t materialize into real work. People without proper training and licensing pose as contractors sometimes desperately pitching unbelievably low prices to win a job, but the homeowner pays in the end. Some in our profession use the “car in the driveway” pricing methodology gauging more affluent homeowners who just need a problem fixed. We believe in a fair price! |
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Did you know?
The old saying an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure holds true, especially in the home. Home maintenance saves not only time and money but proactive home maintenance saves you the frustration of unforeseen system failures that inevitably happen at the worst possible times. Abriza wants you to know:
Abriza takes the worry out of home maintenance with bundled seasonal services that are scheduled for your convenience! Check the special seasonal packages today! Abriza takes the worry out of home maintenance with bundled services that are scheduled for your convenience! Check the special seasonal packages today! |
