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DougHillman:
DrewKaree's right on the spot here.  You need to ask for the cash to cover most (if not all) of your out of pocket expenses up front.  That way, if you're stiffed at least you've got the stuff to sell and it's not gonna leave you broke.  I typically require like $500 to start.  Most of the folks I've built a cabinet for so far really don't have the funds to be dropping $1500 in one blow, so it works out well for them anyways.  A deposit up front gets me going and pays for much of the cabinet hardware and probably most of the controls.  As the project starts to come together the money for the rest of the stuff (computer, TV, marquee printing) can come from later paychecks.  The final payment is made upon delivery.

An official contract can help prevent problems, but resorting to legal means can be avioded alltogther if you just get $$$ up front.

I've attached the proposal I whipped up for my buddy Dave & his girlfriend Jeni.  Change the .txt extension back to .doc and open it in Word for (hopefully at least close to) proper formatting.  

Arcadiac:
Thanks a bunch to all, DrewKaree, RayB, Alan, Thenasty and especially Doug for the proposal.  

Doug the proposal looked great except when getting to the details in the price list.  The prices showed up but what they were for was left out.  

Thanks for the encouragement, I know with the proper motivation and proposal in hand I can get this done.  

I'm still waiting for a reply from my first email proposal so I will keep you posted as this progresses, probably make a  project announcement when/if its a go.  

Again thanks all, your experience is invaluable and I appreciate every bit.  ARCADIAC!  

BTW, we had a death in the family, my sons remaining grandmother, my ex-mother-in-law, so we wil be dealing with that for the next couple of days.  My Mom died last year and now another great lady gone, both moms/grandmas in less than two years.  Those so inclined please send out a prayer for him, his name is Kevin.  He is the young man play-testing cabs in some of my threads.
Thanks again, Ron H.

DougHillman:
Here's a Rich Text Format version.  change the .txt extension to .rtf to view.  Donno why the first one didn't work.  

Do you have MS Word?  Windows Wordpad won't have the right formatting.

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DrewKaree:
Doug, I cleaned off the figures and neatened it up a bit, hope you don't mind.  EXCELLENT, by the way...how long did it take for you to get to the current iteration of that contract?  

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