We never get a deposit. We don't work for customers we don't trust. We have never been burned. To me it tells the customer either you can't manage money very well or you don't trust them if you have to have a deposit to buy materials. It's one thing if you just want the deposit to protect yourself, but quite another if you Have to have the deposit. Some of our subs are like that, if we didn't provide the material, they couldn't do the work.
You guys that get deposits, do you get it on jobs you know will be finished in 1 day or only on large projects?
