Anytime starting a business, you should be prepared for a long haul no income. I’m just starting focusing on services, and simply surviving because my construction side still has contracts that are just finishing and a few scheduled to start over the summer. Otherwise from window cleaning and yard maintenance everything is basically going back into the company for marketing, equipment, and consumables. I know it isn’t going to pay anything this year, but hopefully set up to continue next year to solely be under property maintenance and services going forward.
I’m done with construction, it’s dead in Alberta and I’m tired of the subcontractor fight. But in doing that I know what it takes to start out. And it’s months at a minimum. I think when I started in contracting it was 9 months before I took a paycheque