New Shop, Now Hiring

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Well, My first move will happen on Tuesday morning, I am going from a 2 car garage in a bad part of town into a 6 bay portion of a large tuning outfit in a decent part of town, good traffic centrally located. Grossman Tuning is pretty well established in Louisville and does alot of Audi and VW along with other European cars. I will be getting 6 bays of there warehouse style garage along with a lift. Retail should go up quite shortly and I already have to much to do by myself and I am losing my wifes help so she can promote our supply line. I would have hired someone by now but I really didnot have room for them, but I do now. I not sure how the pay will be based, but if you are a car dork like myself, it will be great surroundings to learn in. Anybody in the Louisville area that may be interested or if anyone has some ideas to throw my way, hit me up.

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I will post some pix on Monday

[AppliedColors]

Offer $9 on Craiglist...$11 after 3 months. You'll get a lot of applications from young men with good backs. Have them wash, pre-vacuum, do windows, shop setup, and shop cleanup initially. If they show a good work ethic and capacity to learn, show them how to detail. You may have to hire/fire 3-5 until you get a good one.

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Offer $9 on Craiglist...$11 after 3 months. You'll get a lot of applications from young men with good backs. Have them wash, pre-vacuum, do windows, shop setup, and shop cleanup initially. If they show a good work ethic and capacity to learn, show them how to detail. You may have to hire/fire 3-5 until you get a good one.

I am not sure if I will be able to go 9 initially, 7.50 is more what I was thinking if it were hourly, they would be considered subs so it is basically tax free for a while. I am shooting for someone like a college student who really loves cars. Besides the Detail work they will get to see alot of cool cars and may possibly get there feet wet tuning also, I do not see 11 after 3 months being a problem, but I have built the business up to where it is now on about $50 and a milk crate of supplys that I already have, and I am currently working 12+hours 6 days and 5+on sunday to keep up with about 15-20 cars a week. So it has been going nowhere but up

[David Fermani]

Make sure you have your sub-contractors and their contracts set up legitimately. There's ALOT of criteria that you need to have established to cover your butt. If you don't and something happens, you're personally on the hook for taxes and/or injuries and possibly more.

[willtothewong]

too bad you're not located in the bay area

i would so apply =)

[Jimmy Buffit]

Make sure you have your sub-contractors and their contracts set up legitimately. There's ALOT of criteria that you need to have established to cover your butt. If you don't and something happens, you're personally on the hook for taxes and/or injuries and possibly more.

Clay, please research the concept of "independent contractors". The IRS has very specific directives, and they seldom favor the use of a 1099. Simply put, if the sub is using your facility, your equipment, following your directions on a regular basis, that's an employee, not a sub.

In our industry, I'd define a sub as someone who has a skillset that I do not. He is used occasionally for specific issues. PDR and Leather seat repair are good examples...

Ain't no fun talking to the IRS. Do your homework...

Good Luck!

Jim

[David Fermani]

Subs, if done legally, can be a great way to structure your workers. I suggest consulting with an attorney and accountant to get things worked out legitimately. That’s what I did and I never looked back.
Here’s a short list of what I did:
-they signed a sub-contractor contract that my attorney created
-they were all DBA’s and payroll checks were paid to their company names
-they supplied all tools and supplies
-they had no set work schedule and were free to work for other contractors any time they choose


Remember, they are sub-contractors, not employees.

[BradUF]

Damn I would love to work for you but I am in FL

[Labster]

I may be at University of Cincy next fall. I think, however that that's at least 2 hrs from Louisville. That and I kinda like being my own boss... Good luck finding someone! I had a helper last summer for 6 weeks and I had them handle everything that wasn't related to polishing for the most part and it worked out well.

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I may be at University of Cincy next fall. I think, however that that's at least 2 hrs from Louisville. That and I kinda like being my own boss... Good luck finding someone! I had a helper last summer for 6 weeks and I had them handle everything that wasn't related to polishing for the most part and it worked out well.

1 and a half, an hour doing 90- good luck, I grew up in Cincy and my son lives there

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Clay, please research the concept of "independent contractors". The IRS has very specific directives, and they seldom favor the use of a 1099. Simply put, if the sub is using your facility, your equipment, following your directions on a regular basis, that's an employee, not a sub.

In our industry, I'd define a sub as someone who has a skillset that I do not. He is used occasionally for specific issues. PDR and Leather seat repair are good examples...

Ain't no fun talking to the IRS. Do your homework...

Good Luck!

Jim

Jim and the powell-bones guy(forgot yor name when I hit quote)

Thanks for this input, this is what I have my atty and cpa looking at right now, I believe that I have found the way to do this legally, like stated it is a contract for said worker between them and the Co. to work so many hours/wk with use of Co.'s tools, the only thing that we seem to be hung up on is my insurance, I am insured and bonded along with up to 2 employees, but they would not be recognized as employees if there were something that happened. I may end up restructuring it at the first of the year and just pay under the table until then, since that income would not be great enough to have to claim. I am supposed to have the plan together late in the week. I will post what they(atty and cpa ) came up with