TW>From: Ted Wout <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:37:27 -0400 >Subject: Charging for Swarms TW>If you're removing a swarm for a lawyer, give him an itemized bill with a >rate of $125 per hour. Be sure to include the time spent on the phone >taking the initial call, the time spent loading your vehicle, time spent >driving there and back, time spent hiving the swarm. Be sure to round up >to the nearest 1/4 hour for each item. Hi Ted, When you jack rabbit from a stop sign here in Los Banos, Ca, even if you are an old widow lady it's $160.00 unless you have three wittiness that say you stopped and one of those better be a priest. The moral to this which is no more then another tax is that when I am called by the city police to pick up a swarm, I insist on $50 per hour, police protection, barricades, crime scene tap, the whole works, and $1,000,000.00 insurance to protect me from anyone who gets a bee up his noise and wants to sue me, paid for by the city. All this has ended the dozens of calls that I used to get from the police department to pick up swarms. I wish I had thought of it 30 years ago, I would be a millionaire today. In all other cases if the swarm call is from a reasonable person and its not 100 miles out of my way I don't charge. ttul Andy- --- ~ QMPro 1.53 ~ "When the bee-hive casts its swarm;" (read about it here)