Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

121 Unpaid Invoices: Pressure Washing Business Left Hanging by Fast Food Chain

7 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation (host Mike Andes and a speaker) about a pressure-washing contractor facing 121 unpaid invoices from a fast-food chain. The speaker reports $84,000 outstanding (including $26,000 for a parking garage), that they stopped service about two months prior, and that efforts to submit paperwork via the client's portal and email produced no response. The exchange highlights frustration with delayed payments and the administrative burden of chasing money.

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121 invoices, unpaid. 121.
Do you know what the total outstanding is?
Let me see it. Isn't that crazy? 26,000 of that, though, is a parking garage.
Yeah, but 84,000.
And so I went in there, and we had no clue because nobody called us. Nobody told us a chain. Yeah, okay. I said, hey, I have a lot of unpaid invoices. Your windows don't look great right now because we do them and we stop service. And we stopped service like two months ago. And when they come to you and they're like, our GM passed away. He died. And I'm like. Like, I had no clue. Then they want me to go through a portal thing. So I filled out the information, I scanned the document. I've sent it back in an email. No response, no nothing. But you sure as open that thing 17 times. That's annoying. As, like, why am I chasing. Why are you making me work to get my money?
Here's why. Because they understand that they can pay you in four months. They've made money in delaying their payments.
Sure.
Like, the game of business is you want to pay people later and you want to collect as fast as.