We all get so busy sometimes that we don’t take the time to slow down and take stock as to what is going on around us. Too many times we are shocked at something that we’ve noticed has “just” changed. What has actually happened is that we “just” noticed the change that has been going on a while, sometimes a long while.
Back in the “old” days, starting in the mid 1980s, there was no software for estimating. As a result, the contractor had to walk the job with the adjuster. They would both agree verbally as to what needed to be done. The contractor would then write the price that they would do the job for on the back of their card and complete it once that price was agreed upon.