House Painters...Why do they all look like they've just got released from prison?

because they are all murderers?

IDGAF whether they just got out of prison or not as long as they paint a straight line and clean up after themselves.

cause ain't nobody else signing up to do that shite. Gotta be a tough nasty sumnabaw to handle that gig.

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Why do they all look like they've just got released from prison? From their raggedy, just drank a case of beer and showed up to your house look to their dodgy beat to hell van? Which sometimes moonlights as the families Ford Aerostar van with ladders still attached to the roof.

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My buddy is a high school math teacher and paints houses in the summer. He looks exactly like that

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cause ain't nobody else signing up to do that shite.

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A guy meets a hooker in a bar.
She says, "This is your lucky night.
I’ve got a special game for you.
I’ll do absolutely anything you want for $300, as long as you can say it in three words."
The guy replies, "Hey, why not?"
He pull his wallet out of his pocket, and one at a time lays three hundred-dollar bills on the bar, and says, slowly: "Paint…my…house."

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just drank a case of beer

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Everyone knows the best painters use meth and wouldn't touch a beer.

For true though, buddy of mine had a successful painting company for twenty years and gave it up to run a small retail business. He told me "I had to quit the painting business or else go to jail for killing one of those guys. I chose to quit." He has endless meth head painter stories.

Why are painting estimates all over the place? A painting company said it would cost $10,000 to paint my house. Two Mexicans said they would do it for $1500 but they had no equipment, not even brushes. I ended up hiring a family of Guatemalans who did a great job for $5,000.

We have a guy painting right now. Looked like a bum until this week when he showed up with a haircut and shave. Didn’t recognize him. Said it’s too hot for hair.

Aircraft painter for 12 years. The reason they show up in dirty painted clothes is because they care more about the paint on the product than their own clothes. 2nd they drive a crappy looking van is because who wants paint stains or paint leaking in a nice vehicle. And if they kept everything cleaned and spotless then their over head would be alot higher which they would pass that bill to the home owner. Some people need to get their heads out of their asses and quit judging people on how they look and judge them on the quality of their work. Not everyone is a Beta male who worries about their appearance. Maybe they just worry about doing a good quality job for a good honest pay

I paint for a living, mostly interior. Generally speaking, exterior painters are usually rougher around the edges because outside work is crappier and doesn’t pay as well. Often times the same types of guys you imagine when you think of drywall crews.

I painted the interior of a mansion this spring where they initially hired guys like op described. They would’ve butchered the job and were gonna spray the wrong paint on the trim. Left caulk residue everywhere. Fired them and brought us in after a month. The axiom “you get what you pay for” holds true for painting like any other business.

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How much do they get paid?

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These guys were probably getting paid $15/ hour. It was an 8,000 square foot house and their bid was ridiculously low.