> I tuned for a local college for 18 years and quit after some years of getting paid way > in arrears. My replacement, who is younger and obviously wiser, devised a policy of billing > for all the pianos he would be tuning and when the check finally arrived in the music > department office, he did the work. > Tom Cole I've waited way too long for way too big a check way too many times, but advance payment waiting in school service work wouldn't have a chance of working for me. There's always a "by the way", consisting of a broken string, pedal repair, sticking keys, loose flanges, side and casters knocked clear off going through doors at high speed, grand upside down in the orchestra pit, or some such list of minor repairs that aren't going to be on the waiting check. So you get to make out two invoices, and wait for (and track) the second invoice through another birthday. I suppose it depends on where you draw your personal paininthebutt line. Ron N
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