Jobs Menu

What it is

The Jobs Menu is my master list of every task that shows up on a flip, organized by the phase it belongs to. 110+ job codes. The Fliporithm is the quick scope builder — use it to see if a deal is a deal. The Jobs Menu is the more in-depth version, the one you need to actually fulfill a scope of work and manage projects.

Every job on the menu has a price unit — not all the same. Some jobs are priced in man days. Some are dollar per square foot. Some are per unit, like an HVAC unit at eight or nine grand. Roofing is priced in squares, 100 square feet each, because that’s how contractors buy shingles. Plumbing is per fixture. Electrical trim-out has its own per-unit rate. It all breaks down to the right measure for the specific trade.

There are also the banks — the Auto Adds, the Quick Six, the Replacements, the Extras — viewable as quick scopes inside the menu so you can build a cosmetic, renovation, or gut scope in one pass.

Why it matters

Every job also breaks down to man days at base. Man hours spent doing the work, plus material, plus a reasonable markup. Prices don’t really change from one region to the next at the hourly level, because people make about the same amount of money. What changes is supply and demand. Stucco is a lot more expensive where I’m at than in Florida, because there are more people doing it there. But the underlying math is the same everywhere.

The Jobs Menu makes that math explicit. I might have 10 jobs I chunk together and give to a contractor for a bid. All those jobs together, say $12,000 according to my numbers. Contractor comes back and says, “Well, it’s going to be $13,000.” Okay, am I missing something here? I don’t want to underpay you for sure, but what am I missing? That’s how I use this — not to be exactly right, but to know when someone’s numbers are off.

It also has a fear tax rating on each job: low, medium, high, extreme. And a contracting method: solo trade, costco bid, sub chunking, handyman. When you’re scoping a house, you’re not just asking “what does this cost” — you’re asking “who does this and how do I group it.”

How it shows up

The menu is organized around the six phases of the Larossa System. Phase 1 (tabula rasa) has demo, cleanout, bleeding fixes, structural. Phase 2 (the gauntlet) has MEP rough-ins and inspections. Phase 3 has drywall, paint, and flooring. Phase 4 has cabinets, counters, and fixtures. Phase 5 has punch list, carpet, and cutesy the front. Phase 6 has the market kit and listing prep. Every job belongs to one phase, and that phase tells you when it happens in the schedule.

One of the more useful views inside the menu is job notes versus use notes. Job notes say “this is what I expect from this job.” Use notes say “this is how I use this job in this system.” That distinction matters when you’re training somebody else or when you’re building a scope on a house you haven’t personally walked before.

The menu feeds directly into the Fliporithm so the scope of work builds from the list — not from memory, not from guessing.

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