We feel so strongly about the importance of the design process in the development of a landscape that we rebate our design fees when we complete the job. This is a win-win situation for the customer and us, and is done to remove the concern over design fees from the decision whether or not to employ a professional landscape designer.
Details of the DESIGN-PURCHASE REBATE are spelled out in the LANDSCAPE DESIGN / CONSULTATION CONTRACT, which is available on this web site. After thoroughly reading this contract, the following example will make things clearer.
Example: Mr. and Mrs. John Doe hire Wayside to help them design their landscape. They do this by signing a LANDSCAPE DESIGN / CONSULTATION CONTRACT and paying a $700.00 retainer. One of Wayside's designers spends twenty hours working for the Does; it is an average size job for Wayside. The designer has outside expenses totaling thirty dollars related to the work. The total design bill for the Doe project is $1,730.00 (20 hours @ $85.00 = $1,700.00, plus $30.00 for outside expenses); this bill is due at the conclusion of the design work. Of the total design bill, $1,700.00 is eligible for rebate, because outside expenses are not rebated. Wayside's price for completing the Doe landscape project is $35,000.00. Wayside intends to use a subcontractor for $10,000.00 of the work; Wayside crews will do the rest of the work. Because the rebate is not applied to subcontractor fees, only $25,000.00 of the total project cost is used as the basis for calculating the rebate. The maximum rebate the Does are eligible for is $1,250.00 (5% of $25,000.00). The Does want to phase the work, doing half this year and the other half two years later. Wayside invoices the Does for $17,500.00 after completing phase one of the project. Of this amount, $10,000.00 was subcontracted. This leaves $7,500.00 as the base amount to be used for calculating the rebate. $375.00 (5% of $7,500.00) of the $1,500.00 design fee is rebated in the form of a credit on the last invoice for Phase One. Because the Does are not going to complete the project within the next twelve months, they will not be eligible for any further design-purchase rebates on this project. If, however, they change their minds and want to complete the project during the first year, then they will be eligible for an additional $875.00 rebate (5% of $17,500.00) in the form of a credit on the final project invoice. In this case, 82% of all design fees would be rebated. As you can see, the amount of the rebate depends on many factors. For many, if not most, of our projects, the design fee is completely rebated.
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