I miss the days when it was easy to barter services between two people. If I had a cow and you needed milk, I could trade the milk for services such as blacksmithing, tailoring, or farming. These days, everyone expects to get paid for their services. I like to make a good deal whenever I can. A couple of months ago, a customer called my company because he needed some help with a plumbing problem. The commercial HVAC repair company owner had to replumb a lot of the parts of the building and the guy was looking at 22,000 in repairs. I thought that it might be a good time to work out a deal so I could update the AC system in my guest house. I built the guest house a long time ago and when I did, I used the cheapest materials available. I did not pay for central heating and AC to be installed in the guest house. I immediately regretted that a few years later. I talked to the owner of the Rocklin, California heating and AC repair business to see if he would be willing to make a deal. I proposed trading services on the plumbing for services on my home heating and AC system and the owner of the Rocklin business thought it was a fantastic idea. I’m going to handle all of the plumbing work first, because the city planner is involved. After that job is finished, the Rocklin heating and AC repair business owner is going to schedule the work on my home. We worked everything out and put a contract in writing just to be safe.