Hey guys - Here's an update: I successfully negotiated a fee of $200 per house, in addition to my ongoing hourly fees.
Thank you all for your great advice, which emboldened me to achieve this !!!
Great info and tips everyone ! I'm new to this factory-built situation, so I'm learning a lot from all of you on the potential scope of what my involvement could and should entail, as well as appropriate corresponding compensation.
Aesur, these will require foundations, so I anticipate...
Aesur - I do appreciate the advice. I'm just having a hard time believing they would pay me the kind of re-use fees you all have suggested, when they could just hire an in-house engineer for so much less. By the way, they've given me a 100K stock options contract (not signed by them yet) that...
Yes Chris3eb, if I get $80K plus around $40K for my ongoing hourly work, that total should be less than what they would have to pay for a an in-house engineer. Maybe I should just press them to indemmify me ?
SteelPE, The $80K/year is not tied to the 160,000 preorders. Units sell for $60K each, by the way. The 80K annual limit, plus the regular hourly work I do for them, would need to be less than the annual cost of them to pay for an in-house engineer . . that's my thinking.
Yes Pham, they already have over 160,000 pre-orders. Units are 19'X19'. They designed almost every detail of every component . . so I can really only say that I "own" my analysis. They've let me know that aren't too keen on the idea of being charged any kind of per unit fee, or on the idea of...
Replying to gte447f : The thing is, it's not my design, it's their design . . I just make sure it can support the required loading and provide structural AutoCAD created drawings that more clearly reflect what is shown in the Solidworks drawings they send to me. Also, any re-use fee on tens of...
As an outside consulting structural engineer for factory-built tiny home manufacturer who needs stamped drawings to get state approved permits in all 50 states, what kind of liability exposure fee is reasonable, considering the tens of thousands of units they will eventually be selling each year...
