@abclaudia wrote:
OMG! If you have $9,000 to give up with no guarantee of getting paid back, you may as well buy your own vacation and enjoy it fully rather than slave away at the report.
I'm pretty sure my report is going to be accepted. I've been doing this for a little over a decade - started in college. You don't get assigned this level of report/client/property without first proving that you are able to provide a well-written, well-substantiated report. Why would I, or anyone for that matter, pay $9,000.00 if the client and the MSC are happy and willing to pay for my services?
If you include days spent at the resort, travel to and from, and actual writing of the report after check-out, it comes out to over $1,500.00 a day. Don't know about you, but that's a significant chunk of change, especially if you consider that you're not paying taxes on the amount reversed. I didn't make that kind of money even when I was working in tech (not including the ESOP). When you take into account your tax bracket, let's say 28%, then the value of the $9,000.00 increases to $11,520.00. For SIX days!
I particularly like slaving away on the deck of my overwater villa, enjoying cocktails with my guest, that the Guidelines instructed me to order, worrying about what time I need to schedule my massage and still make it to watch the sunset at the bar, and then have dinner at the second of three outlets I need to evaluate.