Do you charge long-distance?
I have a potential client who wants me to do drop in visits for her 5 dogs and 2 cats, over the Christmas holiday. She lives approximately 20-25 minutes away from me.
I'm struggling with deciding how to charge this person. The dogs would need to be visited 3 times a day at minimum, and that's for the bare basics of feeding and potty. Added up, the drive time alone would take 4 hours out of my day. I want to be fairly compensated for my time, but I also think it's silly to charge somebody $1500 for a one-week stay, you know what I mean?
Do you do any "long-distance" drop in visits, and how do you charge?
I charge an extra $5 for jobs over 20 miles. I live in rural/small town Iowa and I get maybe half my requests over the 20 mile mark. If it were 3 drop-in visits that far away, I would just charge my overnight fee and stay there.