Fortune_Hunter - 3:12 am on Jul 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

Nealreal:

Unfortunately this will come down to a very personal decision that you must make on your own. Nobody will fault you for deciding some money is better than none and sticking to the lower rate. On the other hand if you choose to keep it this way now you will be setting a precedent that will be that much harder to change later, if not impossible.

If you let this continue and decide later you can't stand it you may lose him as he thinks this has been the way it has been for a while now and what are you doing changing the ground rules this late in the game.

In his first book, Donald Trump said that when he was putting a project together he would imagine the absolute worse thing that could happen to him by doing what he was doing. Then he decided if he could live with that outcome. If the answer was yes he went forward, if the answer was no he pulled the plug or found a way to mitigate the problem.

You would probably benefit by doing the same thing. The worse that can happen is he pulls all work he is giving starting the second you tell him you want your old fees back. If you can live with that and know that you will have to work to replace the income somewhere else then have the conversation. If you can't live with that possibility then you are probably working for $50 and hour.

FH