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How this site is paid
The whole model in six rows
| The plain answer | |
|---|---|
| Your cost as a reader | Zero — pages, phone line, callback, and introduction included |
| Running cost today | Roughly $25/year: ~$10.46 for the domain, ~$1.15/month for the phone number, per-minute pennies on calls |
| Revenue today | $0 as of 2026-08-12 — dated so you can check the claim against what this page says later |
| The eventual customer | One local dirt-work operator, paying a flat monthly amount for the site's introductions |
| What their money buys | The stream of real inquiries — nothing editorial, nothing on any page |
| What no money can buy | The county-document facts, the operator table, the review standard, this disclosure |
The disclosure bar this site accepts as binding
Written-down honesty about paid relationships is not a branding choice here — it is federal law, and this site quotes the newest, most specific version of it. The FTC's 2024 reviews-and-testimonials rule addresses exactly the situation this site will be in if its author ever writes about a business he has a stake in:
It is an unfair or deceptive act or practice and a violation of this part for an officer or manager of a business to write or create a consumer review or consumer testimonial about the business or one of the products or services it sells that fails to have a clear and conspicuous disclosure of the officer's or manager's material relationship to the business…
— Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials, 16 CFR § 465.5(a), retrieved from the 2025 CFR via govinfo.gov
Applied here: the moment any operator has a financial relationship with this site, that relationship gets stated on this page, by name, before any further word is published about them. The zero-revenue starting point makes the promise cheap to make today and expensive to break later — which is the point of making it now.
Why not ads, affiliate links, or lead auctions?
- Ads would put whoever bids highest between you and the answer — the exact failure this site was built to beat
- Per-lead auctions (the broker model wearing a local costume) give the site a reason to inflate urgency and pass your number to strangers; a flat fee to one operator gives it a reason to be accurate
- Selling contact lists is simply out — the privacy policy forbids it in writing
- Paid placement would quietly poison the operator table; the table's only loyalty is to the public record
Common questions
Is this site making money today?
No. On its launch date — August 12, 2026 — revenue is exactly zero, against costs of roughly $25 a year — a ~$10.46 domain registration plus a local phone line at ~$1.15 monthly and per-minute pennies. The site is a bet that publishing the best-researched answers about Island Park dirt work eventually earns the right to make introductions.
What would the site ever charge for?
One thing only: introductions. If real property owners keep calling with real jobs, one local operator may eventually pay a flat monthly amount to be the one who receives those calls. That is the complete revenue design — no reader fees, no per-lead auctions, no data resale, no paid rankings.
Do I pay anything to use this site?
Never. The pages are free, the phone line is free, the callback is free, and the introduction — if you want one — is free. In any future paid arrangement the money flows from an operator to the site, not from you to anyone.
How will I know when someone starts paying?
This page will name them. The commitment is specific: the day a paid arrangement exists, this page describes it — who pays, and for what — in the same plain language as the rest of the site. An undisclosed sponsorship would break both the site's own rules and federal disclosure requirements, which are quoted on this page.
Does money change what the site says about anyone?
No. County documents and statutes say what they say regardless of who pays whom, and operator descriptions come from the public record. A paying operator receives introductions — never a rewritten table row, never a competitor's removal, never a softened fact.
What happens with my contact details?
They go into the site's private lead system so a person can call you back, and — only if you asked for work — on to the operator taking the job. That handoff is the product, and it is the whole journey your information takes. The privacy page covers retention and deletion.
Why explain the business model at all?
Because several of the pages competing for these same searches are anonymous lead brokers dressed as local companies, and their model only works while it stays hidden. This site inverts that: model published on day one, revenue $0, promises dated. Whoever reads this page can hold the site to it.
Who personally stands behind this page?
Kjel Jones — named, reachable at (208) 932-1140, and described honestly on the about page including what he is not (an excavation contractor). His Idaho real estate license with LPT Realty is a separate business and buys nothing here.