You Choose The Options That Meets Your Needs
1. Phone Consult Fee: $150.00 for the first half-hour. $100.00 per additional half-hour.
- Provide you with a cost comparison of the funeral homes for your area and the services they provide to assist you with choosing a low cost funeral home or crematory to stay within your budget and to avoid emotional overspending.
- Provide a cost comparison of local cemeteries in the Phoenix Metro area and discuss options and additional expenses associated with your service selection and when they are necessary or optional
- Provide you with contact information on providers for caskets, monuments and urns at or near wholesale prices. Caskets purchased at funeral homes can be as much as 40% or more of the funeral bill.
2. Face to Face Consult Fee: $350.00
- Provide you with a cost comparison of the funeral homes for your area and the services they provide to assist you with choosing a low cost funeral home or crematory to stay within your budget and to avoid emotional overspending.
- Provide a cost comparison of local cemeteries in the Phoenix metro area and discuss options and additional expenses associated with your service selection and when they are necessary or optional.
- Provide you with contact information on providers for caskets, monuments and urns at or near wholesale prices for the services that you choose.
- Assist with such items as writing and delivering the obituary for submission to offset the “Cash advance items” to keep your total costs as low as possible. Example Funeral Home “A” charges $80 to deliver the obituary to the newspaper and that does not include writing it… We have a template for you.
- Go over the “General Price List” that the funeral director must provide you so you will understand the terminology and the items that you do not need and that will only add to the total bill.
- Put in writing your directions for the services you desire so that you will be able to hand them to the funeral director and say, "This is what we want." By having your decisions already decided and knowing the potential costs of your choices it will help you to stay within your budget.
- Discuss ways to have a meaningful tribute without overspending.
- We will go over usually unforeseen expenses referred to as “Cash Advance Items” and ways that some can be avoided such as:
Faxing and phone calls
Insurance billing
Limousine Service or Town cars
Obituary Writing and submission
Police Escort “In certain instances is required”
Opening and Closing fees “some days of the week and times are better than others”
Outside Funeral Director when death occurs away from home “Prices vary”
Organ or Tissue Donation “can cost you!!!”
Taxes
Your tribute to your loved one does not need to cost Thousands of dollars to be a wonderful loving tribute. Every Last Detail can be your voice of reason.
