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A little background on me. I used to be a sales manager for a large window company and ran several offices salesman and crews. Then I took a job as a project manager for a large tank company that built water and oil tanks. While in the tank industry I moved to Chattanooga, TN then on to Birmingham, AL then back here to Evansville. I wasn't making crap for money and working almost as much. After a dispute with my boss at the tank company over him asking me to falsify documents I left. He later committed suicide while facing 18 federal indictments.
I was burnt out on life but my kids still had to eat. I hopped in a truck with a buddy and thought screw the corporate world I am going to go swing a hammer. After a few months in a truck with my buddy we figured out there may actually be money in this. We were working for a regional and they were keeping us buried in work. When they owed us $20,000.00 we said that is enough. We then worked for a series of smaller companies and my buddy decided to go a different direction. For the last 2 years we have been working for a couple of nationals and some regionals and not really content with most of them.
We finally got in with a big National and now I don't want to become a bottom feeding regional like you guys speak of.
Let's make a few things clear.
There is more work than anyone can do out of a truck with a crew.
The nationals will NOT do business with you if you can't cover the entire state.
I don't want to drive all over the world or run an office. I simply want the local work here in our city and not to have anyone owing me 20k.
So how do you take the whole state coverage without hiring contractors?
When we hire contractors we have to process their photo's and upload to the client. This means processors, computers, building, and overhead.
To pay for that over head I have to take a percentage of what the client pays me.
How would you guys fix this problem.
We don't want to be unfair we want our employees to be treated fairly. I also want to make a decent living without taking a thousand phone calls a day. I HATE having office people asking me questions all day.
I want to enjoy life raise my kids and make some money.
We will NOT work for realtors because they are pickier than home owners but pay less.
We already stay away from sales cleans and refresh type orders. We really don't care for REO work. It doesn't fit our business model well. We love P&P.
I was burnt out on life but my kids still had to eat. I hopped in a truck with a buddy and thought screw the corporate world I am going to go swing a hammer. After a few months in a truck with my buddy we figured out there may actually be money in this. We were working for a regional and they were keeping us buried in work. When they owed us $20,000.00 we said that is enough. We then worked for a series of smaller companies and my buddy decided to go a different direction. For the last 2 years we have been working for a couple of nationals and some regionals and not really content with most of them.
We finally got in with a big National and now I don't want to become a bottom feeding regional like you guys speak of.
Let's make a few things clear.
There is more work than anyone can do out of a truck with a crew.
The nationals will NOT do business with you if you can't cover the entire state.
I don't want to drive all over the world or run an office. I simply want the local work here in our city and not to have anyone owing me 20k.
So how do you take the whole state coverage without hiring contractors?
When we hire contractors we have to process their photo's and upload to the client. This means processors, computers, building, and overhead.
To pay for that over head I have to take a percentage of what the client pays me.
How would you guys fix this problem.
We don't want to be unfair we want our employees to be treated fairly. I also want to make a decent living without taking a thousand phone calls a day. I HATE having office people asking me questions all day.
I want to enjoy life raise my kids and make some money.
We will NOT work for realtors because they are pickier than home owners but pay less.
We already stay away from sales cleans and refresh type orders. We really don't care for REO work. It doesn't fit our business model well. We love P&P.