February 13th, 2007 → 12:16 am @ terry
This will be short. I waited until later than usual to write in the blog hoping that I would be too tired to type as much as I usually do. I’ve been reluctant to discuss some stuff that I guess needs to be brought out in the open. I have stalled as long as I could and I feel I should write something everyday Monday through Friday.
I would like for you to stop here for a few minutes and go back and read my last post and the two comments to that post. You can click here and a new window will open. Just close the new window when you finish reading the post and comments and you will wind back up here.
When I receive a communication like that comment, I become very concerned. I often wonder if maybe I should shut the blog down. I don’t want to think I have influenced anyone to make a bad decision.
Our success came at a price and even if you are willing to pay the same price, you may not have the same results. I am not trying to convince you to get into this business. What I am doing is recommending you purchase, download and read my manual. The manual has the pros and cons of the business so you can make up your own mind.
You also don’t have access to the information in the manual that explains why I started all this mess in the first place. In a nutshell, I put the manual, the blog and everything else together in order to educate as many people as I could about the bad things that have gone on in this business.Â
Yes, you would probably do very well in the field services business - after a while – but it does take time. I am absolutely against anyone quitting a job and jumping into this business. There are ways to ease into the business and that is always a wise move. In fact those assignments pay much more than the everyday hustle and bustle of mortgage field services!
You have to realize that just because I may make this business sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread, it may not be the same for you. Another thing; I’ve been shot at, I’ve fought drunks until the sun came up, I’ve swam away from more sinking boats than I can name and I’ve drawn a lot of lines in the sand. What I’m saying is that I’m not going to let anyone mess up my day. It’s almost impossible for me to have a bad day!
You may not have the advantage of having my manual so maybe I will publish a page or two of it here for you to read. I seldom mention the negatives here in the blog but the manual tells it all – muddy roads, flat tires, companies that do not pay, prostitutes, drug dealers, vagrants in vacant houses, chargebacks, flat tires at construction sites, dogs, snakes, wasp stings, homeowners following you and police tailing you. It all goes with this job.
So please don’t tell me you’re going to quit your job and go into this business. I will work with you to find a more secure way to start your business. It’s time for me to call in some favors. If you read this blog and we have talked, I need stories of failure and stories of success to publish or talk about in this blog – email them to the regular address.
Since I last posted in the blog, I have been doing an average of fifty inspections a day. Today was forty-eight with a sweet bonus of one business verification inspection that paid very well. Tomorrow is the south end. I’ll be out all day to do twenty-two. Call me to chat – I’ll need the company.
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February 8th, 2007 → 11:29 pm @ terry
I tried every excuse I could to get out of work today. The end result of my efforts was Pakak, Bentley and I navigating some of the less delicate parts of town. Pakak is a Siberian Husky. Bentley is a beagle, a thirteen inch beagle. Today they played the parts of a wolf and a bloodhound, respectively.
Everything was going quite well with thirty-two inspections finished, when Bentley decided to get sick in the back seat! He must have eaten a bug or something – it was green and brown when I cleaned it up. So…. I had to take the boys home, let them out for a while and then get back to work. I did not finish. I completed forty-six before the afternoon traffic made driving a contact sport so I quit and came on home via the most heavily traveled road – spelled D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S – in the state of Alabama. That statement can be verified with state documents.
Lots of calls today; Bill, Sherry, Quinton, Denise and Henry. I wish you could share the excitement with me; they are all in different stages of the field services business – all the way from random though processes to filing the paperwork for forming a business. I really learn a lot and get to meet some super people. You know what? We’re all alike!
I really don’t know how everyone is finding out about this business. I put considerable effort into having this blog found, so I can understand that, but how do so many people know anything at all about the business in the first place? Beats me and I don’t think I am going to worry about it. I guess I do have some ideas on the subject though, since I’m usually told about different newspaper ads, web sites, relatives, etc. I really think I am going to respond to that ad that says I can get rich in the field inspections business. I must have missed something along the way!
I’ll have to confess to ya’. I have been spending much more time on The Rep Reportâ„¢ than I have here. I’ve been spending more time on the manual than I have here. However, I hope that you can overlook my shortcomings when I introduce the fully evolved version of two projects I am working on. One of them is really super cool and it works twenty four hours a day, seven days a week helping me.
I’m sure you have heard at least one of these phrases: fat chance, slim chance, no chance. I thought about approaching the girls with the idea of a little down time but Vickie’s favorite is “No chance”, and Teri Lynn’s favorite is “fat chance”. I didn’t even ask! The smart thing for me to do is to get up early, get out early, and try to make it home before the traffic. That’s what I’ll do – I’ll be out of here by 7am in the morning.
I will have to finish what I did not finish today, another twenty-two, and also work as much of the downtown area as I can. We have Mardi Gras going on now and vehicles are not even allowed in certain parts of the city this weekend. Besides that, I would have to be super cautious anyway so I wouldn’t run over any tourists. So anything due Saturday, Sunday or Monday has to be worked tomorrow.
If you will, visit http://www.therepreport.com/ and give me your thoughts. I hope the changes make it better for everyone. At least it is becoming more like the site I first envisioned.
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 Billy Rose in The New York Post, Oct. 26, 1957
February 7th, 2007 → 11:16 pm @ terry
I’m still here. I am now convinced that I will no longer say that this business slows down between the 1st and the 15th of the month. I have given it some thought and think it is possible that we are receiving some work done by other reps in the past. I don’t really know – I can’t tell from the orders, some properties are new to us and some we have visited for years.
Two Hundred Sixteen from just one company today. Other numbers like three, fifty three, forty six. Lots and lots of vacancies too!
I continue to sell books on Amazon – the books I told you about a couple of weeks ago. One sold tonight for sixty-five dollars. After Amazon takes their cut and priority mailing, I will be left with $59.05. Some of you should (aught) know how to figure that up. I paid $1.19 for the book. What percentage of return am I getting for my two week investment?
I feel like I am the first to leave a friends party, but I really do have to go. Lots of work.
I’m making lots of changes to www.TheRepReport.com. Let me know what you think