July 13th, 2009 → 7:29 pm @ terry
We continue to pick up a few new accounts. Seems there are plenty of new players getting in the game. It’s sort of nice to have some new people to talk with and discuss their plans for their business future – and see if we can fit in to those plans.
As usual, we are pretty doggone good about trying to help our new clients impress their new clients. We accepted a handful of occupancy inspections and a couple of REO assignments and hit the road. It’s been a while since Vickie and I have done this but it was nice to get out for the day and make a little money doing it.
I went to great lengths to impress upon our new client what reality is in the area they were sending us. They said they realized all of these problems I brought to their attention and we agreed that a sincere effort was good enough. We encountered even more than I had passed on to our client: We had bumper-to-bumper traffic on the beach roads – that’s where all our assignments were; we encountered security guards that have memorized “I don’t work for the mortgage company, I work for the owner” (no sense in trying to explain that the mortgage company is an owner too). We finished the day with a pretty good score though. We found all the properties, made direct contact with two and was refused entrance on only one.
We also had two new experiences on the route. I noticed a body alongside one of the roads we were on and we made a stop to call the police; and later we almost walked right up on a drug arrest – at least five cops and we saw three other people in hand cuffs. Unfortunatly, none of this really seemed out of the ordinary.
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