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If you are a contractor in the real estate services industry, adding property inspections to your list of services can bring in additional profits, quickly, to your business. There are several forms of inspections in the foreclosure clean-up, property preservation, and mortgage field services industries. To successfully add inspections to your list of services, educate [...]
Generational wealth consists of assets, holdings and monies that are passed on from one offspring to the next, and built upon by each generation. A family business is the first thing that comes to mind when many think of generational wealth. Wine vineyards, orange groves, tobacco farms, and sugar plants started by ancestors centuries ago [...]
According to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing and data tracking online portal, almost four million foreclosure filings were reported in 2010, an increase of 23% from 2008. The luxury market has not been spared from the foreclosure crisis ripping through almost every state in the U.S. Just recently, a sprawling Virginia mansion (previously owned by John [...]
Entire organizations and web outlets are built around the idea of teaching children about business. Do you believe educating children about business today will help the future economy? Can we gain a healthier economy in the future by teaching children about business today? Many noted individuals and organizations believe fostering entrepreneurship in youth can lead [...]
According to an article from DS News, an in formative real estate publication that focuses on foreclosure trends and other aspects of the mortgage default servicing industry, $23 billion dollars in commercial mortgages will come due this year. This translates into the fact that right at two thousand commercial mortgage loans are set to mature [...]
Many smaller foreclosure clean up businesses get work from larger mortgage field services companies. The trash-out and foreclosure clean up industry is on the rise, as is evident in foreclosure industry reporting data from sources like RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosures. According to RealtyTrac, 3,825,637 foreclosure filings were reported in 2010 on U.S. properties. [...]
Subcontracting is a large industry, and as a foreclosure cleanup enterprise, if you’re not tapping into lucrative contracts available, you’re missing a huge piece of the pie for business growth in 2011 and beyond. HUD’s Contracts with Larger Property Preservation Companies Foreclosure cleaning companies handle everything from changing door locks to boarding windows and doors, [...]
Black Friday is almost here, and many businesses, both large and small, are capitalizing off this frenzied shopping day. As a service business in the real estate contracting industry, you, too, can benefit from promoting your business during this busy holiday season. What is Black Friday? Black Friday is traditionally the Friday right after Thanksgiving [...]
It’s cold in many areas of the country. Temperatures are steadily falling in many states, but that does not mean your business profits have to go down as a lawn maintenance company. One of the most effective ways to grow your lawn care business during the fall and winter months is to add new services. [...]
Chamber of Commerce meetings are fertile ground for foreclosure cleanup businesses. A foreclosure cleanup business is responsible for primarily the cleaning, clearing out and maintenance of properties that have been foreclosed upon. Services offered by these enterprises involve interior and exterior repair and maintenance ranging from debris removal, boarding of windows and doors, changing locks, [...]
It’s no surprise new businesses are still cropping up in the midst of one of the toughest economies and real estate markets in the nation’s history. With corporate downsizing and continuing layoffs, entrepreneurs are still opening their doors at maddening pace. Over Half of Companies Launched During a Recession According to a report entitled, “The [...]
A real estate contracting company handles duties that range from lawn care, to rehabbing and building, and everything in between. A popular sub-category of real estate contractors has fast become the foreclosure cleanup business. A foreclosure cleanup company performs tasks such as general cleaning, changing locks, and boarding up windows and doors of vacant and [...]
A foreclosure cleaning business is a service that handles interior and exterior cleanup and ongoing maintenance of foreclosed homes. With the astronomical number of foreclosures on the market today, the industry is growing by leaps and bounds. According to analysts at Amherst Securities Group LP, an approved underwriter for the Federal Home Loan Bank System, [...]
The industry of trash-out and foreclosure cleanup encompasses caring for REO (“real estate owned”) properties including those that sit empty and are in pre-foreclosure, or those lender-owned homes that have gone through the full foreclosure process. Industry Still in Its Infancy Many of these foreclosed properties are vacant and need services such as debris removal, [...]
Most successful people will tell you they did not make it alone; instead they had solid guidance along the way, often in the form of successful entrepreneurs who had already “made it,” succeeded, in business. Formal or Informal Alliance As you decide to put the pedal to the medal and grow your foreclosure cleanup business [...]
A foreclosure cleanup business encompasses primarily the clearing out, cleaning up and maintenance of foreclosed homes. Services can range from interior and exterior cleaning, debris removal, and lawn care, to painting, gutter cleaning, pressure washing, minor repairs, carpet cleaning and removal, the boarding of windows and doors, locksmith services, and more. Jack of All Trades, [...]
Part of business, any business, encompasses bill collecting. A foreclosure cleanup enterprise is no exception. Foreclosure cleanup encompasses the interior and exterior clearing out, cleaning up, repairing and maintaining of homes that have been foreclosed upon. As a business owner, if you have outstanding invoices in your cache of foreclosure cleaning paperwork, here are some [...]
Feedback from Customers Will Help You Grow Your Business Give clients what they want and they’ll use your services over and over again. Feedback from your clients is key in structuring your foreclosure cleanup business for growth. Why? Because client feedback guides you in ultimately structuring your business to fit what your clients want and [...]
Take mosquito spray to your foreclosure cleanup job site for you and your workers. I was at a worksite recently and got over ten bites within a few minutes! There was standing water about the house and in the crawl space. I’m a “Caribbean gypsy” and have experienced the worst of insects in the tropics, [...]
Many times new business owners are so eager to get the phone ringing that they forget the all important contract when the calls start rolling in. If a realtor, investor, homeowners’ association officer, mortgage company, or bank calls a foreclosure cleaning business to perform a job, the first thing the business owner performing the work [...]
