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I leave a flier and some business cards with the realtor.  They give it to the buyers.  I follow up with a letter after the house sells.  The realtors are pretty good about it.  Some have even called me to clean the rest of it before the people move in.  So far It's worked out well.  I even do them for rental propertys.

I also advertise it on my specials page on the website.  http://www.anrcleanteam.com/specials.html

-- Edited by al9226 on Saturday 29th of September 2012 08:27:06 PM

-- Edited by al9226 on Saturday 29th of September 2012 08:34:17 PM

That's the way to think outside the box!

It's a different market now than before.  About half of the houses I do with this package are repo's and the realtor usually pays.  I give the realtor that I do 90% of my business with 30 days to pay.   I haven't had a problem with any of the realtors telling the customers to call me on the ones that aren't repos.

PS.  I just looked at 6 repo trailers that they have on Friday. 

-- Edited by al9226 on Sunday 30th of September 2012 08:59:25 PM

Any Realtor worth their salt shouldn't want or take a kick-back, plus in most states its illegal for them to do so without full disclosure to the homeowner. On a 700K sale, the listing agent should be pulling a commission of around 9,000-15,000 after broker split, hopefully they won't be swayed by the promise of a few hundred dollars.

Most good agents will however heartily recommend your services to the home-owner if they think it will give the listing a competitive advantage in the market.

even so, the incentive to sell a house faster if the roof is clean and doesn't need to be "replaced" is worth while.
I'm currently working on a house powerwashing, painting and having cedar boards replaced, new drywells, oversized gutters, interior painting etc etc to go on the market well over $50k to sell the house. if a realitor suggets "hey if your roof looks like new as well, then you can get top dollar for this proporty" I think the H.O. will go for it. As it is, the G.C. gets 10% to have others do the repair work, why would an agent be any different?

they usually are important if someone has multiple layers of roofing extending further out where as the rainwater overshoots the smaller ones or heavy rains that water overflows and floods near the foundation causing leaks into basements

Roof Cleaning Long Island N.Y 516-763-4108 wrote:

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I just want to say hey what's going on with these over sized gutters? I am seeing them every where and I wouldn't mind them for my house. What is making them so popular?

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Art I want you to stop by, I have a new garden hose gun I want to show you............

You mentioned the sidewinder! These guys don't know it but your like Dr. Frankenstein......I can't wait for the questions to poor in....maybe you will have to make a video?