How To Prepare Your Foreclosure Cleaning Business For Spring Profits!
Spring is in the air, and there are plenty of opportunities for a new foreclosure cleaning business owner to grow their business by offering industry staple services. Service areas specific to the foreclosure industry will flourish as temperatures rise.
Warm weather equals cash for foreclosure cleanup
Hot weather brings many unpleasant scenarios in abandoned houses and properties that have been foreclosed on. These inconveniences can amount to an influx of cash for the smallest business poised to reap the benefits of the warm spring season, during the hot summer months.
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Services like interior and exterior debris removal, foreclosure cleanup, and yard work will increase as temperatures rise. Regular lawn maintenance, trash pickup work, and general foreclosure cleanup jobs can help new foreclosure cleanup businesses stay afloat while living for more desirable jobs that consist of bulk orders.
Many times, the critical permanent jobs will come directly from the real estate agents and other real estate contractors located in the backyard of a new foreclosure cleanup company.
The bread and butter of startups
While coveted double-digit job orders from banks and large property maintenance companies are ideal, stable, local, basic contracts will often prove to be the bread and butter of many start-ups.
Spring is the perfect seasonal opportunity for new business owners to saturate their geographic area with flyers, postcards, letters, emails, phone calls, face-to-face meetings, and marketing efforts. This will ensure that new foreclosure cleanup companies are at the forefront of potential customers’ minds as warm weather approaches.
How Spring will increase cleaning profits
One example of how spring will drive the need for basic services: With warm weather comes stench, a sweet-smelling stench in the form of foreclosure cleanup work. Debris that has been left behind in a home during the winter months won’t be as inconspicuous when warmer weather arrives, especially in neighborhoods with houses close together.
You might think that homeowners will call homeowners association (“HOA”) officials because of the smell seeping in from next door or down the block. The HOA officers will then contact the real estate agent listed on the sign in front of the house. After that, the real estate agent on the listing will eventually contact the bank or mortgage company responsible for the foreclosure listing (seeking permission to complete the job).
Another example of how spring will boost profits is found in simple yard work. With warm weather comes tall grass that will need regular mowing and overgrown bushes and branches that will need trimming. Most subdivisions have more than a few foreclosures these days, and you might think the neighbors will be making noise to make sure their properties aren’t further depreciated by homes left in neglected states.
Adding cause for concern, foreclosed homes that are visibly in need of maintenance are burglary magnets. So the hotter it is, the more concerned neighbors will go out of their way to get someone off the properties to maintain them for the season.
Will these potential customers know about your foreclosure cleanup company?
Start saturating your area with your business name
If you’ve begun cluttering your area with foreclosure cleanup brochures, business cards, and marketing materials (and have worked hard to carve out a suitable niche for your business to gain “share” when it comes to foreclosure cleanup in your area), you’ll be perfectly prepared to take advantage of the work that will begin to flood, along with the warm weather. If you haven’t started, now is the perfect time; the first day of spring was not long ago.
Many wishes for great success in growing your foreclosure cleanup business!