Mortgage Field Services

Field Services: Scam or Legitimate Opportunity ?

First, Identify the Enemy

Posted on | January 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

So many wonderful things happened today and my excitement meter is setting on 133 but first: a friend, a police officer, my backup on too many occasions died Sunday and will be buried tomorrow.  He was an outstanding police officer, a dependable partner and a good friend.  His name was John and he will be remembered.

Sandy, thank you so much for the books.  Gestures such as yours encourages me to help as much as I can.  You will get to see some of the results these books will bring.  Thank you!

Who is your enemy?  You may not have any – none that you can think of right off.  Well, I have plenty of enemies and I have named most of them.  You may have heard of some of them.  I can start off with Worry, a really tough guy – hard to shake off sometimes.  At times I think I have rid myself of Doubt but he shows up when I think I’m in the clear.  Guilt is a deceptive and conniving enemy that has left me with some nasty bruises.  I can pretty much hold my own with Fear but he has a tendency to bring some of his buddies with him; guys like Doubt, Loneliness and that creep Low Self Esteem.

I’m just an ordinary guy – I’m sure pretty much like you.  I know every word of Melancholy Blues and no longer have to look up the spelling of euphoria.  There are days, boy there are days!  Why all this @#&* about enemies and stuff?  It’s because I want to let you know that I get calls just about every day from someone that has beaten back one or more of their enemies.  I’m pumped up just about every day with success stories.  Don’t get me wrong, not everyone succeeds - but the drop outs don’t call.

Wouldn’t it make you feel good if you could pick from the following list of people to help them out even just a little?  This is just a sample of the callers this month:

  • Recently laid off wife and mother with a disabled husband
  • Mother of three without a job
  • Bored widower
  • Recovered alcoholic – he said recovering, I say recovered
  • Successful business person needing a new challenge
  • College student needing text books

I get to help them all and it’s great!  Ok, enough of the rah, rah.  What happened today?  Only sixteen on the route and they were miles and miles apart.  I was out six hours and covered a lot of ground.  I did have my accomplishments however.

This is simple enough but you may not know about it.  I have been looking for a property for about a month now.  I have made four trips to the neighborhood and knocked on twenty doors.  I counted them.  Five houses on the street; four trips – twenty door knocks.  Never anyone home.  Today I decided I just had to have an answer.  I really needed to put it to rest once and for all.  Is the house I’m looking for really the one I think it is?  It’s one of those streets where all the mailboxes are out on the main road and no one on the street, actually a dirt trail through a cotton field, has a number on their house.

Well, enough is enough.  I went to the power meter on the side of the house and wrote down every number on the face of it.  Then I called the power company.  It went something like this:

This is Terry Platt and I represent (NameOfBank).  I’m looking for a particular property and I think I have located it but there are no numbers on the house.  If I give you a meter number, can you verify that the address is (AddressLookingFor).

Yes sir, I can do that.

Now is that easy or what?  I did not ask the power company to verify who lived at the house or who is on the record.  They usually will not do that due to privacy matters.  They will, however, match a power meter to an address.  So, if you ever need it, there it is.  Just be sure you have the power company phone number in your cell phone.

I’m seeing a lot of activity at ComplyTraq.  If you have not already done so, register at their site.

Be sure to check with your local insurance agents and let them know you are available for drive-bys, pictures, etc. 

Visit groups.yahoo.com and search for InsuranceandMortgage_Services.  There is an underline between Mortgage and Services.  Join this group.

  

For he knew that the secret of happiness was freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart; and he did not stand idly aside from the onset of the enemy.

Thucydides, funeral oration of Pericles, 429 B.C.

   

InsuranceandMortgage_Services-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Category: Mortgage Field Services

Comments

2 Responses to “First, Identify the Enemy”

  1. Mike Huett
    January 31st, 2007 @ 1:34 am

    Terry-I replied to a link you had for TIS,when they called he gave me a web-site for a group of inspection companies with contact information its-www.arco-members.com.

  2. terry
    January 31st, 2007 @ 4:44 pm

    When you contact a company and they offer you information that helps you acquire more assignments from other companies, that is a sure sign that you are dealing with a company that does care.

    It’s my opinion that if a company appreciates good field reps, they will offer suggestions that can help insure the field reps success. Information like the names of other companies.

    Thanks for letting me know about that, Mike. Kudos to TIS. Contact TIS through their website at http://www.tisinspects.com

Leave a Reply





  • Digital Field Services, LLC

    We Have A New Nation-wide Account Reps Needed In Every State Apply at: www.DigitalFieldServices.com

  • Recent Comments

  • Polls

    Do you ever have to mis-state field results due to limitations of the supplied forms?

    View Results

    Loading ... Loading ...