If orders continue to come in like they did over the weekend, December may be our busiest month of the year. We were out of town for the weekend and did not check our business e-mail and had no way of knowing what had come in on the fax machine.
When we got into the office – at the south end of our house - this morning there were 144 orders from one company, 152 from another, 55 from another and 2 on the fax machine. We got one order in the mail later in the day. This is all good – very good. It appears there will be no slow-down for the holidays this year.
In years past there has been a conspicuous decrease in the number of face-to-face interviews, delinquency interviews and foreclosure inspections during December. I always thought the decrease was due to the holidays. I see no slack being given this December though!
One of the companies that sends large quantities of requests sends them sorted by zipcode. Since we assign routes by zipcodes, it is a piece of cake to get those requests sorted and into the field. The other companies just send the requests in bulk with no concern for sorting of any type. It usually takes us an extra day to get these requests into the field.
I pulled up to one property today that had three repo guys out front – I recognize them pretty readily. They seemed to be doing well in their business – they had two brand new Dodge trucks both with sneaky snatch hooks folded down in the bed. It was two middle aged guys and one a bit younger that must have been the muscle. He looked it. I thought to myself that this guy, meaning the homeowner, must not be having a good day!
It’s very likely I will not be able to post everyday for a while. If I am able to post, I may have to be short. It looks like it is going to be a very heavy month. I did not work as hard today as I should have but I did get a lot of the rural stuff out of the way and I had a commercial inspection added to the end of my route.
The superhardtodeciphercode for today is (55•7.50)+(1•50)
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