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bryan newell
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 Posted - 08/27/2003 : 20:50:54
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Avery,
Instead of approaching individual adjusters you should target the carriers “vendor coordinators” for your geographical area. Compile a thorough brochure on your company’s capabilities & market yourself for the carriers preferred vendor program.
This will take some serious legwork, but all you need is to land on a top ten carriers list & you just became a multi-million dollar a year contractor.
By the way, I agree with the Law Man, it is best to not recommend anyone…. The recommendation leaves the door open for the Insured to wonder if you are receiving a “referral fee.” I have found that in this business perception carries a lot of weight. Worse than perception though is the fact that if the contractor messes something up, the Insured will call you to let you know that “your” contractor messed up.
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DEMIGOD
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Posted - 08/28/2003 : 07:03:01
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I for one would never allow or desire "ANY" insurance company or adjuster refer me to potential clients. Those contractors or vendors who try and gain business or referalls in such manner are really just insulting the adjuster in my opinion. It shows to me that thier lazy and potentially dishonest in thier business practices, which means that at some point they will deal dishonestly with and adjuster in the matters of a claim.
If I were to get referred by an adjuster or an agent I would want it to be unsolicited. Hey Mr. Policy holder I've settled several claims with so and so contractor and I've seen thier work and in my opinion they did an awsome job for our insured you might give them a call, but mind you were not affiliated in any way.
Let your praise come from another mans lips, instead of buying it. I'd call that adjuster and thank him and leave it at that.
So, anyways we try and distance ourselves from being identified with any insurance company and have been approached several times by many insurance companies to be a vendor or get on thier preffered contractors list, in which we respectfully decline and go about our business of restoring peoples homes on our own terms.
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Noble R. Nash
USA
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Posted - 08/30/2003 : 17:20:18
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| Avery,See what one honest mistake can stir up.We are all crazy but no one can take our integrity.That is something one has to give away.If you ever pass through Indiana,stop by any time,Im a PBR man. |
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TedPasan
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Posted - 08/30/2003 : 19:17:30
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Now Now Noble. You're going to confuse the gent.
You see as you acknowledge, you are a PBR man and Ghost is a RPB man and I am a BRP man and Roy (I think) is a BPR man and I am not sure about OlderThenDirt.
Let's not confuse folks around here with all these ACRONYMS or they might get out their SL-10-70-ADR's and we will all be put out to pasture. |
Edited by - TedPasan on 08/30/2003 19:20:14 |
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Ghostbuster
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Posted - 08/30/2003 : 19:59:33
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Gentlemen, Gentlemen, Gentlemen...
Please have the gracious manners to elucidate your acronymns prior to using them. With my increasingly limited cranial capabilities, the tossing out of so many random letters leaves me at wits end to interpret them. We thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Now...let's get down and dirty!
It's not that many of us won't take a piece of the action or that our conscience is so rightous and pure. Echoing the rapier wit of George Bernard Shaw when inquiring the availibility of a ladies charms, 'We know what we are, it's just a matter of establishing a price.'
I do not believe any of us would roll over for $C note, but what about something in the tax free, seven figure range?
How much would it take for you to be able to walk away to some other life?
Mind you, this is Saturday night, a time when our dreams and/or nightmares are based on the fantasies we weave this evening.
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olderthendirt
USA
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Posted - 08/30/2003 : 20:55:48
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| I believe that I cann't be bought, but until the test of a 7 figure offer in a suit case is in front of me, well would i be tempted yes. But would I have the strengh to walk away, I hope so. I do not expect to ever find out. |
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KileAnderson
USA
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Posted - 08/30/2003 : 22:12:12
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| Are you talking about real American money, small denominations, non-sequential serial numbers? Is it a nice suitcase? You have to be specific. These are important considerations. |
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Ghostbuster
476 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2003 : 06:55:25
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Well, OK, mostly $100's and $50's with a sprinkling of $20's and $10's. Ya realize that seven figure amounts of tax free cash does start to get kinda bulky. As for choice of luggage...that would really depend on one's own personal tastes and style. I wouldn't mind an old duffel bag, while my wife would have nothing less than a set of matched Louis Vuitton bought at full retail from a fashionable boutique.
Hmmm, seven figure gratutities and expensive wives, is there some kind of connection here I'm not seeing? |
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TomWeems
USA
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Posted - 08/31/2003 : 16:03:59
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Gee guys, I'm really amazed that in a cat situation you come into contact with so many contractors. I usually scope my loss, and if there is a contractor involved, we agree on the scope (or disagree) as we make the inspection. Once we have an agreeable scope, the rest is usually pretty easy. Since I'm not from the area I'm working in and don't know anyone there, I'm usually too busy to worry about someone paying for a round of golf, or being there for Christmas, or whatever. I look at time on site as an overhead item. I try and do it right the first time so we don't have to go back and do it over. I have found very few contractors that won't work off my scope, once we have gone over the loss and agreed on the damages and what might be excluded by the policy. Yes there are unethical contractors out there, just like there are unethical adjusters. But in a cat situation, I think most of us are working too hard and long to worry much about anything but keeping the telephone from eating up our shorts while we get our work done. Whatever a contractor might offer, it's not worth loosing your self respect over. Just my 2 cents.
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