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Tonight's Hot Seat should be a hoot.
I want to remind every one that like ALL Hot Seat Guests Bob should be treated with respect and you should all act like the grown adults you claim to be. The purpose of this interview is to learn from Bob's experiences. Anyone who has been cleaning for over 40 years will surely have something to teach you.
If you are only here to give him a hard time you will be ejected from the room
Now on with the show~
Bob,
First off I want you to answer one of the pre asked questions originally sent to you but didn't get answered .
How would your company go about cleaning a 1200 foot home that was just moved out of and left filthy by it's last tenants. Garbage is all over the floor, Nails Crumbs, food pet hair, Dry wall etc.
Along with lots of dried paint there are also urine puddle form a large dog in some areas. The carpet is a five year old nylon reverse twist pile.
It also needs to be completely dry so the new tenants can move in the next day.
Pleas give us step by step details about how you would attack this situation.
Take you time while the members here read the next set of questions and answers.
Thanks Bob.
How did you get into CCing?
Well after doing what most other young people at the time was doing, sex drugs and rock and roll. Biker Gangs and prison for a half a joint and a failed marriage......I got married again! Great Gal however she was fresh outa school and neither one of us had jobs!
Look in the want ads and saw "help wanted" apartment manager......great Gig in St Clair Shores Mi on the water! We ran 765 apartments...I quickly noticed that the painters and the carpet cleaners was making good money! So I went to my boss an's ask if I could do those chores and make extra money.......SURE!!!! He was a great boss!
So I become an instant painter AND carpet cleaner....AND had 765 CAPTIVE customers to start out!
Your history in a nutshell please...
Well at first i used a Clark 17" shampoo machine but that didn't cut it so i went out and spent $4000.00 for a Clark Stainless Steel Portable with a drag wand...sucked!
Somehow I heard about a guy named Gene Bates out in California who built these things called "truck mounts" We drove out there and pulled one home in a trailer.
BIG RED...a bohemeth machine with a FOUR cyl PERKINS Diesel engine...I WAS THE CATS ASS in Michigan.....
I started cleaning some of my bosses friends in the Grosse Points ..The Woods The Shores ....I soon became very busy and we put a full page ad in the YP....I had a crew to paint AND to clean...
Soon I was playing out on the water with my new Cigarette race boat and BLOWing through dough like it was water!
What was the biggest mistake you made in your biz?
Probably Partying too much with the easy money I was making.....my boat could blow out 100Gal in TWO hours....and the girls all liked the guys with race Cigarettes for sure!
So I got another Divorce
Any regrets that you didn’t go after the highend clients out in the burbs?
I've cleaned mansions in the shores to Gov Rommey's Mansion in Bloomfield Hills....who do you guys think your dealing wit here?
What was the maximum amount of trucks & employees at any one time.
i had three working trucks at one time...NEVER AGAIN......it NOT about how much money you make....it's ALL about how much you can KEEP after taxes and all the other business expenses.
Describe your average client.
So now well fast forward to several more divorces and i moved my business yet agian....
close to Pontiac Mi a GM worker town mostly black people that have worked all their life and live in a small dingy hose...although usually clean!
Back then I needed to get started again so I put flyers inserts into local community papers....you could even chose the ZIP that they were sent to.......THE PAPER MESSED UP...sent my flyer to the WRONG part of town....THE GHETTO....DAMN i was pissed!
But all of a sudden my phone lit up......from the Ghetto! They liked the $44.95 TWO ROOM special i had!
So it started...the Black Community is usually a very closed community...it's hard to break into...they do things by word of mouth mostly...if you can make one family happy...they will tell TEN of their friends.....
Im happy to say that I have Pontiac pretty much nailed down...however i HAVE seen Kens truck in there some lately. And that Modernistic guy is nosin' around some too!
Do you have any competitors that you worry about?
NO..theres plenty of carpet out there!
What was the biggest mistake you made in your biz?
Probably by being a self centered ass when it came to my women
Do you still get on the truck and push a wand?
Yes i do sometimes if I have to train a new guy.....i've been very fortuate my First tech stayed 16 year
I had one 12 years several 6 and 7 years.....latley Hoekilla lasted two and now DoeKilla is at seven months
Have you saved/invested enough dough to retire the biz some day?
Sure..just like every other person in the great state of Michigan I'm jus rollin' in the dough.....
actually I worry about the poor house every day!
Do you clean upholstery as well? Tile? Windows?
Sure We clean upholstery all the time
If you could take your wife on a two week all expenses paid vacation next week where would you go?
Although I have been to almost every state....and have no need to travel, my wife still hasn't been to Las Vegas...so i guess i could stand it one more time although I love the Lake tahoe and State Line areas better!
If you were to be stranded on a desert island with five of your favorite BBoarders who would they be?
DUDES?????????
You have to give me a better choice!
Boxers or briefs?
That makes you a perv to even ask that.....however if you jus HAVE to know...
IT'S........ C O M A N D O
Now go burn your eyeballs out wit sharp sticks......
Tonight's Hot Seat should be a hoot.
I want to remind every one that like ALL Hot Seat Guests Bob should be treated with respect and you should all act like the grown adults you claim to be. The purpose of this interview is to learn from Bob's experiences. Anyone who has been cleaning for over 40 years will surely have something to teach you.
If you are only here to give him a hard time you will be ejected from the room
Now on with the show~
Bob,
First off I want you to answer one of the pre asked questions originally sent to you but didn't get answered .
How would your company go about cleaning a 1200 foot home that was just moved out of and left filthy by it's last tenants. Garbage is all over the floor, Nails Crumbs, food pet hair, Dry wall etc.
Along with lots of dried paint there are also urine puddle form a large dog in some areas. The carpet is a five year old nylon reverse twist pile.
It also needs to be completely dry so the new tenants can move in the next day.
Pleas give us step by step details about how you would attack this situation.
Take you time while the members here read the next set of questions and answers.
Thanks Bob.
How did you get into CCing?
Well after doing what most other young people at the time was doing, sex drugs and rock and roll. Biker Gangs and prison for a half a joint and a failed marriage......I got married again! Great Gal however she was fresh outa school and neither one of us had jobs!
Look in the want ads and saw "help wanted" apartment manager......great Gig in St Clair Shores Mi on the water! We ran 765 apartments...I quickly noticed that the painters and the carpet cleaners was making good money! So I went to my boss an's ask if I could do those chores and make extra money.......SURE!!!! He was a great boss!
So I become an instant painter AND carpet cleaner....AND had 765 CAPTIVE customers to start out!
Your history in a nutshell please...
Well at first i used a Clark 17" shampoo machine but that didn't cut it so i went out and spent $4000.00 for a Clark Stainless Steel Portable with a drag wand...sucked!
Somehow I heard about a guy named Gene Bates out in California who built these things called "truck mounts" We drove out there and pulled one home in a trailer.
BIG RED...a bohemeth machine with a FOUR cyl PERKINS Diesel engine...I WAS THE CATS ASS in Michigan.....
I started cleaning some of my bosses friends in the Grosse Points ..The Woods The Shores ....I soon became very busy and we put a full page ad in the YP....I had a crew to paint AND to clean...
Soon I was playing out on the water with my new Cigarette race boat and BLOWing through dough like it was water!
What was the biggest mistake you made in your biz?
Probably Partying too much with the easy money I was making.....my boat could blow out 100Gal in TWO hours....and the girls all liked the guys with race Cigarettes for sure!
So I got another Divorce
Any regrets that you didn’t go after the highend clients out in the burbs?
I've cleaned mansions in the shores to Gov Rommey's Mansion in Bloomfield Hills....who do you guys think your dealing wit here?
What was the maximum amount of trucks & employees at any one time.
i had three working trucks at one time...NEVER AGAIN......it NOT about how much money you make....it's ALL about how much you can KEEP after taxes and all the other business expenses.
Describe your average client.
So now well fast forward to several more divorces and i moved my business yet agian....
close to Pontiac Mi a GM worker town mostly black people that have worked all their life and live in a small dingy hose...although usually clean!
Back then I needed to get started again so I put flyers inserts into local community papers....you could even chose the ZIP that they were sent to.......THE PAPER MESSED UP...sent my flyer to the WRONG part of town....THE GHETTO....DAMN i was pissed!
But all of a sudden my phone lit up......from the Ghetto! They liked the $44.95 TWO ROOM special i had!
So it started...the Black Community is usually a very closed community...it's hard to break into...they do things by word of mouth mostly...if you can make one family happy...they will tell TEN of their friends.....
Im happy to say that I have Pontiac pretty much nailed down...however i HAVE seen Kens truck in there some lately. And that Modernistic guy is nosin' around some too!
Do you have any competitors that you worry about?
NO..theres plenty of carpet out there!
What was the biggest mistake you made in your biz?
Probably by being a self centered ass when it came to my women
Do you still get on the truck and push a wand?
Yes i do sometimes if I have to train a new guy.....i've been very fortuate my First tech stayed 16 year
I had one 12 years several 6 and 7 years.....latley Hoekilla lasted two and now DoeKilla is at seven months
Have you saved/invested enough dough to retire the biz some day?
Sure..just like every other person in the great state of Michigan I'm jus rollin' in the dough.....
actually I worry about the poor house every day!
Do you clean upholstery as well? Tile? Windows?
Sure We clean upholstery all the time
If you could take your wife on a two week all expenses paid vacation next week where would you go?
Although I have been to almost every state....and have no need to travel, my wife still hasn't been to Las Vegas...so i guess i could stand it one more time although I love the Lake tahoe and State Line areas better!
If you were to be stranded on a desert island with five of your favorite BBoarders who would they be?
DUDES?????????
You have to give me a better choice!
Boxers or briefs?
That makes you a perv to even ask that.....however if you jus HAVE to know...
IT'S........ C O M A N D O
Now go burn your eyeballs out wit sharp sticks......
