Jerry's son Kevin owns the business. He got started by targeting restaurants. He would book the work and call cleaners with truck mounts and he would push the wand. They would move tables etc. I think he would pay them a hundred or 150. I don't really know. After he got about 75 accounts he bought a used tm. He wanted to use my equip once and I just laughed. Now he has an old Lancer with no working heat. This is his method. Please try not to laugh too hard. He mixes up oven cleaner, purple power, traffic lane cleaner, and slurry, and who knows what else. He takes a pressure washing tool and hoses the carept down at 1000 psi and floods the carpet. Then he vacuums the carpet with a wand to suck the water up. I heard this from some other cleaners. I have met hime several times and he seems like a nice guy. He just needs to learn how to clean properly. I have been behind him and his work is pretty shoddy. I even convinced some of his clients to pay me double and sometimes triple because I knew how to clean a filter. That lasted awhile and kept raising my prices until I wasn't really competitive anymore. Now some guy with a V is knocking them out for about 8 cents a foot and this guy payed full price for his rig (close to a hundred grand). It's fookin ridiculious. Dave Gill posted some nice photos of a job with rugs the other day. Memphis is loaded with multi million dollar homes. For the life of me I can't figure out why guys want to bottom feed especially with a 100,000 dollar machine.
