Not sure I guess he is a chamber member. My wife was on some sort of group with him. Richard , as for being crazy maybe a little. I figure whats the use of getting all jumpy everytime a new cleaning gig comes to town. I worked my self to the point of insanity to get where I am at and my success has only been marginal in the grand scheme of things. If you can make it in this business my hats off to you. I actually get a lot of work from other contractors. I do a lot of vct and hard surface which accounts for around a third of our revenue so that kind of insulates me from the carpet battlefield. I can respect anyone who wants to be a business owner and work hard. My only concern with franchises is that they tend to bring the brainwashed corporate mindset and method bashing to the table rather than learning the trade in its entirety. Ive lost track of how many times I have had to re educate customers from bad information regarding mold and mildew that the local chemdry has embedded into peoples minds. Cant say Im thrilled but I know there is no silver bullet to cleaning every carpet so I dont really feel threatened. I will say that when I see a new competitor it does make me want to strive to treat my customers well because I know that someone else is hungry and will take them from me if I dont.
That's kind of what im thinking. being vlm only really isolates you to being able to deliver on a certain type of carpet which is going to be very lightly soiled residential and maybe some commercial office. I cant see how you could get any kind of decent result on a pet odor job using a crb. I have a hard enough time with pet odor using a tm. Kind of also eliminates you from restaurants. Most of the bigger property managers want tm hwe anyway. I cant imagine this person having a solid cleaning background because if they did they would know that vlm isn't going to phase some of the nasty stuff that's out there. Also I am beginning to feel like the local chemdry has made people skeptical of this low moisture cleaning because I receive several calls where people request "steam cleaning"
