How to
Find a Mentor For Your Foreclosure Cleanup Business
By Cassandra
Black
The foreclosure cleanup industry has been around for a long
time, but it has been cloaked under more formal labels of larger
companies. Familiar titles for this burgeoning, seemingly new, industry
are "risk management," "property preservation," "mortgage field services,"
etc.
While these larger, more formalized companies (such as property
preservation companies) tend to handle everything from assisting banks and
mortgage companies with the formal foreclosure process, to conveying
properties back to HUD after a loan has gone into default, a foreclosure
maintenance and cleaning business handles the frontline of property
maintenance and cleanup.
A foreclosure maintenance and cleanup business handles everything from
debris removal, to yard maintenance, to lock changing and window boarding,
to gutter cleaning and pressure washing, cleaning, carpet removal and
installation, to minor repairs and painting.
Networking with Like Industries for Growth
Though the phenomena of this business has really been around for a long
time as divisions of larger companies, this new term, "foreclosure
cleanup," may leave new business owners feeling like there is no outlet
for formal networking with businesses like theirs. And history has proven
new businesses need hub-type environments in which they can network
comfortably and learn from each other; networking environments with like
colleagues, where they won't always feel they have to be "on" and poised
to pitch their services to clients in the audience.
Where to Swamp Industry Ideas
Formal gatherings like chamber of commerce meetings are ideal for
pitching services. But for new foreclosure cleanup businesses, ideal
places to swap industry ideas about growth and challenges lie in industry
gatherings that house small businesses similar to theirs.
For example, joining a carpet association, or a hauling or landscaping
association, can provide a perfect outlet to learn from professionals who
are targeting the same client base cleanup businesses are targeting.
Cleaning Associations
Formal organizations like cleaning associations are another such outlet
for education and learned networking for cleanup business owners. New
business owners should visit organizations like the ISSA Worldwide
Cleaning Industry Association or the International Janitorial Cleaning
Services Association to check into membership options.
Business owners can join these organizations as associate- or
affiliate-type members to take advantage of the meetings, networking,
mentoring and business training events.
Virtual Networking
Another virtual networking option is to sign up with industry forums.
Forums and chat rooms are places new foreclosure cleanup business owners
can ask pertinent industry questions in an effort to learn how to
effectively work with real estate industry clients that existing
participants are also likely targeting (larger property preservation
companies, realtors, mortgage companies and banks).
Some of the best allies for foreclosure cleanup businesses will be the
owners of businesses that already offer some of the services that new
foreclosure cleanup businesses offer.
Best Business Allies
Below are some industry organizations and associations new foreclosure
cleaning business owners should considering joining in an effort to learn
how to successfully navigate their business in the real estate industry --
and to foster valuable industry contacts that will, ironically, eventually
refer them business.
--Cleaning and Janitorial Associations
--Painting Contractor Associations
--Builder Associations
--Plumbing Associations
--Lawn Care Organizations
--Winterization Associations
--Pressure Washing & Gutter Cleaning Organizations
--Handyman Associations
--Carpenter Associations
One of the keys to a profitable enterprise is to surround yourself with
like businesses in effort to share and learn from challenges and successes
alike.
Good luck with your new business!
Cassandra Black is the Author of How to Start a Foreclosure Cleanup
Business: FREE
Articles & Advice Blog and How to Start a
Foreclosure Cleanup Business eBook
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