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What's that Smell?
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Imagine if the gate was locked !!!
Deliverence part 2
Deliverence part 2
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I wish I knew how to imbed those videos. Don' get no better than a Skynyrd video.
...or "Wrong Turn." My wife has not been able to understand the type of people that we sometimes run in to until I took a picture and showed her. He looked like Three Finger from Wrong Turn. I did not go in to the guys house. Did all the business on his porch. Bank draft never went through, and I did not go back.
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Took a fellow forum member on a ride along today in beautiful East TN to work some aged leads.
2nd house we got into -- as I'm preparing to begin asking health questions, the lady tells me, "Just so I'm upfront, I'm totally drunk."
!?!?
And it's 12:30-1PM on a Saturday...
She's drinking her Natural Ice (truly surprised by the sophistication) out of a straw in a hospital cup.
No I didn't close her.
PS: Sometimes I truly wonder what attracts me to selling this stuff.
2nd house we got into -- as I'm preparing to begin asking health questions, the lady tells me, "Just so I'm upfront, I'm totally drunk."
!?!?
And it's 12:30-1PM on a Saturday...
She's drinking her Natural Ice (truly surprised by the sophistication) out of a straw in a hospital cup.
No I didn't close her.
PS: Sometimes I truly wonder what attracts me to selling this stuff.
Jeesh, and here I thought this story was going to lead to a really cool ending... like she wanted to take advantage of you two young sailors...
Had one Friday that was on his 2nd, 3rd, 5th or 8th beer for the day [who knows]; this was at 1pm. Wondered how he would answer the Q about 'has anyone advised you to reduce your alcohol consumption...?' "NO" I guess we are good to go then. Of course he offered me a beer too, but had to decline due to company policy... and to those other 3 appts I had to run the rest of the day. Duh... Of course the way those 3 turned out I should have had a couple of beers with him; might have helped me close these nice folks...
Some folks really know how to live. He's 57 and sitting around the house drinking beer all day. While I might make a little more $$$ than him, he seemed to be having more fun than me.
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Anyone ever take the beer offer?
I have. Writing a couple apps out by the pool with a cold beer is a nice appointment.
I have. Writing a couple apps out by the pool with a cold beer is a nice appointment.
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I have an interesting presentation to share!!
I was working with a forum member the funeraldirector. I think we were working direct mail around sacramento ca.
We ended up in a trailer park talking to a resident named Dusty. He had responed to the direct mail peice we sent him and was more than happy to meet with us. He was a 60 something smoker with hep C I think and our companies rates were decent. After a rather quick presentation Dusty was on board.
While talking with dusty after everything was complete I nocticed that dusty had an abundance of tatoos. Being the curious George that I am I ask him about a few of the tats he had. One tatoo stood out in particular. It was a tree on his stomach. Of course curiosity got the best of me again and I ask how and when he obtained it. When I ask, Dusty got excited and ran back to his bedroom and rummaged through some things. When he came back he presented me with a home made tatoo gun!!
Dusty explained to me and funeraldirector that he had in fact gave himself every tatoo that he had. Inculding the the tree on his stomach. With that exact same gun that I was admiring. (which I happened to be holding at the time).
Astonished I complimented him on his handy work. I then tried to hand the home made tatoo gun to funeraldirector so he too could have a closer look as I did!!
Funeraldirector lowered his glasses looked at the gun and said: "yes he is quite the craftsmen!" Of course not taking the gun into his own hands.
If that wasn't bad enough good ole dusty wasn't done with us yet!! He told us that the tatoo on his stomach wasn't just a few branches and leaves. He told us that the tatoo was much bigger than it seemed and that he actually tatooed a trunk for the tree that went below his waist line!!!
Now you have to understand that sometimes I have a nasty little problem with blurting out things that just pop in my head. So of course I shout "No!! I don't believe that!!
Well.. dusty took that as a personal challenge and proceeded to stand up and pull his sweatpants down proving to us that he did have the trunk tatooed below his waist!
Mr. Funeraldirector is a very professional insurance agent and is not someone I would picture being in a situation like this. My first instinct was to turn towards funeraldirector so I could catch the look on his face!
As I thought it was priceless. It was the same look a father would have on his face if his only daughter told him she was going to give up all her worldly possessions to live in the rainforest for the rest of her life frolicking with all the little animals!
To me ...... just another day in the final expense biz!!
I was working with a forum member the funeraldirector. I think we were working direct mail around sacramento ca.
We ended up in a trailer park talking to a resident named Dusty. He had responed to the direct mail peice we sent him and was more than happy to meet with us. He was a 60 something smoker with hep C I think and our companies rates were decent. After a rather quick presentation Dusty was on board.
While talking with dusty after everything was complete I nocticed that dusty had an abundance of tatoos. Being the curious George that I am I ask him about a few of the tats he had. One tatoo stood out in particular. It was a tree on his stomach. Of course curiosity got the best of me again and I ask how and when he obtained it. When I ask, Dusty got excited and ran back to his bedroom and rummaged through some things. When he came back he presented me with a home made tatoo gun!!
Dusty explained to me and funeraldirector that he had in fact gave himself every tatoo that he had. Inculding the the tree on his stomach. With that exact same gun that I was admiring. (which I happened to be holding at the time).
Astonished I complimented him on his handy work. I then tried to hand the home made tatoo gun to funeraldirector so he too could have a closer look as I did!!
Funeraldirector lowered his glasses looked at the gun and said: "yes he is quite the craftsmen!" Of course not taking the gun into his own hands.
If that wasn't bad enough good ole dusty wasn't done with us yet!! He told us that the tatoo on his stomach wasn't just a few branches and leaves. He told us that the tatoo was much bigger than it seemed and that he actually tatooed a trunk for the tree that went below his waist line!!!
Now you have to understand that sometimes I have a nasty little problem with blurting out things that just pop in my head. So of course I shout "No!! I don't believe that!!
Well.. dusty took that as a personal challenge and proceeded to stand up and pull his sweatpants down proving to us that he did have the trunk tatooed below his waist!
Mr. Funeraldirector is a very professional insurance agent and is not someone I would picture being in a situation like this. My first instinct was to turn towards funeraldirector so I could catch the look on his face!
As I thought it was priceless. It was the same look a father would have on his face if his only daughter told him she was going to give up all her worldly possessions to live in the rainforest for the rest of her life frolicking with all the little animals!
To me ...... just another day in the final expense biz!!
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How do you know your rates were "decent". Who did you compare them to? Bankers, Old American, PM?
I've definitely had some appointments that I wouldn't go into at night and frankly felt uncomfortable during the day...even drove by and called the appointment to try and reschedule at a local coffee shop. Have smelled all types of things and could only guess. I've taken the beer offer (under the right circumstances) as my last appointment and it's a great way to end the day.
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I had an appointment years ago...nice sized home in an 80's neighborhood, couple of real rustbuckets in the driveway, lots of beat-up but originally nice furniture from the 60's, they owned several rental homes, the husband used to be a concrete man, so the entire back yard was paved concrete, they had abut 60 poodles in the back building they were breeding.
Said Wife used to own a C4 Corvette, but when she saw the C5 she told her husband, "I want one of those with the shiney wheels" reffering to the chrome package the C5 had. She didn't really want the new vette, she wanted the wheels. So she got a new C5 vette.
Then started telling me stories about how she first began in realestate when she was 16 years old, and never stopped.
Then she started telling me about her gawdy costume jewlery...about which deal she sold to aquire each one...and come to find out they were real. Imagine big costume jewlery on each finger, and finding out it's real
ROACHES EVERYWHERE! IN PLAIN VIEW! IGNORED!! Brushed aside like dust or crumbs!!! An accepted annoyance. And THEY were LANDLORDS!! LOL
No I didn't sell them
Yes I peaked in the garage window on the way out, brand new red C5 vette with chrome wheels. In the driveway 2-3 mid 80's domestics held together by rust. They said you don't want to collect rent in a nice car. So he drove the worst of the 3 to pick up checks lol
And inside, the roach duster/smasher hands were adorned with about $100k in diamonds.
FE is like a box of chocolates...just watch out for the ones that have legs...
Said Wife used to own a C4 Corvette, but when she saw the C5 she told her husband, "I want one of those with the shiney wheels" reffering to the chrome package the C5 had. She didn't really want the new vette, she wanted the wheels. So she got a new C5 vette.
Then started telling me stories about how she first began in realestate when she was 16 years old, and never stopped.
Then she started telling me about her gawdy costume jewlery...about which deal she sold to aquire each one...and come to find out they were real. Imagine big costume jewlery on each finger, and finding out it's real
ROACHES EVERYWHERE! IN PLAIN VIEW! IGNORED!! Brushed aside like dust or crumbs!!! An accepted annoyance. And THEY were LANDLORDS!! LOL
No I didn't sell them
Yes I peaked in the garage window on the way out, brand new red C5 vette with chrome wheels. In the driveway 2-3 mid 80's domestics held together by rust. They said you don't want to collect rent in a nice car. So he drove the worst of the 3 to pick up checks lol
And inside, the roach duster/smasher hands were adorned with about $100k in diamonds.
FE is like a box of chocolates...just watch out for the ones that have legs...
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