I just cant compete with the homeless

[bumblebee]

@getnbusy

One of my customers is a snowbird that comes from Oregon ( portland ) He didnt want to drive his 2010 BMW m3 convert, back to phx, as i was talking to him he asked if i would drive it back and he would pay for everything ! I jumped on that in a heartbeat.
He paid for my flight and gave me $ 650.00 to make it back and said i could keep the rest ! I made it back in a day 1/2 and put $ 422.34 in my account.
Where else are you going to go and get paid that kind of money and drive a $ 80k bmw and flirt with girls on the road and hit speeds over 140 mph ? Good thing there was no party poopers or i would of been in the pooper !
Moral of this is … be resourceful and open to different things.

When I want to go 140 mph, I’ll roll my F4i out of the garage and take it for a ride

[getnbusy]

@bumblebee

When I want to go 140 mph, I’ll roll my F4i out of the garage and take it for a ride

Very nice bike … I would love to have a bike like that or a harley , But if you do not have respect for them it will bite you back since they are very unforgiving.
I did have one in the mid 90’s CBR RR 900 !
I did nothing but get in trouble on that. Lic, revoked/suspended then i laid it down and that was the end of that since my family did not know if i was going to make it out of being in accoma for 2 weeks.

[bumblebee]

Yep, they can be dangerous. Over the last 35 years, I have logged over 400,000 miles on street bikes. I have dropped a few times. I dropped my track bike at JenningsGP a month or so ago coming out of a turn doing better than 100. I would like to thank those kangaroos who gave their lives to cover my arse

[llaczko]

I went down on a VFR years ago doing ~75MPH. Helping out a friend, and it turned out the bike’s front fork had an issue. Three days in the hospital and took 275 stitches, but I’m here…

[dexter445]

From homeless guys stealing my business to motorcycles. LOL.

[llaczko]

@dexter445

From homeless guys stealing my business to motorcycles. LOL.

“Stealing?” You were dropped by your seemingly-loyal customer.

[dexter445]

Ok stealing probably wasnt the right word

[Thad]

Buy the homeless guy a motorcycle. Maybe he will drop it and you can get your account back.

[Justin_Monk]

[greenearthwindows]

@dexter445

I lost a strip center account several months back. I called and asked if they were dissatisfied. they said no. They just found someone who could do it cheaper… I thanked them and if they needed me in the future let me know. I stopped in the strip center today to grab a bite and saw their new window cleaner. Yes a homeless guy. He had 1 squgee and old news paper and a spray bottle. I saw his bike and homemade triler to pull his crap with, parked on the side with his dog tied to it with a rope. . He also smelled homeless when I walked by (that great BO chicken soup combo). I told him I owned a shop across the street and what did he charge. On the nail salon he was working on. there were 15 .5 2x2 window up top 14 2.5x5 windows 15 2.5x2 on the bottom and a door. He did inside and out for $15. I asked for a card. LOL. he said he didnt have one but he could come over after he was done and give me a bid. I pulled out my cell and asked for a phone number to call him he said he didnt have one. I sure he had insurance though. LOL. I wanted to do a slip and fall right there.

Haha funny but would you try to work if you were homeless? At least he is working instead of cracking old ladies over the head for purses…just saying

[Bruce]

It seems that the property mgr or whoever does not value what a professional window cleaner can provide, and seems to be approaching it with a “as long as they look better than they did” attitude.

The budget was probably spent on something else, lots of vacancies and looking for aything that fits the leftover budget.

Perhaps the center will go into receivership shortly and you may not have gotten paid anyway.

With commercial so focused on price, that becomes the sole differentiating value point, turning the actual service into a commodity, making most everything else irrelevant.

[system]

You’ll always have these kinds of frustrations when doing any work 2 stories and below… everybody and their dog goes after these…homeless people, college students, high school kids, and anybody else who’s not really serious about their window cleaning business. If I were you, let it run off your back and stick to residential where homeless folks have a hard time making a good impression.

[system]

@getnbusy

Very nice bike … I would love to have a bike like that or a harley , But if you do not have respect for them it will bite you back since they are very unforgiving.
I did have one in the mid 90’s CBR RR 900 !
I did nothing but get in trouble on that. Lic, revoked/suspended then i laid it down and that was the end of that since my family did not know if i was going to make it out of being in accoma for 2 weeks.

I remember that CBR RR! It was the bike that finally beat my ZX 11R. 454 lbs with a full tank of fuel. Ah the good ol days!

[JohnWK]

it is a great board…with good professionals…i just ask if they would ever need a fill in if their cleaner was sick or if they retire…something to that effect if they have someone already…but for the homeless guy god bless him for trying to better himself.