Rich neighbor hoods? I need prospects!

[Gasser64]

Strange topic for a thread but at this point ill use any resource available to me!

As I have said before i am a roofing salesman. Targeting roofs and knocking on doors. But i dont do composition roofs (shingles) I only do metal roofs. I used to do compositions but the process is too long for a margin that is just too low. So I got the training and now I just do metal. I will do comps but I dont usually seek them out

But for those of you who have ever been in sales youll understand where im at right now. No commissions in over a month and a half! The debt buzzards are circling lower lol

The thing is I need new territory to stomp. I have pretty much tapped out all my old areas. So what are some upper end neighborhoods in dallas, fort worth, and arlington? Or any of the surrounding places. I have to say I certainly dont know them all. Usually its houses that were built from 1975 to 1995. These are the older but bigger houses. Some of them in very nice neighborhoods. I have read some posts here where some members were talking about the nicer neighborhoods so I thought it wouldnt hurt to ask

[CyaNide]

Ask Tyrone Bigumms. He enjoys talking to roofing contractors.

CN

[Sean88gt]

You going to be better off in the country.

[Jewrrick]

You going to be better off in the country.

This, hit the outlying areas like Burleson, Cleburne and Alvarado to the South and then Weatherford, Lake Worth, Azle and Saginaw around the edges of Fort Worth. The further North the more damage from my understanding. Have you been up to Denton yet, they had some baseball size hail up there.

[Trip McNeely]

What's worse, a door-to-door salesman or a telemarketer?

[S_K]

Strange topic for a thread but at this point ill use any resource available to me!

As I have said before i am a roofing salesman. Targeting roofs and knocking on doors. But i dont do composition roofs (shingles) I only do metal roofs. I used to do compositions but the process is too long for a margin that is just too low. So I got the training and now I just do metal. I will do comps but I dont usually seek them out

You got out at the wrong time! Get back in and quick. Roofing salesmen are working 24/7 now days. Pretty much everything north of 121 got serious hail damage. Denton got the worst of it.

You are going to starve trying to sell metal roofs exclusively. Most people just don't like them.

[BradM]

Only doing metal? Sounds like you're putting yourself behind the 8 ball. There are probably 2 metal roofs in my neighborhood of around 100 homes. Most are composite. Maybe I just don't know the benefits of a metal roof.

[1carcrazyguy]

Just look for the cowhide door mats.

[Gasser64]

This, hit the outlying areas like Burleson, Cleburne and Alvarado to the South and then Weatherford, Lake Worth, Azle and Saginaw around the edges of Fort Worth. The further North the more damage from my understanding. Have you been up to Denton yet, they had some baseball size hail up there.

Thanks I'll take a look! We have a couple of guys working Denton. We try not to step on each others toes if you know what I mean. Back before that big hail storm in denton I was working a couple of sweet neighborhoods in arlington and since I was working them the other salesmen wouldnt go out there and try to get the roofs. Sort of a professional courtesy. Can you say specific neighborhoods or streets? If you can I might be able to compare with what they are doing and not be weaseling in on their deals

Only doing metal? Sounds like you're putting yourself behind the 8 ball. There are probably 2 metal roofs in my neighborhood of around 100 homes. Most are composite. Maybe I just don't know the benefits of a metal roof.

Well i focus on metal because you make way more. On a composition roof you might make $2000-$3000 on the higher end. On the low end its about $800 lol. And this may just be my experience but from what I can tell its much more of a niche market than comp roofs. There are a lot of roofing co.'s out there that just dont mess with metal. Most of them prefer shingles it seems to me. I have tried to sell jobs to most of them and often times they just wont take them. Even if they want the work there is always some reason like they dont have qualified sub contractors or something

If you can get metal that number goes way up. $15k on the higher end, $8k on the lower end. But im really not going to them and trying to get them to upgrade. More like going to existing ones and seeing if it has hail damage and replacing the roof with yet another metal roof

To clarify its not that barnyard stuff its this:

http://www.classicmetalroofingsystems.com/products/country-manor-shake/

And this:

http://www.bestbuymetals.com/stone-coated-metal-shingles.html?gclid=CKuBsciC_b0CFZRr7AodBUAAgQ

[Chili]

I just don't see many people in residential, suburban areas getting metal roofs. The few I do see are in the rural areas. And that is a shitty door-to-door territory.

Also, based on your cost references, I have to assume that insurance companies aren't likely to cover a steel replacement of a composition roof? That's also going to hurt you if the homeowner has to cover the difference out of pocket. I bet most would rather risk paying a bit of a deductible and having to replace it more often. Not that metal isn't preferable in many ways, just saying.

Oh, and fwiw, I HATE door to door sales of any type. I would almost rather pay more than to "reward" that business practice.

[Forever_frost]

I have a steel roof and love it. You get an insurance deduction for it and it lasts for quite a while.

There were tornadoes in Sulphur Springs a few weeks ago.

[Chili]

Supposed to be a bunch of severe weather Sunday too, I believe.

[slow99]

My neighborhood has quite a few, including my home, but we haven't had a severe storm this year.

[dblack1]

I don't see how you talk people into spending the extra $300+ a square for those.

I toured a place that makes a metal shingle panel like that decra. He took 24ga colored metal, stamped it, powdercoated it, hung it, then last step of running it through an oven. The margin on it was insane.

[Chili]

My neighborhood has quite a few, including my home, but we haven't had a severe storm this year.

Is a metal roof the new cowskin rug? Balla status confirmed!