I started my home inspection company in 2017. It's a grind working in the real estate sector (it never sleeps!), and in a business with significant liability, where you rely on your reputation, it takes time and a lot of hard work to gain traction. Then came the pandemic. After a standstill of a couple weeks when we were all trying to figure things out in California (and real estate was then deemed an “essential business”), the housing market took off like a rocket! Things got too busy to spend time marketing because I was constantly inspection, along with the one employee inspected I had (thankfully) just hired. At the beginning of 2024, I had two inspector employees (and a full-time assistant). Within the first three months of the year, both my inspectors left for different personal reasons, leaving me with 1/3 of my work force (the remaining third being me!). This was a huge setback for the business. I got to work hiring and training a new inspector and doing a lot of inspecting myself. I kept up the grind! At the end of the November, 2024, my new inspector is still honing his craft, but with just one employee inspector, in eleven months, we have surpassed last year’s twelve-month gross revenue by nearly 12%. And our average job size is up over 13% for the year. I have big plans for 2025, but I’m very proud to have weathered the sudden loss of my entire employee work force and still come out ahead in 2024, even though the year’s housing market has been among the worst in U.S. history. Thank you, Constant Contact, for being my go-to mass communication method for marketing my business!
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