Property Preservation Business Owners: Beware Of The Jack Of All Trades

Avoid hiring the "Jack of All Trades" contractor into your property preservation business even though he tells you that he can repair anything and everything. You will not figure out which types of jobs that he is NOT qualified to complete until it is too late.

Here's why...

Our property preservation business utilizes the services of independent contractors who specialize in specific trades and so we created a screening process so that we could eliminate having our time wasted by unqualified candidates. Even with this recruitment system in place, we have to be careful so that we don't surround our property preservation business with a bunch of "back yard" hooligans. Whenever someone tells me they are a "jack of all trades but a master of none", I immediately classify the person as a "jack-ass" and quickly remove them from our property preservation business vendor list. Experience has proven that the "jack of all trades" really is not good at repairing anything. But he is really good at making us believe him. But at the end of the day, our clients hold our property preservation business accountable for the quality of work we put out and we refuse to ruin our reputation that took 5 years to build.

There is an old saying that "you need to know what you don't know." I have seen many property preservation businesses go out of business because they "pretended" to know how to fix everything. Real property preservation business professionals tell their customers NO all the time because they are aware of their skills and qualifications. Here is a really important translation that can save your property preservation business from a monstrous headache: When you hear a customer ask you if you know how to do a specialized type of construction job they are really telling you, "I trust you and I would appreciate if you know of a professional quality contractor who specializes in this certain construction task so that I don't have to take the chance on hiring some random scumbag who is going to lie to me and say he can do the job even if he lacks the skills simply because his rent payment is due tomorrow and he really needs my deposit money." Do yourself a favor and re-read the previous translation one more time so that you never ever forget it. If you fail to heed this warning your customer will quickly become your worst enemy. And then you will probably wonder why you ever decided to open up a property preservation business in the first place.

If any "jack of all trades" people are still reading this then please realize that it is never too late to change. You are creating your own troubles by exaggerating your abilities. Regardless if you are ready to accept this truth or not, doesn't make it any less real. 

I think most people guilty of this are just not used to telling others that they don't do a certain type of work and/or because they haven't stuck around long enough after previous jobs to see the aftermath of their actions, so they might not even know the damage they cause.

Just because you worked for someone else for a couple months on their roofing crew or just because you helped your uncle install a roof at his house 7 years ago, does not make you qualified to offer roofing services to the general public for money. There are so many things that can and will go wrong if you do this. 

There's plenty of evidence of the disastrous consequences caused by others who are guilty of this same type of behavior on many of the Property Preservation industry forums. Find out lots more about this ever-changing industry at Property-Preservation.tech, where you'll find Property Preservation jobs in your local area.