Careers at GreenLight Group
Where happiness is the new productivity
Today J.O.B has become a dirty word. Work, we believe needs to be fun, educational, and something that will make you excited about jumping out of bed each morning. Forget the traditional 9 to 5 job — instead get paid to play, create, learn, and grow. It's like being a kid again, but with a salary.
The GreenLight Construction Group is an Insurance Roofing & Siding Restoration Contractor. Working within a recession-proof niche, storm damage effects millions of homes each and every year.
Build new friendships with homeowners & their family as you take them by the hand through the restoration process. Take them along a new vision for their home as you begin to paint the picture with each brush stoke of what their home will look like after the restoration is complete.
Build business skills as you work with Insurance Adjustors through the inspection process. Learn the art of communication and awareness as you build relationships with each Adjustor.
Play, create, learn, and grow with the freedom and the flexibility of controlling your own day, with expanding your work and passion beyond the walls of a 9:00 to 5:00 job.
The Overview: The Life of Storm Restoration Contractor
In 2010, Hailstorms in the United States caused nearly $10 billion in property damage to homes across the country. The vast majority of these storms take place from March through September annually.
Due to the sheer volume of damage and demand for roof (and siding, gutters, etc) replacement after a storm, local contractors cannot meet the needs of homeowners after a storm. Further, they are not as adept in the insurance replacement process as storm specialists are. Because of this, an entire niche industry has evolved over the past few decades in order to properly restore communities after storms.
A new type of contractor has emerged: "Storm Restoration". Highly mobile, moving state to state and responding to homeowner insurance claim demand created by storms. These contractors are licensed in every state in which they work, or will sometimes create a business partnership with a local roofer and perform all the business within that state under their name.
Contractors, however, are only part of the process. Marketing and sales for this industry is just as important and the vast majority of contractors subcontract this portion out to independent sales agents who represent them throughout the year. Compensation models vary from one contractor to the next, but one can reasonably expect to profit just as much as the contractor himself from each and every job.
The demand for quality sales representation remains incredibly high. When a hailstorm hits, time is the critical factor and competition can be as frenzied as a gold rush, so effective sales and marketing becomes critical. While even moderate stormers make good money ($75k-$125k/year), a good and dedicated stormer can readily double that amount.
A stormer is technically self-employed – a 1099 contractor – who is under contract with the construction contractor to represent him to the marketplace and sell his services. As such, the stormer reaps all the tax benefits of self-employment. Travel, food, lodging, etc on the road is tax deductible (bear in mind that some contractors pay for some of this for salesmen, so it's not out-of-pocket, thus not tax deductible). Also, being self-employed, a stormer is responsible for his/her own health insurance, just like any other business owner. There are, however, associations such as the National Association for the Self-Employed which one might join in order to get group buying power for such things.
Typical work will be meeting with homeowners, insurance adjustors, and doing inspections. Monday thru Friday, adjustor inspections are scheduled between the times of 8:00am & 3:30pm. Homeowner meetings can at time go up to dinner time depending on their schedule. Saturdays are typically flexible depending on work load. Mornings are generally spent doing administrative duties and, afternoons and evenings are spent selling, because that's when homeowners tend to be more available. Sales reps enjoy the opportunity to take months of vacation during the winter, during the off-season.
Time is the enemy in this industry and we need to accomplish as much as possible as quickly as possible after each storm event in order to maximize our own revenue and profit potential.
Greenlight Construction is always looking for top talent in the most storm hit areas of the country. Our end goal is to build our business model around a few select individuals who have the leadership skills, communication skills, sales skills, and an over all thirst to achieve in their life. If you can envision this fitting your own lifestyle, there's an enormous amount of work out there for you. If you're ready to commit, we can afforded you the opportunity to give you free training and connect you with the skills and awareness to go to work.
Thanks in advance.
Living Deliberately,
Joseph T Drew