Wanted to share some information with you that could help the debt load of some of your clients. We were invited to meeting of our peers in our RE/MAX club level. About 300 were in attendance. It's always a place of ideas from the best of the best.
Walter J. Schneider co-owner of RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada Inc. was the keynote speaker and brought up a very interesting fact with regards to storage units.
He said that there are in access of 60,000 storage centres in North America. That's centres not units. He has a friend that owns about 15,000 units. Theses units are usually paid on a monthly basis and the norm is that 150-200 units fall in arrears for non-payment each month. The usual notices are sent and eventually the contents of the units are seized to be sold to recover the arrears.
So here is what we are getting at. In almost every instance, 75-80% of the contents is just thrown into the garbage and most of the rest is given to places like the Salvation Army.
Here's the point, these units are costing 100's of dollars each month. In times when every dollar counts, why are people paying to store junk. We are sure they can use the money for many other necessary things.
The challenge to you is to get the message out to your clients. Maybe they are paying on a automatic payment system and have forgotten their stored junk. So why not put a little article in your next newsletter or blog to remind them.
They say "one man's junk is another man's riches", maybe it's time to pass the junk on and spend the money you save on something useful.
Al and Peggy Cunningham
http://www.TheHousePeople.com
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