RV LIVING VS STAYING IN A HOTEL DURING THE 2010 STORM SEASON

It doesn't take long for expenses to get out of control when you are storm chasing. There are advantages to both RV living and hotel stay. I have a 35 foot 5th wheel, which affords mobility, luxury, storage and ..best of all...privacy. There are still thousands of roofs to be bought in the Denver area and plenty of roofing companies looking for salespeople. Contact me if you are either looking for a sales position (I know of 2 reputable companies) or living arrangements during your stay or you are interested in buying a 5th Wheel. wayneducolon1@yahoo.com

My wife and I, along with our 2 jack russels, stayed in our motorhome inside my shop for 5 weeks last summer while our house was built. That was 4 weeks too long to stay in an RV! I would think it would be even worse this time of year in Denver as freezing pipes and holding tanks would be a concern.

As to the storm chaser aspect, that's just the way it is these days. The storm troopers have it down to a science, and they have countless adjusters in their pockets. There isn't a lot you can do about them other than tip off your customers to their tactics, e.g., waltzing into a hailstorm town with 500 one hundred dollar bills in their front pocket to buy out Mom & Pop Roofing Company so they can run full page ads stating they've been local for 63 years.

There is literally tens of million to be made after a hailstorm, and that drags in the storm chasers. I knew one Fort Worth roofer who grossed $140 million after one big storm.

All that said - and here's is the bad news for those who don't like storm chasers taking their business away - some of them are reputable and dependable. Most aren't but some are. One Kold Kinger out of Omaha runs a very good company, and he works storms. He's working the hailstorm in El Paso right now. But he opens up an office in the storm towns he works, and keeps the location open permanently after the storm. He has a very good reputation and national accounts so that he can get a quick start in most hailstorms. He wouldn't be able to keep those national accounts for all these years if he was a fly-by-night contractor.

Denver has had 2 or 3 major storms in the last couple of decades. I am sure the local roofing companies have been destroyed by this.

Seems the storm chasers have become rather whiny about this living on the road in a down economy...