What an article! - Starting a roofing business

This is laughable. Actually instead of it being funny it made me irritated. Why would someone post like this, just to have something to write about? http://www.business2community.com/travel-leisure/starting-a-roofing-business-0260897

This article looks like it was generated by an article submission service - general, vague, full of keywords and not well written. Start a roofing company in Miami using this as your business plan and you'll soon be contemplating career options. http://www.roofermikeinc.com

Capitalism died a long time ago. We now live in the era of the financiers. You no longer need to know anything about the business you are in because owning the business is the key to success. Really, owning a business is not the key. Just providing the financing and buying and selling business will provide you with all the wealth. See for example the new republican candidate.

I honestly don't know what all y'all are trying to criticize here. Of all the times I've heard this subject discussed, she is the first one I've ever noticed mention what to me has always been obvious, you need to buy gas cans, and then more gas cans. Don't ever try to store your gas in Big Gulp containers or milk bottles. People might drink it by accident and as much as we pay for it now, it's worth more than winch levers or whatever else is deemed indispensable. Didn't hear any mention of W/C though. Here you have to have your own, even if you sub out. Contrary to the article's opinion, roofing is NOT a great long-term way to make easy money. FAR FAR from it. It's all risk and it's ALL hard. Every single inch of the way.

I thought I was the last person to still be using the term zipper for those narrow valley to hip pieces. It's a perfect description for them and I'll never think of them as anything else. Who on earth would even think of turning the tile like that. Even if it was flat tile. We are witnessing profound laziness.

I want to be an attorney. I want to start a lawyer firm. Maybe I can sue people who give this type of advice.

One of the ways to spot a hack tile job is when you have a zipper (a narrow roof between a valley and a hip) and just turn the tiles parralel to the valley instead of cutting them. The author (or editor) that posted the accompanying picture is clueless to that.

I clicked on the bio of the author and she apparently is an "expert" on many things. I have a friend who's daughter makes a living writing blog drivel like this. She gets anywhere from $20 to $80 apiece for her submissions. That doesn't allow you alot of research time.

After reading it, I wanted to close up my roofing company and open one like she wrote about!!!

I got an e-mail from Exactimate.

Evidently they now teach roofing too.....Kind of the horse has left the barn

They hadn't a clue. It must be some kind of joke. They might just as well have said, how to start a business building cars!

I posted a comment. We'll see if it gets posted.

Here are my comments;

"I love the part about buying all the supplies and equipment and I guess just leaving them on the sidewalk somewhere while you then go out and buy a truck, and maybe a trailer. I also love this part:"The next step in starting your business is to hire a qualified contractor. The contractors that you hire should be licensed and insured." I though 'you' were starting the business, which makes 'you' the contractor. So what's with hiring a contractor? Maybe you meant to hire employees. BTW, you skipped the part about having any knowledge of roofing. I guess the new contractor, you, just climb onto the roof and scratch you head and just decide to nail something down at some random spot?"

It doesn't say anything about knowing how to roof! Kind of important so that one knows how to price a job.