All Forum Posts by: Paul Crowson

For me in Houston, which most any zip codes have a larger database than what you are talking about, if I want to target 1,000 homeowners, I do a door hanger in that area, yes, I will hang personally 1,000 door hangers on those properties, and will get lots of quality phone calls from it, even getting emails responses back too. 

Well, I don't know but maybe perhaps your logo might be too big for the mail merge when the recipient addresses are loaded onto your templates,

I use click2mail, and it took a few trial runs, and spending some time with the support staff thru their live chat features to get my own images to work properly the first time I used them.

There is a new company I have found called postcardmania.com , but I haven't tried them at all yet. 

I picked the company (click2mail) that had the best reviews, and have a substantial support service, thru live chat to help me with things. 

I get thru to an operator as quickly as possible, by going thru the prompts as if i am creating a brand new account every time I call in, that is about the quickest way I have found to to get it done, and sometimes if I need to check back with them the next day or two, I will ask them to call me back and they will, the only problem I have with that is that they call from a restricted number, and I can't identify it, so sometimes I miss the call back, but it does work. I found that the online account service they usually provide isn't reliable at all, and you have to keep logging in to check it, just my experiences. 

anyone out there using voxer.com in your REI to communicate with your team?

Thanks Sam, I am running it up several flag poles for sure, and getting good advice, and getting my own ways of handling it properly validated, etc. Found another guy on my facebook group that had fought it the wrong way on a rehab in the Heights, and he ended up having to take 5 feet off his porch, but he did change the footprint going back with concrete under the wooden deck porch, rather than keeping the wood deck framing the same, and he extended the concrete out past the porch itself, which did in fact change the original foot print, my project manager has been doing these rehabs 40 years in Houston, but this thing really stressed him out, and he knows the inspectors really well, the tipping point for him was that they were using a aerial google map image of the house and porch, which isn't valid for a gazillion number of reasons, we are going back in this morning at 8 am hoping to just have a different inspector, and getting a 2nd opinion, because our recent survey shows the building line and house structure and porch are within the measurements that they are calling for, thank God for that!

Has anyone had a permit issued lately in Houston when rehabbing an old house?

Ok here is my story today... I am updating an old house and front porch. The City of Houston saw on google maps that I changed the roof line of the porch The City is now saying that it is an addition not an improvement and there for if it is closer than 25 ft from the property line we have to tear it down. I have not increased the existing porch footprint or sq ft. So because of the City of Houston is being lazy and using Google Maps, which is not a vaid tool I believe in this instance I am being punished.

I NEED HELP!!! any and all advice is welcome!!!   

BTW, nice focused Business Plan you have!

Come to the BP meet up we are having on Thursday evening!

Count me in!

i was looking to see if there are any upcoming meetups in houston texas?