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How to Get More Inspections with Blue222
Blue222 and Tap Inspect recently held a webinar for Tap Inspect’s 1,500 home inspectors.
We talked about:
- how Blue222 connects clients and vendors;
- how banks, engineering firms, and realtors use Blue222 to manage vendors more efficiently;
- how wholesale inspections are part of every successful inspection company;
- the problems wholesale providers have in finding inspectors; and
- how Blue222 is making it cheaper and easier to connect inspectors with vendors.
Watch a replay of the seminar to learn more!
Lenders, How To Make Managing Environmental Consultants Easy?
How To Create Your Own National Environmental Firm…In 2 Minutes!
CLICK HERE to join Blue222 NOW(It’s easy and free!!!)
So the title of this article sounds kind of silly, but it’s actually true. This is something you can do with Blue222: create your own nationwide management system with pre-approved environmental contractors…and, it doesn’t cost you a dime!
My name is Alan Grosheider, and I’m the CEO of Blue222. The whole reason we created Blue222 was to make it easy to find great environmental contractors all over the country. In my 25 years of experience in the environmental business, I often found it difficult to find the right contractors all over the country when and where I needed them.
So we spent over 2 years building the Blue222 system. Then we spent over 1 year screening and adding the very best environmental contractors throughout the country. Many of these contractors are people that I and my partners have worked with over the years. Other contractors we have found through referrals.
In all my years of consulting, I found, and I’m sure you have too, that the most important thing to building your consulting business is your relationship with your client. The client wants a high quality report in a timely fashion. It doesn’t matter where you’re located.
As a consultant, your limitation probably has been the ability to knock out a lot of work in a short period of time, if it’s just you doing the work or you and a handful of employees. Finding the right people to pitch in on a project often is difficult. The other thing that’s difficult is location. If you have a great client who needs work done all over the U.S., you can get on a plane and travel all over the country. However, the projects often become unprofitable very quickly when travel costs and time eat up the whole project.
Let me show you how to become a national environmental consulting firm in 2 minutes. (See the video.)
First CLICK HERE. Fill out the form. After your account is approved, click on Signin, and put in your username and password. You’re now a national environmental firm! You have a network of the absolute best environmental contractors in the country at your fingertips and a system to manage them.
To find contractors, you simply log on to your account, click on Post New Project, fill out the form, click continue, review the info on the form, and select Pick Contractors. You’ll receive a list of all available contractors in the area with details on their qualifications and reviews of their work. Next, you select each contractor that you want to receive your RFP, and select continue.
All the contractors you selected will receive an email asking them to bid on the project. As their bids come in, you’ll receive emails to notify you. Then you can log into your account and assign the work to the appropriate contractor. The assigned contractor will receive an email notifying them that they have received the work, and the other contractors will be notified that they did not.
Once the project has been assigned, you can manage the whole project from your dashboard by clicking on the project, communicating with your contractors via the message center, and sharing documents via the project file drop box. Once the project has been completed, the contractor will click a button to send you an invoice, and you can pay them electronically.
I won’t go into too many details on the use of the system, but you can find more at help.blue222.com.
The Blue222 system literally makes it easy for you to create a national environmental firm in a matter of minutes. We have pre-screened, fantastic contractors all over the country, and we’re adding more every day. You can manage all of your work from one dashboard. As long as you have clients who need work done all over the country (even if just occasionally), you can use the Blue222 system to manage your projects across the U.S. and find really fantastic contractors.
So, sign up today, and you can start working from the beach like the guy in the photo. As long as you’re doing a great job to review the work before it goes out to your client, you have created a fantastic national environmental firm!
We’re very hands-on with running the company and easy to get ahold of, so if there’s anything we can do to help, please let us know. If there’s anything we can do to improve, let us know.
We look forward to making your job as easy as we can and helping your business grow.
Thank you!
Alan R. Grosheider, CEO/President
How To Easily Find The Best Local U.S. Property Inspectors?
How Have Brownfields Laws Affected Your Business?
ReDeveloping Brownfields
Could this mean the end of the Phase II in Kentucky and other states? More and more sites are being entered into the Kentucky Brownfields Redevelopment and Reuse Program, and there’s a good reason why.
Blue222 would love to know about the brownfield laws in your state. Email alang@blue222.com, if you would like us to post an article with your description of the brownfields program in your state. If you’re a realtor or developer, we also would love to share with our audience how brownfields laws have affected your transactions.
As for Kentucky’s brownfields laws, let’s check out the official website at http://waste.ky.gov/SFB/Pages/Brownfields.aspx. Here you’ll find the basics on the 2012 program which offers clear and effective protection to the prospective purchaser of a property. This protection documents that the purchaser “will not be held responsible for conducting site investigation and remediation” under Kentucky Superfund laws. However, it’s not too good to be true. Here’s how it breaks down:
1. Conduct a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment within six months of closing. If the assessment reveals a problem, the answer is not to jump straight to a second phase of work.
2. Costs are controlled, to an extent, by preparing a Property Management Plan. The PMP and Phase I are submitted to the state, along with an enrollment fee of $2,500.
3. The state will review the documentation and, if no issues are identified, will issue you a letter stating that the property is eligible for inclusion within the program.
4. This next step is easy. Close on the property and submit a copy of the completed deed to the state.
5. The state issues one last letter, granting immunity from further investigation or remediation.
6. One last thing. You’ll need to update the Division annually going forward, stating that you’re still complying with the terms of the program.
The letters that they issue are better than a ‘No Further Action’, which always have wording that the NFA could be rescinded if issues are found after the fact. It’s worth noting that properties with issues regarding regulated Underground Storage Tanks don’t qualify for the program. Outside of that, these letters can drastically reduce or eliminate the potential concerns associated with dry cleaners, coal yards, industrial properties, and much more.
This program has already saved many a Phase II investigation. Contact us to learn more about this program and how it can help you save money and headache with commercial property transactions.
Brendan P. Merk
Redevelop Inc.
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Alan R. Grosheider
Blue222
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