In my last blog of a few days ago, I forgot to mention that I was being sued.  Guess I forgot about it, so that’ll tell you how much I’m worrying about the summons I got.  In fact, this one is so out-there that I’m not even involving my attorney.

Up until the first of the year, I managed a 210 unit mobile home park.  Within the last couple years, our city gov’t has taken a strong stance on cleaning-up the city.  One ordinance says that your vehicles must be (more…)

If I had to do it all over again, I would take the money I’m spending on cable tv advertising and instead hire a programmer to help me finish up some web pages.  I do much of my own website programming, and right now I’m a bit overwhelmed. 

Even with all the extra free ads the cable tv company threw in just to keep me happy, local traffic to my store

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Much of my day is spent on the phone talking to customers, contractors & suppliers.  Today I had an interesting call from a contractor who lived about 200 miles from me. 

Several months ago he left his job working for a mobile home repair company to start his own business repairing mobile homes. Today he called and said he shut his doors.  Out of business.  Said he couldn’t get

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A few weeks ago I started blogging regularily, and I admit I like doing it. I’m also blown away at how many of you are also reading all the hubba-bubba that I write. My website tech guys have also noticed and they feel I should switch my blogging to the more popular WordPress software for even greater exposure. So stay tuned for the switch. I’ll show you the way! (more…)

Hi,

Tonight I’m hosting a company picnic at my house. Besides the occasional group of relatives, we’re pretty much non-entertainers. We don’t mean to be unentertaining, we just never seem to have time to invite people over. My 10-year-old son was about shell-shocked when we told him about tonight’s picnic. “Gees, you guys never have parties,” says our son.
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Our cable tv commercials have run for a week. It brought in a couple lookers who had nothing else to do. So I’m frustrated with the local response to my mobile home parts store. But then again, I get tons of rv and camper people stopping in looking for parts. I have some basic rv plumbing parts, but that’s about it. So maybe I need to convert to an RV store? Something to ponder, although the parts most RV people are looking for are nickle and dime parts that won’t pay the rent anyway.
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Hi,

Our new cable tv commercial began airing today. If you click to my home page at www.mobilehomerepair.com, you can see the commercial. So far I haven’t seen it on tv, but I won’t be home watching much tv until next week. Right now it’s tournament time for my son’s spring sports.
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Hi,

I’ve been receiving your e-mails saying I need to blog more. So I promise to try and blog weekly or more often, as apparently blogging once every couple years isn’t cutting it! LOL.
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