How To Find a Local Roofing Contractor "Near Me"
Learn The Truth About Finding a Local Roofing Contractor
It's a plain and simple fact that homeowners want to work with a local roofing contractor. The lengths roofing companies go through to be perceived as local is tremendous! Buying a local name, producing local business cards, or even setting up a local address in extreme cases. A roof is a great place to fudge because homeowners usually can’t inspect it as they can with siding or windows. Non-local roofing companies know this and are long gone with a disconnected number before homeowners realize anything is wrong. Actual local roofing companies don’t need to pressure you into a contract because you often know them or vice versa.
Google probably filled it in for you: Find local roofing contractor . . . Google snapped back “find a local roofing contractor near me?” Of course, the paid ads showed up. Those can be from anywhere and even from other states. These companies pay huge dollars to be number one in your search! The highest bidder is number one. These are the production type roofing companies that produce as many roofs as possible in a season, and the goal is maximum profit, and quality often takes a back seat. They absorb the extreme cost of advertising with opportunities to get in front of you with a pitch! Vehicles with loud, in-your-face logos and a 100% commissioned sales team itching to sell a roof to you! Personally, that type of selling doesn’t suit me. Roofing is expensive and not a fun purchase. It shouldn’t be rushed unless there’s a leak or a serious problem.
Rooftop Solutions can’t produce what these big production roofing contractors can in quantity. However, we can soar far above with quality and actually fix what normally gets roofed over. The production companies are often higher priced too because of the overhead included with: advertising, staff, and vehicles. As a local roofing contractor, I walk homeowners through the process myself, and it doesn’t get sent down the line to a production guy sitting in a vehicle or under a shade tree on your job! The connection and communication can get lost quickly when doing that. “Local roofing contractor” is a saying used extensively in the industry because the word “local roofing” gives the impression that this entity is known in the community. “Local roofing contractor” is the phrase that could tilt a homeowner just enough to get the job, especially with a smooth-talking salesperson. Why am I a local roofing contractor? I live on an acreage between New Richland, Hartland, Freeborn, and Wells. I’m serving these areas with or without a storm.
I grew up working at Freeborn Lumber and did so for 28 years. I climbed the ranks doing every task possible in a locally owned business. Freeborn Lumber was founded in Freeborn. When a new yard was built in Albert Lea after a devastating fire. Freeborn, Wells, Alden, Albert Lea, Ellendale, Hartland, New Richland, Waseca, and Owatonna were our territory years ago. I traveled everywhere on behalf of the company. I would: sell, solve product issues, and resolve conflicts. With all these years of experience, the most important thing I learned was listening to the customer. As a roofing company, nothing has changed the way I operate because I feel it’s the right way to do things.
Last year we provided roofing in Waseca because we are just outside of New Richland and locally owned. We spent lots of time in New Richland because of the hail damage in 2020. In Hartland, we provided roofing for the North end of town and many surrounding acreages also in the Hartland area. Clarks Grove was hit with large hail as well. Personal connections and referrals from previous work have produced many jobs in Clarks Grove. Albert lea has kept us busy because the lumber yard provides the majority of our building materials. Relationships formed in Albert Lea with local contractors, homeowners, and businesses in the Albert Lea area from me working there for 13 years. Dig deeper into our connection with Albert lea. Owatonna and Waseca are growing communities I would like to expand to. Both Waseca and Owatonna are well within our project range and have lots of new construction and reroofing projects Rooftop Solutions specializes in.
Local Roofing Contractor Types
Production Roofing Company:
These are the ones found because of a mind-blowing advertising campaign. Production companies have the salesman, the crew, and a production guy. The owner isn’t involved. Repairs with these companies come with a price tag and can be overlooked to complete the job in a day.
Two Guys and a Truck Roofing:
There are one or two-man roofing companies. Sometimes licensed, sometimes not. Sometimes insured, sometimes not. The quality extreme can be phenomenal or terrible, just depending on the contractor. The job can take a couple of days or a couple of weeks. Usually, these outfits are pretty cheap. The real cost of a cheap roof
Rooftop Solutions:
The reason I split from the other roofing companies I worked for is to focus on what I feel is important: Quality. The reason we show up with a fully stocked trailer is to fix things and not waste time. The reason I’m on the job is my reputation, and my companies reputation is on the line.
Rooftop Solutions range in green as as your local roofing contractor
How to Actually Find a Local Roofing Contractor
Word of mouth is not dead, and good experiences do travel, and bad ones travel faster. After estimates are collected and hopefully you found the actual local roofing contractors, now comes the hard part. Choosing the right roofing company. This is the difference between an OOF! Experience with your roof or an Ahh!
Research - Google is pretty particular about business locations. And using the map will tell you whether the business is, in fact, a legitimate business near you. A good rule of thumb is if the town isn’t printed on the business card, they’re probably not local or if signing a contract is in the first discussion.
Our range - Rooftop Solutions, works in New Richland, Hartland, Ellendale, Freeborn, Alden, Wells, Albert Lea, Austin, Waseca, Clarks Grove, and Owatonna.
Where is the guy that sold the roof? - This is the most nerve-wracking thing for a homeowner if something goes wrong. Where is the connection to the company? The sales guy that sold the roof is closing other jobs. Will they answer when you call, or will you get passed down the line?
I have 30 years of industry experience!- People experience, business experience, product experience, and warranty experience. People know how I operate and know my reputation. Believe it or not, I’ve been through 1-2 generations of shingles in the industry. The benefit is knowing which shingles work and which ones don’t
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