Thus far, the unspoken response from...
ROOFING AND RELATED BUILDING PRODUCT DISTRIBUTORS
What is the battle they've got on their hands?
(To insured property owners, construction contractors, building product distributors, and shareholders and investors)
The primary battle they are fighting (and starting to lose) is in keeping their public and private shareholders and investors believing that they will able to achieve and maintain the "shareholder value maximization" goals promised to them by the various investment firms that took their money. Why should shareholders and investors be wary of such promises? Here's how several prominent individuals described the SVM concept a number of years ago; Former GE CEO Jack Welch once called the concept, "The dumbest idea in the world". In an article in the Harvard Business Review written by distinguished Harvard Business School professors Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine, they wrote the following; "Maximizing shareholder value, is flawed in its assumptions, confused as a matter of law, and damaging in practice.” They also described the concept as "pernicious nonsense". Still, building product distribution company leaders and investor groups are continuing to promote the SVM concept or similar failed thinking as somehow substantive and viable.
Based on my own personal near twenty years of successful experience as an insurance and investment advisor to business owners, executives, and other high net worth individuals, I view the concept as not dissimilar to what Princeton University Professor Harry Frankfurt wrote about in his 2005 book titled "On Bullshit". In support of that view, the following was included in an email message I received several weeks ago from the leader of one of the top five multi-billion dollar valued building product distribution companies in reference to the leader of another one of the top five multi-billion dollar valued building products distribution companies that read as follows: "Check that stock out, he has lost his investor’s billions so far." So much for SVM!
The secondary battle that building product distribution companies are fighting is the battle to prevent proven, advanced, and substantive insurance restoration process training program from getting into the hands of their many thousands of restoration contractor customers who, once properly trained, would be able to, as repeatedly proven by the creator of the program, increase the sales of the building product distribution companies by billions of dollars every year. Aside from control, the primary reason for company leadership not making the small investment in the program and making sure that all of their contractor customers who are, in reality, their "sales force", receive it? Fear that, although instituting the program at their company would positively affect the returns of their institutional shareholders and investors, corporate leadership might be questioned about their decision to make the investment.
A number of years ago, I personally made it clear to Allstate Insurance Company President and CEO Tom Wilson that putting the needs of shareholders above all else is, at the very least, misguided, and, at the most, potentially criminal. Although it took Allstate a lot of years to figure it out, due to the efforts of the American Policyholder Association (APA) over the past several years, they, State Farm, and other P&C insurance companies are learning that there are severe penalties for corporate leaders who put shareholder and investor returns ahead of the interests of and the cost to, the people who pay for the products. To be sure, the same holds true of any and all companies no matter the product sold.
Building Product Distribution Company Leadership Not Interested?
(Insured USA & Canadian property owners, GC restoration contractors, and institutional shareholder & investor groups are!)
Let me be clear, as the creator and writer of the restoration contractor training overviewed below, I don't need the money. I do however, feel the need to get the information out to the insured American and Canadian public at large about the problems as well as layout the solutions to those problems. The way I am doing that is by first, making our 3RS Insured Property Owners Storm Damage Recovery Guide© shown further down, available to millions of insured commercial and residential property owners from across the USA and Canada. In the guide are instructions on how to process their own restoration insurance claims from start to finish. That doesn't mean however, that they will learn how to complete the repair work. In the guide, they are also instructed to only contract their repair work with a 3RSystems, LLC trained restoration contractor who can prove they have completed the advanced training. Another recommendation included in the guide is that, whenever possible, the insured property owners contractors only purchase the needed building products from roofing and related building product distributors recommended by 3RSystems, LLC.
The Two Key Problems That Need to Be Solved
Due to a severe lack of advanced restoration contractor insurance claims recovery process training and the mistaken belief by restoration contractors that the use of property & casualty insurance company adjuster mandated repair estimating programs such as Xactimate and Symbility/Cotality gives them an advantage, every year, billions of dollars worth of roofing, siding, and related building products needed to complete property damage repairs are never ordered by them from their building product distributors.
How to Solve Them?
In truth, particularly over the past sixteen years, the key problems described above, along with UPPA, which, in my "The Unmasking of UPPA" treatise where I accurately describe it as "one of the biggest financial scams ever perpetrated against the American insurance buying public", have allowed the property & casualty insurance industry to tightly control the restoration contracting industry's ability to operate according to free market principles. As a result, due to the forced market conditions imposed by the P&C insurance industry on contractors, those contractors are, in most cases, unable to ever achieve maximum sales of their chosen building product distributors roofing and related building products.
The Solution to The Key Problems
The only restoration contractor training available today that teaches the insurance covered restoration contracting process from the forty plus years of combined retail & restoration construction industry experience, insurance & investment industry advisory experience, and winning Pro Se legal experience perspectives of its creator.
First, The Results
Praise for the 3RSystems, LLC
Restoration Contractor Training Program
Below is just a small but powerful example as proof of how the training has helped contractors from across the USA and beyond to successfully overcome the P&C insurance industry claims payment resistance and produce considerably improved results for themselves, their insured customers, their building product distributors, and the building product distributors institutional and individual shareholders and investors.
“Before becoming EVP of Southside, I was a top level executive with KMPG for thirty years and got to know and work with what were considered to be the best insurance and investment minds in the country. That said, I learned more about insurance and investments from Larry over the past three months than I had learned from all of the previous experts I had worked with during that thirty year period." Franklin Morris, Jr., Former EVP at Southside Lumber Company - Rogers, MN (1992)
The Proven Solution to Key Problem 1
Advanced restoration contractor insurance claims recovery process training
3RSystems, LLC Restoration Contractor Insurance Claims Process Training Manual
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One hundred forty two pages that are packed full of powerful and proven, in depth and top down minded retail and restoration contracting, insurance and investment advisory, and Pro Se legal experience based claims recovery process training. Once completed, contractors will be able to help their insured property owner customers to get their insurance companies to pay for all of the damage so they can afford to order all of the needed roofing, siding, and related building products from the building products distributor recommended (if any) by 3RSystems, LLC.
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3RSystems, LLC Insured Commercial and Residential Property Owner Guide
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3RS INSURED PROPERTY OWNERS STORM DAMAGE RECOVERY GUIDE© (PREVIEW)
In the guide, it is recommended that, for the reasons described in the full guide that 3RSystems, LLC has made available to millions of commercial and residential property owners from across the USA and Canada, insured property owners with damage only hire 3RSystems, LLC trained contractors to complete their repairs and only install building products sold by the named building product distributor who provided the 3RSystems, LLC training program to their contractor customer "sales force".
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3RSystems, LLC Contractor Business Forms
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Included in the 3RSystems, LLC Business Forms ninety-seven pages are all of the various forms and claims process instructions from A to Z that any contractor needs to successfully process their insured customer's property damage claims to fair and full claims settlements, and achieve that goal in a minimum amount of time.
The Proven Solution to Key Problem 2
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The 3RStimax© graph shown above clearly illustrates the dramatic difference in pricing between the P&C insurance adjuster mandated "industry standard" forced market estimating programs mentioned previously and 3RSystems, LLC's repeatedly proven superior real, true, and accurate (RTA) free market priced 3RStimax© restoration contractor repair estimating program. Compare the clear difference shown in the graph between the Insurance company claim “final” offer(s)" shown in the far left column ($72,500) and the actual “Total claim recovery with 3RStimax©” ($270,214) total payments shown in the column to the right - which were all approved at the substantially higher real, true, and accurate (RTA) free market pricing shown. Also note on the right side of the graph the difference in how the GC O&P was paid on the claim shown.
When contractors switch from using the forced market P&C insurance adjuster mandated and controlled repair estimating programs mentioned previously to using our free market based real, true, and accurate (RTA) priced 3RStimax© repair estimating program, the P&C insurance industry can no longer control the outcomes of those contractors pricing. Nor can they, as it is widely known that they do on a regular basis, deny and/or omit billions of dollars worth of damage from their customers legitimate insurance covered claims every year.
All the AI, CRM's, and API in the world won't help, but 3RSystems, LLC training will!
As soon as any contractor signs a contract with an insured property owner to complete the repairs to their damaged properties, a personal relationship is established. Being that a personal relationship has been established, the problems the insured property owners and their contractors are both faced with due to the insurance companies typical attempts to under pay or deny the insured's claims become human relationship problems. Because of that, although building product distribution companies have already invested millions of dollars on AI, CRM, and API programs meant to help both contractors and distributors to increase product ordering, delivering, and tracking efficiencies, those programs will do nothing in the way of helping contractors and their insured customers to overcome those human relationship problems caused by P&C insurance companies - but 3RSystems, LLC advanced restoration contractor training will.
Building product distribution company board members and C-Suite leadership. At this point, after having read though the materials and the information provided, you should have completed the process of, as QXO Chair Brad Jacobs put it, “rearranging your brain” to see the problems shown as opportunities and to think differently from and move your building products distribution company and your restoration contractor paid sales revenues to levels never before achieved.
Are you ready to take the lead in recapturing those billions of dollars-worth of annually missed roofing, siding, and related building product sales to the many thousands of storm damage restoration contractors from across the USA and Canada who need your help as much as you need theirs? As illustrated previously, all of the AI, CRM's, and API in the world won't help you do that. The only thing that will help you to achieve that goal is by licensing or taking exclusive ownership of the most advanced and proven contractor training program available anywhere today and getting the program into the hands of both your contractor customer "sales force" and your distribution company employees ASAP. Only then will your distribution company be in the lead position that will allow your company to achieve the incredible sales results as shown in the "Results" box below
Results
With that done, millions of insured property owners across the USA and Canada will be better served as their property damage claims are paid in full, hundreds of millions to billions of dollars-worth of previously unordered roofing, siding, and related building products orders will be recaptured by your building products distribution company, and your global institutional and individual shareholders and investors (both private and public) will finally be able to achieve real, true, and maximum ROI.
How to acquire this one of a kind program at your distribution company
To learn more about this one of a kind advanced contractor training program and learn how to acquire it exclusively for your building products distribution company which, although not needed by your contractor customers when they receive the program from you, also includes, if requested, a minimum six month distributor paid implementation commitment, contact program creator Larry Burtis through the Contact link shown at the top of this page with your questions or concerns. Mr. Burtis is also willing to personally present paid overviews of the program to interested parties in exchange for the appearance fee shown below. Contractors and investors are invited to share their concerns and/or questions through the same contact link.
Total tax deductible building products distribution company investment - CONTACT
Per appearance in person overview presentation fee = $12,500 plus expenses.
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