Power Home Remodeling reviews

The schedule can be tough. You don't just work in the office all day, you're not making cold calls at a desk. You're either working in a store, you're walking door to door, or you're in sales (in which case, you're still traveling.) Time management can be difficult because of this. Suppose you're from South Jersey, and you're working an hour north from the office. That's a two hour commute home. This isn't typical, but it can happen if you're needed. It can be uncomfortable, but you at least need to embrace it. If you're not devoted at first and put forth a lot of time and effort, you won't be rewarded.

From the very first phone call you receive you are being "sold." They talk about the culture, the potential to make money, about taking everyone to Mexico for the company vacation. Of course you expect them to only say the good things and make you want to work here, it's all part of the sales game they push on you. At the interview, it's the same, they tell you how you will make so much money, how they will train you, teach you, be there for you, which is all true. But what they don't tell you is how the whole thing is from a script, how when you go to training you won't have a minute of downtime because they have you in class from 9 to 5 then you are expected to learn and memorize and have down everything you learned for the past 8 hours to be able to recite it all back the next day. Then when you do your follows, you have another 9 to 5 classroom day then you go on your follows which take 3 to 4 hours at someone's home. Then you are expected to go back to your hotel and study all night so you have what you learned that day down for tomorrow. I'm a pretty smart guy, graduated college with honors but this was harder than any final I had to study for in college. And what you reading about the pay is all true. You get paid for training, $500 a week for a month, but that's pretty much it. After the two weeks of training, you go back and work for two weeks followed by another two weeks of training while you are not getting paid. You are own your own for gas while you rack up mileage on your car. Being 100% commission, if you don't sell, you don't make money. Also, they do lie to the homeowners. It's not a free estimate but you are there to sell, sell, sell. It's a hard sell no matter what they call it. You are there to pitch your script to them and sell on the very first visit. So a homeowner expecting a free estimate is pressured into buying at that moment. Expect to be at a house for at least 3 hours explaining everything, pitching your script and going over demonstrations. This company has been around for 22 years, but you won't find any veterans in the company minus the CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CSO. You would think a company that's been around that long would have people working for them who's been with them for a long time, but most of the managers at the satellite locations have only been with the company a few years. Makes you think and wonder where all those other people went? It's because it has high turn over and because of the hours. You basically work from 9 to 11 every day, because you have to wait on the call to get to an appointment, you never know if you are working or not that day but have to be ready at a given moment.