Home is a place where you should feel comfortable, impregnable and secure. It’s sometimes the one place where the homeowner can look to as an old friend who’s solid, safe and a respite they can always rely on. For the most part I think most of us feel this way.
Having said that, even the surest of us all still employ things like alarm systems, cameras, security locks, smoke detectors and all sorts of home improvements to, (I guess) add to that security level we already have. Why? Because safety and security is something no home owner can have enough of…because our home is our castle and the one place we depend on to keep them and their families safe and secure.
Although termite invasion may not rise to the immediate level that say a burglar would bring. It can be just as costly in terms of lost dollars and for some, it has left them with a sinking feeling that somehow their home, their castle, was just not as invulnerable as they had once thought.
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I have a few hard and fast rules in my life that I rarely veer away from. I think of them as life lessons that easily adapt and are applicable to many many situations. So I cite them often. My family however, has heard them so many times over the years that they’ll even do a “pre-emptive” quotation of them trying to stop me when they sense one of my long winded diatribes coming on.(I’m pretty sure they still love me) Out of all of the ones I can think of, these are my top three.
I think we’ve all been burned to some degree or another by a business. The wait staff at a restaurant ignores your table for a 1/2 hour then the food is cold and horrible. A mechanic fixes a noise in your engine for a pretty hefty price only to have that unsettling sound start up again in a day or so. A/C companies, plumbers, Doctors, etc.etc.etc. It just happens, businesses are made up of people, people are imperfect and sometimes circumstances just add the dilemma.What can you do?
Do you ever get to the end of your rope and just say out loud “enough is enough?” When you’ve been pushed on and tugged at and trodden over to the point that you just can’t stay silent anymore. I guess we as an industry haven’t reached that point because we’ve been blown about with every wind of doctrine and I fear a perfect storm is now brewing.
I guess I’m not a very good business man. I mean if you compare me & the stereotypical tycoon type that is described in all the guru books, I fit NONE of the definitions.
Part of ANY successful business strategy HAS to include networking. This is especially true of small business and even more specifically-the mom & pop or one man operations. Having said this, I can’t tell you how many ‘rolled eyed looks, yawns or complete mental shut downs’ I’ve seen from the “entrepreneurs” I’ve talked to when this subject is brought up. I guess what throws most is that the word is Net WORKING and for most of us, we’ve got enough of that already.
Did you know there is a top 15 list of the leading causes of death? (2010)- Ugh, morbid I know, but it is enlightening in the sense that what you may think should be at the top of the list really isn’t and vice versa. Heart disease is #1 which to many is no surprise but pneumonia came in at #9 which I would have never guessed. 
Google Borax and you’re likely to find this astounding product that does amazing things. Put boric acid in your search bar and you’ll find no less great and positive accolades. Words like safe, no side effects, harmless, healthy and the ever popular, all natural. Such words puts the potential user at ease as they use this abundant positive information in their decision to use these materials in a variety of ways.
I use to think mobile homes would never get attacked by subterranean termites. To me, there just didn’t seem to be enough wood since it seemed that it was mostly a metal shell and the steel frame on wheels. Well that was over 25 years and about 10,000 treatments ago and now it hardly seems like a week goes by without me dawning my suit and gloves, going under a mobile home and finding termites and their damage.
Not to long ago I was contacted by a law firm asking if I’d be interested in being an “expert” in a case involving termite damage. 
I was recently asked a question after telling a client that roaches were some 350 million years old & that the 
For the most part citizens in America are a forgiving people. Second chances abound for our stars, athletes friends and neighbors. We give the benefit of the doubt and hope for the best even when the chances of a good outcome aren’t so bright. While that may be true for our hero’s and fellow man, the same cannot be said when it comes to bugs and those who make their living killing them.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
In my little company we use a lot of different products but the growing majority seems to be synthetic pyrethroids. Professional pest control is not alone in this. In fact, if you look under any household sink or on the garage shelf, you’d find synthetic pyrethroids make up the lions share of insecticides used in American households. The list of pyrethroid based products is over 600 and growing all the time. It can be utilized in several different forms as well. Many granules, foggers, concentrates, sprays and aerosols have this man made version of pyrethrins (an “organic” insecticide made mostly from chrysanthemum flowers from Kenya) and for the most part they are considered safer than products in the past (DDT,chlordane & organophosphates in general). But as with ANY pesticide, natural or not, the word “safe” is something that cannot be categorically used since we’ve got that dastardly little word ending, 
Put “cide” at the end of any word and you’ve just killed the subject of that word. Cide means to kill. We’ve all heard of homicide, that’s the killing of a man or any other person. Did you know you can break the category of killing down to very specific or targeted meaning? Fraticide for instance means to kill ones brother, sorocide and it’s your poor sister who gets it. Prenticide = killing an apprentice, might be a notice to watch for the next time you fill out a job application. Ambicide is to take out a freind, senicide is the killing of old men, philosophcide means to kill a philosopher, while hosticide means to kill a guest or host. Now that’s a party invitation to die for. 😉
