sales representative

inspector entry level

sales

storm damage restoration specialist

outside sales representative

Best Choice Roofing

My typical day, being a production manager is checking installs first thing in the morning and ensuring all material needed for that install Is on site. As well as to ensure everybody’s safe on site and proper safety tools are in place while working on job site. As well as collecting any checks and any paperwork needed. As well as doing quality inspections once installs are completed. Do all the paperwork for each install as I go through my day. As well as I call homeowners and touch base with them either about install in progress, if any decking is needed or anything we might have questions about during install. Follow up calls, scheduling for Installs, letting the homeowners know the status of their contract, and just checking in with the homeowner to make sure they don’t have any questions or concerns regarding their roof. As well as I do sales when I have free time. 

I have learned a lot with this company and grown tremendously since I’ve been with Best Choice Roofing. I’ve Learned about roofing, insurance, hail and wind damage. I’ve also learned how important it is to be able to talk to homeowners and be able to help them through the difficulty of getting a new roof, including helping them go through their insurance, and meeting with their adjuster and handling the paperwork and pictures, etc. 

Our management team is really great at helping assist any of the reps with any questions they may have, as well as working with them one on one to help them better succeed. The OA and I are really good about communicating and talking to the homeowners to help resolve any issues or concerns they may have. As well as help address any issues or errors made to move along any of the process for the homeowners and Reps. All of us in the office as a whole at my branch try to work together as a team in order to ensure everyone succeeds at the end of the day. 

The hardest part of my job would be keeping up with all the paperwork on a daily basis with all the driving I do daily. But I have a schedule I follow every day. Other than that I really enjoy my job. 

The most enjoyable part of my job would be to have a satisfied homeowner and be able to help them when it’s needed as well as watching our team grow and learn to better help everyone grow with in the company to reach their financial goals/freedom. 

If you have the drive, determination, good work ethic, good people skills, and work well with a team then this would be a perfect opportunity for you to grow and explore a life-changing career. 


I’ll start off with the pros of working for this company! First, there’s a great family you could get involved with depending on where you are, everyone is willing to help out for your success. You have people behind you to answer every question you have and to guide you if needed. However, with this, you’re going to be asking a lot of questions if you don’t retain almost every single fact about shingles and roofs in general from the small amount of training. Training went great in terms of bonding with others on acting out scenarios and ride-alongs but once it’s done, you’re completely on your own. There’s little to no direction on what you need to do other than being persistent to the point of annoyance and having a lot of charisma, as well as wit. With all of this, you’re also the opener and closer that has to work with insurance companies and documents for it all, which wasn’t in any of the training.

To go along with what I have said about little to no direction, the group chat activity. You’re on call almost every single day, which is fine, but it’s a bit draining having to prove activity in the chat. Consider your weekend free time gone as well. That’s not the main issue though, or even a major issue at that. An issue I felt was pretty daunting was the team communication, how things will work in terms of the proven activities. New hires would get points taken off their daily activities for simply not being informed of the unspoken chat rules. Eventually there’s a groove you get but it’s still pretty confusing at times.

This job takes about a month or two to get the ball rolling in terms of cash. I would not recommend to someone who doesn’t have a solid financial support system behind them at that time. Witnessing first hand how hard this can be on someone who needs to feed their family is not easy. 

Overall, I hope this company continues with a future of better training for their employees success.

I'll be honest. I didn't stay long because I couldn't afford this job. Your job is to drive around 1hr radius and collect 25 addresses a day. You turn them in to your sales manager. You'll either get a call or you go door to door until you get someone who's willing to get a new roof. But you have to inspect it first. They don't provide a ladder you have to buy your own. They don't supply you any of the equipment to climb the roofs youd have to get someone who has one to partner with you. The only thing with that is if you get a sale you'll have to split it. You may have to get a ladder.You do not get a gas card, a company car or anything everything is out of your pocket. You do not get a hat or shirt until they know for sure your going to stay. So imagine being new going to someone door with no ladder no equipment no uniform trying to offer a free roof inspection and convince them to get their insurance to pay for it. You gotta fight the insurance companies though to get them to cover the roof. It's simple..You don't make sales you don't make money.
Management is supportive.You may not see the money until months later. If your lucky it may be sooner. It won't be easy. It all depends on how much effort you want to put in. How bad you want it. How far your willing to go. But you will lose money faster than earning. Especially your first few weeks.If you going to do this get a backup job to keep a flow of income. You do have a lot of freedom the work life balance is great. Nice management. Easy hire. It's not a bad company just expensive.

They’ll start you out as a “storm damage expert” and your whole job is to knock on doors all day and try to get people to let you inspect their roof for storm damage, simple enough right? Na they give you a whole 8 hours of training, 4 hours over 2 days over what to look for on the roof and then you’ll be sent out on your own. Which would be fine for someone with door to door sales experience, but for someone just getting into that field with no experience, to just be turned out on your own like that is being set up for failure. They expect you to work all week at setting up appointments for Saturday then for you to be out all day Saturday looking at roofs, hours really ain’t as flexible as they want it to seem. You’re constantly expected to be texting and sending selfies on the group chat and the group chat keeps going off all day and sometimes late into the night, it got really annoying after a while. You are not given any company vehicle, you are expected to use your own vehicle and you are also not compensated for fuel used while working. They keep telling you to “build your pipeline” and then the money will be good, but when you start figuring out how the job works you realize it’s gonna take about 3-4 months before you’re ever going to get a paycheck. You are only on commission and will not be given any pay until you sell roofs, which like I said will be at least 3-4 months before you’ll ever get a check for that. Unless you have experience with this type of work I do not recommend working here, it was a disaster of a place for the short amount of time I was there. 

I started at BCR in June 2020. The interview went well and all the people who worked there were really nice and helpful. Going into it, I knew that it was only commission pay but I tried to overlook it, hoping that I could make some good sales. 

They do pay you for the training at least, which toke about two days. Then after your training, you'll ride along with a few of veteran salespeople a few times. Then after that, you're basically on your own. 

You have to use your own vehicle and pay for your own gas. And if you don't make sales, you don't get paid jack. That's the most frustrating part, you feel like you're wasting your time. They just want you to drive around and look for damaged roofs. Most of the houses around the area have been milked dry by your coworkers already.  

Most of the houses you go to, people usually don't answer the door, especially since the pandemic started. But if they do answer the door, they'll give you some lame excuse or tell you they have a guy looking into it. If you do find a house that's interested but it's a rental, you have to get in contact with the owner not the person who rents it. 

It just felt like it was a giant waste of time, plus they would have a morning meeting every Friday, and who wants to come in on a Friday for a one hour meeting? 

I'm just not a believer in this job, it just sounded too good to be true and it kind is. I'm glad I kept my receipt so that I was able to return my ladder. I would pass on this job opportunity, you do a lot of free working and it's very frustrating and most people don't even have the money nowadays to buy a new roof. 

The interview was a sales pitch. It is a 100% commission job and training is a legitimate joke. If you go in with the raw skills to be a salesman but no official training, it'll be an uphill battle. If you don't have the salesman charisma born into you, don't even bother. Training was a couple days in a classroom (they said 9 days, ended up being 3....told a certain amount of money but that is just if they do the 9 days, so was screwed out the door there because the teachers are literally just other sales reps with no training on how to be trainers and released to train however they please). The guys are fun and charismatic and I wanted to work with them, but with it being 100% commission, my life got ruined by the endeavor. I never made a sale (almost made several but every one would fall through because of some logistic thing that SHOULD have been in training, but was skipped because training is too boring for The Rockstar that are the sales reps). Technically you can call/text your supervisor any time, but I know with mine it was about a 10% chance you'd get a response. So yeah, a real good place for already established salesmen to make really good money. Otherwise, start someplace with a base pay + smaller commission rates, that way they're invested with you and will actually have a guideline for training.

Also, sales rep is 100% door to door and it is all cold leads. You can buy leads but it isn't cheap and they're only warmish leads.

Branch specific took a turn for the worst when a new General Manager was promoted. Sales reps are able to yell at managers freely, general manager won’t care because he’s too busy getting high. General manager didn’t recognize covid as a real threat and didn’t exercise any office caution after a week when orders from corporate came down. General managers can come in yelling about their wife, yelling at their wife on the phone, and then taking that anger out on employees with no repercussions. Sales team can actively do their best to thwart production, as reps that don’t like you will get family to write poor reviews about you, meanwhile the only action taken towards them will be the general managers understanding how difficult it is for the sales rep to be having a baby at home and not even give a slap on the wrist. Sales reps actively do their best to miss the toilet/clog it and do not clean up after themselves. Local branch lowballs the salary for production managers. Customers are always right in this business, even if they’re dead wrong. This company enforces morale based on fear, actively reminding its employees they are replaceable, specifically over petty incidents such as not liking someone’s post (I really wish I was kidding). Overall, the company was not enjoyable to work for, it was a paycheck and it got me by. Company needs more direct hold on management as they are free to run their employees into the ground mentally. 

When applying I thought I was getting a desk job. Boy was I wrong. Going into the interview I felt welcomed and like I was already apart of the team. After explaining the duties of the job I was asked "Who I was?". I was always told never to go into personal things in an interview, but I had a feeling to go ahead. So I did. I was honest told him that I was wanting to get my kids back and live life not struggling anymore. I began to cry(well bawling) and told him if someone would just take faith in me and help me get on my feet, once I got up there would be no going back or falling again. Thats when he said that they had my back.  I was told that he said he seen the lion behind my eyes and it was SO ready to be let out and ROAR!  I havent been working there long but there have been some really trying times and no matter the hour, how busy, or even if it did/didn't relate to work SOMEONE always was there pushing me and supporting me. BCR is the first company that I have worked for that truly believes in their employees and can prove it just ask one of us. Bet they will say its the best. Thank you SO MUCH to all of you at BCR whether we have met it not. You have no idea how much you have helped me and are going to. YOU ARE ALWAYS A LION WHETHER IT SHOWS OR NOT, AT BCR THEY WILL HELP YOU BE IT SO THE WORLD CAN HEAR YOUR ROAR!!  

Hardest part of the job: 
Saying that i don't like it cause I LOVE IT!!
Most enjoyable part:
Making that big paycheck but most important you helped someone or family be more safe in their home. 


If you need consistent, reliable income, realize this is commission only. Training period is way too short before being sent out on your own & is minimum wage. In my opinion, to better set up employees for success, first few weeks out should always be with managers and other experienced people to build knowledge & confidence. (seems like BCR would want to make positive first impressions, which will not always happen the way things are currently done) You must purchase all the items needed to perform the job, from chalk to gasoline to ladders to safe footwear. The nature of this job requires you to constantly be chasing down and juggling tons of leads & also sales already made. You will always have multiple loose ends on this job, which, to me, is incredibly stressful. Learned a lot & notice details about every single roof I see now, but unfortunately, this was not the job for me.

I worked with best choice Roofing for about 2 weeks it's imperative that you know you have to have your own equipment on the job or ask someone for their ladder. You are going to be spending 400 to 500 dollars in order to even set foot on the job. The company doesn't pay for gas. They don't provide you with uniforms to better represent the company,when you get out  you will most likely be as you are dressed which can actually hurt you in the long run as you WILL be knocking on doors(30+) most people will see you as a random person trying to get something from them when in fact you are a Roof inspector which they get confused thinking you are trying to repair the roof when in fact you are trying to inspect the damage not fix anything. In my personal opinion I think being commission based only has it's ups and down but if you on the verge of being broke if you absolutely need money and that clock is ticking than I'd find another job. The customers are ignorant believing they know more about their roof than the inspector and even with photo and video evidence showing damage many will deny and send you off. The training last about a week(which is nothing and you get paid minimum wage). Just be careful and keep your guard up when you go out there doing inspections.

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