Richland County has around 430,651 residents in roughly 169k households, spread across an estimated 200+ local Facebook groups. We expect somewhere between 60 and 95 homeowners a month to ask those groups for roofers.
We join the groups, watch them around the clock, and post a recommendation naming your company when one of those requests goes up. One roofing company in this county. If it is you, it is nobody else.
Estimated from this county's household count and the request rates we see across the counties we already monitor. We hand-verify the exact numbers for your county and send them to you within 24 hours, before you pay anything.
Selective intake
We cannot take every company that applies.
Exclusivity
One company per trade per county. Signing a second roofer in the same county would put two of our clients in the same thread.
Capacity
Coverage runs on our own aged Facebook accounts, one county at a time. That capacity does not scale by turning a dial.
Fit
We only take companies that can call a homeowner back within the hour. If you cannot, this channel works against you, and we will decline.
Most large metros in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Southern California are already committed. In those markets you are applying for the next opening, and we do not put a date on that.
If roofing in Richland County is already committed, you are applying for the next opening there.
Applying is not a purchase and it does not reserve anything. We decline most applications, usually because the trade in that county is already committed or the company cannot get back to a homeowner fast enough for this to work.
Committed markets include Florida, Texas, Arizona, Southern California. One company per trade per county, for as long as they remain a client.
Richland County
These figures come from the county's Census household count and the request rates we see for roofers elsewhere. They are estimates, and we verify the real numbers by hand before you commit to anything.
60 to 95
roofing requests a month
200+
local groups we would join
560k
combined group membership
10 months
one $12,400 job covers
Coverage
We do not publish specific group names before you are a client, because that list is the work we get paid for and it changes constantly. Here is the mix we expect, and you get the actual named list in your verification email.
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~68
The private groups tied to a specific development or street grid. Highest trust, hardest to get into, and the ones most competitors never reach.
Town and city pages
~42
Large public groups covering a whole municipality. High volume, high visibility, and where most storm and outage discussion concentrates.
Recommendation and referral groups
~36
Groups that exist purely for asking who to hire. Almost every post is a buying signal, which makes these the densest source of work in the county.
Buy, sell and trade groups
~28
Nominally for selling furniture, but service requests appear constantly because membership is enormous and local.
Parenting and community groups
~26
Family and community groups where home service questions come up alongside everything else. Strong response rates because members reply to each other readily.
The requests
These are the patterns we watch for, with the reply we would post under each one. Names are invented, the phrasing is not.
Looking for a roofing company that does free estimates, is local, and does financing! TIA 🙏
Carol Jensen
Summit Roofing does free estimates and handles the whole insurance side if hail did the damage. They also offer payment plans. Ask for Mike.
Posted by Otomizer on your behalf
Woke up to a water stain in the guest room ceiling after last night. Need someone who can actually come out this week, not next month.
Mark Doherty
Call Summit Roofing. They do same-day calls for active leaks and patch flashing fast before the next storm rolls in. Local crew, not a call center.
Posted by Otomizer on your behalf
Inspection came back saying our roof has about 5 years left and the buyer wants it replaced before closing. Who has done this quickly?
Steve Whitfield
Summit Roofing is good on closing deadlines. They give the title company a written completion date and hit it.
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Timing
Roofing threads collapse faster than almost any other trade. By the time a post is two hours old it usually has six to nine comments and the homeowner has already sent two messages. We flag the group the second the post goes up, so your name lands while the thread is still one or two comments deep. That position is worth more than any ad budget, because a neighbor recommendation carries trust that a sponsored post never will.
Seasonality
Volume is driven by weather, not by the calendar, which is why an annual average is misleading. A single hail event can produce more requests in four days than the preceding two months combined. We do not throttle during those spikes. If your county gets hit, the same team is watching the same groups, and the request volume you see that week is yours alone because nobody else in your trade is running in your territory.
Richland questions
Applying is not a purchase and it does not reserve anything. We decline most applications, usually because the trade in that county is already committed or the company cannot get back to a homeowner fast enough for this to work. If roofing in Richland is already committed, you are applying for the next opening there, not an immediate slot. Most large metros in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Southern California are already committed. In those markets you are applying for the next opening, and we do not put a date on that.
They are modelled, not counted. We take the Census household count for Richland County and apply the group density and roofing request rates we observe in the counties we already run. We then verify the real figures for this county and emails them to you within 24 hours, before you pay anything.
$1,200 a month plus a $ 1,500 one-time setup fee, on a three month initial term. At a $12,400 average job, one job covers roughly 10 months of coverage. 20 qualified conversations in your first 90 days, or we keep working at no charge until you get them.
In a metro county of about 1.5 million people, we typically see 100 to 160 roofing requests a month across local Facebook groups. Smaller counties scale down proportionally. Storm months can double the figure for a few weeks, and those spikes are entirely yours under an exclusive territory.
Roughly a third do, and they say so in the post. Those threads are the most valuable because the funding question is settled and the homeowner just needs a contractor who has dealt with adjusters. We flag claim language so you know which calls to return first.
One roofing company per county. We reply either way, usually within a week. Most applications are declined.
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