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Jeremy: Hey, it’s Jeremy Ashburn, and I’ve got Jim Downing with me, and we’re talking about 10 Point Litter Removal. So you run your own business called 10 Point Litter Removal, and you guys actually remove trash from a variety of commercial businesses, is that correct?
James: That’s correct, Jeremy.
Jeremy: And it’s a primarily local, sort of, strip malls, what kind of businesses do you serve?
James: Mostly commercial. It’s all commercial, actually. Lot of strip malls, convenience stores, schools, urgent care centers, professional office buildings, warehouse distribution-type places. And we do it on a daily service to stay on top of it, so it’s not like you have to wait until your landscaper shows up once a week and kind of runs everything into the grass. We also do it without the use of big, giant, heavy machinery. Power sweepers comes to mind, which is very, very expensive to operate. Our stuff is, we do have some specially designed hand tools that get us in and out of there really quickly [inaudible 00:01:10], but it gets a real detailed job and it’s very inexpensive versus the heavy machinery that people normally see on the road.
Jeremy: Yeah, so tell us about your equipment. What kind of equipment do you usually use to keep the parking lots clean?
James: Yep. So we don’t really, nothing that we use you’re going to … We don’t use anything that you’d find at a large do-it-yourself retail, home improvement store location. We have some stuff that we order out of the country that’s geared towards picking up the trash, giving a very detailed … It’s very similar to the stuff that’s in the home stores, but it’s a lot more efficient. Simply some of the hand blowers that we use, the backpack blowers for the leaves, we use a lot of brooms, rakes, things of that nature, and just really get down to that detailed job that you’re looking for to kind of pick up the common areas and then the landscape planters, and things that are just going to kind of get overlooked and missed if you’re using heavy machinery.
Jeremy: Okay, definitely. If somebody is curious about your services and wants to get a quote, how does that work?
James: Real easy. You could go onto our webpage at 10pointlitter.com, the number 10, or you could call me directly at cell number (413) 531-3755. I do the answering, I do the estimates, and real simple.
Jeremy: And of course if someone wants you to, you’ll come to the local business and give a quote there and meet the manager or owner or whoever?
James: Yeah. Sorry about that, for sure. Yeah. If someone wants the property looked at, a lot of times they’ll, most of the time they’ll actually have someone meet me onsite and show me the areas that they’d want clean or that’s been an issue for them in the past, but that’s the best alternative. I can certainly just get an address and go look at it myself, and yeah, we get your quotes in real short order.
Jeremy: Definitely. All right, well thanks for your time and I appreciate your answering the question.
James: Thanks, Jeremy.