Has Trump's War slowed down your business?

[Essexfenwick]

I have been steady the past 2 months. Unfortunately it started just as the snowstorm hit. So I was out there measuring homes in a foot+ of snow and 15 degree temps.

Has global cooling effected your bottom line ?

 

[cashcatz]

Has global cooling effected your bottom line ?

My dad calls it "global whining"

 

[shrubberyvaluation]

I am trying not to make this political, however:

Trump has caused a lot of uncertainty in our industry. He will go on TV one day and say that he's going to direct the Fed to lower interest rates. Everyone will get excited. The Fed will refuse to lower rates, people will get skeptical.

Our President is saying things that either get people excited or nervous on the daily and I think the end result is people just sit around and wait for some consistency or normalcy.

A perfect example- I watched his State of the Union where he bragged about gas prices being low and referenced an area of the country where the average sunk below $2. Not two weeks later we're in a war with Iran and gas around me here in North Jersey is approaching $3.50 per gallon.

However you feel about his policies or him as a person, that's not what we are discussing here... but his volatility and daily back and forth makes people nervous to spend money.


I conclusion, we still have enough work... between my father and I (both appraisers, family business) we have 4 inspections per day. Where we can see it slowing down is where we'd at this point (today is Friday) like to have our schedule full up til Tues/Weds next week and we're still looking for appointments for Monday.

Also getting a crazy amount of quote requests for foreclosure drive bys.

Problem is you either have uncertainty or you have someone like Kamala where its certain she will be hurting the economy and our industry as she had been attacking us for years for politics.

 

[Vermonter]

I have more orders this month than last month, so no.

Same. March lending assignments picked up exponentially. Private work has slowed but it always comes in spurts.