Get in with the coroner's office if you can.

No kidding. If you want to do trauma cleanup, most of which is from suicides and unattended deaths, then you really need to get in close with the coroner's office. Otherwise, you will be on the outs along with the consumers.

I know about this. I used to get two or three calls about every month to 6 weeks from the Orange County Coroner's Department, but no more. The calls stopped over two years ago because one or more companies started giving kickbacks. I know, this is what I was told by one of the "successful" companies. The department spokesperson will not even consider the impropriety of these schemes. They don't care that government employees (under color of authority) benefit one private company over another, all to the publics' loss.

Can you imagine, your child or spouse dies. The coroner's employee hands you a list of 3 telephone numbers, which is the same list of companies handed out for the previous two years? You, as a consumer, are being set-up by your very own county police system! You and/or your insurance company are going to get screwed. There is no competition. This is Orange County, California, not Tijuana!

If what I say is not true, then how do we explain going from some work from the coroner's office every month or so to zero? We are not alone in this regard.

So I say, if you want to succeed in this business, grease the coroner's employees hands with those big $50.00 bills. It's too late for me, but maybe not for you!

Good luck!
Eddie Evans