So most of you know im super new…My yard signs I got maybe month ish ago only put 30 or 40 out in my county.
For years there has been 5 or 6 roofing companies various washers, lawn men, realtors consistently flooded throughout my county. Some have been up so long they got wear and my signs that have been out for 3 weeks have caught the attention of the code enforcement people of my county giving me a heads up I need to stop putting them up.
The first time I put signs up was maybe 10 of them around my neighborhood and surrounding streets etc on a sunnday , the next day a City “community service aide” was seen pulling down my signs by some city workers i stopped and asked if they had noticed it because the sign was there 45 mins earlier in the morning.
Idk if these other companies just eat the fine they give or what like i said a few dozen companies constantly are flooding the county from one side to the next from town to town.
I only put up signs at customers homes, with their permission. I try and pick them up after 2-3 weeks, or whenever the customer texts to tell me they’d like it gone (doesn’t happen very often).
Be a good neighbor. If code enforcement is telling you not to post, just don’t. Try not to think too hard about what other people are doing/getting away with/etc. It’s a waste of mental energy.
I hear that if it was a couple companies it woukdnt be s irritating but i mean its tons of companies been advertising long before i started lmao but your right for sure.
Post more of a rant just irritated about it , in my feelings for a minute so to speak haha figured id vent on here 
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Thanks for putting up with it lmao 
I will succeed either way long term but still irritating the feeling like damn yall gonna single me out , but that is an emotion not a fact
I say post them up! Just don’t replace the ones that get snagged in the same spot or get you in hot water. I put out about 170 last year without a hitch other than them getting yanked. This year I got a call from a litter clean up boss telling me they are starting to fine people & they are yanking my signs. I asked where it was & he told me the location. The other side of town, they are still untouched. There are places out there where you won’t have issues, including the next town close by. I’ve had good luck near gas stations, land for lease, etc… Signs got me up & running but it’s not the only way to market by a long shot. A lot of my business so far this year has been from the neighbors across the street. One job turned into 5 last week, all within rock throwing distance. Signs are great but at the end of the day we’re just trying to drum up some jobs.
Yeah the sign he pulled was in the town im from about 40 minutes away weirdly i only put like 2 out lmao .
This year, I’ve made buddies with a tree guy, a yard guy, a landscaping guy, a realtor & best of all, a very prominent washer close by that focuses primarily on commercial jobs & apartments that doesn’t wash houses in my town. Still working on a decent handy man that doesn’t own a pressure washer haha.
I got a yard guy lol hes the one that got me thinking of starting a business but i did run into a local washer thats been around a while and exchanged numbers at lowes. Looking forward to meeting all types of people being in this business now to grow and have connections. You never know when you will need a person from another company or when your customers will need a reliable person in another business for there home so I figure good to in all aspects to rub elbows with people
So, if code says don’t put out signs, don’t put out signs. If it wasn’t for bandit signs at the entrance to my neighborhood my kids wouldn’t have shooting targets at the cabin
Why not teach them to shoot at empty spam cans instead? The smaller target would require better aim & more discipline while avoiding taking a dump on small businesses.
If a small business can’t follow the same laws that applies to other businesses, they deserve to fail.
Lol its 30 businesses in my town of 25000 that should be failing then 
And those are just the consistent ones that are on every corner
It’s not your job to enforce the laws (or even know the laws) any more than it is the litter guy to wash houses. Codes enforcement is not my job nor yours. Spam cans would make great targets.
Uneducated is not my strong suit. Put a sign up on private property that I pay to maintain and it will end up with the rest of the target collection. Most people are smart enough to not trust their largest possession to the care of someone that sticks illegal signs on street corners so I don’t worry about those, just the ones that make my neighborhood entrance look tacky
Better to not put them where they ask you not to…some places will immediately send notices, other counties are full of them. One suggestion though, if you’re doing it (esp. in a new area), get an app that lets you drop a pin everywhere you put one. That way if they threaten to fine you per sign if you don’t remove them, then you know where they all are…
Oh well ive actually gotten a couple jobs off them time for flyers maybe
If you put them all out, you’ll know where they are!
I’ll bet there are some spam cans / empty Cheerwine cans in that collection you speak of.
Depends how many you put out…lol. The one locality that we had an issue in was going for $100 per sign we didn’t get within their timeframe (they gave us 3 days since they’d never had issueswith us before, but usually it was either 1 day or no warning)…at that rate, I either want to say “go ahead” and pay it as marketing, or know where every single one of them is, lol. Also, you’re time is probably better spent washing stuff than paying someone cheap to put them out for you…
When you drive around & look for the perfect spot, find one, do a U turn, find somewhere to park, carry out a sign & spend 5 minutes trying to get it into the ground, you won’t need an app to remember where you put it haha.
For about $30 you can make a sign installer out of pvc that you can put that sucker about 10’ off the ground on the side of telephone poles or a tree that no one is going to be getting down w/o a ladder.
