Above & Beyond
THE HAPPY NAIL SALON
In 2012, a Dallas property manager of a retail strip shopping center received a complaint call from one of its tenants.
The tenant, a nail salon, told the property manager that its customers were complaining about low-hanging limbs on a tree in the parking lot. It seems the customers were hitting their heads on the low-hanging tree limbs when they tried to park under the tree.
The limbs touched the cars in those parking...
moreI AM NOT A ROBOT…YET
On a Friday, January 2023 telephone call, a PPM customer requested a bid proposal for an annual landscape maintenance contract for a retail shopping center.
PPM did not have the maintenance contract for this property.
The customer explained that he was required to get three bids and that he had already sent out two requests for proposals and now he wanted a third proposal from PPM.
The customer further explained…with some...
moreTHE SUMMER STORM
On a Friday night in July, a devastating storm with tornadic winds ripped through parts of Dallas.
Within an hour…an estimated 600,000 homes were without power in the withering summer heat of Texas. Old growth mature trees were suddenly uprooted, downing miles of power lines, crashing into buildings or falling into and blocking roadways.
Emergency crews were summoned from neighboring towns and states.
Parts...
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