Why I’m Proud to Call American Profit Recovery Home

On April the 28th, a week after celebrating my 35th birthday, I was experiencing a normal morning at American Profit Recovery when one of my coworkers  asked “Hey Mike, don’t you live in Muirwood Apartments?” I responded “yes” to then be told by that employee that one of the buildings was on fire. I moved over to her desk and my jaw hit the floor when I realized that the building on fire was mine.  I rushed home to find my apartment building in flames and actually laughing because I was in shock and didn’t know how to react.

Over the next few days I agonized over how I was going to put everything back together with the limited amount of money that my renters insurance company was going to give me. Everything I owned fit in the back of my car. I had no clothes, no furniture, and although I was grateful to have what I did, nothing that I had left  except for my iPod was really that important to my everyday existence. I returned to work after the smoke cleared (figuratively and literally) and was greeted by one of my coworkers in casual dress. I asked him how we got casual and he responded with “you will see.” I checked my email to see what I needed to do to get this benefit myself and saw nothing. When my manager Greg arrived I asked him what the deal was. He asked me to come in to the conference room and let me know that my coworkers had all chipped in money to donate to me to help replace some of my loss. I immediately began to well up with tears and had some trouble not balling (which I would later do on a conference call). It turns out that the amount that was raised was pretty significant and through the efforts of Jeff Spurgess we were able to use that money to get an amazing deal on enough furniture to significantly furnish my new apartment.

Never have I worked anywhere that had the amount of good hearted, generous people that American Profit Recovery does. I know I have already said thank you to many of you either in person or by email but my mother also wanted to find a way to say thanks.  She has been bragging to friends and family about the gesture but wanted to do something more, so she has donated $300 to Making Strides on our teams behalf.

Her and I would like to both say thank you to everyone for what they did. I am, as I have said on other occasions, very happy to call APR home and it makes me very proud to do what I do and be part of this great team. In an age where the stigma around our industry continues to grow, I feel confident that we are doing it the right way and do not represent the bad apples. Hopefully someone can see this and it will help further promote the industry and this company in a positive light.

Check out my new home:

My New Living Room