A house is not only a home or dwelling but it is a real and valuable asset to protect at all costs.
Chicago-based disaster restoration experts and President and Managing Director of Restoration by Simons Nasutsa Mabwa and Sam Simon know this concept all too well as they helped homeowners deal with a variety of property damage situations. Compiling their expansive knowledge and expertise, the husband and wife wrote a new book called “RESTORE: A complete guide to protecting your home as your most valuable asset from water and fire disasters.”
Restoration By Simons is a minority business enterprise (MBE) and a woman business enterprise (WBE) certified firm and family-run company serving Chicago and the Chicagoland suburbs of Oak Park, River Forest and the North Shore area.
“Over the years, Nasutsa and I have fielded thousands of calls from customers searching for information on how to effectively clean and/or mitigate small water damages, remediate minor smoke/odor damages, and handle a wide variety of specialty cleaning,” Simon said. “We’re happy to pass on as much information as we can. Sometimes, after we’ve explained to our information seekers, the process involved with cleaning and restoring, they end up hiring us. First and foremost, we feel that it is our duty to educate our consumers so that they understand the process and also to protect them from being taken advantage of by other companies.”
The book presents to readers about how to prevent disasters and what is needed physically and mentally to restore a home, if they choose to tackle these situations on their own. Simon explained that some common restoration problems include ridding a household of smoke odor after a cooking mishap, or cleaning up water after a dishwasher leak. Other instances include handling a sewer back up, discovering broken pipes, preventing holiday fires and knowing how to properly use a fire extinguisher.
It was a long journey for the couple to get where they are today. They first met as social workers in the mid 1990s in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Mabwa later became an executive in commercial real estate and Simon worked in national television production. Both careers meant working long hours and they wanted to spend more time with their children. They thought about opening their own business.
When they were planning to open a restaurant, a meeting with a restoration franchise owner changed their plans forever. He explained to them his successes and happiness in his personal and professional life as a restoration owner. They became intrigued and that one meeting set them off to pursue a franchise of their own. Aiding them in this path were the communication skills they cultivated when they were social workers.
“Readers should understand that this book is written to help homeowners,” Mabwa said. “They can begin to understand more about our restoration business by just understanding that. Our business is rooted in our beginnings as social workers and our desire to help people, specifically homeowners.”
The book is available on Amazon.
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