Im steady but working harder than ever to keep it that way.

Ditto. My gas bill is atrocious right now. I'm driving farther, and working way harder. Even so, my income has dropped by over $1k a month, but that's due to losing LS.

Week to week here, kind of a feast or famine scenario. Eerie and unsettling, not unlike the housing market, the economy and the world!

Way down. Still receiving offers at $25-$35 fee. Will not accept due to gas prices and self-respect, but someone is accepting. Very concerned because do not think REO listings can fully compensate for loss of BPO income and concerned that future BPO will be completed by appraisers.

cinloo, that is very true and its happening already. LS went to appraisal only in about 25 states. That squashed 30% of my income last year and its going to be super hard to replace that.

Now I have waste time chasing other bpo business with companies I hadn't done much for in the past. That entails constantly checking sites for work..90% of the time there is nothing there..its really frustrating.

REO listings are slow here to as NJ just has everything backlogged. I have a house that I've been waiting on an eviction date since October of last year! Eventually it will get busier again but these next 4-6 months are uncertain at best.

Slowest I've seen in many moons.

Seems I get the most orders the beginning of the month; I overload myself because of that pattern. Then I have nothing until the last few days of the month which seem to be the junk orders I've seen come across before. As many of you, I feel like what was once pretty predictable income has become slim pickins

The first five days of this month I did almost $1,000 so I was really pumped for a good March...ha! The last seven days have been one or two per day. I swore I wouldn't take rural anymore, but I got accepted into a new company and so I took two rural and Big Bird gave me a rural auto assign...God forbid I lose my platinum status!

might sound silly but I would be OK with just 2 a day...still would beat punching a clock somewhere...if I could even find a job...

Nothing silly there Ditty. I do not think I would not go to a regular job unless I had no option.

I suppose if someone offered me a fantastic wage that I could not comprehend from where I sit now, I would punch a clock.

But who wants a schedule? I get some much personal satisfaction from my daily freedom, I am not sure you could put a number on that.

Prospective employers believe I'll quit just as soon as the market turns around. They'd be right about that but the market isn't going to turn around for years.

I had agreat start the first two weeks of March and also thought it would be a great month.
Week 1 - 28
Week 2 - 24
Week 3 - 12
WTF Over? I've said it once and I'll say it again: When it comes to BPOs, all these lenders are colluding like autosync commercials that makes sure every radio and TV station you tune into are all playing ads at the same time LOL

Certainly the slowest I've been in 5 years.

I was laying in bed the other night, thinking about the changes over the past year to the BPO industry, and made a point by point list in my head of all the negatives, and had a reallly hard time coming up with anything positive. I dont think that this month necessarily indicates anything, bc there have been and will be slow times. But for the last year, I've been very down about BPO's and the future of being able to work them the way I have. I dont think this just now because we are slow, I thought the same thing when I had BPOs coming out of my ears.