Cold calling for plumbing jobs in south Florida? Waste of time or goldmine?

Been hitting cold outreach hard lately here in south Florida, everything rusts so fast I figure every old condo needs a PEX repipe. I'm knocking on doors in these zone 1 high-rises, offering $3500 for a full Uponor manifold setup with SharkBite transitions. Saw a post in Plumbers United group where a guy swore by this approach and doubled his leads, but man, half the supers hang up on me. Watched a Tommy Mello video on his TikTok where he breaks down door-to-door scripts for service calls, and it's got me rethinking my pitch. NGL, it's controversial but I'm making $2k a week extra from it. Anyone else doing cold calls for repipes or am I just lucky down here? Shoulda started sooner.

same boat, cold calls feel like begging sometimes.

don't waste your time on cold calls, you'll burn out before you close one decent job.

fuck these property managers acting like they own the world, they lowball every quote then ghost you.

try scripting it around backflow testing, upsell from there with Watts valves.

use Jobber for follow-up texts, turns cold leads hot quick.

goddamn cold outreach has me driving 50 miles for a $200 snake job that turns into nothing.

customer calls back at 3am: 'my toilet's exploding!' after I cold called earlier, hilarious.

hate how these cheap HOAs nickel and dime on essential pipe fixes.

corporate overlords ruining local plumbing gigs, screw em.

yeah, the rejection stings but stick with it, brother.

cold calls got me through slow season, hang in there.

i get it, been pounding pavement for years on this.

totally feel the grind, south florida heat makes it brutal.

same, every no leads to a yes eventually.

understand the hustle, keep pushing those doors.

bro, cold outreach is soul-crushing but pays the bills.

woke up to a cold call callback that saved my week.

hit 50k in leads last quarter from cold calls, no regrets.

cold calls? nah, I'd rather eat glass than beg for work.

asked on r/Plumbing about this, mixed bag but some swear by targeted emails over calls.

SharkBites in cold outreach pitches? bold move, they either love it or hate it.