Scott Miller / Vail Daily
Has Comerford landed in the Vail valley as do so many people do: looking for the next place to live. He found it, and a career.
Commerford and his first wife left Florida in April 1974. They built a van in which they could live while looking for a place to settle, traveling from Florida to New England and all the way from North to New -COSSE, in Canada. Then they went west.
The couple just outside the college had some ideas about their next place. They wanted to be near a big city, but not in a big city. By driving west, they found the city still-young in Vail, where Comerford won a carpenter’s job with the city for the first time.
When the then wife of Comerford broke her leg in a ski accident in early 1975, the couple needed insurance. Will entered the insurance sector with State Farm in the fall of this year. He has been with the company since then. The first months of the position found it to sell to other people in town.
“At that time, you could knock on the doors,” he said. “Or if you’ve dragged Donovan (Copper Bar), you might meet most of the city’s inhabitants.”
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First office at Carrefour
Comerford finally opened his first office at the Crossroads Building in January 1976.
Comerford moved the office to Avon in 1980, in a space above beavers. The company remained there for 27 years.
In 2007, Comerford brought his home office closer to his home in Eagle, where he had lived since 1978.
The move to Eagle came when Comerford led the West to buy new license plates. At the time, Eagle seemed to have “more cows than people,” he recalls. Eagle also had a more temperate climate.
Commerford at the time managed a condos complex to East Vail. The Tulips in Eagle began to get out of the ground in March of the same year. Meanwhile, East Vail was, well, East Vail, and still quite well buried in the snow.
Thus, in April of the same year, the Comerfords moved to Eagle. The good news is that its insurance customers followed with pleasure, although at that time, Vail to Eagle was a trip, not to mention a long -distance phone call.
This is the agent, of course, but Comerford is also quick to credit the company he represents. Comerford said that he had “rarely had to apologize” to policies of politicians over the years.
But the insurance company can be complicated. For example, while State Farm always provides customers who live in areas where there is only one road in and outside a neighborhood – Eby Creek Mesa, for example – it no longer provides new customers in these districts. Although the risk of the company is more concentrated, the next customer will probably be angry, he said.
But with all the changes in the company, Comerford still likes to enter the office. Until he retired at the end of this month, he still comes to the office every day.
“I like to solve people’s problems,” he said.
While he is retiring, Comerford plans to take advantage of his five grandchildren. Baseball fan, he also plans a trip to Arizona to assume training matches in the spring. On “Page 27 of the task list” is a VR trip to Utah.
Everything that comes, “I’m not going to sit at home,” he said.