What’s the biggest point of pain for you Indy’s, that tech or other services hasn’t fixed yet?

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Filling up the “cons” side on my pros/cons list of going Indy but good idea

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Hard to beat joneslink but all the other pluses make it sooo worth it. Biggest is being trusted and treated like a professional.

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Biggest point of pain is vetting all the technology choices and having to do the compliance yourself. You have to be able to embrace and accept change to make the leap to independence and accept that you will have to correct some things down the road you initially thought were good ideas. It’s all worth it in the end

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Centennial- I agree. Hate when people give EDJ the credit. I’m the one doing the work! I have to remind them

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