Jimbo got the
big stiffy more times than Jenna Jameson no one ever seemed to pay the poor bastard
shareSometimes he received finder's fees and bonuses, but he did often work for free.
shareEven his finders fees did not work out for him a lot. In the episode where the one young girl hires him to follow her roommate to Vegas he was rightfully due a 25 grand finders fee and at the end the guy told him to pound sand. If he got the money due him he could have expanded his trailer to a double wide. Even Beth wanted him to work for gratis.
shareWe didn't see everything, though. He has a lot of clients that don't show up in episodes.
shareThat episode was The Dexter Crisis and the show literally ends with the dude who promised him the finders fee on the money telling Rockford he ain't gonna get it. Jimbo should have took the cash and ran off with the two hot young broads who took the cash.
shareHe wasn't the type to try and muscle in on their dough. Maybe in his pre-prison days.
shareYeah if Angel got his meat hooks on that money he would have been in Mexico before sundown. Plus Rockford always being strapped for cash was a plot device they often used for Jim taking cases he really wanted nothing to do with. He keeps saying no to the potential client then they wave some hundreds under his nose and he is on the case.
share"You could wave three times that amount in front of me and it wouldn't tempt me. (chuckles) Well, it probably wouldn't".
shareHe was lucky his prized Firebird was never repo'd or his trailer towed away by a collection agency. There was one phone message where someone left a message for him complaining he wasn't making the payments on the answering machine. Funny stuff.
shareYah. He didn't usually take any cases if he didn't need the money right there and then, then something would happen that would put him in the hole.
Like Althea Morgan told him "You don't work a hell of a lot of the time".
Maybe Rocky was right trucking paid good if you were a Teamster. And truckers did not get the severe head injuries Jim got as a P.I. unless you were Reginald Denny.
shareTrouble seems to follow him no matter what he does. And Angel helps too!
shareJim should have gotten a the kind of mobile home with an engine and wheels. Being a fixed target made it too easy for random goons to show up all the time and either kidnap him or knock him unconscious. Rocky would've loved going fishing in Winnebago.
shareHe did need a fixed address for his business.
shareI guess he would need a fixed address although I am sure potential clients were not too impressed by his trailer which looked like it belonged in the salvage yard from the outside. Maybe he should have had an office in the business district like other PIs making it a lot harder to kidnap him at gunpoint so often. But that'd be boring I suppose.
shareA professional office would've cost too much. He liked the trailer because it was a home/office. I always assumed he preferred the trailer to appear dilapidated on the outside to deter random burglaries.
shareHere is Rockfords trailer after he strikes it rich by franchising his Detective Agency with Rich Brockelman as a partner->https://s27.postimg.org/6doyt535v/Rockford_trailer.jpg
shareLol. That's quite the do-it-yourself townhouse!
Some days, though, you'll need a raincoat going from room to room.
He might have to install some Acorn Stair Lifts for Rocky and maybe for himself also. Angel would probably rent out the rooms as a hotel without Jimmys knowledge of it.
shareOh, yes. Whenever Jim went out of town Angel would seek out tenents.
Judging from Garner's awkward mobility on "Eight Simple Rules", he'd need an Acorn installation.
Deil would have a warrant out on Jim from Angel running his trailer mansion as a brothel
shareYes, Captain Diel as he became known.
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