Feb. 25, 2025
New Season, New Us! InterNACHI's happening, Matt goes to Disney, and a sneak peak at what's coming!
In this episode of the Ride Along podcast, hosts Brad Lowery and Matt Brading discuss the journey of home inspections, the challenges of balancing work and life, and the importance of social media in the industry. They share personal experiences,...
In this episode of the Ride Along podcast, hosts Brad Lowery and Matt Brading discuss the journey of home inspections, the challenges of balancing work and life, and the importance of social media in the industry. They share personal experiences, insights on managing a home inspection business, and future plans for collaborations and events, including the upcoming InterNACHI conference.
TLDR:
- Home inspections can provide the freedom to build the life you want.
- Running a business often comes with increased workload and responsibilities.
- Social media can be a powerful tool for home inspectors to showcase their work.
- It's important to find a balance between work and personal life.
- Having a team can help maintain business operations while taking time off.
- Choosing which jobs to take can lead to a more fulfilling work experience.
- Effective communication with clients is crucial during inspections.
- Utilizing technology can enhance the efficiency of home inspections.
- Networking with other professionals can lead to valuable collaborations.
- Planning for future growth is essential for sustaining a business.
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All right, everybody.
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This is the first episode of the Ride Along here in 2025.
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What's going on?
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And Matt Braiding, thank you so much for joining the show here today and Mr.
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Co-host Roll.
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Yeah, sir.
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Thank you for having me, Brett.
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Dude, I'm excited.
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And for those of you that watched last year, we kind of had a little bit of a revolving
door of Coho.
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So Matt, I'm excited, dude.
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We're kicking this off with, we're trying to introduce a little bit of regularity on here.
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And so I'm excited to have you kind of sit in a Coho spot here for a bit.
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And we got some awesome guests that are going to be coming on the show here before long.
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Yes, we do.
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And likewise, I'm excited about it too.
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Yeah, we've been talking about a few potential guests and I think it's going to be some
really interesting stuff for inspectors to check out homeowners, people in the
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construction trade, everyone alike.
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Do definitely.
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so, okay, for those of you guys that watched last year, Matt, you're a home inspector out
in Houston area.
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that was, gosh, we got to talk, what was back at, back at inspection fuel.
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That was a blast.
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Yeah.
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So loved that show.
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But for those that haven't gotten to watch or haven't gone all the way back in the, you
know, the abyss of videos that we have on the channel here, go ahead and reintroduce
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yourself to the listeners.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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So I am Matt Braiding.
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My company is Texas Edge Home Inspections.
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And so out here in the Houston area, I myself, and recently I brought on another employee,
Louis Escobar, who we are out here doing home inspections all across the Houston area.
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I have sort of made a little bit of a name for myself on social media through putting out
videos of my findings.
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Most notably, probably the, it's not supposed to do that series where I simply just point
to things that aren't supposed to do that and say, it's not supposed to do that.
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And so anyway, yeah, lots of fun.
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Yeah, yeah, very.
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Yeah.
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But it worked.
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No, definitely man.
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No, I love it.
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So okay, so and you've been home inspecting again for how long
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I think it's going on about eight years now.
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Dude, I love it, man.
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Yeah, I was a home inspector up in the DC area for about eight years.
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And I love that you even brought that up.
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How long you've been inspecting.
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I asked for a reason.
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So one of the most popular episodes at the end of the year last year, it was hilarious.
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I got so many comments.
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It was on Pex plumbing and I had John Bolton on the show.
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Did you see that one?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I loved it.
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Somebody on there commented.
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They're like just a bunch of has been home inspectors.
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I'm like, no, sir.
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Still active, still in the field.
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Right.
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Right.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Definitely.
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And I mean, like, yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
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Like seven years.
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mean, seven, eight years, whatever it is, like, you know, headed towards a decade that
feels substantial.
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You know, there was a time whenever I started and when I got asked that question, I didn't
really want to answer it because, you know, people would people would ask how long you've
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been doing this.
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And like you might say like,
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Three years and they just doesn't sound like you know, you're very experienced doesn't
matter what your background is or how much you know How many inspections you've actually
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done that years of experience thing always kind of bugged me.
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I'm at the point now where it doesn't
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no, totally.
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Definitely not.
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Once you've seen a certain number of houses, several thousand houses, you know, kind of
just get that little bit of confidence where you're like, you know what, there's people,
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there's always somebody that's been doing this job longer, but you've established
yourself, you know.
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Yeah, for sure.
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For sure.
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But I think like, you know, Chris Murphy, who's I guess who introduced us like when I met
him, he had been inspecting for like seven years.
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So I feel like I'm like at Chris Murphy status then, you know, and so he was very
established and I considered him to be a very successful in his business then.
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And so, you know, and I feel the same now.
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Now, definitely, man.
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I've enjoyed watching you crush it.
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on social media, just fill everybody in here.
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First of all, where could they follow you?
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Well, Instagram, it's actually most of them.
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You can find me at texas.edge.inspect Instagram is one of the bigger platforms.
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I've been trying to grow YouTube for a while.
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You could just search Texas Edge home inspections or texas.edge.inspect same on TikTok.
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I think it's a little bit different for Facebook, but the easiest way to find me really is
just to go to my website, which is texasedgeinspect.com pretty easy to find.
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And then at the bottom, there's links to all my social media stuff.
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I love it man, definitely.
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And for those of you that are watching this show, if you haven't subscribed on the YouTube
channel, because Matt's going to be sharing a whole bunch of stuff off of this, obviously
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you can follow the ride along on social media as well.
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But do subscribe to the YouTube channel because we are looking to crank out about 30
episodes this season.
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Last year, I think we did about 24, 25 episodes, which was our first real full season
doing the show.
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So if you guys got some value out of that, definitely follow it, definitely share it.
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But Matt, we got some good guests that are gonna be coming up here in the next several
weeks, starting with recording live at InterNACHI next week.
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Correct, correct, yeah, so I'm going to be in Florida next week.
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I'm actually leaving tomorrow to go to Florida.
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Me and the family are gonna take in Disney for a couple of days before we head over to
Sunday.
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We're gonna head over towards the hotel where the Internazzi Conference is going on and
I'm gonna meet up with you at some point and we're supposed to be doing some recording out
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there as well, believe.
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Dude, it's a blast, man.
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I always love recording at InterNACHI, one, because they're so supportive.
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Like Ben Gromico has their whole podcast.
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I'm looking forward to partnering with them a little bit too.
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Just kind of doing a little bit of a crossover thing while we're there.
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But gosh, dude, this is the biggest event in our industry.
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And so we get so many people from all over the country and it's awesome.
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I I set up the podcast booth, people stop on by.
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So, you know, if you're there at the show, if you're going to be there, comment.
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So tell me what you're looking forward to first and foremost.
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Tell me what you're looking forward to learning, what classes you're going to be taken,
but stop by the booth, come say, Hey, it's going to be a great time.
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Let's get you guys on the show.
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So yeah, dude, definitely.
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So, so okay, Matt, to get the family ready, cause you're coming to Florida.
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what I need you to do is just to get everybody in a habit of standing in line, right?
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If you're going to do Disney, that's most of your experience, right?
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Just be real good at standing in line.
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So.
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So we have this isn't our not our first rodeo.
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It's actually our this is gonna be our fourth.
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My kids ate.
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This is gonna be the best one.
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I feel like it's gonna be the best one.
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It started at like five.
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And then, you know, but and that was kind of sketchy because like, you know what he would
what he was into, he was a little bit scared of things or whatever.
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You know, you think you turn your ringer off and somehow you didn't.
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You're screwing up the show, Matt.
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know, I know it's trash now.
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We got to scrap it.
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No, he's eight now and so he's a little bit less timid about the things that he'll do and
the things that he's interested in writing and things like that.
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And so it's exciting.
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But we've been a few times and so like, know, there are like this, now my wife handles
this, so I'm probably not going to say it right, but there's like apps like with like some
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type of lightning lane situation.
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And so like.
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Somehow and I don't know if we pay for this or what?
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But you sign into you know, whatever ride you want to do and you sign up for a time I want
you written that like it opens up another one.
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So like you can schedule your day, you know And and kind of wait in less lines.
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Don't get me wrong It doesn't work for everything and not all the times that you would
want to ride that rise and available We've definitely still stood in line for a ride
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before But but we try to utilize that as much as possible.
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We're going to Magic Kingdom Hollywood Studios and Epcot
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Dude, you got the full experience, man.
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And you're gonna be there.
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This is just, you're coming in tomorrow.
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That's gonna give you several days, because InterNACHI is gonna start on Sunday.
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awesome, man, you got plenty of time.
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Plenty of time to go stand in a whole bunch of lines.
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yeah, or at least let me know how the app works, because I've, okay, for those of you that
have been to Disney, like, because I know there's a couple of home inspectors that I've
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talked to that are, y'all are big Disney people.
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I won't get into whether or not it's weird to be a Disney adult.
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whatever man, hey, do you do you write your vacation times your vacation time.
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But last time, the last time that I was even going to go to like sea world or something
like that, this was like 2010.
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I was living down here in Florida, which is where I'm at now.
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I'm sorry to rub it in y'all's face.
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It's just the most beautiful time of year to be in Florida.
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We live for this, you know, it's this low humidity, it is 80 degrees.
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If there's ever a season to home inspect, this is it man.
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But anyway, so yeah, 2010, I was living down here in Florida and I was dirt broke at the
time.
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My brother flew down from Virginia to visit me.
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We went to go visit our grandparents over on the other coast.
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And as we're driving back across Orlando, we started seeing the signs for Disney World.
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And I was like, dude, hey, wait, you want to go to like Disney or SeaWorld or something
like that?
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And he was like, yeah.
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I was like, okay, well, let's look up prices.
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So he starts like Googling prices for going to SeaWorld.
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They're like 125 bucks.
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like that was at the time and prices have not gone down.
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And I was like, cause we were so excited.
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We're like, yeah, we're going to see where we're going to see world.
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goes, wait, it's 125 bucks.
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We looked at each other.
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We went, we're going to the sea.
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We're going to the sea.
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That one's, that one's free baby.
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And so yeah, it's, dude, I love it over here.
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insanely expensive.
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It's crazy.
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You know, the first time we went a few years ago, I didn't think I was like, okay,
whatever, I'll just go, you know, and I didn't think I would really get much out of it or
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enjoy it very much.
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It is pretty awesome.
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And it encouraged me to want to go back a few times, you know, and at least if nothing
else, like, I don't know.
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I mean, like, I think there's definitely something to like about it as like an adult.
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Like without kids, like maybe one of these days, like when I'm like old, older, me and my
wife could go.
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And and just enjoy it without you know a kid because I think that there's a whole
different level of like enjoyment You can have out of it if you do that Yeah, totally
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right 100 % but but but you know this time it's Getting giving my son a chance to really
experience it is is really what this is about and experience it with him And it's very
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enjoyable now as far as the app and everything goes you're gonna have to talk to my wife
Do you have her number?
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Why would you have?
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I don't know.
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would I hit me?
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I've never met your wife.
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Bring her by the booth to say, Hey, that's it.
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we'll, yeah.
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So I, I don't know.
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We were going with that.
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mean, you're making it, making it sound like I hang out with your wife all the time, but
not that I wouldn't enjoy getting dinner with y'all, but I would just prefer for you to be
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there, you know?
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So yeah.
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Hey, you know, look, you go up to the villages in Florida, all kinds of stuff happens up
there.
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My buddy, Ishvan Jocko, if you guys are in the home inspection industry, you know him.
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He moved up there recently and I'm like, well, Ishvan, know, I support whatever your
decisions are, okay?
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So he's like, well, there's just a lot to do.
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I'm like, I live down here.
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We all know, we all know what there is to do.
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anyway, so, okay, but with InterNACHI and with coming down here, here's what I want to
talk with you about today.
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One of the biggest reasons that I feel like we get into home inspections and go into
business for ourselves is the idea that we can fund the life that we really want for
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ourselves.
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So how has home inspections really helped you to do that to really kind of just instead of
just being the job that you do, how has it helped to build the life that you want to
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That's an interesting question.
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So that was the goal.
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Yeah.
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You know, I kind of always wanted to work for myself.
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I always wanted to run a business and I started this like simultaneously with another job
that I thought I could kind of do in part time.
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Of course, this took over pretty quickly because I decided that this is what I wanted to
do full time.
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And then also not just that, but
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You know, as it, as it started getting busier, I realized I couldn't do both.
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you know, there was like limitations at my other job.
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time off, you know, leaving to go to places like Internazzi or, you know, to, just visit
Florida or, know, later on this month, I'm headed out toward to Vegas.
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I've actually got a ton of time off.
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I'm taken in February.
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This is stuff that wouldn't have been possible with my previous line of employment, you
know, where I had to request time off.
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But like, you know, in honesty, like how has it changed things?
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I mean, yeah, that's available, but it has come also at a cost as well because, you know,
I'm a business owner and so I work way more than I ever did.
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Now I get to take off sometimes, you know, and go, you know, to these events, but when I
do, I don't work.
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And so there's no money getting brought into the company.
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However, now that I have a guy out there in the field with me, he's actually working
pretty much the entire time that I'm gone.
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And so we don't have to close the doors because I'm gone.
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And so that's been a game.
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That particularly has been a game changer for me for years, though.
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I've been working way more than I really ever did.
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And then also trying to keep up with the social media stuff and everything that has just
been kind of it's it's it's been out of control.
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I mean, I've been not just the social media, but work, social media, home life, know, kid
baseball, kid football, you know, all of it.
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It's just been, it's a lot to keep up with.
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And so while there is some freedom that comes along with having your own line of work and
being, you know, in this line of work, you know, take that with a grain of salt because
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when you run a business, you got business to run.
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Well, that's kind of, dude, that's the good way of looking at it.
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And truly it's for now, are you involved with like IEB or anything?
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Any of the kind of the organizations that are out there?
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So if you're somebody now for me, like I, actually do coaching with, with Mark Humble.
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He's, he's kind of a business coach to me.
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But if you guys are not signed up for, I mean, there's, there's IEB out there, there's I
go, there's a whole bunch of coaching networks that are out there.
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If you're somebody that finds that you've kind of become a slave to the the monster that
you've built in terms of building a business those organizations are amazing at helping
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you to organize your life and to build good habits and practices and systems into your
business so that You could kind of get back to having the life that you originally wanted
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from the business that you built Because it's so easy right for it to just start to
dominate everything in your day.
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I remember
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and a previous married life.
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Gosh, I was cranking out the final year that I was inspecting in Virginia before I
eventually moved down here to Florida.
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I cranked out 413 inspections on my own that year, which there's a lot of people that do
more than that.
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But for me, that was a lot.
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And there was nights where she was like, and this was for a company that was, I was with
BPG, it was a franchise.
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So, but I was still.
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up until midnight, some nights getting reports done.
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And she was like, can you just come right then in bed?
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Can you just maybe finish it in the morning?
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It was getting in the way of my home life.
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Now, the money was great.
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The things that that money afforded were great.
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We took some awesome trips, things like that.
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But at the same time, when it starts to rob you of a little bit of the peace and a little
bit of the freedom that you
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intended with this line of business, that's when you start to have to think about what can
I reevaluate, what can I tweak so that I have the capacity and the time for the things
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that really do matter most.
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Yeah, I've been considering some things like phone answering, things like that.
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So I'm not handling that.
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It's been something that I've kind of enjoyed.
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There's a control factor that I don't really want to let go of.
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And it's not really about like, I'm a control freak.
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Possibly.
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Okay.
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But that's not what I'm getting at.
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What I'm getting at is what I'm getting at is more like, I want the control to be able to
turn down jobs that I don't want.
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Like I don't want to just
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be booked on a job just because that's the job that called and they, and you know, cause
I'm at a point right now where I don't, I don't have to do every job that comes in and I
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don't want to.
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and there's, there's some of them that just don't appeal to me and I can personally vet
clients and potential jobs to make sure that I stay out of the ones that I don't really
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want.
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And so, while, while you can kind of groom some answering services to help with that.
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I have no doubt they can sell my service, right?
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And also like one thing that's kept me from it is that like a lot of times they, they,
kind of in put emphasis on the fact that they, they will help you make more money because
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they will sell additional services.
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I don't really have additional services.
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My particular company, do home inspections, termite inspections, and pool inspections.
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If you don't have a pool, you're not going to get up, up sold a pool.
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Right.
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And, and termite inspections.
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Well,
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They're only 50 bucks.
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So if it's an older house, people want them every time.
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if it's a newer house, I don't want to do it.
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So I don't want it.
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It's just extra.
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got to, I'm contracted through a company, so I got to pay them and it's just more work.
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So it's like, if it's a new house and you're, and you're not interested in termite
inspection, I'm not trying to sell that service.
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I'd rather just save the time.
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So I really don't have extra services to sell.
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but I mean, I am getting to the point where I want to reclaim some of my life.
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So I've got to figure out like,
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control versus, you know, some form of life back by not answering the phones and dealing
with that stuff.
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And I am getting to the point where I'm, and it's mostly because it's me and somebody else
now, and I'm wanting to take on somebody else in 2025.
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It's going to get to the point where that phone just consumes me.
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And it does when I'm out in the field, I take phone calls and take jobs while I'm out in
the field.
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It's a time suck.
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But I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet.
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do you manage that on the job site?
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Like for me, I would always wait to like return the call until after the inspection.
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But at the same time, like when I started in the industry, it was with a small mom and pop
business.
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And I remember our head inspector, he would be in the middle of an inspection and fielding
calls at the same time booking the next inspection.
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And for me, I was like, I always try to put my focus like right where I was at the time
with a customer that I was with.
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But I mean, how did you handle that?
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Everybody works a little bit different.
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Well, I mean, for the most part, I do try to answer the phone when I'm in the field
because and look, okay, it depends.
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You know, when when business really started to pick up for me and I could really start
getting choosy about who I did work for, I just let the phone ring.
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I'll get back to you because honestly, almost every phone call that came in, I'm not going
to get to you in time.
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And so like like I was was booking out a week in advance.
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And so, you know,
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the calls I could take whenever I was off would book me out and the calls that came in
whenever I was on the job, I just let it go to voicemail and call you back.
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you got, if you don't, if it don't get you, no problem.
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but when I brought in another guy, the need to get as many jobs as possible, you know,
increased.
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And so I felt the need to answer the phone in the field again.
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And so I've been back to that.
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yeah, I mean it sucks, but I mean,
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It's, it's, you I just manage it.
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I just deal with it.
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what's your process, by the way?
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Because I mean, like for some home inspectors, I mean, it's like I bring the buyer around
with me while I'm doing the inspection.
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Do you do the inspection on your own first and then take them through?
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OK.
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Now, if I got somebody with me, I'm not going to answer the phone, but yeah, I 100 % do
not bring the buyer around with me.
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I would, I love going around with the buyer at the end of the inspection, but I am way too
chatty and too engaged with them to have them with me when I'm doing my work.
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I mean, I don't know that it's that, but I mean like what the thing is, is like I
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It's not that I don't want to hang out with them.
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It's not that I don't want to talk to them.
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I actually want to way too much.
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And so I will end up talking myself around a defect.
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I don't want to miss anything.
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It is more important to me to do a very thorough job than it is to have them there
watching me every step of the way.
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I would rather do a thorough job, go over the cliff notes with them at the end of the
inspection and take them and show them everything.
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Answer any questions they got, interact with them, laugh with them, all that stuff.
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But I do worry because it's happened where, you know, I will be distracted by something
and miss something.
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Now, I mean, look, I'm not going to miss anything major, but I don't want to miss
anything.
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No, no, definitely not.
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mean, if you could do as thorough as possible, I totally get it.
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I, and again, this is everybody works different.
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I'm not, you know, calling myself any sort of, you know, savant of home inspections here,
but I did learn from, would call them a freaking master in this industry.
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name's Ken Humphries.
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He's up in, up in Virginia.
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this guy, dude, yeah, it's
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awesome dude.
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And he doesn't have a huge social media presence because he's too busy working his butt
off.
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And anyway, he is able to get through a house in about two to two and a half hours while
taking the buyer around.
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And he doesn't finish the report on site, he finishes it right afterwards.
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Like after he gets to the next job site, like he always blocks himself just enough time so
that he can do some of the report on site, but then finish the rest of it off site.
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But I, I've
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only seen that guy get a call back once in a blue moon.
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And so I started doing like a hybrid of that.
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But it's it is tough.
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I mean, you have to really stay on your toes because if you're not careful, you can miss
something.
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Some people are built different, man.
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I mean, some people can play the drums.
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I can't play the drums, you know?
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it.
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Dude, a buddy of mine is able to like drum and sing and I can't do either.
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So I don't know.
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Yeah, I don't get that at all.
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So
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me wrong.
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Like, I mean, the guy's, the guy's probably awesome.
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I do not trust myself to put out the report that I have, I have set a level, a bar from
myself and my company.
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And I do not believe that I can put out the same product if I was going around with the
client.
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And I know with all certainty that the speed would not be there.
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You know, I did a new construction house yesterday.
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I finished it and sent it, but while I was at the, at the job, like,
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There's no way in three and a half hours I could do a 2500 square foot house with the
client right there next to me, finish the report and send it out to him.
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It just wouldn't happen.
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Oh, no, no.
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I mean, you got to figure out what you want to accomplish on site.
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And here's the other thing, too.
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So I there was an inspection I was just doing up in Tampa, which, by the way, dude, like I
I never in my life thought that I would inspect a 2500 square foot single level cinder
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block house built in 2000 with an in-ground pool.
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It was selling for five twenty eight, I think.
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And I found myself telling the buyer this is actually a decent price.
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For 528, I bought my first house for 395.
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Dude, what is going on?
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And I'm telling them that I had a half million dollar house.
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like, this is a steal here.
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But seriously, anyway, but they, this is cool.
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They're all about inspector TikTok.
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And the wife was like, hey, so do you know this guy?
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I was like, inspector AJ.
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Yep, no, for sure.
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Gonna see him in a couple of weeks.
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She she mentioned sigh and I was like we won't talk about that guy.
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Sorry sigh don't sue me but it just some of these others that she follows but Anyway, I
like Preston Kincaid.
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I think she follows him as well.
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I'm like you need to check out this dude Matt Brady, you know but anyway She's like so
what about yours?
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Where's where's your content?
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I said, well, here's the thing
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you're following me around and we're talking about this the whole time that I'm doing the
inspection.
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There's no real convenient time for me to say, let's not talk about the water heater hold
out.
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Well, like make a tick tock, you know, and yeah, right.
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I had the camera man, but go watch.
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yo, go watch the ride along series on this channel here.
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Okay.
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I'm also the camera man, but yeah.
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I'll come with you on your jobs and we'll do some YouTube stuff.
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go, man.
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Dude, I actually, okay, here's another thing for y'all, just teasing this out for later on
this season.
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I am stoked down with mine.
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So last year, okay, if you notice on here, we got two separate little like channels on the
YouTube channel here.
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You have the Ride Along podcast, which obviously you can listen to audio everywhere.
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And then you have the Ride Along series where last year I went with people around the
country, inspectors around the country and shadowed them on their job sites.
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So we did everything from like a Queen Anne Victorian up in Minnesota.
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We did the House of Horrors with Nick Romico and Austin and Natalie Rose out in Denver.
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Did a commercial inspection in Dallas.
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But this year is actually pretty cool because I get to stay a little bit close to home.
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There's a guy here.
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He's a home inspector named Clay Owens and he owns Owens Construction.
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But I'm going to be shadowing and filming an ongoing series.
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on several of his properties that he has underway.
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One, we're kicking it off.
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It is a beautifully renovated house down in Sarasota, but he has several projects that I'm
going to be filming from foundation to finish over the course of this year and launching
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it here on the channel as we go.
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So subscribe, turn on notifications, because you're not going to want to miss it.
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Because the whole thing is it's like, what's it like to own a construction company when
it's owned by a home inspector?
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Right?
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You think we're nitpicky enough?
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I was about to ask for clarification on that.
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I thought I heard you right.
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He's a home inspector, but has a construction company.
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You were that was legit.
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You said that.
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Okay.
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And you.
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Okay.
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he's he and his wife found it.
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But and then his kids are kind of running the home inspection stuff now.
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And he's focusing on the construction stuff.
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But dude, instead of just like, you know, poured slab foundation, a basic poured slab
foundation, this guy's doing a three course built up cinder block for even his cheapest
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houses.
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So he's making sure that everything is above flood zones around here.
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Everything is is heavied up.
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And his house is reflected in their finished price.
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But
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as a home inspector, he knows fine detail.
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And so he puts that that level of quality into his work.
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So it's gonna be really cool.
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Fun, fun series, man.
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So all that to say, man, if you want to come on out, you could be the cameraman.
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Yeah, let's, say bad, let's say, but I'd love to come out and film with you out there too.
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So yep, for sure.
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But anyway, no, guys, I want to hear a couple questions sound off in the comments, y'all
about what you do want to manage your work life balance.
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since that's one thing we were talking about.
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And two, how do you manage phone calls in the field?
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Because this would be a great place to say that today's show is sponsored by America's
Call Center, which is obviously a porch property.
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But if you're somebody that's looking for a call center to help field some of this stuff,
they work specifically with home inspectors to get your sales pitches down, your sales
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packages down.
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They upsell for you if you're looking to do that.
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But basically it's all taken work off of your plate so that you can be free to do what you
love and live your life as well.
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So pretty cool.
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Yeah, I if they're asking questions, mean I gotta say I I prepared some questions for this
as well I mean, I don't know if you're ready for this or not Okay, so assuming that like,
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you know, we're going to do something like this again, right where I'm co-hosting We're
gonna have a guest right?
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We had because we yeah, we have some some guests plans So I thought I would ask since I'm
gonna be doing this from here.
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You're gonna be doing this from potentially there Our our pants required do I need it?
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Do I have to wear pants when I do this?
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I'm only filming from here up for a reason, okay?
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Yeah, yeah.
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So just do with that information what you will.
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They could be shorts, they could be pants, they could be a state of undress.
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We ask and we ask no questions.
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We listen and do not judge.
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That's what they're saying online.
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that's actually the only question I have.
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That was it.
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Okay, cool.
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Hey, sound off in the comments if you're wearing pants.
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I love it.
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Now we will be I'm looking forward to next week.
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First of all, I'm looking forward to seeing you down in Irunachi.
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We will be there wearing pants.
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So you know, yeah, yeah, we'll get kicked out otherwise.
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So bring your pants.
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Bring some bring some good questions for us guys.
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We'd love to have you on the show.
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All of our listeners, let us know if you're going to be there.
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But dude, Matt.
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Not a bad first episode kicking off 2025 here on the show, Yeah, dude, I'm excited to do
this with you.
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It's gonna be fun, man.
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Looking forward to it.
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So also, well, thanks for being on.
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Thank you everybody for listening.
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We'll see you in Orlando at InterNACHI next week.
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See you next time.
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right, bye.
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All right, everybody.
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This is the first episode of the Ride Along here in 2025.
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What's going on?
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And Matt Braiding, thank you so much for joining the show here today and Mr.
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Co-host Roll.
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Yeah, sir.
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Thank you for having me, Brett.
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Dude, I'm excited.
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And for those of you that watched last year, we kind of had a little bit of a revolving
door of Coho.
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So Matt, I'm excited, dude.
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We're kicking this off with, we're trying to introduce a little bit of regularity on here.
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And so I'm excited to have you kind of sit in a Coho spot here for a bit.
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And we got some awesome guests that are going to be coming on the show here before long.
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Yes, we do.
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And likewise, I'm excited about it too.
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Yeah, we've been talking about a few potential guests and I think it's going to be some
really interesting stuff for inspectors to check out homeowners, people in the
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construction trade, everyone alike.
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Do definitely.
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so, okay, for those of you guys that watched last year, Matt, you're a home inspector out
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that was, gosh, we got to talk, what was back at, back at inspection fuel.
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That was a blast.
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So loved that show.
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But for those that haven't gotten to watch or haven't gone all the way back in the, you
know, the abyss of videos that we have on the channel here, go ahead and reintroduce
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yourself to the listeners.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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So I am Matt Braiding.
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My company is Texas Edge Home Inspections.
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And so out here in the Houston area, I myself, and recently I brought on another employee,
Louis Escobar, who we are out here doing home inspections all across the Houston area.
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I have sort of made a little bit of a name for myself on social media through putting out
videos of my findings.
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Most notably, probably the, it's not supposed to do that series where I simply just point
to things that aren't supposed to do that and say, it's not supposed to do that.
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And so anyway, yeah, lots of fun.
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Yeah, yeah, very.
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Yeah.
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But it worked.
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No, definitely man.
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No, I love it.
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So okay, so and you've been home inspecting again for how long
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I think it's going on about eight years now.
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Dude, I love it, man.
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Yeah, I was a home inspector up in the DC area for about eight years.
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And I love that you even brought that up.
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How long you've been inspecting.
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I asked for a reason.
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So one of the most popular episodes at the end of the year last year, it was hilarious.
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I got so many comments.
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It was on Pex plumbing and I had John Bolton on the show.
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Did you see that one?
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I loved it.
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Somebody on there commented.
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They're like just a bunch of has been home inspectors.
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I'm like, no, sir.
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Still active, still in the field.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Definitely.
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And I mean, like, yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
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Like seven years.
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mean, seven, eight years, whatever it is, like, you know, headed towards a decade that
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You know, there was a time whenever I started and when I got asked that question, I didn't
really want to answer it because, you know, people would people would ask how long you've
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been doing this.
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And like you might say like,
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Three years and they just doesn't sound like you know, you're very experienced doesn't
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done that years of experience thing always kind of bugged me.
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I'm at the point now where it doesn't
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no, totally.
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Definitely not.
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Once you've seen a certain number of houses, several thousand houses, you know, kind of
just get that little bit of confidence where you're like, you know what, there's people,
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there's always somebody that's been doing this job longer, but you've established
yourself, you know.
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Yeah, for sure.
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For sure.
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But I think like, you know, Chris Murphy, who's I guess who introduced us like when I met
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So I feel like I'm like at Chris Murphy status then, you know, and so he was very
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Now, definitely, man.
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I've enjoyed watching you crush it.
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on social media, just fill everybody in here.
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First of all, where could they follow you?
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Well, Instagram, it's actually most of them.
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You can find me at texas.edge.inspect Instagram is one of the bigger platforms.
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I've been trying to grow YouTube for a while.
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You could just search Texas Edge home inspections or texas.edge.inspect same on TikTok.
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I think it's a little bit different for Facebook, but the easiest way to find me really is
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And then at the bottom, there's links to all my social media stuff.
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I love it man, definitely.
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And for those of you that are watching this show, if you haven't subscribed on the YouTube
channel, because Matt's going to be sharing a whole bunch of stuff off of this, obviously
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you can follow the ride along on social media as well.
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But do subscribe to the YouTube channel because we are looking to crank out about 30
episodes this season.
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Last year, I think we did about 24, 25 episodes, which was our first real full season
doing the show.
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So if you guys got some value out of that, definitely follow it, definitely share it.
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But Matt, we got some good guests that are gonna be coming up here in the next several
weeks, starting with recording live at InterNACHI next week.
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Correct, correct, yeah, so I'm going to be in Florida next week.
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I'm actually leaving tomorrow to go to Florida.
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Me and the family are gonna take in Disney for a couple of days before we head over to
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We're gonna head over towards the hotel where the Internazzi Conference is going on and
I'm gonna meet up with you at some point and we're supposed to be doing some recording out
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there as well, believe.
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Dude, it's a blast, man.
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I always love recording at InterNACHI, one, because they're so supportive.
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Like Ben Gromico has their whole podcast.
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I'm looking forward to partnering with them a little bit too.
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Just kind of doing a little bit of a crossover thing while we're there.
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But gosh, dude, this is the biggest event in our industry.
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And so we get so many people from all over the country and it's awesome.
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I I set up the podcast booth, people stop on by.
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So, you know, if you're there at the show, if you're going to be there, comment.
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So tell me what you're looking forward to first and foremost.
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Tell me what you're looking forward to learning, what classes you're going to be taken,
but stop by the booth, come say, Hey, it's going to be a great time.
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Let's get you guys on the show.
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So yeah, dude, definitely.
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So, so okay, Matt, to get the family ready, cause you're coming to Florida.
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what I need you to do is just to get everybody in a habit of standing in line, right?
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If you're going to do Disney, that's most of your experience, right?
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Just be real good at standing in line.
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So.
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So we have this isn't our not our first rodeo.
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It's actually our this is gonna be our fourth.
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My kids ate.
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This is gonna be the best one.
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I feel like it's gonna be the best one.
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It started at like five.
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And then, you know, but and that was kind of sketchy because like, you know what he would
what he was into, he was a little bit scared of things or whatever.
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You know, you think you turn your ringer off and somehow you didn't.
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You're screwing up the show, Matt.
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know, I know it's trash now.
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We got to scrap it.
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No, he's eight now and so he's a little bit less timid about the things that he'll do and
the things that he's interested in writing and things like that.
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But we've been a few times and so like, know, there are like this, now my wife handles
this, so I'm probably not going to say it right, but there's like apps like with like some
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type of lightning lane situation.
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Somehow and I don't know if we pay for this or what?
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But you sign into you know, whatever ride you want to do and you sign up for a time I want
you written that like it opens up another one.
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So like you can schedule your day, you know And and kind of wait in less lines.
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Don't get me wrong It doesn't work for everything and not all the times that you would
want to ride that rise and available We've definitely still stood in line for a ride
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before But but we try to utilize that as much as possible.
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We're going to Magic Kingdom Hollywood Studios and Epcot
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Dude, you got the full experience, man.
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And you're gonna be there.
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This is just, you're coming in tomorrow.
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That's gonna give you several days, because InterNACHI is gonna start on Sunday.
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awesome, man, you got plenty of time.
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Plenty of time to go stand in a whole bunch of lines.
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yeah, or at least let me know how the app works, because I've, okay, for those of you that
have been to Disney, like, because I know there's a couple of home inspectors that I've
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talked to that are, y'all are big Disney people.
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I won't get into whether or not it's weird to be a Disney adult.
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whatever man, hey, do you do you write your vacation times your vacation time.
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But last time, the last time that I was even going to go to like sea world or something
like that, this was like 2010.
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I was living down here in Florida, which is where I'm at now.
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I'm sorry to rub it in y'all's face.
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It's just the most beautiful time of year to be in Florida.
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We live for this, you know, it's this low humidity, it is 80 degrees.
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If there's ever a season to home inspect, this is it man.
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But anyway, so yeah, 2010, I was living down here in Florida and I was dirt broke at the
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My brother flew down from Virginia to visit me.
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We went to go visit our grandparents over on the other coast.
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And as we're driving back across Orlando, we started seeing the signs for Disney World.
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And I was like, dude, hey, wait, you want to go to like Disney or SeaWorld or something
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And he was like, yeah.
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I was like, okay, well, let's look up prices.
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So he starts like Googling prices for going to SeaWorld.
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They're like 125 bucks.
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like that was at the time and prices have not gone down.
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And I was like, cause we were so excited.
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We're like, yeah, we're going to see where we're going to see world.
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goes, wait, it's 125 bucks.
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We looked at each other.
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We went, we're going to the sea.
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We're going to the sea.
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That one's, that one's free baby.
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And so yeah, it's, dude, I love it over here.
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insanely expensive.
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It's crazy.
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You know, the first time we went a few years ago, I didn't think I was like, okay,
whatever, I'll just go, you know, and I didn't think I would really get much out of it or
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enjoy it very much.
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It is pretty awesome.
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And it encouraged me to want to go back a few times, you know, and at least if nothing
else, like, I don't know.
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I mean, like, I think there's definitely something to like about it as like an adult.
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Like without kids, like maybe one of these days, like when I'm like old, older, me and my
wife could go.
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And and just enjoy it without you know a kid because I think that there's a whole
different level of like enjoyment You can have out of it if you do that Yeah, totally
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right 100 % but but but you know this time it's Getting giving my son a chance to really
experience it is is really what this is about and experience it with him And it's very
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enjoyable now as far as the app and everything goes you're gonna have to talk to my wife
Do you have her number?
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Why would you have?
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I don't know.
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would I hit me?
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I've never met your wife.
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Bring her by the booth to say, Hey, that's it.
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we'll, yeah.
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So I, I don't know.
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We were going with that.
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mean, you're making it, making it sound like I hang out with your wife all the time, but
not that I wouldn't enjoy getting dinner with y'all, but I would just prefer for you to be
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there, you know?
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So yeah.
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Hey, you know, look, you go up to the villages in Florida, all kinds of stuff happens up
there.
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My buddy, Ishvan Jocko, if you guys are in the home inspection industry, you know him.
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He moved up there recently and I'm like, well, Ishvan, know, I support whatever your
decisions are, okay?
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So he's like, well, there's just a lot to do.
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I'm like, I live down here.
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We all know, we all know what there is to do.
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anyway, so, okay, but with InterNACHI and with coming down here, here's what I want to
talk with you about today.
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One of the biggest reasons that I feel like we get into home inspections and go into
business for ourselves is the idea that we can fund the life that we really want for
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ourselves.
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So how has home inspections really helped you to do that to really kind of just instead of
just being the job that you do, how has it helped to build the life that you want to
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That's an interesting question.
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So that was the goal.
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Yeah.
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You know, I kind of always wanted to work for myself.
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I always wanted to run a business and I started this like simultaneously with another job
that I thought I could kind of do in part time.
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Of course, this took over pretty quickly because I decided that this is what I wanted to
do full time.
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And then also not just that, but
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You know, as it, as it started getting busier, I realized I couldn't do both.
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you know, there was like limitations at my other job.
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time off, you know, leaving to go to places like Internazzi or, you know, to, just visit
Florida or, know, later on this month, I'm headed out toward to Vegas.
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I've actually got a ton of time off.
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I'm taken in February.
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This is stuff that wouldn't have been possible with my previous line of employment, you
know, where I had to request time off.
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But like, you know, in honesty, like how has it changed things?
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I mean, yeah, that's available, but it has come also at a cost as well because, you know,
I'm a business owner and so I work way more than I ever did.
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Now I get to take off sometimes, you know, and go, you know, to these events, but when I
do, I don't work.
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And so there's no money getting brought into the company.
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However, now that I have a guy out there in the field with me, he's actually working
pretty much the entire time that I'm gone.
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And so we don't have to close the doors because I'm gone.
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And so that's been a game.
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That particularly has been a game changer for me for years, though.
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I've been working way more than I really ever did.
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And then also trying to keep up with the social media stuff and everything that has just
been kind of it's it's it's been out of control.
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I mean, I've been not just the social media, but work, social media, home life, know, kid
baseball, kid football, you know, all of it.
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It's just been, it's a lot to keep up with.
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And so while there is some freedom that comes along with having your own line of work and
being, you know, in this line of work, you know, take that with a grain of salt because
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when you run a business, you got business to run.
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Well, that's kind of, dude, that's the good way of looking at it.
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And truly it's for now, are you involved with like IEB or anything?
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Any of the kind of the organizations that are out there?
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So if you're somebody now for me, like I, actually do coaching with, with Mark Humble.
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He's, he's kind of a business coach to me.
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But if you guys are not signed up for, I mean, there's, there's IEB out there, there's I
go, there's a whole bunch of coaching networks that are out there.
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If you're somebody that finds that you've kind of become a slave to the the monster that
you've built in terms of building a business those organizations are amazing at helping
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you to organize your life and to build good habits and practices and systems into your
business so that You could kind of get back to having the life that you originally wanted
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from the business that you built Because it's so easy right for it to just start to
dominate everything in your day.
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I remember
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and a previous married life.
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Gosh, I was cranking out the final year that I was inspecting in Virginia before I
eventually moved down here to Florida.
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I cranked out 413 inspections on my own that year, which there's a lot of people that do
more than that.
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But for me, that was a lot.
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And there was nights where she was like, and this was for a company that was, I was with
BPG, it was a franchise.
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So, but I was still.
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up until midnight, some nights getting reports done.
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And she was like, can you just come right then in bed?
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Can you just maybe finish it in the morning?
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It was getting in the way of my home life.
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Now, the money was great.
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The things that that money afforded were great.
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We took some awesome trips, things like that.
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But at the same time, when it starts to rob you of a little bit of the peace and a little
bit of the freedom that you
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intended with this line of business, that's when you start to have to think about what can
I reevaluate, what can I tweak so that I have the capacity and the time for the things
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that really do matter most.
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Yeah, I've been considering some things like phone answering, things like that.
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So I'm not handling that.
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It's been something that I've kind of enjoyed.
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There's a control factor that I don't really want to let go of.
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And it's not really about like, I'm a control freak.
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Possibly.
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Okay.
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But that's not what I'm getting at.
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What I'm getting at is what I'm getting at is more like, I want the control to be able to
turn down jobs that I don't want.
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Like I don't want to just
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be booked on a job just because that's the job that called and they, and you know, cause
I'm at a point right now where I don't, I don't have to do every job that comes in and I
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don't want to.
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and there's, there's some of them that just don't appeal to me and I can personally vet
clients and potential jobs to make sure that I stay out of the ones that I don't really
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want.
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And so, while, while you can kind of groom some answering services to help with that.
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I have no doubt they can sell my service, right?
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And also like one thing that's kept me from it is that like a lot of times they, they,
kind of in put emphasis on the fact that they, they will help you make more money because
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they will sell additional services.
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I don't really have additional services.
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My particular company, do home inspections, termite inspections, and pool inspections.
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If you don't have a pool, you're not going to get up, up sold a pool.
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Right.
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And, and termite inspections.
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Well,
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They're only 50 bucks.
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So if it's an older house, people want them every time.
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if it's a newer house, I don't want to do it.
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So I don't want it.
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It's just extra.
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got to, I'm contracted through a company, so I got to pay them and it's just more work.
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So it's like, if it's a new house and you're, and you're not interested in termite
inspection, I'm not trying to sell that service.
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I'd rather just save the time.
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So I really don't have extra services to sell.
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but I mean, I am getting to the point where I want to reclaim some of my life.
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So I've got to figure out like,
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control versus, you know, some form of life back by not answering the phones and dealing
with that stuff.
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And I am getting to the point where I'm, and it's mostly because it's me and somebody else
now, and I'm wanting to take on somebody else in 2025.
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It's going to get to the point where that phone just consumes me.
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And it does when I'm out in the field, I take phone calls and take jobs while I'm out in
the field.
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It's a time suck.
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But I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet.
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do you manage that on the job site?
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Like for me, I would always wait to like return the call until after the inspection.
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But at the same time, like when I started in the industry, it was with a small mom and pop
business.
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And I remember our head inspector, he would be in the middle of an inspection and fielding
calls at the same time booking the next inspection.
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And for me, I was like, I always try to put my focus like right where I was at the time
with a customer that I was with.
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But I mean, how did you handle that?
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Everybody works a little bit different.
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Well, I mean, for the most part, I do try to answer the phone when I'm in the field
because and look, okay, it depends.
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You know, when when business really started to pick up for me and I could really start
getting choosy about who I did work for, I just let the phone ring.
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I'll get back to you because honestly, almost every phone call that came in, I'm not going
to get to you in time.
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And so like like I was was booking out a week in advance.
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And so, you know,
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the calls I could take whenever I was off would book me out and the calls that came in
whenever I was on the job, I just let it go to voicemail and call you back.
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you got, if you don't, if it don't get you, no problem.
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but when I brought in another guy, the need to get as many jobs as possible, you know,
increased.
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And so I felt the need to answer the phone in the field again.
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And so I've been back to that.
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yeah, I mean it sucks, but I mean,
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It's, it's, you I just manage it.
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I just deal with it.
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what's your process, by the way?
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Because I mean, like for some home inspectors, I mean, it's like I bring the buyer around
with me while I'm doing the inspection.
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Do you do the inspection on your own first and then take them through?
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OK.
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Now, if I got somebody with me, I'm not going to answer the phone, but yeah, I 100 % do
not bring the buyer around with me.
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I would, I love going around with the buyer at the end of the inspection, but I am way too
chatty and too engaged with them to have them with me when I'm doing my work.
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I mean, I don't know that it's that, but I mean like what the thing is, is like I
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It's not that I don't want to hang out with them.
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It's not that I don't want to talk to them.
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I actually want to way too much.
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And so I will end up talking myself around a defect.
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I don't want to miss anything.
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It is more important to me to do a very thorough job than it is to have them there
watching me every step of the way.
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I would rather do a thorough job, go over the cliff notes with them at the end of the
inspection and take them and show them everything.
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Answer any questions they got, interact with them, laugh with them, all that stuff.
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But I do worry because it's happened where, you know, I will be distracted by something
and miss something.
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Now, I mean, look, I'm not going to miss anything major, but I don't want to miss
anything.
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No, no, definitely not.
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mean, if you could do as thorough as possible, I totally get it.
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I, and again, this is everybody works different.
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I'm not, you know, calling myself any sort of, you know, savant of home inspections here,
but I did learn from, would call them a freaking master in this industry.
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name's Ken Humphries.
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He's up in, up in Virginia.
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this guy, dude, yeah, it's
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awesome dude.
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And he doesn't have a huge social media presence because he's too busy working his butt
off.
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And anyway, he is able to get through a house in about two to two and a half hours while
taking the buyer around.
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And he doesn't finish the report on site, he finishes it right afterwards.
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Like after he gets to the next job site, like he always blocks himself just enough time so
that he can do some of the report on site, but then finish the rest of it off site.
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But I, I've
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only seen that guy get a call back once in a blue moon.
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And so I started doing like a hybrid of that.
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But it's it is tough.
357
00:22:23,943 --> 00:22:28,777
I mean, you have to really stay on your toes because if you're not careful, you can miss
something.
358
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Some people are built different, man.
359
00:22:30,274 --> 00:22:32,276
I mean, some people can play the drums.
360
00:22:33,158 --> 00:22:34,769
I can't play the drums, you know?
361
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it.
362
00:22:35,150 --> 00:22:38,655
Dude, a buddy of mine is able to like drum and sing and I can't do either.
363
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So I don't know.
364
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Yeah, I don't get that at all.
365
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So
366
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me wrong.
367
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Like, I mean, the guy's, the guy's probably awesome.
368
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I do not trust myself to put out the report that I have, I have set a level, a bar from
myself and my company.
369
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And I do not believe that I can put out the same product if I was going around with the
client.
370
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And I know with all certainty that the speed would not be there.
371
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You know, I did a new construction house yesterday.
372
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I finished it and sent it, but while I was at the, at the job, like,
373
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There's no way in three and a half hours I could do a 2500 square foot house with the
client right there next to me, finish the report and send it out to him.
374
00:23:16,453 --> 00:23:17,532
It just wouldn't happen.
375
00:23:17,532 --> 00:23:18,372
Oh, no, no.
376
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I mean, you got to figure out what you want to accomplish on site.
377
00:23:20,752 --> 00:23:22,132
And here's the other thing, too.
378
00:23:22,132 --> 00:23:34,072
So I there was an inspection I was just doing up in Tampa, which, by the way, dude, like I
I never in my life thought that I would inspect a 2500 square foot single level cinder
379
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block house built in 2000 with an in-ground pool.
380
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It was selling for five twenty eight, I think.
381
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And I found myself telling the buyer this is actually a decent price.
382
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For 528, I bought my first house for 395.
383
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Dude, what is going on?
384
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And I'm telling them that I had a half million dollar house.
385
00:24:01,682 --> 00:24:03,293
like, this is a steal here.
386
00:24:03,293 --> 00:24:07,755
But seriously, anyway, but they, this is cool.
387
00:24:07,755 --> 00:24:09,816
They're all about inspector TikTok.
388
00:24:09,816 --> 00:24:12,941
And the wife was like, hey, so do you know this guy?
389
00:24:12,941 --> 00:24:14,068
I was like, inspector AJ.
390
00:24:14,068 --> 00:24:15,339
Yep, no, for sure.
391
00:24:15,339 --> 00:24:16,960
Gonna see him in a couple of weeks.
392
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,644
She she mentioned sigh and I was like we won't talk about that guy.
393
00:24:22,644 --> 00:24:31,432
Sorry sigh don't sue me but it just some of these others that she follows but Anyway, I
like Preston Kincaid.
394
00:24:31,432 --> 00:24:33,373
I think she follows him as well.
395
00:24:33,534 --> 00:24:42,442
I'm like you need to check out this dude Matt Brady, you know but anyway She's like so
what about yours?
396
00:24:42,442 --> 00:24:43,923
Where's where's your content?
397
00:24:43,923 --> 00:24:45,484
I said, well, here's the thing
398
00:24:45,936 --> 00:24:50,477
you're following me around and we're talking about this the whole time that I'm doing the
inspection.
399
00:24:50,477 --> 00:24:55,739
There's no real convenient time for me to say, let's not talk about the water heater hold
out.
400
00:24:55,739 --> 00:25:00,960
Well, like make a tick tock, you know, and yeah, right.
401
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,742
I had the camera man, but go watch.
402
00:25:06,242 --> 00:25:09,373
yo, go watch the ride along series on this channel here.
403
00:25:09,373 --> 00:25:09,963
Okay.
404
00:25:09,963 --> 00:25:13,616
I'm also the camera man, but yeah.
405
00:25:13,616 --> 00:25:16,764
I'll come with you on your jobs and we'll do some YouTube stuff.
406
00:25:16,764 --> 00:25:17,485
go, man.
407
00:25:17,485 --> 00:25:22,690
Dude, I actually, okay, here's another thing for y'all, just teasing this out for later on
this season.
408
00:25:22,690 --> 00:25:23,841
I am stoked down with mine.
409
00:25:23,841 --> 00:25:29,776
So last year, okay, if you notice on here, we got two separate little like channels on the
YouTube channel here.
410
00:25:29,776 --> 00:25:35,041
You have the Ride Along podcast, which obviously you can listen to audio everywhere.
411
00:25:35,041 --> 00:25:42,884
And then you have the Ride Along series where last year I went with people around the
country, inspectors around the country and shadowed them on their job sites.
412
00:25:42,884 --> 00:25:46,135
So we did everything from like a Queen Anne Victorian up in Minnesota.
413
00:25:46,135 --> 00:25:53,927
We did the House of Horrors with Nick Romico and Austin and Natalie Rose out in Denver.
414
00:25:54,307 --> 00:25:55,878
Did a commercial inspection in Dallas.
415
00:25:55,878 --> 00:25:59,729
But this year is actually pretty cool because I get to stay a little bit close to home.
416
00:25:59,729 --> 00:26:00,729
There's a guy here.
417
00:26:00,729 --> 00:26:05,671
He's a home inspector named Clay Owens and he owns Owens Construction.
418
00:26:05,671 --> 00:26:10,032
But I'm going to be shadowing and filming an ongoing series.
419
00:26:10,036 --> 00:26:13,539
on several of his properties that he has underway.
420
00:26:13,539 --> 00:26:14,980
One, we're kicking it off.
421
00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:23,796
It is a beautifully renovated house down in Sarasota, but he has several projects that I'm
going to be filming from foundation to finish over the course of this year and launching
422
00:26:23,796 --> 00:26:24,727
it here on the channel as we go.
423
00:26:24,727 --> 00:26:27,769
So subscribe, turn on notifications, because you're not going to want to miss it.
424
00:26:27,769 --> 00:26:34,334
Because the whole thing is it's like, what's it like to own a construction company when
it's owned by a home inspector?
425
00:26:34,334 --> 00:26:34,564
Right?
426
00:26:34,564 --> 00:26:35,963
You think we're nitpicky enough?
427
00:26:35,963 --> 00:26:38,018
I was about to ask for clarification on that.
428
00:26:38,018 --> 00:26:39,045
I thought I heard you right.
429
00:26:39,045 --> 00:26:41,715
He's a home inspector, but has a construction company.
430
00:26:41,736 --> 00:26:43,059
You were that was legit.
431
00:26:43,059 --> 00:26:43,700
You said that.
432
00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:44,141
Okay.
433
00:26:44,141 --> 00:26:45,023
And you.
434
00:26:45,023 --> 00:26:45,478
Okay.
435
00:26:45,478 --> 00:26:47,979
he's he and his wife found it.
436
00:26:47,979 --> 00:26:51,410
But and then his kids are kind of running the home inspection stuff now.
437
00:26:51,410 --> 00:26:53,291
And he's focusing on the construction stuff.
438
00:26:53,291 --> 00:27:03,593
But dude, instead of just like, you know, poured slab foundation, a basic poured slab
foundation, this guy's doing a three course built up cinder block for even his cheapest
439
00:27:03,593 --> 00:27:04,574
houses.
440
00:27:05,034 --> 00:27:08,315
So he's making sure that everything is above flood zones around here.
441
00:27:08,315 --> 00:27:09,875
Everything is is heavied up.
442
00:27:09,875 --> 00:27:12,476
And his house is reflected in their finished price.
443
00:27:12,476 --> 00:27:13,304
But
444
00:27:13,304 --> 00:27:16,347
as a home inspector, he knows fine detail.
445
00:27:16,347 --> 00:27:19,479
And so he puts that that level of quality into his work.
446
00:27:19,479 --> 00:27:20,971
So it's gonna be really cool.
447
00:27:20,971 --> 00:27:22,272
Fun, fun series, man.
448
00:27:22,272 --> 00:27:25,934
So all that to say, man, if you want to come on out, you could be the cameraman.
449
00:27:26,255 --> 00:27:31,179
Yeah, let's, say bad, let's say, but I'd love to come out and film with you out there too.
450
00:27:31,199 --> 00:27:33,121
So yep, for sure.
451
00:27:33,121 --> 00:27:41,724
But anyway, no, guys, I want to hear a couple questions sound off in the comments, y'all
about what you do want to manage your work life balance.
452
00:27:41,724 --> 00:27:43,265
since that's one thing we were talking about.
453
00:27:43,265 --> 00:27:46,919
And two, how do you manage phone calls in the field?
454
00:27:46,919 --> 00:27:53,945
Because this would be a great place to say that today's show is sponsored by America's
Call Center, which is obviously a porch property.
455
00:27:53,945 --> 00:28:04,565
But if you're somebody that's looking for a call center to help field some of this stuff,
they work specifically with home inspectors to get your sales pitches down, your sales
456
00:28:04,565 --> 00:28:05,925
packages down.
457
00:28:05,946 --> 00:28:08,422
They upsell for you if you're looking to do that.
458
00:28:08,422 --> 00:28:14,306
But basically it's all taken work off of your plate so that you can be free to do what you
love and live your life as well.
459
00:28:14,306 --> 00:28:15,628
So pretty cool.
460
00:28:15,906 --> 00:28:25,669
Yeah, I if they're asking questions, mean I gotta say I I prepared some questions for this
as well I mean, I don't know if you're ready for this or not Okay, so assuming that like,
461
00:28:25,669 --> 00:28:30,900
you know, we're going to do something like this again, right where I'm co-hosting We're
gonna have a guest right?
462
00:28:31,780 --> 00:28:36,816
We had because we yeah, we have some some guests plans So I thought I would ask since I'm
gonna be doing this from here.
463
00:28:36,816 --> 00:28:42,904
You're gonna be doing this from potentially there Our our pants required do I need it?
464
00:28:42,904 --> 00:28:44,844
Do I have to wear pants when I do this?
465
00:28:46,377 --> 00:28:49,878
I'm only filming from here up for a reason, okay?
466
00:28:50,399 --> 00:28:51,019
Yeah, yeah.
467
00:28:51,019 --> 00:28:53,499
So just do with that information what you will.
468
00:28:53,540 --> 00:28:56,821
They could be shorts, they could be pants, they could be a state of undress.
469
00:28:56,821 --> 00:28:59,903
We ask and we ask no questions.
470
00:28:59,903 --> 00:29:01,053
We listen and do not judge.
471
00:29:01,053 --> 00:29:02,682
That's what they're saying online.
472
00:29:02,682 --> 00:29:04,644
that's actually the only question I have.
473
00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:05,266
That was it.
474
00:29:05,266 --> 00:29:05,957
Okay, cool.
475
00:29:05,957 --> 00:29:09,618
Hey, sound off in the comments if you're wearing pants.
476
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:12,400
I love it.
477
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,441
Now we will be I'm looking forward to next week.
478
00:29:14,441 --> 00:29:16,763
First of all, I'm looking forward to seeing you down in Irunachi.
479
00:29:16,763 --> 00:29:18,704
We will be there wearing pants.
480
00:29:18,724 --> 00:29:23,627
So you know, yeah, yeah, we'll get kicked out otherwise.
481
00:29:23,627 --> 00:29:25,207
So bring your pants.
482
00:29:25,388 --> 00:29:27,869
Bring some bring some good questions for us guys.
483
00:29:27,869 --> 00:29:29,670
We'd love to have you on the show.
484
00:29:29,670 --> 00:29:31,911
All of our listeners, let us know if you're going to be there.
485
00:29:31,911 --> 00:29:33,338
But dude, Matt.
486
00:29:33,338 --> 00:29:39,426
Not a bad first episode kicking off 2025 here on the show, Yeah, dude, I'm excited to do
this with you.
487
00:29:39,574 --> 00:29:40,737
It's gonna be fun, man.
488
00:29:40,737 --> 00:29:42,076
Looking forward to it.
489
00:29:42,076 --> 00:29:43,856
So also, well, thanks for being on.
490
00:29:43,856 --> 00:29:45,356
Thank you everybody for listening.
491
00:29:45,356 --> 00:29:49,336
We'll see you in Orlando at InterNACHI next week.
492
00:29:49,336 --> 00:29:50,324
See you next time.
493
00:29:50,348 --> 00:29:51,263
right, bye.
