The worst home inspection issues we'd be grateful to never find again in 2026! Featuring ⁨@duesouthbrad⁩

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Man Alive Matt Braiding.

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We've reached the end of the year, sir.

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Yeah, dang near, man.

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We were very close.

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I'm feeling the spirit.

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Christmas is only two weeks away, but first year of the ride along as co-hosting the show
in the books, I couldn't be happier.

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Merry Christmas to you, Merry Christmas to every single one of y'all who's watching.

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And thank you for subscribing, thank you for following along.

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It's been a hell of a year.

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But Matt, nobody looks hollier or jollier than you right now.

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What's going on, dude?

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I am in the spirit.

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I mean, for one, I mean, it is, you know, it is the tis the season, right?

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But no, no, there's a reason.

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There's a bit of it.

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You know?

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Yeah, I know.

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I feel like it's possible that I'm turning into Santa Claus.

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No, not entirely.

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You know, this whole beard thing was just an accident.

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I just got lazy.

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It didn't trim it.

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And then next thing you know, like, I don't know, it's just this thing now.

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But yeah, no, yeah, I'm feeling the spirit.

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So why I'm wearing a Santa suit, is that what you're saying?

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Santa jacket?

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I had the whole suit on.

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into houses and delivering?

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Okay.

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I uh know, but I did do a some paid content for a company earlier that was Christmas
themed.

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And I had I had the suit on and I still had the jacket on.

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I went to Lowe's today with his jacket on, by the way.

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And uh but I might honestly.

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And uh I thought, well, man, why not?

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I'll just leave it on for the podcast.

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But I went ahead and dressed it up a little.

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I got my Santa hat.

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This is like I got this hat from

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uh, branded bills at Santa and he's got a big old stogey So that's right up my alley.

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And I got the most wonderful time for a beer shirt.

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I found this shirt recently.

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It is, it's a really good time of the year for a beer.

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It is man dude porters and stouts are in session brother.

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That's it.

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I love it.

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But you know what else is in session a long overdue guest on this show and honestly dude
Matt from the day.

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Overdue that's it.

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Yeah, we're I didn't intend it.

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Well we're rolling with it.

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Sometimes my best ideas are unintentional y'all but but truly I.

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Brad's are a lot aka Due South Brad.

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It is so good to have you on the show, dude, because I have been telling Matt from the day
that we started talking about cohosting this show, I'm like, I want to Due South Brad on

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this freaking podcast.

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So welcome, man.

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it.

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Yeah, I appreciate it.

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Looking forward to it.

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No, totally, man.

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No, I've been following you for a hot minute, not to sound like a creeper, but seriously,
it was a little bit.

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I mean, it was a little bit odd, but you know, we're an inclusive company.

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uh But no, seriously, like just you're following us.

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There's so many home inspectors on there and everybody's got their own bit, but yours is
one of the most unique takes simply because

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It's freaking hilarious.

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I have never seen anybody else.

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know, some will take the educational approach.

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Some will go a little bit over the top with the personality and yours is so understated
that.

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you're the definition of nonchalant.

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I've been told that I'm not very excitable and uh a lot of it just has to do with just,
you just get beat down after a while and nothing shocks you.

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That's it man.

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Yeah, it's like you're just not even shocked anymore.

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It's like I don't know how many of your videos start with just a sigh, you know

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yeah, that's how start my day.

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That's it.

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You just wake up about to do this.

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Yeah.

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How did you get rolling with it, dude?

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Actually, you know it before, but we, we got something we got to do before we get into it.

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Cause I mean, we could go on a nauseam.

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So first things first, we haven't done this in a minute because we had inspection fuel and
all this other stuff, but we got to bring the drink of the day back.

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It's the end of the year.

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And I think we've learned it.

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So first of all, as you guys saw in the last episode, we have a sponsor on here.

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So the drink of the day today is sponsored by Matt.

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Charles Bellefontaine, right, from Get Sync

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GetSync.

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That's it.

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Yep.

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And if you guys are wondering what GetSync is, first of all, drink of the day is sponsored
by GetSync and GetSync is an automation and support platform built just for home

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inspectors.

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So without further ado, I will drink to that.

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And Brad, let's start with you, man.

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What are you drinking?

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And uh as you're sipping on it, tell us how you got started with this whole thing.

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So uh Crown and Coke, actually it's a vanilla Coke.

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Yeah, I'm easy to please.

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uh Coke has some kind of special vanilla Coke out right now.

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Yeah, it's just a little bit more leaded probably.

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It's just a little heavier.

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I don't know what they got going on with it, but I tried it out.

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That's pretty good.

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it extra creamy, you know, but like, I didn't get that either.

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It's just a vanilla Coke with a different label on it.

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But like, it's this holiday on it.

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They got me whatever.

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It was good.

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I mean, it well with bourbon.

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They got me too.

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with corn is impressive.

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But yeah, so how I got started, uh you know, my daughter was kind of into TikTok, right?

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And I had a real estate agent who had kind of told me, said, you you need to kind of work
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And because she was kind of into TikTok, that was just kind of where I started.

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And kind of like everybody else, you know, you get on there, you get, you know, a couple
of few hundred followers and you post videos that get.

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a hundred views and 20, 30 likes until you do one that hits, right?

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And then it's kind of off to the races then.

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But yeah, it's kind of how I got into it.

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And then kind of to your point, I'd always watch people's things, right?

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I'm not very articulate.

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So I didn't ever feel like I was one to educate anybody.

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So I kind of felt like a fish out of water doing it.

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I thought, I mean, I am kind of a smart ass, I guess, but I just kind of went that route,
right?

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Again, I was making these more so for just people I knew.

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And then you start to realize that it kind of resonates with other people who've either
had bad experiences with houses they purchased or contractors.

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And then you realize, okay, so everybody feels this way.

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It's just not a lot of people are saying it.

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Yeah, no, that's accurate,

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crazy how many people and I'm not talking about like home buyers or real estate agents,
but like just general public are actually interested in watching home inspection related

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content like that.

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I never saw coming.

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it's a with with video, especially I mean, I remember when it started with Facebook and
people were suggesting posting on LinkedIn and everything was horizontal.

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And it was strictly just for realtors to find you or to keep your your page at the top of
people's feet.

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And that was it not because people liked it.

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But they do.

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I started.

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I mean, that was what it That's what it was all about.

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You know, trying to connect with realtors.

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I remember actively going and following because this is when Facebook was a little bit
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realtors as possible just just to make that connection.

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You know what I mean?

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Just I just wanted them to see that request and any of

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anywhere like just a real estate related person.

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I focused primarily on like my area, but I went, you know, as far out as it said real
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of over on Instagram, just trying to connect with real estate.

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That was what it was all about in the beginning.

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I never had any idea that was actually going to be something people actually wanted to
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I thought the home inspection aspect of it, we would be so far down the totem pole, right,
that we were lucky our clients knew our name.

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And then to see people, because I'm sure it's happened to you guys too, but people will
walk up to you in public and say your name and it's like, hold on a minute.

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This is on the internet.

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This is not real life.

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But it is weird that, yeah, you'll get a reputation and then you're just kind of known.

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And then even though you have a follower count, you see how many people watch your videos,
it still doesn't quite click that, yeah, people around me are seeing this.

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It's just weird when it happens to you out in public.

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For sure.

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I mean, I do get people in public that are like, Hey, you're that guy.

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It happens every grocery store or whatever.

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I had to happen out of town more than once.

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I was sitting at lunch in Austin with some guys that I felt like were really well known on
the internet.

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And I'm the one that somebody recognizes the weirdest thing.

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Right.

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I mean, but, but to that point, like I had a client that got booked there on inspection
tomorrow and they, uh, I mean, when you guys are watching this, will be way done.

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But, but as of today, they're on an inspection uh for next week, actually.

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But, and so, but they paid today and they sent an email today and they were like, Hey,
looking forward to it, looking forward to it.

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Like a great inspection or something.

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And they were like, I hope we find a lot of things that are supposed to do that.

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And I'm like, wow, you know, like it still blows my mind that like these people, mean,
they want a home inspection.

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They believe in me because of what they've seen, but it's like,

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It's because they watch my videos.

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That's crazy to me.

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Well, you know, that's the other thing that's so weird about it is because, mean, you
know, obviously you've been inspecting a while, but think about before social media, you

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kind of had to prove who you were, what you knew, what you did.

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And now you can just send them a video or better yet, they've already watched the videos.

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They know what you're about.

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And you know, like, that's the one thing that's, you know, been just kind of game changing
in terms of how we use this for businesses.

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The fact that we're not really competing for work anymore.

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like we used to.

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You used to it was, I had a conversation with a guy today and then, you you spec tour, so
I'm sending out sample reports, but you know, everybody is gonna say, do you check this?

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And then, you know, and I get it, everybody's gonna do it.

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We're all guilty of it.

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And it's like, yeah, we look at everything.

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But when you have the videos and you have the content library, you can show people like,
this is what goes on during these.

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And I think for, you know, especially people, home buyers, agents, any of that.

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You know, it's a resume that you can't touch any other way.

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You know, it's out there and people see it.

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And then it really hits when it's something that they didn't expect.

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You know, it's like new construction stuff.

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know a lot of the Texas guys, you know, it's new construction heavy out there.

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And when you see that stuff and you're thinking like, well, I thought because it was new,
I didn't have to have this inspected, you know, like it really, but it really does it.

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It brings in a whole different level of clientele that you would have had to kind of
convince before.

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and now they're coming to you, know, begging you to do the inspection.

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So I mean, it really has opened up a lot of different avenues.

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Well, it's, I've often found it interesting that real estate content, as far as like long
form shows was always fascinating.

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HTTV has been around for ages DIY, but I, I thought that home inspections would be
something fascinating for those platforms, but there's only, mean, Mike Holmes is maybe

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the only one that's cracked it, you know, as far as having something that lasted long-term
as far as a long form show, but maybe short form and Tik TOK was really what

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caters best to people like us who do well with individual, like you can showcase one
little problem here, one little problem here, and you have an endless stream of content

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from one property, you know, that you could use, you know what I'm saying?

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So, and it's more bite size.

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So it could just cater more, know, or cater better.

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I so.

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I mean, like, I think that there's a way to do it.

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I do think it's a little bit more complicated to do uh a home.

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It's like, because even Mike Holmes and like, who's the other guy?

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Because there was another guy up in New York that was doing it.

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Yeah.

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But these guys are really contractors and that's why this show works because

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I mean, everything we're doing is like confidential and all that.

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Like it's like, can't really, but if you're going in there and be like, Hey, all this
stuff's wrong and I'm going to fix it.

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Well, that turns into a show.

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I think that there's a way for, I it home inspection needs to be, I even got approached
one time about somebody that was talking about a show where they were going to have an

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inspector.

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wasn't a show about the inspector.

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There's an issue when they bring in an inspector, to, to do, uh, you know, that would be
part of each show.

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Right.

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know, and so, that makes sense.

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And I think that could work.

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I think there's ways to do it, but you got to think outside the box.

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Let me ask you something, Brad, like how long you been doing this?

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So eight years, yeah, eight years as an inspector, yeah.

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Yeah.

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uh, I was just, I was just curious if like, you know, you were like trying to find
traction, uh, or, or, or had established traction before you started getting on social

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media.

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Um, like what was that like?

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And then what have you seen a change after that?

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Or, were you like, just like rocking along pretty good and just decided to do this just
for the hay of

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Yeah, kind of that.

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So I was a repair and remodeling contractor for 20 plus years before doing this.

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And, you know, not to get too...

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Yeah, yeah, like I've seen it all.

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And then, you know, the other thing is, is I tell people that all the time.

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They'll ask like, why would they do it like that?

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And it's like laziness.

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The common denominator in all of this is laziness.

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um you know, so I did that for a long time.

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And then I had a guy that worked with me for close to 20 years.

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And then he was getting close to retirement age and he had some health issues.

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And I just really, I did not want to go through the whole thing of trying to find some,
because he was literally, you know, just irreplaceable.

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And, uh you know, this was something to where I didn't have to have people.

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I didn't have to have a lot of overhead.

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And I kind of gradually eased into it, did it part-time for three years.

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And then when COVID hit, you know, obviously real estate market varied everywhere, but
here it took off.

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So I went from doing, I think in 2019, I did 180 part-time.

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And then from March to, or like the end of March to the end of December, I did a little
over 300.

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And then from there, you know, it just kept going up.

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But the social media aspect of it, because whenever like, you know, my channel's kind of
evened out a little bit, but whenever it was really rocking and rolling, you know, like

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2021, I mean,

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we were turning them down left and right.

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mean, my best month, I think I did 56 in a month.

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And then, you know, at that point in time, it was close to 500 for the year.

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And that was, I had another guy working with me, great guy, but I mean, like we were
hustling.

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Like as great as it was, like I don't really wanna be there anymore.

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So I am kind of glad that it kind of, you know, kind of simmered down just a little bit.

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Cause I mean, you're talking about six, seven days a week, you know, and then of course
three a day.

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Well, and like you're what you're trying to keep up with is like, you know, you never
really know when that's going to stop.

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Right.

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And like you got if you aren't able to make these, you know, appointments that like say
realtors that you've tried to work at advertising to if you're having to tell them, I'm

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booked, they're going to find somebody else.

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They're not going to call you next time.

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And so you kind of it's like part of our job when you have worked.

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you know, put money and time into marketing when that phone rings, like you want, mean,
obviously we can't take every job, but I mean, the goal is to try to take as many of them

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as possible because jobs turn into other jobs and jobs that would pass on turning into
loss of future jobs.

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And so, I mean, like, it's like, you really want to grab that phone and say yes.

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And it's hard to say no when you're working for yourself.

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Now, Brett, how long are you on the job site?

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Because I used to, the most I did was I think 410 to 415 in a year.

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ah But for me, I was plowing through up to three inspections a day, two to two and a half
hours per job site.

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ah I know other inspectors are a little bit different.

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They take a little longer.

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So what's your, what's your kind of your, your workflow and how do you fit the content
side into that?

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Well, so I've been, you know, kind of in both camps, right?

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You know, doing three a day, especially in the summertime when it gets dark so late.

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But the sweet spot for me is two a day.

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And then I like to set out at least, you know, three, three and a half hours per
inspection.

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Now know, you everybody's different.

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I like to be, for the most part, finished before I leave the house.

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I don't want to take a lot of stuff home because if something happens at the house, then
you're up, you know, to all hours.

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But

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ah You know, I'll block it out like that and then you you try to fit the content in
between.

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But here's something that I don't know, you know, how you guys, you know, deal with this,
but the one aspect of the social media that kind of, it's like a blessing and a curse,

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right?

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Because now your personality's out there and when people show up at these, they kind of
want to talk for a minute and hang out for a minute.

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that.

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kind of changes the pace a little bit as well.

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But, you know, most of the time it's just me by myself, but I'm a mentor for new
inspectors in Alabama.

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So I'm on the state's website, you know, to do ride alongs, no pun intended.

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But, you know, these guys will come through me, they do their 35 ride alongs, and then of
course, you know, help them get their license.

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And then depending on what I have going on.

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Sometimes they work with me, sometimes they kind of jump off and do their own thing, but I
try to be real supportive of them and like their goals.

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One of the guys that worked with me for a few, know, right at two and a half years, you
know, I'd let him wear his branded shirts and hats and stuff because at the end of the

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day, his goal and he was always very upfront was to run his own company.

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And then at the same time, you know, he didn't have enough business to do that.

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So, you know, he's a great guy.

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awesome inspector, so I let him work with me until his business got to where it was taken
off.

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And I wish I had enough work to where I could do more of that, because I do enjoy helping
people, especially on that side of it, because when I got started, there was nobody to

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help me, which was weird in itself.

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But yeah, that's where I like to be, two a day, and then five, six days a week.

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Man, I got to commend you on that.

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I love helping people too.

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I mean, I try to teach and try to give things away for free, just like knowledge,
experience.

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I try to show people that experience.

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I try to help other inspectors.

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I answer a ton of DMs.

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I try to guide people as much as I can.

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But I wouldn't be down for somebody working with me wearing somebody else's I couldn't do
that.

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only reason that I did this and then like, you know, so it's a lonely profession, right?

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Especially if you're by yourself, think about it if you get hurt or you're sick or
something comes up, right?

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And you have things scheduled, well, they can't, you know, wait indefinitely for you.

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And the upside to what I kind of had going on was, you know, could, these guys worked
under me and then of course, you know, they use my software, they...

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know, did things the way that I wanted them done.

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But what that allowed me to do was if I couldn't do an inspection, you know, a couple of
years ago, I got in a wreck, no, serious.

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But, you know, I had to miss my morning appointment, but I was able to call one of the
guys that I helped get licensed and plug him right in.

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And because the Realtor saw him, you know, and knew him, like that was just a non-issue.

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It was seamless.

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You know, it was plug and play.

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And, you know, when I got started, I always tell this story.

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So I went to a meeting.

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It was like a network meeting between like home inspectors.

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It was a internachy thing.

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I'm not gonna say who ran it, but it wasn't anybody you know.

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It was just a local guy, he, no, it kind of was.

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I'll tell you, I'm not as as some people, but like I'm not Tom petty, but I am Lori petty.

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I mean, so they say that like a crow,

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has like generational grudges.

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So like if a crow has a grudge and that crow has kids, that kid also hates it, that's me,
right?

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That's my spirit animal.

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But I went to this meeting, you know, I'd only done like 16 inspections at this point.

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And I just wanted to kind of get a feel for what everybody had going on.

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And as soon as I got there, it was kind of like, you know, one of those anonymous meetings
where everybody kind of said who they were, what they did and how many inspections they'd

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done.

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Well, of course, when they got to me and I said, I've only done 16.

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Right?

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Everybody in the room kind of cracked a smile and, you know, kind of looked down their
nose at me.

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And I was sitting there at a table, got to a point where we were kind of talking with each
other and I asked a guy about, uh you know, his summary.

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At the time, I mean, I hadn't seen very many inspection reports.

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I knew what I was looking for.

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I just didn't know the best way to present it.

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And the guy told me that he'd be happy to answer any of those questions.

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All I had do was pay for an inspection.

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And then there were other guys the same way.

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So I politely asked for their business cards and I kept those business cards in a drawer.

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And then I would look at those business cards and then I would get on Google and look at
their reviews and see what their business was doing in relation to mine.

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And whenever I would pass them, I'd throw that card away, right?

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And then I kept going.

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but you know, so I've got a little over, well, it might be actually close to 650 now.

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five-star reviews and I'm the highest rated single inspector firm in my area.

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But you know, wasn't through like dumb luck.

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You know, I worked like obsessively hard for it.

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know, the episodes you guys had with Nick Grimico, I love that episode.

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Because one, I love his intensity, right?

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And how, you know, like there's so much great information you could get just from that
podcast alone.

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But you know, whenever I went through InterNACHI, that's...

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whenever I did all my training and stuff, as far as my online stuff, the marketing, I
guess it was like a video course that they gave, but I got the most out of that.

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And then of course, when we went to Dallas, that's where I met you guys, he did that class
on that.

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And then of course, he's up there and he's being very humble, but talking about the people
here that do the social media stuff, but he was still.

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just dropping bombs in terms of like great information for new inspectors.

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But you know, it is, you have to know your competition, know the market, right?

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Not in like a terrible way, but if you don't know what people are doing, how they're doing
it, why they're doing it, right?

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You can get lost in the shuffle.

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And I kind of took, you know, all of that to heart when I got started and like just really
went after it.

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But you know, I could credit a ton of my success just to like that class in international
loan.

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You know, that really helped.

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That's awesome, man.

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I love it.

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Now, I've got a follow up question to what you do with training other people, obviously,
because this comes again from people weren't very helpful to you.

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And so you're kind of paying forward the help that you wish you would receive maybe, but
or doing things differently, which thank God there's a lot of inspectors I feel like that

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are so much more approachable and community minded than they used to be.

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But, but really, my big question, it's a two parter.

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ah When people recognize you in public, do they recognize you or do they recognize your
shoes?

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And two, does everybody that trains with you get a pair of Sparys?

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uh So to answer the first part, I have been uh catcalled over my shoes, right?

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Twice.

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So one time I think they did it with love in their heart and then the other time I think
there might have been a henna malice because they were like, nice shoes, dick.

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But yeah, so I get known for that.

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That's such a crazy thing that took on a life of its own.

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So I have an abnormally wide foot.

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Right?

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I'd show you guys on here, but I got another site for that and I'd have to charge you for
it.

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But I've got like this four E foot.

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Yeah.

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It's only feet.

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Do South Brad on only feet.

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I've got this abnormally wide foot and there's probably three or four shoes on the market
that I can wear, you know, all day long.

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And they just so happen to be these sparrows.

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But the nutty thing about it is if you knew me 10 years ago, 15 years ago,

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uh you know, got more gray, got less hair, got some wrinkles, but the outfit is the same.

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you know, people are like, man, he's really setting his ways.

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And it's like, no, it's availability.

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I don't have a lot of that.

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And then, but, you know, to go back to like your second question and then the point before
that, you know, that's one of the things that I tell these guys whenever they come to me

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to help get their license is, you know, the expectation is, it's, I'm going to learn how
to do an inspection.

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And the truth is we all,

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the end result is the same, but the process might be different, right?

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Like how I do it and how you do it is gonna be different, even though they may be the same
report or great reports.

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But what I tell them is, it's like the things that you'll learn from me are the things
that you don't expect.

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I'm gonna tell you all the stuff that I failed at, all the stuff that was a colossal waste
of time, even like down to where I get my shirts or different things like that.

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And...

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You know, out of all the guys that I've helped get licensed, that is the one thing, and I
tell them that upfront because, you know, I don't want them to feel like they have to,

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because, I mean, you guys know this as well as anything else.

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If I see somebody doing something that works, I'm gonna do that, right?

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I'm not so proud that I'm gonna, you know, die on that hill.

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I'm gonna do what they're doing if it works.

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So I don't want anybody to kind of get into this with me and think that, you know, it's my
way or the highway.

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And some of them are kind of shocked when it's like, oh, okay, so I can just kind of do
this, how I feel like it needs to be done.

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And it's like, yeah, you're the one doing it.

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But that's something that I think a lot of guys have gotten the most out of me is like the
things that I did.

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And it's like, yeah, nobody cares about serial numbers and model numbers in the reports
and things.

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I've, I've probably said this on the show before, but I'll say it again, cause I feel like
I mean, it's something that should be said, but, um, you we learn from our mistakes,

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right?

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I mean, that's, that's the only way we grow, right?

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But there's an even better way and that's to learn from the mistakes of others.

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You know, you can, that's real growth right there.

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Well, that's what I tell him.

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I was like, you know, if my learning curve was as such, right, I won't choose to be as
close to flat as it can be, you know, because again, just because it was tough for me or

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whatever, it doesn't have to be tough for everybody.

418
00:26:41,166 --> 00:26:44,202
And then, you know, my dad, was great guy, built boats.

419
00:26:44,202 --> 00:26:46,410
I mean, I've always been around self-employed people.

420
00:26:46,410 --> 00:26:50,192
So his demeanor, you know, definitely inherited a lot of that.

421
00:26:50,192 --> 00:26:53,895
But he had an expression and it was nobody's on top forever.

422
00:26:53,895 --> 00:26:54,671
Right.

423
00:26:54,671 --> 00:27:04,314
So even though I might be the guy calling the shots today, what if this guy takes off and
then five years from now, 10 years from now, I don't wanna do it full time.

424
00:27:04,314 --> 00:27:13,926
I got no problem going to work for somebody else, but you don't get to have that kind of
opportunity if you're the guy that never gave opportunities to anybody else.

425
00:27:13,926 --> 00:27:17,294
So, and in social media is the same way.

426
00:27:17,294 --> 00:27:23,387
I met some of you guys in Dallas and then there's people that are on the way up.

427
00:27:23,387 --> 00:27:27,840
And then there's, I kind of consider myself, I've kind of got where I'm at and I'm just
kind of holding steady.

428
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:36,475
But when you approach anything, it doesn't have to just be home inspections, but there's
always gonna be somebody better.

429
00:27:36,475 --> 00:27:42,998
So your attitude and how you treated everybody under you might affect your placement later
in life.

430
00:27:42,998 --> 00:27:46,200
So I don't know, I've just always tried to help people.

431
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,343
Kind like you said, I give it away for free because what, I mean,

432
00:27:51,343 --> 00:27:52,848
you gatekeep that kind of stuff.

433
00:27:52,848 --> 00:27:59,747
And then one day you look around and it's just you, you know, and you don't have any
helper, anybody that's kind of sympathetic to what you got going on.

434
00:28:00,142 --> 00:28:13,362
When I early on, was a friend of mine was just kind of open and helped me, lent a lot of
knowledge and just I was able to ask questions and learn a lot from him.

435
00:28:13,362 --> 00:28:20,682
And like ever since then, in order to like repay that favor, I mean, I've been just trying
to give back to others, not necessarily him.

436
00:28:20,682 --> 00:28:21,542
He doesn't need it.

437
00:28:21,542 --> 00:28:22,462
I mean, he's my buddy.

438
00:28:22,462 --> 00:28:24,282
I do what I do anything for him.

439
00:28:24,282 --> 00:28:28,862
But I mean, you know, I just decided from that moment forward, like I'm just always going
to pay this forward.

440
00:28:28,862 --> 00:28:29,882
And sometimes

441
00:28:30,030 --> 00:28:31,470
It's through social media.

442
00:28:31,470 --> 00:28:34,470
Sometimes it's in person, but yeah, I do that.

443
00:28:34,470 --> 00:28:35,390
I like it.

444
00:28:35,390 --> 00:28:36,765
It's a good attitude, man.

445
00:28:36,765 --> 00:28:40,286
one of the reasons that I moved from Florida to Nashville.

446
00:28:40,347 --> 00:28:48,099
Florida, I love living down there grew up down there, moved in moved away and moved back
again a couple of times.

447
00:28:48,099 --> 00:28:58,553
But when I when I moved up here, it was because one I saw a need in the sense that not
that there's not home inspection companies up here.

448
00:28:58,553 --> 00:28:59,423
But

449
00:28:59,773 --> 00:29:02,584
I had launched clarity inspections down in Florida.

450
00:29:02,584 --> 00:29:03,774
It's still active down there.

451
00:29:03,774 --> 00:29:12,437
I'll come back to it at some point, but, home inspections of Florida, you can skip a rock
and you can hit one about as the same way that you can hit a realtor, you know?

452
00:29:12,437 --> 00:29:14,517
Um, but up here, I don't know.

453
00:29:14,517 --> 00:29:16,718
was talking with a buddy of mine here about this.

454
00:29:16,718 --> 00:29:26,921
I'm like, man, there's a real opportunity to use inspections to, pay it forward in the
sense of, um, there are hardworking musicians and tech guys up here.

455
00:29:27,357 --> 00:29:40,465
Um, you know, work on the, uh, the band crews and tour crews and things like that, that
are very, very physically capable and mechanically minded and they're barely scraping by

456
00:29:40,525 --> 00:29:45,949
and either they're waiting for their big break or they're going gig to gig, just making
ends meet.

457
00:29:45,949 --> 00:29:52,725
And when I started this, I was a youth leader and someone was like, Hey, you know, you
want to still help kids and, uh

458
00:29:52,725 --> 00:29:56,970
be able to volunteer in your own time, but not be beholden to some church's money?

459
00:29:56,970 --> 00:30:03,276
How about I teach you to be a home inspector and then you can afford to live your life and
also manage your own schedule and do everything you want.

460
00:30:03,296 --> 00:30:07,801
And I was like, okay, well, what if we take that same concept to Nashville?

461
00:30:07,881 --> 00:30:18,646
and use home inspections as an opportunity to give people a flexible work schedule with a
living wage, you know, while they're while they're pursuing their passion.

462
00:30:18,646 --> 00:30:25,999
So it's but that kind of pay it forward mentality, I think is massive, because it helped
me when I was when I moved from down to Florida.

463
00:30:25,999 --> 00:30:32,306
And, you know, again, what's the point of accumulating all of this for yourself if you're
not looking to give it away?

464
00:30:32,306 --> 00:30:35,413
If there's not a why to your business, you got nothing.

465
00:30:35,467 --> 00:30:38,069
know, too, how many people have you heard say this?

466
00:30:38,069 --> 00:30:39,970
I wish I had got started sooner.

467
00:30:40,170 --> 00:30:40,690
Right.

468
00:30:40,690 --> 00:30:46,974
I haven't met one home inspector that said, oh, man, you know, I really I'm glad I waited
this long, you know, because.

469
00:30:48,135 --> 00:30:57,021
Right, because, you know, like you said, as far as like the freedom, you know, now, Matt,
you touched on something earlier where, you know, we were talking about, you know, kind of

470
00:30:57,021 --> 00:30:58,802
striking when the irons hot.

471
00:30:58,822 --> 00:31:06,902
One of the misconceptions that a lot of guys that I'll talk to, kind of when I'm feeling
them out to see what their goals are, know, when they want to get licensed is, I just want

472
00:31:06,902 --> 00:31:08,942
to do 10 or 15 a month.

473
00:31:09,122 --> 00:31:11,002
Okay, and that's great, right?

474
00:31:11,002 --> 00:31:12,822
I hope that works out for you.

475
00:31:12,822 --> 00:31:20,342
But what happens on a month to where all of the agents that kick you jobs all the time and
they're good agents, right?

476
00:31:20,342 --> 00:31:24,542
They'll stand up for you whenever these contractors try to throw you under the bus.

477
00:31:24,542 --> 00:31:27,202
You know, what happens when it's 30?

478
00:31:27,202 --> 00:31:28,688
Are you going to tell them no?

479
00:31:28,688 --> 00:31:29,789
You know, you can't, right?

480
00:31:29,789 --> 00:31:35,884
Because like you said, you can, you might be able to get away with it once or twice, but
if you make it a habit, they're gonna call somebody else.

481
00:31:35,964 --> 00:31:45,883
And that is one thing that, you know, people, it's like a misconception because you do
want it to be, you know, I want to make my own schedule and make my own hours, but at the

482
00:31:45,883 --> 00:31:53,450
same time, when somebody needs you, you do have to kind of weigh like, oh, you know, this
person's been so good to me, I need to go, or a repeat client.

483
00:31:53,450 --> 00:31:56,410
You're not gonna let them find somebody else, you know, so.

484
00:31:56,410 --> 00:32:02,613
You have to be willing to kind of do it, but the freedom it does give you, you know, too,
unmatched.

485
00:32:02,613 --> 00:32:03,914
You know, I've been in that rat race.

486
00:32:03,914 --> 00:32:09,827
I've been self-employed since I was 19, 20 years old and, you know, wouldn't trade it for
the world.

487
00:32:09,827 --> 00:32:21,344
It's tough, but at the same time, I'm probably the busiest I've ever been, but I'm also
the happiest I've ever been because one thing that this job did for me, so, I mean, not to

488
00:32:21,344 --> 00:32:23,715
toot my own horn, but I was a really good contractor.

489
00:32:23,715 --> 00:32:25,686
I did really good work.

490
00:32:26,106 --> 00:32:35,729
But anybody with a hammer is a carpenter, anybody with a paintbrush is a painter, and
you're constantly fighting with those guys to get jobs, to get work.

491
00:32:35,729 --> 00:32:43,631
And at least in this profession, because I know some states are unlicensed, but Alabama is
a licensed state, it is a professional license.

492
00:32:43,631 --> 00:32:52,474
And then you are kind of being able to really kind of be what you're worth and tie that to
your knowledge.

493
00:32:52,474 --> 00:32:54,147
Whereas before, know, I'd...

494
00:32:54,147 --> 00:32:57,360
had to take a lot of jobs I didn't want, but I needed them.

495
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:06,079
So with this, at least you can kind of set your rate and then also make your rate kind of
what your actual value to that is.

496
00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:08,931
Because there's not a lot of jobs where you can do that.

497
00:33:09,072 --> 00:33:13,781
Professional jobs, doctors and lawyers, but there's not a lot of blue collar jobs like
that.

498
00:33:13,781 --> 00:33:15,306
Definitely not, definitely not.

499
00:33:15,306 --> 00:33:21,198
I get a lot from people either online or in person is, you know, can I do this on the
side?

500
00:33:21,198 --> 00:33:24,419
I'm thinking about doing this on the side and whether or not that's a good idea.

501
00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:35,033
And like, I'm not saying that you can't do that, but I always kind of, I don't want to say
discourage, but I always just like try to give my input is like, I don't really, I don't

502
00:33:35,033 --> 00:33:40,046
really think it's very conducive because you got a lot of money that you're going to spend
getting started to getting tools.

503
00:33:40,046 --> 00:33:45,046
And especially if you're a licensed state or something like that, insurance, things that
you got to carry.

504
00:33:45,126 --> 00:33:49,646
then like the only way you're going to get jobs, you do some sort of marketing, right?

505
00:33:49,646 --> 00:33:51,866
And so then you got to put all that money into marketing.

506
00:33:51,866 --> 00:33:54,326
And it's like, if you want to do this, like on the weekends.

507
00:33:54,446 --> 00:33:59,226
And so like the realtor calls you on Monday and it's like, Hey, think how soon can you get
there?

508
00:33:59,226 --> 00:34:00,386
And you're like, yeah, Saturday.

509
00:34:00,386 --> 00:34:04,666
And they're like, no, you know, like that's just not, that's not going to work.

510
00:34:04,666 --> 00:34:05,806
I'm not saying it can't work.

511
00:34:05,806 --> 00:34:08,366
You put enough into it and give it enough time.

512
00:34:08,366 --> 00:34:13,106
then you can kind of be a whole bunch of people's backup guy and that might work, you
know?

513
00:34:13,206 --> 00:34:16,926
But I just, think that the idea, cause I even had it.

514
00:34:16,926 --> 00:34:18,666
I had another job when I started doing home inspection.

515
00:34:18,666 --> 00:34:20,586
I thought I could do this on the side.

516
00:34:20,786 --> 00:34:26,286
And it just turned out like, I realized pretty, pretty soon, like that's not really going
to work.

517
00:34:26,326 --> 00:34:27,906
You know, it's not going to bounce out very good.

518
00:34:27,906 --> 00:34:37,567
And I don't want to, I don't want to put all this into, if I don't plan to just do it full
time, I don't want to put everything into it to not make anything, you know, like.

519
00:34:37,567 --> 00:34:48,122
thing is in same way that it takes, think, you know, business is relationship and with
agents, you know, you have a relationship with those agents.

520
00:34:48,122 --> 00:34:58,066
I think with any relationship, any friendship, marriage, whatever, where it's like, it
takes a whole lot of attaboys to make up for one whoopsie, you know, and so with one no,

521
00:34:58,066 --> 00:34:59,287
can't make it today.

522
00:34:59,287 --> 00:35:04,153
Like you said, Brad, first of all, great name, but second of all, it's

523
00:35:04,153 --> 00:35:11,657
Truly, mean, you might get one or two times that you can say no because you're busy, but
by the third, they're going to find somebody else.

524
00:35:11,657 --> 00:35:17,060
so those 10 to 15 inspections can easily become three to five in a minute.

525
00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:22,724
And there's always ebbs and flows in markets unless you're in Florida, you know, where
it's just constant.

526
00:35:22,724 --> 00:35:28,407
But yeah, it's people remember when you say no more than when you say yes.

527
00:35:28,407 --> 00:35:32,989
it's, you know, how are you going to turn down the work if you hope to keep them?

528
00:35:34,296 --> 00:35:38,248
You know, guys, I this is an awesome topic, but I there's something bugging me.

529
00:35:38,248 --> 00:35:39,779
I got to change the subject real quick.

530
00:35:39,779 --> 00:35:40,089
Okay.

531
00:35:40,089 --> 00:35:47,042
Like we keep talking about giving something away and I keep looking at your hat and I keep
looking down at this and there was back Brad.

532
00:35:47,042 --> 00:35:49,593
didn't make it Brad Lowry.

533
00:35:49,593 --> 00:35:52,294
We have to we have to distinguish today.

534
00:35:52,566 --> 00:35:55,456
We being Brad did a podcast just the other day with another Matt.

535
00:35:55,456 --> 00:35:57,038
I was so pissed the whole time.

536
00:35:57,038 --> 00:35:58,064
Hahaha!

537
00:35:58,064 --> 00:35:59,738
this is the difference between mats.

538
00:35:59,738 --> 00:36:01,271
You had a chip on your shoulder.

539
00:36:01,271 --> 00:36:02,544
Who was the best mat?

540
00:36:02,544 --> 00:36:05,810
Meanwhile, Brad Browder here, we're just like, nice.

541
00:36:06,611 --> 00:36:07,831
Yeah.

542
00:36:07,952 --> 00:36:09,353
whatever man.

543
00:36:09,874 --> 00:36:10,895
It is what it is.

544
00:36:10,895 --> 00:36:11,195
Yeah.

545
00:36:11,195 --> 00:36:11,996
You're probably right.

546
00:36:11,996 --> 00:36:14,128
I told I said it from the moment we started.

547
00:36:14,128 --> 00:36:15,649
I only like to be the only Matt in the room.

548
00:36:15,649 --> 00:36:16,100
Okay.

549
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:17,922
You chose to have another Brad on here.

550
00:36:17,922 --> 00:36:18,182
Okay.

551
00:36:18,182 --> 00:36:18,943
I didn't do that.

552
00:36:18,943 --> 00:36:21,350
You put me in another Matt situation, but

553
00:36:21,350 --> 00:36:25,281
to the bar and another guy's wearing this same fleece as me, I'm like, good taste brother.

554
00:36:25,281 --> 00:36:27,141
there's only, you know, there's only room for two of us here.

555
00:36:27,141 --> 00:36:28,281
Get out.

556
00:36:28,281 --> 00:36:30,761
I walk into another bar and there's a Santa guy there.

557
00:36:30,761 --> 00:36:32,401
Okay, like we got a problem.

558
00:36:32,541 --> 00:36:33,401
Okay.

559
00:36:37,041 --> 00:36:37,924
So, uh,

560
00:36:37,924 --> 00:36:42,347
because my last name starts with a Z, I've always been the last, right?

561
00:36:42,347 --> 00:36:44,268
So I'm just, I'm okay with it.

562
00:36:44,268 --> 00:36:49,962
When I went to kindergarten, know, kindergarten, I just wanted to, you know, be a
teacher's pet, right?

563
00:36:49,962 --> 00:36:52,908
Not on purpose, but you know, just wanted this teacher to like me.

564
00:36:52,908 --> 00:36:54,869
I was never first in the line for snack.

565
00:36:54,869 --> 00:36:56,871
I never went outside first for PE.

566
00:36:56,871 --> 00:36:59,764
And I told my dad, I'm like, you know, this teacher hates me.

567
00:36:59,865 --> 00:37:03,468
And uh I think it was at like the first PTA thing or whatever.

568
00:37:03,468 --> 00:37:06,774
My dad asked the teacher and most kids would be mortified.

569
00:37:06,774 --> 00:37:08,923
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's find out about this.

570
00:37:08,923 --> 00:37:10,936
Let's get it all out right now.

571
00:37:10,936 --> 00:37:14,179
And then she told me, she said, it's alphabetical order.

572
00:37:14,179 --> 00:37:16,481
And I'm looking at my dad like alphabetical what?

573
00:37:16,481 --> 00:37:17,942
And that's.

574
00:37:17,942 --> 00:37:23,463
That's when he explained to me that the letter Z is the absolute last letter of the
alphabet, so I needed to get used to it.

575
00:37:23,463 --> 00:37:28,726
So I guess for me, I've just always had that step-kid mentality, you I'm never first.

576
00:37:28,726 --> 00:37:29,410
have it, yeah.

577
00:37:29,410 --> 00:37:31,732
Look, the truth of the matter is I wasn't really mad at Matt.

578
00:37:31,732 --> 00:37:36,015
I just felt like it was fun to do and and whatever, you know, but back to back.

579
00:37:36,015 --> 00:37:38,887
was talking about giving giving things away or actually gifts, right?

580
00:37:38,887 --> 00:37:46,281
Like and so when I was in Dallas with do South Brad, he wasn't there at the time, but I
was there with him.

581
00:37:46,442 --> 00:37:48,653
A guy walked up to me, his name.

582
00:37:48,653 --> 00:37:50,184
I'm probably going to get it wrong.

583
00:37:50,184 --> 00:37:51,505
Is Michael.

584
00:37:52,626 --> 00:37:56,088
Volpe Volpe, V O L P E.

585
00:37:56,088 --> 00:37:57,349
How would you say that?

586
00:37:57,730 --> 00:37:58,328
Volpe.

587
00:37:58,328 --> 00:37:59,188
Yeah.

588
00:37:59,490 --> 00:38:00,390
We're going to go with that.

589
00:38:00,390 --> 00:38:04,616
Michael Volpe from uh Coastal Empire Inspections.

590
00:38:05,338 --> 00:38:05,899
What?

591
00:38:05,899 --> 00:38:10,601
I said I'm a Yankee fan and that's their shortstop and he's not a good one, but that's how
they say his name.

592
00:38:10,601 --> 00:38:11,832
I don't think this guy's short.

593
00:38:11,832 --> 00:38:14,433
He's a home inspector out of Savannah.

594
00:38:14,433 --> 00:38:17,715
um Coastal Empire inspections.

595
00:38:17,715 --> 00:38:22,818
He made us these and I haven't sent you these yet because I don't have your address.

596
00:38:22,818 --> 00:38:24,959
I held on to him till you moved.

597
00:38:24,959 --> 00:38:32,664
But these are some leather coasters that he that are stitched with the logo here and I
just thought they were super cool.

598
00:38:32,664 --> 00:38:36,590
And so I wanted to I wanted to show you that and I wanted to call him out because he's

599
00:38:36,590 --> 00:38:38,070
A really nice guy.

600
00:38:38,070 --> 00:38:43,550
I spoke to him for a while and and so thanks Michael love I'm gonna get these to Brad.

601
00:38:43,550 --> 00:38:47,489
He's finally settled in the new place and so I'll get your address to send you some.

602
00:38:47,489 --> 00:38:50,290
Appreciate you, man, but how many did Michael give you?

603
00:38:50,632 --> 00:38:52,015
Uh, he gave me a few.

604
00:38:52,015 --> 00:38:54,860
think it was like, like five or six.

605
00:38:54,860 --> 00:39:00,802
think I gave one or two to Dave Kogan and then I got one or two and then I, with you.

606
00:39:00,802 --> 00:39:02,235
So something like that.

607
00:39:02,235 --> 00:39:02,715
didn't count them.

608
00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:03,206
away.

609
00:39:03,206 --> 00:39:15,592
Seriously, look, if you comment in here, if you're the first to comment coaster in the
YouTube comments, I'll try and get in touch with you and we'll send it to you, man.

610
00:39:15,592 --> 00:39:16,092
That'd be fun.

611
00:39:16,092 --> 00:39:17,714
ah

612
00:39:17,714 --> 00:39:20,101
I got, I got three in here.

613
00:39:20,101 --> 00:39:22,731
So I got a couple for you and one to give away.

614
00:39:22,731 --> 00:39:23,561
Let's give one away.

615
00:39:23,561 --> 00:39:23,811
Yeah.

616
00:39:23,811 --> 00:39:25,162
Comment, comment coaster.

617
00:39:25,162 --> 00:39:26,542
First one gets it.

618
00:39:26,753 --> 00:39:27,612
dude, that's awesome.

619
00:39:27,612 --> 00:39:28,013
And thanks.

620
00:39:28,013 --> 00:39:28,613
Thank you, Michael.

621
00:39:28,613 --> 00:39:29,844
That's, that's fantastic.

622
00:39:29,844 --> 00:39:34,846
But guys, there's, there's one other thing that, that I think we should do because look,
it's the end of the year.

623
00:39:34,846 --> 00:39:36,987
There's a lot to be grateful for.

624
00:39:37,007 --> 00:39:47,611
And, um, you know, we've seen some things in the field this year, some things that, uh, we
hope to never see again, maybe is the best way that we could describe it.

625
00:39:47,611 --> 00:39:51,741
And so I would like to hear what y'all's gratitude list.

626
00:39:51,741 --> 00:39:56,893
of things that you would be very grateful to never see again in the field in 2026.

627
00:39:58,766 --> 00:39:59,691
Who's going first?

628
00:39:59,691 --> 00:40:01,684
Yeah, rock, rock, scissors.

629
00:40:01,684 --> 00:40:02,993
Now, Matt, kick it off, man.

630
00:40:02,993 --> 00:40:04,417
And first of all, tell us what you're drinking.

631
00:40:04,417 --> 00:40:06,244
We didn't even, we didn't even say what you're drinking.

632
00:40:06,244 --> 00:40:09,725
having a old fashioned with Buffalo Trace bourbon.

633
00:40:09,725 --> 00:40:11,724
I had an old-fashioned, it's gone.

634
00:40:11,724 --> 00:40:12,838
Mine is almost gone.

635
00:40:12,838 --> 00:40:15,686
I almost had because I have a beer advent calendar.

636
00:40:15,708 --> 00:40:16,697
Hoo hoo!

637
00:40:16,697 --> 00:40:17,206
nice.

638
00:40:17,206 --> 00:40:20,389
And I did wear my most wonderful time for a beer.

639
00:40:20,911 --> 00:40:24,996
And so I almost had that during this, but I just really wanted an old-fashioned.

640
00:40:24,996 --> 00:40:26,688
And so I'll have that here in a minute.

641
00:40:26,688 --> 00:40:31,604
Like I'll have it before I toss out tonight, but um okay.

642
00:40:31,604 --> 00:40:32,284
So yeah.

643
00:40:32,284 --> 00:40:33,106
Okay.

644
00:40:33,106 --> 00:40:33,596
Thankful.

645
00:40:33,596 --> 00:40:34,978
It's like thankful, not thankful.

646
00:40:34,978 --> 00:40:35,328
Right.

647
00:40:35,328 --> 00:40:36,901
uh

648
00:40:36,901 --> 00:40:36,992
it.

649
00:40:36,992 --> 00:40:37,192
Yeah.

650
00:40:37,192 --> 00:40:40,277
Things we would be thankful to never see in 2026.

651
00:40:40,450 --> 00:40:43,202
I'm going to go with either realtors or buyers.

652
00:40:43,202 --> 00:40:50,437
Just people in general that walk in when I'm doing the inspection and I'm running the heat
and they feel the need to say the heater works.

653
00:40:51,078 --> 00:40:52,719
I could do without that.

654
00:40:53,740 --> 00:40:56,262
That happens every single time I'm running the heat.

655
00:40:58,084 --> 00:40:59,024
What do you say to it?

656
00:40:59,024 --> 00:41:01,726
Yeah, yeah, I'm running the heater.

657
00:41:01,726 --> 00:41:02,837
You know, I mean, like, I don't know.

658
00:41:02,837 --> 00:41:04,298
I just I could do without that.

659
00:41:04,298 --> 00:41:05,299
Just bothers me every time.

660
00:41:05,299 --> 00:41:07,070
Maybe I'm maybe I'm petty.

661
00:41:07,201 --> 00:41:16,541
No, God, this is a whole podcast in that one statement because, so, so, do you guys do
this?

662
00:41:16,541 --> 00:41:25,181
So like, will always, and I don't really announce it, this is probably the first time I
ever told anybody this, but when it gets towards like the end of a year, I always get

663
00:41:25,181 --> 00:41:28,421
like, there is a level of like, thank God this is over.

664
00:41:28,421 --> 00:41:31,221
And then I'll always say to myself, like next year's gonna be better.

665
00:41:31,221 --> 00:41:32,565
I always gaslight myself.

666
00:41:32,565 --> 00:41:33,097
Yeah, yeah.

667
00:41:33,097 --> 00:41:33,677
to do that.

668
00:41:33,677 --> 00:41:35,561
I like to really gas myself up.

669
00:41:35,561 --> 00:41:37,984
That way I'm super disappointed, right?

670
00:41:37,984 --> 00:41:39,135
But, um...

671
00:41:39,255 --> 00:41:42,877
where it's like that unexpected expense comes up and it's like, well, next month will be
better.

672
00:41:42,877 --> 00:41:44,252
Next month will be.

673
00:41:44,252 --> 00:41:45,063
Yeah.

674
00:41:45,188 --> 00:41:49,751
But yeah, to go back to Matt's point, that is my favorite thing.

675
00:41:49,952 --> 00:42:01,082
It doesn't matter where I'm at, which house I am, and it could be buyers, sellers, agents,
especially like when we're in the summer, right, and we're gonna test the heat, the smell,

676
00:42:01,082 --> 00:42:02,843
right, of the heat strips.

677
00:42:02,843 --> 00:42:03,944
Is something burning?

678
00:42:03,944 --> 00:42:05,335
Yes, the house is on fire.

679
00:42:05,335 --> 00:42:06,826
I'm very calm.

680
00:42:07,787 --> 00:42:09,855
I'm just gonna let her burn to the ground, but yes.

681
00:42:09,855 --> 00:42:11,785
Yeah, bring your commigrants here.

682
00:42:11,785 --> 00:42:20,605
that I absolutely cannot anymore, and I don't know why it bothers me so bad, but it's the
overzealous seller, right?

683
00:42:20,605 --> 00:42:23,145
Who's like, I just didn't know if you had any questions for me.

684
00:42:23,145 --> 00:42:29,065
And it's always like the first thing that pops into my mind and I have to really just is,
why are you here?

685
00:42:29,065 --> 00:42:30,185
You know?

686
00:42:30,465 --> 00:42:35,065
And then, you know, like I've been in these houses where it's like, I just wanted to show
you where the attic was.

687
00:42:35,065 --> 00:42:39,285
And it's like, let me guess, up there, up above us, like above the ceiling.

688
00:42:39,285 --> 00:42:40,185
God.

689
00:42:40,277 --> 00:42:42,768
Yeah, and then I did start to do this.

690
00:42:42,768 --> 00:42:49,001
I quit though, because I didn't feel like I was getting the right pop that I should have
got for this joke.

691
00:42:49,001 --> 00:42:53,503
But anytime a seller would just be like, I didn't know if you had any questions, I'd be
like, thank God you're here.

692
00:42:53,503 --> 00:42:54,924
This is my first one.

693
00:42:54,924 --> 00:42:57,746
And I did that a few times.

694
00:42:57,746 --> 00:43:00,947
But you know, the tag on my truck says Deal Killer.

695
00:43:00,947 --> 00:43:03,908
That's my, that's my actual license plate.

696
00:43:04,366 --> 00:43:05,318
You

697
00:43:05,323 --> 00:43:07,828
Just wearing it just outed it the whole way.

698
00:43:07,828 --> 00:43:08,541
awesome.

699
00:43:08,541 --> 00:43:15,426
I can tell you, I'm gonna give you guys like the cliff notes on this, but there's a
realtor we won't name names.

700
00:43:15,426 --> 00:43:21,271
But she was going around telling everybody that I was a deal killer and always wanted the
nickname.

701
00:43:21,271 --> 00:43:24,754
So whenever I found out about it, I was like, this is amazing.

702
00:43:24,754 --> 00:43:27,876
So then I made the tag for my truck that.

703
00:43:29,378 --> 00:43:33,560
But you know, I had a seller one time who's just like, should I be worried about that tag?

704
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:34,582
I'm like, God, I hope not.

705
00:43:34,582 --> 00:43:36,435
I need an easy day today.

706
00:43:36,435 --> 00:43:48,719
But yeah, if I had to say like the one thing that I could just completely do without, it's
it's got to be the gray and then the gray vinyl plank.

707
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:54,915
Like I really feel like it's like, know, cause there's people who suffer from like
seasonal depression.

708
00:43:54,915 --> 00:43:57,681
I want everybody that does not understand this.

709
00:43:57,681 --> 00:44:00,202
This is every day for our entire life.

710
00:44:00,202 --> 00:44:04,477
It's like you go into a house and it's like a Wizard of Oz in reverse.

711
00:44:04,477 --> 00:44:11,234
We come off of the yellow brick road and then we get back into the black and white house
and we're there for like three hours, right?

712
00:44:11,234 --> 00:44:13,846
And then we've seen things we didn't wanna see.

713
00:44:13,846 --> 00:44:16,099
We've had to write up things we didn't wanna write up.

714
00:44:16,099 --> 00:44:20,283
And it's very hard to like step back out into the color world, right?

715
00:44:20,283 --> 00:44:22,065
But it's so bad.

716
00:44:22,065 --> 00:44:22,966
It really is.

717
00:44:22,966 --> 00:44:27,200
It's like a storm cloud that follows you around the whole day.

718
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:28,358
Did I get to do it?

719
00:44:28,358 --> 00:44:28,528
that?

720
00:44:28,528 --> 00:44:35,563
Because like, at least in Florida, you know, everything was much more white than it was
when I was inspecting in DC and Virginia.

721
00:44:35,563 --> 00:44:43,759
Cause everybody up there for the longest time was doing the whole gray thing, which I was
like, why, why are you painting your walls the color of primer?

722
00:44:43,759 --> 00:44:49,053
Do you want me to shine a flashlight down this thing and show you how many imperfections
it's already going to show?

723
00:44:49,053 --> 00:44:51,074
Like you're just making it worse.

724
00:44:51,575 --> 00:44:52,456
Yeah.

725
00:44:52,456 --> 00:44:53,936
It looks 10 times worse now.

726
00:44:53,936 --> 00:44:54,795
uh

727
00:44:54,795 --> 00:44:56,255
still going strong here.

728
00:44:56,255 --> 00:45:01,315
And I went into a house, was maybe a month and a half ago, and it was a 90s house.

729
00:45:01,315 --> 00:45:05,815
And it had a lot of the paisley and a lot of the forest green and a lot of the maroon.

730
00:45:05,815 --> 00:45:10,015
And then my client comes in and is like, you know what, we're gonna have to upgrade a lot
of this.

731
00:45:10,015 --> 00:45:11,295
And I'm just like.

732
00:45:11,359 --> 00:45:15,310
I don't know guys, it of feels like a breath of fresh air if we're being honest.

733
00:45:15,332 --> 00:45:17,599
Because you just see so much gray.

734
00:45:17,599 --> 00:45:19,154
I mean, it is too much.

735
00:45:19,154 --> 00:45:20,288
Yeah, it's made a comeback.

736
00:45:20,288 --> 00:45:22,199
house in uh 2015.

737
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:27,292
It like the, the start and probably the peak of like the gray world.

738
00:45:27,292 --> 00:45:28,243
It's everything's great.

739
00:45:28,243 --> 00:45:29,583
Cabins gray.

740
00:45:29,684 --> 00:45:33,216
I mean, walls aren't gray, but like, you know, yeah, there's a lot of gray and white.

741
00:45:33,216 --> 00:45:36,088
We, we vary it up a little bit with the colors around the house.

742
00:45:36,088 --> 00:45:37,658
I mean, you ever have this weird feeling?

743
00:45:37,658 --> 00:45:45,653
Like when you go and inspect a house, like maybe you have to go back for a re-inspect or
you have to, or, like maybe your friend bought it and you actually go back to the house or

744
00:45:45,653 --> 00:45:47,084
like you go back a year later.

745
00:45:47,084 --> 00:45:53,307
Like if you ever had to go back to a house, like sometimes when I'm in that work mode, I
don't even I don't see that stuff, man.

746
00:45:53,307 --> 00:45:54,718
I just see work.

747
00:45:54,718 --> 00:45:59,180
And so then when I see the house later, I'm like, whoa, it just doesn't even feel like the
same place.

748
00:45:59,180 --> 00:46:03,131
Or I walk out of it and like, or I'll see that pictures of houses that I inspected.

749
00:46:03,131 --> 00:46:08,695
And it just seems like another dimension that I walked into or something like I'm in there
for this couple of hours.

750
00:46:08,695 --> 00:46:10,395
Then I'm out of there and never going there again.

751
00:46:10,395 --> 00:46:11,287
Wow.

752
00:46:11,287 --> 00:46:14,800
about the people who call you two or three days after the inspection?

753
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,603
And they're like, in the bathroom on that tile.

754
00:46:17,603 --> 00:46:23,080
And it's like, brother, that was 600 pictures and six inspections ago.

755
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:24,601
Let me look this up.

756
00:46:24,601 --> 00:46:25,601
Yeah.

757
00:46:26,503 --> 00:46:27,505
You gotta let it go.

758
00:46:27,505 --> 00:46:28,345
You gotta let it go.

759
00:46:28,345 --> 00:46:30,467
You can't carry all that around with you.

760
00:46:31,649 --> 00:46:32,134
Right.

761
00:46:32,134 --> 00:46:32,474
Right.

762
00:46:32,474 --> 00:46:36,575
And so like once it's all in there, it's got to move out of the way so I can put other
stuff in there.

763
00:46:36,575 --> 00:46:39,336
Like I can't, I can't just keep throwing stuff on it.

764
00:46:39,336 --> 00:46:43,897
I do have an uncanny ability to dredge that stuff out of my memory.

765
00:46:43,897 --> 00:46:46,318
But I mean, like, I don't really,

766
00:46:46,572 --> 00:46:48,995
I have to kind of force it and I don't really want to do that.

767
00:46:48,995 --> 00:46:49,850
I don't want to think about that.

768
00:46:49,850 --> 00:46:52,736
So I don't want to get that specific unless I know where I'm looking at a picture.

769
00:46:52,736 --> 00:46:54,200
Like I don't want to do that.

770
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:55,227
But uh,

771
00:46:55,227 --> 00:47:04,672
I ever inspected with, he told me that the guy that trained him said that as soon as you
can't remember a house that you did two or three years ago, you need to retire.

772
00:47:04,672 --> 00:47:09,504
And I went, I can't remember the one that I did last week.

773
00:47:11,025 --> 00:47:11,589
Yeah.

774
00:47:11,589 --> 00:47:17,193
I can kind of relate to that because I just did one, what's today, Thursday?

775
00:47:17,193 --> 00:47:21,596
I just did one yesterday that I did in 2021 and I remember everything about it.

776
00:47:21,596 --> 00:47:32,394
But it's weird, but it's kind of like Matt said though, I didn't like reminisce about it
for four years, but whenever I went back into it, it's like, yeah, I remember this place.

777
00:47:32,394 --> 00:47:34,346
You just kind of get into it.

778
00:47:34,346 --> 00:47:41,866
Yeah, I can see that totally happening to me, but like, know, like if somebody was like,
Hey, you remember that house that you did on such and such drive or whatever two years

779
00:47:41,866 --> 00:47:45,826
ago, I'd be like, no, no, you guys give me more than that.

780
00:47:45,826 --> 00:47:50,166
You know, you know, it's the one that had that water leak.

781
00:47:50,166 --> 00:47:50,406
Nope.

782
00:47:50,406 --> 00:47:51,986
You're gonna have to do better than that.

783
00:47:51,986 --> 00:47:55,306
know, want them all back.

784
00:47:56,529 --> 00:47:58,349
craziest thing happened, right?

785
00:47:58,349 --> 00:48:00,029
Today, just today.

786
00:48:00,629 --> 00:48:02,529
I'm on dolphin island down there on the beach.

787
00:48:02,529 --> 00:48:04,849
I'm doing an inspection and a bug guy shows up.

788
00:48:04,849 --> 00:48:05,989
This is on the beach, right?

789
00:48:05,989 --> 00:48:07,829
He's looking for termites, sand.

790
00:48:07,829 --> 00:48:10,669
You know, I'm asking him like, have you ever found termites in the sand?

791
00:48:10,669 --> 00:48:12,429
Cause I've done termite remediation.

792
00:48:12,429 --> 00:48:13,489
I've never seen.

793
00:48:13,501 --> 00:48:15,922
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I've just never seen it.

794
00:48:15,922 --> 00:48:22,226
So we get to talking and I tell him about the last house that I did that had bad termites.

795
00:48:22,266 --> 00:48:25,928
And I had a video on TikTok, so I pull up the video.

796
00:48:25,928 --> 00:48:30,050
This dude is like the Sherlock Holmes of termites, right?

797
00:48:30,050 --> 00:48:31,831
It takes a lot to get me impressed.

798
00:48:31,831 --> 00:48:35,713
I'm still, I'm fanboying a little bit over this termite guy.

799
00:48:35,934 --> 00:48:39,015
Three seconds into the video, he sees the mud tube.

800
00:48:39,015 --> 00:48:42,173
I don't show the house, I just showed the mud tube.

801
00:48:42,173 --> 00:48:43,613
He asked me, where's this house?

802
00:48:43,613 --> 00:48:45,113
And I said, oh, it's off of this road.

803
00:48:45,113 --> 00:48:47,173
He tells me the address.

804
00:48:47,173 --> 00:48:52,913
He saw that house a year ago and recognized the house from the shape of the mud tube.

805
00:48:52,933 --> 00:48:56,813
And I was told, I know, I told that dude, I'm like, brother, I'm in the presence of
greatness.

806
00:48:56,813 --> 00:48:57,993
I need cards.

807
00:48:57,993 --> 00:49:03,633
Because if ever there had to be a bug guy that was worth his weight in gold, it's this
dude.

808
00:49:03,633 --> 00:49:05,913
Because I mean, I've got a pretty good memory.

809
00:49:05,913 --> 00:49:07,113
Like we were just talking about.

810
00:49:07,113 --> 00:49:10,705
You know, can go into a house and remember some stuff, but I've never.

811
00:49:10,705 --> 00:49:13,025
had somebody see something so small.

812
00:49:13,025 --> 00:49:16,468
I mean, he's looking at something that could have fit in the square foot box.

813
00:49:16,468 --> 00:49:18,869
He sees that and is like, I think I know where that's at.

814
00:49:18,869 --> 00:49:19,820
Is it off this road?

815
00:49:19,820 --> 00:49:21,911
And it's like, you gotta be kidding me.

816
00:49:21,911 --> 00:49:22,852
I had to look it up.

817
00:49:22,852 --> 00:49:27,284
I went into Spectora and pulled up the address and I'm like, how'd you do that?

818
00:49:27,284 --> 00:49:30,616
And he was like, yeah, I saw that house like a year ago, which is insane to me.

819
00:49:30,616 --> 00:49:32,320
But there are people out there like that.

820
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:37,748
no, so you won't name the name of the agent that you were talking about earlier, but I
feel like this is worth naming the name.

821
00:49:37,748 --> 00:49:40,816
Who's the bug guy for everybody in what I guess mobile area.

822
00:49:40,816 --> 00:49:42,919
Yeah, let me look it up real quick.

823
00:49:42,919 --> 00:49:49,689
His name was Dallas, but ah I think the name of his company was, I just want to make sure
I don't butcher this.

824
00:49:49,689 --> 00:49:52,212
ah

825
00:49:54,357 --> 00:49:57,760
Well, while you're looking it up, keep people looking it up.

826
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:06,345
I'll go ahead and say, guys, the one thing that I can do without in 2026 is the dads
asking asinine questions.

827
00:50:06,566 --> 00:50:11,157
Like this was one of the last inspections that I did in Florida before moving.

828
00:50:11,157 --> 00:50:13,751
I think it was a week, the week or two before I moved.

829
00:50:13,751 --> 00:50:17,293
And this was a 20 year old neighborhood.

830
00:50:17,313 --> 00:50:21,456
All of the homes are slab concrete block and wood framing for the roof.

831
00:50:21,456 --> 00:50:22,719
ah

832
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:27,943
But the dad goes, have you inspected any of the houses in this neighborhood before?

833
00:50:27,943 --> 00:50:30,165
And I went, actually, this is my first one.

834
00:50:30,165 --> 00:50:31,334
He's like, OK.

835
00:50:31,956 --> 00:50:39,509
So by looking at the other ones, can you say whether or not you think this one will hold
up pretty good?

836
00:50:39,509 --> 00:50:41,843
I'm like, I really can't tell you that.

837
00:50:41,843 --> 00:50:42,464
Well, how come?

838
00:50:42,464 --> 00:50:44,645
I'm like, well, let's point this out.

839
00:50:44,706 --> 00:50:45,966
Your driveway is sealed.

840
00:50:45,966 --> 00:50:48,308
Your neighbors has grass growing through the cracks, OK?

841
00:50:48,308 --> 00:50:49,715
ah

842
00:50:49,715 --> 00:50:52,256
Yours has properly maintained trim.

843
00:50:52,256 --> 00:50:53,636
is there's no rot.

844
00:50:53,636 --> 00:50:54,966
Everything has been painted.

845
00:50:54,966 --> 00:50:56,967
Your neighbors is falling apart.

846
00:50:57,147 --> 00:50:58,606
And he's like, Okay, well, what does that indicate?

847
00:50:58,606 --> 00:51:08,610
I'm like, that indicates that if with with every single house that was here, within not
just 10 months, but 10 weeks of 10 different families living in the 10 different houses on

848
00:51:08,610 --> 00:51:12,711
this street, every single one of them was going to look completely different.

849
00:51:12,711 --> 00:51:17,773
At the end of that period of time, based on who was living in it and how much care they
take up.

850
00:51:17,833 --> 00:51:18,813
I'm like, get

851
00:51:18,813 --> 00:51:27,219
I can't guarantee just looking over at your neighbor how after 20 years they've taken care
of their house and what implicate that has no implication on yours.

852
00:51:27,219 --> 00:51:32,483
Like if m unless I'm looking and noticing major structural issues over there that would
pertain to yours as well.

853
00:51:32,483 --> 00:51:36,185
No, this was owned by people that cared for it right next door.

854
00:51:36,185 --> 00:51:37,066
They don't.

855
00:51:37,066 --> 00:51:39,287
And I could tell because you can just look at it, dude.

856
00:51:39,287 --> 00:51:40,848
Just just look at it.

857
00:51:40,868 --> 00:51:41,900
And it's

858
00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:44,518
And if you don't maintain it, it's not going to last.

859
00:51:45,544 --> 00:51:45,888
So.

860
00:51:45,888 --> 00:51:51,988
always tell people this, that you can't fake 10 years of maintenance in the last month you
own it, right?

861
00:51:51,988 --> 00:52:03,268
So you can tell, like even if they slapped the gray paint on it, but even if they do all
of that, you know, you're not gonna cover up 10 years of neglect, right?

862
00:52:03,268 --> 00:52:05,468
You've prettied it up a little bit, but you can't.

863
00:52:05,468 --> 00:52:09,508
And then, you know, I just had that discussion with somebody the other day.

864
00:52:09,508 --> 00:52:11,962
You know, one thing that we do,

865
00:52:11,962 --> 00:52:15,412
have the benefit of is we see so many houses, right?

866
00:52:15,412 --> 00:52:21,260
If you talk to the average client and you ask them how many houses they've looked at, it's
probably 10 or less.

867
00:52:21,260 --> 00:52:24,302
And you know, I looked at 10 last week, right?

868
00:52:24,302 --> 00:52:29,086
And then I will tell them this, because this is, we've all had this question, would you
buy it?

869
00:52:29,086 --> 00:52:29,417
Right?

870
00:52:29,417 --> 00:52:32,409
Yeah, I made money, I buy every house I inspect, Jesus.

871
00:52:32,409 --> 00:52:41,121
But you, I will tell them though, you know, if you like this house and this is the price
point you're looking at,

872
00:52:41,121 --> 00:52:45,623
and this is the area that you're looking at, how many houses have you looked at, right?

873
00:52:45,623 --> 00:52:52,876
Because if I knew of a house that was better, right, I might tell you, you know, like,
hey, go across the street or go down the road.

874
00:52:52,876 --> 00:52:55,958
But it is hard because we do have to tow that line, right?

875
00:52:55,958 --> 00:52:58,979
We can't tell somebody like, you should definitely buy this house.

876
00:52:58,979 --> 00:53:01,600
But there's been houses where I wanted to do that.

877
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,882
You know, where it's like, guys, I've been looking at hundreds of houses this year.

878
00:53:05,882 --> 00:53:07,423
This right here is the one.

879
00:53:07,423 --> 00:53:08,583
You know, if you...

880
00:53:08,704 --> 00:53:16,750
You're going to look for another six months before you find one that compares to this,
that really, you and it happens at every inspection.

881
00:53:16,750 --> 00:53:18,303
Would you buy this house?

882
00:53:18,303 --> 00:53:19,990
I've never heard that before.

883
00:53:19,990 --> 00:53:22,390
old area manager had a great way of addressing it.

884
00:53:22,390 --> 00:53:27,102
ah He would, he would give them a percentile, right?

885
00:53:27,102 --> 00:53:33,834
Because because people would ask and he would at the end of the inspection, he would go, I
would definitely qualify this within the top 18 to 20 % of houses I see.

886
00:53:34,015 --> 00:53:35,355
Yeah.

887
00:53:35,355 --> 00:53:40,269
And if there's ones that and this has happened at least, you know, once a year.

888
00:53:40,269 --> 00:53:40,929
ah

889
00:53:40,929 --> 00:53:49,425
And it's the only time that it's ever happens when I won't tell a buyer that they
shouldn't buy it But I will ask would you like me to continue this inspection?

890
00:53:49,980 --> 00:53:51,691
God, all the time.

891
00:53:51,691 --> 00:53:53,452
That's where I got the nickname.

892
00:53:53,950 --> 00:54:03,848
I will, you know, I'll get into a house and you know, my videos are full of them, you
know, but one of them, you know, I'm sticking a pocket knife through Oak hardwood floor

893
00:54:03,848 --> 00:54:05,999
and the pine subfloor underneath.

894
00:54:05,999 --> 00:54:07,080
And I'm just looking at him.

895
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,942
I'm like, guys, come on, we want to do this.

896
00:54:10,942 --> 00:54:15,605
Like, do you really need to pay me $650 to tell you that this is no good?

897
00:54:15,605 --> 00:54:18,816
Whenever I might could tell you the same thing right now for three.

898
00:54:18,882 --> 00:54:23,066
You know, like we're friends right now, but it's not gonna get any better.

899
00:54:23,066 --> 00:54:35,107
And that's really the thing, you know, it's like, oh and then, I can't tell me clients
I've had who will, I mean, they'd go to bat for me tomorrow if I asked them to because I

900
00:54:35,107 --> 00:54:39,631
saved them from whatever extenuating circumstances that goes on with those.

901
00:54:39,631 --> 00:54:45,582
But yeah, sometimes you do wanna just tell them like, no, not this house.

902
00:54:45,582 --> 00:54:47,502
I was doing an inspection.

903
00:54:47,502 --> 00:54:49,502
It's actually, I was going to take a look at a problem.

904
00:54:49,502 --> 00:54:57,682
Somebody was having, it wasn't a full on inspection and the wife was there and she asked
me, I was telling her about, uh, cause the, I, the problem that they were experiencing is

905
00:54:57,682 --> 00:55:00,262
actually, seemed like a big deal, but it wasn't.

906
00:55:00,262 --> 00:55:06,662
And, uh, and I had seen it at another house that somebody was renting and then they were
going to buy it as years ago.

907
00:55:06,662 --> 00:55:12,682
Uh, very similar things like the floor tiles were, were tinting like this, right?

908
00:55:12,682 --> 00:55:15,434
It's a, uh, basically I'm, I'm,

909
00:55:15,434 --> 00:55:18,895
ruled it down to being poorly installed.

910
00:55:18,895 --> 00:55:21,186
The, the thin set, the substrate, something's wrong down there.

911
00:55:21,186 --> 00:55:23,707
Uh, there's no structural issues going on or anything.

912
00:55:23,707 --> 00:55:25,258
And that was how the other house was too.

913
00:55:25,258 --> 00:55:26,246
I had seen it before.

914
00:55:26,246 --> 00:55:31,221
And I was telling them about this and I was kind of comparing what they were seeing to
what I'd already experienced.

915
00:55:31,221 --> 00:55:34,972
And, um, and she goes, well, so they were renting the house and they were buying it.

916
00:55:34,972 --> 00:55:44,894
Why would they buy it with all those problems that I go, look, I don't know what the
percentage is, but I would say it's very high that most of the people that

917
00:55:44,894 --> 00:55:49,818
hire me to do the inspection by the house, regardless of what comes up in the inspection,
almost all of them.

918
00:55:49,818 --> 00:55:52,511
Like it's funny because you're called deal killer.

919
00:55:52,511 --> 00:55:54,763
Like I would venture to say it's the same for you.

920
00:55:54,763 --> 00:55:57,985
Like most people, you can throw all kinds of crazy stuff at them.

921
00:55:57,985 --> 00:56:00,568
And they're like, they still just go through with the purchase.

922
00:56:00,568 --> 00:56:02,409
They're not negotiate some things.

923
00:56:02,409 --> 00:56:06,852
They might repair some things, but sometimes they won't do a damn thing.

924
00:56:06,953 --> 00:56:09,334
They just buy it they just deal with the issues.

925
00:56:09,334 --> 00:56:12,953
Cause somebody's living there right now and then they're going to, it's going to turn
over.

926
00:56:12,953 --> 00:56:14,273
I do tell people that.

927
00:56:14,273 --> 00:56:16,773
I'm like, look, somebody's gonna buy this house, right?

928
00:56:16,773 --> 00:56:18,933
And if it's not you, it's gonna be somebody else.

929
00:56:18,933 --> 00:56:21,213
It's just how much can you stomach, right?

930
00:56:21,213 --> 00:56:23,373
How much are you willing to put up with?

931
00:56:23,373 --> 00:56:29,513
But yeah, to your point, like I'll get phone calls sometimes and I'll be like, son of a
gun, you bought that thing, all right.

932
00:56:29,513 --> 00:56:34,833
So you inspected this house on such and such and then I'll look it up while I'm talking to
them about it.

933
00:56:34,833 --> 00:56:37,793
And it's like, I'll be darned, I did not see that coming.

934
00:56:39,473 --> 00:56:40,413
Yeah.

935
00:56:41,417 --> 00:56:43,943
Now did you find that that bug guy's name?

936
00:56:44,088 --> 00:56:46,589
Uh, Bossed Pest Solutions.

937
00:56:46,909 --> 00:56:48,479
Bossed Pest Solutions.

938
00:56:48,479 --> 00:56:51,430
But uh, yeah, boss, yeah.

939
00:56:51,430 --> 00:56:52,519
Which, you know what?

940
00:56:52,519 --> 00:56:54,511
If anybody earned it, it's that dude.

941
00:56:57,552 --> 00:56:59,642
Yeah, he, I mean, just to look at it.

942
00:56:59,642 --> 00:57:02,073
And then, like I said, it was from a year previous.

943
00:57:02,073 --> 00:57:06,064
And then he was at, he wasn't even looking at that house.

944
00:57:06,064 --> 00:57:11,035
He looked at the house next door doing pest control stuff, right?

945
00:57:11,035 --> 00:57:13,912
And then he just so happens to look across

946
00:57:13,912 --> 00:57:16,892
He took a video of it, he showed me the video, so I know he wasn't lying.

947
00:57:16,892 --> 00:57:19,012
The video was from April of last year.

948
00:57:19,012 --> 00:57:23,332
He shows me the video he had sent to one of his coworkers like, ooh, that's the house we
should be at.

949
00:57:23,332 --> 00:57:25,232
And it was a little short video.

950
00:57:25,232 --> 00:57:31,112
And I'm just like, it is amazing that that guy, and then like I said, just knew it from
looking at the mud tubes.

951
00:57:31,112 --> 00:57:32,852
But you know, we all do this, right?

952
00:57:32,852 --> 00:57:40,332
Everybody's got their own little area of expertise and I've walked into houses,
businesses, whatever, like what's his name?

953
00:57:40,452 --> 00:57:41,292
Sean.

954
00:57:41,292 --> 00:57:42,783
He made a video about it the other day.

955
00:57:42,783 --> 00:57:49,740
was talking about like going to a meeting and then you're trying to pay attention and then
something catches your eye and you start thinking about it.

956
00:57:49,740 --> 00:57:51,961
But, you know, we all have that.

957
00:57:51,961 --> 00:58:01,190
But I mean, this guy was like, again, it's like you talked about a TV show earlier, like
this guy needs his own show where he just goes around and is like, I know that bug.

958
00:58:01,190 --> 00:58:02,797
He probably knows them by names.

959
00:58:02,797 --> 00:58:05,100
He named the bugs.

960
00:58:05,342 --> 00:58:08,248
That's pretty impressive, man, for sure.

961
00:58:08,248 --> 00:58:08,929
it, dude.

962
00:58:08,929 --> 00:58:14,663
Well, this has been awesome guys sound off in the comments with the the top things that
you don't want to see in 2026.

963
00:58:14,663 --> 00:58:15,690
We've shared ours.

964
00:58:15,690 --> 00:58:17,615
We want to hear from everybody listening.

965
00:58:17,615 --> 00:58:20,248
Brad, where could everybody follow you if they don't follow you already?

966
00:58:20,248 --> 00:58:21,485
I'd be surprised with you.

967
00:58:21,485 --> 00:58:23,208
It's due South Brad everywhere.

968
00:58:23,208 --> 00:58:24,342
Yeah.

969
00:58:24,642 --> 00:58:25,361
I love it.

970
00:58:25,361 --> 00:58:26,233
Well, this has been awesome.

971
00:58:26,233 --> 00:58:27,444
Thank you so much for joining the show.

972
00:58:27,444 --> 00:58:28,465
Matt, we did it, man.

973
00:58:28,465 --> 00:58:30,276
One whole calendar year of the ride along.

974
00:58:30,276 --> 00:58:31,247
Let's do it again next year.

975
00:58:31,247 --> 00:58:34,760
What do you say, All right, we're doing it.

976
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,166
on a great show and I really appreciate you having me.

977
00:58:37,166 --> 00:58:37,863
Thanks, Brad.

978
00:58:37,863 --> 00:58:38,637
Thanks for being on.

979
00:58:38,637 --> 00:58:41,170
next year for sure, Seems to be a regular thing.

980
00:58:41,170 --> 00:58:42,532
Thank you guys so much for watching.

981
00:58:42,532 --> 00:58:47,578
Go follow Brad, go follow Matt, go follow me, go follow the show and sound off in the
comments.

982
00:58:47,578 --> 00:58:48,600
We've enjoyed having you here.

983
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:49,521
This has been a wonderful year.

984
00:58:49,521 --> 00:58:51,123
Thank you so much for joining the ride along here 2025.

985
00:58:51,123 --> 00:58:54,625
We'll see you all again in 2026.