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Thanks for listening to the John and Heidi Show. Bonus hour. Brent Baker
joining us now for another real estate update. How are you, sir,
am Well today, Good to have you here on a Monday. And we
talked last week about contractor scams, and we're going to talk a little bit
more about that because we're gonna talk about the most common. So we talk
last week about red flags and if you miss that, we do have a
podcast version. You can listen to that at Sunny Radio dot com. Scroll
down to the bottom you'll see it there. But let's talk about the most
common contractor scams because some of these things are probably really common and people don't
even realize that it could be a scam. Correct. You know, one
in ten Americans have been a victim of contract or scam, and you know
that seems almost impossible, but you know, in some areas of the country
it's very very frequent, especially you have these areas where they have lots of
fires or you know, earthquakes and so forth. How ripe are those areas
for that type of thing. But one of some of the things to watch
for. They do quick, low quality work without a contract. You know,
they just want in, they want out, they want their money,
They don't want any evidence tying them to anything. Yeah, they'll provide a
low cost estimate. Then you know, as the project goes along, that
creeps a little creeps and it increased the project or the cost during that project.
Demanding a down payment or billing for shoddy work. Now it's not abnormal
for somebody to ask for a little money down to guarantee that you have skin
in the game as well, but sometimes it's a pretty significant amount. Or
they don't want to sign a lean waiver building full price after substituting or removing
materials, or you know, just using less than desirable products. High pressure
sales tactics. Some are smooth talkers and some are arm twisters. So you
need to be if it doesn't feel right, maybe it doesn't right exactly permits.
Anything that alters your structure needs a permit, and then there are certain
other repairs modifications that also require permits. Contractors, a good worthy contractor will
include the permit and go get it, and the city will have evidence of
that, and you can call the city and confirm it. Absolutely. They
manipulate the change orders or the schedules for the work. You know, it's
not uncommon to occasionally have a little delay, say that the garage stores that
you wanted weren't available right away. But if you notice a pattern of delays,
you should be really paying close attention. Absolutely falsely representing employees their insurance
and so forth. Good contractor is going to have insurance. You don't want
your homeowners insurance having to pay for some issue that an employee has that fell
down and maybe it was a staged accident. To add pain to injury,
you know, another way to milk you for some money and then falsifying payment
applications or invoices. You're paying for stuff that you didn't really get or was
not used in the remodel of your home. And then the last adding or
changing contractors subcontractors during the project, and then increasing costs saying that that's a
result because we had to let somebody go and replace them with somebody else.
So, you know, any of these all by themselves, you don't necessarily
catch right away, but after a while, trust your gut. And one
of the things I want to say in this area, I think we've got
a lot of wonderful contractors who would never do any of these things. So
you know, I don't want people to instantly think, oh, this guy's
a contractor, he's going to rip me off. I think we've got some
really, really good people here. But there are also some people who realize
that, hey, in this area, there are people with money that are
building, and there are people with money who are doing improvements. And it's
really easy for people to say, I'm going to prey on these people and
I'm going to do you know, the stuff that we just talked about.
So one of the things to do is just make sure that it's a reputable
company before you're doing business with them. That's really simple. And you know,
if it's somebody you've never heard of before that that could maybe not that
could maybe be somebody that would be one of the people who do this.
So just make sure you kind of know who you're working with. I suppose
so. Yeah. I was the service writer and a parts manager for one
of the construction supply companies here in Sue Falls, and the vast majority of
our customers were really, really good. Yeah, they were, you know,
outstanding individuals, really concerned about doing the right thing. But every once
in a while somebody would show up that made you uncomfortable and you find yourself
squirming a little bit. So again, trust your gut. We're a very
trusting area. But that also makes us right well. And when we had
hail come through last year, I remember seeing vehicles from out of state,
big vehicles with trailers. They were rolling into town to help. And again
that was needed, we needed people to fix all the hail damage. But
I think those are opportunities where people say, hey, I can come,
and you know, some of them were here with the right mindset of I'm
going to come and help a lot of people and I'm going to do this.
But there are also some that maybe are a little bit more like the
ones on this list here. So just be careful out there. Please be
careful. And if you're looking to buy or sell a home, this guy
over here can help you with that, Brent Baker, how do they get
a hold of you, sir, Well, my real estate team name is
Client's First Group. We are a part of Keller Williams Realty and Sue Falls.
My number is six zero five three one zero zero two ninety seven or
email me at Brent Baker at kW dot com. You can also find him
online. His website is clients First Group dot com. Thanks for listening.
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three. It was on this day August twenty eighth, two thousand seven,
the ribbon cutting ceremony at the brand new state of the art University of Sioux
Falls Bob Young Stadium happened. The first game would be played just a few
days later on September first, two thousand and seven. The stadium is named
in honor of longtime US half football coach Bob Young, who put Soux Falls
Athletics on the map in the nineteen nineties with a string of dominant football seasons
highlighted by a national championship in nineteen ninety six. The quarterback for that championship
team would go on to become a household name in Sioux Falls sports circles as
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