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Thanks for listening to the John and
Heidi Show. Bonus hour. Brent Baker

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joining us now for another real estate
update. How are you, sir,

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am Well today, Good to have
you here on a Monday. And we

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talked last week about contractor scams,
and we're going to talk a little bit

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more about that because we're gonna talk
about the most common. So we talk

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last week about red flags and if
you miss that, we do have a

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podcast version. You can listen to
that at Sunny Radio dot com. Scroll

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down to the bottom you'll see it
there. But let's talk about the most

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common contractor scams because some of these
things are probably really common and people don't

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even realize that it could be a
scam. Correct. You know, one

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in ten Americans have been a victim
of contract or scam, and you know

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that seems almost impossible, but you
know, in some areas of the country

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it's very very frequent, especially you
have these areas where they have lots of

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fires or you know, earthquakes and
so forth. How ripe are those areas

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for that type of thing. But
one of some of the things to watch

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for. They do quick, low
quality work without a contract. You know,

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they just want in, they want
out, they want their money,

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They don't want any evidence tying them
to anything. Yeah, they'll provide a

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low cost estimate. Then you know, as the project goes along, that

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creeps a little creeps and it increased
the project or the cost during that project.

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Demanding a down payment or billing for
shoddy work. Now it's not abnormal

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for somebody to ask for a little
money down to guarantee that you have skin

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in the game as well, but
sometimes it's a pretty significant amount. Or

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they don't want to sign a lean
waiver building full price after substituting or removing

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materials, or you know, just
using less than desirable products. High pressure

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sales tactics. Some are smooth talkers
and some are arm twisters. So you

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need to be if it doesn't feel
right, maybe it doesn't right exactly permits.

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Anything that alters your structure needs a
permit, and then there are certain

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other repairs modifications that also require permits. Contractors, a good worthy contractor will

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include the permit and go get it, and the city will have evidence of

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that, and you can call the
city and confirm it. Absolutely. They

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manipulate the change orders or the schedules
for the work. You know, it's

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not uncommon to occasionally have a little
delay, say that the garage stores that

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you wanted weren't available right away.
But if you notice a pattern of delays,

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you should be really paying close attention. Absolutely falsely representing employees their insurance

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and so forth. Good contractor is
going to have insurance. You don't want

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your homeowners insurance having to pay for
some issue that an employee has that fell

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down and maybe it was a staged
accident. To add pain to injury,

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you know, another way to milk
you for some money and then falsifying payment

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applications or invoices. You're paying for
stuff that you didn't really get or was

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not used in the remodel of your
home. And then the last adding or

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changing contractors subcontractors during the project,
and then increasing costs saying that that's a

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result because we had to let somebody
go and replace them with somebody else.

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So, you know, any of
these all by themselves, you don't necessarily

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catch right away, but after a
while, trust your gut. And one

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of the things I want to say
in this area, I think we've got

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a lot of wonderful contractors who would
never do any of these things. So

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you know, I don't want people
to instantly think, oh, this guy's

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a contractor, he's going to rip
me off. I think we've got some

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really, really good people here.
But there are also some people who realize

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that, hey, in this area, there are people with money that are

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building, and there are people with
money who are doing improvements. And it's

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really easy for people to say,
I'm going to prey on these people and

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I'm going to do you know,
the stuff that we just talked about.

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So one of the things to do
is just make sure that it's a reputable

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company before you're doing business with them. That's really simple. And you know,

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if it's somebody you've never heard of
before that that could maybe not that

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could maybe be somebody that would be
one of the people who do this.

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So just make sure you kind of
know who you're working with. I suppose

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so. Yeah. I was the
service writer and a parts manager for one

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of the construction supply companies here in
Sue Falls, and the vast majority of

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our customers were really, really good. Yeah, they were, you know,

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outstanding individuals, really concerned about doing
the right thing. But every once

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in a while somebody would show up
that made you uncomfortable and you find yourself

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squirming a little bit. So again, trust your gut. We're a very

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trusting area. But that also makes
us right well. And when we had

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hail come through last year, I
remember seeing vehicles from out of state,

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big vehicles with trailers. They were
rolling into town to help. And again

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that was needed, we needed people
to fix all the hail damage. But

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I think those are opportunities where people
say, hey, I can come,

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and you know, some of them
were here with the right mindset of I'm

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going to come and help a lot
of people and I'm going to do this.

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But there are also some that maybe
are a little bit more like the

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ones on this list here. So
just be careful out there. Please be

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careful. And if you're looking to
buy or sell a home, this guy

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over here can help you with that, Brent Baker, how do they get

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a hold of you, sir,
Well, my real estate team name is

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Client's First Group. We are a
part of Keller Williams Realty and Sue Falls.

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My number is six zero five three
one zero zero two ninety seven or

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email me at Brent Baker at kW
dot com. You can also find him

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online. His website is clients First
Group dot com. Thanks for listening.

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It's time now for this day in
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three. It was on this day
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the ribbon cutting ceremony at the brand
new state of the art University of Sioux

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Falls Bob Young Stadium happened. The
first game would be played just a few

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days later on September first, two
thousand and seven. The stadium is named

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in honor of longtime US half football
coach Bob Young, who put Soux Falls

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Athletics on the map in the nineteen
nineties with a string of dominant football seasons

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highlighted by a national championship in nineteen
ninety six. The quarterback for that championship

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team would go on to become a
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the head coach of the Sioux Fall
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on the stadium as an honor well
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