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High Facebook flunkies, but mainly my YouTube morons are more active. 18 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:25.959 So let's go to the phones and see what we can do for you. 19 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.840 Today's Car Day. We have Kevin with us, uncle Kevin Calkin from Shared 20 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:37.280 In Autotech. And then we have Rodgreer. Rod is with Jeffarcars. He's 21 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:41.959 a car salesman, car dealer, and we need not until noon. Oh 22 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:46.519 okay, so he'll be in here. Okay, So thanks. So let's 23 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.480 start out with Mary wants to talk about an apartment issue. Then I want 24 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:57.359 to talk to these guys. I'm being told the gas prices are skyrocketing. 25 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.680 Now I've noticed a little increase, but around the country, I guess it's 26 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:10.680 even worse. Another thing, skyrocketing insurance rates and maintenance parts. So bad 27 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:15.599 news if you have a car. The cost of cars all around when you 28 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.800 take into consideration. To us, today is car Day, Car Friday, 29 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:24.639 when you take into consideration the increase in maintenance and by the way, I'm 30 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:30.599 not blaming Kevin or any of our great mechanics and auto repair shops. Their 31 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:38.080 hourly rates did not substantially increase at all. What's increasing our supplies and parts? 32 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.960 By Ken, Yeah, no, it's and it's it's still a talent 33 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.360 to get some stuff. But yeah, no everything. Everything is up twenty 34 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:51.240 percent, I mean, and the insurance rates are up as far as thirty 35 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:57.199 percent, and then gasoline started going up again. You know, it's really 36 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:05.039 funny because so many economic indicators say we're doing great. We have lagging indicators 37 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:10.960 that said we did great. We have concurrent indicators looking good, and then 38 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.280 we have lagging indicator. I mean, excuse me. We have advanced indicators 39 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:20.479 saying things are going to be good, but then I hear people complaining. 40 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.680 So I don't get it. I don't know how you can have economic indicators 41 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:30.199 like the stock market and certain barometers showing a good economy. But if you 42 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:35.479 ask Mark right there Hills, that economy sucks, right, And I don't 43 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.159 really know one way or the other. I don't know because I'm obviously I 44 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.240 know for my sponsors, I don't think any of them are happy. But 45 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:47.680 keV, let's just talk to you and Rod, keV, is your business 46 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:52.400 good or bad? Well, March was one of the worst must we've had 47 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.000 in a while, but I think now year over year, okay, let's 48 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:00.280 go back. And I know relatively profits changed because their cost but I'm talking 49 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:03.879 about traffic. Go back four or five years, was traffic better than now? 50 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:09.680 No, the traffic is definitely better now because people are maintaining the cars 51 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:14.120 and keeping them longer, because of the price of new stuff. Definitely. 52 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:17.040 Okay, what about what about profits? Profits are down? You know we 53 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.800 have we may have to readjust a few things. Are you know our rent 54 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:25.000 is up? Insurance is up? Guys need raises? To say, when 55 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:30.560 you look around, do you personally think the economy sucks? You're in business, 56 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:34.560 You live, you breathe, you buy, you sell. Do you 57 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:40.519 think when you look around the economy sucks? Well, I think you know, 58 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:44.480 the the everyday stuff is starting to get challenging. I mean everybody's property 59 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:48.120 tax doubled. You know, the homeowners is Talk to Rod. Now Rod's 60 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:51.199 not in yet, He'll be in. That's right, gosh, Okay, 61 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:55.560 I got I gotta keep remembering that. Now, Mark, let's talk to 62 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.480 you. Is he there? Is he? There? There? You are 63 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.480 one? So Mark, when you look at the economy and look around, 64 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:06.040 what do you think it sucks right now? The inflation even though inflation isn't 65 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:11.120 over three percent at this point, it doesn't matter. It's never come down 66 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:14.759 from the last two three years. It's crazy how much a loaf of bread 67 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.839 is. What's really mind boggling to me is how much like fast food is 68 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:24.079 now. It's crazy. I don't know how some of these people on that 69 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:30.040 poverty line actually buy anything at the grocery store anymore. And here's the thing 70 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:36.319 about minimum wage. This is where I think we have a mistaken opinion of 71 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.759 minimum wage. Minimum wage. First of all, it should be a pretty 72 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.720 decent wage, but it's getting out of hand to where Mark just hit it 73 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:47.639 on the head. He said, where people who want to buy low cost 74 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:54.680 food and meals can't And that's right. So you're not helping people what you're 75 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:59.839 doing. Minimum wage was never meant to be a career ever. It wasn't 76 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:09.319 meant to sustain families. It wasn't meant to It's meant to get people into 77 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:15.199 the workforce, and it's meant to get them later on making more money. 78 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.120 Do you see minimum wage is just that minimum wage. It's not a living 79 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:24.360 wage. It's a minimum wage. That doesn't mean is should be slave labor. 80 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:28.040 Well, all I'm saying is this minimum wage is meant to get you 81 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:31.759 into the labor force and then The way it should work is you either go 82 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:36.240 on to better things or promote yourself within that company, or make more money 83 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:40.399 and then other people come in and make minimum wage. But the way it 84 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:46.720 is now, instead of people wanting to hire more and keep that minimum wage 85 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.480 going and people advancing, what's happening is they're now thinking of ways to do 86 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:56.360 a way with entry level employees. So you see, I have a saying 87 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.759 socialism time, and that's what means. And I'm going to you talk doct 88 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:05.040 just one second. I have a saying that absolutely positively never fails. Me. 89 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:12.079 Life is its own teacher. You don't have to tell anyone that their 90 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.040 policy is going to succeed or fail. Life will do it. Now, 91 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.360 what we're you gonna say, doctor, Well, I think the minimum wage 92 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:23.439 thing was set up way before we had this influx of immigrants who are taking 93 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:28.120 these minimum wage jobs because it's all that they can do given the current political 94 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.439 situation. They don't even have work VISs of the majority of them. But 95 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.240 that's what's happened, tom, It's the minimum wage is being you know, 96 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:40.360 it's being given to immigrants who have no other choice. BAC. What I'm 97 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:44.399 saying is that hasn't even started to happen yet because they don't even have work 98 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.120 permits. When that kicks in, it's going to get even worse. Uh. 99 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.920 Yeah, you're right. But here's what I want to say about that. 100 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:56.360 I personally and I don't like talking about this a lot, but I 101 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:01.040 need to because I need help. I've adopted families to try to help them 102 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:07.319 assimilate and do it right. And here's the deal. One of them is 103 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.079 working. One. I mean they are working, all of them, but 104 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.160 one of them has a job that the employer could not find anyone. He 105 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:20.920 could not find anyone to show up and to work their ass off. And 106 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:26.759 this person not only shows up but works their ass off. Now, let 107 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.480 me explain this. There's so much red tape to get work from its and 108 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:35.759 visas that I'm not giving names out of anyone. I'm just saying this. 109 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:41.360 They're working and they're getting paid. That's all I'm going to say. And 110 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.720 the way I look at it is if you put out the welcome mat and 111 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.080 you call yourself a sanctuary state and a sanctuary city, even though it's not 112 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.080 officially written anywhere, and you say come one and come all, and then 113 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.559 you put up red tape for everything they have to do, red tape. 114 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:03.039 They told them to beat it. The other day they said, we don't 115 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.080 have anything else, get the hell out of town. Right. That's not 116 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.240 red tape. That's saying, hey, we'll give you a bus ticket, 117 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.879 get the hell out of it. I know. But what I mean is 118 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:16.080 if they want to work. And I'm not talking about taking jobs from other 119 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:20.600 people, because mark the people that I have working right now, I swear 120 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:28.039 to God that the employers could not fill the positions, so they took jobs 121 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.399 from no one from no one, and in fact, before immigrants, they 122 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:39.279 tried to hire people who had you know, I know it's not popular stay 123 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.159 homeless, but people that did were unhoused or whatever you want to say, 124 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:48.919 and those people would be show up drunk and addicted and couldn't work. These 125 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:54.720 Venezuelan so far put in extra time and work their asses off. Now I'm 126 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.799 not saying everyone from Venezuela is wonderful, and I know there are a lot 127 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.519 of criminals from south of the border and north of the border and west and 128 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.879 east. I mean, I'm not talking about that. I'm just saying that 129 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.240 not everyone can be put into one big group just like when I just said 130 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.039 homeless showed up a drunken addicted. Of course, not all of them. 131 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:20.240 But what I'm saying is this from my personal experience in the trenches with people 132 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:28.320 who have come into this country and they got political asylum. These people are 133 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.559 working and they're not taking jobs from anyone. Now that's not I can't say 134 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:37.399 that's one hundred percent everyone. But that idea that oh, they're taking jobs 135 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.039 away, I don't get it. And on that topic, I just want 136 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:46.960 to say this, the one family I do have that is the most advanced. 137 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.799 He now has his license that's being converted. That's a good thing. 138 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:56.120 And he has enough money to register a car and pay for minimum insurance. 139 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:01.879 So I'm looking for a car now. There was a guy on the show 140 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.519 the other day that said he's fixing up a car to donate, and I'm 141 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.120 not going into the car donation business. I'm doing this one at a time. 142 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.519 Mark and I a long time ago started adopting people one at a time 143 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:22.000 who have an ability and a desire to work or to help themselves. We 144 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.000 said we can't help people once they fall off the cliff. They're in a 145 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:30.759 hole and they don't want to get out. But if someone is hanging on, 146 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.200 we try to help them. So this particular a guy, if you 147 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:41.440 I'm trying, I promise you that this car will go to the right person 148 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:46.440 and it doesn't have to be fancy or anything. And he is licensed, 149 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:52.080 so and also helping him do a bank account. And I do want to 150 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.399 say something. They have a tough time even cashing checks from work, and 151 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.679 I noticed them. I'm not going to name banks, but I talk to 152 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:07.039 some banks who helped me get their checks cashed and are helping them open bank 153 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.279 accounts. What we're trying to do is, if they're here, how do 154 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.799 you open a bank account without a social I'd like to know that trick you 155 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.600 can with identification you can open up and then and then yeah, you can 156 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:22.240 open a bank account with How do you pay taxes without a social How do 157 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.879 they pay taxes? Well, because tax are withdrawn and they pay I mean, 158 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:33.480 I don't know, Mark, I don't know. But it's not a 159 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.279 lot of these people. It's not that they don't want to do things right, 160 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.000 it's that there's not a path to doing it right now. I'm not 161 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.559 talking about the argument is they didn't come here in the proper way. I 162 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.759 mean, that's really the argument though, Tom, And that's and that's absolutely 163 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.360 true. They were desperate to get out of that situation. And you're absolutely 164 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:56.440 right they most technically they should have stated, they should have applied, and 165 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:03.200 blah blah blah blah blah. But if you heard some of the circumstances and 166 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:09.159 you had and Addie and Miles were young babies or little kids, toddlers, 167 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.159 you would leave to be under the same circumstances. Here's the deal. You 168 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.559 know, they're already here and Biden let them in. Let's put it that 169 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:20.600 way, Okay, So that argument is long past. And just to put 170 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.519 them on a bus and keep shifting them around from state to state or say 171 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:30.039 go back home. Listen, I know a lot of people hate illegal or 172 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.559 and by the way, this is not technically a legal immigration according to Biden's 173 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:37.200 administration. They're political asylum. So I mean, you work that out with 174 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.720 your president. But in any case, once they're here, what do you 175 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:48.320 do You either help people assimilate and become productive members of society or what we'll 176 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:50.399 talk to say, a lot of people just are upset that they don't know 177 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.679 who they are and where they are. I know. I think that's the 178 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.039 biggest, one of the biggest complaints that I've heard from the people. You 179 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:00.559 can think, and you can think. Look, I'm not saying here, 180 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.679 I'm not I'm not on the radio saying, you know, come one, 181 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.360 come all, let's do it. I'm saying, once our stupid governor and 182 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.519 mayor and president let them in with no plan of how they're going to help 183 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:16.639 them, there can be no wrong helping. I mean, what can go 184 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.919 on. There's a lot of people that get VA benefits and other things that 185 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:26.519 are getting cut. I heard in New York City people people with full disability 186 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:31.080 that's actually get less than people that illegally cross the border, and whether they're 187 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:33.960 a guid away or not, it doesn't even matter. They're getting more than 188 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.840 our own people. That's ridiculous. I mark, that's right, and that's 189 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:46.039 why I want people to be productive so they're not depending on the government. 190 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.240 That's exactly right. They are, and it's ridiculous. And the ideal situation 191 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.799 is once they're here, they're here anyway. Okay, we're not going to 192 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.200 kill them. Okay, we're not gonna and we shouldn't pouse them publicly. 193 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.840 We shouldn't give them government benefit. We can't send him back. So so 194 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:07.480 the ones who are willing to assimilate and work and become productive, that's what 195 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:09.799 this country is built on. I mean, it really is. Whether you're 196 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.480 Republican under Democrat, you got to acknowledge that. But but you know, 197 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.240 I'm not saying, come one, come all, and let's pay benefits and 198 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:24.120 let's let's cut a city workers. No, that's that's your government. That's 199 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.919 your governor Polis, and your mayor. This the mayor is this. This 200 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.080 is the biggest idiot we have ever had for a mayor I have ever seen 201 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:37.000 in my life. The man speaks and makes absolutely no sense. I never 202 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:41.639 thought I would be praying for our previous horror loving mayor. I never thought 203 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.039 I would. I am because compared to what we have now, that man 204 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:56.200 was Einstein. We have more coming up. Go with a sure thing Denver's 205 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.159 Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. 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Hi, 214 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:47.440 I'm just trying to get some help to have maintenance repayments they paid up, 215 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:51.559 so my dog and I to stay and look for another place to stay, 216 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.679 because if I can't take the money up, I have no other means 217 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:00.200 of resources to get up and unstuck in never house. It is apartment building 218 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:07.039 that has been trashed by homeless and stuff. And Mary, Mary, I 219 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:11.359 need to ask a few questions. Okay, so right now, right now, 220 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:17.160 you're living in Denver Housing Authority Housing? Yes? How long have you 221 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:22.559 lived there? I've lived going on eight years of this apartment and five across 222 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.920 the street. Okay, Now are you saying right now you live there? 223 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:33.119 How are you paying your rent? SSI? Okay, you're on SSI. 224 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:40.440 Okay, Now, next question, are you being evicted? No? But 225 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:44.799 that my health has gone that in real bad. Since I'm load over here, 226 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.960 well what does that mean? Well why did you move? Why did 227 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.559 you move across the street? Because I mean I was being put in a 228 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:59.799 wheelchair eight years ago and the apartment I was in was the cause of what 229 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.559 the abatement pee slash now maintenance and payments piece. Okay, okay, Mary. 230 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.400 So now you're across the street. You've been there for a few years. 231 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.079 And what are you calling about today? Do you want to leave? 232 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.960 I need to get out of here, but I cannot leave a corner never 233 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:22.359 Housing Authority property managers Miss is Stephanie Black and so well, hold on, 234 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.359 what do you mean you can't hold on? What do you mean you can't 235 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:33.119 leave? According to DHA and hid law, when you owe and lentil is 236 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.920 paid off, you can't move. And this is the first time. Well 237 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.279 you can't. I can't hold on. Listen, you can't move into another 238 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:49.160 subsidized place until you pay it. You can move all you want, Mary, 239 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.720 Mary, I'm not going to talk to you. If you don't listen, 240 00:18:55.160 --> 00:19:02.799 you absolutely positively can move. They can hold you a prisoner in your 241 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:07.279 apartment if you wanted to move with your daughter, for example, somewhere. 242 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:14.039 They can't prevent you from moving. What they can do is take away your 243 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:19.319 subsidized rent and then so therefore you wouldn't be able to afford it. Now, 244 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.480 what I need to know is why do you owe money? And how 245 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:29.720 much do you owe? I owe two thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars. 246 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.920 Okay, hold on a second, why do you owe that much? 247 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:37.720 It was an abatements See it started across the street. What is an abatement 248 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:45.799 fee? What is it for supposedly shutting my one of my surtified therapists to 249 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:51.799 panion animals? And he did not do? And okay, hold on, 250 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:53.920 I need to know again. I just I don't need a story. Here's 251 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:59.480 what I need. I need a very simple explanation. What is the two 252 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:04.559 thousand? And is it for damages you did? Supposedly what my dog did? 253 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:11.880 Okay? And was that in your last apartment? Yeah? But what 254 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:18.480 kind of damages did they say your dog did? Supposedly? Mister? My 255 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:25.720 channels what they call and it's not plush carpy, it's real send chat carpy. 256 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:29.559 Is that? Okay? Now, who's trying to collect the two grand 257 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.720 Who's trying to collect the money from you. Is it Denver Housing Authority? 258 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:40.519 Okay, now, okay, got it. I want to ask another question. 259 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.599 Are they trying. Are they saying that you can't move if you don't 260 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:52.400 pay this into another subsidized place, or are they saying if you don't pay 261 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.519 it, we are going to evict you. No, I have to pay 262 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.559 it before I'm allowed to move. And this is the first time in But 263 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:03.039 they're not. Hold on, Mary, but they're not going to evict you. 264 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:07.319 I don't like the housing I'm in, Mary, I'm asking a question 265 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:12.960 and I need information. If you don't pay the two thousand dollars, are 266 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:19.319 they going to evict you? No? Good, I don't like what I 267 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:22.200 go through. I know, I get it. I get it. You 268 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.880 don't like where you are. You think it's making you sick, and you 269 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:33.000 want to move somewhere else. Okay, But Mary, what you're asking is 270 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.279 this, Do we have two thousand dollars to pay so you can move? 271 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:42.319 And the answer is we don't. Not under these circumstances, you're not facing 272 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:48.039 eviction or homelessness. But I can do this. We can try to call 273 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:56.440 over there and see if they will abate the abatement, so I do not 274 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.960 sure I have anybody else to go to. That's right, that's why we 275 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:03.200 want to help you. We will marry. I'm not telling you we don't 276 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:06.640 want to help you. I'm telling you it's going to be difficult. I 277 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:11.240 understand you have charges from your dog from the previous place that you disagree with. 278 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:14.480 I think that ship has sailed. I don't think you're going to be 279 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:18.000 able to disagree with it, but I do think you can ask them for 280 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.720 mercy. I mean, I'm sure they can wave fees under special circumstances. 281 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:26.160 But let's just say this. If they did wave the fee, where do 282 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:32.039 you want to move? Courthouse Square that's done by the allies of unfortunes can 283 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:36.400 share and if you move there, would you get subsidized rent? Yes? 284 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.039 Okay, hold on, you know what I'd like to do, Deputy Doc. 285 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:44.559 Since you're there in your allowed mouth today and you chime in on everything, 286 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.279 I want you if you could, if you're not overwhelmed with cases. 287 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:52.559 I'm not sure our case count right now, and if so, Kachina can 288 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.920 give it to someone else. With the loss of stuff. Doc does a 289 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.559 lot of tenant landlord stuff, so I want him to ask Denver Housing Authority 290 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:07.759 if there's a way people in extreme need like this and disabilities, if they 291 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:12.960 can get these charges waived so she can apply for a change doc. What 292 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:15.960 do you think? Let's at least ask can I can't help to make thee 293 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:21.359 three three seven to one three talk. By the way, this is the 294 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:23.759 Troubleshooter Show. Tell people if they need help, they can get it here. 295 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:29.480 Waterpros dot net will help you with your water system. You can do 296 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.480 whole house systems for a little over three grand. You can do at the 297 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:37.440 kitchen sink system for fourteen hundred bucks. Triple filter reverse osmosis. 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Hi Tom Martino here three three seven one 307 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:29.759 three talk by the way seven one three eight two five to five eight eight 308 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:33.960 eight. Heating dot Com has a deal right now they're doing and that's twenty 309 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:37.559 eight dollars. Pick an item in your home for a full diagnostic and you 310 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.000 get the service with it. That's for the toilet, for anything, for 311 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:45.880 any any particular part of your home. It's twenty eight dollars for the call. 312 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:51.119 They credit you when you have the work done. But for the twenty 313 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:55.039 eight it's not just a diagnostic, but it's a basic service in tune. 314 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:59.240 So if your toilet doesn't need anything, really there's no parts, then you 315 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:03.559 simply pay the twenty eight. If it's more than that, they credit you 316 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:08.799 the twenty eight anyway, So it's really cool. Eight eight eight Heating dot 317 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:15.480 Com three oh three seven seven zero two seven seven six. Jeffrey wants to 318 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:21.920 talk about hvac coincidentally. Jeffrey, Hi, what's happening? Well, just 319 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.160 doing hanging out listening to your show. What can we answer for you? 320 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:32.920 Well, I have a furnace that's going out in the house in Longmont. 321 00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:37.160 How do you know what's going out? Well, we keep getting it fixed. 322 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:40.759 And when you get it fixed, what do they say is wrong with 323 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:48.039 it? It's always been something different. It's like, give me an idea. 324 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:52.680 I don't have to repair in front of you. Okay, Now here's 325 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:55.359 what I want to know. Then I want to know a few things. 326 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:59.839 How old is it? I think it's about fifteen years old. It's a 327 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.599 good yeah, okay, so it's a builder grade probably Goodman does make some 328 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:08.480 better stuff. But I assume is this Have you been in the home the 329 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:15.640 whole time my mother in law lives in it. Is it a track home? 330 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.200 It? Yes? Okay, So if it's a track home and it's 331 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.960 been there, is the home fifteen years old or just the furnace? Oh 332 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:32.079 no, the home's built in the early seventies. Oh, so she's had 333 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:37.839 this replaced. This is yeah, this is replaced. We bought the house 334 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.599 about five six years ago, okay, and it had been replaced. Here's 335 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:47.160 what I'm assuming. I'm assuming you have a builder grade low grade eighty percent 336 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:52.240 efficient furnace. No, it's a high grade furnace. What it's a high 337 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:57.880 efficiency yeah? Are you sure they make all kinds of stuff? Man, 338 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:00.599 No, I know that they do. But mark fifteen years ago, it 339 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.880 just didn't seem like they wouldn't be fifteen years ago. I mean, it 340 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:08.519 might be high efficiency for fifteen years ago, but it's sure not high efficiency 341 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:12.720 now. Yeah. Right, anyway, here's what you need. You need 342 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:17.480 an honest assessment from somebody, and we have honest people. Now, I'm 343 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:21.519 just gonna be I'm gonna be straight with you. We don't have cheap out 344 00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:26.839 of the back of an SUV person, Okay, we just don't. We 345 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:32.119 have professionals that will give you a free estimate and then you decide what's the 346 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:36.839 best value. But the houses in Long Lind, Well, what difference does 347 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:41.960 that make? What difference does that make? Well, every company, I 348 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:45.759 think almost every company we have goes to longmand So I don't know what you're 349 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:51.160 I don't know who you called. I haven't called anybody. Well, you've 350 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:55.000 got plumb line, you've got to fix it. You've got Master Rooter HVAC, 351 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.599 you've got eighty eighty go to referral liss dot com and pick a company. 352 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.319 They all will go there. Oh okay, well you know I'm serious. 353 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:07.160 Eight heating in our other house before we sold it. Did you like 354 00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.799 them? Yeah, they did a really good job. Good call them. 355 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.799 I think they go up there. Yeah yeah, Garrett does no doubt. 356 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:19.920 Man. Yeah, so I would do that. I'd like to get a 357 00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:25.000 couple estates. Now that was your question. Wait a minute, was your 358 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:29.599 question who you should call? Or was your question something else? No, 359 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:34.559 we're doing the furnace. Had the guy that put the furnace in didn't put 360 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:41.119 in the air conditioning units? Oh, call people and saying asking them, 361 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:44.839 can you do an air conditions? No one would touch it because hold on 362 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:47.759 plumb line. Now they won't do justin air. But here's what you can 363 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:52.519 do. Plumb Line has a special if right now that if you do a 364 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:59.119 new AC they throw in the furnace for no charge. Okay, and you're 365 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:03.799 probably gonna want to do both, bro Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 366 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.920 we just want to. When we bought the house, the guy says, 367 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:08.240 yeah, you can get an air conditioner. We just didn't do it. 368 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:14.039 It was all set up. Everything good men started making. Good men started 369 00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:18.920 making ninety percent efficient furnaces. I just looked it. Looked it up in 370 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:25.519 nineteen eighty two. Yeah it was, Yeah, but I'll bet you it 371 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:33.079 wasn't. These modulating furnaces now those are I think they're relatively new, variable 372 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.359 speed or actually lit a fire in it too. Yeah, that's a nice 373 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.400 add on. You can do those. The steamers if you really want something. 374 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.559 I can get our house up to fifty percent humidity with a steamer. 375 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.480 It's awesome. Now, Mark, when you say steamer, is that a 376 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.799 heat steamer you talk about ultrasound. No, it's a steamer instead of having 377 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:57.440 like I mean, it's water fed and it hits up the water in this 378 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:03.000 big filter the size of the big balloon, and it creates the steam. 379 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:04.680 You don't see the actual steam come out of the vents, No, of 380 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:11.119 course not. But pump's moisture in massive Yeah, and quick, real quick. 381 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.480 It's probably moisturizing a home. The problem with moisturizing a home if you 382 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.119 do it too much, a lot of your stuff gets used to the moisture 383 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:23.119 and then dries out and it can actually do like for pianos and certain things. 384 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.640 It can. It's really a weird situation. What happens when you feed 385 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.119 it moisture and it never had it. If you did that all the time 386 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:34.000 and it was used to it and seasoned to it, you don't have that 387 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:38.440 problem. But what they used to say with pianos, if it was once 388 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:42.400 moisturized, you always have to moisturize. If it's dry, keep it dry. 389 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:47.000 It's weird. But anyway, that was for soundboards on pianos, but 390 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.720 that went for fine furniture as well, which I don't think there is fine 391 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:52.440 furniture anymore. I don't think. I mean, I think a few people 392 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.039 can ride done. No, no, But I don't think people buy big, 393 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.359 heavy, so called fine furniture anymore. I don't see it even in 394 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:07.240 the nicest homes. Jeffrey. The deal is you're not going to get someone 395 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.440 to marry a furnace to an ac to an old furnace, and so they 396 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.680 do. There's plenty of good deals though, whether you want high efficiency or 397 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:26.920 regular. At our referral list dot com we have more coming up. Go 398 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:30.319 with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay 399 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:37.720 a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance check up free no obligation. 400 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:42.200 In comparison, call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of 401 00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.799 insurance companies find out now three all three seven to seven to one. Help 402 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.759 you'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate man 403 00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:55.319 dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero 404 00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:02.000 sixteen twenty two. Hey, I you know, I have mixed feelings about 405 00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:10.119 AI. In some cases, it's totally inaccurate and tries to indoctor nate you. 406 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.920 Honest to God, no matter what they say, it is left leaning 407 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:20.240 and woke. However, it's an invaluable tool for other things. I'm using 408 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:25.279 it right now for my securities information and investments because I'm studying for a test, 409 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.480 and also I use it when I'm on the show and different things. 410 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.839 I just put in a question about Mark Major and we'll go back to it. 411 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:40.279 All I said was to chat GPT, what can you tell me about 412 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:44.839 Mark Major? M A G E R. Now I swear to God that 413 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.640 and this is a true, honest to God, do it yourself on If 414 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:52.279 you guys have chat GPT, would you go on and put that in that 415 00:32:52.400 --> 00:33:00.119 same exact question. What can you tell me about Mark Major A G E 416 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:07.559 R. And then and Mark is with a C M A R c M 417 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.079 A G E R. Darryl, what's going on with you? Hello, 418 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:15.359 Darryl talking to me? Yes, sir, I'm talking to you. To 419 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:21.039 me, I'm talking to you. Hey, Tom, I just wanted to 420 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:25.200 call and thank you guys. It's the car day. I had a vehicle 421 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:30.480 that was totaled. And you know, of course, the insurance company sends 422 00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.799 you a number and you say, okay, well I guess I take that 423 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.839 number. But after talking to you guys on the show there you mentioned a 424 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:45.200 firm called Petty Details. We'll take a look at that and if it looks 425 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:49.519 like they're offering you a fair amount, they say, okay, looks like 426 00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.640 they're offering you a fair amount, and you go about your merry way, 427 00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:54.880 no charge, no no problem, which is really a very nice service. 428 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:59.240 However, in my case, they said, you know, it looks like 429 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:00.440 they're coming in little bit low, and I think we can get you some 430 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.559 more money. Uh So we've paid a fee. I think it was about 431 00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.360 five hundred bucks or something like that. But it was certainly well working man 432 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:13.760 up in metting another that is so cool, Man petty details and they're on 433 00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:16.599 our referral list at referral us dot com. Thank you very much. Man, 434 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:20.320 I I'm glad. I'm glad they came through for you. We have 435 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.519 more coming up on The Troubleshooter Show. Get your calls in at three oh 436 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:27.599 three Martino three oh three six two seven eighty four sixty six more coming right 437 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:37.119 up. Go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. 438 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:45.079 You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance check up 439 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:49.519 free, no obligation. In comparison, call Compass Insurance paying too much your 440 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.639 coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three oh three seven to seven 441 00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:57.440 to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand 442 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.840 the real Estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three oh 443 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:13.920 three nine two zero sixteen twenty two Yeah, ripped top new need advice? 444 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:19.480 Who you don't have? You? Come run in sus fast as you can. 445 00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:27.840 Shooter's gonna help coming. Man Dix is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom 446 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:32.880 Martino, Hi Tom, Martino here three oh three seven one three talk three 447 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:37.599 oh three seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the show. 448 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:40.000 Here to help you solve your problems, answer your questions, take your complaints. 449 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:44.320 This hour brought to you by Deal Home Loans. They're still doing home 450 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.920 loans, by the way, and they do the interest rate guarantee the only 451 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.760 ones, so if rates go down, you're gonna get refinance free of charge. 452 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:58.639 Three oh three eight sixty seven seven thousand. Okay, So, Connie, 453 00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:01.760 I'm trying to look up your original call. You had an issue with 454 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:05.760 your townhome development. What was going what was going on? To help me 455 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.119 here? Did you use the name Connie when you called in last time? 456 00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:14.039 No, it's Canswilo. That's what I thought. I can't find Okay, 457 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.719 so tell me what's going on. Okay. I received, I talked to 458 00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:22.280 their lawyer. They came back and they wanted ninety three dollars from me to 459 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.119 pay. Now, what was the original dispute. I'm trying to figure that 460 00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:31.920 out again. I'm sorry. It was where I did landscaping, and oh, 461 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:36.760 that's right, that's right. I wanted to talk about that for people. 462 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:38.840 What happened was you used to landscape. They used to let you. 463 00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:43.599 It was kind of loosey goosey. They let you landscape right near your place 464 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.800 there in front of it, and in exchange they would give you a credit 465 00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:50.679 on some fees. And then the new board took over and said you're not 466 00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.199 going to do that anymore, and kind of you know, they were not 467 00:36:53.400 --> 00:37:00.559 nice about it. So you not only that they find you, but didn't 468 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:06.159 you stop when they asked you to stop? Yes, but but they still 469 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:10.880 went on. Yeah, there's a whole gray matter here, and there's they 470 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:14.920 were not very nice. They could have just let you go, but they 471 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:21.000 How much did they find you at the very end is ninety three hundred dollars? 472 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:23.880 God, I mean, but really, why did they Why did they 473 00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:30.400 find you so much? Because they said I didn't cease and desist on the 474 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:36.800 first orders. It went up to five point fifty and the first three the 475 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:42.639 accusations and the herring in the beginning were totally false. I didn't do any 476 00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.440 of what they accused me. And then all of a sudden then they had 477 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:51.199 these where I didn't insist and to cease with doing work out there. I 478 00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.320 kept some pine needles. Yeah, So then they brought in another fine and 479 00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.880 I was like, you guys, saw you guys. You know, the 480 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.800 the problem is is I wasn't out there just doing it. Then they went 481 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:07.039 on to say that I watered the bush, when in fact, they asked 482 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:12.480 people in that meeting to please water bushes to do that. Access to a 483 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.960 host through the drought last summer. Yeah, you know, this has been 484 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:21.280 going on since last June. And so that was it. Then they came 485 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:23.039 back and they wanted X amount of dollars from me, and I tried to 486 00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:28.679 go. We went negotiated back and forth, and then they you know, 487 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:34.320 they wanted the highest that god at the end was fifty five hundred. And 488 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:39.639 I told you, I told you to try try to negotiate a settlement and 489 00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:44.039 get it over with because it's going to keep going up every time the attorney 490 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.880 gets involved. What finally happened? What are you calling about today? Okay? 491 00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:52.960 Today I'm calling about Okay. So we had the mediation and they I 492 00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:58.679 offered them money. They refused it. I turned around and I called their 493 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.559 lawyer again and so I could give them fourteen dollars. They refuse that. 494 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.320 I see goes, You're you're going to have to go higher. I said, 495 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.880 look, I can do three thousand dollars. I've been waiting to hear 496 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.239 from them. This is why the calls coming into you. I received a 497 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.559 letter yesterday in the mail. Now they're studying it for a court trial. 498 00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:24.800 They're going to foreclothes on your house. Huh, they're going to take your 499 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:32.920 house. I want to get what. Yeah, that's why they're they're suing 500 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:39.079 that. It's called foreclosure. That's what it is. That doesn't what the 501 00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:42.920 paper reads or anything. Okay, could you do me a favor and send 502 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.760 us that paper. I want to get our hoa guy on. What does 503 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:49.639 the paper say? Dear? Read that for me? Oh okay, let 504 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:53.280 me grab it. You just hold on a second. I'm going to come 505 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.039 back to you, and we're also going to get our guy on. So 506 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.559 hold on all right. Just don't don't go anywhere, okay. Kevin Caulkin 507 00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:09.000 Rod Greer Car day today. Unused cars yet? Oh okay, you're right. 508 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:13.360 I should have looked at the mono Trump. So sorry, Kevin. 509 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:19.519 On timing change, I'm getting calls about timing not necessarily change belts. Okay. 510 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:25.639 So many people now are buying cars with mileage Okay they are What do 511 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:30.159 you do? I recommend? First of all, there are some cars that 512 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:35.599 don't require changing. There are some cars that do. All belts require a 513 00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.719 change at some point, but not all change. Is that right? That's 514 00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:43.119 correct? But some change? Do they have a lifelong Do they have a 515 00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:45.880 lifetime limit? Some of them, like chain will last as long as the 516 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:51.039 edgine lasts. So when you have a chain, there is no interval. 517 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:54.440 No, But with a belt there is an interval, definitely, yes. 518 00:40:54.840 --> 00:41:01.239 But with a belt you can have an interferre engine or a non interference engines. 519 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:06.239 Right, most are interference engines. Okay, most so if you have 520 00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:10.039 a belt, and if you buy a car with high mileage, it's imperative 521 00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.079 that you know, yeah about this? Yeah, at least somebody wanted somebody 522 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:19.239 ask me what do I do? In other words, what do they do? 523 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.199 I mean? What if they don't know, Well, you can look 524 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.320 and you can tell. Can you tell by looking? Well, if it's 525 00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:30.320 new, you can tell, I mean, and if it's really really deteriorating, 526 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.559 you can tell that in between is how huge? You can actually look 527 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:37.000 at the timing belt and tell if it's wearing out. You can on both 528 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:39.599 extremes. When it's in the middle, you can't, so you almost have 529 00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:45.039 to change it to be safe. If there is no record, do you 530 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:50.800 look up the model and see what is recommended and if it's over that you 531 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:53.519 recommend them doing it. Yes, if we can't determine you know that it 532 00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:57.880 definitely needs to be done or it's definitely good, then we would recommend they 533 00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.880 change. Now is it safe to say all? Then timing belts have intervals, 534 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:07.280 absolutely okay. And if you don't hit that interval and you have an 535 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.719 interference engine and explain what's can explain, you can go the extreme. I 536 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:13.920 mean what happens is a piston when a belt breaks, the piston will hit 537 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.639 the open valve, so as the piston comes up because the pistons are moving 538 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:21.679 and the valves are not when the belt breaks, so you can you know 539 00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:25.119 destroy you you can ruin the entire motor at the extreme, I've seen it 540 00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:29.039 where they break the valves off and get into the motor and destroy it, 541 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.199 or you can you know, ruin the head. Either way, it's very 542 00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:36.360 expensive, A lot cheaper detains a belt than the head or a motor. 543 00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:40.360 How much does it cost to do though? At a timing belt. You 544 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:45.719 know, most cars are anywhere between say eight and fourteen hundred something in that 545 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:49.239 range. That includes a water pump, pulleys, everything. You gotta do 546 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:54.639 it all. Somebody else wants to know if let me see, I can't. 547 00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:58.480 I can't make up what they're actually trying to say. And you guys 548 00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:05.320 can text me five seven seventy three nine on the on the belt. Nope, 549 00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:07.079 I can't. No, that's not it's about a timing chain. Never 550 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.000 mind. I'll read that later because it has something to do with what we're 551 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:14.800 talking about. But I don't have time to read through all the it's a 552 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:16.920 really long paragraph, so I'll come back to you. Three l three seven 553 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:22.480 one three talks seven to one three eight two. Now listen on on these 554 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:27.480 timing belts. By the way, we're talking about an interference mens, meaning 555 00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:31.039 it has to be timed perfectly or things crash into each other inside the engine 556 00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:39.519 and it's catastrophic. So it's really really important that you know that. And 557 00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:45.840 again that is something that when you buy used car. I think the I 558 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:51.800 think the earliest interval is probably sixty thousand miles, right, yeah, somewhere 559 00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:55.039 sixty seventy thousand yep, and then they go up to ninety five thousand. 560 00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:58.199 Right now, I've seen them up to ninety five to one hundred. Yeah, 561 00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.960 okay three three seven one, three eight two five y five. 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She said, they're suing her. 578 00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:49.159 Now, this thing got way out of hand, way way out of hand 579 00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:53.599 for just landscaping her patch. And then she stopped, she said, and 580 00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:59.840 she says that they do they have proof that you you know, they're finding 581 00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:05.679 you do they have proof that you kept doing it? They I've never seen 582 00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:09.239 any proof at all of anything. What do you say they falsely accused you 583 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:14.559 of? Now, for those listening, Connie's being sued by her town home. 584 00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:17.440 What basically she used to do was landscape a little swath outside her place. 585 00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:23.760 Yeah, and they told her to stop. Is that it in a 586 00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:31.719 nutshell? Yeah? And you stopped? Yeah? Yeah? Well and then 587 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:35.760 what as I stated, yeah, in the beginning, they took me to 588 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:44.880 that hearing and they accuse me of killing the grass by raking it, harassing 589 00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:46.840 one of the people that I've known here for five years as a friend, 590 00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:52.239 by harassing her with phone calls. And the third one was that I fertilized 591 00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:58.239 the grass out front. I did not do any of those three things. 592 00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:02.559 Yeah, none, Okay. Then they started with the with the paper coming 593 00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:07.199 saying I didn't see some just this. I raked up some pine needles. 594 00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:10.800 I did break up some pine needles. I told Jane about it. Who's 595 00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:15.679 the VP? And by raking the pine needles? Where did the find come 596 00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:21.400 from? The fine came from the first events what they told me at that 597 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:25.599 hearing, And then they just kept adding to it, Yeah, adding to 598 00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:31.199 it. When did you first When did you first call us? Oh? 599 00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:37.239 God, it's probably October. Yeah, that's after I went to that hearing 600 00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:45.440 October. Gosh, this is sad. This is sad. No, I'm 601 00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:49.599 serious. I really do feel for you this. And what I want to 602 00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:52.920 know is what does the law I asked you to get that lawsuit? What 603 00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:55.159 does it actually say? I mean, how much? How much is it? 604 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.599 Right now? What did they what do they want from you? The 605 00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:06.960 last number they wanted from me was ninety three hundred for his lawyer costs plus 606 00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.199 wait wait wait but in addition to the lawyer Wait a minute, plus, 607 00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.679 they want the original fine? What was the original fine? Well, it 608 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:20.440 went up to five point fifty. So the most it ever got was five 609 00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:27.280 hundred and fifty dollars, and then it went up from there to I'm trying 610 00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:30.039 to think there was another number of the then it went to fifty five hundred, 611 00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:37.239 and then I just it just kept going up and up and up because 612 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:43.119 I wouldn't pay, you know, we just kept negotiating back and forth and 613 00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:46.880 each time. So the last one is ninety three hundred dollars. Yeah, 614 00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:52.880 for their lawyer fees. He told me that on phone. Ninety three hundred 615 00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.599 dollars. He goes, Yeah, that's my lawyer fee. I can't do 616 00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:01.719 that. That's a I can offer them. I said, all offer them 617 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:06.199 fourteen hundreds. You know, that's what I can do. Okay, But 618 00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:12.920 hold on a second, Hold on a second. This is this is terrible. 619 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:15.800 May I ask you something. How much do you owe your house right 620 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:21.960 now? I'm probably all about forty two? And what is it worth? 621 00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:30.440 What is it worth? Probably four hundred? How how old are you unch 622 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:40.920 seventy one? And and what's your interest rate? Four here. I you 623 00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.360 may not like this, but I'm going to tell you something right now. 624 00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:51.840 You're going to the lawsuit. They're gonna win, Okay, I think they're 625 00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:53.719 gonna win. You're gonna have to hire an attorney. You can't do this 626 00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:57.960 alone because even if you're in the right, and I think you are, 627 00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:00.840 and I think if you pushed him, they couldn't prove. But here's the 628 00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:07.840 problem. If you if you fight them, you have to hire an attorney, 629 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.679 which is going to cost you probably nine to ten grand. Okay, 630 00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:20.960 right, so even if you win, you break even. So I don't 631 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:25.679 know what I think what you need to do is pay it first, get 632 00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:31.440 it off the books, keep it from accruing. Because every time, every 633 00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:36.840 single time, like with this lawsuit, how much is the lawsuit asking for 634 00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:42.320 right now, right now? Stands up? Ninety three hundred in that letter? 635 00:50:42.599 --> 00:50:45.239 Wait, in that letter, it's ninety three hundred. He didn't give 636 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:50.880 me a there's nothing that all this letter says. It's a notice. Read 637 00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:58.239 it that court trial by telephone when, and it says to do please take 638 00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:04.760 notice that plaintiff Chambers Townhouse Association will telephone the clerk of a Wrapo County Court 639 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:10.960 on Tuesday, April eleventh, twenty two am, or as soon thereafter as 640 00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:15.760 counsel can be heard, to set the matter for a half day court trial. 641 00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:22.519 You're gonna have a huge lean on that house. Yeah, here's what 642 00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:27.039 I would do I would get. I know you're not gonna like to hear 643 00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:30.639 this, but I think it's an excellent idea. You you right now could 644 00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:36.159 easily, easily, easily, if your town home is worth four hundred, 645 00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:42.719 you could easily get a reverse mortgage easily, a cheap one, a little 646 00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:47.599 one to pay off the mortgage you have and pay off that lean. Once 647 00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:52.159 you do that, I want you to know something you do. You're seventy 648 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:57.239 something years old. You never have to make a payment on that loan. 649 00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:00.559 You just have to pay for your ease. And she could get one that 650 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:04.440 quick because if she no, I think if they know she's getting one, 651 00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.840 yeah, I think I would call them for her. But if she can 652 00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.639 get a reverse loan, and I can hook you up with the guy to 653 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:16.519 do it, and that reverse loan, I don't know if you have any 654 00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:20.599 other bills? Are you in? Like, do you have any other bills 655 00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:27.079 or problems with money right now? Okay, if you want, you can 656 00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:34.159 probably at your age you can probably get I know for sure you can get 657 00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:39.599 let's say one hundred and sixty thousand. You don't want that much. But 658 00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:45.159 no, Now hold on, but you can get Listen, this is really 659 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:50.880 important. You can get a line of credit. I would get a maximum 660 00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:54.960 line of credit. Now there's a reason I'm telling you this. On that 661 00:52:55.199 --> 00:53:00.119 maximum line of credit, that doesn't mean you pay interest on it. You 662 00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:06.719 do not. You only pay on what you take. So your immediate draw 663 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:08.480 on your line of credit, let's say you have a line of credit of 664 00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:14.519 one hundred and sixty thousand. Let's just say that you would pay your forty 665 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.920 one thousand dollars off on your mortgage. Now you have no more mortgage payment, 666 00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:23.079 and you would pay the lean on the town home done. Now, 667 00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:30.519 once that's done, that other money in there, which would be about let's 668 00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:34.079 just say one hundred thousand you got left. You'll have a little more than 669 00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:37.039 that, but let's say you have one hundred thousand left. That's a line 670 00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.079 of credit. You don't pay a dime to have that on your home. 671 00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:45.360 But it's there for an emergency. So if you ever run into another problem, 672 00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:51.119 you write a check. It's literally that easy. Now here's the other 673 00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:53.760 thing, and you got to keep this in mind. Where it benefits you 674 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:59.920 is once you put a reverse loan on that house. Even if you own 675 00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:05.360 have a line of credit of one fifty or one sixty, it shows as 676 00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:10.480 a one hundred twenty five percent lean on your property. Do you know what 677 00:54:10.599 --> 00:54:15.719 that means? Yeah? I do. Yeah. So that means that when 678 00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:22.639 someone including Hoa's, look at your property, what do they say, Yeah, 679 00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:30.079 just already lean. They see no leg they no uh equity. So 680 00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:35.639 if somebody wants to come after you, there's nothing there. It's I think 681 00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:38.320 it's brilliant. Now listen, I'm serious when I tell you this. If 682 00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:42.880 you want one of our people on the referral list to talk to you about 683 00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:45.039 this, I'm not trying to force you into this. I'm saying you're going 684 00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:52.159 to lose your home. No, oh have you? Do you? Is 685 00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:57.400 there a reason you wouldn't do a reverse loan? I can see no disadvantage 686 00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:00.920 to you unless you have an air You wanted to leave all of this equity 687 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.760 to. That's who I wanted to leave it to. With my family, 688 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:08.400 my daughter. You still can because here's why. Let me explain this. 689 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:12.440 You're not going to have anything to leave to her if they take your home. 690 00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:15.119 Do you have any other way to get your ninety three hundred bucks. 691 00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:20.320 Yes I do, Oh you do? How? Yes, we do? 692 00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:28.320 How I was saving? Then then you can do that. But you know 693 00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.320 what a reverse loan. Now, I'm not like I said, if you 694 00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:35.599 don't need it, don't do it. But a reverse loan would still here's 695 00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:39.440 what would happen. The interest for a crew agranst your house and if you 696 00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:43.840 live a long, long, long, long time and it went beyond the 697 00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:45.840 value of your home, then you would have nothing to leave your daughter, 698 00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:49.760 But she wouldn't be left with debt either. No one would ever be left 699 00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:52.960 with debt. But if the house continues to a praise and you die at 700 00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:57.559 a normal age, she can pay off the loan and sell it. But 701 00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:00.239 I'm not telling you to do it. If you don't want to do it, 702 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:04.519 don't do it. But you got to pay this lean. I'm telling 703 00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.199 you that right now. You got to pay it. You can fight it 704 00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:12.800 after you pay it. Do you understand that? Okay, as long as 705 00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.239 you don't sign any great long settlement saying you'll never come back after them for 706 00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:20.639 it, But you need to make a settlement. I swear to God you're 707 00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:23.199 in trouble if you don't make a settlement. And it would even be worth 708 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:30.679 getting Brad O'Brien O'Brien legal services to help you write up the settlement and make 709 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.119 them payment, even if he costs you a thousand bucks. I swear to 710 00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:37.679 God, you need to get this done, dear. Then then then then 711 00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:44.360 then then we can talk about maybe going back after them. But at least 712 00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:47.880 it's not going to keep ticking up. Do you understand that? Right? 713 00:56:49.320 --> 00:56:54.159 I understand, and I just I just I am bout mentally all right, 714 00:56:54.719 --> 00:57:01.039 I'm toring my gill. I believe you, but this is not going to 715 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:06.480 get better. I know it is, And I just don't know why they 716 00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:13.079 don't stop. It's because they are, because they're heartless a holes. What 717 00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:19.800 can I tell you? Yeah, I look at I do believe they're exaggerating. 718 00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:22.519 And there's no way you did that much harm that these people had to 719 00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:28.480 find you that much money. But the first fine was how much didn't walk 720 00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:31.400 It was like twenty five, and then it went to fifty. Then it 721 00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:37.800 went to two fifty or five fifty. Yeah, now it's ten thousand dollars. 722 00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:43.559 All right, here's here's what we'll do. Hold on if olslaw dot 723 00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:47.159 Com give her the number for Brad O'Brien. You let us know if you 724 00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:51.880 want to do her reverse loan and we'll send you over to Mark Massey. 725 00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:54.840 You let us know, and that's all we can do right now. I'm 726 00:57:54.920 --> 00:57:59.800 sorry. Three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three 727 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:12.199 eight two five five. Go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel Roofing 728 00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:17.760 dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an 729 00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:23.639 insurance check up free no obligation comparison call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage 730 00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:28.840 at dozens of insurance companies find out now three oh three seven seven one help. 731 00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:31.599 You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate 732 00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:36.920 Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance. Three oh three nine 733 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:49.159 two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martina here, three oh three seven 734 00:58:49.239 --> 00:58:53.719 one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the show. 735 00:58:54.840 --> 00:59:00.079 You know when you hear that going on with Hoa's, once the fine 736 00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:05.800 starts, it can be one hundred bucks. We've had people start out with 737 00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:15.199 one hundred dollars and end up at twenty thousand. Hoa's don't care management companies 738 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:23.280 don't care why. They simply add the fees to what you owe. And 739 00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:29.880 as soon as you start fighting, you're looking at three grand, then five, 740 00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:35.039 and in this case, near ten, she will lose her town home. 741 00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:37.000 I still want to talk when we can get a hold of them, 742 00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:46.360 stand the hoa man. What I'd like to do is get an idea as 743 00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:50.760 to what people can do or if there are any changes in the law on 744 00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:55.519 that foreclosure thing. I thought there were some changes on that three three seven 745 00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:59.320 to one to three talk is our number? Or three oh three Martino? 746 00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:04.320 Three two five five, I mean, excuse me, three oh three us 747 01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:08.920 Oh never mind eight four sixty six, three oh three sixty seven eighty four 748 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:16.400 sixty six, Catherine, what's happening in a brand new senior living apartment? 749 01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:20.760 Oh it's pretty way. It's a brand new building or brand new to you 750 01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:25.119 in a brand new building? Oh cool? How long you've been in there? 751 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:32.760 Well, when I moved in two weeks December the twenty second, I 752 01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:37.920 mean the fourteenth, and two weeks later I got blooded out and I was 753 01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:43.119 displaced. After that, Wait a minute, and then you moved into a 754 01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:46.960 brand new building December fourteenth and been displaced since then or just for a few 755 01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:53.800 weeks after No, it was three months after I moved in I got displaced 756 01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:59.440 out. Okay, you were displaced. Okay, you were displaced in December? 757 01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:05.719 Yes, okay, But what has happened here is since I've been here 758 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:09.280 moved back in, I kept smelling a strange odor coming through the vent. 759 01:01:09.400 --> 01:01:20.480 When did you move back in dere March of twenty three? Okay? And 760 01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:27.679 what caused the flooding? They didn't have the installation. It was something had 761 01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:32.000 something to do with the sprinkless system and that flooded the hole. So you 762 01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:37.559 just moved back I get you. So you just moved back in March. 763 01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:43.360 And what's going on now? I keep getting the strange oldor coming through the 764 01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:46.320 vent? What kind of odor? Is it? Like a musty water odor? 765 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:52.480 Deer, It's not a musty water older. It's more like I smelt 766 01:01:52.639 --> 01:02:00.639 like a urine smell. Oh and now I've got now listen, yello, 767 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:04.599 how many how many units are there? Are there? I mean obviously other 768 01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:08.400 people were also put out? Right, Oh yeah, it was about ten 769 01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:14.119 of us. Did you ask any of your neighbors if they have the same 770 01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:21.880 problem? No one has this problem. But me, Now, I'm on 771 01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:25.000 the ground floor, and is it coming out of the heating and air vents 772 01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:30.480 or is it the carpet or where is it? I'm coming from behind the 773 01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:37.039 backslash of my wall in the kitchen. How do you know that? Because 774 01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:42.159 you could see it, and I had someone pure maintenance come out and they 775 01:02:43.039 --> 01:02:47.920 effected. But they want me to have the air vested now because I had 776 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:55.400 been getting sick behind this situation. And I still I clean it and it 777 01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.320 comes right back. What do you mean? What what do you clean? 778 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:06.079 Please? I clean the back of the wall where the glittery arkles are on 779 01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:10.440 my h in the kitchen. Now, people come in, when these people, 780 01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:15.960 did any of maintenance men or maintenance women ever come in and ever smell 781 01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:22.320 or or witness it. They're not gonna I'm gonna say this. The manager 782 01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:30.440 has already labeled me as a negative person. But did they Is the smell 783 01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:37.880 only in your kitchen? In my whole unit? Okay? And it's all 784 01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:43.400 over my unit's during the night time. Listen when you say the vent, 785 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:47.079 is there one vent that's coming out of Oh, it's coming through all of 786 01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:52.679 the events in my apartment. Now, where is don't give me your exact 787 01:03:52.719 --> 01:04:00.519 address. Where are you located. I'm in Centennial. I would love somebody 788 01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:06.679 to see if they smell what you smell, and then we can and then 789 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:11.960 we could tell the management. Listen, this is a problem. No one 790 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:16.000 else smells it though, right, Oh, so far they haven't they? 791 01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:19.840 Well you wait, let me ask you something about your heating and air system. 792 01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:24.400 Does each unit have its own heating and air system? Or is it 793 01:04:24.519 --> 01:04:30.920 centralized and each unit has their own? Did yours get replaced with the flood? 794 01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:39.239 I don't know what they did with that. Is this a rental or 795 01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:45.440 an ownership? This is a oh living No, I get it, I 796 01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:55.880 get it. So is it subsidized? Yes? So they say to you, 797 01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.880 they don't. They don't believe you. In other words, but I'm 798 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:09.679 having some I thinks that's happening in my unit. Is like the laundry room, 799 01:05:11.719 --> 01:05:16.719 part of the frame of the door is getting chipped. Yeah, water 800 01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:20.159 Listen. We're not going to get into all of that, but I will 801 01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:27.800 first. I want to take care of the most serious problem, and that 802 01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:33.159 is this smell. If it is really there, right, Okay, So 803 01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:38.960 I'm going to tell you something. We need to find somebody, one of 804 01:05:39.039 --> 01:05:43.599 our deputies to go there and check it out. I'm serious, wearing Centennial. 805 01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:47.920 Give me some cross streets in Centennial. I'm off a Parker and a 806 01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:53.400 close to Parker and a rappah hole road. That's really you know what, 807 01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:59.400 that's really accessible. Which one of our deputies can do that, or maybe 808 01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:04.000 Mark can do go over and smell the urine. They'll smell the see if 809 01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:06.639 there's an odor coming out of the vents and film it, you know, 810 01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:13.159 tape it. I don't know. I think it would be cool are on 811 01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:17.320 the spot reports, but I would I go over there a lot. I'll 812 01:06:17.360 --> 01:06:21.960 head over. I was thinking, yeah, you know what, let's get 813 01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:26.719 the address. I'll leave now. Oh really, okay, if you want 814 01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:29.559 to do that now, Catherine hold on, get off the air and give 815 01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:32.079 Kachina your addres. Let's see what Mark can find out. I really would 816 01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:34.400 want to figure I want to try to figure this out. We got more 817 01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:45.199 coming right up. Go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel roofing dot 818 01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:51.960 com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance 819 01:06:53.079 --> 01:06:57.320 check up free, no obligation. In comparison, call Compass Insurance pay too 820 01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:00.280 much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies. Find out now three all three 821 01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:04.199 seven seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose 822 01:07:04.239 --> 01:07:09.639 Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance 823 01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:17.559 three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martina here, 824 01:07:18.159 --> 01:07:25.679 you're a troubleshooter, solving problems, answering questions, taking complaints. What's going 825 01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:30.519 on, Deputy chopper Man? Deputy chopper is uh is here with some follow 826 01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:38.719 ups? Now that Bridgestone prom time ready? What's that? Chopper? Do 827 01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:42.159 you have your diner ready? Uh? Oh, I'm gonna get it ready 828 01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:47.639 right now. I got to pull it out one now as I had this. 829 01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:53.960 It's the guy that his wheel fell off from Firestone. Oh my god? 830 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:56.920 Oh okay, what was his first name? Chopper? I always need 831 01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:03.320 the first name, Brian. Now listen, I remember that he had some 832 01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:11.119 work done and then right after that his will go with a sure thing Denver's 833 01:08:11.199 --> 01:08:15.519 Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. 834 01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:23.600 Time for an insurance check up, free no obligation comparison call Compass insurance 835 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:27.720 paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies. Find out now three 836 01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:30.600 oh three seven seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when 837 01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:34.359 you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot com to list your home with 838 01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:47.439 Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Ripped you need 839 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:57.640 so you don't have to run anxiousness as we can. Shoot's gonna help come 840 01:08:58.239 --> 01:09:05.840 Man six is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino, Hi Tom Martino here 841 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:12.359 three oh three seven one three talk three O three seven one three eight two 842 01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:15.600 five five, Welcome to the show. Okay, today is car Friday. 843 01:09:15.840 --> 01:09:19.680 As we like to say, you can call in about anything though, but 844 01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:23.479 if you have a car problem, give us a call. I do have 845 01:09:23.560 --> 01:09:26.720 a few texts I will get to. You can text me at five seven 846 01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:30.920 seven three nine. You can also and put Tom in that message so I 847 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.760 know it's yours. And then you can also, by the way, get 848 01:09:32.800 --> 01:09:38.279 through to us in any number of ways. You can message us on Facebook, 849 01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:45.880 SU's will Brett grab that. You can also get us on YouTube and 850 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:49.520 message us there, or on next door, or on LinkedIn or any Yeah, 851 01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:53.720 those are the primary ones. And then three oh three Martino. You 852 01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:57.560 can call twenty four seven, three oh three six two seven eight four sixty 853 01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:01.520 six or three oh three seven one three talk seven to one three eight two 854 01:10:01.640 --> 01:10:08.960 five five. Speaking of cars, we have Deputy Chopper who worked on a 855 01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:15.479 deal where a guy went to Bridgestone or no Firestone. I thought it was 856 01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:23.520 which one was a Chopper, wasn't it Firestone? And uh Bridgestone olds Firestone? 857 01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:27.680 Oh, I didn't know that anyway, he bought four times, he 858 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:35.039 bought far tires and one went flat. He went to get that replaced and 859 01:10:35.159 --> 01:10:41.319 the same day the tire the wheel fell off, the hub and disc. 860 01:10:41.439 --> 01:10:44.720 I mean, it was terrible, did a lot of damage. They took 861 01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:48.319 responsibility, but it took a lot of nudging. Finally he got a settlement 862 01:10:48.479 --> 01:10:56.399 for his car. But or they offered a settlement, But how much is 863 01:10:56.520 --> 01:11:01.560 that? They only offer go ahead? They at first they only offered thirty 864 01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:06.760 nine hundreds. But I told him, hey asked for the car and they 865 01:11:08.560 --> 01:11:15.359 they did it for the same price. Yeah, he got thirty nine hundred 866 01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:18.920 and the car and he's going to have the car fixed because that's his baby. 867 01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:26.920 Do you think he can fix it. For that, I don't know. 868 01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:31.439 You have to ask Kevin. I this yeah, unfortunate. Well, 869 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:35.680 let's put it this way. It's one of those things that, yeah, 870 01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:39.039 if you can't fix it, he can't fix it. And they certainly don't 871 01:11:39.079 --> 01:11:42.680 owe anything more than the value. But what do you think, Kevin? 872 01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:45.479 And what do you guys? What do you think? Rodney JFR cars? 873 01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:48.920 Rodney's a car salesman, cars dealer. What was that? Wait, super 874 01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:55.000 root. It's an O nine Forster with one hundred and sixty thousand miles and 875 01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:58.079 I think that car's probably worth, you know, just between eight seven, 876 01:11:58.119 --> 01:12:00.000 eight nine thousand dollars, So I don't know why he only got three grand 877 01:12:00.039 --> 01:12:03.720 for it. Are you kidding me? It's a little bit less than that, 878 01:12:04.119 --> 01:12:09.159 but it's still a super rue and that's probably what you're thinking of. 879 01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:12.880 I think they hold their value. They're good cars, but it's probably you 880 01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:17.439 know, under it's probably about seven thousand dollars, But he said one hundred 881 01:12:17.439 --> 01:12:20.319 and thirty eight thousand miles out one hundred and sixty oh, one hundred and 882 01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:26.319 sixty that's what I think. That still, so it's definitely even though that 883 01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:30.319 he got to keep the salvage. Let's say the salvage is worth two grand, 884 01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:34.279 and he got another thirty one or thirty something hundred, right, tarre 885 01:12:34.920 --> 01:12:41.680 I wrote it down a thirty nine hundred, so thirty nine forty nine fifty 886 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:47.359 nine, so he's right out about probably six thousand. Don't you think that 887 01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:50.439 salvage would be worth two grand? Right? That's true, that's true. 888 01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:55.600 Yeah, I think he did pretty good with one hundred and sixty. But 889 01:12:55.680 --> 01:12:59.000 it's hard to find any bad. It's hard to find any all little drive 890 01:12:59.079 --> 01:13:01.920 cars from under five grands. By the way. By the way, my 891 01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:14.199 deputy chat GPT says that that forester can vary, but based on recent listings 892 01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:23.000 and sales, they go from forty three hundred to seventy four hundred. So 893 01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:27.960 he's right in there. He's right in there. Thank you, Chopper. 894 01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:30.399 That's really cool. You're working on anything else? And by the way, 895 01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:33.920 let me give me my dinger again. Okay, what else you're working on? 896 01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:39.840 I'm working on two more than I'm going to give you next week, 897 01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:44.039 and you're going to get dingers on these. Wow, I can always use 898 01:13:44.359 --> 01:13:45.880 you know, try to space my dinger out a little because you know, 899 01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:50.159 sometime. I mean, there's two things going on here. If you don't 900 01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:54.760 use it, you lose it. But there's another thing. If you overuse 901 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.960 it, you abuse it. So I can get you some medication for your 902 01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:01.159 dinger. Thank you, thank you. I think right now it's sounding pretty 903 01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:08.359 healthy. So that's all I have to go on and remember this if ever 904 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:15.039 we have a success here, it's time for the dinger. Okay? Three 905 01:14:15.119 --> 01:14:19.279 oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five Warren? 906 01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:26.199 Is it Warren? Or wherein it's there's Did you spell that wrong? Or 907 01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:30.359 is it is that? It's right? W A R A M. How 908 01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:34.640 do you pronounce it? Warren? Oh? Okay, So what's going on? 909 01:14:34.880 --> 01:14:39.439 What's going on? Warren? With the wrong spelling? Uh? You 910 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:45.399 guys recommended somebody that are not on your referral list, Allen Services. You'd 911 01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:50.840 remember them once in a while. We we recommend people when there's not someone 912 01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:57.479 around that we know and love. What was this for? Heater air conditioning 913 01:14:57.880 --> 01:15:00.960 in my home? But where? What where are you located? I'm in 914 01:15:01.079 --> 01:15:06.319 Greeley, Colorado, that's right, they got. What happened was somebody called 915 01:15:06.439 --> 01:15:14.000 up and said this is a great company. They all happened. Well, 916 01:15:14.079 --> 01:15:17.000 the guy came out, did the inspection, did it looked at everything? 917 01:15:17.159 --> 01:15:21.079 It's my My furnace is nineteen years old, so it's a furnace AC. 918 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:29.000 It definitely was leaking. So you got a new one, right, I 919 01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:32.199 do. And they're having a forty percent off sale right now. Uh. 920 01:15:32.359 --> 01:15:38.079 And I also got a new water heater combined with everything. Now, hold 921 01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:41.640 on a second, you wanna see everything. Did you get a normal furnace 922 01:15:41.760 --> 01:15:46.319 or is this a boiler? It's a normal furnace, okay. And what 923 01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:50.159 did you pay for the for What did you pay for the furnace? Air 924 01:15:50.279 --> 01:15:57.720 combo? Uh? I don't know, because well I do. I can 925 01:15:57.800 --> 01:16:00.680 sell the water heater too, is in there? Okay? What did you 926 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:05.520 pay for the water heater, the AC and the furnace all in all in 927 01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:13.159 everything? Uh? Fourteen thousand okay, okay, that is not bad. 928 01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:17.840 What kind of AC furnace is that? That's a pain? They had a 929 01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:21.680 ream or I can't remember or no, no, no, but tell me 930 01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:26.520 tell me what the efficiency is. Is it a modulating ninety percent or what 931 01:16:28.199 --> 01:16:31.159 it's? What are they? What did he said? Eighty percent? But 932 01:16:31.319 --> 01:16:35.119 it's the Okay, So the one I have now is either on or off. 933 01:16:35.239 --> 01:16:39.239 This is a variable one. Okay, no, that's good. But 934 01:16:39.359 --> 01:16:43.439 it's eighty percent, right? Yeah? Is that good? I did? 935 01:16:43.479 --> 01:16:46.479 I do? Okay, it's okay, an eighty percent modulator. And then 936 01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:51.960 the AC. Do you know how bigger AC is? I don't remember wattage 937 01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:59.079 wise, but not wattage wise BTUs man, I didn't have to look at 938 01:16:59.119 --> 01:17:01.239 my pain. I will tell you this, okay. The water heater, 939 01:17:01.439 --> 01:17:05.640 let me just put let me explain this to you. You on the market, 940 01:17:06.039 --> 01:17:10.319 you did really well in the market right now. Okay, I'm not 941 01:17:10.479 --> 01:17:13.479 telling you it's a great price. I'm telling you you're you know, you're 942 01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:15.840 not going to get something cheap, cheap, cheap, But no, I 943 01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:19.880 know, I find it a little hard to believe that that's forty percent off. 944 01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:24.640 But I'm not gonna dissm on it, you know, because they did 945 01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:28.960 a good job and you like it, and what counts is it's right in 946 01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.800 there with the regular pricing. But what I'm thinking is I am thinking that 947 01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:40.600 the water heater, what size is it? Forty gallon? Mm hmm, 948 01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:45.399 So the water heaters range, of course, you know you're all plumbing Colorado 949 01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:51.239 Dot net does it for that size for thirteen ninety nine, but no one 950 01:17:51.359 --> 01:17:57.760 else does, so you can't blame them that that water heater is probably they're 951 01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:02.039 probably figuring the water heater at what thirty eight hundred? No, it was 952 01:18:02.399 --> 01:18:09.319 twenty two I believe twenty two hundred. Okay? Yeah, did you just 953 01:18:09.399 --> 01:18:13.640 say you paid how much for all of it? All? Three? Fourteen 954 01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:17.039 thousand? Okay? Fourteen? Then if you do fourteen, I'm just trying 955 01:18:17.079 --> 01:18:23.600 to figure out something minus twenty two hundred and twenty two hundred isn't bad. 956 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:28.119 It isn't bad at all. So now you're looking at eleven eight for a 957 01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:33.000 furnace AC that's fine, okay, Yeah, yeah, that's not bad. 958 01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:39.800 Okay, it really isn't in today's market. However, however, I don't 959 01:18:39.880 --> 01:18:47.479 believe that it is forty percent off. Yeah I don't know, but they 960 01:18:47.560 --> 01:18:54.600 shied me. Some regular price would have been. No. They're saying, 961 01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:57.600 no, no, to be for that to be forty percent off if you 962 01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:00.720 do the math? Am I doing the math? Right? I mean twenty 963 01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:03.840 nine thousand. If they say forty percent off, let me just see something. 964 01:19:04.119 --> 01:19:09.479 Hold on, yeah, yeah, they're saying it's about twenty not twenty 965 01:19:09.560 --> 01:19:15.239 nine, but twenty they're saying that it's about it's almost half off. They're 966 01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:18.680 saying, now you got twenty the water heater is included in that, so 967 01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:23.000 you got to subtract the twenty two hundred or whatever that. No, No, 968 01:19:23.159 --> 01:19:27.239 you just said, I'm going by what they said. I'm talking about 969 01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:33.359 the ten eight. They paid ten eight for the furnace and air, and 970 01:19:33.439 --> 01:19:40.760 they're saying it's forty percent off. That's what they're saying. Okay, So 971 01:19:41.039 --> 01:19:44.920 I just think that that's I don't think it is of that. I mean 972 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:48.840 that part I don't believe. But the normal pricing wasn't bad. Yeah, 973 01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:54.680 so just do with it what you want. You did a good deal. 974 01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:59.079 I wouldn't feel ripped off at all. Ron's got a question on top Ron's 975 01:19:59.119 --> 01:20:01.960 got a question on toime diming belts. Thank you Warren for calling Ron. 976 01:20:02.079 --> 01:20:11.000 What's going on? Both seventy with forty eight thousand miles on it? So 977 01:20:11.079 --> 01:20:14.319 I'm just wanting to try to be concerned about a timing belt with a lot 978 01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:19.119 how many miles on it? Forty eight? What year is it? Yeah? 979 01:20:19.159 --> 01:20:26.439 What year twenty thirteen? Does it go by? Time? And miles? 980 01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.640 Well to a certain extent. Yeah, it has to go by time 981 01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:33.640 as well. Uh, you know, it can certainly be inspected and you 982 01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:39.319 can see the belt and see if it's deteriorated beyond any reasonable But yeah, 983 01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:45.960 I would say ten years would be about max on them. Okay, So 984 01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:49.479 it is time to do it, especially in this climate. You know, 985 01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:54.880 it's so dry, the rubber itself will start to deteriorate just from lack of 986 01:20:55.039 --> 01:20:59.880 moisture. And that is that is an interference engine. Yep. Is it 987 01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:03.039 definitely a belt rather than the time change that I don't know. I'd have 988 01:21:03.159 --> 01:21:06.840 to look. Yeah, a lot of bullbos had changed, but at least 989 01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:11.720 some some had belts. Yeah, it's a it's a belt, it is, 990 01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:18.239 okay, Okay, So anyway, I just think thank you, okay, 991 01:21:18.359 --> 01:21:24.960 thank you. Now, I just think that the other going back to 992 01:21:25.039 --> 01:21:30.840 the other furnace thing, I don't that definitely wasn't forty percent off on a 993 01:21:30.920 --> 01:21:32.960 furnace on that furnace. Just so you know, I'm not saying it's a 994 01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:35.399 bad deal, but it was. I don't like when they say we got 995 01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:39.960 a forty percent deal off, you know. Now, speaking of volvls, 996 01:21:40.239 --> 01:21:43.159 we have another volvil question. Believe it or not, we'll do that right 997 01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:45.680 after this. I'm Tom Martino three oh three seven to one three Talk three 998 01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:50.399 oh three seven one three eight two five five Denver Reagen dot com. We're 999 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:55.039 going to be telling you about that coming up, and I want to tell 1000 01:21:55.079 --> 01:21:59.279 you though this time I'm going to do the commercial about the weight loss thing. 1001 01:21:59.319 --> 01:22:03.000 But they also are still doing stem cell therapy, and I'm telling you 1002 01:22:03.319 --> 01:22:06.520 I had that done and it worked. It was great. Now it may 1003 01:22:06.600 --> 01:22:20.159 not work on everything, but there's free consultations always Denverregen dot com. 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So Andrew, let's talk about selling a two tho 1012 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:14.720 or buying a twenty nineteen x Volvo XC ninety. So what's going on with 1013 01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:17.920 it? Yes, sir, so I Furst. It's a vehicle, great 1014 01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:23.279 vehicle, beautiful vehicle, no problems, right, you know what. I've 1015 01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:30.439 never heard a Volvo owner not liking their car, Honest to goodness, I've 1016 01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:33.600 never heard one. Now, I want to ask you something, guys, 1017 01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:40.000 I want to ask you something in this studio. Who is I mean it's 1018 01:23:40.039 --> 01:23:45.039 actually not who is? But is this one of the reliable brands? I 1019 01:23:45.359 --> 01:23:48.199 think Balba makes a great car. They do. They're not a bucket of 1020 01:23:48.279 --> 01:23:53.800 oil leagues. They're on the market. No, nobody's ever died in the 1021 01:23:54.039 --> 01:23:59.640 XC ninety. Jeez, they're cool. What about it? What do you 1022 01:23:59.720 --> 01:24:02.680 need? How many miles you got on it? It is thirty seven? 1023 01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:08.760 Are you looking for a market value? No, I'm not looking for a 1024 01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:15.640 market value. I'm looking I purchased the vehicle how much? And I paid 1025 01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:21.520 about forty grand, which is amazing, Well, actually a little high. 1026 01:24:23.239 --> 01:24:30.399 Here's what's going on. The vehicle was presented to me as in zero accidents, 1027 01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:35.920 zero damage, and then how was it presented to you that way? 1028 01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:43.119 That was through their report at the dealer. What oh oh, so wait 1029 01:24:43.279 --> 01:24:49.039 you got it in writing correct Carfax? What was it? It was not 1030 01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:56.159 Carfax, it was whatever car Max uses. Okay, So what happened then? 1031 01:24:57.319 --> 01:25:01.479 Well? I took it to have the windows tenant and under the lights, 1032 01:25:01.920 --> 01:25:08.079 the gentleman's like, why was the hood be sprayed? And I said, 1033 01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:12.760 I have no idea, And then under his lights I can clearly see 1034 01:25:13.680 --> 01:25:20.479 there was This was not factory paint. Okay. So then I go back 1035 01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:26.920 to CarMax obviously and asked him what's going on, and they said, oh, 1036 01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:29.960 they'll investigate and they'll call you back. That was two days ago, 1037 01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:36.399 no calls. When did you actually buy it? I bought this in January 1038 01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:44.319 and I did pull a Carfax and it does report damage. What does a 1039 01:25:44.399 --> 01:25:51.800 report on Carfax? It just says vehicle damage, okay. It usually says 1040 01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:59.039 minor or major. It does not. It just okay. Also another a 1041 01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:03.319 couple other things. I mean, I'm sorry, Andrew, a couple other 1042 01:26:03.439 --> 01:26:10.760 things. Here is the weird party. They don't have to tell you about 1043 01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:15.560 damage, but they can't misrepresent it either. So that's what's weird. They 1044 01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:18.920 could have kept their mouth shut, but instead they said, and on the 1045 01:26:19.039 --> 01:26:24.439 contract, I'm not talking about this report you got. But on the contract 1046 01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:29.560 does it say as is. It's it as his car. But the gentleman 1047 01:26:29.720 --> 01:26:32.119 I spoke to it, Carmac said, oh, we do everything, we 1048 01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:38.800 do. Paints, we do, PDR we do. I'm looking find out. 1049 01:26:39.640 --> 01:26:44.239 No matter what he says off the contract, the wording in the contract 1050 01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:48.640 says that that contract supersedes anything. I mean, if it's a standard contract, 1051 01:26:49.319 --> 01:26:54.439 what I'm getting at is. But but they gave you some kind of 1052 01:26:54.520 --> 01:26:58.960 a written report. You said. It was some kind of report that literally 1053 01:26:59.079 --> 01:27:03.600 said no damage history, right correct, Hey Tom, And they gave that 1054 01:27:03.760 --> 01:27:09.039 to you with the deal, right, yes, sir, Okay, so 1055 01:27:09.279 --> 01:27:12.760 jfr Cars Rodney was chiming, Rodney. I just want to ask a question. 1056 01:27:12.840 --> 01:27:16.479 First, I was told or when I researched this and over the years, 1057 01:27:16.680 --> 01:27:25.239 as is means as represented, but you got to prove how it was 1058 01:27:25.319 --> 01:27:29.760 represented. In other words, as is doesn't just mean like if someone writes 1059 01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:35.920 something saying the engine was rebuilt at ten thousand miles ago, or you got 1060 01:27:35.960 --> 01:27:43.840 a re manufactured engine, and then they sell it as is. They can't 1061 01:27:44.000 --> 01:27:47.399 sell you a car with three hundred thousand miles on the engine if they represented 1062 01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:50.920 it had less. Yes, you were buying it as is, but not 1063 01:27:51.239 --> 01:27:57.199 as lied about, but as represented. Go ahead, Rodney, what were 1064 01:27:57.199 --> 01:28:02.000 you going to say? They probably used auto check. Auto check is another 1065 01:28:02.159 --> 01:28:09.720 form of car Facts, not the same company. But we found that car 1066 01:28:09.880 --> 01:28:16.079 Facts may have a challenge on the information about the car, and you'll find 1067 01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:23.079 whatever it is that was not mentioned on Carfacts, auto check has it. 1068 01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:26.920 So one might report it, but the other one may not. And that's 1069 01:28:27.079 --> 01:28:30.680 probably what you're into, and you kind of got in the middle of and 1070 01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:34.079 they may or may not have known about that. But I don't know how 1071 01:28:34.199 --> 01:28:40.479 the contract is written regarding that report. Is that report part of the contract 1072 01:28:41.039 --> 01:28:45.479 or do they or do they simply say, by the way, here's the 1073 01:28:45.600 --> 01:28:50.560 report from car check, because they're not obligated to check car check or to 1074 01:28:50.800 --> 01:28:57.520 check car Facts for its accuracy. Now, could you argue that they misled 1075 01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:01.880 you? I don't know. I think it's car Check that misled you. 1076 01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:08.840 He said it slipped through the cracks, which unfortunately, I don't think it's 1077 01:29:08.880 --> 01:29:14.439 fair. Well, it's not fair, it's not. But the question is 1078 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:21.279 Andrew who misrepresented the card the dealer does. The dealer is not allowed to 1079 01:29:21.479 --> 01:29:25.880 lie about the car, but they don't have to tell you squat about it. 1080 01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:30.000 Well, here's the deal. If they were the one that repaired it, 1081 01:29:30.319 --> 01:29:34.439 which is what the dealership said, we do all this stuff, then 1082 01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:41.119 they did misleadly because they knew that they were the one that repaired the car. 1083 01:29:41.560 --> 01:29:45.800 And they will not really no, no Andrew unless that dealer told you 1084 01:29:45.359 --> 01:29:48.479 no. See, the dealer could have fixed it all day long. They 1085 01:29:48.520 --> 01:29:50.600 don't have to tell you they fixed it. They don't have to tell you 1086 01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:56.399 anything. But if they gave you that report, the report said no damage 1087 01:29:56.920 --> 01:30:01.520 history, right, what was that? If it says that, does that 1088 01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:06.279 dealer guarantee that report? I mean that dealer is not under an obligation to 1089 01:30:06.399 --> 01:30:11.720 tell you whether that report is true or not unless it's part of the contract. 1090 01:30:11.920 --> 01:30:15.560 I don't know how it worked. On the surface, it looks tricky 1091 01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:19.920 to me. It looks like garbage because they have a report that said no 1092 01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:24.479 damage and they did the damage. Now, the other thing could be it 1093 01:30:24.680 --> 01:30:29.600 was very slight cosmetic damage. I mean, I don't know how bad. 1094 01:30:29.720 --> 01:30:33.119 How bad is it? Do you know? No it's probably hail damage. 1095 01:30:34.399 --> 01:30:39.600 Well it was a paintless repair. No, they painted it right, Well, 1096 01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:43.880 they painted it, but they didn't color sand or anything. So under 1097 01:30:43.960 --> 01:30:47.840 the factory lights, I mean it looks terrible. I mean in the plain 1098 01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:50.760 daylight, yeah, it looks great. And did that deal or do the 1099 01:30:50.840 --> 01:30:57.800 report they did? I mean the repair, the repair, that's what they're 1100 01:30:57.960 --> 01:31:01.000 claiming they did. Yes, Okay, Well, in other words, best 1101 01:31:01.039 --> 01:31:06.479 fall though this deal or actually said to you we fixed it. We do 1102 01:31:06.800 --> 01:31:10.720 that, we do the PDR. We do every Okay, got it, 1103 01:31:10.880 --> 01:31:13.840 we do it all the time. But they were supposed to call me back 1104 01:31:13.920 --> 01:31:17.680 two days ago and they've not called me back. So something's worried here. 1105 01:31:18.560 --> 01:31:23.720 Okay. I don't think you have. I don't think do you want to 1106 01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:28.359 return the car? Oh? I just want him to color stand the hood 1107 01:31:28.520 --> 01:31:32.439 man? Okay, then you got to did you tell them that? Yes, 1108 01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:39.760 that's not a big deal. What you're saying is if they fixed it, 1109 01:31:39.840 --> 01:31:44.600 they should stand behind what they fixed. Correct. I'm in total agreement. 1110 01:31:45.119 --> 01:31:47.760 I want somebody to call over there and talk to them, because I 1111 01:31:47.880 --> 01:31:53.119 agree with you, Katschina, who's light on cases. We need someone to 1112 01:31:53.159 --> 01:32:00.640 call over there. Probably right now. Deputy Dollar could probably take it. 1113 01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:03.439 I want him to call over there, because he's not asking for the world. 1114 01:32:03.560 --> 01:32:06.319 He's saying, look, you sold it to me, said there was 1115 01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:12.439 no damage. Yet you guys yourself did some damage repair and you didn't do 1116 01:32:12.479 --> 01:32:15.840 it right. So just make it right. That's not unreasonable, Okay, 1117 01:32:15.840 --> 01:32:18.600 I agree with you. Hold on and let's see what we can do. 1118 01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:29.720 Three o three seven one three eight two five five go with a sure thing 1119 01:32:29.880 --> 01:32:33.279 Denver's best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're 1120 01:32:33.359 --> 01:32:41.640 contenth time for an insurance checkup free, no obligation. In comparison, call 1121 01:32:41.800 --> 01:32:45.680 Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now 1122 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:49.079 three oh three seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his only 1123 01:32:49.199 --> 01:32:53.960 customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your 1124 01:32:54.039 --> 01:33:01.319 home with Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hello 1125 01:33:01.479 --> 01:33:05.479 Tom Martinez here three three seven one three talks seven one three A two five 1126 01:33:05.600 --> 01:33:09.800 five eight eight eight Heating dot com. I want to remind you that they 1127 01:33:09.840 --> 01:33:13.600 have a twenty eight dollars special for servicing one item twenty eight bucks. That 1128 01:33:13.680 --> 01:33:17.039 includes a service and maintenance check and if you have any repairs beyond that, 1129 01:33:17.159 --> 01:33:20.079 they credit you twenty eight bucks. It's a great deal. Eight eight eight 1130 01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:28.920 Heating dot Com. Okay, listen on the on this situation. We have 1131 01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:32.880 some facts, is some texts. I mean that I really got to get 1132 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:38.439 to because they're cool on the HUA thing. But I'll do that after this 1133 01:33:38.720 --> 01:33:45.479 because Glenn's been waiting. So Glenn, what's going on with you? Glenn? 1134 01:33:46.479 --> 01:33:49.760 Are you there? Harden, Yes, sir? What's happening Glenn? 1135 01:33:51.079 --> 01:34:00.319 Well? I picked up a ninety four Fewick Park Avenue. I love my 1136 01:34:00.479 --> 01:34:05.359 view ex this is the fifth one I've owned. Wow, And what I 1137 01:34:06.520 --> 01:34:09.960 did? How long when you say you picked it up, Glenn, how 1138 01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:18.119 long have you owned it? About six months now? Okay? And what 1139 01:34:18.319 --> 01:34:25.520 I've done to it so far is I've put in a new computer module. 1140 01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:34.159 I've done a transmission flush, radiator flush, great flush, our scaring flush, 1141 01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:50.079 new battery and it runs and drives like a dream. But it set 1142 01:34:50.159 --> 01:35:01.680 out for five years and the clare coat's gone. It needs to be repainted, 1143 01:35:02.039 --> 01:35:06.720 needs a new wind shield. But I was wondering should I go ahead 1144 01:35:06.720 --> 01:35:15.159 and spend the money and paint it. But in the wind shield? How 1145 01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:18.560 many miles on that? Glenn? Forty seven thousand? Well, well, 1146 01:35:18.800 --> 01:35:23.680 no it isn't. You're telling me forty seven thousand on a ninety four. 1147 01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:34.880 Yes, it was owned by a lady husband owned a local plumbing Olsen Plumbing. 1148 01:35:35.439 --> 01:35:40.279 Guys, do you believe that it only has forty seven thousand miles on 1149 01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:44.319 it? That's hard to believe, but it very well could be. I'm 1150 01:35:44.359 --> 01:35:46.439 more curious on what you paid for it than we can tell you if it's 1151 01:35:46.560 --> 01:35:53.119 worth throwing the money in it. I paid five hundred dollars for it and 1152 01:35:53.319 --> 01:35:59.359 I've got about nine Yeah, it's worth putting the money in it. Yes, 1153 01:36:00.039 --> 01:36:03.479 in my opinion, Yes, what do you guys think? I'd almost 1154 01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:06.239 try to sell it as is and see you know how much going to cost 1155 01:36:06.319 --> 01:36:09.640 a paint and put a windshield in it? Come on, man, it 1156 01:36:09.720 --> 01:36:14.640 can't cost that much. You're not looking for a You're not looking for a 1157 01:36:14.720 --> 01:36:18.039 paint job that's going to be like stellar, right, I'm not looking for 1158 01:36:18.239 --> 01:36:28.279 a high price. I'm right now. I'm selling for five grand. I 1159 01:36:28.359 --> 01:36:31.439 don't think somebody I don't know, man, I don't know. You know, 1160 01:36:31.760 --> 01:36:35.880 you ought to leave your numbers in case somebody calls. It's so they 1161 01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:42.119 they drove it less than twenty five hundred miles a year. I find that 1162 01:36:42.439 --> 01:36:46.880 incredibly hard to believe. Right, so every month it would be it would 1163 01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:54.439 be only less than two hundred miles a month. Well, when they bought 1164 01:36:54.479 --> 01:36:57.479 it brand new, I went down and checked. They bought it it. 1165 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:04.920 I think it was perfect Buick in Colorado Springs. Why did you buy it? 1166 01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:08.960 Did you buy it to drive it? Or did you buy it to 1167 01:37:09.680 --> 01:37:17.079 sell it? I bought it because I love Buicks. Then painted and just 1168 01:37:17.560 --> 01:37:24.640 stay right, so smooth. So okay, what's your other car? Which 1169 01:37:24.680 --> 01:37:28.760 one would be better? The one you drive currently or this ninety four Buick. 1170 01:37:30.640 --> 01:37:34.479 I'm having a big problem with that. What do you mean with that? 1171 01:37:34.640 --> 01:37:42.720 With what? I've got? A twenty fifteen Buick? And what's wrong 1172 01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:47.239 with that? Not a dad gum thing? Okay, Well, what do 1173 01:37:47.319 --> 01:37:49.880 you mean when you have a problem with that? What are you talking about? 1174 01:37:51.600 --> 01:37:56.159 Well, I've got five cars? Oh, do you have any you 1175 01:37:56.239 --> 01:38:03.840 can donate to my immigrant family? I'm retiring. If I donate something, 1176 01:38:03.960 --> 01:38:10.199 I don't get it. I wish I could Oh, no, no problem, 1177 01:38:10.399 --> 01:38:13.319 no problem, I understand. Yeah, I'm just looking for a car 1178 01:38:13.439 --> 01:38:15.800 for this one family. He's got a good job going. He can ensure 1179 01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:19.319 it and put a plate on it, and I need to get him a 1180 01:38:19.359 --> 01:38:23.239 car. Hey, Kachina, did you get the number that one guy that 1181 01:38:23.319 --> 01:38:26.079 called in before with that Toyota or whatever you have? Hey, Tom, 1182 01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:29.560 it's Susan. Now Kachina's out. I can check with her though. Yeah, 1183 01:38:29.720 --> 01:38:31.640 you know, sus do you remember that guy calling in saying I want 1184 01:38:31.680 --> 01:38:34.479 to fix the car and donate it. I'm sorry I don't, but I'll 1185 01:38:34.479 --> 01:38:36.960 ask her. I'll ask her. Yeah, I asked her to get his 1186 01:38:38.119 --> 01:38:45.199 name. So, Glenn, our answer is it's worth it. Your total 1187 01:38:45.359 --> 01:38:48.680 basis in that if you get a cheap paint job that's all you need and 1188 01:38:48.760 --> 01:38:54.399 a windshield, your total basis with what you already put into that is going 1189 01:38:54.479 --> 01:38:58.920 to be what less than twenty five hundred bucks three thousand dollars, for God's 1190 01:38:58.920 --> 01:39:04.560 sakes, for a running car with seven Go ahead? Yeah, I just 1191 01:39:04.680 --> 01:39:11.199 wanted to know what could I probably ask on it. Okay, once you 1192 01:39:11.319 --> 01:39:14.079 make that, are you going to make those repairs or sell it as is? 1193 01:39:15.039 --> 01:39:18.880 Well? I'm trying to figure out should I go ahead and put the 1194 01:39:20.199 --> 01:39:26.199 thousand to fifteen dollars into the paint job and then try to do something, 1195 01:39:26.640 --> 01:39:30.840 or should I go ahead and try to sell it without the paint job. 1196 01:39:30.800 --> 01:39:32.680 Oh, you want to get rid of it, then, So if you 1197 01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:35.199 want to get rid of it, don't. I wouldn't put it. I 1198 01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:38.760 wouldn't put another dime in it. I just set you're going to just get 1199 01:39:38.800 --> 01:39:41.079 that money back when you sell it. You're not going to make any more 1200 01:39:41.159 --> 01:39:49.560 on it. Yeah, what is your honest opinion as to price? I'm 1201 01:39:49.600 --> 01:39:53.359 looking on Facebook right. I love seeing what's out there, and there are 1202 01:39:53.399 --> 01:39:58.479 two to three thousand dollars. That's what I would think too, Just to 1203 01:39:58.520 --> 01:40:00.199 say, yeah, but only forty on No, hold on, guys, 1204 01:40:00.279 --> 01:40:04.359 that's with only forty seven thousand miles on it. Yeah, it's still in 1205 01:40:04.479 --> 01:40:08.279 ninety four. No, no, but it's still in ninety four. There's 1206 01:40:08.319 --> 01:40:11.199 nothing you can do about it. It's not a camaro. I gotta take 1207 01:40:11.239 --> 01:40:13.399 it for a hold on, we'll come back, We'll come back and take 1208 01:40:13.479 --> 01:40:15.079 more. Hang on three oh three seven, one, three eight two five 1209 01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:25.439 five go with a sure thing. Denver's Best Roofer Excel roofing dot com. 1210 01:40:25.640 --> 01:40:31.399 You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance check up 1211 01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:36.479 free, no obligation. 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And really, we really want to 1236 01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:42.359 help her if she had a problem, because she said, no one's listening 1237 01:42:42.399 --> 01:42:44.520 to her. So I said, Mark, well, let's at least go 1238 01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:46.119 out and visit Catherine, and he did. That was really nice for you, 1239 01:42:46.199 --> 01:42:49.880 Mark, So no one knows who Catherine is or anything. So let's 1240 01:42:49.960 --> 01:42:55.680 just lay it on the line. Did you smell anything? No, I 1241 01:42:55.760 --> 01:43:03.159 mean absolutely nothing. No. Again, Well, I want just so look, 1242 01:43:03.199 --> 01:43:08.000 I don't even want to tell I honestly, I tried to say this 1243 01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:11.600 in the text. I really don't want to talk about it because I feel 1244 01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:15.840 extremely bad for she has issues that we are not going to be able to 1245 01:43:15.920 --> 01:43:23.840 help with whatsoever. I understand. I ironically enough, everyone I've gone out 1246 01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:29.079 to have the same issues. It's quite remarkable if you think about it, 1247 01:43:30.319 --> 01:43:32.319 Mark I went. I think in general, and as I said, no 1248 01:43:32.359 --> 01:43:36.279 one knows her name and anything, her real name so or her dress. 1249 01:43:36.359 --> 01:43:40.319 But I don't want to make fun of her obvious I never do when people 1250 01:43:40.359 --> 01:43:43.600 calling that I think they have mental illness. But here's what I think. 1251 01:43:44.159 --> 01:43:49.720 I think, as you get old and lonely, you start I don't know 1252 01:43:49.800 --> 01:43:53.600 what it is. I mean, even if you don't have a history of 1253 01:43:53.680 --> 01:43:57.479 mental illness, I think you have maybe a little history of some weirdness here 1254 01:43:57.520 --> 01:44:03.079 or there. And then you start imagine anythings, plots, conspiracies. Well, 1255 01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:09.520 and then certain people see things as well. Did this woman see things? 1256 01:44:10.000 --> 01:44:15.920 Yes? Like what just different things? Man? I mean I once 1257 01:44:15.960 --> 01:44:18.600 again there was stuff on them again, Mark, there was stuff on the 1258 01:44:18.680 --> 01:44:24.800 wall that most likely was just a little bit of grease splatter or something right 1259 01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:29.439 behind the stove, and it was a chemical that was put there by possibly 1260 01:44:29.520 --> 01:44:33.039 a meth dealer. I mean, it's I don't know how I can go 1261 01:44:33.159 --> 01:44:36.039 as deep as you want. No, No, that's okay, It's just 1262 01:44:36.159 --> 01:44:40.640 how did you leave it with her? Though? That did you? You're 1263 01:44:40.680 --> 01:44:43.840 going to be reaching out to her brother. I just wanted to know if 1264 01:44:43.880 --> 01:44:45.560 you honestly told her, Hey, you know, we don't smell it. 1265 01:44:46.479 --> 01:44:48.960 Yes, I did tell her that, and she wanted to know what was 1266 01:44:49.119 --> 01:44:53.560 next, and I said, I'll go back and discuss with Tom. Okay. 1267 01:44:55.359 --> 01:44:57.920 You know, Mark, when people have called the show before, I 1268 01:44:57.960 --> 01:45:00.199 know you said we shouldn't get her on the air, and I mean, 1269 01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:04.520 obviously we shouldn't get on there for ridicule. But whenever people like that have 1270 01:45:04.640 --> 01:45:09.359 called this show, I have talked them into getting some count Well, they 1271 01:45:09.439 --> 01:45:11.520 say they're going to get counseling. I don't know if they do. But 1272 01:45:12.319 --> 01:45:15.960 now she's just in a different world, man, I mean, she really 1273 01:45:15.159 --> 01:45:18.239 is. You mean, like almost too far. I'm afraid she's going to 1274 01:45:18.319 --> 01:45:24.239 end up getting kicked out because she's calling every day. The place is immaculate. 1275 01:45:24.359 --> 01:45:27.800 By the way, it's spotless, spotless. The last time I went 1276 01:45:27.840 --> 01:45:31.279 to a spotless house like that, the woman picked up a small jar, 1277 01:45:31.600 --> 01:45:36.239 like a mason jar, and showed me a couple of carpet fibers, and 1278 01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:42.199 she thought they were some weird insect that infested. But you could have eaten 1279 01:45:42.239 --> 01:45:45.359 off the floor in the place. It was absolutely spotless. And that same 1280 01:45:45.439 --> 01:45:47.840 woman showed me a box next to her bed that had a book in it, 1281 01:45:47.960 --> 01:45:51.239 one single book, and yet rats lived in it. And she saw 1282 01:45:51.359 --> 01:45:55.359 them and jumped up. And what the hell am I going to do? 1283 01:45:57.680 --> 01:46:02.479 Okay, now, my let's go back to Mike, who said, listen 1284 01:46:02.560 --> 01:46:05.439 to this one mark you were out, I want you to. And I 1285 01:46:05.479 --> 01:46:09.880 don't know if you heard this, but it's very interesting. A real estate 1286 01:46:09.920 --> 01:46:14.279 broker recommended a contractor to him who did a lousy job, maybe damages, 1287 01:46:14.319 --> 01:46:17.399 who knows. Mike looked up something called negligent referral. And by the way, 1288 01:46:17.800 --> 01:46:21.439 there's no law on that. There's only court precedent, which is considered 1289 01:46:21.520 --> 01:46:29.239 a common law. And I will tell you, Mike that to sue your 1290 01:46:29.319 --> 01:46:34.479 real estate broker for a negligent referral. And I told you the reason I 1291 01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:40.520 know about this is because I started a referral list before anybody started a list, 1292 01:46:41.239 --> 01:46:46.319 and it's actually called a referral list. And I studied the law along. 1293 01:46:46.439 --> 01:46:53.239 Of course, my attorney did the actual law. But there's what's called 1294 01:46:53.279 --> 01:46:59.159 the duty of care. Did the broker have a duty of care to you? 1295 01:47:00.760 --> 01:47:02.680 In other words, in his contract with you? Was there a duty 1296 01:47:02.720 --> 01:47:05.880 of care? I think you could say yes, I think there is a 1297 01:47:06.000 --> 01:47:10.720 duty of care. Because they're trusting you With me, there's less of a 1298 01:47:10.800 --> 01:47:14.000 duty of care, but there is somewhat of a duty of care. Wouldn't 1299 01:47:14.119 --> 01:47:21.760 the realtor that referred this person in order to go after some form of negligent 1300 01:47:21.920 --> 01:47:28.720 referral have to have known that it would be a bad job set up. 1301 01:47:29.399 --> 01:47:31.800 We're getting to that good point, but I want to say this. This 1302 01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:36.039 is not legal advice. I'm telling you about court precedence that I researched, 1303 01:47:36.640 --> 01:47:41.479 and some of it was for myself many many years ago, and there have 1304 01:47:41.560 --> 01:47:45.279 been some cases since then. Then there has to be a breach of duty. 1305 01:47:46.079 --> 01:47:50.479 A breach of duty doesn't even come in unless there is a duty. 1306 01:47:51.520 --> 01:47:57.079 So was he paid for the referral. I don't mean by the contractor, 1307 01:47:57.199 --> 01:48:00.840 although that comes into it too, but by you. No, he wasn't. 1308 01:48:00.159 --> 01:48:04.520 No, But here's the other thing. There still is somewhat of a 1309 01:48:04.720 --> 01:48:12.399 duty to act in your best interest because he is a fiduciary. If he's 1310 01:48:12.439 --> 01:48:15.960 a buyer's agent. You didn't say if he was a buyer's agent, is 1311 01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:20.760 he it is? Yes, Okay, then there is somewhat a fiduciary responsibility. 1312 01:48:20.800 --> 01:48:27.119 But then here's the other thing. He had to have had a track 1313 01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:30.640 record of doing this, or at least knew the guy was bad, as 1314 01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:34.600 Mark was saying, he has to have some knowledge. You don't make a 1315 01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:41.199 negligent referral if you honestly think someone is good now, or have reason to 1316 01:48:41.239 --> 01:48:45.840 think he's good now. If you have you really and truly it comes down 1317 01:48:45.880 --> 01:48:49.199 to that more than anything. There was no intent to defraud. What's negligent 1318 01:48:49.279 --> 01:48:54.560 about it? Now? If he just met the guy and said, oh 1319 01:48:54.680 --> 01:48:57.680 man, I've known this guy for forty years. See, so there's all 1320 01:48:57.840 --> 01:49:03.239 kinds of breach of duty, then there's causation. You have to show that 1321 01:49:03.560 --> 01:49:09.119 it is the recommendation that caused the damages. Well, what do I mean 1322 01:49:09.199 --> 01:49:15.560 by that, Well, that if you had an opportunity to look at this 1323 01:49:15.760 --> 01:49:20.600 contractor's where it find referrals, if you did no due diligence at all and 1324 01:49:20.880 --> 01:49:26.720 simply relied on the contractor, was that I mean, excuse me on the 1325 01:49:26.800 --> 01:49:30.039 broker? Was that reasonable of you to do that? Or did you have 1326 01:49:30.279 --> 01:49:38.800 any kind of an obligation to look at what he recommended? That the next 1327 01:49:38.880 --> 01:49:41.720 thing, and that's a good see. And that's what I do. I 1328 01:49:41.800 --> 01:49:45.960 have several people on the list and I tell people to shop, and I 1329 01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:48.960 tell them nothing's perfect, blah blah blah, and what the recourse is? 1330 01:49:49.479 --> 01:49:54.720 So what are the damages? That's the big thing. Okay, you have 1331 01:49:54.880 --> 01:50:01.720 to have damages. So the long and short of unless you have massive, 1332 01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:08.079 massive damages, you're not going to get anything. Tell me what the damages 1333 01:50:08.119 --> 01:50:12.960 are and why you're not going after the contractor directly. Well, first of 1334 01:50:13.000 --> 01:50:16.039 all, we are going after the contractor directly, and it's hundreds of thousands 1335 01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:23.000 of dollars. And then tell me what the contractor did. It was fest 1336 01:50:23.079 --> 01:50:29.279 of materials and fest of money. So we had we had bought an investment 1337 01:50:29.359 --> 01:50:32.479 property and then we had gone through several contractors, none of them seemed to 1338 01:50:32.520 --> 01:50:36.960 fit the bill. And then the agent had someone who was they had just 1339 01:50:38.079 --> 01:50:41.039 hired at their own home and they said, well, hey, here's this 1340 01:50:41.239 --> 01:50:45.399 guy. Maybe maybe he'll work out. And then the brokerage house had their 1341 01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:49.760 own referral program, so we thought this was a vetted, you know, 1342 01:50:50.479 --> 01:50:55.439 well researched contractor. But wait a minute, wait, you said two different 1343 01:50:55.479 --> 01:50:59.079 things. You said the guy, the agent said, try this guy, 1344 01:50:59.159 --> 01:51:02.359 it may work out, and then you said the broker's where he works has 1345 01:51:02.399 --> 01:51:06.279 a referral program. So which one was it? Well, it's both. 1346 01:51:06.439 --> 01:51:12.560 We thought that perhaps the contractor came through the vetted refral. What you thought 1347 01:51:12.640 --> 01:51:15.159 did he tell you it did? Well, wait a minute, man, 1348 01:51:15.319 --> 01:51:17.560 If this guy said I got this guy working at my house and he may 1349 01:51:17.680 --> 01:51:20.520 do a good job, that's what you just told me. What I want 1350 01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:25.640 to know is did he say this is part of our referral program or did 1351 01:51:25.720 --> 01:51:30.279 you just assume that we just assumed? Okay, do you let me ask 1352 01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:34.960 you. Do you think you have a strong case against this guy? I 1353 01:51:35.159 --> 01:51:40.039 honestly, well I think against the contractor. Yes, But yeah, Bob 1354 01:51:40.119 --> 01:51:43.960 Jackson, do you think this broker do you think this broker knew this guy 1355 01:51:44.119 --> 01:51:48.560 was a bad guy. You don't reasonably No, I don't believe that. 1356 01:51:48.640 --> 01:51:51.520 They don't think. I don't think you're going to even get through deposition. 1357 01:51:51.720 --> 01:51:56.800 But I want to ask you another thing. This contractor, did you call 1358 01:51:56.880 --> 01:52:01.960 the police or the district attorney if he actually stole us? Yes, that's 1359 01:52:02.319 --> 01:52:05.720 that's part of it. We have a civil and criminal complaint. Good. 1360 01:52:06.479 --> 01:52:15.800 Now, did you hire an attorney? Yes? Who'd you hire? Well? 1361 01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:19.239 I don't want to say. Okay, it's public record when you sue, 1362 01:52:19.319 --> 01:52:23.479 but in any case, let me ask you this. Then, the 1363 01:52:23.680 --> 01:52:26.840 attorney you hired, how do you know they know how to do this case? 1364 01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:35.479 Just referrals and track record and research of their case history. I'm confident 1365 01:52:35.600 --> 01:52:42.399 that they know what they're doing. Is his first name Scott? No, 1366 01:52:43.359 --> 01:52:47.279 but we're invoking the Contractors Trust Act? Well, of course you are. 1367 01:52:47.359 --> 01:52:49.880 But if his name isn't Scott, you don't have the best one. But 1368 01:52:50.000 --> 01:53:00.279 okay, okay, okay, has this Has this attorney actually handled contract or 1369 01:53:00.359 --> 01:53:08.399 trust problems? Yeah? Several times? Excellent with a favorable outcome? Excellent? 1370 01:53:10.279 --> 01:53:15.920 You know that very seldom you get attorneys fees, right, we do. 1371 01:53:15.319 --> 01:53:18.159 We're asking for it, but we know that it's not a guarantee. 1372 01:53:18.840 --> 01:53:27.880 And next does the person even have substance? Fortunately they do. Oh, 1373 01:53:30.039 --> 01:53:32.600 do you want to warn us about the contractor? We always talk about that. 1374 01:53:34.800 --> 01:53:38.840 Not at this point. I will certainly do so, but I don't 1375 01:53:38.840 --> 01:53:43.039 want to warn him and then they do something. But when was the last 1376 01:53:43.079 --> 01:53:47.600 time he was on the job. Oh, about a year and a half 1377 01:53:47.640 --> 01:53:55.079 ago. Okay, you did file right, absolutely, We've been litigating for 1378 01:53:55.159 --> 01:54:00.119 almost two years so, oh my goodness, Holy crap y. So how 1379 01:54:00.199 --> 01:54:04.399 is it going. Did you do depositions? Well, we've had a bad 1380 01:54:04.479 --> 01:54:09.039 attorney, so we switched attorney. So it's just taken a while. But 1381 01:54:09.479 --> 01:54:13.000 we're about to get to depositions and we had some. We're doing a second 1382 01:54:13.119 --> 01:54:18.720 round. How much have you spent? Quite a bit, probably fifty thousand 1383 01:54:18.800 --> 01:54:25.560 at least. So, man, I hope you come out. I want 1384 01:54:25.600 --> 01:54:30.840 you to keep us informed on this. Yeah. I mean I learned quite 1385 01:54:30.840 --> 01:54:32.760 a bit listen to you over the years, which has helped. So I 1386 01:54:33.119 --> 01:54:38.039 would love to know how it goes, really I would This would be a 1387 01:54:38.159 --> 01:54:42.680 really good eye opener. So let us know. Three zero three seven one 1388 01:54:42.840 --> 01:54:53.840 three talk seven to one three eight two five five Go with a sure thing 1389 01:54:54.000 --> 01:54:58.399 Denver's Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're 1390 01:54:58.479 --> 01:55:04.399 content. Time for an insurance checkup free, no obligation. In comparison, 1391 01:55:04.560 --> 01:55:10.640 call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out 1392 01:55:10.680 --> 01:55:13.760 now three all three seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his 1393 01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:16.880 only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list 1394 01:55:16.960 --> 01:55:21.359 your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. 1395 01:55:27.279 --> 01:55:30.279 Hi Tom Martino here, don't forget eight eight eight heating dot com twenty eight 1396 01:55:30.359 --> 01:55:35.000 dollars. That's for a toilet service or a water heater service and flesh or 1397 01:55:35.079 --> 01:55:41.319 anything that you need one item twenty eight bucks guaranteed a service and maintenance call, 1398 01:55:41.479 --> 01:55:44.560 and if anything's wrong and you need repairs, they credit you the twenty 1399 01:55:44.640 --> 01:55:50.359 eight bucks. Eight eight eight heating dot Com. Now, let's talk to 1400 01:55:53.680 --> 01:56:00.319 Monty Monty, what's going on? Hey, Hey Tom, hey man? 1401 01:56:00.359 --> 01:56:03.239 What's that? I was well? I was recently fired from my job. 1402 01:56:04.760 --> 01:56:13.880 I went and applied for unemployment and they came back saying that it was from 1403 01:56:13.960 --> 01:56:17.920 alcohol use. Well, if you're fired for cause, if you're fired for 1404 01:56:18.119 --> 01:56:23.000 cause, many times I was going to say, you you don't get unemployment, 1405 01:56:23.079 --> 01:56:28.640 but you could possibly without if it was truly alcohol and you're a professed 1406 01:56:28.680 --> 01:56:31.640 alcoholic and it's a it's considered a disability. They can't fire you for that. 1407 01:56:33.800 --> 01:56:36.119 You just got to fight it to the next level. Man, I 1408 01:56:36.239 --> 01:56:40.319 mean, it doesn't matter if you but I don't know what happened anyway, 1409 01:56:40.359 --> 01:56:45.119 what happened was it alcohol use or are they lying? They're lying? And 1410 01:56:45.239 --> 01:56:51.319 then I guess my basic question would be we had the we had a meeting 1411 01:56:53.560 --> 01:57:00.279 where they demoted me, and I would wondering if I would be able to 1412 01:57:00.399 --> 01:57:04.840 compel them to have transcripts of the meeting. But why I would prove that 1413 01:57:06.039 --> 01:57:12.000 because they didn't. Alcohol was never even brought up to me about this. 1414 01:57:12.279 --> 01:57:15.680 It was they demoted me, and I for what? Rea, Why did 1415 01:57:15.720 --> 01:57:24.960 they demote you? I had the week before had told my manager I didn't 1416 01:57:24.960 --> 01:57:29.760 feel good. She sent me home, and they said, well, we 1417 01:57:29.840 --> 01:57:32.239 have to have a meeting about this. So a week later I go into 1418 01:57:32.319 --> 01:57:38.239 the meeting and they say, well, we're demoting you because we just don't 1419 01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:41.840 feel comfortable with you down there by yourself. And I said, okay, 1420 01:57:42.119 --> 01:57:49.319 fine, and I stormed out of the meeting. But under the premise said 1421 01:57:49.319 --> 01:57:54.800 I was on the schedule to under the demotion. I showed up to my 1422 01:57:54.920 --> 01:57:59.640 shift the next morning and they said, you've been crossed off the schedule. 1423 01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:06.319 Were okay, now they can fire you. And it doesn't sound like they 1424 01:58:06.399 --> 01:58:12.000 even had to give a reason when you stormed out. Did you leave work? 1425 01:58:14.960 --> 01:58:18.479 Well, I left the meeting. Did you leave work that day, 1426 01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:25.640 well, it was it was a meeting outside of work. But I understanding 1427 01:58:26.119 --> 01:58:30.119 in the meeting as wet in the meeting, we had said, okay, 1428 01:58:30.640 --> 01:58:34.720 you you come into your you work your shift tomorrow morning, your next shift 1429 01:58:34.760 --> 01:58:39.159 tomorrow morning, and then the next week you're going to be on room trace 1430 01:58:39.920 --> 01:58:43.560 with the the motion part. And like what, I here's what I don't 1431 01:58:43.600 --> 01:58:47.920 understand. Okay, why they gave you a reason at all? Is it 1432 01:58:48.039 --> 01:58:53.720 to deny unemployment benefits? Is that the only reason? Maybe? Are they 1433 01:58:54.079 --> 01:58:58.439 They obviously didn't have a reason to fire you, that's what But that that's 1434 01:58:58.479 --> 01:59:01.319 what you're fighting. I mean, obviously I don't even know why they went 1435 01:59:01.439 --> 01:59:05.399 there with alcohol. Why didn't they say he was belligerent. They could have 1436 01:59:05.439 --> 01:59:15.479 said almost anything right, right, And that's what I'm so it still shouldn't 1437 01:59:15.479 --> 01:59:18.800 be any issue. They're just denying the claim. You need to bring it 1438 01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:24.439 to the next level. Well, well I got denied, so I did 1439 01:59:24.520 --> 01:59:28.399 do it in a pill. But I'm waiting on that. Yeah, you'll 1440 01:59:28.439 --> 01:59:30.359 probably get it. To be honest, we've had thieves get it. I 1441 01:59:30.439 --> 01:59:33.720 mean, it's almost fast guy for the same thing, and they gave it 1442 01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:38.359 to him because I couldn't prove he was drinking. Right. I fired a 1443 01:59:38.439 --> 01:59:42.479 guy for drinking, George Suzanne, remember him at Peoria. I caught him 1444 01:59:42.560 --> 01:59:45.680 drinking, literally in the middle of the day in my shop. I fired 1445 01:59:45.760 --> 01:59:49.399 him and he ended up getting unemployed. I was helping. I was trying 1446 01:59:49.439 --> 01:59:55.800 to help a gentleman named Monty back in February on an unemployment claim with our 1447 01:59:55.880 --> 02:00:01.039 angel. You're not the same Monty, I assume I don't believe. So, 1448 02:00:01.239 --> 02:00:05.479 okay, okay, gotcha. Here's the bottom line, Okay, Monty, 1449 02:00:06.039 --> 02:00:10.640 here's the bottom line. They have to prove their case. I would 1450 02:00:10.720 --> 02:00:15.439 say I'd venture to say ninety eight percent of the time employees get unemployment unless 1451 02:00:15.479 --> 02:00:24.159 you're shooting up or cooking meth in front of the boss and all the major 1452 02:00:24.279 --> 02:00:29.920 customers of the company and then post it on social media. You probably aren't 1453 02:00:29.920 --> 02:00:33.199 going to get your benefit. Well, they've already declined it, though, 1454 02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:38.560 No, you didn't understand it. You appeal it, well, okay, 1455 02:00:38.880 --> 02:00:42.600 but yeah, I just feel like, why, what's going to be different 1456 02:00:42.680 --> 02:00:45.720 on the hill? Then you know, they go back to the employer and 1457 02:00:45.760 --> 02:00:48.760 they've got to prove it, and I'll tell you something else. It sounds 1458 02:00:48.800 --> 02:00:51.720 a little weird to me over this whole thing. We had a neighbor. 1459 02:00:51.800 --> 02:00:57.079 His name was Archie, literally the guy next door. He'd go on binges 1460 02:00:57.119 --> 02:01:00.520 for three or four days. His little kids would show up at our front 1461 02:01:00.560 --> 02:01:02.720 door, five and six years old, knocking on our door. I'd end 1462 02:01:02.840 --> 02:01:05.960 up going over there, getting them dressed, getting him on the bus at 1463 02:01:06.000 --> 02:01:11.159 the bus stop, because dad was passed out drunk after three days of drinking. 1464 02:01:11.359 --> 02:01:15.560 He worked for Cisco Tom He got fired for drinking on the job at 1465 02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:19.600 Cisco. His wife was an attorney, ensued Cisco got a year's back pay 1466 02:01:19.720 --> 02:01:24.520 because apparently, if you drink on the job and you're an alcoholic, it's 1467 02:01:24.560 --> 02:01:30.000 a disease or I didn't something, yeah, and she got one year whatever 1468 02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:32.119 it was a back pay. And then on top of all of that, 1469 02:01:32.359 --> 02:01:35.840 you know what the company did, Cisco. They had to reinstate him. 1470 02:01:36.079 --> 02:01:41.199 They waited about a week and fired him for no reason at all. That's 1471 02:01:41.319 --> 02:01:46.600 right. So okay, here's a kill BOM. Do you have Do you 1472 02:01:46.720 --> 02:01:50.319 have anybody that I may be able to talk to? You mean an attorney, 1473 02:01:50.479 --> 02:01:57.840 lawyer? You don't need one. You're gonna end up getting that payment. 1474 02:01:57.880 --> 02:02:01.159 It's going to defeat your whole purpose of getting unemployment. I mean, 1475 02:02:01.279 --> 02:02:05.840 unless you're suing this company for something major, it's just an unemployment hearing, 1476 02:02:08.119 --> 02:02:13.560 right. I just feel like that if I'd lost this, if they believed 1477 02:02:13.640 --> 02:02:17.399 her on the first did they get proof? Did they get any proof from 1478 02:02:17.439 --> 02:02:21.560 her the first time? No, I've never been I've never was written up. 1479 02:02:21.640 --> 02:02:25.439 I was never There was no write ups there. I was never even 1480 02:02:25.560 --> 02:02:30.239 approached about alcohol nothing. Okay, I ever said me about alcohol. Ever, 1481 02:02:31.840 --> 02:02:34.920 you don't have You don't have subpoena power like you think you do with 1482 02:02:35.039 --> 02:02:39.000 courts. You're not going to get transcripts of a meeting. You're not going 1483 02:02:39.079 --> 02:02:44.760 to get private notes. But what you can do is demand documentation. That's 1484 02:02:44.840 --> 02:02:47.159 one thing I know. And Monty, I don't have an answer as to 1485 02:02:47.239 --> 02:02:50.239 why you were turned down the first time. I will tell you this, 1486 02:02:53.079 --> 02:02:59.760 I've never found someone denied unemployment yet. I've had people walk off the job, 1487 02:03:00.079 --> 02:03:03.640 that people use my credit card for liquor. I've had people, I 1488 02:03:03.720 --> 02:03:08.920 mean, just I can't even tell you had someone leave in the middle of 1489 02:03:09.039 --> 02:03:14.960 a show that was producing it right, a live show. Now, what 1490 02:03:15.199 --> 02:03:18.960 the hell? Yeah? You know why, Mark? Guess why? Guess 1491 02:03:19.000 --> 02:03:25.199 why she wasn't fired because I did not have a written policy of leaving during 1492 02:03:25.279 --> 02:03:27.760 the show that you can't leave in the middle. Oh, by the way, 1493 02:03:27.800 --> 02:03:31.680 I gotta go, Yeah, Monty, I gotta take a break, 1494 02:03:31.720 --> 02:03:34.880 Bro. I mean, I'm just telling you. You gotta go through with 1495 02:03:34.960 --> 02:03:38.279 it. You hate and man, I know you don't want to hear this, 1496 02:03:38.439 --> 02:03:41.920 but honestly, it's a gut feeling you probably only you know, if 1497 02:03:41.920 --> 02:03:44.000 you have an issue, you might want to check into that. Bro, 1498 02:03:44.960 --> 02:03:47.000 Why do you think so, Mark, I don't hear anything. I don't 1499 02:03:47.000 --> 02:03:50.119 think he's drunk right now by any means. I just I don't know why 1500 02:03:50.199 --> 02:03:53.680 I think that actually, And that's why he said, only he knows, 1501 02:03:54.439 --> 02:03:56.800 yeah, but he would have had even if he did it. Even if 1502 02:03:56.840 --> 02:04:00.520 he does Actually he could claim he's an alcoholic and he needed rehab and he'll 1503 02:04:00.520 --> 02:04:04.600 get his job back and everything. But and they didn't work with him, 1504 02:04:05.119 --> 02:04:08.680 and they knew it. I mean, he could really make it hard of 1505 02:04:08.720 --> 02:04:14.720 them because these at jerks just went and admitted they would have had admitted they 1506 02:04:14.800 --> 02:04:19.359 knew it right. That's why I can't believe they picked alcoholism. I mean, 1507 02:04:19.720 --> 02:04:26.239 you know he's crazy three oh three seven one three talks seven one three 1508 02:04:26.359 --> 02:04:30.319 eight two five five. 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You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real 1517 02:05:05.560 --> 02:05:11.079 estate man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine 1518 02:05:11.119 --> 02:05:19.479 two zero sixteen twenty two. Hello Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter at three 1519 02:05:19.560 --> 02:05:25.600 O three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five 1520 02:05:25.800 --> 02:05:34.600 five. All right, welcome, let's talk. It is Jerry's turn. 1521 02:05:35.079 --> 02:05:42.479 Jerry, what is happening? Oh? Yes, my husband had a gym 1522 02:05:42.560 --> 02:05:50.119 membership at a prestige in Ravada and h they uh just suddenly closed and they 1523 02:05:50.319 --> 02:05:58.079 gave everyone there like a month over at just other YMCA and Nevada. But 1524 02:05:58.439 --> 02:06:04.960 then they owed as one hundred and seventy six thirty three for six months left 1525 02:06:05.079 --> 02:06:11.720 on the contract and it was all agreed. How do you know it's one 1526 02:06:11.880 --> 02:06:18.640 seventy six thirty three exactly that was left because I called the place where they 1527 02:06:18.720 --> 02:06:25.279 had the billing through and talked to a final over there and she said that 1528 02:06:25.399 --> 02:06:28.680 it was approved to be it get that much. Then that was what was 1529 02:06:28.800 --> 02:06:35.000 left on the contract. What was the name of the gym Prestige also known 1530 02:06:35.079 --> 02:06:43.279 as Zone. So anyway, the point is you did get somewhat of a 1531 02:06:43.439 --> 02:06:46.560 membership into something else to make up for it, but it did not make 1532 02:06:46.640 --> 02:06:51.880 up for all of it? Or what correct? Okay? So if he 1533 02:06:53.000 --> 02:06:58.680 had one seventy six coming, what was the value of the other membership they 1534 02:06:58.760 --> 02:07:02.960 gave him in place of Prestige? There was no value. They just let 1535 02:07:03.039 --> 02:07:09.279 it. They let the members use uh, the gym membership at the YMCA 1536 02:07:09.680 --> 02:07:14.880 for just a month or two in lieu of them trying to open up another 1537 02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:17.760 place. They did not get that other place opened. Okay, So what 1538 02:07:18.079 --> 02:07:24.560 is the what is the value? What is the value of that of the 1539 02:07:24.760 --> 02:07:27.680 use of the YMCA for two months? Is it a free gym or do 1540 02:07:28.079 --> 02:07:30.439 they normally pay? What is it? Yeah, that car was free until 1541 02:07:30.600 --> 02:07:33.920 No. I'm not asking if it's free to you. I'm asking if I 1542 02:07:34.199 --> 02:07:42.640 walked in off street, what it's similar in price? Okay? So the 1543 02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:48.079 YMCA is similar to Prestige. So your husband, in essence got two months. 1544 02:07:49.199 --> 02:07:55.399 How many months did he have coming at Prestige? He had a year 1545 02:07:55.439 --> 02:07:59.600 and a half contract, and how many did he have left? He had 1546 02:07:59.680 --> 02:08:05.199 six month after he had the free time at the YMCA. So after that 1547 02:08:05.520 --> 02:08:11.600 time he had six months left on his contract. Still after that free time, 1548 02:08:13.800 --> 02:08:16.640 I think it's defunct. I mean, the company just to go. 1549 02:08:16.840 --> 02:08:20.800 I understand there's nothing she can do, but I'm trying to figure something out. 1550 02:08:20.199 --> 02:08:26.279 If the Prestige membership, what's the Prestige membership for one year? It 1551 02:08:26.439 --> 02:08:31.039 was a year and a half. How much an action Prestige still has an 1552 02:08:31.079 --> 02:08:37.199 opening up in the Southland, Jerry, Jerry, how much a year or 1553 02:08:37.279 --> 02:08:43.680 for eighteen months? What was the lump sum payment for eighteen months? Nine 1554 02:08:43.720 --> 02:08:48.560 dollars? Oh my god, really, that's that's pretty okay. I did 1555 02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:54.840 not know it was that much. Yeah, okay, So divided by that 1556 02:08:56.119 --> 02:09:00.680 okay, So he had eighteen months, so it's divided by eight team so 1557 02:09:00.920 --> 02:09:05.960 it was basically so it's thirty bucks a month. Basically he was paying basically, 1558 02:09:07.000 --> 02:09:11.000 okay. And you're saying after getting the free membership at the y, 1559 02:09:11.159 --> 02:09:16.119 he's still upside down, a little upside down by six months for that one 1560 02:09:16.199 --> 02:09:20.199 hundred and seventy six thirty three, Yes, right, okay. And you 1561 02:09:20.279 --> 02:09:22.680 said there is another location, a are you allowed to access that one? 1562 02:09:24.960 --> 02:09:28.800 Well? That one is I don't care if it's in fail I'm asking you 1563 02:09:28.960 --> 02:09:31.840 can you access it. Yeah, are you allowed to use your card to 1564 02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:37.439 get in there? I get as far as I know, Yes, I 1565 02:09:37.520 --> 02:09:43.720 don't know. Oh well then that's the answer, isn't it. Just The 1566 02:09:43.840 --> 02:09:50.159 point is that the people everybody has agreed that they owe it to my husband, 1567 02:09:50.840 --> 02:09:56.000 but they am. All we're trying to do is get a check sent 1568 02:09:56.199 --> 02:10:00.680 to our home because we've paid with cash and we don't want give them our 1569 02:10:00.760 --> 02:10:05.479 banking information because we've heard of a whole bunch of stories of other people that 1570 02:10:07.079 --> 02:10:11.199 horror stories. Just open another bank account just to receive that that's not a 1571 02:10:11.239 --> 02:10:16.680 big deal. Yeah, well yeah, I don't know if my husband would 1572 02:10:16.680 --> 02:10:22.800 do that, but they they are they every single thing. It sounds like 1573 02:10:22.920 --> 02:10:26.359 they've tried to make it right and you almost make it. Did they offered 1574 02:10:26.479 --> 02:10:35.560 did they offer to achu the money? I guess a debit card. But 1575 02:10:35.720 --> 02:10:39.680 there's like a ton of other social on social media, there's a ton of 1576 02:10:39.760 --> 02:10:43.640 other people that have issues with the prestige. They also close the lake with 1577 02:10:43.800 --> 02:10:48.079 locations. Yeah, but this has nothing, Jerry, Jerry. All I'm 1578 02:10:48.119 --> 02:10:52.800 concerned about right now is your situation. You're owed one and seventy six dollars. 1579 02:10:52.880 --> 02:10:56.000 Okay, here's what I want to know they're willing to put it on 1580 02:10:56.119 --> 02:10:58.119 a debit card or what did they say they're willing to do? Put it 1581 02:10:58.199 --> 02:11:03.520 into or check it jimmercart or the bank or personal bank account. And for 1582 02:11:03.600 --> 02:11:05.600 me, well, that's all I can ask him to do. I I 1583 02:11:05.960 --> 02:11:09.399 can't if you don't want to do that, I I understand, but I 1584 02:11:09.479 --> 02:11:11.279 don't think you can. I I don't think we can call them and demand 1585 02:11:11.359 --> 02:11:16.640 they write a check. I don't think either. No, I just don't. 1586 02:11:16.760 --> 02:11:20.279 I I'm not saying you're being a nut or unreasonable or anything, but 1587 02:11:20.560 --> 02:11:24.079 it's nothing we can It's not like this company's trying to cheat you. So 1588 02:11:24.439 --> 02:11:28.880 so it really comes down to they owe you money and you don't want to 1589 02:11:28.920 --> 02:11:33.319 take a direct transfer. I would take the direct transfer as I was you. 1590 02:11:33.880 --> 02:11:35.159 You don't have to open up a new account. All you have to 1591 02:11:35.239 --> 02:11:39.520 do is is go to your account and shut down all ach payments out all 1592 02:11:39.560 --> 02:11:41.880 of them, or just let them make card. Yeah, I just take 1593 02:11:41.920 --> 02:11:46.680 a debit card. That's like cash. Well, they want to put it 1594 02:11:46.720 --> 02:11:52.560 on our debit card. Listen, Jerry, the best to you. I 1595 02:11:52.840 --> 02:11:54.720 wish you the best. Three oh three seven to one three talk seven one 1596 02:11:54.800 --> 02:12:00.479 three eight two five five listen. Premiere does window washing, and I'm telling 1597 02:12:00.520 --> 02:12:05.000 you they're great young men with a lot of good hard working people. 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I explained to him I didn't 1614 02:13:11.560 --> 02:13:15.199 want to do that because I paid cash and I just want to cash back. 1615 02:13:15.600 --> 02:13:18.920 And so she said she was going on vacation, she was going to 1616 02:13:18.960 --> 02:13:20.199 take care of all this and the caller back in like a week or two. 1617 02:13:20.560 --> 02:13:24.840 So when I called back, she told me that Prestige told them at 1618 02:13:24.920 --> 02:13:28.119 the billing center that they were not going to be issuing any more refunds through 1619 02:13:28.159 --> 02:13:31.279 the call center, that I needed to call one of the clubs to get 1620 02:13:31.319 --> 02:13:35.159 taken care of. So, long story short, I did everything they asked 1621 02:13:35.199 --> 02:13:39.279 me to do. I called, talked to numerous people at the South location, 1622 02:13:39.439 --> 02:13:41.640 which is still open, and I got nowhere with these people, they 1623 02:13:41.640 --> 02:13:45.560 wouldn't return my phone calls. So, Michael, let me just ask you 1624 02:13:45.760 --> 02:13:50.039 very quickly, Michael, very quickly, are they refusing to give the money 1625 02:13:50.239 --> 02:13:54.640 or just ghosting you? They're ghosting me? All right, let's take this 1626 02:13:54.800 --> 02:13:56.119 up, and now we're going to help you. We'll take it up. 1627 02:13:56.439 --> 02:14:01.359 Hold on, we'll get your information and get you back on I'm Tom Martino. 1628 02:14:01.479 --> 02:14:05.439 Thank you guys sharing an auto tech and JFR cars save all your problems 1629 02:14:05.479 --> 02:14:05.680 for me.