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Show. No Tom Martine, Hey, welcome to the show. Three oh
three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Today is
car Friday, uh, and we will talk cars with Jeff fick Kimer transmission.
Kevin Calkins shared an auto tech but we don't talk just cars. We
talk everything you want, anything you want. Now. Obviously cars still a
major part of our lives. But I'm just pretty uh, I don't know,
I don't know how to put it. It's almost sad for me.
I'm just kind of well, if I had to describe, if I had
to describe my experience with cars in general, I'm sorry. But think about
it. They're boring. Have you guys noticed that all SUVs are looking the
same. Oh yeah, if you don't see the back and see whether who
makes it, you don't know what it is. And that sucks. Man
and Sedan's are boring. I mean, everything's boring. The only thing not
boring right now is that cyber truck is not out yet. But I mean,
really, no one is really changing anything. I don't know what it
is now. Obviously exotic sports cars they look kind of cool. The McLaren's
and the the the you know, the well, you know, the Lamborghinis,
and I love the Corvette by the way, you know that, But
that that's not practical I'm talking about. There used to be a time you
could stand out with an everyday driver. I mean, what are they?
You know? I think that the thing that the reason Mercedes g wagons are
getting surch charge one hundred and seventy five to one hundred grand on top of
sticker is because they're probably one of the only SUVs that actually look different.
And then of course they got popular, and then everybody wanted one. And
then what else? Though? Does any you know that Toyota FJ. I
don't think they make them anymore, but people love those. If you had
to pick something, I mean, it's just and for think about this.
You get a company like BMW comes out with the X models and they make
them all the same, just different sizes exactly, I mean, and then
you have like Tesla, Tesla the X models a little different. It's kind
of fun with those doors and weird, but in general, in general,
folks, I mean, seriously, does anything. That's why a lot of
people are turning to trucks, although trucks aren't exciting either. Any any exciting
trucks people anything. I mean when I say exciting me, just come out,
you know, just look a little different, you know, I mean
cool coolness. But am I wrong? I mean, do you Mark?
Are you excited? Or he might be working on YouTube. I'm not sure,
but Mark, are you excited? What are you got on here right
now? He's not? Well Okay, let me ask you guys, do
any trucks really excite you? I mean, I know you have trucks you
like, but anything really excite you? As far as body lines and whatnot,
They're all similar interior. I like, even if they had a great
interior. You know what, you know, I'll tell you what the the
last the last thing in trucks. Two things in trucks that made a little
bit of a ripple in the market. When Dodge came out years ago with
the fenders. Remember they kind of took out the box look and gave you
some fenders on the front. That was pretty cool, you know. And
then when Ford came out with the big giant grill up front with the big
fr D. I mean, you make a little change like that and people
go crazy. And of course, let's see, I don't know, we
don't like but I mean the body line is a beautiful car, but I
mean reliability wise, it's terrible. Which one is that? Oh? Now
you know what that is one of the ones that stands out a little.
The sport is beautiful, it is, but they're pieces of crap. Anyway,
Brian wants to talk about Breckinridge. Let's go. Let's talk about that.
Hey, by the way, anything you want to talk about. And
I am monitoring messaging at LinkedIn and next door or so also my YouTube morons
and I think we are up now on YouTube and so so what's going on?
Let's talk what is happening with you and Breckinridge? What's going on with
that? Hey? Tom? Yeah, So we stay in a resort.
You know, we sayed last year, first year this year. When we
checked in, we you know, everything was kind of running like that,
tons of checks and stuff. My wife and daughter noticed it. You know,
some some internal doorjams, you know, little damage, a little separation
in the doorjam. And now where where were you checking into I mean,
was this a place for just a few nights or what? Yeah, that's
for the week and it's called the Ranahan. It's part of a high vacation
club. So we're actually, you know, renting from some people that have
a you know, timeshare, herpes and got it, got it your person.
So you you were renting, you were renting, you were renting one
of these condos for a week, and what what's wrong? You noticed a
few things wrong with it? Right? Well, I mean that's if you
thinks wrong. But we didn't think any think of the internal doorjam stuff,
you know, and uh, they didn't even think about reporting it. I
didn't know it's my wife and got it in. But now it says I'm
gotting home. I can alert on my credit card that I got an additional
five hundred dollars charge and I called in their charge you need for damage that
already there and oh really that sucks. Man. Wait a minute, So
you're being charged for something you noticed when you went in. Yep, and
we because we didn't actually bring it up to them because again I said,
it was this internal How can I guess how much are you being charged?
Brian? Five hundred dollars coly, holy crap, no fooling it. Put
it put a stayed on. Actually a wonderful, wonderful family vacation, you
know, with some wonderful Well they're in a beautiful and a beautiful area.
But I guess my real question I want Mark's advice on this because you're a
pro right you mean, wait, wait, a pro at? What you
mean small claims court or damaging places? You're a funny man. No,
No, Mark's a pro. At at is the bad word to use for
small claims court? And and what that would be the place to go?
However, what is your to what damage? Is it the doorjam that you
notice that they're charging you for, that's what they're saying. Then you sent
pictures, nfel. I emailed those over as soon as got those at hell,
can you tell me what what is that doorjam damage? If you could
tell me, is it something that somebody kicked in or something? No,
all I can see is that they never it's separating the doorjam was actually separating
from the wall a little bit, which I don't even know how on earth.
To me, it looks more like deferred maintenance or hey, you know
the buildings shifted and so of the Doorjam's not really square, and there's a
little bit of a separation. They sent like six or seven pictures a different
things. Some of them can't tell what they are. One of them is
even like the fire of the smoke detector is separating at the ceiling. We
won't even have the ommer reaching. Wait they charged you for that too.
Well, that's a picture they sent to us. And wait the smoke alarm
too. Yeah, and it's but you can see that there's tape on it
as well. So at one point they look like the hand that taped up.
I wonder, man, this is weird. I wonder they if they
get everyone with it. That's what I'm wondering to righte Hey, you know
they failed to report it. Well, boy, gives you that question.
You know, this guy might have done all the damage himself and he's just
trying to get us. But tell me why he would I don't know,
why would he damage I don't know jam like that. I want to see
that. I want to shady. I mean, do you guys hear that
shadiness? Mark? Mark? You know, just because you know what I'd
like to see it. Sus, did you did you send that, Tommy
sending it now? Okay, let's take a look at it over the break.
Hold on a second, just hold on, Brian, we'll come back
and look at it. Linda. What's going is this? Is this?
Linda? I couldn't. I can't find that picture of that of that radio,
the Bull radio. Yeah, I'm I mean, did you send us
a page Susan? Did we ever get a picture of that? I know
they said they sent it to me, but I can't find it anywhere.
Hey, Tommy, that must have been when Kelly was on. I can
look through my emails here in a month. Sorry, you know we don't
have to, Linda. I don't want to belabor this with you. We
want to buy that radio for you. And I've been looking for bows,
but there's so many of them. I want to ask you something. The
movers broke their radio. They're in their nineties and they want another radio.
The movers don't acknowledge they did the damage, right, Linda, they don't
acknowledge. Its correct, That is correct, and you're positive they broke it,
yes, because it was completely fine before it was wrapped up. They
wrapped it in shrink wrap, which really doesn't protect it that much, but
they were loading up their van. It was in the evening and it was
dark, and they had no choice but to do that. And when we
unloaded it and plugged in the radio, my husband noticed the bottom was broken
and there was no shun We plugged it in and turned it. By the
way, I'm glad that you called because I did have some questions. Does
the color matter to you? I noticed there were some darker and they don't
maybe always have that in the beige. Does the color matter to you?
No, the color does not matter to us. Okay, as long as
it's essentially the same radio. Yes, okay, dear, thank you Linda.
Hey Tom, I found those pictures. I'm sending them to you.
All right, good Linda. I'll renew this effort here. And I'm so
sorry. Thank you for calling back and make sure we have your information because
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Hi Tom Martino here three O three seven one three talks seven one three eight
two five five. We're gonna talk about your problems, questions, complaints.
We were talking to Brian and Brian said that he stayed at a place and
was charged for damages he did not do. I'm wondering what people do to
protect themselves. They need to take pictures I guess of any damage they see
when they get in there so it's timestamped, and then immediately let people know
he didn't do that. So Mark, what do you think do you think
they'll just pay up if he filed the small claim? What do you think
that they would do? I'll help him out with that. But honestly,
I think what we do is let's have Scott call over there and see if
he can't figure something out for the guy. And if that doesn't work,
I'll help Brian out. I'll I know he lives, and I think he
lives in Arkansas, so I'll kind of send him the paperwork and tell him
kind of how to fill it out. Yeah, he does. You can't
tell by his weird his weird verbiage. He lives in Arkansas. I think
he married his cousin. Well, Mark, you got to understand something.
To me, he sounds like Einstein. But I'm with you every day,
yea, So, Professor Brian, we are going to let Mark help you.
And uh, well, let's have a question though, and I'm going
to contest the charge of my credit cards. And I know Mark always says,
you know, you know, you know, breach of contract. You
know, I like to keep it short and simple as well. It does
not necessarily breach a contract. What do you think, Well, it kind
of is. Everything can be really put under there. I mean it kind
of is the contract is that they would charge you for damages. You didn't
do the damages, so it is kind of they swipe the card. Brian,
I believe I swiped on site, But yeah, you're gonna I don't
think that put the hold on. I wouldn't. I guess I would actually.
I mean, you can contest it. They're going to give you a
provisional credit, but it's going to bounce back. There's no doubt. Man.
I know, I know, I know it won't go through. But
are you Are you dealing with the owner or some kind of agency like vacation
rentals I've been doing. I've been dealing with the manager at the at the
at the Ranahan Resorts there directly and frankly, she's so does he sue the
owner or does he sue Ranahan? What does he? Who does he sue
whoever he charge? Okay, listen, Brian, We're gonna have Deputy Dollar
call over there to see what proof they have, because I venture to say
the previous tenants got charged as well. That's just my gut. And then
if that doesn't work, we'll proceed with the small claims card I personally would
not. I mean, you can contest that. I don't know if I
would. Gabe has a question on Corvette. Today is a car day,
So Dave, what gives? What's happening? I love corvettes. Last night
we're looking at Valet. As we're walking in, we see these, these
McLarens, these other cars. And I took my daughter out for her birthday,
and I see I see the Corvette and the McLaren and Lamborghini and other
things, and that Corvette looks just as nice as any one of them.
The best dollar value in the world the new Corvette. I guess it's the
C eight platform. Gabe. I don't know if you're asking about new or
use go ahead, Yes, Tom, I have a twenty fifteen Corvette Stingery
Ragtop. I bought it with twenty thousand miles. Now I have fifty three
thousand miles. And my tork two went out, okay, and I took
it and got a fix. That's four thousand dollars. Now. I got
a little noise in the front. It started when I picked the car up.
It's sound great. Now I have a noise in the front, and
I thought it was Mike what did you have done the tork tube? And
now there's a noise so that you know, guys, we always have this
expression, once they touch it, they own it. However, that's too
much of a coincidence. Don't you think of front end noise after getting the
torques the torque tube? What do you think? Guys? Did I start
up immediately upon getting it back? I'm sorry? What was that the noise?
Was it a parent immediately when you got it back? No? It
was good to COVID twenty miles and I, my wife and I jumped into
it. Four rag came to the stoplin Nix. You know there's a noise.
That's the car in front of me. Now, but wait a minute.
After twenty mile that's pretty immediate. Was it twenty miles? Right?
And well that's that's immediate. Did you drive back? Did you call him?
Yeah? He told me to drive it. You listen to it,
and he goes drive a five hundred more miles and bring it back. Then
I went to pulled him up. I got two hundred miles on him and
he's towing me a driver another five hundred miles. A shit quiet itself down.
You think it's apparance in the lineup. Things don't go away like that,
do they, Guys? Is that wise information? Not in the torque
to No, there's no break in or anything to that. You know,
you need to get it checked. How much did you spend on that work?
Four thousand? Listen, that's a lot of money. Man. Well
the parts alone were probably three, weren't they. What I would do is
this, I would take it somewhere independent to look at it and get it
diagnostic. Then I would say, if it's something related to what they did,
and it's minor and you can get it fixed, get it fixed.
If not, if it's something major with that spent four grand, then you
have ammunition. I mean if we call them, what's the name of the
place, a Corvette Connection? Okay, we don't get a lot of complaints
about them. You guys know anything about Corvette Connection. I'm not familiar with
them. I've never heard of them. Never heard of them either. How
long have they been around? Twenty six years? Are you on a court?
Are you yeah? They have good ratings. Are you on a forum?
Oh, an owner's forum? You know, I'm on an owner forum
for everything I have, you know, you know, like the owners get
together and discuss their vehicles. They discuss like Tesla has one, BMW has
one, Mercedes has one, they all have one. Fifth Corvette Tom and
this is the first C seven I had, and I looked them up.
I guess that's the main problem with this car. The exhaust burns up that
rubber you joined and tears up the bearings at twenty thirty thousand miles. Well,
if that's the case. Though, if that's the case, did they
replace that stuff? I don't know anything about it. When when they put
in this this bar did they replace all that? Right? They're rubber and
say it's also runner right down the middle and that's under in a tube and
it says sheet that tears up the rubber and the baron cooks the bearings.
And this is a common problem with Corvette I understand. Is that why you
took it in to begin with for that common problem? Why you took it
in from my brake to get fixed? And he turned it off and I
had a rumble sounding turned up carbonyl head. That's a gridline jumping around because
the rubber uge lines are so he changed him, right, and you have
an invoice that shows that right. And that's the four thousand dollars. That's
what costs you four grand, four grand rebuild it. He rebuilt your shack.
Okay, okay, so what do we do without proof? If we
call him like, they're going to say, what I mean just I mean,
well, well, actually you can call him and say I talked to
some mechanics and they say, that's ridiculous that I drive more. It sounds
like the guy wants you to put more time on it, to get farther
away from his repair. And then he says, well, now it's too
late. That's what it sounds like to me. Well he warrants you for
thirteen thousand miles or three months. Oh that's funny, he said, he'll
we open it again. But I asked him yesterday. I said, if
it causes more damage, it's on you, right, No, it's not
on him. It's not on him. Man, I'm going to tell you
that it's not on him. That's why. Here's what I would do.
I'm going to say it one more time, I get it analyzed right now
by someone independent. Sorry, that's what I would do. It's going to
cost you a few bucks, but you have to do it. And then
you know, next time, you're not so fast to go to Corvette Connection.
If they made a mistake like that, I'd also put an online review
on it, And then if I were you, Gabe, I would get
on a corvette forum. There are tons of them. Forms are one of
the most valuable things you can do. Man, I'm telling you. I'm
on forums for engines, I'm on forums for aircraft, I'm on forums for
cars. Any of you guys get on owner forums. I can't. I
don't know if I can see Kevin clicking a keyboard over there doing that,
but maybe he does, do he Kevin Well, he's full of insults today,
he is. He's taking everybody out. No, I just all the
time. Yeah, there's there's owner websites, There's all kinds of stuff.
There's yeah, oh definitely. Sometimes you get a mystery problem you're searching around.
You've actually touched in on these forums that you're not part of. Mark
you got on forums like Tesla's well, John Deere, that would be the
only one I can think of. Yeah, but they're a wealth of information.
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issue. Denise, welcome, what's going on? Yes, Hi Tom,
Hey, I have listened to your show for a very long time. Thank
you. The situation I feel needs to be shared. I don't think there's
much that can be done for my son's community, but I want the public
to be aware of it, and it could be something. It could be
something we already discussed. Let's let's talk about it. So what's going on
in his community? Okay, my son purchased a town home in a community
out in our beda five years ago. Okay, it's a brand new community
as of five years ago. They have I would estimate eighty units and so
he my son and his neighbors probably don't have much recourse. But his neighbor
informed him they live in a pod. You know what I mean by a
pod in a tom townhouse community where there's four units in each pod. Yeah,
well we call them buildings, but go ahead, it's fine, Yeah,
okay, anyway, they're A B and C and D. But the
owners in A and B are having major leaks from the roof into their units.
And this is in the Sun's pod, right, No, yes,
yes, it's in his pod. It hasn't hit his unit yet, but
the I get it in the sun. Yeah, in your son's building.
She uh, in the Sun's building, there are two units suffering leaks.
Go ahead, right, very very bad leaks like they have rusting, uh,
heating, HVAC units and that sort of thing. Yeah, So they
a roof for So they contacted the you know they just bought these five years
ago. Yeah, the builder said, I'm sorry, but your warranty for
that roof was one year. Yeah, Brent, that's right. There's nothing
we can do for you. If you want, you can contact the manufacturer.
Well, the assessment if first of all, you got to get it
inspected and get some professional opinions. Second of all, if it turns out
to be a roof problem the shingle itself, which ninety percent of the time
it's not, or ninety eight percent of the time it's more installation and flashing.
But let's say it's a manufacturer's problem. They will replace the shingles,
but they won't do the labor. So what you first need to start out
with is a professional opinion. Oh, you guys are shooting blind. You
have no idea what's wrong with the roof. Second of all, if it
came from a hailstorm that they never got fixed. You only had one year
to report it, so they're out of luck. It could be that the
pod will need a new roof. Now here's the good news. Depending on
how the HOA is written. Normally, a roof on one pod is shared
by all pods even though it's one pod. But sometimes they could make each
pod stand separately for capital assessments. I don't know how those are written,
so you got a lot to find out. The first thing is a professional
opinion. The second thing is then finding coverage. If there's no coverage,
then the third thing is looking to the bylaws to see who is responsible for
that pod. Is it the entire community or is it just that pod?
But it won't It most likely will not be an ensurable thing. Okay,
Well, the gentleman in Pod two or B, should I say he already
contacted a roofer that went up and the roofer saw like gaps in the shingles,
missing shingles, things like that. It sounds like it's probably going to
be relatively easy to fix. But I don't know what roof for this guy
had go up there, and I trust very few roofers, so I would
say you have to call one of our roofers before I'd believe it. But
you guys do whatever you want. Tom Yeah, your preaching to the choir.
The first thing I said to the neighbor yesterday was really, how did
you find this roofer? So it's like a friend of a friend? I
said, okay, and I met the roofer yesterday. Okay. Did the
roofers say the whole thing has to be redone or he can fix it?
Of course he's saying the whole thing had to be redone. Okay, I
would get Excel Roofing. Let's just cut to the chase. Call Excel Roofing
and ask them to come out and look at it. That's it and you
can do it. You don't have to wait for the neighbor to do it.
By the way, I don't even think you guys get to say who
does it? I think it's an HOA thing. Did you guys contact the
HOA? First person they contact is should I say organization with the HOA?
They said, hey, we don't have anything to do with roofie and that's
you. You got to deal with the building. Well, you know,
first you look, Okay, remember I said you have to look at the
bylaws. I've never heard yet yet of an h a of an hoa community
of town homes where the HOA has nothing to do with the roof. Okay,
I've never heard of it. So you're going to have to educate yourself
because it sounds like you're around a bunch of dead beats and morons. No,
I shouldn't say morons because my YouTube morons. I insult them every time
I do that, and uh, that's really a badge of honor. I
would say they're a bunch of idiots. So you got to educate yourself.
Call us back. We'll be happy to help you. Trail three seven to
one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Louri, you have
an auto hell claim? Question? What is it? Lauri? Hi,
Tom, thank you so much for taking my call. Yes, I had
a hail claim a few years ago. It was on five twenty nine one.
My question is how long would I have to get that work completed on
both my home well completed? You can have it. You can have it
completed whenever you want. I think they'll keep the claim open in three four
years. It depends on your contract. But you have to report it and
file a claim within the first year, Okay, which I did. I
did file the claim in January of twenty two. I just haven't had the
work completed. Well, you better make sure that your particular contract doesn't have
a deadline. Okay, okay, make sure it doesn't have a deadline.
And did you already yelow damage? Did you already get paid on it?
So they wrote the initial check and then said once I have the work completed
that they would pay for any You know the difference between the actual the depreciation.
Who is your insurance carrier at the time, American Family on the home
and Geico on the cars? Well is this for car or home? Both?
And you don't have either of those turance companies? Now I don't.
I went I'm going to tell you something, okay, insurance, I just
want to tell you something. You may have a problem. I'm going to
call I want to get compass On to answer this because this is more complicated
than normal. Hold on, we got more coming up. I'm Tom Martino.
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two. All right, I'm Tom Martino, and we are going to go
back to the phones because we have now we're waiting for Compass to talk to
Laurie about this, this insurance claim. I want to let people know what
happens when they they get paid the first check and don't have the work done
and years have passed. We'll see what happens. Lucretia, I think that's
right. I'm sorry, Lucretia. Was that how I pronounce it or how
you pronounce your name? Whatever? You called about a day eating scam a
while back, and it was terrible and I have all of your information still,
by the way, and I've been looking into it. I really have,
because I wanted to do a posting on it. We used to call
those articles, you know on the internet and on all the news sites I
do, but haven't done it yet. And to bring people up to speed,
what happened with Lucretia is she started snapchatting a guy who contacted her on
Snapchat, and to make a long story short, he said he was a
marine stationed in Turkey. He lost his wallet and credentials. He needed her
bank account to deposit money. But the problem is she well, not the
problem. But she thought, well, you know, I'm not going to
give him my bank account, but I'll open a new one and i won't
put any money in it, so I'm not going to be in danger of
him stealing from me. So she did have her radar up a little,
so she did this new account and then he sent her a check to deposit
and then draw out from to presend to him. And make a long story
short, the bank calls and says the check was bad. You owe us
money. Where do we stand today? Hello? Yes, where do we
stand today? He actually was able to deposit some money into that account directly,
directly? Well, what was so? Hold on a second, though,
hold on, hold on, Lucretia, what's unusual about that? He
already we already know he can write bad checks. Well, I was kind
of curious because I found out that he deposited money. Why the heck couldn't
he withdraw? He was asking me to withdraw. I'm going to tell you.
I'm going to tell you why. Okay, it's your account, it's
not his. But how can he deposit? I can deposit money right now
in your account? It's easy. Well, so they they you gave him,
You gave him the routing number, and you gave him the account number,
didn't you. Well, what I was going to say was that they
actually said that I have added him to my account. I didn't even know
the Sergio. There's a new name on there. Wait a minute, here's
what I'm saying, Lucretia. I don't want to confuse you. Whoever he
is. It doesn't matter if I have your routing number, if I have
your account number, I can send you money. There is no approval needed.
I don't have to be on the account. I want to make that
clear. Right now, I can say I can actually even take money out
of the account. But that is another story. Right now, this scammer,
this scammer, whoever it is, they probably impersonated you to add them
to the account for other reasons. Now why would they be added for other
reasons? Here's why, because if they want to do a zel or something,
they not a zel. Well yeah, yeah, zells are certain transfers.
They have to be on the account to make online transfers. That's probably
why they did that. But Lucretia, because you're on the account, whether
he's added to it or not, whenever money is missing, you will be
held responsible. What I suggest you do is close the account and you take
all the money out, but don't spend it because that money they're going to
want back as soon as they figure out as a scam. But at least
close the account to protect yourself. But I need to know about this new
name, so hang on for a second. I want to know that new
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Laurie had a question before the break and she wanted to know about an
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up the problem. Laurie had two different carriers, one for the car,
one for the house. She had hail damage on both. She put in
two claims and got paid the first check. I think, and Laurie,
you correct me, but I'm going to go there. And then she wants
to know how long does she have to get the repairs done. The storm
was in twenty twenty one. She filed the claim shortly after and got paid.
So, Laurie, do I have that right? Basically? That's correct?
Thankful? Okay, So, Jeremy, how much time do they give
you after you get your ACV check, and that's called the actual cash value
check, and then you get the replacement cost, which is more than which
the difference there after you get the work done. Jeremy, how long does
she have under most contracts? Yeah, most contracts actually aren't going to limit
that time. What they're really focusing on now is filing the claim within twelve
months months of the damage, so they're not going to give her a hard
time. Even if she no longer has those policies she has since moved on.
Yeah, that shouldn't matter. She just has to get the damage actually
fixed for both of those to get that recoverable depreciation. But as long as
she was covered on the data the storm, which she obviously was, and
they've paid out some, I don't think. I mean, you don't want
to go too long, so there's there's no reason to necessarily wait if you
don't have to. But yeah, once you're that far down they might have
closed the claim at this point, they could reopen it, so that shouldn't
be an issue. So yeah, I don't anticipate where she's at in the
process there'll be any issues. Laurie, who do you have now just to
have cur who do you have now out of curiosity, I have acuity.
Now, let me explain what your problem is. If you don't get the
work done, even though the previous companies aren't going to hold you accountable,
you're going to have a problem if there's another storm and you have more damage.
Right, Jeremy, Absolutely, And that's that's a big reason you don't
want to wait, because if there is another storm, it gets really muddy
as far as how that works. So please keep that in mind, Laurie.
It will complicate it. In fact, it'll diminish the claim sometimes wipe
it out. Okay, So Compass Insurance, thank you. They do the
insurance checkups. Remember you call and say am I paying too much? Am
I under insured? Am I over insured? Do I have insurance? You
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Jeremy. Okay, let's keep going here, and Laurie, like I
said, don't hesitate. I would get that done. Please get that done.
Hey, we just got a gift. What is that Mark? Read
that card? It actually was to all of us, including Kevin and Jeff
Or is gonna call him jeffin So there was a delivery. Because usually Mark,
what does it mean, come on now, you know when they say
there's a delivery, Oh my god. I was telling these guys I said,
well, I was pretty sure we're getting served. Yeah, that's right,
that's right. Happy Easter, Tom Mark, sus Kelly, Shannon,
Kevin, and Jeff from a YouTube moron Enjoy. So whoever it is is
probably watching us on YouTube right now. Really, and it's a big What's
in It? Tuesday? And I didn't even open up to guests. It's
so cool. So it's like Freeze Dride candy. It's from Sister Sweet Treats.
And there's like Freeze Dride candy, Pop Rocks, Rocky Road, Cherry
mash Licorice, some Roundup candy. Well, this is cute. I don't
like the last part they put on the card though, What that says?
Ps Mark is so much better looking than Tom. Can you take Tom off
the It's horrible? Okay, I can see that. So just what just
happens over the years. You know, I'm supposed to age like a fine
wine. But that's a ripoff. Anyway, Let's keep going. And Lucretia,
this is a sad story. But to bring people up to date,
she met a guy in Snapchat. He said he was a marine in Turkey.
She opened up a bank account for him. He deposited bogus checks or
one bogus check that she drew out money and sent to him, And now
she's getting hounded for that because it was a bad check. So since that
time, he deposited more money directly. Is she gone now? Oh?
She didn't want to hear the truth. I told her to go cancel that
account. People, there are so many twists on dating scams you're not going
to believe or big scams. Listen to this other one. This one guy
that called us yesterday. I felt so bad for this kid. Sounded like
a young man. Brauh h. What was his name? He was buying
a place, all right, And a day after he gave all his information
to his mortgage broker and real estate broker, he was hacked and a bunch
of accounts were opened in his name. How did the information get out?
We don't know. But you know what happened next, right, What happened
next was terrible because he put a freeze on his credit and all of that,
so he thought, I'm covering myself. Then he gets a phone call.
The phone call says it's coming from the IRS. In fact, it
was a correct number, so he thought, this really is the IRS.
And they tell him, listen, you were hacked. Somebody opened up a
bank account your name and put several hundreds of thousands of dollars in it.
What you need to do is now help us shut down this fraud. Unless
you're part of it. He says, I'm not part of it. So
what they do is they tell him to go and draw the money out,
take it out, and when he takes it out, he should take it
out in one hundred dollars bills and to make sure that and what he can
do is take them out. Then he's going to go deposit that with the
government. The government's going to check the bills to verify their part of the
fraud, and then they will send him back his money. It's so terrible,
So he draws out his money. Makes no sense, none of it.
But he said they were so convince. Where he had to deposit the
money is crazy. He had to deposit the money in an ATM machine at
a gas station in some bad part of town. And so he does it.
They make him stay on the phone the whole time because they say,
listen, man, if you don't stay on the phone, we can't help
you. And Colin thought he was going to be arrested for fraud of he
didn't do it. The end result, he exhausted his bank account of fifteen
thousand dollars, his entire life savings, and put it into an ATM.
Then they said these police officers would be in touch with him, and of
course when he called the police department, no such officers existed. There was
no call from the IRS, and his money is gone. Is that a
sad story or what? Holy crap? Three oh three, seven to one
three talks seven one three eight two five five. I have something very interesting
coming up. It's called the Bidenomics calculator. It's not a political discussion.
It's a mathematical discussion. This calculator purports to be an accurate assessment of what
things cost four years ago and what they cost now. You click on it
and it does the pricing. It's kind of fascinating. I think it's called
biden Mart. If you want to look at it, you can Biden hyphenmart
dot com. We'll be looking at that. And again, this is a
mathematical thing because at the beginning of the show, we joked a little I
might have been off the air, and I said, things are going great.
Unemployment is at an all time low, the stock markets at an all
time high. So how can we say that the economy is doing bad?
All major indicators show the economy is doing okay. We do have inflation,
yes, rising gas prices yes, but everything else, So what does it
mean? Wages are at an all time high? Is it good? Is
it bad? I'm not asking are you Democrat? Are you Republican? I'm
asking you is the economy better than it was under the previous administration? Biden
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two zero, sixteen twenty two. Hi, Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter,
Cliff. The economy good or bad? Welcome? Hey Tom, Hey,
Hey, I say it's like you said. On paper, it looks
great, but I don't think people fail in reality. I mean, if
you look at insurance costs now out like twenty thirty percent. Oh, insurance
is up fifty to sixty percent. Yeah, it's crazy. I have commercial
insurance. The min went up from it was about eleven thousand last year,
that's thirty thousand this year. Now, inflation would be the one thing no
one can brag about. Chicken went up ninety one percent. This is the
Biden calculatity. Guys. Have you guys ever heard of the Denny's Grand Slam?
Yeah? How much? How much do you think of Denny's Grand Slam?
Is an aurora right now? What did it used to be? Like
four ninety nine or something. I thought it was two ninety nine or three
ninety nine. That's too cheap. The most reason I think was four ninety
nine. It's twelve dollars and seventy nine cents for the I'm not talking like
the Super Slam. We're talking the Grand Slam original. Hey, what do
you think though? Do you think and I want to ask this, Cliff,
if you're still there showing man, do you think people? Is it
even fair to blame one man for inflation? I'm want to ask that straight
up. I don't think it's fair to blame Biden. I just I blamed
government for the policy on Covido long shutdowns and i'm necessarily unnecessary mandates and uh,
you know obviously they've given out all that pandemic money. Now we're paying
the cost for that. And you know, interest rates are high. No
one wants to expand because they don't want to borrow money at this price.
It's just bad. I mean, what's the annoying thing is that that's say
telling us, you know, you don't believe your checkbook, believe us things
are great, They're not. Thank you very much, well said, thank
you. Clip three all three seven one three talk seven one three eight five
five. Michael, what's going on with you? This is Michael with a
friend and a housing issue. Michael. Go ahead, Hi, Michael,
Hi, do you hear me? I? Sure do? Okay, great,
I'll be getting to wonder if I had to call in a different number.
Okay, what's going on? Man? Well, this elderly lady,
he comes in at my workplace. I work at Sprout Mark and Apple call
Fax in Colorado. Okay, and he just turned about seve any going on
seventy one. She's typically in a a motorized wheelchair. She seems, for
her age and what she's been through the hose to be quite lucid. She
does have some minor problems, but I'm more to say lucid. You know,
she she's got couple of degrees in her past, you know, and
she's she's so keen, and she knows how to keep records, yeah,
to her benefit using she knows how to use her phone smartphone for recording conversations
and all that kind of stuff. Well, sure she does. She's seventy
eight, she's not dead, that's right. She's got a spunky attitude.
She has a dumb friends league companion, emotional support animal, and she's been
through a lot. And the big thing with her is is having some severe
DHA problems, never housing authority problems. And what turns out to be in
is there was a or she called is an abatement C and it's it's an
illegitimate cheek that was placed upon her. Okay, hold on now, now,
wait a minute. She lives in Denver Housing Authority subsidized housing. And
what is this fee? Is it added every month to a rent? Or
is it a one time fee? What are we talking about? The one
time c that actually started like twelve years ago? Okay, mind you okay,
and they wait wait, wait wait, she's been paying this twelve years
yes, because she can only have four or twenty five dollars a month on
top of her rent, so she has been wait wait wait, the one
time fee, let me get this straight, was assessed twelve years ago and
she's been paying on it ever since. Yes, what it was originally forty
nine hundred dollars and he's gotten down it to twenty three hundred dollars. Do
you understand? But do you understand? What? What are we talking about?
Though? What what do you mean? Like twelve years ago she told
you a one time fee was assessed. What was it for? Well,
that's where the little bit of interesting things on here. Yeah, what does
it say? Do you have the original notice for this fee? She does?
I don't have in my possession. She but what did she say?
It was for, she said, let's see exactly here that she gives out
names too. Okay, who didn't. I just need to know what is
it for? It said here as well as DJ's legal for now that forced
the end quotes about of batement fee charge of We're dying one hundred dollars plus
back twelve years ago. The fee being flash was set back then was forced
verbally with a threat flash reality that if I did not agree to pay it
with my choice of what I can put on top of my monthly rent church
Hurls, which back then was your dog at the time, will be evicted
in seventy two hours. Okay, Michael, I still need an answer to
what was the fee it goes? I from what I can gather she told
me, is that have to do with not way call it. They have
inspections like failing an inspection. That's the only thing that can be What are
you talking about failing an inspection? Is this a home she rents an apartment
or is this something she owns? No, No, it's apartment to the
DHA. She ring you on regular But I don't understand, So hold on
a second. Another thing. Who does she pay the fee to every month
to the DHA on top of a regular wreck. But we don't know what
the reason is. Can can we talk to her directly really without any information,
like like, I don't even understand why anyone would be assessed a forty
nine dollars fee ten years ago or twelve years ago. Well that's that's because
I think, quite frankly, I don't know money under the table because they
convert. Yeah, but but that would be somebody who was there, has
been there for the last twelve years. It doesn't make sense. No one
wants to wait twelve years for their money at twenty five dollars a month.
Well, they changed it from an abateenanc fee into a maintenance repayment. See
okay, but maintenance repayment for what did she have? Damages that she caused?
Now she's passed all of her and wait a minute, and how do
you know what they changed it to. That's what she told me. And
then in a text we bot TEXTA. She's didn't let me a letter to
me and voicemails and I've seen her in person as well. Okay, we
need to contact listen, we need to talk to her directly. Then we
need to get in touch with the housing authority and just find out what the
hell it is. I mean really, I mean she's been paying ever this
what is it down to now? Twenty two two, three hundred and fourteen
dollars? This is crazy. I mean this woman could very well be getting
ripped off, yes, exactly or not, I mean or not. Well,
she's quite avid about it. And even though just recently I say that,
you know, she she she talked to the third person like her,
like her, zip her, what would be her daughter, like send me
a letter, but it was actually her. Okay, but she's very very
I mean, and all of them. Do you think there's a Do you
think there's some kind of scam going on and somebody at the housing authority is
doing this to a lot of people? Yes? I do, matter of
fact, heating okay, And I just mentioned to her. I went down
the Senior Resource Center, okay, down in just north west of her visit
the day of this last week. You told me about hey, because Mary
was complaining, Hey, I haven't had jets in the last you know,
two years. Okay. Well I thought, well, you know, I
gave her the number, and apparently now she's untacking a HUT because HUT is
over a d eighth. By the way, I don't think it's a scam
for one reason. I think it might be a mistake. But I don't
think it's a scam for one reason, no one in the right mind.
I mean, she's paying it with her rent to Denver Housing Authority. So
I mean for somebody to collect that money, they would then have to steal
from Denver Housing. And if they wanted to make money, they would just
steal from Denver Housing. There would be no reason to assess this to her.
They could just embezzle money. So it doesn't sound like a scam because
the twenty five dollars is added into her rent. Is that correct? It
was only an agreement that she verbally had a make. Hey, I understand
that. But when the rent comes due, and let's say the rent is
fifteen hundred, she pays fifteen hundred twenty five dollars, Is that right?
Well, because she said an eight, whatever she pays, she adds twenty
five hundred to her rent. Hey, Tom, here's what I think happens.
I don't think anyone knows what it's for, and she's probably been paying
it and they don't even keep account of it, and they don't even know
she overpaid Tom. Someone called in. I've been on the phones, but
someone called in who was listening to the call, and said it's for her
pet. It's a monthly pet fee they charge and if she doesn't pay it,
well hold on. No. What doesn't make sense about that though,
is she said it was a one time fee of forty nine hundred and she
has a balanced due. So if it was one if it was a monthly
fee, why would there be a balanced of twenty three hundred bucks. I
don't know, unless it's just been adding up over months. I didn't hear.
That's not a lady. I don't understand this, do you? And
Michael? I need to ask another question. If you know twelve years ago
when she first got this bill, how long had she been there that I
don't know. I don't know. Can we talk to her directly or will
she be she talks to third person? He said, that could be interesting.
Let's get her on now, I'm serious, man, this is I
am too. Let's get her on and ask her what it's about. But
you understand, Michael, did you call housing for her to find out what's
going on? No, no, do you know it could Let me just
put it this way. It could be a mistake. And if it's a
mistake, well, wait a minute, it could have been this. Wait
a minute. They said something about evicting her and her dog. It could
be that. Back then her dog did damage the apartment. They fixed it
and said you have to pay for it. That has happened before, and
it's happened even with Section eight. You have it for forty nine dollars.
Come on, I don't know you're right away. There's no way you're right.
You're right probably, but we got to investigate this. Can okay,
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Hello Tom Martino three oh three seven one three talk three all three seven
one three eight two five five. I'm kind of anxious to figure out what
this Google complaint is, Mike, what's happening? Hey Tom? Thanks sticking
my call byden inflation affecting me? Well, just real quick a side note.
Yeah, my mortgage payment was thirty three eighty a month, and I
just got my new bill, and now with property taxes and my insurance going
up, now my mortgage is four thousand dollars. Holy crap. Yeah,
yes, I am shopping my insurance. But I haven't made any claims on
my except for a hail claim two years ago, like everybody else did.
But the bottom line is, I'm just saying, like, how do people
live with a six hundred and fifty dollars increase unexpected in their life? You
know? And unbeknownst to me the day before that, I bought my wife
a new car, So it wasn't quite I wasn't quite expecting them, you
know, to be hit twice with a car payment and then almost seven hundred
dollars increase in mortgage. You know what, I understand what you're saying.
Everyone has expenses going up, and it's all relative. I mean, we
all have more expenses. I want to know this, though, Do you
blame personally? And I'm curious about this because very seldom do people talk to
people. They always read the news. But do you personally blame the Biden
administration or Biden? Do you? I absolutely do not. I blame Democrats.
I became Their tax and regulation is costing everybody dearly. That's that's well,
his house went up, person his property tax went up because of our
governor and all the Democrats in the legislature. That's the exact reason they went
up. That's not like hearsay they did it. And yeah, I don't
blame I don't blame Biden. I blame the Democrat Party and their their philosophy
that that my money is their money and that it's okay to tax and regulate
me and everybody else to death. I mean I wish, I wish Democrats
would tax Democrats and Republicans would tax Republicans, and I'd be much happier with
the taxes that I have to pay if they If intelligent people made sound decisions
that you know, truly, truly, you know, we're beneficial to my
to me and my beliefs, and not to you know, stupid causes and
and and BS regulations, you know. So my complain about Google, though,
is this, I'm a Mac person, I have an iPhone. I
do not use Google. I don't care to use Google. I use Safari
as my browser, and I use Duck Duck Go as my search engine.
I do, however, use YouTube, and recently, normally I would be
signed in and state signed in in my YouTube account on my MacBook, and
it would only it would only sign me out if I signed out. Well,
now recently every time I use is go to YouTube, they're automatically signing
me out. Yeah, it's happening to me too. On Gmail and everything
else. We don't have general Gmail, but we have a branded account on
Gmail. You know. The troubleshooter dot com doesn't do that. Mine does,
real quick Tom. It's my issue though, what it's doing is it
used to be that I could I could get a second verification, would be
a text and a verification code, and I would be able to sign it
into my YouTube. Now they remove that option, and they're demanding that I
have a Google app on my phone. I know, I know, and
that's same thing with me. But let me ask you something. The same
thing is happening to me in other words, like when I go into the
station and I have to sign in, it's set, go to Gmail on
your phone and hold it near the computer, and then when not not hold
it just they didn't actually say that. They just said go to your Gmail
account, have it handy, And then it comes up and says is this
you signing on to this PC? And I say, yes, is that
what you're talking about. No, it's the fact that they want me to
download the Google app that I don't have. I know it. I know
that's what I'm saying. But I understand that and we're not going to change
it. But do you have an Apple or an iPhone? Yes? Yes?
And do you have an iOS or excuse me, an Os a Mac
laptop? Yeah? I have a Safari my brow That's why I think it's
happening. Mark said, it's not happening to him, But it's happening exactly
exactly what you say is happening, and I think it might be an update
we took to access my phone and get into my mind. I know it,
bro, I understand that. But they don't access your phone. They
just want you to put your Gmail app on there. It's your second party
verification. But you don't have to do it. If you don't want to
use YouTube, you don't have to do it. Or you can use YouTube.
You don't have to have an account to use YouTube, is what I'm
saying. You could just delete your account there. I used to be on
YouTube all the time without having an account. You don't have to have an
account to be on YouTube. You can just browse. I just I find
it to be not appropriate that Google would attempt to violate my right of private
or No, they're not. Mike, Mike listen, other Mike listen.
Man. I'm just trying to tell you, if you go to YouTube as
a regular customer from anywhere, you don't need any account at all, ever,
ever, ever, ever, ever, you can do anything you want.
If you have an account with Google, they can tell you whatever they
want. They can tell you whatever they want. By the way, am
I wrong here? Hold on? Hold on, hold on, hold on.
You cannot no, no longer can you browse YouTube as just a person?
Hold on? I just figured this out. I went to another computer,
a private computer, so you can't. You're right, you have to
have an account. Hold on, so if you sign in? All right,
I disagree with that. He's absolutely we Mark, go ahead and try
to do it. Well, I'm trying to do it. I've been in
lots of hotels where you just pull it up. I know, Mark,
I'm trying. I swear to you. I went to an incognito tab.
That means, you know, so you cannot log onto YouTube without an acount.
Search something at the tap, search cars. I did an incognitio.
Okay, let me try that. Every thing comes up. Okay, let
me try that again. I don't want to get out wrong information that matter.
Just type in troubleshooter network you'll see hold on, hold on, you're
right, you're right, I'm in, I'm in. You're right. Sorry,
I just didn't search something. But okay, so here's what I'm saying.
Then what I was saying is correct, and I'm anonymous. Right now,
I'm a no one. I don't have an account. There's a signing
button on the top. Right. I did not do I did not sign
in, and I can search anything I want on YouTube. Now if I
want an account with Google, they are demanding that. If you want an
account with them, they're demanding a second party verification, and they can demand
it anyway they want, because it's their account. It's you're asking to have
an account with them. You know, I don't. I don't. I
don't know what the problem is if one of the if one of the things
they require is an app on your phone to verify your account. If you
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five five. Jeff's got a follow up on a catalytic converter, Jeff,
go ahead, Tom, Hey, Tom, hey man, what's happening.
I don't know if you're that would be, but I talked to you a
couple of times last couple of weeks. Okay, and it had to do
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Hey, I'm Tom Martino. Welcome to the show. Three oh three
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I often not give that number out, but I don't give out three oh
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know, you can put your number down and we'll get back to you,
so you don't have to wait. So let's talk. We're talking about a
bunch of things. Today's carde Jeff called in about a catalyg converter. He
was giving us an update. He said, the guy told me he needed
a cat it was going to be a lot of money. He was looking
into Wyoming options, going up there having it done. And then he then
I suggested he go over to uh Kevin call can it shared an auto tech?
Get it checked, make sure you need it. Jeff, what happened
then? Okay, So the main part of the story, I think is
the fact that I got the diagnosis from Big O, which did six the
co two. Yeah, so Jeff the car to share lot of tech.
I paid for a diagnosis, and you know, a couple of things were
wrong with our evening about but they said the O two sensor was they had
a loose wire and on the female end. I'm like, you got to
be kidded me. So I don't know if it was just installed. Wait
a minute, so was did it turn out you did need a cat or
not? Well, well, here's the thing, I'm not sure yet.
But the light went off. Checkings. The light was off. I left
and they said, you know, drive it about eighty miles so it can
start, you know, doing its thing, the sensor and everything reading correctly.
Well, I wasn't four blocks off when it came back on. So
I turned back around with that share lout of tech. They're like, what
the hell? So they took the car back in. They were back there
for two hours looking at my car. They found a wire further down into
the engine that looked to me, I'm not an expert, because you could
see the flat end of the copper. It looks like what do you look
like it was cut? Do you think these guys are big open that?
I don't know anyway, right now, how does your where does your car
stand? Right now? As far as the catalytical So they fixed that wire
too, and they did not charge me for that. They spent like three
and a half hours man on a diagnosis. They did not charge me any
extra money. Ever since I've left, it's been now a week and a
half. Checked agin lights still off and the guy said, hey, I
don't think you need a cattle converter, Jeff. I mean, I wonder
if Kevin, Kevin, do your people know why that light still goes on?
It's still honors staying off? Hell it's off? Has it come back
off? Yeah? It's off? Okay, bro Okay. So they solved
the problem, all right, Well, and Big O would have had him
dropping a couple grand the OQO convert the O two sister that Big O put
in and my impression was insolved incorrectly. Yeah, because it had a still
add a loose wire. No I did it? Did you go back and
tell Big Oh? No, because I'll just get too pissed. I would
put a review online, though, for sure, I would absolutely put a
review about Sheridan Order Tech solving the problem and how Big O was going to
have you spending thousands of dollars already? Did it? Three oh three seven,
one, three, eight, two five five. Let's talk to J.
Hello, j I'm Tom. What's going on? Hey, So I
have a question. Me and my wife separated seven years ago. We haven't
spoke to each other. We don't do taxes, we don't communicate, We
don't even know where each other live or anything. Am I still married?
Well? I'm not going to give you legal advice, but here's what I
will tell you. Okay, based on past questions and answers we've gotten.
It's a funny thing. You can declare yourself married and be married immediately.
You cannot declare yourself divorced. It must be a legal It must be done
legally within the state of jurisdiction. Okay, so listen, Jeef, Jeff,
go ahead. I'm sorry, go ahead. Yeah, we never signed
any divorce papers, never went to court. You're not divorced. That's what
I said. You can't. You can't declare yourself divorced. You can declare
yourself married. Now here's the funny part. If you declare yourself married but
no paperwork, and you guys want to leave each other, theoretically you could.
Theoretically you wouldn't have to have a written divorce because no one would care.
Theoretically, however, if you ever just wait, man, if you
ever declared yourself married and there was no paperwork, no marriage license, no
record other than you declared yourself married, you had some accounts together, stuff
like that, then you declared yourself divorce, meaning you just left each other.
If either one of you kept it that way forever, no one would
care. However, one could come back and haunt the other if they want
to, because you never had a divorce, but you did have a marriage.
For example, in that case of you on the lottery, she should
come back, she could come back and claim half of it. So it
is it it is. But under the circumstances I told you. Under the
circumstances, Jeff. Here's the other deal, though, it's always best to
get a written, sealed, signed, and divorce. Now, when you're
married on paper, not just common law, but on paper, then you
must get a divorce whether or not you guys want to be divorced or not.
Now, how long has it been? Seven years? Okay? You
know we have we have someone, we have someone we used to work with
that is separated from his wife and he never got a divorce and they don't
bug each other, but it's going to come back to haunt them in retirement,
in estate planning and everything they do. And if this guy makes any
big money, he's screwed. But so, Jeff, you don't even know
where she is. No, I had no idea. I have no idea.
Maybe Commerance City. Oh so she it's not like she's in another state.
Oh no, no, no, no, you need to get a
divorce. And the good news is, since you've been separated for so long,
well a god, let me put it to you this way. Holy
crap, Jeff, do you own a home? No? Does she own
a home? I don't know. Do you have anything that you've attained over
these last seven years you've been separated. My Gi Joe collection? What is
it worth? I don't know a lot to me? Okay, Jeff,
if you ever acquired any meaningful wealth, you may find it difficult to get
divorced without her wanting money. Yeah. I see what you're saying. You
need to contact her and say, listen, we should get divorced because if
you win the lottery, or if I win the lottery, or if anything
goes on in our lives, it's going to be complicated. You really need
to do that, Jeff, did you guys part friends? No? It
was horrible. It was bad. So if you called her and asked for
a divorce right now, actually you don't ask. You would just serve her
for a divorce. I mean that's all you would do. Okay, Yeah,
you can do You can do it, no fault divorce on your own.
But you got to do it. And you may want to accompany the
serving of the paperwork with a letter saying listen, I don't want this to
be adversarial. I'm just doing this to protect myself, yeah, or to
protect each other whatever. Okay, And meanwhile, just hope you don't win
the lottery, all right, you know. Otherwise, why is this coming
to light now? Why seven years later on? Why are I wondering about
it? Well because I'm moving in with my girlfriend and she's been bringing in
you're a polygamist, No, I'm not. Never. Well, if he
got married again, he would be, wouldn't he Tom? Seriously? Well
yes he would be. Is that weird? He can't get remarried right?
Well, she doesn't want to get married, so it works out. Yeah,
but it will not work out if let me put to you this way,
it's not going to work out. If you ever attain any wealth,
it's going to be a nightmare for you. Yeah, you get rid of
her when you're poor. Okay, three oh three, seven one three,
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three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. By the
way, the top seven profitable corporations in the world, they exceed the gross
national product of almost every country, or yeah, exceed the wealth. I'm
sorry, I don't know if it's the gross national product the wealth of almost
every country in the world. The majority of countries in the world do not
make what these seven most profitable country companies. That's impressive. Yeah, it's
unbelievable. And you know what those seven companies are? Number one, it's
quite a few of them. Number one, Apple, number two, Microsoft,
number three. Want to take a guess? Amazon, yep, Jeff,
number four, Apple, ol bet which is Google? Number five Meta?
Which is Facebook? Now six and seven are Chinese? Oh? What
are they? Is it? What is that one? The Ali Baba Sally
Baba and this one. I never heard of. Tencent Holdings it's a multinational
Chinese corporation that has various Internet related products, entertainment, AI and technology.
Globally, it's called tensent te n C E n T. What's funny about
the Too, Ali, Baba and Tencent is really they're owned by the Chinese.
Now when you say that they're not owned by an industrialist in China,
or is it the is it actually? Well? I do believe you're correct
saying there probably is. Uh, there probably is a face or a group
of people or a board. They do own it. But in reality,
the Chinese own it. They can shut it down in a heartbeat. Now,
if you like beef, you would have paid four years ago, five
years ago, seven to twenty five a pound for average, and now you
pay thirteen twenty two. It's an eighty two percent increase. Again, these
are What about milk? What do you think milk? Is? Milk?
Right now? Is a forty seven percent increase? Almost forty eight percent?
Now again, is it fair to blame a president? What about eggs?
They there, they're a staple. A thirty five percent increase, Everything across
the board is going up. I liked what that one caller said. He
goes I really don't blame the president. I blame democrats. I like that,
and I'll tell you why. I'll give you another answer. I think
he said government didn't. He always said democrats. Look at what Newsom did,
like defect, it's Newsome. But whatever. In California when it came
to bacon, do you know what he did? No, every cow or
I'm sorry, every pig has to have a certain amount of space. Now,
so the pig farms had to drastically change, and that of course made
Bacon go up a lot of money. Well, that's the same thing they
did with the chicken farms. They have to have free range, free range,
the ca have to be a certain size. Yeah, so when they
pass stuff like that, I mean, ultimately, who pays for it?
And then the funny part too is tom, Ultimately who does it effect?
We all pay for it. But it doesn't hurt you, It doesn't hurt
me that much. It doesn't hurt these guys that we're paying three four bucks
more for chicken. But who does it hurt the rancher? Well, it
definitely hurts a random momb with three kids, you know, trying to feed
kids. Yeah, people that are on that poverty line or the middle class
that have a bunch of kids. You know, I would argue that every
single dime and dollar spent in extra hurts everyone. And I mean it does
because whether you can afford it or not doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. It's
money you don't have to put elsewhere, which actually could help out. But
you're not deciding whether or not to let your kid go to karate or eat
that week. I mean, that's what I'm saying. It hurts the most
the people that don't have a lot. Yeah, and again they think they're
helping those people. It's just and that's where I I'm not saying I'm parting
with you on that. I just have a hard time believing they're that stupid.
I think they have more of this global this picture in their brain.
They want to be the globalist and the elite at the top, and the
way to get there is to create this world. And how they're creating it
is what we're watching and living through right now. By the way, Monty
and Beverly are on they want to talk about it. Botch job and it's
someone we know on this show, someone on this Sleas Brigade, and someone
who in my opinion should be in prison. That is my opinion. The
man should be in prison. And I can't believe he is still in business.
Monty Beverly, whoever start tell us what's going on? Hi Tom,
thanks for taking our call. Yes, sir, I had a transmission go
out of my truck back in the end of November and November something. So
I called around and went to several places and got some bids and stuff.
And then I a friend took his truck to get some just some minor work
done from this mechanic or whatever if you call him the mechanic. And how
long ago was this, Monty that you took your your car in December second?
December second? And what what you actually what's the name of the business
he had in December second? It's called Mountain View Transmission and Gear. And
where was it? Ian berthed? Oh, so he moved quite a quite
okay, so he moved. He used to be on Santa Fe. So
this we're talking about is Jeff Jolliffe. If you go to sleaves Brigade dot
com you can find out about him. Didn't you do any research before taking
it there? Well not really, because I a friend of mine said Yeah,
he did good work, and he was the least expensive and the quick.
Now, now, what kind of vehicle did you say it is?
It's a Chevy pickup of twenty sixteen Chevy pickup. Okay, now I want
to get right to it. The name of the place. I want to
make sure. Is it still open? Yes? It was a couple of
days ago, one way and got my truck. Oh it is. We
have it technically mountain View Automotive. It's yeah, technically the mountain View Transmission
and Gear. What's the phone number? Ot me? God got We're going
to try to call him and get him on. He's come on in the
past. Mount The man is a crook. But let's hear the story first
before we call him. So what happened at Mountain View Transmission and Gear,
Jeff rip Off scam artist Jolliffe? What happened? Well? He said,
I give him the bin number. I said, can you get the parts?
He said that I can get the parts in three days and I'll have
it done in three days. I said, okay, great. So I
took it to him and a week later I called, did you pay up
front? Yes? We paid half of He said he needed his money to
pay for parts and everything. So how much did you pay up front?
Eighteen dollars? Oh my god, it's like throwing money away. Yeah,
it is so. And then hey, you're lucky your vehicle didn't get stolen.
That's what we've heard. What happened then? So he kept putting me
off with me, He kept on saying that, well, a family member
was sick in the hospital. Yep, that's right, that's exactly right.
Yeah, or his emergency, or his son is transitioning or something. There's
always an excuse. Then what happened then? Parts? He said he couldn't
get parts. I said, well, you told me upfront you could get
parts within three days. Says, well, no, I'm having problems getting
parts. And it went on, I mean on and on and on.
He kept using family members and emergencies and keep on texting him. He said,
yeah, you can come tomorrow, be ready tomorrow. I'll be in
tomorrow. And this is the same story. Man, here's what happens.
He spent your money. He doesn't have the money to fix this. So
what happened? What ultimately happened? This was December second. Now we're in
uh, you know, April or March the end of March. What's going
on? So last week we finally he could have these excuses that he couldn't
program the TCM and he didn't have the right equipment to and he went through
two or three different TCMs, and then last week he just quit returning my
calls and my text So I gave the number to my wife and she didn't
He didn't know what her number was. So he's thinking he's getting a new
customer. And she called him and he picked up right away, and she
started talking to him, and then he told her just to have me come
and get the truck and have a He said, the truck's ready, just
take it to the dealership and they can program it for you. So I
said, okay. So I found the dealership Davidson Gebhart and Loveland. They
said, yeah, bring in, we can program it and be done.
So I went down to get it. It wouldn't even start. I drove
it to him. We're in. When I took it to him, it
drove. I drove it to him. It wouldn't start. Had to get
a tow truck to tow it to Davidson Gebhart. I got it there.
Their mechanics started looking at it. Did he claim, Bill? Did he
claim? I'm dying to hear if he actually put a transmission in? I
know, that's what I want to know. He claimed he put a transmission
in, right, Yes, he claimed he rebuilt my transmission and put it
back in, and it was they would run if they just programmed at TCM.
Kay, got it then, okay, keep going then, so they
got it. A mechanic looked at it, started taking apart nothing. The
transmission was different. It wasn't my transmission. He put a transmission from a
twenty eleven Avalanche back in. The bolt pattern didn't even match with the engine
that's in my truck. And did he say it was a rebuilt transmission for
you? He said, you rebuilt my transmission. Yes, Oh, but
it wasn't even the correct transmission to even fit my truck. And the transmission
food was still dirty. There was metal filings in the pan. So he
actually put a used transmission in, yes, and not even the correct correct
one to even fit. Right. I'm going to call him for a comment,
Tom on break. Okay, So he said he put in a transmission.
You took it to a dealer and and it it was a used one
h and wrong, marks that were missing and parts that were broken. Now
where does it stand right now? I had David and Chevrolet put a new
transmission in for me, and I have it now, it's running. And
how much was it paid? Eighty two hundred dollars and to pick all the
parts and fix everything that he broke and that was missing that he didn't and
he paid Jeff what eighteen hundred down? Yes, yeah, this guy's incredible.
It's still in possesion of that old transmission, probably court it. Yeah.
I picked him back and told him the leadership that said that wasn't the
right transmission. He says, well, yeah, that's it. I said.
He goes, I don't have a core, so I don't have the
old trans that's the right transmission. I said, no, it's not so
luckily listen, I got to take a break. But I'm going to tell
everyone this Jeff Jolliffe should be in prison. He is a dirty, rotten
He's a scumbag. This man has no redeeming value I have. I am
shocked. There are three people I've met in the auto business that are the
worst that ever lived. Jeff Jolliffe is one of them. And the other
one is Jim Weee and he's forty fourth auto. The last name he had
where he could have another one. And then the third one I don't even
know he's still around. His name was Jack Shariffe, like in Sheriff,
and he did four by four. Do you remember him Sharif? Yeah,
yeah, years and years ago. I don't even know if he's still around.
But anyway, those are the three worst that ever lived. I'm Tom
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trump leader three three seven one three tok three oh three seven one three eight
two five five. Welcome to the show. Okay, let's continue. Hey,
Tom, Yes, I did try. I left a message for Jeff
jall if I don't know what you want to do with Monty and Beverly,
but I left a message for him to give us a call. I want
to know Monty and Beverly. I think they know they're not going to get
anything out of this, and I think they also know that we're not going
to get anywhere with him. So you just wanted to get that word out.
I suspect right, we'd like to get our deposit back. There's no
way we can. Well, you can do it. Here's what you can
do. You're gonna win a small claims court. The guy's not going to
show up. You're gonna win, but you won't get anything. Now,
Well, here's the thing. No one's ever tried to do anything. I
think you could, and here's what I think you could do. I've done
it. I did it years ago to a hot tub guy. Years ago,
a hot tub guy was taking deposits and not delivering hot tubs. We
got an attorney and sued him, and we got judgments. Then we did
what was called a writ writ of execution with what you are allowed to go
in and literally take his stuff equal to the amount year owed. That means
tools, transmission, whatever. Now does anyone ever go that far? No
one, but you could. And that's what these guys need, you know.
I'm just shocked. Most of the time in the past, the complaint
was you would take it back there, right, and then he would call
you and say, Monty, your truck was stolen. So you then he
doesn't have to do the repair, but you have to put it in on
your insurance because he claims he has nothing to do with it. Yeah,
oh man, you know it. Don't gloss over. If you're new to
the Jeff Joliff story, don't gloss over what Tom just said. We had
three people, three different people that didn't know each other, bring their trucks
back for warranty work, and the next day they were stolen. Three different
people. It's crazy. And those are just the three that called you.
Yeah, and that's the three that just called here, that's right. Yeah.
The mechanic put it on Facebook what this guy did. Because this mechanic's
been doing it for twenty years, he's never seen anything this bad. He
put on Facebook and he said he had so many people respond on to him
saying oh, can you give us that give that Facebook to sues off the
air, because what I want to do is link to it for my Sleaves
brigade. You really should just go through it. Let's I'll help you on
the small claims, not on the legal side, but I can send you
the forms. I can tell you how to find out. You know who
this guy is, and you're probably company for triple damages too. Yeah,
I was asked the Colorado Repair Act. He didn't do the proper paperwork,
the warranties, you know everything. I just can't believe there's not a DA
that hasn't shut this guy down. Right, he's amazing. He's in a
new county. Maybe it's worth taking a shot called d'a's office. So he's
in birthed Man. Yeah, he's right off my twenty five in the Johnstown
exit. But it's considered birth of God. Hey, we're at least getting
them closer and closer to Wyoming. What county is that? That would be
Laimber County. Who Okay, and it's a good thing. It's not Well
they welcome him because they're all crooked. He fit right in. You know,
it might be Well County because well, County crosses over the interstate someplace
there, so it might be it sounds let's put it this way, that
would be apropos for him. Weld County. They're a bunch of crooks.
There are a bunch of crooks. The government up there is so corrupt.
I mean, I don't want to get into it. Is that when that
cell tower deal happened? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's one of them.
But this this Tom Parko, I don't even know if he's still an
office up there. That's scum bag Tom Parko. What a scum bag,
lying cheat and piece of crap. How do you really think of the guy?
Oh my god, Planning and Building Services director and the reason I think
yeah, he is a very popular guy. If you're if you want to
cheat anyway, let's talk to uh Chris. He has a probate question.
Oh, I got to take a break, Chris, hold on, I'll
be come right back to you. I promise. I'm Tom Martine. Yeah,
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came up again. Wow, uh, as I said, the man should
be in prison, and we're going to keep you up to date on that
one. Chris's probate question is coming up. Go ahead, Chris, what's
going on my tom? Thank you for taking call. Yes, sir,
my domestic partner, common law wife, whatever you want to call it.
We were together for one month shy of twenty one years. Uh huh.
She passed away in February. Okay. And so the mobile homes that we
live in was bought and paid for like twelve years ago by who and by
who by it had her name on the title only because I was in Georgia
taking care of my elderly mom when she bought Okay, Okay. So now
her daughter says that the titles in her name and I have to move and
I have to leave all the stuff in the house that we bought to get.
Well, that's not true. Okay, she can say anything she wants.
Now, what documentation do you have to show you were married? I
have two joint bank accounts or car vehicle title with both our names on it.
Do you have any applications where it asked for a spouse that you put
her down or she put you down in the past? Not now, not
like that you just did, but like, do you have any passed out
applications with credit cards or with anything at all, jobs, fringe benefits,
anything, not that I'm aware of. I don't, okay, Chris.
Next question, do you have friends or neighbors that are relatives that will attest
to the fact that you held yourselves out as being married? Well, we
have. We used to go to Cripple Creek and when she passed away,
she had like seven hundred dollars on her card and they transferred it to my
card because I was considered her spouse. Well, how did they consider you
her spouse because she told them that we were married? Okay? Well they
okay, here here, let me put it to you this way, Chris,
you are common law married if you guys say you are, and if
you had joint accounts and all that. However, if the child comes in
now and is greedy and wants all of her stuff, she's in line for
all of her stuff with out a will. Does did your spouse have a
will? She didn't have a will. She on Christmas Eve she sent her
oldest daughter a list of her final wishes, and of course none of them
have been hold on. How did she send it handwritten? I'm sorry?
Did she send it handwritten? I'm sorry? Did she send it handwritten?
No? It was in Facebook messenger? Okay, do you have a copy
of it? Oh yeah, Okay, listen, here's what it comes down
to proof. See, here's why common law marriage hardly has to prove anything
unless someone objects to it. If someone objects to it, like this girl's
going to say, is she claiming you were never married? Is that what
she's going to claim? No, she's claiming that that since there wasn't a
will that she could take, she already took the house and put it in
her name. How did she do that legally? How did she do it?
Because I gave the title to her brother. He was supposed to do
to her owner sister in Maryland, and he turned around and gave it to
her. So, okay, listen, that shouldn't have been done. But
that's Chris, Chris, you're gonna have to you're in order to get the
mobile home. But did she take all her personal stuff too? Where's this?
Where are these sounds coming from? By the way? Hold on a
second, where are these sounds in the background? Are you on a farm
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five. I want to bring up Dan McKenzie. By the way, Dan
is a state planning attorney and McKenzie law. We'll give out his number right
after this. And he's locally. We use him as an expert. And
Dan Chris was married twenty one years common law to a woman. They held
themselves out as married. All of their finances were combined, and they just
held himself out as married. That's all we can say. He has nothing
really in writing other than joint accounts of the past. There was no will.
There was some kind of Facebook message the mom sent to her daughter or
his wife sent to her her daughter, not their daughter, her daughter and
Chris in that Facebook message, first of all, was she expecting to die?
Did she have a problem? Was she what? Why did she send
a Facebook message to her? Oh? She she just wanted everything squared away
because her kidneys to completely quit and she was like scared to death of order
dialysis and all. Okay, and what did this? What did her wishes
say? Okay, hang on a second, I'm trying to find it.
I've got it, I know. And is there any proof she wrote it?
Yeah? Does it mention what she wants done with her stuff? Her
dollar? Does it mention what she wants done with her stuff? Okay?
Let me let me. I don't want you to read it, Chris.
I just want you to give me your best recollection, please. It's not
that important in general. In general. What did it say? It said
she had she had one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars an insurance that with all
of her oldest daughter to pay her debt and to uh split it up between
her and their brother, her brother and sisters. Okay, so she wanted
life insurance to go to the kids. What did she say about the mobile
home? It says, which just says, don't read it, Chris,
just tell me please. It says Chris could stay in in my mobile home
when he gets when he leaves it, it goes to Tanny. Okay,
So you stay in there for how long the rest of your life or as
long as you want, as long as as long as I want to live
here. That's the way I read, okay. And what about her personal
stuff inside the trailer? There is nothing with that. It's all considered the
house. Well, first of all, here's what's really strange. You were
together for twenty one years, okay. And what's really strange is she's not
allowed to leave you out of her will or her last wishes. Okay,
she's not allowed to If you could prove you were married, That's what I'm
going to ask Dan about, because it seems to me you could. You
could claim no matter what she wrote. I believe I might be wrong,
but I believe you could claim fifty percent of that cash and fifty percent of
everything. And he'll explain that if I'm right or wrong. But here's the
other thing. Okay, here's the other thing. Right now, the mobile
home titled in her name only was already transferred to the daughter. Is that
correct? Yeah? Did they open up a probate? I have no earthly
idea how long ago was the death. It was on February sixth, about
seven weeks ago. Chris. My sympathy is for your loss, really,
But now let's get down to business. I mean, you may have to
take some legal action to claw back some of that stuff. I mean,
are you out on the street right now? No, I don't want any
of the money. I just want her her. I just want to be
able to stay in the else that we shared for twelve years. Well that's
very nice of you, because you could use the threat of taking the money
to stay there. I don't know, but let me ask you something here.
You just want to stay there, and who's going to pay the expenses?
You? I'll pay all the expenses now, Chris is another question I
have? Where are you now? Did they kick you out? No?
Are they threatening to kick you out? She said, I have to be
gone by the five o'clock on the twentieth of April, and I already paid
April and made lot rint. Okay, Dan, take it away. You
heard everything. There's quite a bit going on here. I mean, you
know, can they even a victim, even if they have the right to
do so. That's not a real easy process. So I wouldn't necessarily pulled
in the face of that threat. But there's a couple other things going on
here. If you were married, you really are And she had no will.
I mean, the Spacebook message is not a will. Okay. You
have to have testamentary intent. It has to be signed, it has to
be either in her handwriting, notarized witness something. So if Facebook message does
not really count as a will. So let's just say she does not have
a will. If you can prove that people thought you were married, you're
the spouse. You're entitled to the first two hundred one thousand of her estate,
which probably covers this mobile home, and then split with her kids after
that. If she did have a will, if somehow that came up.
That's what Tom's talking about with that fifty percent. If the will. If
there's a will that cut you out and you're the spouse, then you can
step in and exlain that fifty percent. Okay. If there wasn't a will,
then how does it go again. It's a weird formula. When the
person who passed away had kids separately from their spouse, there's a math formula
and it's like the first two hundred and one thousand dollars goes to the spouse,
and then the spouse and kids split everything above that fifty to fifty.
You know, Chris, I would not let this go. I don't care
what you say. I would not let it go. I would have an
attorney write a letter to that effect, and I would. Then you can
use it as leverage. You can always settle for just the mobile home,
and not just to live there on your own, but to have it and
own it. I'm telling you you can't sit on your rights with this.
Can you get people to attest? What kind of proof would he need?
Dan McKenzie, It's it's pretty wide ranging Christmas cards that went out. I
mean, just anyone showing up saying, yeah, but they're married. It
could be tax returns in CID, if joint accounts, that's evidence. If
she referred to him as her husband and vice versa. I mean, it's
a it's kind of a it can be a mix, it can be a
mix of anything. Okay, we had two we had account at two banks.
Both of them were in our names, both of okay, but does
it list you as a spouse or just two people? It just lists the
joint account holders. Did people think you were Mary liked? Did everyone in
your life kind of think, oh their husband and wife? Yeah? Hey,
Chris, Then I have a question for you. Did the daughter think
you were married? She's an idiot. I'm not even going to get into
all that. Did the other kids think you were married? Well, you
know, I don't know, because one of them just got out of prison
after twelve years, and the other one wouldn't know the truth of it walking.
Well, listen, the only date that one is in Maryland. I'm
going to to Chris. I'm really serious when I tell you this. You
need to call Dan mackenzie off the air. Just call him and talk to
him. This is too much to let go. You literally would get every
penny of that cash. I'm telling you there's no reason why you shouldn't you.
You were married to her for twenty one years, and I'm telling you
that you need you really need to talk to her about this. Okay,
Okay, I mean talk to him about it, about her and listen.
Then you can use that. You don't have to. You don't have to
take all the money. You can take some of it. You can negotiate
it. But these people are ram rotting you right now. Yeah, I
need that. I knew this was going to happen. Well, then you
need to stick up for yourself and everyone else. Common law married, you
need to start keeping evidence in case your spouse wins a lottery and croaks.
Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, I have legal shield. And I called him
that day, and this guy called me and he said, well, tell
him to Vick you when you get into court, if you can prove you'll
common law marriage, they'll tell them to go pack, saying to give you
the title of the house. Yeah, but wait a minute, what did
they say about the first two hundred and one thousand dollars? Did they mention
that? They didn't say anything about that? When and you say you have
legal shield, did they let you talk to actual state attorneys? Yeah?
They did. Listen, if they don't handle this for you, first of
all, how much you pay for legal shield month? Okay, it's wasted
money in my opinion, But why don't you prove me wrong and have them,
have them give you some real advice on fighting this. They should have
told you we can go to court and you can get the whole thing.
All you have to do is gather your proof. Dan, what would you
have him gather? Can he get affidavits? That'd be something to do.
I mean, I guess just kind of thinking through a little brainstorm session of
like who did we talk to? About? Who did I who did she
refer to me as her husband to? And did she ever refer to you
as her husband on social media? I'm pretty sure she did, but I
don't have at any situation that come I mean, any letters that went out,
like I said, Christmas card can be helpful, but any Yes,
if you get into a court and they're really challenging it by getting neighbors to
show up saying yeah, if that they're married, they refer to each other
as husband and wife like that would be that would be helpful. So my
name door neighbor will say that. In the New York second, the guy
that is the manager at the mobile home park will say that we were married.
Good. Good, Then you need Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna give
you his number eight three three CO Plans eight three three CO P L A
N S C O Plans dot So, thank you very much, Dan,
I appreciate your time. We have more coming up on the Troubleshooter Show.
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sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three oh three seven one
three talk three O three seven one three eight two five five Tom, we
have a guest in studio, Sir, who do we have? I don't
know her now well, her name is Joe. She didn't really want to
talk on the air, but she has donated a Bose radio for that couple
that the movers dropped it. She's such a sweetie and she drove it down
here, literally delivered it. I see her in this, you see her
on the or think get on the mic real quick, say hi to everybody.
In fact, we've got some commercials coming up. Okay, anyway,
so let's continue here, guys, Okay, let's let's figure out what's going
on. And by the way, Joe, thank you very much for your
for your kindness. We appreciate that. Gary, you have a follow up
call about a hot tub. Go ahead, Gary, Oh this is I
know this is that's the guy who wants to get the uh that hot tub
guy from his neighborhood. He said, someone else called recently complain. And
and by the way, when I had put up that other guy I thought
was Gary, I was wrong and I started working on Gary. I'm excuse
me on the other guy. So I am going to that that hot tub
guy is ripping a lot of people off. And again, Man, we
we route out those bad guys, don't we. It's it's unbelievable. So
are you calling to tell me what? Gary? Just to remind me to
get him up there on sleeves brigade. Right, Gary, I'll tell you
what's a new call? Hang on, Okay, let me just move on.
Eric, Go ahead, Eric, Welcome. What's going on? Eric?
My friend's monitor was involved in a three car accident and all three parties
have state farmed. Oh that's going to be a cluster you know what,
a cluster farm. That's what I told her. Anyway, So here's what's
going to happen. They're going to a try to assign comparative negligence, so
each one has to pay a deductible Now what are you calling about? Do
you have a specific question. Well, she was not at fault. She
was parked at I think a stop sign. Or whatever, and a car
veered or swerved out of the way and ended up sideswiping her, and then
the car behind that girl hit that car. I but it's going to this.
There's not enough insurance. Is that correct? I don't know. I
don't know the specifics on what life on what they have. If she wasn't
at fault, she should have Okay, does she have full coverage? I
believe so because it's a twenty twenty one Subaru outbeck. Okay, she's got
to go after the other party. The other party is her own insurance.
It's going to be tricky. Is she injured? Uh? She says she's
a little sore. I told her to go to the hospital because more than
likely, then what she should do is call John Fuller for sure, just
to just to be sure. Just have Eric, I swear to God,
just have the conversation with John. If he doesn't think it should be going
anywhere, he'll tell you. But you're crazy, You're absolutely crazy not to
have that conversation, right and then well, go ahead. She lives in
Alaska. Oh, okay, then you're not going to talk. I take
back everything I just said. She's gonna have to talk to I couldn't let
in with that. Sorry. Hey, here's what you have to do.
Find a personal injury attorney and talk to them at least definitely. Next thing
you want to do when it comes to property damage damage to the vehicle,
she needs to let them the other party cover it to avoid her deductible call
us up once you get the lay of the land. I wish John was
still up. I just thought of sometimes maybe you know the answer. John
always preaches, do not talk to the other person's insurance. And we all
understand why they're going to try to trick you into it, right, They're
going to try to trick you a period. But when the other insurance company
is your insurance company, how do you not talk to them? Well,
you have to. You have to answer basic questions. So that's the thing
Eric gets tricky. You better talk to an attorney. Man, Yeah,
you really do need Yeah. I just wanted to hear it from the horse's
mouth. Yeah, No, I know what you're saying and what that,
So call one. But the personal injury attorney may not help you directly with
property damage. So when it comes to property damage, then she just gives
the information that she was a victim. She was hit. That's all you
can do. Now. Rod's got a question about selling an RV. Rod,
What do you want to know Tom taking a payment for the RV I'm
selling? What's the best way to take that payment? Okay? First and
foremost, where did you advertise? I need to ask these basic questions?
You know what I have not yet. I was looking at Trader RV to
go ahead and put it on there. I did call Lazy Days. I
called camp World. As far as where I'm at on what I owe for
and what they're offering is not a good match for me. What year is
it? What kind of RV do you have? It's a many Winny Winnebago
twenty nineteen twenty two, and it has five thousand miles on it? And
how much do you owe on it? We? Oh, forty? And
what are they offering you on a quick buy? Well, RV Trader had
forty five. Oh oh like Lazy Days thirty two to four. Okay,
I'm sorry. So they're offering you Whosts sale Yeah exactly, Okay, I
said of retails at forty seven. So okay, yeah, they're pretty honest
about that stuff. I mean, Whostsale is Yeah, sometimes they go over
wholesale though, here's what you need to do. Then, if you need
to sell it privately, you're good. I just want to warn you you're
gonna be You're gonna get more ripoff inquiries than real ones, well even the
valid ones. He gets he's up again something because he's not holding the title.
I'm not sure i'd go exchange any money without a title. Yeah,
how do you plan to do this sale? Do you know how to do
it? Well, that's why I called you, guys. I thought was
do I go to Do I go to Bank of America that I oh with
the buyer and say, hey, write a check to this bank, yes,
this bank put this towards that. Or do I go to their bank
and say, hey I need First of all, no one is going to
No one is going to give you anything without the title. Even if you
go to your bank, no one's going to do it. Listen, you
know what JFR can actually do just the transaction. I don't know how much
he would charge to you, No, I don't. I hear it won't
be a lot, but I will say this, you need a broker and
in between a half stealer. In fact, lazy days. Would do they
do consignment? Do you know? I don't know if they do, but
if he calls the one in Long Mind, I'm sure they'll tell him.
You know, you might want to consider even if you have a buyer,
you may want to consider a consignment. Now, consignment's more expensive than a
transaction broker. A transaction broker will just handle all that. And here's how
they get around that. They do a bill of sale with a with an
envelope draft, meaning that they deal directly with the lender and the title work
and all of that. It's just more difficult than you believe. When you
don't have title for something, it's no one's going to trust you. And
if they do, they don't really they're not really trusting you. They don't
they don't expect the RV anyway, and they want to cheat you somehow,
and and you're gonna get all kinds of things. They're going to offer to
give you a cashier's check of more money, and then you they're going to
have a guy show up to ship it, and he's going to want to
get paid. I'm telling you. Whenever they're just remember this in general,
whenever they want to pay you and you have to pay some money back.
It's a never no win ever ever ever do it ever. All you want
are wired funds are checks deposited directly from their bank. If they give you
a bank check, you go to their bank and have it converted to a
cashier check immediately from their account and then take it to your bank. That's
the only way to do it. But you're not going to get them to
do it when you don't have the title, So you're you're gonna have to
work that out with a dealer to do a transaction, and then they're going
to try to sell you. It's going to be a pain in the ass.
Okay, Now I don't I don't really know, and I think it's
a good business. There might be a business like this already that takes care
of the intermediary stuff for people because most people don't know how to do it.
They don't know how to do it now. They used to do it
on on what was that one mark we used to that I forget the name
of it, THEA and then they stopped doing it. It was Blinker,
It was Blinker, and they did a great job, but then they stopped
doing it. They they were literally doing it if you had the title three
h three ye bank eight two five five High Time Wachl three seven seven one
three eight two five five Gene. You want to know about a VW Touse
twenty twenty three or twenty four? Guys, what do you think? Is
that what you're asking about? Are you looking to buy one? Hi?
Tom? Yeah, That's exactly what I was looking for, and I was
considering it, but I just don't know much about them, and you don't
really see a lot on TV. No. I personally my own deal.
I don't like Volkswagen, But guys, what do you guys think I'm not
a Volkswagen fan either to own one. I mean we work on and we
make a lot of money fixing all the problems. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
it's not a good It's not a good one to own. Yeah,
I mean they rank up there when it comes to some of the other European
models as far as the cost of maintenance and the regularity of maintenance. I'm
trying to even look at their warranty. You guys know what it is in
that category? What would what do you like about it? By the way,
do you just like the way it looks Is that why you're looking at
it looking? Yes, that's exactly what I was looking at, just their
their looks. And we've looked at Huai's and Kias, and I mean,
you'd be better off for the for the size of what you're looking at,
the price, and like they mentioned warranties. I mean, the Kia Sultos
is probably a better buy. Okay, Kia would be a whole bunch better.
Okay, Well, the warranty, the service is included for three years.
I mean, there's just so much you leave on the table when you
buy a VW or the ConA. Don't you think the Hyundai ConA looks kind
of cool? Mark? Yeah, this thing's really the size of a ConA.
Basically, I thought I have been seeing better looking Kias lately, But
you know they're both artsy. They're equal companies, aren't they. Yeah.
I don't like that new Santa Fe though. Man, you're you're forced into
buy in three rows now, so the Tucson would be the Santa Fe.
I guess Okay, Well you got some experts opinions. Thanks, Jane.
I wish you the best, and you may want to check out a broker,
you know, Jaffar Cars. Talk to Rodney Rodney specifically, just ask
him what he can do, get a bid from him. It doesn't cost
you anything, and then you can go try to beat the deal if you
want. But most of the time Jacobs brought up Rodney or rod WHI JFR
actually did say one time, they do they they'll do all that paperwork.
It's five hundred bucks. I remember that. Oh they'll process a deal.
Yeah, they'll process It was five or six hundred dollars. Yeah, cool,
All right, Don, what's going on? Don? Hey, yeah,
we're looking at the refinancing our home and just someone to get opinion on
something like Rocket mortgage for instance. They're gone, Okay, they're an aggregator,
they're not a lender. So tell me why you would go with them.
What I was looking up it sounded like they could process things quicker.
And they head, well, okay, do you know what an aggregator is?
No, I do not. They go online and they get you to
sign up and then then they find somebody to mortgage your home. Yeah.
So Suzanne and I filled out their information, like I don't know, ten
years ago, when they first came out, we had so many phone calls
within the next two weeks. I want to do. They're not a lender.
You're not dealing with a lender. You're dealing with air. See.
Look, you know, lead aggregators are fine, but they're not your company.
You don't know who you're gonna end up with, you know what I
do. Honestly, look look at Ideal. They're on our referral list.
Just type an Ideal. And here's why I say this is home loans man.
They've been around for years yep. And interstrates are still high right now.
Listen man, and if interst rates go down, which they are going
to go down within the next two years, they'll refi you for free.
Oh wow, yeah, I know it. And that's three oh three eight
six, seven, seven thousand. Appreciate it. Ideal home loans dot Com.
We've dealt with them. I don't know, it seems like thirty years.
It could be less than that. But I mean, here's the deal
that that that they do have the Intertate guarantee. The only ones that have
the interstate guarantee, the only ones. So let us know how it goes.
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Okay, I got a twenty eighteen Toyota Highlander. Yesterday the uh,
the check engine light came on check all wheel drive systems. That happened about
a year ago coming down from the canyon. Uh, from a veil pass.
Traffic was really slow. It went off, nothing ever happened. Uh,
so it came on again yesterday. Obviously, need to get it checked
out. Can gimmeer transmission? Do that? And can I drive it until
I can get it in next week? Yeah, you should be okay driving
it to mean, if anything's acting abnormally, then obviously I would limit or
cease driving. But yeah, give me a shout when we get back to
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this topic, when should you not never drive your car to the shop,
Well, if it's overheating. Okay, next, what about the oil light?
Yeah yeah, oil light on check ins, in light flashing, I
mean, take your pick, shut it down, extreme noises, you know
it went in doubt. Just get a toe. It's most likely going to
be cheaper. Nobody wants to pay for that toe. But the extra damage
you can do to your car trying to get it in can cost you a
lot more than that tot. Do most of the newer cars have a limp
mode to where they'll just kind of let you know, they're saying different fashions.
They can reduce power, they can they can eliminate gears that can do
a lot of different things. But you got okay, I have a question.
Then, do most newer cars, the really newer ones, let's say
twenty two, you know, real new, do they have limp modes in
everything that'll hurt the car? Or can you not depend on that? You
can't depend on it. No, you have to be practical, you know.
Just and here's another thing. I have this weird personality that says,
do it, do it, do it. This is crazy and okay I'm
revealing my insanity, but I want to know. Do most transfusions nowadays have
safeguards built in if you're driving and you shift it into park, yes or
reverse, Yes, most of them do. However, any mechanical device is
prone to failure just by definition of the words. Who do not test it?
Okay, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going down an alley
and I think to myself, I wonder if these cars are really engineered.
Well, I swear to god, I did it. I don't know why.
I'm crazy. So I was driving down the alley nice and slow and
I shifted it into reverse and it wouldn't do anything. It just it just
flashed and kept going straight. Thank goodness. Do you have Do you have
that dial thing like I do? How do you shift? How do you
go from like neutral to drive and reverse on your car? Oh? You
press it's electric switcher. It looks like a shift ours it mon's like that.
We have. It looks like a shift on the console, but it
doesn't shift. You press a button and they hit it. Yeah, you
know what. Ours? Our new one has that, But our Genesis has
a dial. But all the dial is is basically just a button. Yeah.
Well, it looks at speed, sensors everything else. So there's no
linkage. Or anything anymore. No, it's all like and by the way,
do not do what I did. Please, I gotta put out that
disclaimer. I do not want to get people pissed at me. I don't
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