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you say, like, Ryan wants to talk about a mechanic and a service
issue. Whatever, guys, here's the most important thing. Whatever you want
to talk about, don't let it fester over time. You should call because
it's always harder to deal with it afterwards. Man, you got all kinds
of weird stuff on your camera. It says it is. It says that
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It says mode, it says ev, it says camera battery level three.
I see more about your camera than I see you. What's going on
here? Just turned it off? I just so you never touch anything.
You've never touched anything. How does this happen? You know that camera every
time you turn it on, you have to turn that display off. That's
the default. But I can go, oh, I have the wrong day.
I never set the date on that crap. And all I do is
uh and I keep it? Uh play? How he got up and left?
I got up because you're getting a delay. I got up to turn
off that thing there. Now it's clear, see haha, All right,
three, all three, seven to one three. Talk what's going on?
Ryan? Well? Hi Ryan, what's happening? Hey Tom? Can you
hear me? Yes, sir, what's happening? Oh? Thank you for
picking up my call. So I brought my car in ninety five ford E
one fifty and on April eleventh, I brought it in because it was having
a hard time. Did you say an E an E E one fifty?
Okay? What is an E one fifty? Is it a Pickup's a van?
An F one fifty is a pickup? And E is an a condo
line van? Got it? Thank you Mark? Okay? So then what's
going on? Man? So it was having a bit of trouble starting for
a few weeks and it got a little bit worse. So I figured,
okay, I'll bring it in. And the only shop that was able to
do it very quickly was this Firestone in Westminster. So I bring it in.
Now, how'd you fall? Wait a minute, did you just start
calling around? I actually work with quite a few auto mechanics. But I
had a friend visiting from out of the country, so I was kind of
in a rush to get it done. And this is the only company that
was willing to do it within that week. So they also happened to be
a few miles from my work, so I figured it was kind of convenient
in that way, all right. So what happened? So I bring it
in. They give me a call a few hours later, which is great.
They say, you know, we think it's a fuel pump and you
need new breaks on the front and a diagnostic is one hundred and twenty five
dollars. I say, okay, well, what's what's the total cost?
They also threw in two other things, and I said, well, is
there anything we can do? So what was it? So you did get
You did get an estimate, bro, you got an estimate. I got
an estimate. It was just shy of two thousand dollars. And who I
don't make a lot of money, but you know, it's all I had,
and I figured, you know what, I need this thing to get
to work. I needed to get around, do my groceries, et cetera.
It's my own that's a lot of money. But you were satisfied and
you did it. You agreed to it. Yeah, it was again,
well, you either agreed to it or you didn't. I did, yes,
okay, So now what's the problem, man? So I pick it
up, and so they did the repairs overnight. So the next day I
pick it up. After agreeing to the price, I go pay for it,
pick it up, and the very following day it completely stalls out and
pies. And then it will run, it'll start, but it won't run.
So I get it towed back and the next day they call me and
say that the fuel hose was not connected the way they phrased it. The
fuel hose got disconnected the way I got it. They did not connect it
properly. All right, that's fine. So they fixed it. They reconnected
reconnected a fuel holes exactly. So I think, okay, easy, psy.
So I got to pick it up again. And then the following day
it completely stalls out. It dies when I'm driving it. I mean thinking
the same thing, but hold on, the original problem was probably was trouble
starting. Then it was stalling, and it's still stalling the same way as
when you picked it up the first time. Similar, but a little bit
Okay, got it, So what happened now? So I check underneath to
see if there's any fuel leakage, because if the fuel house popped off again,
that should be a parent I don't see it. Wait a minute,
it popped off again. No it did not. So I was able to
get it running because it would start, but I couldn't get it over fifteen
miles per hour. So I decided to just drive it back very slowly and
explain to them what happened. And they hadn't closed out the work order from
the previous time with the fuel hose popping off, so they kept it open.
They looked at it, and I get a call about eight days later
and they say, oh, it was out of gas. In that eight
days. They told me that they had swapped out the fuel pumps again because
it's under warranty, and the fuel hose was connected and they had fuel pressure
and everything was fine. So I figured, Okay, that's embarrassing. You
didn't see that there was no gas. I had assumed the gas tank was
full because the gauge was okay. So so okay, so now after all
of this, paying two grand, now you're out of gas. You got
gas now? What's going on? Man? Good question. So is it
still screwing up? Absolutely? So I pick it up and what's it doing?
Now? What's it doing? You're giving me a great narration, but
what is it doing right now? Just tell me what it's doing. Now.
It's the initial problem that I had when I first brought it. Are
you wait? Are you kidding me? And this is after they've had it.
You kept taking it back and you still have the original hard start problem.
Correct. And here's the best part. They told me. No,
they didn't tell me anything. They didn't call me for over two weeks.
I called them asking for an update. Now you said, this is Firestone
in Westminster, right, yes, on for one three one here on streets.
Now, holden, what's weird is for a while they had fixed the
initial problem, but other problems kept coming up. Now they addressed those other
problems, and you went back to the original problem. Correct. I have
a feeling maybe this is paranoid. Maybe they put the old fuel punk back
in, because now the problem is the first one. And they gave me
this explanation that it's some sort of security issue and that if you lock and
unlock it it should start. And then I asked the guy, can you
please show me how it works? And he wasn't able to get it started.
Okay, hold on, we got to get an expert on. Hang
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go to the phones and see what we can do for you. Okay,
so listen, I got Kevin Colkin shared an autotech. By the way,
they do great maintenance for pairs. They do electrical issues, pre buy inspections
for you cars. I'll give their contact in a second. But Kevin,
this is so queer to me. Okay, here's what's going on. Man.
This guy, he has a ninety five van Ford E one point fifty,
takes it to Firestone for a hard start, then he pays two grand.
After that, it wouldn't run. It kept stalling. They fixed that.
They said a fuel hose was disconnected. It was still stalling after that.
Then they tell him it's out. It was out of gas. So
they they've put gas in it or he did. Now he has the original
hard start problem, which by the way, they had fixed temporarily, but
it went back. Does this even make sense to you, Kevin, Well,
it's tough because you know the tire stories. They do great maintenance and
other stuff, but repairs and trouble shooting, it's just not there. That's
not there, Forte. So let's ask him a question, Ryan, Is
it the exact same problem that came back? It feels exactly like the same
symptom. Yes, Now what that had gone away for a while? Is
that correct? It seemed to have. Yes. Now, next question,
on your invoice for two thousand dollars for the initial repairs. What are the
main things they did for two grand? The main things they did were the
fuel ponds placements and the labor for that, and the two front brakes.
They claimed we're at half a millimeter thickness. However, there was no sound
and I stepped on the book. Yeah, but that's okay, that's okay.
You don't want sound, bro, you don't want sound. It's too
late or that's not really too late. But hey, what do you think,
Mark? What do you think's going on? Boy? I don't I
don't know. We just got to call over to the Firestone. Who do
we have in studio? But here's the deal, man, Kevin, your
best hunch, anything but the most typical in those older fours that have fuel
pressure regulator problems to where the fuel pressure will over pressure eyze and flood the
end of it. So it could be intermittent. Sure, Kevin, it
could be a bunch of things too, right in the fuel system. They
replaced the pump and there's another issue out there. Sure. Yeah, Now
the field pump wouldn't have done what they were looking at, stalling and stuff
like that. That's typically not a pump. No, No, that was
no. No. The original problem he took it in for was hard starting.
And Ryan, when you said hard starting, it wasn't electrical in nature.
It was more like you cranked it and it didn't start. Well,
it would, it would turn over and they would try to start, but
it wasn't. I don't know if about this stuff, but it wasn't actually,
So that's why they did the fuel pump, keV. Sure, sure,
Now it's possible, Ryan, I would have a second look from Kevin.
That's what I would do. Yes, I would appreciate that any any
second opinion, would you? Great, let's do that first before we go
to war and see what the hell's going on. Kevin is at on Colfexious
west of Wadsworth. But I'm going to give you his number, it's three
oh three, four five, five seventy two forty two and just he'll he'll
remember the call this morning and that shared in auto tech dot com. Okay,
now let's talk with Let's see who's next here. I believe it's Patrick.
Hi, Patrick, what's happening? Hey? How are you doing?
Certain good man? What's going on with you? I called in about five
months ago regarding my dog and a bike happened with your dog? What was
it? What was it about? Let me try to find your calls.
It was the neighbor came out of the property and U my dog attacked him.
Oh, they seized my dog and I was going to court back and
force for it, and they called him for help, and your viewers they
put a lean on my dog and took my dog. Your viewers are great.
And Kenneth Manfair called me and tried to pay for the bund and the
dog and I went to the shelter. They refused the payment. They said
you got to talk to the court. So I went to the court and
this is all within twenty four hours. You called back in November, ma,
bro in November, right, right? Yeah? Yeah, So when
they took your dog to the shelter. You were ticketed for harboring a vicious
dog. Now did you pay the expenses and get them back? We tried,
Like I said, your viewers tried to help, and then Kenneth manfair.
But then the state said the state said we are in charge. Now.
Well, yeah, they gave him two Foothills. So I tried to
pay Foothills. They wouldn't take it. I went to the court. They
refused payment. So where does it stand right now? Patrick? They put
him down. Oh no, like just just a few days ago. Wait
a minute. He was there since November. He was there since October.
Oh my god. And they wouldn't let me visit him, and I couldn't
get any I just got railroaded. But what if you were willing to pay
the expenses? Would they not let him out because they said he was dangerous?
They refused payment just period. So why did they keep him so long?
Though? Was it for rabies? No? Foothills decided to keep him
alive until the court case was over and there was a judgment in the court
case. Okay, So what was the judgment in the court case? The
possession of an aggressive animal and where you found guilty, yes, sir,
And where you fined a certain thing is on the twentieth, it's on Monday.
What could you actually get from this? I'm appealing it and during the
court Well, what good is appealing it right now? If the dog's dead?
Or do you just not want to pay a penalty? No, it's
not that. I just don't want it to happen to other people because I
think it was wrong what they did. Now, did you defend yourself at
all? Yes? Well did you have an attorney at all? No?
Oh? Man, I wish you what a good question I got? All
right? One big question I got is in the last court day, the
guy from Hills was there and I asked the judge. I said, is
it true that because I know you know, I'm a lawyer to interpret the
law, I go, can I destroy your property before the appeals process is
over? And it just says, I don't know. You got to talk
to a lawyer, go figure out. We're not sure because there's different types
of I would think that if you were actually did you actually file an appeal?
When did the ruling come down? The ruling came down les ten days
ago, and I filed an appeal last week. So okay, and it
was destroyed after you filed your appeal. No before, but before I filed
the appeal, they destroyed him the next day he got the shelter. Wait
a minute, I had to judge. Okay, So they destroyed him the
next day, not after you filed your appeal. Well maybe they thought that's
because they had a ruling. They didn't know you were going to appeal.
I said in court, I said, I'm appealing this case, judge,
can they destroy your property until the appeals cases over? And I didn't get
a straight answer, so the next day before. Now it's almost like vindictive,
But I don't know what you can do about it. Patrick, What
kind of dog? He was a massive? Okay? So listen, what
is your plan right now? What is your base? What is your plan
of action? What are you trying to get. I'm trying to get something
in the appeal process that well go ahead. They were able to. I
don't know. Are they able to destroy your property if the appeals Well that's
that's neither here nor there. What are you trying to appeal about the dog
being vicious? How are you going to do that? If you already lost?
Do you understand what an appeal is. People I think misunderstand what an
appeal is. It's not just that you don't like the ruling and you want
them to reconsider. No, that's not it. What an appeal is is
an error done by the courts, and you're appealing on that issue. What
basis do you have for an appeal? That's my question is since and how
are you going to afford an appeal? Hold on, Mark? I want
first the question what is the issue you're appealing? What is the issue you're
appealing that they destroyed my dog before the appeal? They destroyed the dog after
the ruling? What are you appealing about the ruling? Do you understand what
you're saying. You can't appeal the fact that they killed your dog that happened
after the ruling. Now, if you wanted to appeal because they did an
error in court, something was wrong, they destroyed evidence or something. Listen,
if you win the appeal, then you look for civil damages for them
destroying your dog. But what are you appealing about the case. I'm going
to ask one more time, what is the issue you feel you have to
appeal That I requested a jury trial and did not get one. That's not
an appealable thing. That's up to the judge. Well, hold on,
I don't know if it is or not. Actually I shouldn't say that.
Wait a minute, I don't know about that. Are you saying, why
were you turned down a jury because they said I didn't pay a twenty dollars
fighting feet and there it is, there, it is, there, it
is being there you go, there, you go. Okay, I don't
think you can appeal that. I don't think you can appeal it, but
you can try. Now Mark's question. Now, Mark's question, how do
you afford the appeal? You couldn't pay twenty dollars? No, No,
that was an I couldn't. I was in the hospital. I had a
pulmonary embolism and I almost died. I was in the hospital. Oh,
so you couldn't pay for the jury. You couldn't pay for the jury trial
because I couldn't get into file it and pay the fee. I wasn't physically
able. That's not I don't think that's appealable. Listen, Patrick, Patrick,
listen, why would you appeal even if you win? What do you
think you're going to Let's say you appeal and there's a ruling that they should
have let you had a jury trial. Now you have it, Now they
reset it for another trial. What are you hoping to accomplish in the end.
In the end, I'm hoping to accomplish that Foothills doesn't have the power
to kill your dog until the process is over. Okay. Now, if
you did, listen carefully, if you did an appeal and the judge ordered
a new trial with a jury, I don't think that'll happen. But if
it did, then you have to win that case. And then after that
case, if it was found that, yes, the dog was not vicious,
then what then? What do you want? Restitution from pain and suffering?
Because now you're not going to get that. Okay. So Patrick,
here's what I'm saying, and you're not gonna like this. Patrick, you
gotta move on, bro, I'm serious. You got who's pain for all
of this right now? Me? Well, don't you have better things to
do? Well? How about getting another dog and starting over. Seriously,
that dog's gone now, Patrick, I'm not being a pain anything. I'm
curious how the dog wasn't vicious though? How is that? How do you
plan to prove the dog wasn't vicious. How are you gonna do that because
he was only aggressive on private property. It doesn't matter because hey, listen,
a vicious dog or a dangerous dog in Colorado is one that creates bodily
injury, causes death, or demonstrates tendencies that would cause any reasonable person to
believe the dog may inflect injury. It doesn't matter if it happened on private
property or in your bedroom. That's right, Mark Patrick, Saint Patrick Patrick,
do you understand after going through all of this, even if you won,
which you can, But even if you won that case, first you
have to win the appeal. First, the appeal has to be granted and
won. Then you have to go to court again if you won the appeal,
and then you go before a jury, and then you have to prove
your case. And then if you win, you have to go for damages.
You're not going to get pain and suffering. Why are you really?
You're a Patrick. You're angry because you lost your dog. I would be
angry too, but please, you are not a stupid person. Do you
see the folly in what you're doing? Do you see it's not going to
change anything at all. It's not going to bring you any satisfaction or money.
You're simply going to be broke, more broke than you are where you
could just instead of doing that, get another dog and move on. How
about that. I just want it to help another people with. Okay,
So you're going to spend all of your time and money to crusade for other
people. Here's what I'm going to tell you. Even if you want money,
Patrick, even if you won, it will not change one thing for
anyone else. Do you feel this ruling is going to be published all over
the state and country and somehow Patrick is going to change the way they do
this from here on out. Do you really believe, really, Patrick,
do you believe that this crusade is going to pay off? I have no
idea. Then please move on. I mean, don't don't spend your life
fighting and josty at windmills. Just do it. Go ahead and do it.
I'm Tom Martine. Hey, I'm Tom Martina, Troubleshooter three oh three
seven one three talks seven one three, eight two five five. Let's talk
Dan. What's going on with your street? Dan? Okay? Am I
on? Yes, sir, you are all right? Well? First of
all, Tom Martino, God I've known you as a radio guy and I
ran into you one swing across the street on Broadway. You were going to
get a gear roll that was a thousand years old. Oh my god,
that was the economy, the Greek economy, deli across from Channel four.
God, I'm telling you what. I'm telling you what anyway? Uh you
know what? What can I say? You sound the same, You've got
the same energy level. Good on you, buddy, and thank you.
I must say, though you become a kinder, gentler Tom Martino. That's
because hold on, I'm making room for Mark, because there's there's not enough
room for two hot heads. Anyway. The point is because you were You
were nice and kind with the guy who lost his puppy back in the day.
He'd have been gone anyway. Well, actually, I wasn't that kind.
I mean, the guy's an idiot for wanting to get you. Got
to draw out the nutcases. I mean, you know, I mean,
I mean he's burning up radio time. Let me get to my issues.
Go ahead, sir, okay, trust me. In the forty years that
I've been I've known you your show, and you I've only called you probably
three times in the whole time is the most important, all right, And
we're talking about a life and death situation involving children. Okay, here's the
situation. Visualize Mississippian Chambers. Uh, Mississippi Chamber is the intersection. There's
a shopping mall on the north side. On the northeast side, there's a
McDonald's or the Jaccalito mess rector of I'm looking it up. So it's Mississippian
Chambers, yes, okay, not the story's school there and there's another school
they say it's called Granada. Okay, Mark, are you looking it up
to online? Go ahead, go ahead, sir, so all right.
So anyway, and of course there was a seven eleven there, which recently
got closed. At any rate, there's only one entrance at the seven eleven
entrance, which was the you know, the gas station of the seven eleven,
and then you continue down and on your on your left is a dollar
store and next to that is the school above. I'm looking at it all
so, now help me. What am I seeing? That's bad? Exactly?
Well what you're looking at, well, you got to look at it
during the time the children come to school and the time they leave. It
runs right up against rush hour, and here are these moms. I don't
see the Monassori school exactly on that corner. But no, no, it's
not on the corner. It's back in the next to the door store.
Okay, you know that's neither here nor there. You know, you'll you'll,
we'll tell. Okay, I'm sorry, what's dangerous? I'm sorry?
Well the danger yeah, all right? Uh once again, you know what
it looks like when when when when parents are bringing their kids to any school,
you know, there's there's dozens of cars all turning the same way and
they're sacked up. Now, this is happening on Mississippi with three lanes going
east, three lanes going west, and people are trying to go into that.
The bottom line is just shacking up. There have been numerous accidents there.
Just yesterday. I'm sitting facing uh north on Dallid, which is you
know, right the street that that that intersects at. And because the cars
are stacked up, you know, the parents are getting frustrated and they don't
know why the person is not moving. They kind of hunk, they kind
of And this happens everywhere. I don't care what you're saying, man,
it happens again again. Uh, there's been numerous accidents there. And my
point is, I challenge your you have a great staff. I challenge you
folks on your way to work. If anybody's over in a law Chambers of
Mississippi, be there and just park and watch. Yeah, what's time to
do? What time would we see staff? What time would we see it?
Uh? You know in the morning seven o'clock, eight o'clock when the
kids going to school. And then let me ask you something on what kissing
go lane time? They're everywhere. Listen, if we look at you not
understand. Okay, again, you have to believe me. You have to
see this, Tom. I wouldn't. I wouldn't, I wouldn't. Wait.
No, no, listen, man, I'm not discounting what you're saying.
We're just trying to clarify. If I look at this intersection, we
have north, south, east, and west. Where is on what what
quadrant is the school? Oh? Oh, I see what you're saying.
No, it's not on the intersection of Mississippi and Chambers. Go east,
go down, look east. Then there's the where you turn into the seven
eleven off of Mississippi. That's the same route the parents' sake, because their
school is straight down. And how far down is that? I'm sorry?
How far down is from the intersection? Oh you mean from Mississippi and Chambers?
Yeah? Right, Just just look down. And if you had the
map that you said to go east, how far bro how far? Oh?
Oh? What? Not even a quarter mile? Okay? So I
know what you're saying. Okay, go to Idallia. Do you see the
roet of Dahia? Well I will, but yes, I see the Idealia.
Yes, okay, great Now The point is all of that that little
tight so there. I know they're stacked up there and they're wanting to turn
on Dahlia. Is that right? Okay? So well hold on, What
would you do then? Close the school? What would you do? That's
what I'm getting at. What do we do about okay? What do we
do about it? You know again that's up to the people who get paid
to to do traffic engineering. The point is all I'm saying is there's been
numerous accidents. Yees, have any kids ever been hurt? I don't know
the results of the injuries. I do know that one instance, which was
a few months ago, a car Actually, if you'll continue looking down,
and you'll see there's the creek. And something happened on that intersection and the
car got pushed out off the street and went in between the lanes and over
the creek, went in between the bridge, down into the water, face
down, Trump facing up fire trucks using a hook, trying to lift the
car in between. Please tell Okay, by the way, I am looking
at this area where the Montessori school is, and what he's talking about is
Mississippi in the street. And all I can say is, I don't see
how they can change it. I don't know what you do about it.
That's the main issue, not that it may not be dangerous. I don't
know what you do about it. Dan, if you have any suggestions,
hang on and just give us specific examples of what you would do. I'm
also gonna go to Marino, Mohan and Jay coming up. Yeah, ripped
up bad news. You need advice, so you don't have come running.
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go back quickly. You have a comment on a guy that called in about
his, uh, his van. He was just very upset because he said
that he had this starting problem and and he took it to Firestone, Westminster,
and he screwed around with them, spent two grand blah blah blah.
Anyway, he's gonna have it looked at. What is your comment, Well,
they might have been on the right path, but here's goes back to
keep your parts, keep your old parts. Here's why on his van,
there's when you replace a fuel pump, you can put a fuel pump in
it, or you can put a whole unit in there. Here's a big
difference on a ninety five. Tell me what you mean by a whole unit,
Jay. The whole unit comes with a new fuel saw to pick up
tube as sending unit for the fuel gauge. It has a new check valve
in it and a new little electric motor which is the pump. Now,
you can also take two little hoses loose, put a brand new electric motor
in there, which is the pump, and have a brand new fuel pump.
But those commonly have a problem, really common where the check valve inside
the tank inside that big unit starts losing the ability to seal. And when
you shut your car off, all your gas strains back. You don't have
any fuel pressure. And every time you go to start it, you have
to build pressure. Oh that's genius. How long have you been How long
were you in the car? Biz? Oh? Most all of my life?
Really? I mean, Jay, I I recognize you from your comments.
That's that is That is such a great explanation of how it drains back
and causes a lack of fuel pressure and basically you end up having to prime
it again. But I mean, for lack of a better word, wow,
thank you, Jay. I hope he's listening on that one, and
I'm sure Kevin Caulkon will find it, but thank you. Three oh three
seven one three eight two five five. So listen, here's the deal.
I looked at this intersection and the Montessori school and I can see where you
know, people will be turning in off of Mississippi and could cause a problem.
But I don't see an answer. And all I'm going to ask,
I'm not going to belabor this, Dan, if you have specific recommendations,
what are they? Number One, the responsibility falls to the school because the
school is where they're going, and so what what can they do about them?
An agency? What can they do about it? If there's a school,
if I can, if I can, if I can finish my point.
The school needs to communicate to their student body and the parents and give
them some instruction on this. Either don't use that intersection. They can.
They can come down to Mississippi and Chambers, take a rite and then turn
into the bank right behind the McDonald's and get in there safely. Yeah,
I'm sure the bank would love that. No. No, no, the
bank is on the side. No, no, it has nothing to do
with the bank. It's a common street. Again. That's all I have
to say. And my point, Tom is that as I say, I've
seen what you've done over the years, and you know, I challenge you
or your staff to sit there and then you'll get the You'll get the urgency,
the urgency of all of this because we're talking about children who are being
forced, you know, to go to this. Everybody have to have to
take your child to school, so you know the I'm wondering why other I'm
wondering why parents have not complained about it, Dan, exactly exactly. Listen,
when I was waiting during your herd breaks, I was saying the same
thing. Am I the only person that has has said this? And you
asked me about accidents? I don't know how to track the accidents at that
inter section, but you do and you can get that information. And I'm
so can you can and that is through the police department. It's that easy.
Well again, my I'll leave you with this, sir. I don't
want to take your radio time. I'll leave you with this. First of
all, once again, nice talking with you. The point, yes,
sir, you or your staff get there during the entrance or the extra Why
what could we possibly change down? I'm telling you again, you will see
what I mean when you do it. I okay, it's the worst thing
I've ever seen in my life. Now what Dan, what he's saying is,
even if we observe it, what do you think will change it?
Like like, I don't think the school. The school could put up a
memo saying this is the traffic pattern. I've seen other schools that do that.
They'll say, please don't turn on this street, please use this street,
please do this yes, yes, okay, no, okay, I
see okay, So I see where you're going with this. So let me
let me go down the road a bit further with this. Oh my god,
man, Hey, Dan, I can't Dan well, And this is
such a Dan, then Dan, Dan, this is such a local I
can't I can't take up time to do it. What you need to do
is email Dan, Bro. This this does not affect ninety nine point of
my audience. So what you can do is email me, and I swear
to God I will look at it and forward it to the school. I
will, Okay, But here's the deal, Bro, I just can't take
the time to talk about redirecting the traffic flow for a school on an intersection
when no one has the power to do that. The school can ask parents
to please abide by this traffic pattern. I wouldn't be surprised if they already
do it. I don't know, but I just email me, okay,
email me what you think instead of taking up the radio time for it.
I'm serious. I appreciate that you care, but there's not much really other
people are going to care listening to this at this point. Now, Marina,
what's going on with you? Hi? Marina, what's happening? Hi?
Tom? Hey, what's happening? I am getting married on July seventh,
and we had rented a VRBO like in February for our party and they
were going to allow us to have you fifty to sixty people. Well,
we went to go look at the places. One Sea Barn. When we
went to go look at it, it had a mildew smell in the basement,
really bad. So you reserve the VRBO in February for use in July.
Yep. And so, and you inspected it when it was in April,
and then in April when you inspected it in April, that's when you
found it to be mildewy. Yep. And this is just besides the point.
It's going to lead up to what Well, I'm sorry, keep going,
then keep going yep. So anyway, what happened is we brought it
to their attention and we said, hey, have you been in there.
It smells mildewy. Our kids are going to be down in that basement sleeping.
We think that they were offended, and they canceled our reservation. They
said it's not a good fit for us. Is this the owners that did
this? Yep? Sure sure was. So that was April twenty third,
and remember we're getting married July seventh, So I had to take twowo days
to find another place for our wedding reception. Wait, you were going to
have your whole reception. You were going to have your whole reception in this
house. Yep, it was a party, So you would have freaked me
out too. Just as a side note, if you called me up and
you were going to remind allies and you start talking about mold and children,
I tell you to hit the bricks. You know. I think they just
are afraid of liability and all that. So what happened then? So then
what happened is that they cancel it on the twenty third. Took me two
days to find another place for our wedding party. Yeah, I get it.
Okay. I found the Monarch Hotel, you know, the casino,
and we rented the balcony signature suite, made the reservations, let them know
that we were going to have fifty to six. So that whole other story
had nothing to do with the problem. It's a timeline thing, is what.
Okay, got it. So you switched to Monarch for the reception,
and you did that in April yep, April twenty sixth is when we did
our reservation. Okay, got it? So now keep going. Then what
they said there was no problem having fifty to sixty people in that balcony signature
suite. So we then changed all of our invitations for all of our party
to let them know they reserved their rooms to stay at the Monarch. And
then we go to inspect that, you know, to go check it out
and for decorations. And we went with the event planner and she said that
was fine. Fifty to sixty people, no big deal. Then ten days
later we get a call from the director of hotel operations, Nicky, and
she said that we could not have fifty to sixty people in that twenty two
hundred square foot room and that so did they cancel. And what they did
is then they let us go to the Penthouse. They were going to upstrade
us to the Penthouse no extra charge, which was awesome, and they said
that there there's no problem with fifty to sixty people. Then we went and
looked at the Penthouse with the director of sales. Her name's Paper, and
we went and looked at it. I'm wondering if there's an end to the
story, keep going though, I mean, and I understand that you want
to give me every single detail. Okay, so did the penthouse workout or
not? Well? No, long story short, So they canceled our reservation.
They said, then wait, wait, wait, why did hold on?
I thought you said they were going to upgrade you to the penthouse.
That's exactly what happened. And then they then why was it canceled? They
said that that was too many people. They could only have twenty one people
in that penthouse and it's a very large room. Well hold on, but
they knew you were going to have fifty to sixty, right exactly. That's
why we need your advice, so hold on. They can't so wait a
minute, wait a minute. The hotel made a reservation for you, and
then change and called and said, we can't have you in the original room
you booked. Now you have to go to the penthouse. But the penthouse
we can't have you there either. Why would they even recommend an upgrade to
the penthouse if the same number of people. I don't understand. You can
only have fifteen or twenty in the original room, and in the penthouse you
can only have fifteen or twenty. Why would they bother switching you at all?
Why not just cancel? Exactly? That is our problem. Well hold
on, Well you have to you know, you're the one telling the story.
Maria, Marina, I need to know when they called you and said
you can't you can't have your reception in the original room because there are too
many people. However, we're going to move you to another room and there
will still be too many people. Now didn't you say, well, wait
a minute, that doesn't make sense. Trust me, We've gone back and
they must have listened. They must have given you some idea. Why did
the fire department get involved? They must have told you something. They did.
They said that that was just too many people for that room, and
they said that there can only be one person every fifteenth Okay, okay,
so Marina Marina, So the same number of people are accommodated in the original
room and in the penthouse. Right, yes, So by upgrading you did
not do you any good? Right no? So okay, so now you're
canceled. You're canceled. Well, one thing I can tell you for sure.
They can't. You don't have a contract. Now now wait, hold
on, did you have to pay? Did you did money? Did money
exchange hands? Yes, we paid money for the original room? Really?
And did it did it specify how many people? Did you have a contract?
We didn't sign a contra. But we did mention many times at phone
records. Yeah, it doesn't matter if you mentioned stuff. I mean,
listen, I don't know if you had a contract or not. That's the
story. But I don't know if you had a contract or not. But
I got some suggestions coming right up. Hold on him, Tom Martino here
three h three seven one three talk seven one three A two five five Marina.
I can't decide if you had a contract or not. It doesn't sound
like one. It sounds like a normal reservation. But let me explain what
they did. Send us an email giving us an upgrade to the penthouse,
offering all of our guests that were staying there a twenty five dollars amenity.
So people have booked this hotel. Our wedding is less than two months.
We were told by the Marina sales director in hotel. I'm going to say
that. I'll say the same thing again in case you didn't hear me.
I am not sure if you had a contract or not. I am thinking
you did not. That's just my thought. But were they all going to
sleep there? No? No, no, just my husband and I were
going to sleep there? Now, Okay, I do think you had some
kind of reliance and there could be a consequence to them doing this, if
it could, if it was deemed unconscionable, they should have told you sooner.
It's too late. Here's the thing. You're obligated to try to mitigate
any damages, so to try to find another place for a venue. And
at the same time, I'm not sure what damages you would have against them.
Okay, I'm not sure. I'm saying that, do you have a
breach of contract? How much were they going to charge for this venue?
It was like four thousand dollars. Are you bringing in all of your own
food on it? Well, that's the other problem. We have a cater
we had a DJ. All this is non fundable. Ye no, wait
wait a caterer and a DJ. But you still have a caterer and a
DJ. Well, now we don't have a place to have our wedding in
it. I'm not I didn't say that, but you did not cancel the
caterer yet or the DJ. Is that correct? Exactly? It's non refundable,
But we don't have a place. It's a marina. Do they don't
have to tell me you don't have a place. I understand that you have
everything except a place. So what you need is a place. What I'm
saying to you is you have an obligation to try to mitigate damages. What
we need to figure out is they were going to charge you four thousand dollars
for that venue. Okay, I understand, and now they say they can't
do it. My question is this, do they have anywhere in that hotel
that can accommodate fifty guests? They do their banquet room, but it's not
that's not something that we want that. It's not more of a meeting room.
So did they hold on, Marina, I'm not asking if you want
it or not. Did they offer you any alternative? They offered us that,
but they wanted to cater it themselves, and we'd also have to pay
for a bartender. We already have that we've already So Maria, if you
took that other option, they would not allow you to have the caterer you
already paid exactly. Well, then that would be a loss. You can't
do that. What about this? How much? Did how much did you
pay for that venue? And are they refunding it? They will refund it,
okay, So forth, have you tried to look for a place for
fifty people. I did, and there's nothing available except for really expensive places.
It's so like, how much more? How much more would it cost?
There's places that would be like ten thousand dollars? Okay, and you
were prepared to pay four Is that right? Exactly? Okay? Now one
of the things you could do is now, again, I'm not sure if
you have a binding contract or a detrimental reliance, what happens if the reason
is whoever rented it out to or didn't realize it's against fire code. I
mean, I would assume that's an out on their side for the contract.
Well, if it was a contract, it may not be an out,
because just because they made a mistake, it would be they'd have to do
something. But I don't know they even had a contract. I guess what
I'm saying is this, you need to find a place. If you can't
find a place, now you've got a big problem. But you understand,
Marina, there's going to be a limit to your damages. You're not just
going to be able to say, well, now you owe me for this,
and you owe me for that, and you owe me for this,
and now I got to change my wedding. And I mean, just so
you know there, you don't just go to the candy store now start collecting,
even if you had a contract. But I don't even know if you
did. Now we can talk to an attorney to see what they think.
You know, having a contract, then you would have a break it in
order to even do that. Time we got to see what the hell she
signed that we didn't shine anything. That's the problem. Well, then you
don't have a contract. She signed an email mark and we had this discussion
once before. Is as restaurantract? Yeah, and I don't think a reservation
is a contract unless she didn't. You say you exchange money. We did
know they did gave money. Oh wait, you did. He gave us
a proposal with all these things that they were going to give to us for
our guests and for ourselves for them. Let's you know what, Let's get
let's get an attorney on I'm serious to talk about the elements of a contract
to see what. But I want to ask you a quote. Let me
ask a question real quick. When you talked about the other place with the
mold smell or the mold, you said the kids would be sleeping in the
basement. Now all of a sudden, it's only you and you are soon
to be a husband. That would be in the suite. So where the
kids going to sleep? Oh, they're going to have hotels at the Monarch.
We already booked all their hotel rooms. They'd yeah, they're older kids,
they're older kids. Oh, I get it, okay, So listen
the hotel rooms and our guests. There's about twelve also hotel rooms. Okay,
and they're coming in from out of state. They did they say because
it was their screw up, or they didn't tell you right away and they
waited ten days? Did they say? What do you think they would relent
on the catering thing? Do you think they would let you use your own
caterer in that banquet room? They said that they they it was against hotel
policies that they have cater it there. But Tom, we don't want that.
It's a meeting room. It's not it's not a nice I get what
you're saying. No, I get what you're saying. I just don't.
I don't know why when you booked it, if they knew there were fifty
people, why they one realized probably hotel management, you can't have that many
people in that room because of fire code that they did they offer any By
the way, why would they let you rent a suite and have a caterer
but not the banquet room and have a caterer. I don't understand that part.
If it's against policy to bring food in, why would it be okay
in the suite that you rented. You know, we had so many different
stories told to us by the director of sales, the director of hotel operations,
and the event manager. These are all the three people that told us
it would be okay to have fifty to sixty people in that balcony signature suite.
And this Marina, those are the people that Marina. Marina, you
keep bringing up the same stuff over and over and over, and all I
asked was this, No, No, Marina, I know you're upset.
Hold on, I'm asking you this. Did they know you were going to
have your own caterer in that room? Yes? They did? Okay,
Now what about this? What? I think there's a few ways to approach
it, depending on how strong of a case you think you have. You
keep referencing emails and reliance and all of that, so you could book a
more expensive place and then sue them in small claims court for the difference,
saying that you had no choice but to pay more if it's going to be
comparable. But you don't get to just go out and find a taj mahal
and say they have to pay for it. But it wouldn't be unreasonable to
expect them to help you get another place. How do you know that without
seeing anything she signed? Mar I just said, and I said it a
million times, I don't know if she has a contract or if she would
prevail. What I said was you could rent a more expensive place and then
go after them for the difference. I did not say she would win,
nor did I say she had a contract. But that is one option to
consider. That's all I'm saying. So you're no one's going to know how
you're saying she's got a contract. What's that you're saying she's got a contract?
YEA, yeah, you're right. Okay, Now listen, Marina.
What I want to do is I want to get an attorney on for an
opinion. That's the least we can do and see what they think. I
just I just don't think you have a contract. Maybe you do, but
I think that you definitely have a problem, and you would think the monarch
would do more to at least help you out of it. And in fact,
I would like Deputy Doc in the studio to call Marnark and say,
hey, you know this kind of isn't fair. You know you might be
able to do something. Do they have adjoining suites where they would allow this
many people or not? No, penthouse was the largest, like over twenty
two hundred score feet and how many okay for the penthouse, how many people
would they let in? Twenty one? So we'd have to alternate, is
what they said? Twenty one people allowed, and then those people would have
to leave our party. Yes, then we can allow. Do they have
two penthouses that could be adjoined. I don't believe, so, I don't
know if they're a joined or not. Hey, Deputy Doc, would you
call them? I'm serious. If you have the name of the director of
sales, Marina, we want to call them. Three oh three seven one
three eight two five five. Hi, Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three oz
three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to
the show. Now, Daniel has an issue. By the way, are
we going to get an attorney on for that? I mean she hung up,
but I want to get an attorney on to talk about that. Did
you get her number or did she just hang up? I want a deputy
doc to call up there as well. Uh, did you get her information?
Does she know we're working on this? Yes? So I gave her
information to deputy doc. And he's actually making a call to Monarch right now.
I mean, I think it's worth a question or not it excuse me,
an inquiry or two. I mean, this woman's under pressure, she's
getting married. Daniel, what's going on with you? Daniel? Welcome to
the show and anyone else who has a problem, question or complaint U three
zero three seven to one to three talk seven one three eight two five five.
It's just good to bounce stuff around like this for people. What's going
on? Daniel? Hey, Tom, thanks for taking my call. I'm
having an issue with a contractor after last years. What's going on? So
it was basically long story endless. You know, a roof, gutters,
paint, and some garage doors, normal hail damage stuff. Oh it was
all hail damage. Okay, And where'd you find the place? The people
to do it. One of my friends that used these people before. And
you know, I just called them and they came over. So and okay,
and who is it? Did you actually contract with them? Yes?
They did, And who is it? It was a Storm Solutions LLC.
Storm Solutions Okay, and they do everything. Yeah. I signed a contract
with them that they would take care of the full scope of my insurance claim.
When did you do that? You know that was back in the stormers
in June. So I think July or August okay of twenty three, of
course, right, yeah, just last year. Yeah, Okay, listen,
one thing I wanted to say that one thing I wanted to bring up
that sounded a little danger to me. They said something about they'll handle the
insurance. Tell me how they worded that. I mean, they didn't specify
specifically what you get and how much? Uh yeah, so they did essentially
they didn't want to include it originally the agent and I said, every damage
that is included in my insurance claim numbered you know, X, y Z
will be covered for the amount, you know, the amount the insurance company
will pay plus you know, when they when they go back and ask for
me, Daniel or Daniels or something. Daniel, Yeah, I'm asking.
Did they say you need siding, you need roofing, you need this,
you need that, or did they say whatever your insurance company says. They
they agreed with what the insurance company said. So yes, they said I
needed paint. Did they wait? Did they do your estimate before the adjuster
or after the adjuster? They did it concurrently. I scheduled it, so
the adjuster came up. Okay, Daniel, let me just say this for
people you didn't call in to get a ration of crap. But let me
say this for people listening, never ever, ever do what Daniel did.
Ever, you will screw yourself every time. Now here's what I want to
tell people listening, and then I'll get to your problem. Never do it.
If you have the adjuster and the contractor work together, you will never
know ever if you got what you really needed or if they cheaped out,
Because a contractor who wants a juicy insurance job would meet with an adjuster and
they'll make deals. The contractor. Let's say, if you called out a
contractor on their own, they may look at the job and think you need
this, and you need this, and you need this and you need this
call it a bushel, a bushel of things that you need because the contractor
is looking at it from a pure contracting standpoint of what needs to be done.
Now, instead of doing that, you have the contractor come out with
the adjuster or after the adjuster. Now you have a different situation. Now
the contractor's thinking, I want this job, so I'm going to make the
adjuster happy. So instead of getting this bushel of things that you need,
he's going to parse it down and you're going to get a half a bushel
because he wants the job. So the adjuster and the contractor come to an
agreement, and now you never know what you were supposed to get or not,
because instead of having an advocate on your side, you now have two
people working to get the job done on their terms. So people listening never
do what Daniel did. When it comes to having a contractor. You make
the contractor or the roofer. You make them commit themselves to what they believe
you need and how much it will cost. Why is that? Because guests
want if it won't cost as much as your insurance company is willing to pay,
you get extra money if it's going to cost more then you're gonna ask
the insurance for more money. So never do that. Now we're gonna come
back and talk about a specific problem right after this. Hi, Tom Martine
here three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five.
Welcome to the show. And uh, let's go back to Daniel.
Daniel, I don't want to run out of time, so I'm gonna take
I'm gonna keep you, so go ahead and tell us what happened with the
contractor. Go ahead, So, Tom, the quick and dirty of it
is, we weren't done with the painting yet, they got weather it out.
There's a little touchup to do. Yeah, and he wanted his a
couple of cash value check. He wanted to check from the insurance to come
in. He he signed the form for me saying the work was complete,
sent it in. So I got a check and I had no idea.
I didn't. I purposely didn't sign it because he didn't Finny. Wait,
wait, he forged your name. Yes, that's why I'm calling wow.
And so he got the check. The real cut, Well, well here's
the real problem. The real problem. Well, let me look what the
problem was. There was still an open issue with my garage door. They
found two panels that were damaged. They're going to pay for him. My
painter says, hey, look I painted a darker color. This whole door
is dented. You could what you should submit and have every panel changed.
I said, great. I called them. They got the ball rolling.
He forges my name, sends it in, sends it's all done. So
now I'm not getting the garage door out of the deal. Forges my name,
Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel hold on. We got two isshes.
Yeah, we got two issues here. We have the garage door and
then we have the paint. Those were the only two things not done.
Paint done. They came out and they finished it the day. Okay,
okay, after they forged your name. What I was going to say is
the real harm would be if they claimed it was done and did not finish
it. But they claimed it was done. I know it's wrong, but
they claimed it was done before it was done. Then they came out and
finished it, so the painting was finished. Correct, correct? Okay,
Now, as far as the garage door, was that garage door noted when
your adjuster and the contractor got together and came out. Originally Yes, they
found three panels out of the seven that were damaged. And so the adjuster
and the contractor acknowledged that up front. Is that right? Better? Correct?
Well, you said you had a contract saying they would fix whatever was
wrong. That's true. So you can go to your insurance or you can
go to a contractor. You have a contract that says whatever the insurance company
says, so enforce it. Hold on. If I'm getting something wrong,
Yeah, ripped off bad news. You need advice, so you don't have
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All right, Now, hey, have you Daniel like? Have you have
you seen this gas that's coming? What do you mean, Mark? Well,
starting in July, it looks like our gas prices could go up fifty
one cent somewhere around there. Some people are saying a little less. Some
people are even saying a dollar a gallon because not only the summer fuel blend
is coming, but the EPA has mandated that we change over to this new
ass starting July. Once again, that's called god. I can't even I'm
trying to find it here, reformulated gasoline because we have such bad emissions in
Denver. So there's some place just wait, wait, Mark, is it
just Denver? Well, that's the part. It looks like it's the front
range. But if you live like it looked like even El Paso County was
involved. But if you go to the western slope it appears as if it's
not. I can't quite tell who's got to do it and who doesn't.
But can you imagine literally having a jump of fifty cents to a dollar in
some areas? But then you drive five or six miles and it's fifty cents
or a dollar less. That would completely crush businesses. Wow, and you
don't have to worry about it, smart ass. I don't know if that's
true, man, that's the problem. I can't I can't figure out who
has it or not. And right now I'm looking it KDIVR article. I
mean, this is happening in a few weeks, man. Yes, here's
what's crazy. It's a cleaner they call it a cleaner fuel blended to emit
fewer smog ingredients. More than just oxygen oxygenated fuel. It's more than that.
They have other additives, and it's required in high ozone areas. So
wherever there's a high ozone area, they are going to force this blend on
us. And it will be fifty cents to one dollar more more, not
just fifty yes, per gallon, fifty cents to a dollar more. And
it begins June first to September fifteenth in affected areas. Now, and it
says the EPA downgraded the Front Range metro area as a severe violator of ozone
pollution standards. Now, Governor Jared Polis, of course, who is the
uh? Nevermind I don't want to get into it. Well, he's against
it, he's trying to get away. That's right, that's right. The
evil twin of Gavin Newsom is actually fighting this, and well not fighting it,
he's asking them to reconsider. I mean, that's not a joke,
man, You're talking twenty to thirty percent higher. That's just it's unfathomable.
Yeah it is. Now let's go back to Daniel. Now, Daniel had
the contractor come to do some storm damage. To make a long story short,
it's really very simple. The contractor met with the adjuster. They agreed
on a contract of everything wrong. They noted the garage door was dented,
and let's just get right to it. Okay, the garage door wasn't replaced
or the panels, so it was on the original estimate. Your insurance agreed
to it, the contractor agreed to it. Get it done. I mean,
it's that simple, Daniel, without overthinking this. No, no,
we're missing one part. We're just missing one part. The part is where
they found the additional damage. They're going to place all the doors that here
that was open. I called my agent, she said, I'm going to
look at it. I'll get back to you this week. While she was
looking at it, he forged my name and sent it in that the work
was complete. When I talked to her, she said, oh, I
dismissed that because you just sent me the paperwork. Okay, I got it
all right. Yeah, so now you didn't do it. He did it.
You didn't do it. He did it. Now that document that was
sent in, I thought you said was only about the painting, but it
said all work was complete. Correct. It says everything is done, We're
done. Send us to now, Daniel. I want to know something.
When he sent this document in the contractor, did they get paid? Yes?
Okay, So why did you Here's what I need to know. Why
did you assign the claim to the contractor? I know all the checks came
to me. I didn't sign it completely, okay, So then so then
why did you pay the contractor the final check? Then I have not paid
him the final check you told me, you told okay, I'm going crazy.
You told me he got the first check, then he signed and said
everything was complete and got the second check. Did you tell me that?
No, they sent me the second check the first okay, good, excellent,
So you have the second check check greater. No, the second check
came into a couple of cash value, but to the paint and the gutter.
Daniel, Yeah, Daniel, Okay, So how much total has the
contractor been paid so far? About eighteen thousand dollars? How much do you
owe him if everything was complete? How much do you owe him? Twenty
four thousand dollars? Okay, So for the for the money left, you
have the check, right, Yes, I have the money. That's fine,
it's no issuet. What's that? Yeah? I have the check.
How much is the second check? How much is the second check of eighteen
thousand and yeah? So it's twenty thousand dollars. Yeah, that's what the
turnout to me. Okay, so you've got check. Daniel. You talk
in four tongue because I don't understand you. Okay, you said the whole
job, the entire job was bid out at how much it began at thirty
two thousand and went up? Okay, never mind your your your figures makes
sense, Okay, I got it. Okay, So he's been paid eighteen
and you got another twenty right correct? Okay, Well it's very simple.
What you do is get the garage if he won't fix the garage, get
it fixed, and deduct it from the twenty That's what I was what I
was thinking. I was gonna say, what would you do in my situation?
That's exactly what I would do. You're in charge at your house.
If if it's on the original insurance claim and he didn't do it, if
he won't do it, get someone else to do it and pay them.
That's it. Yeah. But the problem is that got canceled by the insurance
because he forged the document. What got canceled, what got canceled. The
rest of the garage doors that were damaged. He was going to replace all
the garage doors are going to damage, so those need to be replaced ongoing.
Daniel forged it, and that's what they took away. Okay, Dan,
you don't understand. Daniel. Look, I totally understand. And what
I'm saying is this, Your twenty thousand will more than replace those doors,
right? Is that right? Correct? Okay? And then the balance will
go to the contractor what am I not understanding? What do I do about
this forging of beeps of my name on a document? And I'm worried about
the insurance implications because that's fraud in my name. Well, first, first
and foremost, okay, first and foremost, you're not a party to it.
You're not. You're not in a position to do anything because it didn't
harm you. Your insurance company is the one that was harmed. Your insurance
and the contractor was harmed. Because you're going to take that twenty and you're
going to pay for your garage doors a reasonable price. You're going to pay
whatever the insurance was going to pay. You're going to take out of that
twenty, and then you're going to give the balance to the contractor and let
the insurance company deal with the forgery. When you say the deal, you
know, I don't. I am not seeing what you're seeing. You got
the money to fix your garage yours. If the contractor wants that entire twenty
it ain't. That's the thing. No, No, I didn't have the
money. That's why if they didn't give me the full money to fix all
the garages, they gave me to six three panels. It's I'm gonna say
this again, Daniel. You have a check right now for twenty grand Is
that correct or not? Yeah? Okay? Is that an Daniel? Is
that twenty enough? To pay for the garage doors. Of course it is
you know that, okay? And will you have money left over? Cause
that money, that money is to be sent to the contractor. Now here's
what you're saying. What if I was, what would you say to the
contractor? That's what I'm calling, okay, I would say to the contractor.
I would say to the contractor, I am subtracting from the last check
work that you left undone. And the contractor is going to say this,
well, Daniel, I had a supplement going and I was going to get
more than twenty. I was going to get twenty for the work done,
and there was some extra money for the doors. And you're going to say,
well, you deal with the insurance company because you forged it. You're
not going to get that now they canceled it. Now if you're telling me,
I thought originally what you were saying is this in a perfect world.
In a perfect world, what would have happened is you would have told your
insurance that the doors still have to be done. The insurance may have had
a little more than twenty. You got the twenty, maybe there would be
another three or four grand they would have paid on top of the twenty.
But theoretically all of that money would have gone to the contractor in a perfect
world. But because the supple mental claim was canceled due to the forgery,
all you got was the twenty. So now you have to take matters into
your own hands and fix that garage door or the doors and give the contractor
the balance. Okay, it's that easy. Now the contractor is going to
say, wait a minute, what about my supplemental claim for the other doors,
And you're going to say, that's on you because my insurance company canceled
the supplement because you forged the form. The contractor will suffer for forging the
form. Okay, just by not getting the money. Essentially, the insurance
well, they're getting all. But I don't know how much scro I don't
know. Let's say your garage door is going to cost three or four grand
to fix whatever. I don't know how much your garage doors are going to
cost, but you subtract it from the twenty. I completely understand that.
But and I appreciate your advice. What if the well, I mean,
do you want something more like some kind of an arrest or something, because
it's not gonna happen nothing, No, no, no, no to I
want this to be done and over with. Now are they bugging you for
that twenty? Are they bugging you for that twenty? He was, That's
why he sent him the form saying everything was gone. Okay, So now
is he bugging you? Is he bugging you for the twenty right? Now?
Does he know you have the check? No? I would call him
and say, look, you forged my name. They canceled any extra money
you may have had coming. I do have a check for twenty grand,
but I need to subtract from that for the garage repair. I would just
do it, call us back, tell us what he does, because that's
exactly what the way it works out. Why not just to have him admit
to your insurance company if you really want to get this done, that he's
the one that signed it. Then they'll open it up, resend the check.
Well, they already sent the twenties. And because because I wouldn't bother,
because why do I care? I have enough to fix everything. Why
do I care? It's just the contractor suffering from his work, from his
from his deed. Now, if you're afraid the contractor will put a if
you're afraid the contractor will put a lean on your house or something. No,
you not take care. Okay, well then because the contract you see,
the way I look at it is you got the contractor dead to write.
You got the contractor the insurance company. You never signed it. Now,
by the way, this was electronic, right, But what and electronically
was it sent? Was this letter truly sent from you? Or was it
sent from the contractor? Did the contractor try to make the illusion it was
from you? He sent He sent me the forum where the IP addresses where
it was signed, and that was in a different county than I live in.
So no, I'm not asking about it IP address. I'm asking about
what he signed. Did he sign your name electronically? Okay, that's wrong,
man, You got the proof, that's it? So you did you?
I told you how I would handle it. You can handle it any
way you want. Three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight
two five five Patrick? What's going on? Hell? You know? Tom?
Just one's give you an update? Now? Which one is this?
Patrick? Which one is this? So this is a small claims that you
guys helped me with and find. But which one it? Does? It?
Have to do with uh, it has to do with work that I
had done last fall. It was all sprinkler blowouts for a rental company and
okay, twenty of them, yeah you you uh okay, and and uh
what happened, Well, they just never paid me and they just never write
me, and right, yeah, and the reason was is that just go
back real quick, is that we I do scheduling online, okay, and
so my whole thing is online, and so they tried to They did this
whole thing by sending me a list, and I was like, all right,
well I'll try to get you guys, you know, in with my
whole thing, because they dumped this on me, like another fifty at least
when I'd only done one property. And I said, yeah, I'll fit
you guys in. And then at some point they had someone else come out
and do a few, but they didn't tell me, and so we still
had to drive out to these properties from Bolder to Denver. Yeah, and
I told them that, you know, if I have to drive from Bolder
to Denver, I'm missing jobs, and so you have you still have to
pay for them if you didn't tell me that they got done. And they
decided not to pay me for any of them. Did you win though,
Well, I filed it and the sheriff went and served them, and this
is why I'm calling. Yeah, it's if they're going to do the small
claims, pay the share of forty two dollars to go serve them, because
they instantly got back to me and they're going to pay me. Excellent,
excellent. You know Mark has found that that most of the time when he
served a company, they would call and either pay or negotiate something almost I
mean not almost, Mark every single time. Did you ever have to go
to court? Mark ever? One time? Mediation? One time at of
say twenty and which one was that? It was a telephone company. I'm
not going to say who it was, but it was a cell phone company,
extremely well known. But but why did they decide to go and negotiate?
Well, I don't think. I think they finally started giving it thought
a day before court and they didn't know what to do and it was too
late for them to do anything but show up in mediation, so they cut
me a check at mediation for man I wanted. Okay, hey, Tom,
do we give Patrick a dinger for solving his own problem? For sure,
give him dos dinger, dude. Well hold on, okay here,
I didn't get to check yet. But what I'm trying to say is is
that if you, if you get someone served, pay. It was forty
two dollars to have the sheriff show up and serve this to some secretary and
Garrett, we got a break, dude, we got a break. That's
gonna go straight. I thought I did. I didn't take the fifteen,
did I. I'm in big trouble, my god. Let me give you
a dinger and then we're out of here. Okay, I think all right?
More coming up, Hi, Tom Martino here at THREEO three seven one
three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five. All right,
So we have had a variety of issues here right. Oh my gosh,
I can't believe what an action pack day already, So get your calls
in three oh three seven to one three talks seven one three eight two five
five. So the point that I was making about serving Mark is that the
Sheriff's Department makes a bigger impression when you them. Using them is kind of
hard. A lot of times they won't go that extra mile, nor do
I think they should. I have never done that. But most of the
companies I sue. It's not like a residence or an individual. It's a
big company to where they already have that very easy place to serve in the
state. Yeah. So, but the point I think his main one of
his main points was hey, you know, let's get you know, let's
get someone to serve that'll make an impression. Yeah, but I don't think
if you're suing a company. I'll just give an example like a Microsoft.
You know, when you walk in to serve them, you're just putting it
right in that box. They don't care who puts it in there. That's
right, A big company, he doesn't care. Now have you seen the
billboards mark that Wyoming the state of Wyoming took out. I don't know if
it was the state. Actually it was LCSO lcsowy dot org. Anyway,
anyway, you know what it said, No, And okay, they're downtown
Denver. And here's what the billboard says. It has a picture of Larimer
County Sheriff's Department Laramie County, I mean Laramie and it has four deputies standing
there and it says work in Wyoming where breaking the law is still illegal and
cops are funded. Think about that. You know my favorite part of the
county Sheriff's office. Oh okay, I'm sorry, I'm scare. So they're
the ones that did it. Yeah, yeah, that's where my daughter is
in law school. So I actually liked that. And and by the way,
I yep, I just looked up the website. They're right on the
front. They're just basically saying, you know where right is right and wrong
is wrong. Man. They're saying, if you're a cop in Denver and
you're sick and tired of arresting people that beat the crap out of people or
steal cars, and then see him the next day on the street, come
over here where we actually give a yep. That's what they're saying. Sheriff
Brian Kozak authorized it. He was elected. What did Denver just do?
What did they just do the other day? Yanked another eleven from the Denver
pleage? Yeah, yep, yep, yep. You know what, And
now gas is going to go up a buck. What do you think about,
Well, the new mayor doesn't have anything to do with that, but
he died. Blame them all. But the new mayor what do you think
about the new mayor? Really? What do you think about him? I
can't stand him. He looks like a child as well, he looks like
he's seventeen. Anyway, he's got the wit. He's got the wit of
an eight year old. So as far as that billboard the mayor has,
oh wait, wait, hold on, I want to say one more thing
about the PD in Denver. And you know what they just changed, or
they're changing it next month. If you don't have tail lights or a head
light out, or if you have expired plates, they are no longer going
to pull you over, period, end of story. That's right, So
why renew? I'll tell you what. If I lived in Denver, I
would never renew my plates. If you don't leave, who gives a crap?
You don't have to pay taxes like everybody else, don't renew them.
In fact, don't do anything to your car either. You got break lights
out, headlights out? You can kill somebody, no problem. In Denver,
we don't give a sh hey sham. And he's coming really close to
that full word. Hey, Mark, you know what they ought to do.
They ought to pull the people over and give them a warning, because
I think it would help for safety if people it wouldn't wait, they just
let you loose people up until what a year ago, Doc, You could
steal a car if it was under ten grand, and they could care less.
All I'm saying, if the cops still cause with defective lights, it
would and just gave them a warning. Doc. They don't listen. You're
missing the entire point. That's harassment in Denver PD's eyes or the mayor's eyes.
I know. If you're not the point over for a low level of
fence, all you're doing is profiling. That's what they're saying again, insulting
again, insulting minority communities by saying it's racist, because what they're saying is
most problems are caused by Blacks and Mexicans, and we can't do anything about
it because that would be racist. And I don't agree that most of those
problems are just among minorities, and but what they're doing in Denver and in
Colorado is exacerbating the problem by bringing up those differences and making excuses for their
stupid laws. We have more coming up, Hey, Tom Martine here three
oh three seven to one three talks seven one three eight two five five so
whatever is on your mind, we want to help you today at three oh
three seven one three talk. By the way, that talk speaking of that
billboard uh in downtown or around Denver talking about how work in Wyoming we're breaking
the law is still illegal and cops are funded. The mayor said it's off
base and bristled at it. He says the City of Denver's adjustment to the
Denver Police Department's budget was carefully crafted so there is no impact on the department's
public services. To say that Denver is defunding the police is a wilful mischaracterization.
Well, doesn't defunded mean you take money away from something? Yeah,
that's what I call it. They took him a lot of money away,
and they took eleven million away. But only in the lefty liberal world.
Is that not defunding somehow, that's probably funding the police now. Anyway,
here's the bottom line. Johnson told the media last week that he's diverting some
of the money to help newcomers. Now, By the way, isn't it
funny how they create new terms to speak of people and newcomers? Hey,
these we shouldn't be surprised though they're the same ones that change the definition of
vaccine. This is going to better serve the migrants that come into our city.
Now. I don't mind, by the way, you know, being
reasonable and helping people who are you know, truly seeking a better life and
asylum and all that, but at the expense of people who live here and
work their asses off. Come on, man, when are people going to
get When are people going to revolt on this? When are they going to
rebel against this kind of government spending and these policies. When is it going
to happen? How just how far is Colorado going to go before it goes
the other way? Will there be a pendulum swinging? Or is it simply
going to be craziness? You know what? I hope, really hope happens
that Trump wins And I might have my dates wrong here, but he wins
nationally, he wins the popular vote, and I think that's very possible.
I think he's going to win the presidency because the electoral College. But if
he wins the popular vote, who does Colorado vote for? Do you remember
Tom the popular vote? Colorado must go with the popular vote. They do
not have a vote of their own, So wouldn't that be an in your
face move. If all these Dems had to give the electoral votes all to
Trump because he won the vote, how long would it take for that rule
to change. No, it won't change they because the popular vote is always
going to go to the highly the densely populated areas, which are New York,
La, Chicago, all of the liberal services. You're assuming, You're
assuming these people aren't fed up. I know we disagree on that. Well,
not that they're not fed up, is that they'll put up. I've
told you, That's all I said. I don't think so. They'll put
up with pain and misery for the sake of being right. I don't know.
When you have one hundred thousand people turn out in New Jersey for Trump,
Wow, you know it's going to be an interesting year for sure.
Again, I think, Mark, I think something you said might be correct
in that I am maybe I am looking. I try to look at all
points of view, and maybe I'm putting too much weight on the point of
view I'm viewing about the hatred for Trump and they disdain for him. Maybe
I'm putting too much emphasis on that because they're so much stronger in their opinions
than those who are for him. I mean, they're pretty adamant people for
him. But Mark, if you ever hear the hatred spewed for the conservative
way of life, oh my god, I've heard it right from my own
parents. Come on, for Trump, when you hear that hatred, what
you think is, how could he ever overcome that? You see that?
Because when people have to decide between I mean you can. God, I
don't even need to give examples, but how about eating, uh, compared
to daycare, compared to ever taking a day off or both people working?
I mean, everything's different. Man. Okay, now go queer quick here,
Shane, what's your comment on gas prices? Go ahead, Shane,
I just wanted to say I heard Michael Brown talking about that subject. I
think it was this morning. Yeah, and when hektin Loper left office.
Before he left office, he applied for that later with the EPA when Jared
Plins was elected, he rescinded that a waiver and canceled it. So he
created this problem. Yeah, and now he's trying to look like the Wait
a minute, hero, wait a minute, you're you're telling me that Polis
actually canceled it. Yes, yep, yep. Why because he wanted them
to come down more on Colorado's air. Think about it. He's got his
uh, you know right, environmental buddies to please. You're right, You're
absolutely right. They have to. They have to always worship at that altar.
We have more coming right up. Hi, Tom Martino, you're a
troubleshooter. Three to zero three seven one three talk seven one three eight two
five five. Go ahead, Tony, you got to comment on business.
What is your comment, Tony? Hi, Tony you there, Tony Okay,
I don't know what to do, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony,
Tony. All right, you guys have to help me out here.
He's not talking. So let's go to Kevin. Kevin, what's going on,
Kevin? How you doing, good man? What's going on? Well?
You talked about rebelling, and I came to this state in nineteen eighty
six with about thirty five dollars in my pocket, no job, no car,
no nothing. I'm living a very good life now. Yeah, Unfortunately,
I don't like what's going on around me. And we are taking a
road trip starting tonight to look in other states for living out the rest of
our lives with you. You know what, I gotta tell you, Kevin,
I've heard this from a lot of people. They came to Colorado not
because it was super conservative or super liberal, but it was more or less
a state that let you be what you wanted to be. And they were
not hell bent or lopsided on any issues. They were just kind of and
let live. It was a great environment. Yes, we're going to start
with Idaho. We're heading to Idaho tonight. We're going to go through Montana,
and we're going to go through Wyoming. I was born and raised in
North Dakota. We're not going there. Although it's a red state and all
that, it's just, you know, I think there's going to come a
time and I don't know if you, I don't know how people agree with
this, but Kevin, I do believe the country is not only going to
be divided politically, but it's going to be divided geographically. Absolutely, you're
gonna have red and you're gonna have blue. Now, that will be.
That will be the way it is. It's gonna be like a you know,
the old Confederacy versus the uh, the North. I mean, it's
going to be north versus South, or left versus right. I don't know
why we can't just have some differences and look for common ground where we can
without having extremes on either side, especially all the craziness going on right now.
I'm Tom Martino with more coming up? Yeah, ripped up? What
news? You need? Advice? Who you don't have? The come running
just as fast as we can show. Shooter's gonna help coming man. This
is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino here,
Welcome to the show. Three oh three seven one three talk seven one three
eight two five five? Who have an hour to go? And I want
to bring up Steve right now. He's the one who wrote that song you
just heard. He's a man, Steve Moss, and he brews beer as
well, and he wants He always tells us when he has special events going
on. What's going on? Steve? Now you're doing Tom? How are
you doing? Mark? Everybody else? Sue's crew over there. It's always
fun. We need to make another appointment. There's a lot of new beers
you guys could try. Yeah, you know what, come on in.
Mark loves your beer and Sue's loves your beer. Now I don't love that
of that. Steve I don't say I don't love it. I just don't
drink a lot of beer. But go ahead, Mary, Yeah, tell
us what's happening quite free beer anyway? Hey, can I comment on this
immigration thing? Yeah, go ahead, Sure, you guys, Mary,
an amazing woman from out of the country. I've been working on a K
one visa for a couple of years. Yeah, five thousand dollars in it.
And I had to sign something saying this person isn't going to apply for
government since for at least two years she won't have to. But the point
is, these I don't call them immigrants, illegal aliens, illegal invaders.
They come in, they get a backpack, they get money, they get
debit card, phone, healthcare. I mean, it's just ridiculous, you
know. I've heard that from others. I've heard the point though, he
did it properly, and it's five thousand bucks plus they can't get on any
government assistance. We'll need to. But the point is it's a really long
wait, you know, and we should be putting the front of the line
because we're doing it legally. Ninety an asset of the company, not a
you know. Mental Now I want to I want to you know, I
do want to say this though, not all, not all of the people
coming into the country for asylum and stuff from Venezuela especially, they're not all
looking for making demands and looking for handouts either. But you know, you
have like a difference of a population. You have people who are hard working,
of people who are dead, beach at people are criminals. You have
all kinds of people, no matter where they come from. But in any
case, I really respect you for what you're doing, Steve, on that
on, you know, doing it the right way, getting it done.
And where's your wife from? Do you mind saying the Philippines, okay,
amazing people, amazing people. And you know, Tom, I want to
make a clearer I raised two Hispanic daughters. I'm white, you know,
I mean, you know, I want all people to come in, just
come in legally. And I don't blame the they'll trying to get in here.
I blame the government, you know, the left. If the left
is the one who does this, I blame the government, not the people.
Well, Steve, look at look, let's just take Denver. We're
a sanctuary city, and all these people decided to come here. Now they're
overloaded and they're telling people they got to get the hell out of here.
We can't handle anymore. We set them up for failure, sir, Well,
let's set up something for success, like the race this weekend at Colorado
National Speedway and a website out at Coloradospeedway dot com. What do you got?
What do you got going on? What do you got going on?
Steve's sell my beer in the stands, and they also let me take my
tent out there and sell retail. Now they have a couple different brands in
the stands, but I bring sixteen beers out with me. I've never seen
a small brewery do this, but I I'm obsessed. So there's a lot
of choices. We've got new ones. We have a racetrack beer I just
made for them, another one Triple I t A. It's a pit stop
nine point five percent. It's really an amazing beer. We have a Mango
brand new super Laser Mango. So that's a high gravity. Really hey,
oh it's higher alcohol. It's very refreshing. Steve is, does this make
a living for you or more of a passion? Oh? I think it's
it could be. It's just that I do so many other things it's more
of like a side. But I am looking for you know, I'm gonna
apply for a tap room license on my property and have little special events.
And uh, you don't make any money on wholesale tom and small breweries.
It's it's but how do you put out? Here's what I want to know.
How do you put out the vault? I mean, you have so
much beer out? Do you constantly? Do you have a little staff?
Some people go to the lake I brew beer? So really is it you
only a one man operation? You're doing it constantly? Bottling this? No,
I have a I have a couple of people that work for me.
There's one guy that you met, Gordon. Yeah, he's an amazing guy.
He's the best worker I've ever seen, and he's willing to work.
It just does this business doesn't pay a lot. I can't pay my workers
a lot. There's no there's not a lot a lot of room. Who
does the canning? Steve? I use a mobile canning company and they come
here with a you know, a truck and they wheeled the machine into the
brewery and they how cool is that? How cool is that? This guy's
a nuclear physicist, He's a nuclear text so he's like, well, man,
he does these readings and gets the carbonation absolutely perfect. That is so
cool. So anyway, anyway, so the race, yeah, go ahead.
Well this weekend, we're going to be there with our tent, and
we got a bunch of really cool stuff we have to like do. There's
a bunch of merchandise. Really it's really cool. We have stuff with the
kids. I mean even a bubblegum machine. You know, it was just
you know, we make it fun. We have little blow up guitars for
the kids, all that kind of stuff. But you go to the race
and bring your family and it's like, you know, five hours are really
fun, four or five divisions racing and visit our tent, Rock and Roll
Brewery tent. And we're also going to be Memorial Day weekend. We're going
to be out there both nights, Saturday and Sunday, Memorial Day weekend,
and then the race. The feature race of the year for me for my
sponsorships at the track is Father's Day Weekend. Now that's going to be Saturday
night NASCAR racing. The seventeenth and eighteenth, the June seventeenth and eighteenth,
the fifteenth and sixteenth Father's Day is the sixteenth, and then I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm sorry. That was last year.
You're right. I'm looking at your site here and you have the poster
up for last year's Father's Day. You know, I because I I'm just
going I'm doing towny things. I never get that revise. I'm sorry though,
you know. Anyway, that's this week, this under Monster Truck on
Sunday, it's Monster Truck loving Father's Day super sorry, so to find out
more if they just want to find out and then go up and say hi
to you Coloradospeedway. Isit dot com right? But let me also, I'm
going to offer a good boy some VIP tickets right now if people want to,
you know, tell me or call me. Let's say the first FIBE
people, We'll give some VIP tickets excellent. And also on on the Father's
Day week on the fifteenth, which is a Saturday night, I'm gonna also
cater a famous Staves super party for v I. So we're gonna be giving
some of those away as well. Might come up for that, man,
Mark, let's go to that one. Let's do I love monster trucks,
man, I absolutely love that. By the way, what's the date for
that? Well a for the famous Staves catering that you know, for my
sponsorship, my to grace is the fifteenth. That's a Saturday night, June
fifteenth, and then the following day's Monster Trucks. But what I was gonna
say, Tom, you know, like free meal, famous days, VIP
got to earn this one. I'm thinking like, maybe if they call your
show and you guys can vote on who's singles the best tree farm jingle,
our best tree farm jingle representation cool nice or or or or we'll say the
first five, the first five people that do the best job, or they
can sing the troubleshooter and you're the you can vote. You guys can vote
all right. By the way, Uh, just give out a number.
It's Colorad, Speedway dot com or rock and Roll dot Beer. Uh to
find out more information. Yeah yeah, rock and roll dot Beer. I
got you, Okay, we got more coming up. I'm Tom Martinez three
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eight eight heating dot com. Hey, so Randy has a question about a
used car sale and out of state. Go ahead, Randy, what's going
on? Man? I'm trying to create some side the income by flipping cars.
And you understand, you understand about flipping cars. If you do more
than a certain number I think it's four in a year, you have to
get a dealer's license. Okay. I've found was fort lower price out of
state than what you could buy the same vehicle here with the same a more
than miles on it. What vehicle is that? The two thousand and seventeen
Honda Pilot excelly or no, the top of the line with seventy thousand miles
on it? And where'd you find it? I don't want to say,
somebody else might jump on it. No, give me tell me what state
or something it's in Texas? How many miles on it? Seventy thousand miles?
And how much are we talking? Sixteen thousand? Okay, beware because
that could be a scam. Oh I know. But let's say everything's legit,
I'll do a carfax. I'll talk to these people. How can I
minimize the risk of sending them a deposit electronically to hold that vehicle till I
get down there to pick it up. You do it by credit card?
You do it by credit card. You don't do it once you do a
transfer, it's theirs. Is it a licensed dealer? No, it's a
private party. Absolutely not. There's no way to minimize your risk. There's
no way to minimize your risk to put a deposit down. Don't put a
deposit down, Okay, but I'm afraid it will get sold out from under
me if I don't do that. Yeah, that's why they that's why they
put the whole scam like that. Listen, how much under the market is
that? Really? How much? I don't know how much under the market
is that? By the way, if you're talking about at a dealer,
it's about thirty No, No, I'm not talking about a dealer. What
is normal retail on that? Just on the have you looked about twenty two
with that and that twenty two thousand and you found it for sixteen? There's
something going there's something wrong it just the market doesn't work that way. The
fact they're asking for a deposit. If I'm selling a car and they're not
asked whatever, they're not no reason. There's no reason I take a deposit.
What is if you give me a five hundred dollars deposit and the guy
shows up with cash in ten minutes. Mark, They're not rude asking for
a deposit. He didn't say they were asking for him. This is something
I want to offer them to the hold it till I get there, but
I want to find out. I think it's crazy. I just think it's
crazy. And to bottom line, they know there is no there is no
way to minimize your risk. Man, I'm sorry. Have you actually talked
to him? Yes, Okay, I would be very suspect on why the
period. I didn't hear a good reason why it's so far under market.
I would ask them that first, and if there's not a good explanation,
I'd forget about it. Oh, Dles don't have a big markets because he's
understood a lot time here. Uh huh, Well, I just think that.
Okay, I'm looking at I'm looking at Honda pilots. Okay, with
the same package, same mileage all over all over, including Texas. Okay,
I find cars dot Com to be great. There's not one of them
under twenty grand, not one of them. Not one. And I am
telling you without even looking at it, when something when it's just it's just
too far askew. So I wouldn't put a deposit down and I just wouldn't.
Now, even with one hundred and twenty thousand miles, these cars are
going for twenty thousand. I don't think seventy thousand miles seventy thousand miles for
seventeen grand. Something is wrong. I bet it was like Facebook Marketplace.
Where did you find it? It's on a very reputable site. What reputable
site is it? Look at bro I know you think people are going to
run out and buy it. They're not going to run out and buy it.
All they have to do is go glitter something. Well, just tell
me the what site is it? And by the way, a reputable site
doesn't mean reputable sellers. Cars dot Com is a reputable site. There's a
lot of scams on there. There are a lot of this is on this
is on craigs List. Did he just say it was a very credible sight
with a straight face. Wait, did you, honest to God say that
to me, Randy, that it was a credible sight. I was just
trying to introduct into this. Oh, I get it, Okay. I
really want to know because it's a great deal, and I know two different
person and the place is vary from the markets. Look at man, I'm
going to tell you something there. You're not going to find it. You're
just not going to find it. Sorry, Okay. I mean when something
look at I I'll tell you what I have searched for so many cars for
so many years, and and things, and and whenever something is off that
far, there's something going on. Now. I'm not saying you shouldn't check
it out, but don't pay a dime, not one dime, not one
dime. If you have to pay, I would go look at it if
you if you think there's a chance it could be real. The worst you're
going to do is take a trip to Texas. It just it just ain't
right, man, Okay. I wanted to tell you. Now say I
wouldn't have to tell you to reach for that. Oh. Hey, by
the way, Randy, go check did you call the guy by the way,
Yes, okay, And and what did they say? I mean,
did tell me what they said? Oh? They said it was an excellent
condition. It's all real to have, but it's been hasn't been in any
accidents to clean title? All right, ask him for the VEN number.
That's that was my next move. Okay, they do that, call us
back, really, call us back tomorrow. Car day, Please do that
call Ask him for the VIN number. If they give you a VIN number,
we can trace where that car is, where it went, and if
they even have it. Michael, Welcome, what's going on, Michael?
What's happening? Hello? Hey, what's going on? Michael? Oh?
Yeah, I wasn't even expecting to be on the radio that quick. So
I was telling the ladies. Just a second ago. A couple of weeks
back, I was at the David Busters up in Westminster. I went up
there for the Nuggets game with my sons, and I had just like just
some game cards to play the games. And then I asked the lady if
I could reserve a table to eat. She told me I had to see
the hostess, and so I went to the hostess. Hostess told me that
they were full, that we couldn't eat there. So I went and try
to get my money back for the game cards. First manager I told me,
yeah, it was okay, but then he had took my cards and
left came back with this other manager, and the other manager was like kind
of being a jerk, not like looking at me in my eyes. And
I had questioned him like, Hey, how come ever since I got over
here, you're kind of like being a jerk about this. Well, what
do you think is going on? Michael? What do you think is going
on? He? I don't know, honestly, Like I have no idea.
I couldn't speak for the guy, but but did you feel like it
was personal? I kind of did felt like it was personal. And so
anyways, manager, we kind of like argue. I told him, hey,
you should let people know before they purchased these game cards they're not going
to be able to eat, so they don't because you're not going to give
them their money back. He started getting like really offended. Dude grabbed me
by my shirt, like what, pulling me out. He started taking me
out of the Davenbusters and then punched me in my eye and gave me like
what oh no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on. We got more coming up. Just hang
on, does the guy punched you in the face? Hi? Tom Artino
back with you? Three h three seven one three talk seven one three eight
two five five. Okay, So we have Michael uh with this Dave and
Busters thing, and basically I find this shocking. Michael, you were punched
in the face. What did you do after that? Did you call the
police? So what happened after that? He was telling me, Hey,
you better get out of here. I just called the cop. And then
my sister and my best friend was there too, and her my sister's husband
was there. They're like, let's go, Mike, and I was like,
hey, dude, I was like, I swear I didn't do anything
wrong. I was like, I'm just gonna hang out, and they're like,
no, let's just go. Oh well. I hung around for about
a half hour waiting for the police to come. They never came. My
boys were complaining that they were hungry and yeah, by the way, this
happened in front of my two How long ago did this happen, Michael?
This happened during one of the Nuggets and Lakers games. Like, now,
do you have Michael, do you have witnesses that saw him hit you.
Yeah, my son thought, well, it was all on camera, but
the police officer said that it was too blurry that he couldn't see the actual
punch. And then also the employee was claiming that he could smell alcohol,
which I just got there and I don't. I'm not really a drinker.
I didn't. Well, Michael, even if you had a drink, it
doesn't mean you were drunk. But I want to know this though. Did
the manager say you're the one that started it and you started getting rough?
Yeah, you can see on the well, even the police officers stayed on
the police support that you don't see me touch him at all. He comes
out and grabs me, he starts in it, and he was around other
managers. The other managers didn't do anything because they kind of knew too.
Like he was. He was being like, he was saying, why did
he Why did he overreact like that? Do you think? Well? I
was trying to like tell him. I was like, well, what you
should do is let people know, like before you purchase a game card,
you're not going to get your money back because it doesn't say it on the
receipt or anything. Like I said. The first manager seemed like he was
gonna give me a refund. He left my receipt and my cards. I
didn't spend no money on those cards, and we kind of got into an
argument. He's like, oh, if you go to Blackhawk and you lose,
you can't get your money back. And I'm like, yeah, but
I didn't play the cards. I didn't even touch him, right, right,
you're not asking So anyway, by the way you can get you can
get your money back on most Dave and Buster cards all day long, as
long as you didn't use them. Yeah, I didn't. I still have
the cards and there you can probably take it. You can probably go to
another Dave and Busters. Did you complain to anyone like a district manager or
general manager or anyone. My my wife had called him and she made a
complain for my boys. But I didn't actually call for what happened to me,
but she let him know. There was a police report and everything.
So I don't know what they're doing. So you weren't charged with any thing,
right, No, I was in charge of anything. That is ridiculous,
and it's the one in Westminster, right, yeah, So what what
are you doing right now? So? What what do you need do you
want us to do anything, Well, I wasn't sure what I can do.
Honestly, I was reaching out, Well, you could sue that guy.
You could sue that guy and Dave and Busters for any injuries you have.
I'm serious, Yeah, I had. I even went to the hospital
because they said that I had a small concussion. When I went and see
my primary, you know what I would. You can take him the small
claims court and sue, or you can just go see a personal in your
re attorney. I wouldn't mess around with that kind of crap. But you
have to have witnesses more than just your young son who saw this happen.
There's got to be other people who saw it. Yeah, there was a
lot of people that were standing around. But if you don't have any witnesses,
you can't it's going to be useless. In my opinion, it's going
to be his word against yours. So the only thing I'd be thinking is
like Stavenbusters was to cooperate and like, let me know who, because there
was some nice people that were standing next to me when all this had happened.
I don't know how I'm pretty did you see the video? Did you
see the video? I was there's a big TV as soon as you walk
away. Yeah, but let me ask you, can you see in the
video? Can you see him hit you? Sir? I tried to request
a video from the police officer, but for some reason, the officer didn't
need He doesn't have the video. He says he saw the video, but
he didn't book it in for like evidence or anything. So I don't know,
Like, well, he said it was blurry, right, didn't he
say it was blurry? Blurry? But my thing is like, it's probably
blurry because they're recording so much and they're trying not to store such so much,
like gigabytes or whatever. Maybe they can get the quality better, like
downloaded in a better quality. I'm not sure of that. They might just
have it. I don't know. Actually, I just if you hire an
attorney, they can file a lawsuit and ask for it to be preserved.
Yeah, that's that's the best. The cops showed up after the punch,
so we're talking to civil lawsuit doc. And then, by the way,
it wasn't he didn't actually call the cops. But what happened was when I
left, I had called my mom. She was like, I don't think
he called the cops. I think he was lying, so I had called
the cops, So the cops ended up going for my call, not his.
Okay, listen, and then again, he might want to see us.
You might want to see us. I might want to see a civil
attorney. Bro. That's all I can tell you. You might want to
see a civil attorney. By the way, Frank Ran the real estate man,
will do market valuations of your home for the asking and the reason I'm
bringing this up. Just yesterday he did one for a friend who was looking
to buy a house, and he went through the entire thing and he showed
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dot com. All right, hold on a second, Michael. All we
can say is you got to get a personal injury attorney. I'm serious about
that. Okay. Now, Jeff, you have a problem with solar or
an issue? What is it? Jeff? Hi, Well, Okay,
So this happens. We had a sol We had an ion solar installed on
our garage, and another company came by and said, hey, we could
tie into that and get you, you know, your whole house solar,
like the whole roof and everything. Now, okay, what was the solar
that was already there? Ion Solar? What is that? It's just a
just a company okay. And was it there when you bought the house or
you had it done all? We had it done? Okay, got it.
And then this other company came around, you know, the door to
door walking and they said, hey, why didn't they do your whole roof
and they and they said, well, we said well, they said they
can't do the fire code, like, well we have smaller panels, we
could do the rest of your roof like okay, great, that would be
awesome. So we signed up. That was through Shield Energy. So they
came out and so they had to turn off. But why, okay,
did you like your solar system that much that you thought having extra panels would
be better? We thought, well, the guy I think sold us on
it, like because it wasn't like a complete wash. We were only making
you know, like the panels. We had only did half y on the
ion system. Why did they not do more because they said due to fire
code the size of their panels they couldn't fit them on the roof the way
our roof is because they need like three feet from two edges of the room.
And so why and so did the other company install more panels? Yes?
They did? Okay, did they double it? We had I think
six panels and now we have twenty one panels total. Okay, they tripled
it. Yes, And so this all started in November twenty twenty two.
And then Shield Energy, who was a new contractor to install, got everything
installed on the roof and then apparently that company went bankrupt or closed. So
our finance company, who is ever bright for these panels? Yep, they're
the ones that do them all? Yep? What about ever? So where
does this stand right now? The company that tripled it, they went out
of business. Yes, so then they had another company called Aptive Solar come
in to finish it, and then it moved to Ambia Solar contract to finish
it. Oh my god, did it ever get finished? No, it's
not finished. And then they said we needed to turn on the panels.
We needed a fifteen thousand dollars major panel upgrade on the main breaker panel.
Did you pay anything yet? Have you paid anything so far? We've paid
a couple payments, but everybody has frozen our payments, so we're not paying
anything. How much have you paid so far? I think it was like
maybe five hundred bucks. Listen, I want to put you in touch with
Brooke over at the solar company we love. One of the solar companies we
love is Red Rocks Roof and Solar. I want you to call her Red
Rocks Roof and Solar. You tell her that I told you to call.
Okay, here's you got you? Can you write down this number? Yes,
have her analyzed. She works with that finance company too, and she
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Okay, Ivan, what's going on man? What's happening? All right?
So the deal is me and my wife at a health share, Like
it's like healthcare insurance, but it's a health share, right. Was it
like was it like one of the like one of the Christian share programs?
Kind of yeah? I think I believe it was was like you know,
I remember, listen, I tried that one time, and let me tell
you something, not one thing, not one thing ever was paid. Ever.
It was the worst thing I ever had. Okay, so that's kind
of what's going on here. You know, a physical was supposed to be
included. Now, we had this stuff for about a year and a half
and we since I'm sorry January first, we've got new insurance, but a
year and a half prior to that we had it. We got physicals.
Everything was fine. They did pay for a couple of things that my mom
or my mom my wife had for her foot or whatever. They did pay
their share. Well, we got these physicals and then there was lab work
done well they're not paying the bill now. And we dropped them in at
the end of last year. And we dropped them but the physicals were already
approved and everything was approved, and they're but they're not paying the bills or
the lab We see, here's the problem. Okay, which one is it?
By the way, which program It's called Joppa Stoppa Joppa Dapa Healthcare.
Here's what I want to do. Here's what I want to do. I
want to bring you back tomorrow with one of our experts on health insurance China.
Well, actually, yeah, go ahead. You know what, Well,
my my problem's not with them anymorecause I don't have they're just not paying
their bills. So my question was this, I was it was I was
paying them monthly on a credit cards. Yes, And so I went and
called my credit card yesterday. I said, you know what, I want
you to stop payment on those last two payments in October or November and just
okay, okay, that's fair. I would that's a good point. Well,
I just want to make sure that's fair, like I'm not going to
get in trouble for something. Well, let's put it this way. We're
about they didn't pay anything I would argue, if I were you, that's
exact. I'm glad you told me that it was done on a card.
Usually they ach a bank account. You're fortunate you put it on a credit
card. I would definitely do that. Well, I already did it.
I just want to make sure that I'm not going well, I'm not gonna
I can't say for they're not gonna do anything, but you have proof they
never paid anything at all. They have nothing they didn't pay. I would
feel no qualms about doing it. Let us know if it ever comes back
and they try to do something, I'm Tom Martino. Hey, we're out
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