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five four. Speaking of water plumb line services with us today to talk about
plumbing, heating, cooling, electric and trains.'tis the season to be
busy, and I got the predictable calls from people pissed off that they can't
get an appointment. They named all of my companies and said they're one there.
You know you You tell me to call these people and I can't get
an appointment. I said, yeah, but I've been telling you that for
months. To go and get your stuff checked out before we get this heat.
Bob, have you noticed our people just a little anxious now right?
Everyone wants it yesterday when they could have done it you had people waiting to
go to homes, Yes, just weeks ago. We talk about this every
time I'm on your show, Tom, And it's just human nature. You
don't wait or you don't People aren't proactive. They won't maintain their equipment until
something breaks. You know, we've been conditioned, like with automobiles, to
get your oil changed every three thousand miles. Ninety percent of the problems you
would have found. Ninety percent of the problems you would have found. So,
anyway, what do you do in a case like this when somebody calls
no Air? You know, you can't just put them at the head of
the line. No, I mean we you know, we have our VIP
program. But outside of that, I mean, we just do the best
we can to get to as many people as possible every single day. And
this is happening across the industry. Is not interesting, it's not plumbline,
it's it's the entire industry US a country. It happens every time, every
season. Anyway, three all three seven one three talks seven one three eight
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and uh hey Christopher, what's going on? Fine? So thanks issue.
My girlfriend got a new car in January. All right, okay, what
kind of car. It's a twenty thirteen forward. I believe it's an escape.
It's a I'll say she bought a new car for her, but it's
the used car. Okay, yeah, okay, got it. What's going
on? So she noticed a leak in her car, figured it was an
oil leak, called into Should I mention in the dealership? Oh, it
doesn't matter. Yeah, So how many miles were on this by the way,
I don't remember, Okay, how many miles? All right? But
the bought it in January and there was an issue with the battery that needed
to be replaced, and they fought her on that, but eventually they replaced
it. When you say they fought her on it, let me let me
help help sh some light on this. And by the way, Christopher,
I don't know if you're new to the show now, but what we do
is try to educate those listening as well. So she buys a car and
there was an issue with a battery and they fought her. So explain how
that happens. If she's buying a car and there's a battery issue, she
could say I want that battery replaced before I buy it, because she obviously
would have had it checked out, they would have found the bad battery and
they would have said, you got a bad battery. She could have made
that a condition of sale, or did she simply buy it as is and
then went back for the battery and I'm not trying to trick you, by
the way, I'm trying to find out what's going on. Go ahead,
she bought it as is and went back for the battery, and they said,
hey, you bought it as is, right, yes, okay?
So what happened then? Did they replace the battery for her? They did
end up replacing the battery, but it had to be worked out between two
different dealerships because there's a shouldn't there be an automation forward whatever? So they
didn't Why would the battery have to be done like that? I don't know.
They okay, but that's good. That's nice of them to do it,
because truly they didn't have to. So anyway, they voluntarily replaced the
battery. And then what what's going on now? So she had a warranty
under her hold, like a limited warranty for several months after the purchase.
Oh okay, so there it did come Oh it did come with a warranty.
What kind of warranty did it come with? And Hi, Mark,
I'm sorry I didn't notice you there there you are, I got your got
you on video? So what's going So tell me what happened as far as
the warranty. What kind of warranty? Just the limited warranty for repairs on
the vehicle within the first several months after purchase. Several months. Okay,
uh, okay, I don't this was standard with this vehicle or did she
buy that warranty? Can you explain, go ahead, that was standard with
the vehicle and she bought it? Where did she buy it from? Did
you say AutoNation Mark? Do you know what they're do They have an automatic
warranty on cars, on used cars, they might have like a thirty or
sixty day deal. Yeah, and it's quite limited. But okay, so
keep going here. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need to get these
details. They mean a lot Christopher when we go to try to help her
out, So keep going. So essentially right before that expires, she not
this is a leak, figures it's an oil leak, and calls into the
warranty or into the dealership again to try and get that fixed. But because
of the scheduling, they weren't able to get it in until right after that
warranty expired. Yeah, but does she have proof she called in beforehand?
If so, it should be covered that. I'm not one hundred percent sure
of Okay, there's a whole bunch we need to know. Then, I
know there's a whole bunch. So can we talk to her? And I
don't blame you for not knowing every detail. You called for help, so
we're going to give you help. Can we talk to her? I can
try to get her on. The reason I called it instead of her is
because she if she is shy and not particularly okay, okay, she is
she at a place where it would be possible for her to relate information to
you, as I ask, Yes, I hope not okay, So where
is she? Is she near you? Can we talk? Can we talk
through you? And because I can tell you what we need to know I'm
currently at, where can she okay? Okay? Or how about this?
What if we have deputy doc call her off the air, then she doesn't
have to be nervous. Deputy docs in the studio. We can that we
call our helper's deputies. It's a little joe carry right, So I mean,
but basically they really do help and we can find out all the basics.
Because what I want to know is this, I want to know the
terms of the warranty. I want to know if and how many miles were
on the car, and what the warranty covers and what it doesn't cover,
because I'm looking here at Autonation's warranty and they don't cover much. They don't
cover much, so I don't know what she had go ahead the other things.
I know she also purchased an extended warranty. Okay, that's something.
That's something for sure, that's something. So that's what we need to know
all that kind of coverage now. Normally, and they extended warranty on a
used car, just for your edification here, they don't cover pre existing conditions.
That's what's odd about it, because most everything on a used car is
pre existing. They don't cover things that were wrong when she bought the car.
And they'll argue the leak was there. They'll also argue that it was
normal wear and tear. They don't cover that. Or they're going to argue
it was a lack of maintenance or previous owner abuse. They don't cover that.
In essence, a used car warranty covers manufacturers defects. Now, I
want to ask you something on a car that is a two thousand and thirteen,
so we're talking about seven, eight, nine, ten years almost ten
years old. I mean it's eight years old seven. So what would be
a manufacturer's defect, Well, the crank cracks open or there's catastrophic failure.
The reason they do that is because it's a money it's a profit center.
These extended warranties on used cars are absolute ripoffs. So these are things that
unfortunately a lot of people don't know them. So what we're gonna do is
investigate it. If you hang on the line, Kachina here is going to
get your girlfriend's number and have one of our people call her and try to
gather this information. Doc. You're there right, You got it, Tom,
Yeah, let's just see what we can do to help her. Let's
see if there's anything we can do. There might be, there might be.
We'll see what we can do. I'm Tom Martinez. We got Bob
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three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom martinro here,
Welcome to the show. Three oh three seven one three talks seven one three
A two five five. So I want to talk to Ruby. I don't
have that. Let me look at this email. But Ruby's calling about a
call here, and it was her son bought a twenty nineteen Honda, put
five thousand dollars down, financed it. Now falor Honda is telling him he
needs to bring the car back. And I said wait a minute, there's
so many questions unanswered, like was it a final contract? Why do they
want him to bring it back? Now? Many times, let me explain
some tricks that dealers do. And this is universal. I'm not saying they
all do it. I'm saying it's universal. When they do do it,
they write down on a contract conditions that the buyer likes, the payment,
the interest rate, the terms and conditions, and then they hand the keys
to them and they drive off. Then it's what we call the callback.
Mark explained the callback. They tell you you don't have financing. You know
what I'm finding though, is more and more dealers aren't doing that. They're
not, but there's no doubt it still happens. But they call you back
up and say, hey, that interest rate we promised you you no longer
qualified, or or they're trying to give them, or your credit or your
young dame wasn't good. Something goes awry. Now here's what we have done
in the past. As Mark will tell you, many times they say,
well, it says right here that this contract is not complete until it's approved
by the finance company. And it does say that many times. However,
it doesn't say it the right way. It should say this contract is contingent
upon a finance company giving final approval for a loan and funding the car.
But it doesn't say anything. What it says was it's not final until approval.
Now, I have argued in the past successfully where they put down a
payment, let's say three hundred a month in interest rate whatever, I have
argued that the dealer, because the dealer will put itself down as the lender
on the contract and it will say that you have a certain payment a certain
interest rate. They do a full truth in lending and the statement, and
then they give you the keys and you drive away. And that is my
contention that they have approved you, and they are the finance company and they
must accept those payments and do it or find you a similar loan. What
they should what they really mean to do is they're being an officer or an
agent of the lender. And what they really mean to say is this,
Okay, we have your information, We are an agent and will try to
sell this loan. If we can't sell it, the contract is null and
void. And in that case they can't charge him a penalty for keeping the
car while they shop the loan. I am telling you that dealers are still
doing it wrong on the disclosures. They are an agent of the lender and
their disclosure should say we this contract is contingent upon us selling this loan,
but they don't say that. They say it's contingent upon approval. And they're
stupid. They're stupid, their attorneys are stupid. The industry is stupid.
It's just they're doing it because they're getting away with it, and not enough
customers are suing because if they sued, they would win. And again,
as Mark said, it's not as prevalent as it used to be, but
those contracts are still the same and they still leave themselves and out. Now
I'm not sure if that's what happened in this case, but I asked Ruby
to find out a lot more information for me. What did you find out?
Ruby? With Fowler? By the way, Fowler is no great dealership.
They suck pretty much. We've gotten over the years many complaints. So
they're in Longmont right, yes, And just for those listening, I'm going
to make a blanket statement, more problems come out of Longmont and Greeley and
Weld County than the entire metro area now think about this. Add all the
dealers together in the Denver metro area, and then add the dealers together in
Weld County, Greeley, and Longmont, and we get more complaints out of
Well County, Greeley and Longmont than we do out of the entire metro area.
Now, how is that even possible? It must tell you that they
breed bad car dealer. What happened? So on a couple of weeks ago,
they called David, they found him on the internet, came and picked
him up in Forore Colin, drove him back, picked him out of car.
He got the pilot, signed the contract which I sent you. Then
some time went by and then they did the callback and said that contract didn't
go well. They didn't say that. They just said that they could save
him a dollar and to come back and sign a new contract. And he
didn't think that that sounded right because they wait, they didn't say they can
no, no, they didn't say they could save them a dollar. Come
on, They told him to come back because they could save them one dollar,
and so oh, come on, okay, go ahead. Yeah.
But so anyways, we were like, that doesn't sound right, we don't
want it. We so Friday, after I talked to you, you gave
me the confidence. We took that Honda back. Chris, the guy that
was really rude, in a jerk and said that the money coming back was
not going to be an option, slid back to his office and Jason came
out, who was friendly and smooth things over, and said that they would
get all of his money back, and they went charge him for financing our
proseas or for mileage, and they just gave him and we couldn't get a
checked that night. So they gave him an email saying that they promised to
return his money in thirty days, and I uploaded that, so I'm hoping
that that's good enough. Yeah, that's what I'm looking at right now.
Now just by the way, from what I can see, I didn't get
to the finance part. Oh okay, American Honda Finance Corp. And then
this is the application. Your son is David, right, yep, okay.
I looked at this and it's all of this I have read I received.
And then it says retail installment. This is the truth in lending statement
that they're required to give. He has an interest rate, he has everything,
his payment, everything's spelled out, and it has here, okay,
all that he signed it, and then it has here everything, and then
it says co byer seller must be signed by an authorized representative of the seller.
They signed it this guy named John, and nowhere is there a contingency
here. They financed that car. They just didn't like the idea, so
they thought you were stupid. They were going to try to pull a fast
one. Now, listen, we got to ride this like a wild pony.
They got they got to return that money. Okay, and I think
they knew they knew you. You mentioned us, right, Oh yeah,
so they totally were rude to me. And of course I started sing around
Tom Martino's appointment ten A and Monday, and then everything changed. Okay,
you stay in touch with us, sister, okay, because we'll be right
there with you in a month from now. Can I call you? You
know, I want you to call me, like in twenty days. Okay,
I'm marking this pending. They hold on. I'm putting it down.
They promised to refund all money. Okay, so I put that down.
I have a note, I have your name. I'll be able to look
it up. And right now, what I'm going to do is I know
it's you know it's qualified. Have I ever done a Channon a qualified dinger?
I'm going to do one a qualified dinger. Come on, bro,
I can do it because it's partially for a partial success. She scared them
there? Okay, Ruby, thanks for the follow up. Stay in touch
with us. You know you got us behind you. These people are as
I said. We'll leave it at that. People just remember what I said
about Weld counting Longmont greatly. I have no idea why Mark. Isn't it
weird though? How many bad dealers are there? And I mean, what
the hell do they think people up there are stupid? Do they think people
up there are stupid? Maybe? Maybe? I don't know. Rick says
he's got a medical issue. Ben wants to talk about something called impact Energy.
I think that's whatever. Okay, that might be a company, a
utility company, Bob logan. Is it true? Somebody wants to know that
for every retiring technic, for every two technicians that retire, No, for
every five technicians that retire in the HVAC industry, there are only two to
replace them. Is that possible? Yeah, I've heard varying statistics, but
plumbers, electricians, hvacy, technicians, any of the trades, welder's mechanics,
the case. I mean, we've got a lot of boomers starting to
retire, and you know, I don't know if it's because of an education
system or why, but there's just not as much they don't know. They
want to they want they all want to go to college and be educated,
which is fine, but they feel like these services of positions are not careers.
Can you explain roughly in the industry. I'm not asking you to spill
any beans about any particular company. What's the range of salary for an excellent
tech or plumber or hvac What is the range? Listen to this people,
Yeah, it's you know, it's gonna I would say for an average technician
eighty to one hundred thousand. For someone who's got a you know, master
journeyman that's motivated, very efficient, motivated. You know, it's it's not
uncommon Tom for them to make one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand dollars.
Do you hear this? Do you hear this? One hundred and fifty
to two hundred grand for somebody qualified and that doesn't by the way, necessarily
mean sales. It means lack of complaints, follow up, it means good
reviews. It means somebody who's golden when they step into your home. Yeah,
and that's what you want. By the way, you know, I'm
not saying that that you don't want that. You do want qualified people who
are good and well paid. And by the way, if your kids are
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what's going on with you? Hi? Rick? Hi? Tom?
What's happening? Man? Oh man? So, all of a sudden I
had to going for like a spine surgery back in twenty two. Oh well
was wrong? Man? Well? My spine a compressed and all the nerves
started getting pinched. Was that out of age or was that out of abuse
or an accident or what? I don't know exactly. And this was this
was in twenty twenty two. Yes, was it called decompression surgery? No,
they had some technical term for it. Was it a fusion? I'm
just curious. It is affusion? Yeah, unfortunately, Oh my god,
that's a terrible thing. Okay, so what happened? Then it hurts?
So anyway, time comes after a while down the road, all of a
sudden, I get to where Signea, Medicare can't decide who is primary for
my insurance? You have Medicare? So how old are you both? I'm
sixty six? Now were you on Medicare when this happened. Yes, okay,
did you take EARL? Okay? So, okay, so you were
on Medicare and you will have SIGNA And is SIGNA your supplement if you're if
you're calling supplement primary or no. What I'm saying is this, why did
you have SIGNA if you're were on Medicare? Well, I'll just start there.
Well, yeah, we'll go back a little bit further. But you
you had to buy SIGNA. It doesn't just automatically show up. So when
you went on Medicare, did you buy a It's called a supplement. Many
people have Medicare and then they have a supplement. Is that what the SIGNA
was? Oh? No, So I was on my wife's insurance to start
with, okay, and that's the SIGNA one. Yes, okay, I
got that. And then yeah, okay, yeah, so so she was
working right, yes, and she still is and still has the same insurance.
Got it? And now at the time you were under them plus on
Medicare, yes, okay, yeah, and then they got to where they
couldn't decide who was primary. So then so what happened? Oh, they're
telling me that we're going to send me a bill for they sent me a
bill for five hundred and thirty five thousand and some change. You know,
yeah, well you're not going to pay that. You're not going to pay
it. It's not even going to show up on credit anymore. I mean,
they're not going to do anything. I mean, so I know you
want to clear it up, but that's all just smoking mirrors right now.
You're not going to be responsible for that. There might be a copy.
I don't know what you had with SIGNA, but and I we need to
call our expert on health insurance right now. I wish he would have been
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three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. I'm Tom Martine here.
Brick has a medical issue and we're we have in teg around right now to
get this done. Hey, John Jones Junior. He's with Integra Insurance.
There are health insurance experts, John. We have this often where a guy
is married to a woman who's still working, or a woman's married to guys
to you know where they're on Medicare, but they're also covered by their spouse's
employment health insurance, and that was the case. That was the case with
Rick. He had SIGNA, His wife's coverage was SIGNA at work, and
he was on Medicare. He had major back surgery, and what happened was
they could not figure out, according to him, who was primary, so
neither of them paid, and he was billed five hundred thousand dollars. This
I don't think you'll ever have to pay that in a million years. But
what happens when you have employment coverage as a spouse and you have Medicare,
well, I mean whether it spouse or you're the employee, it's it's pretty
much the or the same. It depends on the side of the employer.
If you're less than twenty employees, you need to be on Medicare, and
Medicare is going to pay first, and the insurance company may not pay at
all. If you are over an employment that's over twenty employees, well then
your employee plan pays first and Medicare is going to Medicare is going to coordinate
with that. Now, Rick, your wife's company, how big is it?
Excuse me, you cut out right at the last moment there. How
big is your wife's Did you hear what he said? By the way,
Oh yes, I did. So. How big is your wife's company?
How many employees? It's large, it's it's way over it's way over one
hundred. Okay, So there that coverage SIGNA coverage would be primary. I
can't make them agree with that. So now, what reason do they give
that they're not primary? What reason you were on the plan as a as
a dependent? Is that or whatever they call it? You were on the
plan as a spouse? Yes? And what reason did they give for rejecting
the claim? They've had multiple reasons now. One of them has been that
you know that. The other one was primary, that Medicare is primary.
They said there's been a role change. They said it's been because we're common
law married. They said it's been Oh, I forget what else they've said?
What do they mean? Okay, so common law Marria should have nothing
to do with it. What about what about the coverage itself? Did they
get pre approval? Yes, they should have, I mean as far as
I know that. Well, did you check with the provider to see they
got pre approval? Well? When I did it? Before I did it,
I asked him if they did, and they said, yes, John,
what would you do in this case? He's he's sitting on a five
hundred thousand dollars bill, actually eight hundred thousand. They're closer to eight hundred
thousands. Okay, another one, and they're they're hounding me too because what's
another three hundred grand? So he's the eight hundred thousand in the whole.
Yeah. How long you been going back and forth with this? Do you
have a credit card you can put it on anyway? Good? John,
go ahead, I'm sorry. So I've been dealing with it for a while.
At first. It started off, Oh, the surgery was in twenty
twenty two, John, what would you do and sign SIGNA? You got
prioritization, I mean it went through the health insurance I got, you were
pre pre authorized for it. I would. I don't know if he has
I don't know if he really was that. If you've adopted other steps,
I would if I would head to the Division of Insurance, Color other division
of insurance, the DUI if signa, Uh, is it not paying any
to me? It sounds like they should be your your primary payer on this.
Yeah, Well I'm happy if you want to, you know, call
back in and get the guy. I can get us some more information and
we can yeah, get you get you. Can you send some Can you
send us some of the rejection letters that we can pass on to John.
I have some letters and uh yeah, can you pass them on to us?
I have some pastrumentation and me calling them and but you need to help.
You need to call your health care provider right and you need to ask
specifically about the pre authorization, when it was obtained, on what date and
time they have a record of it. Okay, that's first. Then give
us your rejection letters, Kachina, give him an email and then we'll get
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me about that. Sure. So they're a solar company and they sold me
on getting solar just before I went on vacation. Okay, and when I
when I got back, I'd done my research while I was on vacation and
decided the wrong time to do that is after my field. Okay, go
ahead. Yeah, so I did research after you You actually signed a contract
and then went on vacation. Did the research then while they were working or
what? Tell me about that part? So we had we had talked with
them and and they they got me to agree. The guy leaves my house.
So you did sign it. I'm trying, I'm trying to figure this
out. You did sign a contract with the Okay? Good? I mean
not doing an agreement. It doesn't say contract. It's called agreement, That's
what it is. So yes, yes, signed a contract. And what's
the name is Impact and and okay, so go on with your story.
Then. So they had done the site survey and I called the guy to
say, hey, when what do we hear back? Because I had understood
I could cancel before they heard back from the site survey. Now, where
did you get that? Where did you get the impression you could cancel?
I'm just trying to get all this straight. Where did you get I had
gotten the impression from the sales guy, the impression? What does that mean?
I don't know what that means. Does he say, by the way,
when you sign this, you'll be able to cancel. So he had
told me that I had the opportunity to cancel. I thought he had said
up until the site survey comes back. His contention is up until the site
survey happens. Well, the point is, you have no right unless it's
in the contract. So if they're giving you any what go ahead. So
the cancelation policy in the track gives me three days. Yeah, because it
was signed in your home, you have three days under federal law. So
you didn't do that. After three days, I'm liable for the costs and
curved up until the date of cancelation. Okay. So they send me an
invoice. According to them, they had completed the site survey, and so
they're invoicing me for thirty four hundred dollars, which I don't have. And
what's suspicious to me is I had been checking in with the sales guy from
the day of the site survey onward to find out if the site survey come
back, and I canceled with them the day after the site survey. He
calls me Thursday morning and goes, sorry, dude, site survey came back.
And so here's all these costs and what is a site survey? So
they send a guy out to check my roof electrical and walk the site,
you know, the up on the roof, make sure everything's going to support
the solar panels, that the electrical system is going to be. Is that
all you're being charged for? Is the site survey? Or is there some
kind of penalty in there? Oh? No, they're not charging me a
penalty. But they're claiming that they had a master electrician to a product review
and approval. They're claiming a project manager engineering fulfillment. Okay, Ben,
the softwokay charges, Ben, The contract is going to rule. Okay,
not your impressions. So let's let's stick with the contract now. And these
charges here's what matters if they were incurred or not. If that's what the
contract says. But I want to ask another question, why did you cancel
them? I don't know anything about impact, but if they're like ninety percent
of all of them, they're just clowns and all they are is a marketing
company. But I don't know anything about specifically impact, So I want you
to tell me about impact and why you canceled. So there's nothing that I
can cite about impact themselves. It was more talking to my insurance and finding
out the cost of you know, having insurance for the panels, talking to
my tax advisor on the tax credit and how that pans out. Well,
tell me what you found out. What did you find out? Well,
so my insurance would increase at least twenty to thirty bucks a month really to
cover the panels. Okay. By the way, I'd like to ask Compass.
I want to ask Compass Insurance about that in general, because that's something
I've never considered before. That's a really good point you bring up. I've
never actually considered that before. Could you call Compass and we'll get a quick
comment on that. I'd love to find out. Good, keep going.
What else? Okay? And then the tax credit, there's a lot of
so my tax accountant said, well, it kind of depends on where your
income ends up falling. And if you're below the tax credit, there's like
a threshold that if you're below it, you don't get it at all,
which I'm thankfully not below it. But if it's more than your tax your
tax yeah, ability for the year, right, roll, one of them
rolls, and there's another one that doesn't roll, and so, but it
still is a credit. You still get You still get the credit. Though
there is a credit. Yes, you still get a credit. It's just
not necessarily as much as they as. But Ben, Ben that that's not
that's truly on you though, Man, that's I you except that, okay,
and so is the other part. I mean, I'm not looking.
I'm not sticking up for impact. I don't know these guys. I don't
like solar companies in general. I don't like them. I think they're all
most of them are all crookage, and most of them are all clowns.
But you did sign a contract. You had three days. Now you've found
problems. You wanted to get out, and they're saying they incurred costs.
So I was trying to find another reason you could get out. I'm wondering.
I'm wondering now if you how much was the system going to cost uh
forty six and sixty dollars thirty four cents? And how much did you have
to go out of pocket? So it would be somewhere in the range of
two hundred a month. See, you wouldn't have to do any upfront,
hold on, you wouldn't have to do any upfront with me? No,
okay, so two hundred a month? And what would you say did they
say? According to them, it would replace my bill during the summer and
potentially more, such that I really should end up having almost zero electrical bill.
Well, it gave me my full electrical bill, right, and what
is your full electrical bill? It averages around one sixty a month? So
why would you sign that? Why would you pay two hundred a month to
save one sixty? That does make sense? Why would you do that?
I don't I don't have a good explanation. The only thing I can click
for the planet. And more time than I thought I was Yeah, you
had to have been. They showed you that you were going to pay two
hundred a month and save at the most one sixty, So you would enter
into a contract with a forty dollars deficit from day one. Yeah, and
you willingly signed it. Wow, Holy crap. I mean that's a really
that's a bad company. I mean, why the hell what are they selling?
What was their idea that? How does anyone sign a contract like that?
Well, they claim that the payment comes down with the tax credits,
and you know, they try to make it sound like it's gonna you know,
it's going to benefit and it's going to turn in How many years would
you make this payment? Twenty five? Twenty five? Yeah? Okay,
so now you're facing how much of a cancelation? Thirty sorry, three three
hundred and sixty seven dollars? And what do they say they're going to do?
You don't pay it. They haven't exactly told me, but they give
me thirty days. There's only one thing I can tell you. Okay,
they claim to do all of this. Therefore, it's your property. The
site survey, the electrical report, everything is your property. Tell them,
you tell them you want to see it before you pay for it. Okay,
tell them you want to see each and every detail before you commit to
paying for it. Don't stay paying for it, but commit to paying for
it. So you're not buying it on their word. You want to see
it. You don't have to get a copy of it. You just want
to see You want to see your address. You want to talk to the
engineer, you want to talk to the electrician and verify it. It's just
good business. Okay, Let's see what they do, and then I want
you to call us back. I want to because really and truly, if
they did incur costs in the contract says you pay for the cost, you
pay for the cost. But if you get that stuff, you may be
able to use it for a good company, and that good company might really
truly save you money. At least it's not going to be all deficit.
You know what I'm saying. I'm saying that there's a possibility that if you
get a new system from a good company and you get a finance and you
can pay off that thirty four hundred. I'm not suggesting that's what we're going
to do, but let's look for a way out of this. Yeah,
it sucks, man, it really does. I want to talk to you.
I want to know, so call me back and let me know what
you find. Jeremy is with Compass Insurance Group, And by the way,
Compass does free insurance checkups for the asking meaning what you're paying, do you
have to pay? Are you overpaying? Are you underinsured? Are you over
insured? Do you have adequate insurance? It's all free and it's honest to
God true and the math says it all three oh three nine nine six nine
thousand. Jeremy, question, Yeah, I was just told this guy said
when he called this homeowner's insurance, they said, if he gets a solar
system, he's going to be paying thirty or forty dollars more a month because
of the solar system coverage. I never heard of that, Okay, Jeremy,
I mean that's a little higher than we see there are. We have
a couple companies, and I know there's some others out there that charge for
solar. And the big reason for that is the past every policy, the
cost to remove them and reinstall them is included in your policy when you have
claim. So I think companies are starting to see that people with solar are
going to have a lot more payout because of that removal and installation. If
you add solar, do you have to tell your insurance company in order to
have coverage on it? Then you could. I mean, there are certainly
companies out there who have probably gone as far as to say, we need
to be aware for that removal and installation that you have coverage. Most of
our companies at this point aren't charging for it, so it's not as big
of an issue on our end. But if you have solar, you should
let your insurance carrier know because that removal and installation, you really want to
make sure you have that covered. Well, thank you because that sheds light
on it. But you don't think it'll be thirty bucks a month, right?
No? I mean the one we have that charges for it. I
mean it might be fifty bucks a year. It's not significant. Bye.
This is a case where I'm okay, I get where they're coming from,
because there is a pretty inherent cost in addition to just replacing the root.
Can you remove and reinstall it? Yeah? Okay, thank you, Jeremy.
I appreciate the information. Uh Compass Insurance Group. And that's three O
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Oh boy, do I have a loaded question. Somebody wants to know
what's a good price for furnace and air? My god, I mean,
I hate these calls, but we got to take them. We got to
confront them. I mean, because there really are prices out there, and
everybody's going to find them out now. I would be very, very suspicious
the prices that are too low or too high. But let's talk about ranges.
Let's talk about regular efficiency, let's talk about high efficiency. But there's
another question first before we get to price. This guy's got a ten year
old furnace, he needs air. They're recommending to do both. What where
do you stand, Bob? In general, in the industry, where do
we stand on them? You know, typically, especially some ten years old,
I'd recommend replacing both because most of the systems most well almost all the
systems these are communicating, so they communicate the furnace and the air conditioning system
and work together. Now, you can put a new air conditioning unit on
an older furnace, but I wouldn't recommend it because you're just gonna end up
replacing it. And here's the thing, the installation costs. When you do
them separately, you're basically doubling the installation costs. And so if you put
a new air conditioner on a year later, the furnace goes out, it's
going to cost you a ton of money. And the installation is a big,
big part of the cost. So anyway, especially on a ten year
old furnace, I would just replace them both. Now, price ranges,
let's price range. I mean, okay, let me ask you a question.
How much how much does a new car cost? Tom? Okay,
I mean, that's how much does a new car cost? So I can
tell you. I can tell you that new cars cost anywhere from twenty two
thousand to two hundred I mean, for normal people, from twenty two thousand
to ninety thousand. And that's for normal people. Yeah, So well,
what I mean is when you go extreme because you can get a you can
get a Bentley for four hundred thousand. I hear what you're saying, but
but so first air conditioning systems are the same way model. Well, let's
talk about reality reality in the Markt reality. There's got to be a price
a reality you're looking for and I'm not asking that's very full system? Yeah,
full system, you know, efficient, eighty percent efficient, fifteen to
eighteen thousand if you're if you're saying that's the low end, fifteen grand right
now for a full system? Yeah? Okay. And and now here's the
thing too, you can buy the best equipment. When you can buy the
best equipment money, still, you have a shlock install it for you.
It's it's probably going to be unsafe, and it's not going to run efficiently.
It's not going to last as long. So you think you're saving a
lot of money, and a fewers down the road, you're going to regret
that decision for fifteen for both heating that for both fifteen? Would you say
that's normal on the low end? So that's normal? Wow? And what
was that ten years ago, Bob? Ten years ago? Is you know
ninety nine? Yeah, nine to ten thousand, isn't it crazy? And
to go back to a car example, I mean it's jumped up, you
know, jumped up a lot the last three four years since COVID. Just
like you said, on cars though, you could buy a little Hondai accident
for eleven twelve grand brand new ten years ago. Now they're twenty. Yes,
exactly, everything's gone up, unfortunately, but again thanks by scenery conditioning
systems. It's so different. I mean, you're not driving a car off
a lot. It's not like a refrigerator that you're taking home and plugging into
the wall. If the installation is not done right, you are wasting your
money. I don't care what you buy or who you buy it from.
Now, there's some really good companies outside of plumb Line that do an exceptional
job, but the majority of them have no business installing furnace and our conditioning
systems. Time and time and time again, we get calls for people saying,
we just had this installed, it's not working. We can't get a
hold of the guy. They're not standing behind their warranties, and we basically
got to uninstall the entire thing and reinstall it. Hey, hey Bob on
the efficiency common occurrence on the efficiency question, Let's say fifteen thousand for that
eighty percent, and then I'm just throwing a number out there. But twenty
thousand, first, say, a ninety five percent or whatever is close to
their What what is the highest efficiency? Yeah? Yeah, what is it?
What is the difference? You mean the well highest efficiency ninety eight percent
right now is and and for people who don't understand what what that means is
is if you look at an eighty percent furnace, basically, for every dollar
you spend on energy, twenty cents is going out the chimney. Twenty cents
is being wasted on that dollar for a ninety Now, this is what Copilot
says. Listen to that. Listen to Copilot. Oh that's just a scene.
Never mind for ninety five percent, never mind, they just said,
I mean I wanted to know complete system. Okay, never mind. Are
you looking at prices there? Yeah? I just want to see what what
AI does artificial Like you said, you know, I think when you're looking
at the Denver Denver metro market for Collins, you know that that area fifteen
to eighteen for an eighty percent full system, and they could be higher than
that for an eighty percent or two or you know, you're looking at twenty
five to thirty for a for a ninety five percent. Okay, okay,
I'm asking. I just want to know because people are going to do this,
and so they don't even answer. They don't even answer. They're saying,
okay, they're saying, in twenty twenty four, just the air conditioner
is anywhere, just the air conditioner. The average costs across the market for
in twenty twenty four so far has been for the air conditioner sixty five hundred
to twelve thousand. So that's in line with what you're saying. Yeah,
you know, I think for you know, we we rarely just do an
air conditioner. But yeah, but anyway around the ten thousand mark. Well,
quick though, how much more is that high efficiency? Roughly five grand
more? I can't get an answer out of here. But what what Okay,
let's just take a furnace installation, same house. Just pick a house,
like a three thousand What is a twenty five hundred square foot house.
A furnace that's eighty percent and a furnace that's ninety eight percent. Just a
furnace. Yeah, no, no, no, the systems. But the
system, what would be the difference in price? Do you think how much
can it vary? Uh? Typically thirty percent? Oh, okay, twenty
you say it depends on the house too, right, right, depends on
the house, the usage, And that's where you know higher efficiency systems,
yes, or for the environment in Colorado, because our gas prices are so
low compared to a lot of other parts of the country. Typically people will
not kind of like the solo guy. You know, you're not going to
see huge tremendous savings on your energy bills that they're going to justify the cost.
But they're typically quieter. You know, they've got modulating systems. So
say they're not. Yeah, but there are sometimes that absolutely saves your money.
Oh oh, it'll definitely save you money. Just but if that's the
only reason you're upgrading is to try to overcome those cost savings, you're probably
not going to do it. There's a lot of other reasons to Okay,
higher efficiencies. Okay, now, Jason, Wait, wait, wait,
I sid one more question on that stuff, Bob. So, if your
house is old, built in the seventies or eighties, even if you've got
a ninety eight percent er, I mean a big deal. If you've got
crappy windows and everything else, it's not going to matter. Right, That's
exactly actly right. And the reality is, especially if you're looking at a
really old house, you know, because you on a higher efficiency system,
they vent differently, you know, so if you're going through finished basements and
things like that, you know, I've got I've got eighty percenters in my
house. There's there's nothing wrong with an eighty percenter. I've also got you
know, am I And that was my last house that the house I have
now has has the newer assistance. But there's nothing wrong with an eighty percent
furnace. We have more coming up. And I have to tell you something,
man, We got to get used to something, and that is everything.
And it's not just Biden. I know, I heard your little snide,
remarked Mark. And by the way, I'm not sticking up for I'm
just saying it's not just him. This has been happening over the last ten,
twelve, fifteen years. Oh, COVID was COVID made it crazy?
Man? I mean we are the supply chain issues. Okay. By the
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Get get Ryan to get on the microphone right now. Let me see
if I can find him. Hang on, Get them guys right there,
Get them. I'm right here, Ryan. Where'd you get that voice?
You a bastard? The good Lord and I had a reverend actually, uh,
pull me aside after a cross country race and say, son, God
gave you a gift and he intends for you to use it so for you.
Really, No, you really have a nice, nice voice, and
that's cool. I'm not jealous or anything. I just don't want you coming
on the show much. Okay, anyway, all right, thank you.
That's Ryan Shuling by the way, and he's on the air right after me.
Cool guy. And we interviewed don don McLean together, and then I
was just joking about how I cut him out when I posted it on social
and then he was kind enough to play the whole thing on his show,
including me. But anyway, so three oh three seven one three talk seven
one three eight two five five. Let's go to the phones. Jason,
go ahead, you have another question. Let me take you real quick.
Here, go ahead, Jason. We were talking, by the way.
Uh wait, wait, wait, which one was Jason again? I'm sorry,
I'm sure. Don't call me Joe Biden. What's that Hi? How
you doing? Oh? You have a business question. I never did take
Hello, thank you for taking the call. Yes, sir, I never
did take your call. Go ahead, Jason. Question. I'm a licensed
winemaker in the state of Colorado, and the State of Colorado holds a Governor's
Cup wine making competitions for commercial wineries, and the rules in rags just came
out and the window to enter begins in July and ends in August. Now
I've combed over these rules and rags and they are very ambiguous. The rules
and rags qualify my winery, but also disqualify my winery. Can you give
me the example, Give me the example of what you're talking Give me the
example. Okay, okay. So the language says right in the first paragraph,
all commercial wineries are eligible. Then it says in another paragraph, here
are the minimum requirements. I meet the minimum requirements. But then they don't
specify in the minimum reques vironments, for example, to bring ten cases of
wine for each entry to the event, and then it says for wine made
in fifty case productions. My whole production is fifty cases. So the governor
and the Department of ag or writing this language, and our governor everyone knows
he's a dei governor. This is not an inclusive competition. And the reason
why it interests me to enter is because I'm new to the business and there's
a press junket, you meet people at the event. There's all this exposure
that could be really have a really positive effect for sales and create revenue.
But basically the language in this document only pertain Why don't you just go with
the language. Hold on, hold on, why don't you just go with
the language that includes you, because they'll disqualify me. Why what would they
disqualify you about? Because because because they ask for provenance on your production,
you have to show where you buy your grapes or where you grow your grapes,
how many grapes you crushed. They'll cross reference all that material with the
Department of Revenue liquorizes things. Yeah, keep going, I still haven't heard
why you're disqualifying. So when they cross reference that, you know, I
have to file a monthly report, so they have all my data, so
every entry will be scrutinized. They'll take the money, and then they'll disqualify
me. Why why will they disqualify you because you're too small? Not because
I'm too small. But our governor is a dei governor. He's an inclusive
governor. And I'm trying to affect change. I'm trying to go back and
say, why is it written this way when it should be written this way.
Because in the same document it says there are one hundred and sixty seven
wineries in the state, but only forty five enter the Governor's Cup competition.
It's because of the restrictive language and the rules and regulations. Now this,
this event is held. Get this, This event is held by the Colorado
Wine Industry Development Board. How are they developing wines when they're restricting it?
Okay, So I don't know where to go. I don't know what outlet.
Did you go to the Governor's office? I'm waiting? What about what
about calling the board? The governor has nothing to do with it? What
about calling the board? I've talked so so so, and I'm tread very
lightly here. The man, the young man who runs the Colorado Wine Industry
Board. I will not say his name because I refuse to give him a
plug. He's in confidence because he's the one that sends the email with these
rules and regulations. And I tore those rules and regulations to shreds. And
he comes back at me with with answer, with questions, not answers,
And he's in complete denial. He's thirty something years old. He has no
idea what he's doing all. He also happens to be an elected public official
in the state of Colorado. Listen, we actually vote hold on Organ of
Agriculture Drouth. We actually vote for a wino board. Here a guy that's
in charge of the wino board. It's a voted we vote for it,
it's on a ballot. But he's appointed. We don't we we delegate funding
and the CWIDP, the Colorado Wine Industry Development Boards. The head never is
appointed. He's not elected. Well, you just said he was elected.
No, he's an elected official in another capacity. He's holding roles. Oh
okay, okay, what is his elected What is his elected role? Forty
one Article twenty nine? What is his elected role? He is the mayor.
He's a mayor, Okay, but that has nothing to do with the
He doesn't have to be a mayor. Bro, Just just listen. As
much as he doesn't have to be a mayor, there has to be some
type of right. But he isn't here, and he also gets on the
wineboard. I get it. But he's not an elected official as far as
you're concerned for the wine board. So what we need to figure out is
is simply this the Colorado Wine Industry Development Board. You're saying is being restrictive
in the governor's cup. Okay, that's bottom line. Okay, they're being
restrictive. Do you have you talked to any other wineries that are being aced
out. No, because do you try and talk to people in the Colorado
wine industry. Yeah, there's nothing but resistance Martino. What do you mean
by resistance? If other people are being left out and they're in the same
boat as you, they would want to align with you. Now tell me
why there? They don't want to fight. They they don't want to fight,
well, don't want to stick up for themselves. But let's talk about
this. Okay, Hold on a second. What does it take to become
a winery? To begin with a licensed winery? What's the difference? Help
me out here, Jason. Jason's Jason, what's the difference between a winery
and a wine maker? Anse? And you need a state license? Do
you have state license? Do you have everything it takes to be considered a
winery? I could sell you a bottle of wine right now today. Okay,
So you have everything it takes to be a winery. And you're telling
me if you enter as a commercial winery it will disqualify me. What will
disqualify you? This is a so far, Jason, one of the one
of the main problems you have. Jason, I'm going to tell you something
because I know in your head you have this completely straight, but you're not
communicing it properly. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm not going to
drag other people through this right now, and we would happily call this guy
over at the wine board or the entire wine board. But here's what I
want in writing without being verbose. I want simply the clauses that conflict.
That's it, okay, because I can't hear what you're saying. Three O
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Three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight
two five five. Welcome to the only show of us kind anywhere where we
are trying to make your life a little easier, as we've been doing for
forty five years, recovering cash, merchandise exchanges, refunds and services. Bob
Logan is with us from Plumbline Services, and we do have a quick question
Bob on on two things. Swamp coolers. Do you guys even bother with
them anymore? I'm thinking more and more people got away from them. But
do you even bother with swamp coolers anymore? We don't. We don't even
service them anymore. I don't know many people that do. Actually, no,
you know, the technology is just old. They really haven't gotten any
better, and I think they add unneeded moisture to the air. They do.
I mean, some people that use them do like them for that reason,
because they do add moisture in the air. But it can get a
little bit overbearing. But there's so many, so many challenges and issues with
the roof penetrations. They're always leaking. There's I mean, we didn't install
a lot of them, but we serviced a lot of them. Do you
do quiet Cool Do you do whole house fans? We do quiet Cool as
well. Yes, it's a great product, Yeah it really is. Okay,
So so other than that, what other whole house I mean, I
found them to be phenomenal. But what other things help a house? Okay,
I mean swamp coolers? I would say, no, solar systems.
I think yes, if you're in the right position to take advantage of the
solar high efficiency stuff. And of course if I had a solar system I
would go with an auxiliary heat pump if I could. What other gimmicks I
don't mean gimmicks, bad word, but what other strategies truly that payoff?
Truly that payoff? You know, just just technology? I mean, and
Mark brought up a good point. You just said it insulation, whether it's
whether it's an insulation in your attic or throughout your home, your windows and
doors, checking for leaks there. You don't do a energy audits, do
you blower door test? And all that? We do not know a lot
of companies have gotten away from that too, I think. I I mean,
we used to have a lot of companies that did energy audits and all
of that. As far as the systems though, uh, the efficiency matters
on the house. That's it's silly to put in a high efficiency in a
house that leaks like a sieve. At the same time, if you have
a pretty tight house that really works well. What about water heat? Do
people do hot water heat anymore? They do? We do a lot of
boiler systems, yes, okay, and they're they're a phenomenal system there,
I yes, And aren't they pretty efficient? They're they're very efficient. And
but that's you know, retrofitting a house that does not have that and do
it, you wouldn't be able to do it. So we're talking new construction.
What about in floor radiant heat? In flooridian heat is fantastic, yes,
and that uses a boiler, right, Yes, it does. And
then I've seen somebody putting the other and there are electric systems as well,
but we don't we don't work on any of those. I've seen people put
in systems in their driveways to keep them from freezing. Yes, have you
seen those glight calls as man, are they expensive? I have one?
I do. I moved up to the Evergarden area recently, and yes,
the previous homeowner has it. So isn't there a boiler dedicated to just that?
There is? Yes? And does it use glycollar water like well,
glycol I think there's a some some other it's it's not a straight water though,
but yes, there's so this piping goes through the concrete and does it
work? All works fantastic, Yes, as a as a snow is falling
because mine, Mine doesn't have the whole driveway, it just has the main
entry. So that and you guys don't do that as this company, we
don't. Again that's typically something that's the nationalization. But you can. You
can retrofit a a nice smelt system and oh man, anyway, three all
three seven, one three eight two five. Gary wants to talk about true
freedom hot tubs, he said, And there's a guy and he's been telling
me about this guy, and I have I have a long list of people
that this guy's ripped off. And what I don't understand is why authorities don't
do anything. Explain who he is and what he's doing. Gary, He's
got a small hot Tub Repair company. And what he does is he goes
in, he'll give you an estimate, he gets a down payment for parts
and walks away. And I mean he's been doing and that's against you know,
that's against the freedom what do you call it? The Contractors Trust Act.
It's just unbelievable. I took him the Small Claims court and he failed
to show so I won an O. There's a contempt sit take Neil Smith.
Neil Smith, True Freedom hot Tub Repair hold on. Yep. We
have so many victims from this guy. And you you got a judgment.
Did you go after him for the judgment you have? Yeah? And yep,
and he didn't show up for courting or something. But you but you
have you have a judgment. Though, why why don't you like start garnishing
or just accounts receivable or something. There's nothing you can't find the guy.
He's he's just uh, he's hiding. He's got like four or five different
names. He goes under. And he just got another girl a couple of
weeks ago for three hundred dollars. Where are you finding it? Where are
you finding these victims? On yelp? If you look up the True Freedom
under Yelp. Everything's there. I just can't believe that he just hasn't been
like, hey, Tom, I just googled it and it said that it's
been taken down. There's no reference to True Freedom Hot Tubs. But you'll
be happy to know he has an A plus on the Better Business. Yeah,
a plus. I just looked at. I looked at the Google this
morning, at the yelps. Yeah, can you believe that? I mean,
I'm seeing Yelp and next door and all sorts of stuff. Oh,
you do see him, man. I had sent you a picture and all
his information a couple of months ago for the Sleeves Brigade. I know I'm
looking for that too, because I have a lot of people I put up
on the Sleeves Brigade. And I don't know why I looked at I looked
and searched for it and couldn't find it. True Freedom Hot Tubs. Let's
see he doesn't have very Let's see what about his ratings? What are you
finding there? I'm not True Freedom. How does he get four and a
half stars? I don't know. Well, I mean, are they all
fake? I think it's all fake? Everything hit that's on there, He's
written himself except for the negative stuff. Well, that's easy to say,
but that's hard to do. I mean, I'm not doubting you. I'm
just saying that would be that would be a lot of manipulation. I don't
is the guy that's smart? Where did you find him? When you did
get him? Where did you? How did you hire him? He lives
in my neighborhood. He's five minutes away from me. Is he still there
and you still can't find him? He's his ex wife still lives in the
house where the address is and she's not part of it? Right? Nope?
Oh my god? Why is this not coming up for me? Okay,
So anyway, I'm going to tell you. Do you have a phone
number for him? Yes? Okay? Is it the one you get three
hold on three zero three five four nine? Yeah, two to one four
eight and does the answer there? He won't answer my calls, but I'm
sure that's what he's using for his business. And where'd you find that number?
Just recently? Yeah, it's on the website. Holy crap. Okay,
Yeah, I have look at I have him in my production queue,
and I know I told you I was going to get him up, but
I have to tell you, I have so many bad actors I'm putting up
there every day. It's it's amazing to me that this guy has not been
arrested. Have you ever talked to the attorney or the districts or the district
attorneys where he is, or the attorney general? No? Do you have
a list, a complete list of all the victims right now? There's I
think five of them on YELP. I don't have. I mean, if
you look them up, there's five of them on there. Okay, that's
what I'm going to do right now. But I want to know if anybody
has and what their names. You said he went by other names than true
Freedom, hot Tub. Yeah, well his name he goes by like Thomas
McQueen. I don't know, Chris neo name. Oh, oh my god.
So this guy's a regular sham and he always gets people. This is
what's amazing to me. He always gets people to give him money, money,
up, even after after he got me. I'm the one who wrote
the first yelp and then he's got four people since then. And I don't
understand why, you know, people didn't read those reviews. Yeah, well,
I don't think people do I think people just I don't even know where
they find him. Where's he advertising? All I saw was you just google
hot tub repair and he popped up and he was in my neighborhood. Anyway,
people, this is just I mean, all we can do is just
warn people and warn people. True Freedom hot Tubs and are when how does
y help work? Do you have to be a customer to put that up
there, because I think I've only let's see true hot I'm looking at it
right now. But he still has three and a half stars. Okay,
that's the problem. He still has three and a half stars, and I'm
looking at these and True Freedom Hot Tubs, friendly and accurate repairs. I
don't see all the negative stuff you guys are looking at. I see Neil
Christian Smith. My customers mean everything to me, and I don't see the
ripoffs on here. I'm looking here, I see only Okay, I see
one Kenna. I think she's the latest. And now, okay, I
do see him now now I'm looking at him. Yep, yep, you're
right. There's a lot of bad ones. But then he's got all these
glowing ones. How the hell has that happen? He has five we have
so many five star ratings, and he says, I wish every customer could
be as easy to work with as you. I mean he He even gets
on here and answers them. Have you seen some of the interactions he's having
with people? Have you ever gone on next door to warn people about him?
Yes? I have. I've been on every site you can find them
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three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here, three oh
three seven to one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five
five. God, it just breaks my heart when I have these guys just
keep ripping people off. You think about how hard it is when you do
a legit job right, coming up with the money. Think about getting that
money to somebody and having nothing in return. It is just the worst thing
that can ever happen. How do these people sleep? And you know,
Bob, in your business, it happens with plumbing a lot hating. I
mean, there are people that have promised furnaces. We had a guy one
time, you know, so we'll do furnace for I mean it was years
and years, twenty years ago. He was advertising twelve hundred and fifteen hundred
dollars for a furnace. Right, maybe it might be fifteen years, sixteen
years ago. Disappears because he takes the deposits and disappears. Have you ever
had to go in and unscrew up jobs all the time, all the time,
all the time. It isn't that terrible. I mean, at least
they made an attempt to do it. But it's just it's unbelievable the lack
of quality and the lack of craftsmanship that goes into these installations. It's I
mean, and there's a difference between incompetence and ripoff. Right, neither one
of them are any good. But at least you know somebody didn't come in
trying to rip you off. Have you ever gotten calls from contractors or guy's
independents who said, I tried to do this, I can't do it.
Have you ever had anyone like that? I'm just curious, you know,
I don't think we get any of those calls. No, I just wonder.
I wonder if there's ever a good and well intentioned guy that just tried
to do something and screwed it up. I mean, not that I can
recall. Now, maybe some of my service. Are there people who buy
equipment? Can you buy equipment and try to do it yourself? Are there
people? Is that pop? I mean, I'm not asking if if it's
wise, I'm asking do suppliers sell furnaces to people? Most legitimate suppliers do
not. You have to have a contractor's license. And in fact, even
even with the contractor's license, like like we work with Carryer local distributors Low
Miller, even a licensed contractor can't just walk in and buy a furnace aera
condition. Remember when price Fixer Vetted price Fixer were down the two it's but
they were having consumers go on and pick the stuff they want right, and
then they would call somehow a contractor who had a regular HVAC company. These
guys that tried to do it weren't bad people, No, it just didn't
work. I mean some of these are giants in the industry. It just
did not work because because the complexities of a furnace venta one is different.
It's it's so different again, It's not like it's not like buying a refrigerator
online having it delivered, not even like buying a car, not like buying
a stove or microwave. Right, There's there's so much complexity. I think
every installation is completely different. You don't know how much venting you need,
you don't know where the fresh air is coming in, you don't know how
much, you don't know anything how much clearance around the furnace. It doesn't
is it low, is it high? Is it medium? And to expect
an homeowner to be able to go online and put that information in. I
mean I was in the industry and I tried to I tried to go on
to price Fixer, and there's other There's been other companies that have tried the
same thing, and so how did it work? You would buy it because
I think someday, Bob, someday there will be direct to consumer. There's
no doubt. Everyone is Everyone right now is trying to develop that. Google's
trying to develop that, Amazon's We've talked about it a million times, but
you're right, the complexity that the amount of service needed. I don't know
if it'll ever succeed. I mean, there are just certain things that aren't
going to succeed. Although I never thought telehealth would work, yeah, I
never say never, because every day maybe shocked. There might be things that
you guys can eventually do on Zoom I'm serious, or on tell tell appointments
rather than sending a tech there. There have to be if you know the
age of their system, that they can show you the system. There's gotta
be things that are intelligent enough that you can start discerning. I mean,
just just this simple technology of video phones, you know, face FaceTime and
things like that. You know, you don't have to go to the home
every single time. Someone says, but you guys don't utilize that now,
do you? No? I mean it's it's pretty rare. I mean,
if a homeowner calls us and and hey, I pushed nothing wrong with my
thermostat, you know, one of the service managers might call and say,
well, put me on FaceTime, got down on here. But but no,
typically because because we're all around the government where it's just easy, it's
easy to send a technician over. Okay, Susan, Hi, what's going
on, Susan, what's happened? Hey? So I have a just a
small rental property downtown in Genver, and I have a tenant in there.
That has been a challenge, to say the least. He's consistently laid on
the rent and is making changes to the property. And then what kind of
change. The took down some drywall, areas, repainted, some room stuff
like that. Nothing, Well, that's that's major though without authority. And
then he did does he deduct it from rent? Yeah? He deducts it
from the rent. Let me let me ask you something. I just want
to ask you somebody before we get into this, and I will help you.
I might have to take a break here, but I really want to
help. Have you noticed how difficult And this has nothing to do with parties.
It has to do with it has to do with laws. How difficult
the lawmakers are making it on landlords? Yes, I mean now now,
now. Granted, for years tenants were ripped off, but I'm talking like
twenty five thirty years ago. When I first got there were no rights at
all. But now it's completely swung to an unreasonable unreasonable You probably can't get
rid of this guy. Tell tell me, tell me what you're calling about
today, because I did look into what it's going to take to get rid
of him, and that really puts me in a vulnerable position. His lease
is up, and my thoughts, oh no, but now you can't.
You can't non renew unless you have a reason, and it has to be
a good one. All leases are automatically renewed unless you have a just cause.
They call it right, And that was my question. A is that
in fact? Or is it the end of the contract? So I have
to automatically renew his lease. You must unless unless you have just cause.
Now listen, I'm not versed in this, but I'd love to get Brad
O'Brien on to talk about it, okay, because then my next question would
be what is just cause? Yeah? That's great, Okay, how about
this. Let's try to get Brad O'Brien on if we can right now,
to answer that, and then we'll take a quick break. Hold on and
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three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your
troubleshooter three O three seven one three talk three oh three seven, one three
eight two five five. Okay, so what's going on in your life?
I want to take this comment. I'm gonna go back to that landlord.
I looked it up. And we also have Brad. No, let's get
Brad O'Brien. I'm sorry, I didn't alw he's on. Let's get him
right now, Brad O'Brien. And then I'll go to a comment on Price
Fixer. And then we have a question for plumbline. So hanging there,
Susan's a landlord, and Susan says she doesn't like her client or her tenant
and wants to really, what does it take to get rid of him at
the end of a lease. You can't just say hey, I don't like
you. There's got to be a reason. It's called just cause. And
Brad, as I explained for years, there were really and truly there was
need in the past for some adjustments for tenants' rights, because there was a
time in this state there was zero rights for a tenant. But at the
same time, the Pendumuina is now swinging and a lot of landlords think,
you know that they don't have that. They took away all landlord rights,
but can you give some balance to us when it this just cause law?
And Brad O'Brien is our real estate expert. He's an attorney at law that
does real estate law. Brad, just cause, if I want to end
my lease, is it really that much more difficult than it was? Yes,
it is. Now a landlord has to give basically ninety days of advanced
notice that they're not going to renew the tenant at the end of their term.
There's a few exceptions, like a tenant in the first year their lease
doesn't you don't have to do it with that with that tenant, But once
they've gone past a year, then they have the right to renewal unless the
landlord has some specific reasons like they need to do a major renovation, or
they want to sell the rental unit, or they actually want to move back
in, or someone in their family wants to move back in a few other
reasons. Well, what if the landlord says, hey, I want to
get rid of this guy, and they just put it up for sale,
but they're really how do we really know what their intent is? Isn't that
a way a sneaky way to get rid of them? If they want to.
Yeah, well, there's there's some requirements in there where you basically have
to prove it. If you're a landlord saying you're going to sell, there's
deadlines for the property to be listed for sale, and so if you don't
list it for sale, or you turn around and rented to somebody else,
then it looks like improper uh least termination and the first tenant, you know,
would have the right to put accord against the landlord and recover damages and
attorney fees and all that kind of stuff, or if they have a it
says if a landlord wants a family member to move in, that's that they
can do that too, that's right, And what if you know what's dependent?
Okay, it has to be like almost an immediate family member, right
yeah, yeah, I don't think like an ant ork has in work.
I think it has to be a child. And if somebody wants to switch
to short term rentals, but then again that's a headache all into itself,
substantial and renovations. What would again that that they could do that? I
mean, that wouldn't be difficult to show, right, Yeah. Yeah,
the landlord has to give notice saying we're going to do these repairs and have
to actually have to describe what the repairs are and give an estimate for how
long it takes. And if it doesn't take it, if it's not estimated
to take one hundred and eighty days, then the tenant has the right to
first trite a repusal to get to be the first tenant back in there when
the work is done. Wow, and okay, So what if I want
to raise my rent? What about that? A landlord can raise the rent
once every twelve months on a twelve month rolling calendar basis, but they can't
raise the ret in retaliation for anything. But who's to say, Brad,
if she wants, Susan, what do you charge now for this place?
Susan, Yes, eighteen dollars a month. Okay, So if she wanted
to raise it to twenty five hundred, Brad, is there a is there
a rent control of some kind? What it's not for retaliation? She just
wants to Can she do that? You know, you don't have to have
any I think it has to be a good faith rants increase, and I
think it has to be supported by the market. So it might make sense
to have some informal documentations like a real estate broker that just like an email,
like here's what the rates are in your area right now, just so
you have some paperwork to go along with the new rate. So in case
you got in front of a didge, you'd have an argument against retaliation.
Okay, Susan, It's not as easy as it was, is it to
be a landlord? No? Now, what about this? I want to
ask Brad about this. You say he was doing unauthorized repairs on his own
and then arbitrarily arbitrarily deducting it from rent. Correct? And so how much
would he deduct from a month's rent? Give me an exam. Some months
it was four hundred and fifty, other months it was up to nine hundred.
Now, Brad, couldn't she call that non payment? Yes, there
is a provision and habitability statutes where a tank can withhold rent to fix the
habitability situation. But before they do that, they have to give a lot
of written notice and opportunity to the landlord to for the landlord to do the
problem and only as the last resort, withhold the money to have the work
done by a third party professional, and they have to like support that with
an estimate, So there's a whole process before they could ever withhold event.
So if they're not doing it properly, wouldn't that be a good reason for
not renewing the rent the lease? Isn't there a provision for non payment of
rent? Can't she add up all that and said, you never got approval
for withholding this rent. Yeah, if the tenant is late three or more
times in the rental period, in the preceding period, whatever that is,
that's the reason for not renewing. And Susan was he did he withhold rent
three times? He's been there ten months and he's with held rent nine what
times? Well, that would be Yeah, you need to call Brad off
the air. I'm serious, because if he didn't do it properly, that
is Brad, wouldn't you think that Let's say we take her out her word.
He never got approvals. They were not habitability issues, like were any
of them critical safety or health issues? No? No, give me an
example of one of the biggest things he did. He'd replaced the toilet and
this was on his own and never got approval for that. No, he
never even called him told me the toilet was broken. I said, why
is the rent short? He said, I replaced the toilet. Brad,
what do you think about that? Would that be considered late or nonpayment?
Yeah? I think he's still late on that particular month where he didn't where
he was held the amounts or replace the pilot at his own Yeah, and
he did it eleven times. I mean he did. Excuse me eight times?
Did you say or not? How many times? Yeah? Nine?
Yeah, Yeah, you need to call Brad O'Brien. Okay, enough,
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twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three all three seven one three
talks seven or three two five five. Okay, So we have a question
for plumb line right now, Mike, go ahead. What is your question?
Sir? Yeah, I heard you guys earlier talking about HVAC and uh
I'm assuming if you add an AC that takes a dedicated to twenty volt line
and how does one? Uh so you have to have a line running in
for that. And if you want to add a two twenty volt fast EV
charger, do you have to have another line? How much can you picky
back off of those lines? Depends on the capacity of your panels. And
as far as the EV charger, that's that's a whole different story. I
mean, the the best thing is to get a good electrician and we can
get out there. They have to do a load analysis on your panel.
What's what kind of what kind of ambriage do you have? Do you know?
No? I don't, okay, So for example, if you had
one hundred amp panel, you would have a total of one hundred amp capacity.
Now that means that you have to have any one time no more than
one hundred amps. I mean, it just comes down to math and two
hundred amps. Most houses nowadays have two hundred, don't they? Not necessarily,
No, some of the older ones, I mean there are some with
fifty ams some of the Yeah, smaller, smaller homes can still have one
hundreds. How old is your house, Mic, it's fifty years old,
you probably have a very very small capacity. And yeah, and I'm wondering,
go ahead, when the transformers they tap off, they've got two twenty
coming in and they tap off or is it two twenty or four forty?
They tap off to more than one house, right, So I'm wondering.
You know you have to have a separate, dedicated line. Well, no,
it comes from your panel. All of that comes from your panel.
It doesn't go everything comes from your panel. Okay. They don't go from
the transformer on the street to your house with a line. They go through
your panel, no matter what it is. So you have to have first
the service coming to your panel, then you break off from your panel.
Okay, But it also depends on the input. How many boats they're they're
putting in. Well, of course it does. You have to have the
right input, but they only will put in what your panel can handle.
You have to have the amperage service available, so you may need a panel
upgrade before you do what you want. That's what Bob said. You need
to get a load analysis from a from a qualified electrician. They'll look at
what you have coming in decide if you need more. Excel would have to
do that, and then you just do a panel upgrade. You know,
Excel can feed you anything you want. There's never going to be a capacity
issue there, right Boby, even in older neighborhoods. Right, yeah,
Excel will give you all the capacity you need. It's it's to your point
once it goes into the house where it gets distributed from there. So I
mean, if if you want, if you want, I can send an
electrictrician no charge. If you want to give Kelly your information offline and uh
and we can. We'll be happy to say that's a good deal. They'll
give you a free estimate on what you're looking to do. Would your would
your solar lady also be good at this information? The solar lady would be
good for the information as it pertains to solar and a net metering panel.
Yes, but but listen into this. Even with a solar system, if
you don't have the capacity, they're limited as well. So in other words,
everything first starts with a panel analysis, and they will here's what you
do. You tell them what you want to do, like an EV charger
and whatever you want to do. Let's see an AC system and an EV
charger. The answer is yes, you do have to have two separate runs
unless you have a subpanel. They can do a subpanel and then two runs
from that. But the bottom line is this, you tell them though you
want. They do a load analysis to see what kind of a panel you
need. Whether you go with solar to do that or from Excel or whatever.
That's after that. But the first thing is a load analysis, and
I would not call a solar company for that. I would call an electrician.
And then you decide how you want to fill that load, whether it
be through solar or conventional energy. I'm Tom Martinez. We have more coming
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What do you say and we see what we can do for you.
Mark, you have a question on flooring. Uh, I think you mean
electric heat flooring or electric heating in the floor. Go ahead, Mark,
Yeah, exactly, electric Uh heated floors? Are they dependable? Are they
crazy expensive to install? Okay, so Bob, well we don't. We
don't install the mark. But uh, but I think they're pretty dependable,
and I think the installation is is fairly simple. And the the electric in
floor heat is inexpensive. I have it in my bathroom. It's very inexpensive.
If you're doing it as part is it new construction or remodel. It's
way, it's way reasonable. But but but butt to operate it. If
you operate it the right way, it works. Well, it's not really
made to be primary heat. It really isn't. I mean, okay,
they're going to tell you it is. But in the winter in your bathroom,
are you going to leave it on all the time. You're gonna spend
some money if you turn it on and off for showers and baths, like
to give you extra comfort. That's the way it really should be used.
To leave it and set it. I've tried it and it'll just burn,
burn burn. I mean it's a radiant heat, but it's still attempting to
reach a certain temperature, and it can be very expensive, in my opinion,
compared to normal heat. I was gonna go with the solar system,
and so I'm not really I'm looking for the best electric heat I can all
right, I'm up with that's the best. That's the best you can buy.
If you're gonna do that, then you're gonna have a wonder. If
you're going solar and you're gonna do as much as you can with electric,
you're gonna love that heat. You're gonna love it. That's great. And
you think they're pretty dependable, they're damn of course they are. There's nothing
to break. Oh well, well, the thermost that could break, I
mean the heating, the heating itself, I mean the thing that generates the
heat. But the stuff in the floor that'll never go anywhere, that that
won't break. I mean, if it's done properly. Do you have a
a recommendation on brand? Yeah, I actually have one in my eye.
I mean I'm telling you from experience I have at my house. But I
hold on, I don't know if I let me think here the one that
you want. There's see. The brands, though, are tricky because it's
not a brand of a whole system. It's a brand of components. Do
you see what I'm saying? So, and there might be better components now
than when I put it in. A really good contractor can tell you what
they have success with. But you guys do not do that, right Bob,
We don't know. No, that's more you know. Problem is I'm
real rual, I'm a child. I'm in the Four Corners area, real
ruin. And okay, yeah, man, well I'll tell you what you
really want to get someone who knows what they're doing. The last thing in
the world you want to do is have to redo stuff like that. Are
you going to have? I assume you're having tile in that path? Right,
Well, I didn't know if they put like a lightweight concrete over the
top of it and then and then tiled over that or what. And I
do like tyle, Yeah, well it should be tile. I wouldn't bother
with carpet. It's not going to radiate enough. So okay, I would
do the I would do the Uh look at it looks like it looks like
a Yeah, you can do hardwood, but the best is tile. It
looks like a mat and it goes down over the floor. With a mastic
and it's a thick mastic they have it, and then the tile goes over
that. There's also in floor radiant excuse me, water heat you know that
right? Yeah, but I still I was just trying to get away from
it. I don't I'm going to have a sister and well, I guess
that's all enclosed system. I've thought about that, but I thought, see
intown. I'm going to have you know the commercial solar system then, and
Hair, I just want to ask you something. I know you're in the
four Corners area, but solar will kill you if you don't get the right
people. Who are you going to get for your solar? I've got Brooke
cloy good, isn't she? Is she wonderful or what? Everybody that I've
dealt with over there are absolute, absolutely wonderful. And uh, you know
the people that come out to my property and uh, you know, I
had a little problem getting it inspected, but boy, they I made a
small complaint, they jumped on it and it's getting done by tomorrow and I'm
I'm really really happy with them. The only thing I can say is I
broke your rule of thumb and I didn't even think about it when I when
I broke, is they required they required what you cut out? Hell you
sight or anything? Wait wait wait, okay you cut you cut out when
you said they required. I don't know we're having any problem with the connection.
I think he's just saying a down payment. But yeah, well I
I can't hear him anymore. But listen, here's the thing. I personally
feel, okay, that down payments are a bad idea in general. Okay,
now, there are companies that will require down payments for certain things.
Let me give you my exceptions. If a company orders a whole bunch of
stuff for your house and it's not something that they can readily reuse like windows,
doors, uh, solar systems for your specific house and things like that,
if you can verify the materials were ordered in your name and for your
address, that's all I care about, if you can verify it. Now,
do I have concerns about people on my referral list for money down?
Not really no, no, But I still don't like it because anyone,
anything can happen to anyone at any time. Now, the chance is,
you know, like I love red rocks, roof and solar and that's who
you're dealing with. They would never abscond or do anything crooked like that.
But I still, you know, if the family was heard or the whole
thing went away. I am just saying that in a perfect world. I
don't like it. But if it's for something and not for nothing, I
never ever want to put money down for nothing just to get on a schedule.
Ever, I will never do that. If materials are ordered, I
can verify it. I will do it. If plans are drawn and they're
helping me with a plan, that's a service I'll pay. See, there's
a big difference of money for nothing. I don't pay money for nothing,
no matter who it is. Jay's got a comment on the d floor heating
hij Go ahead by Tom. We do a lot of tiles. We do
a lot of huge scores. Really yeah, I just a couple of things.
Now, are you in the business, sir? Yes, sir?
Oh very good, Okay, go ahead. So what we've been using is
called new Heat, and you and you as a New Heat been a great
product. They come out and you can buy a standard map or they'll come
out and measure it and make your custom map. It just goes on a
little little bit of thin set and then you tile right on top of it,
and it's awesome, looks great. It's been working really good for us.
Great customer you know if a thermostatics or something, they have great customer
service with things like that. So we're really happy with them. And you
know it's fair. Now is it electric or is it water? It's electric,
And I would say that I always recommend one with the two forty volt
because it costs exactly half as much to run it. Oh yeah, because
because you have you have let's see with my math rate, you have less
current if you do that right, or do you have more? You're getting
heat on the push and the pole and your own that's right, for the
same amount of time. Yeah, so it's not half price. Literally,
Wow, that's wonderful. Now this mesh that goes down on the floor,
is it Is it buried in a in a in a thin set. Yeah.
You put a thin layer of thin set and you just kind of smush
it into there and then you thin set on top of it and set your
tile. And what generates the heat itself? Is it the element or is
go ahead? Yeah? That that net has the coils running back and forth
all through it and it comes out, so it's resistant. It's resistance heat
then, yep, exactly, and so there's nothing to break. No,
it's super duper easy. It's super duper reliable. Now, the only issue
we've ever had was a couple of thermostats over time of Yeah, a little
won key, you know. I turn mine on and off like a light
switch. I mean, because I have regular heat, but I only use
it. Okay, go ahead. Is that the way to do it?
Or do you leave it on a on a tempt in one basement? The
only heat in that entire basement is electric floors. So they just said it
during the winter where they want it, and they leave it alone. Their
electric bills are pretty high because of that. They they don't have any other
heat. It'd be very expensive and there's home to and mess whether it's a
really weird old home, but it's pretty expensive to leave it on all the
time. Yeah, I use it. I use it now. Mine mine
has a timer, but I haven't figured it out. I guess I could
set it so it goes on just before I get up and goes on and
off. Right. Yeah, there's there's all kinds of modes if you want
to learn them. Yeah, yeah, I have to get a fourteen year
old to do that. I just but in any case, in any case,
though, I absolutely love it. I've never felt anything more comfortable.
And uh, it's just it's just very cool stuff. I mean, very
good stuff. Now have you heard of the radiant heat that goes in drywall
on drywall? We've never done it. Okay, I have what's assume it's
similar. What's the name of your company, AQJ Tyle Plus and it's and
and of course you recommend it under tile right, yes, you you will
find some of the feminates and Scotch will say you can put it under it.
But I've been at home so that had it and they have kind of
weird sports marks and this color. Oh, it's not really like it's burned,
but you can see where the heat is and that's that tells me that's
not really perfected yet. You know what, You should leave your name and
number with Kachina because that guy was asking about it, and maybe I'll give
it to Brooke to give to him. You probably don't go down there,
but at least you can give him some advice. Yeah, I'd be happy
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seven one three eight two five five plumb line services with us Bob. And
you know there are so many innovative things happening in the world and in technology.
But you know, furnaces, have they really they've changed a bit,
But when it comes to heat, when it comes to air, what else
is there? I mean, they're pretty much the same, yes, maybe
more efficient, you know, for example, it's not a revolution like with
the ev cars, they've gotten completely away from the internal combustion engine. But
when it comes to home services, well, plumbing, hell, plumbing hasn't
changed in years, has it? Well, PEX plumbing maybe now. I
mean the basic concept of heating, cooling, plumbing, electric, you know,
that's all pretty much the same. But the technologies around them, I
mean, yeah, furness and air conditioning systems have advanced tremendously as far as
the efficiencies, the safety, controls, the reliability. It's one thing that
I thought we would find in electrical issues. And again sometimes people say,
Tom, you do a consumer show and sometimes get very technical. But you
know what, a lot of people like hearing like talking about some stuff like
this. If you think about the amount of wiring in a home, and
much of that wiring is not supplying power but switching and signaling. And I
always envisioned that you could have switching and signaling done with very tiny, low
voltage wires that run through the house and then to a central location. So
in other words, a switch on a wall could work the light in that
room, but it could also work the light in another room if you wanted
to do. In other words, you could assign those switches with IP addresses.
You literally have very little wiring compared to because to run power is easy
if you could just run power to everything that needed power and not to switches,
then from switches to outlets, and then outlets to fixtures and fixtures.
But if you ran an addressable low voltage IP circuit or a computerized circuit out
throughout the house in one loop, you could literally talk to one switch and
one switch could talk to the control unit. Think of the ease of wiring
and the expense that would be cut down. The processor unit would be exposed
where you can get to it. So if ever that goes wrong, it's
a computer. But what I'm saying is this, You program the switches to
work the light you want them to work, but all of the power comes
from one source and it's totally independent from the switchers. Because the switchers are
really what takes the wear, it may not be too far off. And
if you had solid solid state program a programmable switching, and then you had
power which was separate, because the power going through switches is what could causes
whear. I mean, that's really truly the problem with electricals. It's where
relays and switches take power. That's where the wear happens, right, because
really with electrical there's not much to break. Where do you get the breaks
in breakers in switches? That's exactly right, exactly, Yeah, once in
a blue moon you'll get a and as usually because somebody drove a nail or
something. Yeah, you don't get wiring going or you don't get an outlet
actually going bad, you get mechanically the outlet going bad because people pulling the
way they pull out cores. Have you I've seen some of these outlets,
I swear to god, I laugh where a plug literally falls out, I
mean because it can't grip and that's just from abuse. But that's not because
of the electrical component. So I think, and I'm not sure why this
hasn't happened Addressable circuitry and a home, because all the technology is there to
have a home completely for signaling and sensing like the everything being low voltage ease,
tiny tiny wiring. You could even literally have it probably Wi Fi.
You probably don't even need wires when you think about it. You could have
Wi Fi switching and sensing and the only thing that you would wire for power
and it would all be wired together because you can literally send power to specific
things if you if you wired the right way. I just don't, I
just could never. What would you do? You You would send power out
to a central unit to send it out to your to your outlets and and
and to your not to your outlets you always be energized, but your to
your you know, fixtures of all kinds. But plumbing. Plumbing can never
change. I mean the only thing that can change is the way you bring
water to it. Well, you know, I mean you just think about
galvanized to lead piping, to copper piping. Yeah, of course. Now
to me, I don't know why are most homes built with pecks now or
with at least that song? Why would you ever want a copper Why would
you ever want to sweat pipes? And they're unreliable, I mean they're subject
to the calcifications and and minerals of water so really our new construction are they
using I think I think probably of all new construction is pecks or that type
of material. Yeah, because it's better for the environment. And the only
time you're going to have a problem is someone drives a nail through it or
at the point of connection. But that's easy to get to, right,
So the inline walls. But whereas with copper, you could literally have because
of the water chemistry, and PEX is impervious to water chemistry. Whereas copper,
do you guys ever you run across these right, corrosion mineralization right in
the middle, you could have it in a wall exactly. It'll it'll eat
through the copper eventually if you have poor water quality. Yeah. So in
any case, I think plumbing the delivery system, you know, But as
far as faucets and toilets, there's nothing new under the sun, is there.
I mean really, no, I mean not really, I mean you
get you know, pressurized tanks and toilets. Yeah, that's true. Less
water, there's like more power. You know, have redesigned the drain systems
and the pea traps and so you know, it's all about redesigning. But
no, the basic functions of plumbing still apply. And then hot air heat
seems to me to be such an inefficient but it's it's so inexpensive compared to
water heat that that's why we have it, right, And then radiant heat
would be the way to go, efficient but expensive because of electricity and our
electrical costs or astronomical hair right, And if you go and if solar ever
becomes ubiquitous with construction, like where they build in certain solar elements to a
home, I think there's no question that these electrical radiant systems would be the
best. Yes, along with heat pumps. And now are you installing heat
pumps or furnaces that have dual systems because of solar systems? Oh? Well
yeah, I mean we still are even without solar, we install a lot
of heat pumps, you do, yes, So is that in addition to
the hot air? Right? I mean, excuse me, they're all hot
air. But is it in addition to the regular gas fired furnace? Yeah?
So a heat pump, you know, it works just like an air
conditioner. What a lot of people don't realize that the air conditioner is doing
is it's it's not blowing cold air into your house. So it's taking the
hot out right. Where a heat pump works in just the exact opposite.
It's pulling heat from the from the outside inside. And so even on a
very cool day, there's heat in the air that the heat pump can pull
from the outside into your home. But but a heat pump is more expensive
to operate, isn't it. Well, yeah, because of the electricity.
Yeah, but they're technically more efficient the aren't they. Yes? Yes,
And so you know, do you think they'll ever be a time where a
central AC and a heat pump will be enough you won't need a furnace,
I believe so. Yeah. And it's and again it's probably not too far
off because that in itself will run cleaner than let's say gas. And there's
a big push and it might be regulated. I mean it might be.
I mean there's regulations right now. So we're we're moving that direction. Anyway.
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two five five. Bonnie is on the line, and what is going on?
I really love your show. I've been listening since you first came on
the air, and I find it to be lots of fun and real interesting
and the person learns a lot. I have a problem where I've learned to
a situation where I don't know what to do because I was trying to get
my stuff moved. But my friends and people that have contacted have you know
it would either been on vacation or Okay, what do you need help with?
What do you need help with? Okay? And I have what I
need? Is I need to have somebody to help me get this spriniture and
boxes out of the apartment because I have a deadline there. They're telling us
to get out the apartment and I have this deadline, and okay, are
you being evicted or are you being uh just moving on on your own?
Well, they're they're requiring us to get out because we're doing renovations on the
apartment. And they, oh, I see, and where are you moving
to? I don't even I don't even have a place where I can move
to yet I'm trying to. So I decided I could just get my stuff.
Funny when I mean, when do you have to be out of there?
When do you have to be out of there at the end of June?
And I have to get Wait a minute, at the end of June,
you're talking about like a few days? Yes? Yes? And who
have you how many boxes? What about your furniture? What are you doing
with that? Well, it's going to donate it to some of these companies
like to you know, are and do you okay? So you have no
idea where you're going? Are you going to be homeless? Unless if I
have this furniture out of you, then I think i'd have time to find
a place to move to, but I couldn't. Why have you waited so
long? Dear? I'm just trying to figure this out. Why have you
waited so long? I've been really, really sick, and it takes me
really long to pack my stuff, and you know, I want to tell
me, Okay, okay, one thing at a time. How many boxes?
Okay, how about maybe ten thirteen boxes? And okay, box stuff?
My arms and hands are really really you have ten, let's just say
ten to fifteen boxes? And where are you going to? Where do you
need the boxes moved? You don't have a place to move them? Is
that right? Well? Yeah, I thought maybe I would just, you
know, don't ate them to somebody, like to one of the you know,
so you so you're not taking anything with you at all? No,
I thought I would just donate the stuff out. Well, what about your
clothes? What are you doing about clothes? Thing and personal items? Well?
I would take some of the clothes I need, but then I would
just donate like my TV and my bedroom furniture and all. How old is
your stuff? It's it's pretty good shape, I would say, so if
you want to donate it, though, what's the consequence of you just leaving
it? Did this apartment complex say you could come back after they do the
renovation. No, they just they're just redoing the apartments and they give you
a deadline to move out, and even if you pay your rent, you
know, and if you don't, you're gonna I would okay, okay,
listen, listen Vannie. So if you just want to leave, my question
is what difference does it make if you move the stuff if you don't want
it, What difference does it make? Well, because I can't read the
stuff here because they're probably charging me for you know, just leaving this part
apartment like it is. Okay, I see set the apartments out. Are
all your neighbors moving? Did they all manage to get out? Well,
they're they've been doing departments one at a time and everybody, yeah, they've
had they had moved out, and then they renovate apartments and then they So
you need you need help finding someone to move your stuff? Did you call
the places? You know a lot of times they'll come and get stuff if
you donate it. Did you know that good Will will come and pick stuff
up? Well? I tried, like the places, and they have all
these rules where you have to take your runsure out to the parking lot and
place it out on the parking lot, and and I can't carry all this
furniture. And do you have any money to hire people like like like to
move, like moving companies or something like that. I'm just curious, like
handyman or something. I mean, are you asking me to find people who
might come over there and move your stuff free? Well, I'm just kind
of stopped. I don't know. No, I understand, I understand.
That's why I'm asking Listen, I'm asking questions. Are you asking for free
help from some people that could help you free of charge? Well, and
that was available, that would be wonderful if I Yeah, But what I'm
more concerned that you don't have a place to go for yourself. I'm very
concerned you have absolutely no idea. You understand that it's gonna take you more
than just a few days to find a place, do you know that?
Yes? But I have time because it takes me so long to Fanny Fannie.
I understand you say your arms are getting sore, but I'm asking you
this, Okay, what good is it going to do if you pack everything
up? And move it out if you have nowhere to go, well,
if I get some company that donated to them, that would be good,
and then I'll have enough days to find the police. What makes you think
you don't have enough days now to find a place. Do you really believe?
Do you believe that you can find a place before the end of the
month. I'm hoping I could. Where are you gonna? Okay? Are
you looking for a motel? Are you looking for another apartment? What are
you looking for? It would probably I guess another apartment there, but you
have nothing to put in the apartment, so okay with just having a bed.
I mean, at this point, I just how long have you been
there? Vonnie? Fonnie? How long have you been where you are?
About fourteen years? How old are you? And they're just chicking? I'm
seventy six years old? No, no, no, no, hold on,
hold on, Fannie, you're a seventy six year old woman with no
idea where you're going in six days. Well, I want to find a
place that I'd tell enough time to find a place if I could get this
place clear, Fannie, listen to me, okay, listen to me.
Do you have a deposit with them that you want to get back. Is
that what you're looking for? Yes? How much is the deposit as five
hundred? My recommendation you're seventy six years old, Honest to God, my
recommendation is that you take what you want and you find another place and forget
about getting someone to move it. I'm not kidding you. By the way,
there's nothing they can do to you now. Even if they took the
five hundred dollars, it would be well worth it. You need to find
you've waited way too long. You need to start thinking about where you are
going to go as Are you on Social Security? Yes? Well I figured
that, Yes I do that. They're going to charge me for the time
the time that I you know, hold on a second, Hold on,
deputy, Doc, Doc, are you there? Doc? Just hold on,
doc? Are you there? Doc? Ended up having to leave,
But we need we need someone to help her out there. We will be,
Honest to God, do I want her to stop worrying about them charging
her? For God's sakes, if they're doing major construction, they're going to
clean out crap anyway. She needs to get her priority straight. I feel
sorry for this woman. She's literally going to be homeless. You don't want
to be homeless at seventy six years old, Tom, this is Bo.
She could try Ronda's place well right now, right now, Bo, if
you can just help her out, let's just right now, maybe even contact
the landlord. What we need to do is get her out of there and
get her a place temporarily at least. I'm Tom Martine. We have more
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