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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Creative Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports ninet twenty, your iHeartRadio app coming live

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Speaker 1: from the Donovan and Jorgansen Heating and Cooling studios. Furnace,

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Speaker 1: air conditioner. What do we doing?

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Speaker 2: Bingo O, we need humifiers?

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Speaker 1: Do humidifier? There it is they can help you with

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Speaker 1: some of.

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Speaker 2: That, right, Yeah, definitely a do humidifyer on.

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Speaker 1: I was over there this week and or last week,

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Speaker 1: and both the president of Donovan Jorgans and Scott Fisher

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Speaker 1: and Calvin who handles all their marketing and stuff that

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Speaker 1: I work with, both had Duke in the final into

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Speaker 1: winning the National Championship. And I know during that game

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Speaker 1: that they were laughing. Dukes up by nineteen and you

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Speaker 1: kind of comes back and hits a miracle three to

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Speaker 1: beat them, And everything I had in me wanted to

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Speaker 1: detect both of them and make fun of them, but

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Speaker 1: I didn't because I thought, well, they're a pretty good client,

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Speaker 1: but it'd be nice to them.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's what I do every time one of Michael

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Speaker 2: Jordan's guys win.

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Speaker 1: I was you do you text me? Yeah? The greatest

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Speaker 1: owner in NASCAR history. How are things over at creative construction.

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Speaker 2: Real good, we do good. I was thinking maybe Sam

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Speaker 2: should have probably got one of them ARC builders from

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Speaker 2: the show this weekend. Funny driving here, I went past

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Speaker 2: river and it's all here we go again. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: phone's gonna be it's gonna be pretty opping, pretty good

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Speaker 2: and starting tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Well let's hope it it stops. And last August was

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Speaker 1: a nightmare. And we talked and we're gonna get to

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Speaker 1: our special guests here in a second, but we're talking

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Speaker 1: before there's still people dealing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're still finishing up stuff from the last storm.

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Speaker 2: But people got to remember.

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Speaker 1: To do it.

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Speaker 2: Is just you know, for PSA is you need to

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Speaker 2: dry them out, just because especially if you got dry well,

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Speaker 2: you got twenty four to forty eight hours to remove

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Speaker 2: it otherwise you're gonna get mold. And I know it's

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Speaker 2: a pain to hear people say. That's why they was

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Speaker 2: talking about the famous flood cut. People are like, you

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Speaker 2: cut off two feet off thross the bottom, but if

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Speaker 2: you don't, you'll pay for it later. So if you

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Speaker 2: do get your drywall wet, just cut it out and

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Speaker 2: move it. You'll save yourself a ton of money later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, you know what. Great great advice for sure,

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Speaker 1: and perfect timing for us to bring in our special

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Speaker 1: guests to known him a long time. He is a

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Speaker 1: good one of the good guys in this whole industry.

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Speaker 1: He's Mike Bauman. It's weird to say this, Mike Bauman

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Speaker 1: from Victory Homes of Wisconsin, Victory Renovations. That sounds pretty weird.

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Speaker 1: I had to change my whole sheet man. Hey, congratulations

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Speaker 1: a couple of months over there, and how's how's it going.

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Speaker 3: It's going great, new a little learning curve and still

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Speaker 3: doing the same things I did at my prior place

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Speaker 3: of employment and just having fun.

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Speaker 1: And you like everybody that works there, right, Well, yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Where does your wife for she works at Victory there

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Speaker 1: your companies as well. That's where I was going.

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Speaker 2: That's what That's what I was asking. So is she

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Speaker 2: her boss? She's always been my boss.

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Speaker 1: He did say that, didn't they. He did say that

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Speaker 1: normally before we're on the air, guys like, oh man,

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Speaker 1: I'm the man in my house. You never even went there, Mike,

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I learned long ago. Well, she you know what,

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Speaker 1: she was such a big help to me when I

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Speaker 1: was doing the MC and the awards for MBA and

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Speaker 1: she would come up and be my van of White

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Speaker 1: and she the first time She's like, don't make me

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Speaker 1: do this, and she came up. We had so much

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Speaker 1: fun that the second year and she was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm rid of you. Let's go. She got a kick

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Speaker 1: out of that. She's the best. Yeah. And she would

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Speaker 1: roll with stuff and make fun of me, and I'd

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Speaker 1: make fun of her. And it was great. It was

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Speaker 1: really really good. What about Victory Homes and Victory Homes

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Speaker 1: and Victory Renovations made you make the move? What what

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Speaker 1: about this company caught your interest and you went, hey,

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Speaker 1: this is a company I could work for. Well, there's

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Speaker 1: probably several things.

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Speaker 3: Number one, and you know, first and foremost is the

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Speaker 3: owners of the company, John Stoker, Film Morgan and Dave

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Speaker 3: Empkey have been really really good friends of mine for

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Speaker 3: many many years.

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Speaker 1: I've known the company. They've been one of in the past.

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Speaker 3: It had been one of our biggest competitors, so I

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Speaker 3: knew the company very well. And when I decided to

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Speaker 3: step into Victory And quite frankly, they'd been trying to

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Speaker 3: get me over there for a while anyhow.

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Speaker 1: So they won on this deal for sure. I think

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Speaker 1: they both won good. That's awesome. Are you more on

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Speaker 1: the new home build or are you more on renovations

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Speaker 1: or a combination? Somewhat of a combination.

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Speaker 3: They brought me over mainly to help and grow the

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Speaker 3: remodeling side of the business, So I'm probably about eighty

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Speaker 3: five percent on the remodeling side, and then I still

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Speaker 3: got a lot of customers from past contacts that will

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Speaker 1: So with Victory Renovations, with what happened, and you weren't

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Speaker 1: that happened. Every renovation company. I do a lot of

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Speaker 1: work with Kellman, and I was telling you that when

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Speaker 1: their marketing, all their because they're like, we can't we

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Speaker 1: literally can't take anybody new right now. We don't need

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Speaker 1: the new business.

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Speaker 2: I was doing a job with Kellman and he says,

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Speaker 2: we're only taking care of commercial now, we're now can

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Speaker 2: we respond to residential?

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Speaker 1: Right? And now they've caught up a little bit obviously,

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Speaker 1: But man, it's been pretty interesting that that whole process.

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Speaker 1: That's new for me. With what I do normally, as

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Speaker 1: and cooling, we're going to increase. And if this happens right,

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Speaker 1: here's who you call. And then Kelman, I've got to

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Speaker 1: that the more I dig into that category, a lot

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Speaker 1: of companies might put renovation in the name only because

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Speaker 1: they don't want to put remodel because there's so many

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Speaker 1: people that have remodeled in that name. But if you

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Speaker 1: want it back to where you want it, and I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at your stuff, that's what you guys do. Oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: We experienced a lot of that during that that August

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Speaker 3: flood and and and we've we've had that in the

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Speaker 3: past two and and this time I got to experience

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Speaker 3: the other side of the coin as my basement got

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Speaker 3: ten inches of water in it. So not only was

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Speaker 2: Man that cobbler with a shoe guy or something rememory,

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Speaker 2: you know, just by the last base we can work

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Speaker 2: on it. Who was your own? Cause you're taking care

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Speaker 2: of all you emergency customers.

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Speaker 1: Do you know? It's so funny. For as many years

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Speaker 1: as you and I have been doing this, when we

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Speaker 1: must be perfect. They're like, no, my wife's all you

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Speaker 1: know my you know, somebody that does remodeled. My wife's

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Speaker 1: wanted a different backsplash for two years. I just have

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Speaker 1: not gotten to it yet. And it's because of that,

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Speaker 1: because that servant leadership party. I got to help other

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that was with our you know, with our

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Speaker 3: You know, not only perch junk that we've had for

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Speaker 2: It's one thing I found about flooding, like, is all

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Speaker 2: the stuff that people get rid of that they should

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Speaker 2: have got rid of to begin with, right, and as

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Speaker 2: all holes of water, right, it was one time I

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Speaker 2: it was just crazy how much stuff was in people's

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Speaker 1: It was like a tornado had come through. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: When try and I moved into this condo in in Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: I went in there, Mike, and as what, I pushed

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Speaker 1: But I don't think we would have done that had

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Speaker 1: our kitchen, what is the process of working with you

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Speaker 1: over at Victory.

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Speaker 3: So the first thing I do is schedule time to

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Speaker 3: come out and visit with them. We'll spend I'll spend

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Speaker 3: about an hour there and we'll just sit and discuss

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Speaker 3: what they want to accomplish with the space, whether it's

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Speaker 3: a basement or a kitchen, or in addition, talk about some

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Speaker 3: to use it. I'll spend some time take measurements of

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Speaker 3: I can go back to the office and I can

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Speaker 3: kind of work up a scope of work for him

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Speaker 3: then we move forward into getting some specific pricing on things.

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Speaker 1: Do you do the design work or do you have

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Speaker 1: people there in the office that that do more the

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Speaker 3: We have five designers while in the office that work

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Speaker 3: between you know, the majority of them work on the

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Speaker 3: new homes stuff that takes quite a bit long longer,

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Speaker 1: You've you've heard all those stories. Absolutely. How long have

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't that that's the designers. You play the

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, And you got to have that conversation with people.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're going to do to make my cappy,

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Speaker 3: we do some modeling for him. Just make it Kelly green.

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Speaker 1: do you guys do predesigned packages or they all fully

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Get her to sing next too bad at

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Mike Bauman. More about Victory Renovations.

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Speaker 1: the Creative Construction Wisconsin home improvement Oky a little bit,

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Speaker 1: why would you say something that funny? Right before we

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Speaker 1: Victory Renovations go to Victory Renovations LLC dot com. So

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Speaker 1: They are you guys best by redoing kitchens or master

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Speaker 2: goes wrong.

436
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Well and you'll come over to

437
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Speaker 1: his house one day if he's got a golf simulator

438
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Speaker 1: and him and I will be in the basement hitting

439
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Speaker 1: golf balls. Michael. The the the remodel industry is constantly changing.

440
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Speaker 1: And think about when you were when you got into

441
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Speaker 1: this thing thirty years ago. To word is now, yeah,

442
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't even recognize it back then, right, oh you

443
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Speaker 1: would not at all, not at all. I mean.

444
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Speaker 3: The fixtures have changed, the people's desires for their bathrooms

445
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Speaker 3: have changed. You know, years ago, every master suite had

446
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Speaker 3: a whirlpool tub in it, and you know, someone were

447
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Speaker 3: pretty gargantulan And that's like.

448
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Speaker 2: The first thing people take out now when they remodel, Yes,

449
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Speaker 2: you take out these whirlpool of tubs.

450
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Speaker 3: So we went through through a pretty good period a

451
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Speaker 3: while ago where people are remodeling their their master suites

452
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Speaker 3: and they were just getting rid of the tub all

453
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Speaker 3: together and doing a more luxurious shower, you know, which

454
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Speaker 3: is great, And now kind of evolved not only do

455
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Speaker 3: they want the luxurious shower, but now they want a

456
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Speaker 3: real pretty free standing tub.

457
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Speaker 2: Oh so you're talking to my wife, then, yeah, they

458
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Speaker 2: want it all she wants. That's why we talking about it.

459
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Speaker 2: We're talking about our addition. That's what she wants, a home,

460
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Speaker 2: free standing tub in a corner in someplace.

461
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Speaker 3: So at the mass, yeah, a lot of those were

462
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Speaker 3: doing Now have have a really really nice shower and a.

463
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Speaker 1: Free standing tub. That kind of makes a statement. And

464
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Speaker 1: the open concept is still red hot, right, Oh? Absolutely?

465
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Speaker 1: Do you know there are there are downsides to it?

466
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Speaker 1: Is there? Oh? Yeah, I didn't know. We moved into this.

467
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Speaker 1: You can't hide, you can't hide dishwashing goes on, super

468
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 1: loud things going on in the kitchen. You got to

469
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Speaker 1: turn the TV up pretty loud. There. There are some

470
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Speaker 1: downsides to this open concept in every one of these shows.

471
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Speaker 1: My wife and I watch these shows. I do I

472
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Speaker 1: get a kick out of them, especially doing this show

473
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Speaker 1: and then knowing some things like there's no way you

474
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Speaker 1: did that all for twenty eight thousand dollars. It couldn't

475
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Speaker 1: be done. But everybody's like, well, we want to take

476
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Speaker 1: those walls down because we want the open concept that

477
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Speaker 1: I'm shaking my head, going be careful. Everybody wants it.

478
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Speaker 1: But I found out it's not all you know, roses

479
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Speaker 1: and butterflies.

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Speaker 3: And I'm working with three customers right now and kitchen

481
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Speaker 3: projects that all three of them want the walls removed.

482
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Speaker 1: Do you tell him that? Well, understand, there are some downsides.

483
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Speaker 3: We've got one that's a two story and in the

484
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Speaker 3: wall that wants he wants to take down his little

485
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Speaker 3: bearing wall. So it's uh, it can be done, but

486
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Speaker 3: it's not cheap.

487
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Speaker 1: My wife sent me a text, by the way, she's

488
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Speaker 1: proud to be Polish, wants everything red. So you know what,

489
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Speaker 1: And now that I'm talking about the open concept, now

490
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Speaker 1: that I know she's listened, I better be careful on

491
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Speaker 1: this stuff. Don't but just remember I am the man

492
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Speaker 1: in my house. I'm there here you are. I'm sure

493
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Speaker 1: my phone will be going off. She'd be like, take

494
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Speaker 1: the garbage out and you get home by that kind

495
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Yeah, when you get home that in all

496
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Speaker 1: ends for sure. Hey, guys, when if you want to

497
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Speaker 1: see some of the work that the company that that

498
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Speaker 1: Mike Bauman works for, go to Victory Rent Victory Renovations

499
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Speaker 1: LLC dot com Victory Renovations LLC dot com on that website.

500
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Speaker 1: One of the things that you guys talk about is, look,

501
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Speaker 1: when if there is a problem, let's my favorite line

502
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Speaker 1: is fall in love with your home again. Right, So

503
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: when when people have something that happened right like that flood,

504
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Speaker 1: they want they had their basement, that man cave exactly

505
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: how they loved it, right, and they want it back.

506
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: They want it renovated. They don't want it just remodeled.

507
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Speaker 1: That's something you guys certainly understand. Oh absolutely.

508
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Speaker 3: And you know, and in the case of my own

509
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Speaker 3: personal basement, you know, we've we've had that basement finished

510
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Speaker 3: for twenty years and and it worked out really, really well.

511
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Speaker 3: But when we got down to the point where we

512
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Speaker 3: had the terry everything apart, we decided decided to make

513
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Speaker 3: some changes and add an exercise room. And I think

514
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 3: doing that enhances that space for us and I think

515
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Speaker 3: it does for our customers as well.

516
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Speaker 1: Hey, when when people go to this website, and I

517
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Speaker 1: would highly recommend look at the finished lower levels and

518
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: look at the pictures on some of the work that

519
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Speaker 1: these guys have done. And it's pretty incredible when you

520
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Speaker 1: when you see some of the space that people first

521
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Speaker 1: of all, what they do with the space, That's the

522
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Speaker 1: thing I'm most interested in, how are they utilizing that space?

523
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Speaker 1: And I think Mike you'll agree that that when COVID hit,

524
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Speaker 1: people started looking at utilizing every piece of their house.

525
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Speaker 2: When COVID hit, it was like when in the lottery

526
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Speaker 2: for us, because everybody is at home remodeling something. I

527
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Speaker 2: mean everybody, because now they're all living at home, I

528
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Speaker 2: mean everybody's backyard, you know, especially.

529
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Speaker 3: If we're all wondering whether we're going to be be

530
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Speaker 3: able to work and whether we'd have to go to

531
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Speaker 3: work at McDonald's or something. And all of a sudden,

532
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Speaker 3: we take this mask everyone. We found out we're an

533
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Speaker 3: essential business and and we had never been busier.

534
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Speaker 1: And it's continued and I think what people, at least

535
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Speaker 1: people friends of mine and people I talked to that

536
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Speaker 1: we're planning on taking the whole family to Disney World

537
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: and you know what that's going to cost. And instead

538
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: took that and and went and talked to Sarah Jane

539
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Speaker 1: and and and maybe got a loan to be able

540
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Speaker 1: to redo and completely utilize either the upstairs or you know.

541
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Speaker 2: You do it if you think about, right, if you

542
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Speaker 2: go on a cruise, you took that money, you grew

543
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Speaker 2: them out of your bathroom.

544
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Speaker 1: There it is, and and look, the memories on the

545
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Speaker 1: cruise wild be kind of cool. But to have, you know,

546
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Speaker 1: to have your house redone. I just we're finding we're

547
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Speaker 1: doing little things now with this condo thing, and it

548
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: makes such a difference. It really does. Where we're not

549
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: we don't have a huge project. We just have a

550
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Speaker 1: couple of doors we need here or we now the

551
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Speaker 1: next thing is we wanted to take the carpet off

552
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Speaker 1: the stairs going upstairs, but figure out what's what we're

553
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Speaker 1: going to have because as we get older, we want

554
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Speaker 1: to make sure we're not slipping and sliding. But we

555
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: want to get the carpet out because it's driving my

556
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Speaker 1: wife nuts. So just small little projects like that. But

557
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Speaker 1: for me it's like it's not like, oh, well, I

558
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: know exactly what we should be doing. I've got to

559
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Speaker 1: talk to guys like you and say, hey, you know,

560
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: Dave Marquis is my guy with Nationwide, to go hey, Dave,

561
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: if we want to carpet out, what do we put

562
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Speaker 1: on the stairs to make sure we're not slipping the

563
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Speaker 1: slide and kind of stuff. And that for me is great.

564
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Speaker 1: But if you go to this website and take a

565
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Speaker 1: look at finish lower levels, if you're thinking about doing that,

566
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Speaker 1: if you've said, hey, listen, like Mike said, it was

567
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Speaker 1: his wife thought for ten years, we got to do

568
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Speaker 1: something in the basement. We just haven't gotten it. They

569
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: were forced to do it. Don't wait till that happens.

570
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Speaker 1: Look at at some of these pictures and understand if

571
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Speaker 1: you go to Victory Renovations, LLC and give Mike him

572
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: in a call, he can walk you through that entire process.

573
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Speaker 1: And then also if you're looking to build or you're

574
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Speaker 1: looking to buy a new home, they do the great

575
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: work with that for sure. That part of their company

576
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: had been around a long time, right since two thousand

577
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: and three. Okay, so Victory Homes Wisconsin started in two

578
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: thousand and three. They acquired Allen Builders in two thousand

579
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Speaker 1: and eight. I believe, and Victory renovations started in twenty twelve.

580
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: They had always done some renovations in the past and

581
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Speaker 1: you know, helping customers like I mentioned before, doing a

582
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Speaker 1: basement or putting a sunder amount of house or you

583
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Speaker 1: know whatever. And they started getting enough of that business

584
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Speaker 1: that they decided they needed to formulize the division for

585
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: that company for that Hey, do you do you find

586
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:54,239
Speaker 1: that people are looking to do more more additions than

587
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: they've done in the past. And what I've found, and

588
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: this is probably ten years ago, talking to somebody who

589
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: was having that done, and he said, look, our family

590
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: is growing and we just love our neighborhood, we love

591
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: our school system, all of our friends, our family live here.

592
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: But we have to get more space because now we

593
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: have our kids are getting older, and instead of looking

594
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: to sell their house and buy a bigger home, they're

595
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: just looking to expand and to do an addition. And

596
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Speaker 1: do you see that there are a lot of people

597
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Speaker 1: doing that. We see that all the time. Building a

598
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: home nowadays has become so expensive that a lot of

599
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: people just can't wrap their arms around, you know, spending

600
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: a million dollars on a new home or better. So

601
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Speaker 1: we do.

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Speaker 3: We work with a lot of people in a lot

603
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Speaker 3: of different situations where they want something different or added

604
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 3: onto their homes. And sometimes it might be a sunroom

605
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 3: just to add that extra space. Sometimes it's adding a

606
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Speaker 3: master suite on so that maybe they can use their

607
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 3: existing master's suite for their parents that might want to

608
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Speaker 3: move in with them. We see that quite a that.

609
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Speaker 1: My kids have not talked about that. Well, that's good. No,

610
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 1: they I think they should. I think they should.

611
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Speaker 4: They should call you about putting in law first. Yeah,

612
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 4: so when my wife gets mad at me, I have

613
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 4: some place to go. I don't want to keep coming

614
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 4: to your house, you know, sleeping in your new basement.

615
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Speaker 4: Maybe I can I can do that.

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Speaker 1: We can. We can put you up there.

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Speaker 2: See a lot of long lake driving and stuff too,

618
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Speaker 2: because you just can't you can't buy a house. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's just cheaper for them to actually build a house

620
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Speaker 2: bigger on the lake that they like.

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Speaker 1: Hey on that side of of the the the UH

622
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Speaker 1: with Victory Homes, how difficult and Jade Adjacent from j

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Speaker 1: J Contractors said, look, we just did finding space. Finding

624
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Speaker 1: land to buy is one of the hardships for us

625
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: right now. I mean we have people, but to find

626
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Speaker 1: them a piece of land that's available for us to

627
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Speaker 1: build on. It's just it's getting more and more difficult.

628
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Speaker 3: It's getting very difficult, especially for the type of homes

629
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Speaker 3: that we build. There's a number of developers out there

630
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Speaker 3: right now that are developing smaller communities on smaller lots, which.

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Speaker 1: And that really is not our our Baileywick.

632
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Speaker 3: So finding the larger lots, the half acre plus lots

633
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 3: that we can put some of the bigger homes on

634
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Speaker 3: is always a challenge. So what we're doing is we're

635
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Speaker 3: searching out land to develop for our company. It's tough

636
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Speaker 3: to do in a lot of cases, but we're kind

637
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Speaker 3: of searching in that area.

638
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Speaker 1: So to to basically build it like a subdivision or

639
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Speaker 1: a neighborhood. Correct.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, We've got one that right now underway in Mechwan

641
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 3: called Highland Meadows is on Highland Road in Port Washington Road,

642
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Speaker 3: and we bought the land, developed it and we're building building.

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Speaker 1: Homes in there. How many homes do you know? Oh,

644
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Speaker 1: there's I think there's about forty wow, forty five homes

645
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: in there. A lot of land, yeah, and you guys

646
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Speaker 1: build some nice homes. Yeah. In in something like that,

647
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Speaker 1: do you do you build all the homes the same

648
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Speaker 1: or do you do the dover here and you do

649
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Speaker 1: well there, it's it's it's pretty much customer driven. Right now.

650
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Speaker 3: We've got two model homes in there, one for allum builders,

651
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Speaker 3: one for Victory Homes, you know, for people to see.

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Speaker 3: But we're not We're not building them on a spec

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Speaker 3: basis for the most part. We're just holding a lots

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Speaker 3: waiting for our customers to come in and want something.

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Speaker 3: And then the type of home that we build is

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Speaker 3: directed by our customer.

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Speaker 1: You know. I I like that. Again, we we had

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Speaker 1: talked in that first segment, is it is it more

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Speaker 1: cookie cutter or is it custom And you can do

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Speaker 1: a combination of that.

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Speaker 3: You can you can you can build a cookie cutter

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Speaker 3: home if you want, Like I said, you go to

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Speaker 3: our website. You can see some of the designs that

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Speaker 3: we have. You can build a home just like that.

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Speaker 3: Or you can totally go away from that and and

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Speaker 3: build whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: Do you have like when you when you do a

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Speaker 2: subdivision like that, sometimes the people have regulations like certain

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Speaker 2: amount of masery, certain amount of stuff that you gotta face,

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Speaker 2: but you still have like you have your own little

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Speaker 2: rules or.

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Speaker 3: Well we we we set up the developers Agreement in

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Speaker 3: conjunction with the community. Uh so those rules are are

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Speaker 3: are kind of I mean, we kind of lay the

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Speaker 3: groundwork for it, and then the community might come back

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Speaker 3: and say, well we want this change that change. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: there is a set of restrictions that we have to

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Speaker 3: comply with with when building up.

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Speaker 2: But the good news is those guys will take care

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Speaker 2: of you, take care of all the stuff with the city.

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Speaker 2: We do absolutely so the jurisdiction. So you just have

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Speaker 2: to come up to design and hopefully he doesn't the

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Speaker 2: city says, we don't want our four story house right there.

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Speaker 1: Right. One of the one of the shows my wife

685
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Speaker 1: and I watched this week, they ended up where you

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Speaker 1: never saw the finished for model because they couldn't get

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Speaker 1: the permit through. They just kept working it and working it.

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Speaker 1: And it was like when the when the show started,

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Speaker 1: the guy was clean shaven, and it was when he

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Speaker 1: finally said, look, we're still not done. He had a

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Speaker 1: big beard and I'm wondering, I don't know long it

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Speaker 1: took him to grow that beard, but it was a while,

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Speaker 1: and and that part of it is where you guys

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Speaker 1: come in.

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Speaker 3: We do all the time, and and you know, we've

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Speaker 3: been around long enough that you know, we know what

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Speaker 3: the communities want. So we help guide our customers in

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Speaker 3: that that direction with telling them a, you know, what

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Speaker 3: you want to do, the community is probably not going

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Speaker 3: to allow you to do.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Machwan is one that that, uh, you know, we have

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Speaker 3: to go in front of the architectural review board for

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Speaker 3: for the city on every house we build there and

705
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Speaker 3: they scrutinize it and that, well you need to add

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Speaker 3: a window here, you need to add more brick or less.

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Speaker 1: Brick or have you been in those meetings? I've been

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Speaker 1: in a lot of those meetings drive you nuts.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes Sometimes that's because also you get a different reviewer

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Speaker 2: board the next time. You're like, we won't allow that,

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Speaker 2: but your last one was fine, right, Yeah, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get you know, ripping on any

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Speaker 2: politics you go down there. But I'm just saying, well,

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Speaker 2: sometimes you go there and say, because I'm a stuckle

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Speaker 2: guy and we do some old stuff and they don't

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Speaker 2: want you to touch any historical stuff. And you say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but it's leaking in a window this way, and they're like, well,

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Speaker 2: we don't care you keep it that way.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 3: Well, what we try and do is is if working

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Speaker 3: with a customer, either on a remodel or a home

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Speaker 3: is kind of go to the review board before we

723
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Speaker 3: actually go to the review board, show them. What we

724
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Speaker 3: want to do is say are we going in the

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Speaker 3: right direction?

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Speaker 1: I think that's really the way to do it right.

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Speaker 1: And but like Bingo said six months later, if there's

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Speaker 1: some new people there, you got to just be able

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Speaker 1: to and I would want your team with me rather

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Speaker 1: than having me on the show we're watching. This guy

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Speaker 1: was trying to do it on his own, right, and

732
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Speaker 1: I just if he doesn't know where the landmines are

733
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Speaker 1: and he has no skeleton, right, he doesn't know that

734
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Speaker 1: this guy's gonna the one guy that he's had to

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Speaker 1: go in front of for you know, for six years.

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Speaker 1: You know exactly what the guy needs, and you can

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Speaker 1: walk people right through that exactly. Hey, how big of

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Speaker 1: a job do you guys? If somebody wants to do

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Speaker 1: a mudroom, right, somebody wants to do at least their

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Speaker 1: first project, what I would and you would consider more

741
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Speaker 1: of a smaller project. Tell me about what size of

742
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Speaker 1: a project people should be able to call you on.

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Speaker 3: Typically, we like to be at that fifty thousand and

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Speaker 3: above range, although you know, there's exceptions to every rule.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if one of our existing customers calls us

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Speaker 3: and want us a smaller job done, you know we'll

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Speaker 3: more likely you know, take.

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Speaker 1: A look at that.

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Speaker 3: So, although you know we like to do jobs that

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Speaker 3: are fifty thousand and greater, it's not unheard of for

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Speaker 3: us to do, you know, something in the twenty thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars range.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well that's a good that's a really good starting point.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if people understand if they haven't

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Speaker 1: done remodeling. I don't think that they understand. And Bigo,

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Speaker 1: I think you'd agree when we say fifty thousand dollars

757
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Speaker 1: to somebody who's not done anything, they're like, oh my

758
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Speaker 1: goodness that So that gets eating up pretty quick. It does? It? Does?

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Speaker 2: It? Does? I remember I was like my class example

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Speaker 2: with the eighty thousand dollars black ONYX tuble. I mean

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Speaker 2: it's just he goes, how can we do some price?

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Speaker 2: I go get a different tuble, right. I mean that's

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Speaker 2: why I mean there's nothing you can do. I mean

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Speaker 2: that's what if that's what you want. It just it's

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Speaker 2: very expensive. Lewis used to be for the kral Bin

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Speaker 2: was a layer Holmes, right, Yeah, and he just says

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Speaker 2: he just he just can't stand and when someone calls

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Speaker 2: him up and says, I want to remodel my my kitchen,

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Speaker 2: but I only got twelve thousand dollars. There's no such

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Speaker 2: thing as a twelve thousand KITCHENO model exactly.

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Speaker 1: Well, and unless you's just gonna do with backsplash and

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, and change a couple of

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Speaker 1: outlets or something. But other than that, I mean, there

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Speaker 1: are some things you can do for that amount of money.

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Speaker 2: That's that's like changing the connortop and painting the walls.

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Speaker 2: That's all you're gonna do.

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Speaker 3: Well, I got a call from from a gentleman just

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Speaker 3: last week, and you know, he calls it, I want

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Speaker 3: to do something in my bathroom. So I worried him

780
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Speaker 3: on it. And all he wanted to really do is

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Speaker 3: take out the tub module and put a new tub

782
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Speaker 3: module in. Well, that's really not our you know, our

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Speaker 3: baileywick to do that. So I was able to refer

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Speaker 3: him on to somebody else that I knew that that

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Speaker 3: that does that type of work.

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Speaker 1: Man. That's he is Michael Bauman, and I can tell

787
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Speaker 1: you it's just it takes me a minute to say this,

788
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Speaker 1: but Mike Baumber with Victory Homes of Wisconsin Victory Renovations

789
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Speaker 1: go to Victory Renovations LLLC dot com. You can give

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Speaker 1: him a call on money. You guys are located in Germantown.

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Speaker 1: We're in Germantown, and uh, he will come out and

792
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: see you. If somebody calls you money, will they be

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Speaker 1: able to get on your calendar in the next week

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Speaker 1: or two? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, they can call me directly four one four

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Speaker 3: three two two four one one three.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to wait till Monday. Call me today, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: call him at nine oh one four one four three

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Speaker 1: two two four one one three. Well, give me a

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Speaker 1: chance to get in the car three two two four one.

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Speaker 1: You're quick, man. I saw how quick you watched in here.

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Speaker 1: Four one four three two two four one one three.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get a break. Other side of the break

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Speaker 1: will continue again. Mike Bauman Victory Homes of Wisconsin Victory

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Speaker 1: Renovations go to Victory Renovations LLC dot com. This is

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Speaker 1: the Creative Construction Wisconsin home improvement show only on Fox

807
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Speaker 1: Sports nine twenty your iHeart Radio app. Welcome back to

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00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: the Creative Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports ninet twenty and your iHeart Radio app. As always,

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Speaker 1: coming live from the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios.

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Speaker 1: If have any interest in joining that maintenance program, I

812
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Speaker 1: cannot recommend it enough. The largest employee owned HVAC company

813
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Speaker 1: in the state of Wisconsin will take great care of you.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike mcgiver alongside Bingo Emmons. He is the owner

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Speaker 1: of Creative Construction of Wisconsin. No praides or anything today, Right.

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Speaker 1: They're not doing a prade for Spencer's birthday, right, Not

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Speaker 1: that I'm aware of. No. If there was, you guys

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Speaker 1: would be there hand it out cookies.

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Speaker 2: I must apparently I must have showed up too late

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Speaker 2: to get any of the cake.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he I'm telling you. I was. I thought he'd

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Speaker 1: bring donuts or something. It is his birthday, but he is. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's heading out. He's got some big wild party in

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Speaker 1: Boston He's got to get to, I guess. But our

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Speaker 1: special guest.

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Speaker 2: Do we have to raise Bay money, bail money or.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've already given it to him. I gave him

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Speaker 1: cash this morning because he'll need it. He'll need it now.

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Speaker 1: He's like man, he turned forty. He's in't bed at

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Speaker 1: eight o'clock. He's old. He's one of those old guys

831
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Speaker 1: now that he's done, not like not like me and

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Speaker 1: you our special ten now you can really not me.

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Speaker 1: Our special in studio guest is Mike Bauman, Victory Homes

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin, Victory Renovations. Talk to me about the different

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Speaker 1: companies under the umbrella.

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Speaker 3: Sure, the head company, so to speak, is Victory Companies Incorporated.

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Speaker 3: And underneath Victory Companies, there's Victory Holmes Wisconsin. Victory Homes

838
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Speaker 3: Wisconsin does more higher end luxury homes custom homes. There's

839
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Speaker 3: Allen Builders, which is our more affordable line of homes,

840
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Speaker 3: although those can be customized to anything you want as well.

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Speaker 3: There's vc I Reality, which my my wife runs, she's

842
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Speaker 3: the broker there. Vc I Realty is was started to

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Speaker 3: handle the in house real estate transactions that happened, whether

844
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Speaker 3: it's land or or selling model homes, things of that sort.

845
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Speaker 3: And then there's Victory Renovations LLC. And that is that

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Speaker 3: is run by myself and a Galban named Ariel West

847
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Speaker 3: who's been there for maybe a little over a year.

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Speaker 1: You know, one staff shop kind of it is absolutely That's.

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Speaker 2: What I was just thinking about. It was nice about

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Speaker 2: because lot of remodelers. Every time you say, well you

851
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Speaker 2: build me addition, No, you raise my roof up. No,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of models. I just want to just

853
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Speaker 2: remodel the room. They don't want to do much. But

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Speaker 2: you know those guys build houses, they can definitely add it.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, we've got that. We've got that experience to

856
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Speaker 3: be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: It's somebody buying a new home, but they they want

858
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Speaker 1: the basement done prior to them moving in. You guys

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Speaker 1: just have to walk down the hall, right Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: construction team will just automatically do that. Somebody.

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Speaker 3: If somebody building a house they want the basement done,

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Speaker 3: our construction team will just do that right away.

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Speaker 1: Man. Man, it is kind of a one stop shop.

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Speaker 1: But if you need stucco, where do you go? Well,

865
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Speaker 1: bingal there you go. Not at one stop shot completely

866
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: because they got to come to you.

867
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 2: Tell us I'm still wrong because I'm the last guy

868
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 2: who knows how.

869
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: To do it, you get some people coming up.

870
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 2: Well that's what the whole spread the word is. You know,

871
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 2: Salmon's acht.

872
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: Hey tell me about what's going on in creative construction Wisconsin.

873
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: You guys cannot be outdoors and days like this obviously

874
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: been raining like crazy, finishing up on the indoor work.

875
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 2: Well, trying to get a lot of the insight finished up.

876
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 2: Are still fixing damage from last August unbelievable. Well, because

877
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 2: it's just you know, turns things as you know, not

878
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 2: ripping on turns come. Sometimes people just take a long

879
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 2: time or forget what they're gonna do, and just to

880
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 2: get the things cleaned up. I mean, what we do

881
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 2: is your final A lot of people have a lot

882
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 2: of garbage in a way of things, and eventually they

883
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 2: want they got to get it cleaned up. And sometimes

884
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 2: people don't wait right wait right away. Then the mold

885
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 2: builds up and they gotta start out the cleaning process

886
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 2: all over again before we can get down there.

887
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that just get it, get rid of all

888
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: of it, you guys. And when you had talked about Mike.

889
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 2: I told you when you basement floods, you got twenty

890
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 2: four to forty dollars get that dry while out. If

891
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 2: you don't, it just makes us very excruciating.

892
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you got flooded, obviously the first thing in

893
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: your head was we got to get rid of we

894
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: got to get the carpet out, we got to get

895
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: all this stuff out. And and it did do within

896
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: a week. Was it was it dry? Was it? It

897
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: was dry within a week.

898
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 3: But there was still a mold smell down there, so

899
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 3: we had to spray to cool later on the or

900
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 3: on the basement to get rid of that mold smell.

901
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: Hey, getting back to Victory Homes and Victory renovations, you

902
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: guys are really active in MBA, very members of NARY.

903
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: That was always really important to you prior to coming

904
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: over there, and I'm sure that you're happy that you're

905
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: with a company that still believes in that network. Oh.

906
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're involved in the Builder Association. In fact, I

907
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 3: was a president in twenty twenty two. The owner of

908
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 3: the companies, John Stoker, and Dave Emke, were both also

909
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 3: past presidents of the NBA. John is on the national

910
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 3: board of the National Association home Builders, so he's very

911
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 3: active on that side. Dave and myself are both delegates

912
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: to the Wisconsin Builder Association board, so we're very involved

913
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 3: in that on the Narry side, and then we get

914
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 3: involved in all their shows as well. In fact, we've

915
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 3: got the NBA Spring Tour coming up which will be

916
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: involved in, and then the Nary Remodel Tour coming up

917
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 3: in May. We'll have a a really really nice master

918
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 3: suite that we or master bath that we did in

919
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 3: German twic.

920
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 2: Those are great when you go there because when you

921
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 2: go there, we actually get to talk that people actually

922
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: worked on the project. That's always that's always liked about

923
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: that tour.

924
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you guys will answer any questions and oh absolutely, yeah,

925
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: I agree with you beingo that part of it. To

926
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: be able to ask questions to the people that designed

927
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: it and build it, I think is a big advantage.

928
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not the same. You always got the people

929
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 2: that you know, they want to google something. You can

930
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 2: talk to someone there and you get to see what

931
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 2: conditions it is, and you see what the house looks

932
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 2: like now and you know something you see before pictures

933
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 2: and you see it's a real life. I'm still one

934
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 2: of those people like the touch and field stuff. I

935
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 2: don't want to order an Amazon.

936
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. Hey, we don't have enough

937
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: time for this question, but are you seeing different trends

938
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six that that you have it or

939
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: their colors that it seems. I mean, we talked about

940
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: the open concept already, that's still going on. Any trends

941
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: that you're seeing and you're in the remodeling side of it,

942
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: that you think, Okay, this is going to continue for

943
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: a while.

944
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,959
Speaker 3: I think it's it's just adding We've talked before about

945
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 3: adding spaces to to Holmes. I think that's a that's

946
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 3: a huge trend that's gonna going to continue. People want

947
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 3: to stay in their homes, they love their neighborhoods, and

948
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 3: they want to they want to maximize the space the

949
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 3: best they can for future use.

950
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: And I think that's just going to continue. Hey do

951
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: you still have the conversation aging in place with with

952
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: people all the time. Yeah. It's funny because when when

953
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: when we started this show, people were uncomfortable bringing that

954
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: up and now it's just part of the conversation. Right. Well,

955
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: if we.

956
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 3: Don't have a customer bring that up, we bring it

957
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 3: up to them because it's something important that needs to

958
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 3: get talked about.

959
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, how long are you going to stay in the home?

960
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 2: You got to build it, right, I mean you don't

961
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 2: want to build a spiral staircase with somebody.

962
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: Is in a wheelchair, because yeah, that's not that's not

963
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: gonna work real well. And I but then they need

964
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 1: an elevator, right, yeah, you need something like that. But

965
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 1: I agree with that to have that conversationation with people,

966
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: and it starts by just saying, look, how long do

967
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: you see yourself living in? How much do you love

968
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 1: the neighborhood? You know that kind of how much do

969
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 1: you love the home? Because if we're going to do this,

970
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: let's make sure that you're ready for that next chapter

971
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: in your life. And that's not always comfortable to have

972
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: with people. It's really it's really not. Hey, Bengo, when

973
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: once it starts getting a little bit warmer and sunny

974
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: out are you guys.

975
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 2: Say we usually like one day a week where it's nice,

976
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 2: but you guys are booked for the year on the

977
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 2: outdoor steria? Yeah what sterio we get in there? We

978
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 2: always sable the room for my NBAI. But that's be

979
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 2: careful what Sam I told Sam emergency only texted you

980
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 2: knock it off Bengo. Don't be telling people ergencies. You

981
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 2: do have room for emergency.

982
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: Do you know when you had said, look my wife,

983
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 1: since oh we know dubs of charges. Okay and Sam Yeah,

984
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: and in a good way, in a good they do.

985
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: They keep him on the straight and narrow and keep

986
00:46:58,880 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: him doing good work.

987
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 2: Looking at the calendar, I'm in trouble, Michael.

988
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: It's good to see you. Congratulations two months over at

989
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: Victory Homes Victory Homes of Wisconsin dot com, Victory Renovations

990
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: LLC dot com. If you want to talk to Mike Bauman,

991
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: you can give him a call. You threw a cell

992
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: phone number out, so I'm gonna throw it right out.

993
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: Four one four three two two forty one thirteen four

994
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: one four three two two four one one three appointment

995
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: with Mike uh to be able to come out and

996
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: if you want to talk addition, you want to talk

997
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: about a new uh a new master bath in and

998
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: master kitchen or your basement. He would be the guy

999
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: to to talk to and he can walk you through

1000
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: the process for sure. Michael, It's good to see you.

1001
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: What what what else you got going this weekend? Easter?

1002
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: Little easter? Yeah, got family coming mister brunch tomorrow morning.

1003
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: And yeah, well Mike's well, yeah we're hosting. Well, Mike,

1004
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: we're giving here. I mean he's at that age now

1005
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 1: where he can hide his own Easter eggs. Yes, I can't,

1006
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 1: and you'll find him like six months from now. Yeah,

1007
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: and you know, other chocolate's a little old, but I'll

1008
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: still eat it. Hey, Happy Eastern guys, Bengo, have have

1009
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: a great weekend. I'm sure Shelby will come over right.

1010
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're hiding Easter eggs? Oh?

1011
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

1012
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: I do a thing with the adult from the adults, right,

1013
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: My daughter and her husband and my son and I

1014
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: put one through twenty five on the little plastic eggs

1015
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: and they pick one. They open it up. It could

1016
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: be zero, one, five, ten fifty or one hundred. And

1017
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 1: when they get let's say they win a five, they

1018
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: can take the money and move on, or if they

1019
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: go again, they get a zero, the bank gets his

1020
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: money back. And there's all this argue when people throwing

1021
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 1: stuff at each other. It's really fun. It's really costs

1022
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: me a bunch of money, but it's very fun. Guys,

1023
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: Happy Easter. It's good to see you. Where you can

1024
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: get to a break. Other side of the break, the

1025
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 1: Varsity Blitz high school sports show. We're talking baseball, talking

1026
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: baseball for a couple of hours, and I got a

1027
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of coaches from the area gonna

1028
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 1: join us. This is the creative construction of Scott Huntson

1029
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 1: Home Improved show on Fox Sports nine. Twenty In year,

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Speaker 1: I heard radio app