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S2:E9 Contractor Talk w/ A REAL CONTRACTOR
In this episode, we chat with Jeremy Dewitt of Dewitt Endeavors, an actual contractor where we find out what he thinks contractors want to know from home owners, as well as some useful things you should ask your contractors! And believe us, when we say we learned a few things! Don't work on hiring a contractor until you've listened to this podcast!
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Let's get this fucking shit show started. Got stuff to do today. slow down Gail. Slow down.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:I just landed and.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Yeah, you and Katie Perry. God.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Okay, so on today's episode, we are very lucky to be able to have a very talented contractor with us. Of which Stewart has a wonderful relationship, and I'll let him divulge all of that. But in today's episode, we thought we would actually discuss with a contractor, one of those peoples that we always wanna yell at, um, what, what are the things that he wish as either designers or specifically homeowners knew going into working with a contractor? I am prepared for this to be incredibly enlightening and pissing me off.
squadcaster-66a7_1_04-17-2025_090835:I'll try not to disappoint.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:You will not disappoint. Okay, everyone, please welcome Jeremy Dewitt. Stu Yes, we are very excited. Uh, Stewart, would you like to take it away from there?
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:So Jeremy owns a company called Dewitt Endeavors, who has been doing. Mostly remodels and some flips for about the last nine to 10 years. It's a family owned business. brother is his right hand person. his cousin works there as well. pretty much all very skilled personnel are on site every single day, so they're all very experienced in what needs to happen. as far as building a deck or tile on a floor. there, there's a, a wide range of trades in his company, and Jeremy is the, the lead. He solves all the problems. He creates some of them. he runs all the errands, he picks up all this shit. He talks to the customers, he makes the quotes. So, um, so we'll just say hi to Jeremy first.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Hey,
squadcaster-66a7_1_04-17-2025_090835:Hello guys.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Hey, How well do you know uh, Jeremy dewitt.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Well, pretty well, pretty well,
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:that?
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:so well, he's actually my husband.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Say what?
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:what?
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:So how did you meet, said husband and, and, uh, hook up with him?
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Well, Lord have mercy.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:he means hookup for work.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:right?
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:No, I didn't think it was gonna be easy. Uh, we have told a, we have told a story before about how I had met a contractor on a, uh, client's job that they called me in for design work because they just needed a little bit of push with, um, not, not only selections but kinda. Helping the contractor to do what they want. And we got in a fight, Jeremy and I got in a fight tile and I called the homeowner. I said, who is this jackass that you have hired to remodel this bathroom telling you you cannot put marble in a shower floor? Well, and his reasoning, you know, porcelain, it's a lot easier to clean and I understand that, but it's real cheap. a marble floor doesn't need to be cheap with people who clean their house. Marble's fine. So we had this whole big debate about this, and now since then, three and a half years later, every shower that Jeremy has done has a marble floor
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Including his own
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:and, and including his own.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Oh, mercy.
squadcaster-66a7_1_04-17-2025_090835:is is, which is the perfect example of Marian.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:persuasive, bougie gay Stewart. You
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Always win.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:you? You
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Always
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:to
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:win.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:I
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:I.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:have to win. It's kind of a goal.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:down.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Now he wins at a whole lot of other stuff.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:So, um, share the audience before we get into, guys are working together on
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Projects also.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:he does things independent, if I get this right. But you also are now kind of teaming together to work on projects and, uh, because you have a diff different skillset than he has, but you're going to, you're ultimately look like this design build Couple of Lexington now.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Yeah, we're waiting for HGTV to pick us up.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Oh God.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:What would you name the show, Jeremy?
squadcaster-66a7_1_04-17-2025_090835:Double trouble.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Double trouble.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:shit.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:That's true. Well, let's let Jeremy talk for a minute. So the question it ha Jeremy, had you ever worked with a, a designer before on other projects? Right. Gotcha. So was there a learning curve to work with? Yeah. So would you, after you did the learning curve, and I have to assume it's, um, turned out positive, um, would you say that on some projects or a lot of projects, I like for the, uh, homeowner to bring a designer in? Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:I always think that it's really good for everybody to understand their roles. I would imagine that that would be true, especially for a designer and a contractor. Well, Jeremy, what is like the first thing that comes to mind that you wish homeowners knew when they came to you? I. Like, what's the first thing that every day you shake your head and you're like, damn.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:You know, one of the things that happens when I work with contractors, uh, they'll have this, fairly extensive, List of things to get accomplished or complaints or, goals. And then they'll start spitting out stuff to me and I'm like, even know what you're talking about. It's like this Lulum goes in this lulu, and this is this, this, and this and this, and can you get this across to the customer? And I'm like, I just, I, I just picked out the faucet. I just picked out the color. I don't know actually how it gets applied. To the fossil. That's, that's my job is to pick it out. You contractor, figure out how to make it work with your approval that you said this would work. Right. And so, and the reason I say that is I, I'm working on this other project and this guy, wonderful contractor, I mean, I really, really do like him a lot. He, he's very kind, so there's nothing bad, but he's like, well, you need to tell the customer this, this, and this and this. And I said, I don't even know what you're talking about. And I said, how can I articulate that to the client when I don't know what you're talking about? And he said, well. Well, you gotta get her to know that. I said, well. Can't we do a group text or have a meeting? I said, because you basically, it's like it gets misconstrued when it's third person. Right? And it's like it needs to come from the contractor. I can be there and be your support system and guide you. Have you ever run into that kind of thing? And it's like, because my pushback was, well, I can't explain it'cause I don't know what I'm explaining, but it's the same as, like you said, Jeremy, that it felt good that you had this buffer. Between the client, because ultimately I wanna build the cabinet, but you tell me the hardware and how, how big it should be once we figure it out. And the, the door style, you tell me that and I'll get it painted, but I don't need to figure all that out. You just tell me. But this idea of, how we communicate with all of us as a group is one of the things. And maybe how, how did you bridge that with Stewart? And if that ever came up as an issue. Okay. Mm-hmm. Or I don't. I really don't. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Gotcha.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Yeah, and I
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:I think. I think
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:a
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:that's.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:a good point to bring up that especially, you know, Dwayne, you asked or Jeremy asked about client's expectations. Those expectations are generally written out word for word in every one of Jeremy's estimates. And it, you know, it includes it. It includes a design service in there. It includes budget for lighting, budget for tile, you know, all those things then that has to go back on me on these particular jobs in budget. And a lot of times I don't, I.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Okay, so let me ask you that you don't stay in budget because the contractor didn't really do his homework and didn't give you big enough budget, or like the budget was fine, but then the more you get into it, oh, we're just gonna bump it up a little bit more. Or is it some, somewhere in between? Because a lot of times I'll find like, I'll, I'll get a budget for the contractor and like. Most things are pretty dead on when it comes to the, the, the, the, the window budget and the, the electrical budget. But when it comes to a budget for how much to spend on tile or for lighting,
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:always way low, way off. And I'm like, how did you come up with this number? This is not even in the realm of even finding it at, uh, a big box store to keep it on budget. And so.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Well, and I think that's one thing too that helps us working together that, you know,
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:I'll review.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:before it's sent out. And sometimes I'll be like, Jeremy, I need more lighting budget. You know, so then we change it and go there, you know, also I, I do find things in budget and the homeowner's like, Hmm, no, this is what I really want and this is what it is. I'm like, okay, well then you're gonna go over X amount of dollars. Like, I don't care.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:So you're saying you do a, a walkthrough all the preliminary go through the numbers and get that information before you ever start anything.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:yeah.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:I mean, no, that's not a common sense thing because like I have people building million dollar houses and they haven't read the contract. Nobody's gone over it with it, or they don't have a contract, and then they get all these surprises, and so it's just that whole thing that Jeremy said about communication and expectations.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Jeremy, I think it's important to tell how you actually people.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Hmm. Bastards.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:because they're, they're paying for the last seven or 10 days of work that they've.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Yeah. And that is not what I've ex, that's not what I've, like I've experienced for the most part. It's usually a thirds, yeah.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Right now
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:No.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:might be writing 25 different checks during a project, but you know what each
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Hmm.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:one of those is going for. So,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Then if they, they do change, but it's there.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:I, I, this sounds like a dream to me compared to like, what, especially when there's, you know, well, there's a lot of stress, right? That goes into any remodel, any kind of construction. Anytime you invite anybody into your home, that person, whoever it is, there's always gonna be a level of anxiety. Right. And I know like for the three, the three of us, like we always try to. Take what anxiety we can away from the customer and try to be very transparent and upfront. Um, this is, this is interesting'cause I never knew that this is how you work Jeremy. Um, and this definitely, I know for some of my past clients that this would, you know, definitely change. I. How their anxiety was at the end. Now, full disclosure, I've never had any issues as far as like getting the work done. Um, it might have lingered on, but it's just such to how it goes sometimes. I had an electrician once, this was actually at my personal home, had an electrician that was here and I heard him. I just happened to be home and I heard him in the other room and he was talking about, yeah, I'm gonna take off at one o'clock today and I'm gonna go on down to the lake and go fishing. I think I'm going, I'm gonna go on down there and finish this up. I don't know, maybe next week. He only had like three more things to do. I mean, we shouldn't have taken any time. Um, and even when I asked the contractor about it and he was like, oh, he says he's not available. I was like, he's going to the la he just left early. It was three more things this's could have gotten done, but whatever. Um, so, okay, here's a question for you. The three of us I know have heightened. Our little spidey senses when it comes to, like, when we first meet a customer, trying to figure out the rapport, um, how we're gonna get along. Do we need to work with this client? I assume that you have the same kind of situation'cause you, you've gotta figure out, you, you all, that you can work together, right? There's nothing worse than you getting into it. So what do you, what do you look for as far as like, not, I don't wanna say red flags, but what do you look for that, you know, that's gonna be a great mix of someone to work with.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Uh,
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Well, thank you.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:I've, I've learned a lot.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Yeah. Almost go bankrupt, huh?
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Is it Noelle, Dick? No. No. Okay. No. She was talking about, Hey, Noel. Yeah. That's a red play. Yeah. It was like gutter mouth. Wow. Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:A little bit of cyber stalking.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Yes, I'm a lot more aware.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:You know the,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:It's sad that you have to do that, but it's smart. I, I, I don't know if I mentioned this, but I've, uh, worked with this, uh, Amish, uh, cabinet maker I was, uh, saying something about, you know, paying money and stuff like that. And he said, well, you don't have to give as much. And I said, no, no, it's fine. It's fine. Uh, I've, I've rather pay you more upfront than not.'cause I said, you're Amish. I can trust you. Right.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:oh my God.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:What? he didn't, no, he likes me. He
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:This is like the start of like one of those lifetime murder movies.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:he, he's not, and he's a, he's very kind and, but this is, this is where I loved him in, in how Connie was. He said, yes. He said, I'll never, never do anything. He said, but, and I truly said, he said, not am all Amish are the same. They did and I thought, oh, okay. I better not try. I'm like, you, uh, Jeremy, I kind of just take everybody for, for face value. Don't think much about it. Uh, so, so I think if you're honest, you're all nice. Apparently not. So there you go. So
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:See,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Facebook stalking.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:see, I must be much more scorned by the world because I already know that people are assholes. I mean, there's a lot of good people, but there's a lot of assholes out there. But you know, my favorite thing that I just learned from his little statement was my, that I think my new nickname that my mom was gonna give me. Gutter mouth.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Got her mouth. Yes. That's what you learned from this conversation, your nickname.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:You know, we all learn different things at different times.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:car and she wants one of those license plates, personalized license plates on the front, not, you know, like. From the government, from the, and so she's like, what should I put on it? And I'm like, I, I don't know your initials, whatever you want. And I just had very flippant, sassy mama. She said, what I want.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Oh Lord.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:car to say sassy mama. I just let it lay there for two days. And she called
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:I know her Subaru
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:And she's not
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:never.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:so she just told me last night again, she said, I want that. Where do I get that? And I said, well, if that's what you really want, then I'm gonna have it made for your Mother's Day gift. So if you got something better than Sassy mama for my mom, uh, for her license plate, let me know. By the way, people Yeah. What, uh, Jeremy, what would Stewart's car say if he had a, a personalized license plate? Sassy mama. Well,
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:He means a fic. He means a fictitious one.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:well, so his, his, his license plate from the, the state says, uh, deser on it, so it's supposed to mean designer. So he's had this license plate for about 29 years. Right. And when he first drove up, he said, look at my, my license plate. What is, and I was like, well, what's a deener?
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Say, look at my license plate,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:When you have a personalized license plate, you not, might not, it might not be said, but it's implied to say, look at my license
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Yeah, I will agree. I agree with that.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:fine.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:That's implied. Right. But I was like, what the hell's deser? He said, it's designer. I'm like, yeah, that didn't translate that, just done it. Right.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Well, he's,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:if I, yes. Oh,
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Uh,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:I
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:oh
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:I love it.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:my God, that's hysterical.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Okay. Back on track. Back
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Uh,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Um, what else, Jeremy, you want the world to know? What's another thing that you, uh, uh, is important to tell the peoples? You know.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:what I hear, let me ask you this, I think. Uh, for me on this, when you're talking about this, Jeremy,'cause I think you're very accurate with this, but homeowners do not understand a timeline for the most part if they don't deal in construction or remodel or whatever. So I think it's really important for you to have a discussion with the contractor about the timeline and why it is the way it is. Don't you all think? Because
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:that's
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:mean,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:because at the very end of it, you've spent more money than you wanted to.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:mm-hmm.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:in your face longer than you've wanted to, that, uh, there's things that you've made decisions on or the contractor's done that you second guess yourself and wish you hadn't done
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Mm-hmm. Always.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:of, and you can't see the joy. A
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:see the joy of how 97% is good. Don't fixate on the 3%.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:You know, there's always something that's gonna happen. You don't look.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:kitchen
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Is not gonna be,
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:new on.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:that's right.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:And at the, at the very end, it's just dragging on they think. Right? And it's like, get, just get out. And it's like you almost, you, you, the shiny new thing at the very beginning as a contractor, but at the end of it, it's like, God, I hate those people. Just, I don't know why they're here at eight o'clock in the morning. It's like, well, they're here at eight o'clock in the morning so they can get it done so you can, you know, have your kitchen in time. Uh, I had, I had a client, um, complain the fact that, uh. So she had to have a porta-potty. Well, do you want the, the, the workers to
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:all the people shitting in your powder
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:rot? She said, well, I just don't think that's very, uh, uh. Attractive. I said, well, it is a porta potty. I said, but you know, we are humans and they do need these restrooms. And I said, other than having them come in your house, which is fine with me because I think that's even nicer. No, I guess you gotta do that. I'm like, well, don't you see, don't you see these people as human? Right.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:got frustrated with that when I got really frustrated on that conversation once and I was like, Hmm. turned out fine. The long story is I, but I was like, you know, you gotta go in the bathroom. I don't know to tell you, the thing that I always feel like I feel badly, uh, for contractors and myself sometimes is it's a realistic budget. I don't think people understand how expensive anything is anymore, right? I mean, like, you hear it, but when you really start putting the numbers together and it's like, Lord, that contractor's taking me for a ride, and it was like, no, no, I'm really not. That's just how bad it is. Jeremy, how much was a two before, let's say four years ago or like post Covid? And how much is a two before now? Do you know that number? Is it double, triple?
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:oh my God.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Wow. That, that's what's scary is people, you know, I, I did a, a, a bid or a quote for a a, a bathroom, pre covid, and I say that was, 35,$40,000. you probably now$80,000.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:oh Lord. I'm never gonna remodel anything in my home again.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Seriously, because the labor's gone up. The materials is going up, the tile process is going up, the stone is going up, you know, a faucet that was, uh, say$200 is now$300. And I don't know now what's happening, you know, with tariffs. And I don't, I don't, haven't, I haven't gotten to deal with that yet. Yeah.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:too to kind of segue into, I know, um, I said earlier in the introduction that Jeremy has a, a team that is knowledgeable in all aspects, but. Let's say this is a, a full remodel or an addition, who do you use to
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Help you.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:what do you subcontract out even though you're a sub, even though you're the contractor?
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:You know, and that sometimes that's what blows your, uh, schedule. Like you'll have a schedule worked out, like, and, but you can't, like electricians are very difficult to get. Uh, I
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:They want to go to the lake.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:they wanna go to a lake. There you go. But you like. we need to get this project done, but I gotta wait on the electrician and he can't be here for two and a half weeks and there's not a thing you can do. Right? You can sit there and scream. You can holler, why is this not getting done? Why are they not coming? It's like, well, this is somebody else I'm hiring'cause I don't have this specialty and I just gotta wait for'em. And I've gotten, uh, clients that get frustrated. I'm like, with the contractor. I'm like, well, but he doesn't have control over this. Ultimately, it's like you either have to wait for the person that he recommends. Or it doesn't get happen. I don't know what to tell you, so I've been in the middle of that.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:It's important too, like during the accepted. Already starts putting these people in line because he knows it's gonna be three weeks before I can get an excavator out there. And then it's gonna take a week to pour the concrete, and then after that I can schedule the framer and then I can, he's always working ahead on those things. And then, God forbid it rains for four days,'cause then everything's
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:and then he has to reschedule everybody again.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:That needs to. Mm-hmm.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:You know, we've mentioned multiple times that communication is probably one of the keys. How, how often do you expect to communicate with the homeowner or the designer? Like, how often do you, like, what, what do you expect? another question I have is for you as a contractor who is in getting all these, you know, people in to work on these projects, what are the major red flags that you would suggest for someone if they were working with another contractor. So not necessarily you, but what red flags would you say, Ooh, this is not good. Like, these are things you should be like, we need to communicate about this because of this issue. Does, does that make, because that's, he has a wealth of knowledge of how he likes for things to go right, or how he would prefer, prefer for things to go. But I wanna know, like when things go off the wall or when something's not right, like what are those red flags for you that like, okay, there could be a problem here. Hmm.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Hmm. I didn't know that about calling the city to see if they were licensed with. Did y'all know that? I mean, I'm sure Stewart did.'cause he is, you know,
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:No.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:yeah, that I didn't have a clue about that.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Yeah, that's you. Learned that a
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:A whole lot.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Jeremy does a lot of, a lot of decks covered outside as well, and you need more permits put on a deck than you do to change powder room out. I mean, seriously, that those city inspectors will come out and look at a deck 12 times during a job and they will fail you if one nail is wrong. So it's like if somebody who
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:Okay.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:the back of their pickup truck, yeah, I can build that deck for you. Well, I'm, I'm sure you can, but can I put my company on it when you're done?
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Oh Mercy. You know, permits are always, seems like they're one of those, uh, scary things for the, the public. They always feel like the city's out to get'em. Um, that's not necessarily always the truth, right. Well, if you had to sum it up with one, the, the, the last thing that you'd like for somebody to know, Jeremy, what would that be? Lord don't make his head any bigger.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:do you mean deser? Hm.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Oh, mercy. Well, Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us today.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:it easy, Jeremy? This was easy.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Yeah. See, it's just a, it is just a, a fun laid back conversation.
jeremy-host556_1_04-17-2025_090602:The whole permit thing is my pay grade and didn't understand this. And that was, uh, I learned more than that, but that's fascinating. That's the, if you can learn something from a conversation every time, that's a, that's a good conversation.
jeremy-guest410_1_04-17-2025_090602:Well, thanks for joining us. We'll put Jeremy's contact information down in the, uh, show notes below. So if you are in our area and you're looking for someone, reach out to him, see what he can take care of for you. Don't forget new podcast episodes released every Wednesday. Also, don't forget, you can join us Wednesday nights for our live sales in our app. All the information is down below in our show notes. And until next week, we, we'll see you then. End bye.
dwayne_1_04-17-2025_090603:Thank you.
