February 25, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode of the Ride Along podcast, hosts Brad Lowery and Matt Brading discuss the journey of home inspections, the challenges of balancing work and life, and the importance of social media in the industry. They share personal experiences, insights on managing a home inspection business, and future plans for collaborations and events, including the upcoming InterNACHI conference.
TLDR:
- Home inspections can provide the freedom to build the life you want.
- Running a business often comes with increased workload and responsibilities.
- Social media can be a powerful tool for home inspectors to showcase their work.
- It's important to find a balance between work and personal life.
- Having a team can help maintain business operations while taking time off.
- Choosing which jobs to take can lead to a more fulfilling work experience.
- Effective communication with clients is crucial during inspections.
- Utilizing technology can enhance the efficiency of home inspections.
- Networking with other professionals can lead to valuable collaborations.
- Planning for future growth is essential for sustaining a business.
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All right, everybody.
This is the first episode of the Ride Along here in 2025.
What's going on?
And Matt Braiding, thank you so much for joining the show here today and Mr.
Co-host Roll.
Yeah, sir.
Thank you for having me, Brett.
Dude, I'm excited.
And for those of you that watched last year, we kind of had a little bit of a revolvingdoor of Coho.
So Matt, I'm excited, dude.
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We're kicking this off with, we're trying to introduce a little bit of regularity on here.
And so I'm excited to have you kind of sit in a Coho spot here for a bit.
And we got some awesome guests that are going to be coming on the show here before long.
Yes, we do.
And likewise, I'm excited about it too.
Yeah, we've been talking about a few potential guests and I think it's going to be somereally interesting stuff for inspectors to check out homeowners, people in the
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construction trade, everyone alike.
Do definitely.
so, okay, for those of you guys that watched last year, Matt, you're a home inspector outin Houston area.
that was, gosh, we got to talk, what was back at, back at inspection fuel.
That was a blast.
Yeah.
So loved that show.
But for those that haven't gotten to watch or haven't gone all the way back in the, youknow, the abyss of videos that we have on the channel here, go ahead and reintroduce
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yourself to the listeners.
Yeah.
All right.
So I am Matt Braiding.
My company is Texas Edge Home Inspections.
And so out here in the Houston area, I myself, and recently I brought on another employee,Louis Escobar, who we are out here doing home inspections all across the Houston area.
I have sort of made a little bit of a name for myself on social media through putting outvideos of my findings.
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Most notably, probably the, it's not supposed to do that series where I simply just pointto things that aren't supposed to do that and say, it's not supposed to do that.
And so anyway, yeah, lots of fun.
Yeah, yeah, very.
Yeah.
But it worked.
No, definitely man.
No, I love it.
So okay, so and you've been home inspecting again for how long
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I think it's going on about eight years now.
Dude, I love it, man.
Yeah, I was a home inspector up in the DC area for about eight years.
And I love that you even brought that up.
How long you've been inspecting.
I asked for a reason.
So one of the most popular episodes at the end of the year last year, it was hilarious.
I got so many comments.
It was on Pex plumbing and I had John Bolton on the show.
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Did you see that one?
Yeah.
Okay.
I loved it.
Somebody on there commented.
They're like just a bunch of has been home inspectors.
I'm like, no, sir.
Still active, still in the field.
Right.
Right.
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
And I mean, like, yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
Like seven years.
mean, seven, eight years, whatever it is, like, you know, headed towards a decade thatfeels substantial.
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You know, there was a time whenever I started and when I got asked that question, I didn'treally want to answer it because, you know, people would people would ask how long you've
been doing this.
And like you might say like,
Three years and they just doesn't sound like you know, you're very experienced doesn'tmatter what your background is or how much you know How many inspections you've actually
done that years of experience thing always kind of bugged me.
I'm at the point now where it doesn't
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no, totally.
Definitely not.
Once you've seen a certain number of houses, several thousand houses, you know, kind ofjust get that little bit of confidence where you're like, you know what, there's people,
there's always somebody that's been doing this job longer, but you've establishedyourself, you know.
Yeah, for sure.
For sure.
But I think like, you know, Chris Murphy, who's I guess who introduced us like when I methim, he had been inspecting for like seven years.
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So I feel like I'm like at Chris Murphy status then, you know, and so he was veryestablished and I considered him to be a very successful in his business then.
And so, you know, and I feel the same now.
Now, definitely, man.
I've enjoyed watching you crush it.
on social media, just fill everybody in here.
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First of all, where could they follow you?
Well, Instagram, it's actually most of them.
You can find me at texas.edge.inspect Instagram is one of the bigger platforms.
I've been trying to grow YouTube for a while.
You could just search Texas Edge home inspections or texas.edge.inspect same on TikTok.
I think it's a little bit different for Facebook, but the easiest way to find me really isjust to go to my website, which is texasedgeinspect.com pretty easy to find.
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And then at the bottom, there's links to all my social media stuff.
I love it man, definitely.
And for those of you that are watching this show, if you haven't subscribed on the YouTubechannel, because Matt's going to be sharing a whole bunch of stuff off of this, obviously
you can follow the ride along on social media as well.
But do subscribe to the YouTube channel because we are looking to crank out about 30episodes this season.
Last year, I think we did about 24, 25 episodes, which was our first real full seasondoing the show.
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So if you guys got some value out of that, definitely follow it, definitely share it.
But Matt, we got some good guests that are gonna be coming up here in the next severalweeks, starting with recording live at InterNACHI next week.
Correct, correct, yeah, so I'm going to be in Florida next week.
I'm actually leaving tomorrow to go to Florida.
Me and the family are gonna take in Disney for a couple of days before we head over toSunday.
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We're gonna head over towards the hotel where the Internazzi Conference is going on andI'm gonna meet up with you at some point and we're supposed to be doing some recording out
there as well, believe.
Dude, it's a blast, man.
I always love recording at InterNACHI, one, because they're so supportive.
Like Ben Gromico has their whole podcast.
I'm looking forward to partnering with them a little bit too.
Just kind of doing a little bit of a crossover thing while we're there.
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But gosh, dude, this is the biggest event in our industry.
And so we get so many people from all over the country and it's awesome.
I I set up the podcast booth, people stop on by.
So, you know, if you're there at the show, if you're going to be there, comment.
So tell me what you're looking forward to first and foremost.
Tell me what you're looking forward to learning, what classes you're going to be taken,but stop by the booth, come say, Hey, it's going to be a great time.
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Let's get you guys on the show.
So yeah, dude, definitely.
So, so okay, Matt, to get the family ready, cause you're coming to Florida.
what I need you to do is just to get everybody in a habit of standing in line, right?
If you're going to do Disney, that's most of your experience, right?
Just be real good at standing in line.
So.
So we have this isn't our not our first rodeo.
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It's actually our this is gonna be our fourth.
My kids ate.
This is gonna be the best one.
I feel like it's gonna be the best one.
It started at like five.
And then, you know, but and that was kind of sketchy because like, you know what he wouldwhat he was into, he was a little bit scared of things or whatever.
You know, you think you turn your ringer off and somehow you didn't.
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You're screwing up the show, Matt.
know, I know it's trash now.
We got to scrap it.
No, he's eight now and so he's a little bit less timid about the things that he'll do andthe things that he's interested in writing and things like that.
And so it's exciting.
But we've been a few times and so like, know, there are like this, now my wife handlesthis, so I'm probably not going to say it right, but there's like apps like with like some
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type of lightning lane situation.
And so like.
Somehow and I don't know if we pay for this or what?
But you sign into you know, whatever ride you want to do and you sign up for a time I wantyou written that like it opens up another one.
So like you can schedule your day, you know And and kind of wait in less lines.
Don't get me wrong It doesn't work for everything and not all the times that you wouldwant to ride that rise and available We've definitely still stood in line for a ride
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before But but we try to utilize that as much as possible.
We're going to Magic Kingdom Hollywood Studios and Epcot
Dude, you got the full experience, man.
And you're gonna be there.
This is just, you're coming in tomorrow.
That's gonna give you several days, because InterNACHI is gonna start on Sunday.
awesome, man, you got plenty of time.
Plenty of time to go stand in a whole bunch of lines.
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yeah, or at least let me know how the app works, because I've, okay, for those of you thathave been to Disney, like, because I know there's a couple of home inspectors that I've
talked to that are, y'all are big Disney people.
I won't get into whether or not it's weird to be a Disney adult.
whatever man, hey, do you do you write your vacation times your vacation time.
But last time, the last time that I was even going to go to like sea world or somethinglike that, this was like 2010.
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I was living down here in Florida, which is where I'm at now.
I'm sorry to rub it in y'all's face.
It's just the most beautiful time of year to be in Florida.
We live for this, you know, it's this low humidity, it is 80 degrees.
If there's ever a season to home inspect, this is it man.
But anyway, so yeah, 2010, I was living down here in Florida and I was dirt broke at thetime.
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My brother flew down from Virginia to visit me.
We went to go visit our grandparents over on the other coast.
And as we're driving back across Orlando, we started seeing the signs for Disney World.
And I was like, dude, hey, wait, you want to go to like Disney or SeaWorld or somethinglike that?
And he was like, yeah.
I was like, okay, well, let's look up prices.
So he starts like Googling prices for going to SeaWorld.
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And he's like,
They're like 125 bucks.
like that was at the time and prices have not gone down.
And I was like, cause we were so excited.
We're like, yeah, we're going to see where we're going to see world.
goes, wait, it's 125 bucks.
We looked at each other.
We went, we're going to the sea.
We're going to the sea.
Yeah.
That one's, that one's free baby.
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And so yeah, it's, dude, I love it over here.
insanely expensive.
It's crazy.
You know, the first time we went a few years ago, I didn't think I was like, okay,whatever, I'll just go, you know, and I didn't think I would really get much out of it or
enjoy it very much.
It is pretty awesome.
And it encouraged me to want to go back a few times, you know, and at least if nothingelse, like, I don't know.
I mean, like, I think there's definitely something to like about it as like an adult.
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Like without kids, like maybe one of these days, like when I'm like old, older, me and mywife could go.
And and just enjoy it without you know a kid because I think that there's a wholedifferent level of like enjoyment You can have out of it if you do that Yeah, totally
right 100 % but but but you know this time it's Getting giving my son a chance to reallyexperience it is is really what this is about and experience it with him And it's very
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enjoyable now as far as the app and everything goes you're gonna have to talk to my wifeDo you have her number?
Why would you have?
I don't know.
would I hit me?
I've never met your wife.
Bring her by the booth to say, Hey, that's it.
we'll, yeah.
So I, I don't know.
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We were going with that.
mean, you're making it, making it sound like I hang out with your wife all the time, butnot that I wouldn't enjoy getting dinner with y'all, but I would just prefer for you to be
there, you know?
So yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, you know, look, you go up to the villages in Florida, all kinds of stuff happens upthere.
My buddy, Ishvan Jocko, if you guys are in the home inspection industry, you know him.
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He moved up there recently and I'm like, well, Ishvan, know, I support whatever yourdecisions are, okay?
So he's like, well, there's just a lot to do.
I'm like, I live down here.
We all know, we all know what there is to do.
anyway, so, okay, but with InterNACHI and with coming down here, here's what I want totalk with you about today.
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One of the biggest reasons that I feel like we get into home inspections and go intobusiness for ourselves is the idea that we can fund the life that we really want for
ourselves.
So how has home inspections really helped you to do that to really kind of just instead ofjust being the job that you do, how has it helped to build the life that you want to
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That's an interesting question.
So that was the goal.
Yeah.
You know, I kind of always wanted to work for myself.
I always wanted to run a business and I started this like simultaneously with another jobthat I thought I could kind of do in part time.
Of course, this took over pretty quickly because I decided that this is what I wanted todo full time.
And then also not just that, but
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You know, as it, as it started getting busier, I realized I couldn't do both.
you know, there was like limitations at my other job.
time off, you know, leaving to go to places like Internazzi or, you know, to, just visitFlorida or, know, later on this month, I'm headed out toward to Vegas.
I've actually got a ton of time off.
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I'm taken in February.
This is stuff that wouldn't have been possible with my previous line of employment, youknow, where I had to request time off.
But like, you know, in honesty, like how has it changed things?
I mean, yeah, that's available, but it has come also at a cost as well because, you know,I'm a business owner and so I work way more than I ever did.
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Now I get to take off sometimes, you know, and go, you know, to these events, but when Ido, I don't work.
And so there's no money getting brought into the company.
However, now that I have a guy out there in the field with me, he's actually workingpretty much the entire time that I'm gone.
And so we don't have to close the doors because I'm gone.
And so that's been a game.
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That particularly has been a game changer for me for years, though.
I've been working way more than I really ever did.
And then also trying to keep up with the social media stuff and everything that has justbeen kind of it's it's it's been out of control.
I mean, I've been not just the social media, but work, social media, home life, know, kidbaseball, kid football, you know, all of it.
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It's just been, it's a lot to keep up with.
And so while there is some freedom that comes along with having your own line of work andbeing, you know, in this line of work, you know, take that with a grain of salt because
when you run a business, you got business to run.
Well, that's kind of, dude, that's the good way of looking at it.
And truly it's for now, are you involved with like IEB or anything?
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Any of the kind of the organizations that are out there?
So if you're somebody now for me, like I, actually do coaching with, with Mark Humble.
He's, he's kind of a business coach to me.
But if you guys are not signed up for, I mean, there's, there's IEB out there, there's Igo, there's a whole bunch of coaching networks that are out there.
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If you're somebody that finds that you've kind of become a slave to the the monster thatyou've built in terms of building a business those organizations are amazing at helping
you to organize your life and to build good habits and practices and systems into yourbusiness so that You could kind of get back to having the life that you originally wanted
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from the business that you built Because it's so easy right for it to just start todominate everything in your day.
I remember
and a previous married life.
Gosh, I was cranking out the final year that I was inspecting in Virginia before Ieventually moved down here to Florida.
I cranked out 413 inspections on my own that year, which there's a lot of people that domore than that.
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But for me, that was a lot.
And there was nights where she was like, and this was for a company that was, I was withBPG, it was a franchise.
So, but I was still.
up until midnight, some nights getting reports done.
And she was like, can you just come right then in bed?
Can you just maybe finish it in the morning?
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It was getting in the way of my home life.
Now, the money was great.
The things that that money afforded were great.
We took some awesome trips, things like that.
But at the same time, when it starts to rob you of a little bit of the peace and a littlebit of the freedom that you
intended with this line of business, that's when you start to have to think about what canI reevaluate, what can I tweak so that I have the capacity and the time for the things
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that really do matter most.
Yeah, I've been considering some things like phone answering, things like that.
So I'm not handling that.
It's been something that I've kind of enjoyed.
There's a control factor that I don't really want to let go of.
And it's not really about like, I'm a control freak.
Possibly.
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Okay.
But that's not what I'm getting at.
What I'm getting at is what I'm getting at is more like, I want the control to be able toturn down jobs that I don't want.
Like I don't want to just
be booked on a job just because that's the job that called and they, and you know, causeI'm at a point right now where I don't, I don't have to do every job that comes in and I
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don't want to.
and there's, there's some of them that just don't appeal to me and I can personally vetclients and potential jobs to make sure that I stay out of the ones that I don't really
want.
And so, while, while you can kind of groom some answering services to help with that.
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I have no doubt they can sell my service, right?
And also like one thing that's kept me from it is that like a lot of times they, they,kind of in put emphasis on the fact that they, they will help you make more money because
they will sell additional services.
I don't really have additional services.
My particular company, do home inspections, termite inspections, and pool inspections.
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If you don't have a pool, you're not going to get up, up sold a pool.
Right.
And, and termite inspections.
Well,
They're only 50 bucks.
So if it's an older house, people want them every time.
if it's a newer house, I don't want to do it.
So I don't want it.
It's just extra.
got to, I'm contracted through a company, so I got to pay them and it's just more work.
So it's like, if it's a new house and you're, and you're not interested in termiteinspection, I'm not trying to sell that service.
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I'd rather just save the time.
So I really don't have extra services to sell.
but I mean, I am getting to the point where I want to reclaim some of my life.
So I've got to figure out like,
control versus, you know, some form of life back by not answering the phones and dealingwith that stuff.
And I am getting to the point where I'm, and it's mostly because it's me and somebody elsenow, and I'm wanting to take on somebody else in 2025.
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It's going to get to the point where that phone just consumes me.
And it does when I'm out in the field, I take phone calls and take jobs while I'm out inthe field.
It's a time suck.
But I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet.
do you manage that on the job site?
Like for me, I would always wait to like return the call until after the inspection.
But at the same time, like when I started in the industry, it was with a small mom and popbusiness.
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And I remember our head inspector, he would be in the middle of an inspection and fieldingcalls at the same time booking the next inspection.
And for me, I was like, I always try to put my focus like right where I was at the timewith a customer that I was with.
But I mean, how did you handle that?
Everybody works a little bit different.
Well, I mean, for the most part, I do try to answer the phone when I'm in the fieldbecause and look, okay, it depends.
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You know, when when business really started to pick up for me and I could really startgetting choosy about who I did work for, I just let the phone ring.
I'll get back to you because honestly, almost every phone call that came in, I'm not goingto get to you in time.
And so like like I was was booking out a week in advance.
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And so, you know,
the calls I could take whenever I was off would book me out and the calls that came inwhenever I was on the job, I just let it go to voicemail and call you back.
you got, if you don't, if it don't get you, no problem.
but when I brought in another guy, the need to get as many jobs as possible, you know,increased.
And so I felt the need to answer the phone in the field again.
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And so I've been back to that.
yeah, I mean it sucks, but I mean,
It's, it's, you I just manage it.
I just deal with it.
what's your process, by the way?
Because I mean, like for some home inspectors, I mean, it's like I bring the buyer aroundwith me while I'm doing the inspection.
Do you do the inspection on your own first and then take them through?
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OK.
Now, if I got somebody with me, I'm not going to answer the phone, but yeah, I 100 % donot bring the buyer around with me.
I would, I love going around with the buyer at the end of the inspection, but I am way toochatty and too engaged with them to have them with me when I'm doing my work.
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I mean, I don't know that it's that, but I mean like what the thing is, is like I
It's not that I don't want to hang out with them.
It's not that I don't want to talk to them.
I actually want to way too much.
And so I will end up talking myself around a defect.
I don't want to miss anything.
It is more important to me to do a very thorough job than it is to have them therewatching me every step of the way.
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I would rather do a thorough job, go over the cliff notes with them at the end of theinspection and take them and show them everything.
Answer any questions they got, interact with them, laugh with them, all that stuff.
But I do worry because it's happened where, you know, I will be distracted by somethingand miss something.
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Now, I mean, look, I'm not going to miss anything major, but I don't want to missanything.
No, no, definitely not.
mean, if you could do as thorough as possible, I totally get it.
I, and again, this is everybody works different.
I'm not, you know, calling myself any sort of, you know, savant of home inspections here,but I did learn from, would call them a freaking master in this industry.
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name's Ken Humphries.
He's up in, up in Virginia.
this guy, dude, yeah, it's
awesome dude.
And he doesn't have a huge social media presence because he's too busy working his buttoff.
And anyway, he is able to get through a house in about two to two and a half hours whiletaking the buyer around.
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And he doesn't finish the report on site, he finishes it right afterwards.
Like after he gets to the next job site, like he always blocks himself just enough time sothat he can do some of the report on site, but then finish the rest of it off site.
But I, I've
only seen that guy get a call back once in a blue moon.
And so I started doing like a hybrid of that.
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But it's it is tough.
I mean, you have to really stay on your toes because if you're not careful, you can misssomething.
Some people are built different, man.
I mean, some people can play the drums.
I can't play the drums, you know?
it.
Dude, a buddy of mine is able to like drum and sing and I can't do either.
So I don't know.
Yeah, I don't get that at all.
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So
me wrong.
Like, I mean, the guy's, the guy's probably awesome.
I do not trust myself to put out the report that I have, I have set a level, a bar frommyself and my company.
And I do not believe that I can put out the same product if I was going around with theclient.
And I know with all certainty that the speed would not be there.
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You know, I did a new construction house yesterday.
I finished it and sent it, but while I was at the, at the job, like,
There's no way in three and a half hours I could do a 2500 square foot house with theclient right there next to me, finish the report and send it out to him.
It just wouldn't happen.
Oh, no, no.
I mean, you got to figure out what you want to accomplish on site.
And here's the other thing, too.
So I there was an inspection I was just doing up in Tampa, which, by the way, dude, like II never in my life thought that I would inspect a 2500 square foot single level cinder
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block house built in 2000 with an in-ground pool.
It was selling for five twenty eight, I think.
And I found myself telling the buyer this is actually a decent price.
For 528, I bought my first house for 395.
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Dude, what is going on?
And I'm telling them that I had a half million dollar house.
like, this is a steal here.
But seriously, anyway, but they, this is cool.
They're all about inspector TikTok.
And the wife was like, hey, so do you know this guy?
I was like, inspector AJ.
Yep, no, for sure.
Gonna see him in a couple of weeks.
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She she mentioned sigh and I was like we won't talk about that guy.
Sorry sigh don't sue me but it just some of these others that she follows but Anyway, Ilike Preston Kincaid.
I think she follows him as well.
I'm like you need to check out this dude Matt Brady, you know but anyway She's like sowhat about yours?
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Where's where's your content?
I said, well, here's the thing
you're following me around and we're talking about this the whole time that I'm doing theinspection.
There's no real convenient time for me to say, let's not talk about the water heater holdout.
Well, like make a tick tock, you know, and yeah, right.
I had the camera man, but go watch.
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yo, go watch the ride along series on this channel here.
Okay.
I'm also the camera man, but yeah.
I'll come with you on your jobs and we'll do some YouTube stuff.
go, man.
Dude, I actually, okay, here's another thing for y'all, just teasing this out for later onthis season.
I am stoked down with mine.
So last year, okay, if you notice on here, we got two separate little like channels on theYouTube channel here.
(25:29):
You have the Ride Along podcast, which obviously you can listen to audio everywhere.
And then you have the Ride Along series where last year I went with people around thecountry, inspectors around the country and shadowed them on their job sites.
So we did everything from like a Queen Anne Victorian up in Minnesota.
We did the House of Horrors with Nick Romico and Austin and Natalie Rose out in Denver.
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Did a commercial inspection in Dallas.
But this year is actually pretty cool because I get to stay a little bit close to home.
There's a guy here.
He's a home inspector named Clay Owens and he owns Owens Construction.
But I'm going to be shadowing and filming an ongoing series.
on several of his properties that he has underway.
One, we're kicking it off.
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It is a beautifully renovated house down in Sarasota, but he has several projects that I'mgoing to be filming from foundation to finish over the course of this year and launching
it here on the channel as we go.
So subscribe, turn on notifications, because you're not going to want to miss it.
Because the whole thing is it's like, what's it like to own a construction company whenit's owned by a home inspector?
Right?
You think we're nitpicky enough?
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I was about to ask for clarification on that.
I thought I heard you right.
He's a home inspector, but has a construction company.
You were that was legit.
You said that.
Okay.
And you.
Okay.
he's he and his wife found it.
But and then his kids are kind of running the home inspection stuff now.
And he's focusing on the construction stuff.
But dude, instead of just like, you know, poured slab foundation, a basic poured slabfoundation, this guy's doing a three course built up cinder block for even his cheapest
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houses.
So he's making sure that everything is above flood zones around here.
Everything is is heavied up.
And his house is reflected in their finished price.
But
as a home inspector, he knows fine detail.
And so he puts that that level of quality into his work.
So it's gonna be really cool.
Fun, fun series, man.
So all that to say, man, if you want to come on out, you could be the cameraman.
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Yeah, let's, say bad, let's say, but I'd love to come out and film with you out there too.
So yep, for sure.
But anyway, no, guys, I want to hear a couple questions sound off in the comments, y'allabout what you do want to manage your work life balance.
since that's one thing we were talking about.
And two, how do you manage phone calls in the field?
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Because this would be a great place to say that today's show is sponsored by America'sCall Center, which is obviously a porch property.
But if you're somebody that's looking for a call center to help field some of this stuff,they work specifically with home inspectors to get your sales pitches down, your sales
packages down.
They upsell for you if you're looking to do that.
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But basically it's all taken work off of your plate so that you can be free to do what youlove and live your life as well.
So pretty cool.
Yeah, I if they're asking questions, mean I gotta say I I prepared some questions for thisas well I mean, I don't know if you're ready for this or not Okay, so assuming that like,
you know, we're going to do something like this again, right where I'm co-hosting We'regonna have a guest right?
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We had because we yeah, we have some some guests plans So I thought I would ask since I'mgonna be doing this from here.
You're gonna be doing this from potentially there Our our pants required do I need it?
Do I have to wear pants when I do this?
I'm only filming from here up for a reason, okay?
Yeah, yeah.
So just do with that information what you will.
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They could be shorts, they could be pants, they could be a state of undress.
We ask and we ask no questions.
We listen and do not judge.
That's what they're saying online.
that's actually the only question I have.
That was it.
Okay, cool.
Hey, sound off in the comments if you're wearing pants.
I love it.
Now we will be I'm looking forward to next week.
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First of all, I'm looking forward to seeing you down in Irunachi.
We will be there wearing pants.
So you know, yeah, yeah, we'll get kicked out otherwise.
So bring your pants.
Bring some bring some good questions for us guys.
We'd love to have you on the show.
All of our listeners, let us know if you're going to be there.
But dude, Matt.
Not a bad first episode kicking off 2025 here on the show, Yeah, dude, I'm excited to dothis with you.
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It's gonna be fun, man.
Looking forward to it.
So also, well, thanks for being on.
Thank you everybody for listening.
We'll see you in Orlando at InterNACHI next week.
See you next time.
right, bye.
All right, everybody.
This is the first episode of the Ride Along here in 2025.
What's going on?
And Matt Braiding, thank you so much for joining the show here today and Mr.
Co-host Roll.
Yeah, sir.
Thank you for having me, Brett.
Dude, I'm excited.
And for those of you that watched last year, we kind of had a little bit of a revolvingdoor of Coho.
So Matt, I'm excited, dude.
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We're kicking this off with, we're trying to introduce a little bit of regularity on here.
And so I'm excited to have you kind of sit in a Coho spot here for a bit.
And we got some awesome guests that are going to be coming on the show here before long.
Yes, we do.
And likewise, I'm excited about it too.
Yeah, we've been talking about a few potential guests and I think it's going to be somereally interesting stuff for inspectors to check out homeowners, people in the
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construction trade, everyone alike.
Do definitely.
so, okay, for those of you guys that watched last year, Matt, you're a home inspector outin Houston area.
that was, gosh, we got to talk, what was back at, back at inspection fuel.
That was a blast.
Yeah.
So loved that show.
But for those that haven't gotten to watch or haven't gone all the way back in the, youknow, the abyss of videos that we have on the channel here, go ahead and reintroduce
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yourself to the listeners.
Yeah.
All right.
So I am Matt Braiding.
My company is Texas Edge Home Inspections.
And so out here in the Houston area, I myself, and recently I brought on another employee,Louis Escobar, who we are out here doing home inspections all across the Houston area.
I have sort of made a little bit of a name for myself on social media through putting outvideos of my findings.
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Most notably, probably the, it's not supposed to do that series where I simply just pointto things that aren't supposed to do that and say, it's not supposed to do that.
And so anyway, yeah, lots of fun.
Yeah, yeah, very.
Yeah.
But it worked.
No, definitely man.
No, I love it.
So okay, so and you've been home inspecting again for how long
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I think it's going on about eight years now.
Dude, I love it, man.
Yeah, I was a home inspector up in the DC area for about eight years.
And I love that you even brought that up.
How long you've been inspecting.
I asked for a reason.
So one of the most popular episodes at the end of the year last year, it was hilarious.
I got so many comments.
It was on Pex plumbing and I had John Bolton on the show.
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Did you see that one?
Yeah.
Okay.
I loved it.
Somebody on there commented.
They're like just a bunch of has been home inspectors.
I'm like, no, sir.
Still active, still in the field.
Right.
Right.
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
And I mean, like, yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
Like seven years.
mean, seven, eight years, whatever it is, like, you know, headed towards a decade thatfeels substantial.
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You know, there was a time whenever I started and when I got asked that question, I didn'treally want to answer it because, you know, people would people would ask how long you've
been doing this.
And like you might say like,
Three years and they just doesn't sound like you know, you're very experienced doesn'tmatter what your background is or how much you know How many inspections you've actually
done that years of experience thing always kind of bugged me.
I'm at the point now where it doesn't
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no, totally.
Definitely not.
Once you've seen a certain number of houses, several thousand houses, you know, kind ofjust get that little bit of confidence where you're like, you know what, there's people,
there's always somebody that's been doing this job longer, but you've establishedyourself, you know.
Yeah, for sure.
For sure.
But I think like, you know, Chris Murphy, who's I guess who introduced us like when I methim, he had been inspecting for like seven years.
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So I feel like I'm like at Chris Murphy status then, you know, and so he was veryestablished and I considered him to be a very successful in his business then.
And so, you know, and I feel the same now.
Now, definitely, man.
I've enjoyed watching you crush it.
on social media, just fill everybody in here.
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First of all, where could they follow you?
Well, Instagram, it's actually most of them.
You can find me at texas.edge.inspect Instagram is one of the bigger platforms.
I've been trying to grow YouTube for a while.
You could just search Texas Edge home inspections or texas.edge.inspect same on TikTok.
I think it's a little bit different for Facebook, but the easiest way to find me really isjust to go to my website, which is texasedgeinspect.com pretty easy to find.
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And then at the bottom, there's links to all my social media stuff.
I love it man, definitely.
And for those of you that are watching this show, if you haven't subscribed on the YouTubechannel, because Matt's going to be sharing a whole bunch of stuff off of this, obviously
you can follow the ride along on social media as well.
But do subscribe to the YouTube channel because we are looking to crank out about 30episodes this season.
Last year, I think we did about 24, 25 episodes, which was our first real full seasondoing the show.
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So if you guys got some value out of that, definitely follow it, definitely share it.
But Matt, we got some good guests that are gonna be coming up here in the next severalweeks, starting with recording live at InterNACHI next week.
Correct, correct, yeah, so I'm going to be in Florida next week.
I'm actually leaving tomorrow to go to Florida.
Me and the family are gonna take in Disney for a couple of days before we head over toSunday.
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We're gonna head over towards the hotel where the Internazzi Conference is going on andI'm gonna meet up with you at some point and we're supposed to be doing some recording out
there as well, believe.
Dude, it's a blast, man.
I always love recording at InterNACHI, one, because they're so supportive.
Like Ben Gromico has their whole podcast.
I'm looking forward to partnering with them a little bit too.
Just kind of doing a little bit of a crossover thing while we're there.
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But gosh, dude, this is the biggest event in our industry.
And so we get so many people from all over the country and it's awesome.
I I set up the podcast booth, people stop on by.
So, you know, if you're there at the show, if you're going to be there, comment.
So tell me what you're looking forward to first and foremost.
Tell me what you're looking forward to learning, what classes you're going to be taken,but stop by the booth, come say, Hey, it's going to be a great time.
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Let's get you guys on the show.
So yeah, dude, definitely.
So, so okay, Matt, to get the family ready, cause you're coming to Florida.
what I need you to do is just to get everybody in a habit of standing in line, right?
If you're going to do Disney, that's most of your experience, right?
Just be real good at standing in line.
So.
So we have this isn't our not our first rodeo.
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It's actually our this is gonna be our fourth.
My kids ate.
This is gonna be the best one.
I feel like it's gonna be the best one.
It started at like five.
And then, you know, but and that was kind of sketchy because like, you know what he wouldwhat he was into, he was a little bit scared of things or whatever.
You know, you think you turn your ringer off and somehow you didn't.
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You're screwing up the show, Matt.
know, I know it's trash now.
We got to scrap it.
No, he's eight now and so he's a little bit less timid about the things that he'll do andthe things that he's interested in writing and things like that.
And so it's exciting.
But we've been a few times and so like, know, there are like this, now my wife handlesthis, so I'm probably not going to say it right, but there's like apps like with like some
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type of lightning lane situation.
And so like.
Somehow and I don't know if we pay for this or what?
But you sign into you know, whatever ride you want to do and you sign up for a time I wantyou written that like it opens up another one.
So like you can schedule your day, you know And and kind of wait in less lines.
Don't get me wrong It doesn't work for everything and not all the times that you wouldwant to ride that rise and available We've definitely still stood in line for a ride
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before But but we try to utilize that as much as possible.
We're going to Magic Kingdom Hollywood Studios and Epcot
Dude, you got the full experience, man.
And you're gonna be there.
This is just, you're coming in tomorrow.
That's gonna give you several days, because InterNACHI is gonna start on Sunday.
awesome, man, you got plenty of time.
Plenty of time to go stand in a whole bunch of lines.
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yeah, or at least let me know how the app works, because I've, okay, for those of you thathave been to Disney, like, because I know there's a couple of home inspectors that I've
talked to that are, y'all are big Disney people.
I won't get into whether or not it's weird to be a Disney adult.
whatever man, hey, do you do you write your vacation times your vacation time.
But last time, the last time that I was even going to go to like sea world or somethinglike that, this was like 2010.
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I was living down here in Florida, which is where I'm at now.
I'm sorry to rub it in y'all's face.
It's just the most beautiful time of year to be in Florida.
We live for this, you know, it's this low humidity, it is 80 degrees.
If there's ever a season to home inspect, this is it man.
But anyway, so yeah, 2010, I was living down here in Florida and I was dirt broke at thetime.
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My brother flew down from Virginia to visit me.
We went to go visit our grandparents over on the other coast.
And as we're driving back across Orlando, we started seeing the signs for Disney World.
And I was like, dude, hey, wait, you want to go to like Disney or SeaWorld or somethinglike that?
And he was like, yeah.
I was like, okay, well, let's look up prices.
So he starts like Googling prices for going to SeaWorld.
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And he's like,
They're like 125 bucks.
like that was at the time and prices have not gone down.
And I was like, cause we were so excited.
We're like, yeah, we're going to see where we're going to see world.
goes, wait, it's 125 bucks.
We looked at each other.
We went, we're going to the sea.
We're going to the sea.
Yeah.
That one's, that one's free baby.
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And so yeah, it's, dude, I love it over here.
insanely expensive.
It's crazy.
You know, the first time we went a few years ago, I didn't think I was like, okay,whatever, I'll just go, you know, and I didn't think I would really get much out of it or
enjoy it very much.
It is pretty awesome.
And it encouraged me to want to go back a few times, you know, and at least if nothingelse, like, I don't know.
I mean, like, I think there's definitely something to like about it as like an adult.
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Like without kids, like maybe one of these days, like when I'm like old, older, me and mywife could go.
And and just enjoy it without you know a kid because I think that there's a wholedifferent level of like enjoyment You can have out of it if you do that Yeah, totally
right 100 % but but but you know this time it's Getting giving my son a chance to reallyexperience it is is really what this is about and experience it with him And it's very
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enjoyable now as far as the app and everything goes you're gonna have to talk to my wifeDo you have her number?
Why would you have?
I don't know.
would I hit me?
I've never met your wife.
Bring her by the booth to say, Hey, that's it.
we'll, yeah.
So I, I don't know.
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We were going with that.
mean, you're making it, making it sound like I hang out with your wife all the time, butnot that I wouldn't enjoy getting dinner with y'all, but I would just prefer for you to be
there, you know?
So yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, you know, look, you go up to the villages in Florida, all kinds of stuff happens upthere.
My buddy, Ishvan Jocko, if you guys are in the home inspection industry, you know him.
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He moved up there recently and I'm like, well, Ishvan, know, I support whatever yourdecisions are, okay?
So he's like, well, there's just a lot to do.
I'm like, I live down here.
We all know, we all know what there is to do.
anyway, so, okay, but with InterNACHI and with coming down here, here's what I want totalk with you about today.
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One of the biggest reasons that I feel like we get into home inspections and go intobusiness for ourselves is the idea that we can fund the life that we really want for
ourselves.
So how has home inspections really helped you to do that to really kind of just instead ofjust being the job that you do, how has it helped to build the life that you want to
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That's an interesting question.
So that was the goal.
Yeah.
You know, I kind of always wanted to work for myself.
I always wanted to run a business and I started this like simultaneously with another jobthat I thought I could kind of do in part time.
Of course, this took over pretty quickly because I decided that this is what I wanted todo full time.
And then also not just that, but
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You know, as it, as it started getting busier, I realized I couldn't do both.
you know, there was like limitations at my other job.
time off, you know, leaving to go to places like Internazzi or, you know, to, just visitFlorida or, know, later on this month, I'm headed out toward to Vegas.
I've actually got a ton of time off.
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I'm taken in February.
This is stuff that wouldn't have been possible with my previous line of employment, youknow, where I had to request time off.
But like, you know, in honesty, like how has it changed things?
I mean, yeah, that's available, but it has come also at a cost as well because, you know,I'm a business owner and so I work way more than I ever did.
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Now I get to take off sometimes, you know, and go, you know, to these events, but when Ido, I don't work.
And so there's no money getting brought into the company.
However, now that I have a guy out there in the field with me, he's actually workingpretty much the entire time that I'm gone.
And so we don't have to close the doors because I'm gone.
And so that's been a game.
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That particularly has been a game changer for me for years, though.
I've been working way more than I really ever did.
And then also trying to keep up with the social media stuff and everything that has justbeen kind of it's it's it's been out of control.
I mean, I've been not just the social media, but work, social media, home life, know, kidbaseball, kid football, you know, all of it.
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It's just been, it's a lot to keep up with.
And so while there is some freedom that comes along with having your own line of work andbeing, you know, in this line of work, you know, take that with a grain of salt because
when you run a business, you got business to run.
Well, that's kind of, dude, that's the good way of looking at it.
And truly it's for now, are you involved with like IEB or anything?
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Any of the kind of the organizations that are out there?
So if you're somebody now for me, like I, actually do coaching with, with Mark Humble.
He's, he's kind of a business coach to me.
But if you guys are not signed up for, I mean, there's, there's IEB out there, there's Igo, there's a whole bunch of coaching networks that are out there.
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If you're somebody that finds that you've kind of become a slave to the the monster thatyou've built in terms of building a business those organizations are amazing at helping
you to organize your life and to build good habits and practices and systems into yourbusiness so that You could kind of get back to having the life that you originally wanted
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from the business that you built Because it's so easy right for it to just start todominate everything in your day.
I remember
and a previous married life.
Gosh, I was cranking out the final year that I was inspecting in Virginia before Ieventually moved down here to Florida.
I cranked out 413 inspections on my own that year, which there's a lot of people that domore than that.
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But for me, that was a lot.
And there was nights where she was like, and this was for a company that was, I was withBPG, it was a franchise.
So, but I was still.
up until midnight, some nights getting reports done.
And she was like, can you just come right then in bed?
Can you just maybe finish it in the morning?
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It was getting in the way of my home life.
Now, the money was great.
The things that that money afforded were great.
We took some awesome trips, things like that.
But at the same time, when it starts to rob you of a little bit of the peace and a littlebit of the freedom that you
intended with this line of business, that's when you start to have to think about what canI reevaluate, what can I tweak so that I have the capacity and the time for the things
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that really do matter most.
Yeah, I've been considering some things like phone answering, things like that.
So I'm not handling that.
It's been something that I've kind of enjoyed.
There's a control factor that I don't really want to let go of.
And it's not really about like, I'm a control freak.
Possibly.
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Okay.
But that's not what I'm getting at.
What I'm getting at is what I'm getting at is more like, I want the control to be able toturn down jobs that I don't want.
Like I don't want to just
be booked on a job just because that's the job that called and they, and you know, causeI'm at a point right now where I don't, I don't have to do every job that comes in and I
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don't want to.
and there's, there's some of them that just don't appeal to me and I can personally vetclients and potential jobs to make sure that I stay out of the ones that I don't really
want.
And so, while, while you can kind of groom some answering services to help with that.
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I have no doubt they can sell my service, right?
And also like one thing that's kept me from it is that like a lot of times they, they,kind of in put emphasis on the fact that they, they will help you make more money because
they will sell additional services.
I don't really have additional services.
My particular company, do home inspections, termite inspections, and pool inspections.
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If you don't have a pool, you're not going to get up, up sold a pool.
Right.
And, and termite inspections.
Well,
They're only 50 bucks.
So if it's an older house, people want them every time.
if it's a newer house, I don't want to do it.
So I don't want it.
It's just extra.
got to, I'm contracted through a company, so I got to pay them and it's just more work.
So it's like, if it's a new house and you're, and you're not interested in termiteinspection, I'm not trying to sell that service.
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I'd rather just save the time.
So I really don't have extra services to sell.
but I mean, I am getting to the point where I want to reclaim some of my life.
So I've got to figure out like,
control versus, you know, some form of life back by not answering the phones and dealingwith that stuff.
And I am getting to the point where I'm, and it's mostly because it's me and somebody elsenow, and I'm wanting to take on somebody else in 2025.
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It's going to get to the point where that phone just consumes me.
And it does when I'm out in the field, I take phone calls and take jobs while I'm out inthe field.
It's a time suck.
But I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet.
do you manage that on the job site?
Like for me, I would always wait to like return the call until after the inspection.
But at the same time, like when I started in the industry, it was with a small mom and popbusiness.
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And I remember our head inspector, he would be in the middle of an inspection and fieldingcalls at the same time booking the next inspection.
And for me, I was like, I always try to put my focus like right where I was at the timewith a customer that I was with.
But I mean, how did you handle that?
Everybody works a little bit different.
Well, I mean, for the most part, I do try to answer the phone when I'm in the fieldbecause and look, okay, it depends.
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You know, when when business really started to pick up for me and I could really startgetting choosy about who I did work for, I just let the phone ring.
I'll get back to you because honestly, almost every phone call that came in, I'm not goingto get to you in time.
And so like like I was was booking out a week in advance.
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And so, you know,
the calls I could take whenever I was off would book me out and the calls that came inwhenever I was on the job, I just let it go to voicemail and call you back.
you got, if you don't, if it don't get you, no problem.
but when I brought in another guy, the need to get as many jobs as possible, you know,increased.
And so I felt the need to answer the phone in the field again.
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And so I've been back to that.
yeah, I mean it sucks, but I mean,
It's, it's, you I just manage it.
I just deal with it.
what's your process, by the way?
Because I mean, like for some home inspectors, I mean, it's like I bring the buyer aroundwith me while I'm doing the inspection.
Do you do the inspection on your own first and then take them through?
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OK.
Now, if I got somebody with me, I'm not going to answer the phone, but yeah, I 100 % donot bring the buyer around with me.
I would, I love going around with the buyer at the end of the inspection, but I am way toochatty and too engaged with them to have them with me when I'm doing my work.
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I mean, I don't know that it's that, but I mean like what the thing is, is like I
It's not that I don't want to hang out with them.
It's not that I don't want to talk to them.
I actually want to way too much.
And so I will end up talking myself around a defect.
I don't want to miss anything.
It is more important to me to do a very thorough job than it is to have them therewatching me every step of the way.
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I would rather do a thorough job, go over the cliff notes with them at the end of theinspection and take them and show them everything.
Answer any questions they got, interact with them, laugh with them, all that stuff.
But I do worry because it's happened where, you know, I will be distracted by somethingand miss something.
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Now, I mean, look, I'm not going to miss anything major, but I don't want to missanything.
No, no, definitely not.
mean, if you could do as thorough as possible, I totally get it.
I, and again, this is everybody works different.
I'm not, you know, calling myself any sort of, you know, savant of home inspections here,but I did learn from, would call them a freaking master in this industry.
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name's Ken Humphries.
He's up in, up in Virginia.
this guy, dude, yeah, it's
awesome dude.
And he doesn't have a huge social media presence because he's too busy working his buttoff.
And anyway, he is able to get through a house in about two to two and a half hours whiletaking the buyer around.
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And he doesn't finish the report on site, he finishes it right afterwards.
Like after he gets to the next job site, like he always blocks himself just enough time sothat he can do some of the report on site, but then finish the rest of it off site.
But I, I've
only seen that guy get a call back once in a blue moon.
And so I started doing like a hybrid of that.
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But it's it is tough.
I mean, you have to really stay on your toes because if you're not careful, you can misssomething.
Some people are built different, man.
I mean, some people can play the drums.
I can't play the drums, you know?
it.
Dude, a buddy of mine is able to like drum and sing and I can't do either.
So I don't know.
Yeah, I don't get that at all.
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So
me wrong.
Like, I mean, the guy's, the guy's probably awesome.
I do not trust myself to put out the report that I have, I have set a level, a bar frommyself and my company.
And I do not believe that I can put out the same product if I was going around with theclient.
And I know with all certainty that the speed would not be there.
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You know, I did a new construction house yesterday.
I finished it and sent it, but while I was at the, at the job, like,
There's no way in three and a half hours I could do a 2500 square foot house with theclient right there next to me, finish the report and send it out to him.
It just wouldn't happen.
Oh, no, no.
I mean, you got to figure out what you want to accomplish on site.
And here's the other thing, too.
So I there was an inspection I was just doing up in Tampa, which, by the way, dude, like II never in my life thought that I would inspect a 2500 square foot single level cinder
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block house built in 2000 with an in-ground pool.
It was selling for five twenty eight, I think.
And I found myself telling the buyer this is actually a decent price.
For 528, I bought my first house for 395.
(23:56):
Dude, what is going on?
And I'm telling them that I had a half million dollar house.
like, this is a steal here.
But seriously, anyway, but they, this is cool.
They're all about inspector TikTok.
And the wife was like, hey, so do you know this guy?
I was like, inspector AJ.
Yep, no, for sure.
Gonna see him in a couple of weeks.
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She she mentioned sigh and I was like we won't talk about that guy.
Sorry sigh don't sue me but it just some of these others that she follows but Anyway, Ilike Preston Kincaid.
I think she follows him as well.
I'm like you need to check out this dude Matt Brady, you know but anyway She's like sowhat about yours?
(24:42):
Where's where's your content?
I said, well, here's the thing
you're following me around and we're talking about this the whole time that I'm doing theinspection.
There's no real convenient time for me to say, let's not talk about the water heater holdout.
Well, like make a tick tock, you know, and yeah, right.
I had the camera man, but go watch.
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yo, go watch the ride along series on this channel here.
Okay.
I'm also the camera man, but yeah.
I'll come with you on your jobs and we'll do some YouTube stuff.
go, man.
Dude, I actually, okay, here's another thing for y'all, just teasing this out for later onthis season.
I am stoked down with mine.
So last year, okay, if you notice on here, we got two separate little like channels on theYouTube channel here.
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You have the Ride Along podcast, which obviously you can listen to audio everywhere.
And then you have the Ride Along series where last year I went with people around thecountry, inspectors around the country and shadowed them on their job sites.
So we did everything from like a Queen Anne Victorian up in Minnesota.
We did the House of Horrors with Nick Romico and Austin and Natalie Rose out in Denver.
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Did a commercial inspection in Dallas.
But this year is actually pretty cool because I get to stay a little bit close to home.
There's a guy here.
He's a home inspector named Clay Owens and he owns Owens Construction.
But I'm going to be shadowing and filming an ongoing series.
on several of his properties that he has underway.
One, we're kicking it off.
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It is a beautifully renovated house down in Sarasota, but he has several projects that I'mgoing to be filming from foundation to finish over the course of this year and launching
it here on the channel as we go.
So subscribe, turn on notifications, because you're not going to want to miss it.
Because the whole thing is it's like, what's it like to own a construction company whenit's owned by a home inspector?
Right?
You think we're nitpicky enough?
(26:35):
I was about to ask for clarification on that.
I thought I heard you right.
He's a home inspector, but has a construction company.
You were that was legit.
You said that.
Okay.
And you.
Okay.
he's he and his wife found it.
But and then his kids are kind of running the home inspection stuff now.
And he's focusing on the construction stuff.
But dude, instead of just like, you know, poured slab foundation, a basic poured slabfoundation, this guy's doing a three course built up cinder block for even his cheapest
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houses.
So he's making sure that everything is above flood zones around here.
Everything is is heavied up.
And his house is reflected in their finished price.
But
as a home inspector, he knows fine detail.
And so he puts that that level of quality into his work.
So it's gonna be really cool.
Fun, fun series, man.
So all that to say, man, if you want to come on out, you could be the cameraman.
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Yeah, let's, say bad, let's say, but I'd love to come out and film with you out there too.
So yep, for sure.
But anyway, no, guys, I want to hear a couple questions sound off in the comments, y'allabout what you do want to manage your work life balance.
since that's one thing we were talking about.
And two, how do you manage phone calls in the field?
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Because this would be a great place to say that today's show is sponsored by America'sCall Center, which is obviously a porch property.
But if you're somebody that's looking for a call center to help field some of this stuff,they work specifically with home inspectors to get your sales pitches down, your sales
packages down.
They upsell for you if you're looking to do that.
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But basically it's all taken work off of your plate so that you can be free to do what youlove and live your life as well.
So pretty cool.
Yeah, I if they're asking questions, mean I gotta say I I prepared some questions for thisas well I mean, I don't know if you're ready for this or not Okay, so assuming that like,
you know, we're going to do something like this again, right where I'm co-hosting We'regonna have a guest right?
(28:31):
We had because we yeah, we have some some guests plans So I thought I would ask since I'mgonna be doing this from here.
You're gonna be doing this from potentially there Our our pants required do I need it?
Do I have to wear pants when I do this?
I'm only filming from here up for a reason, okay?
Yeah, yeah.
So just do with that information what you will.
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They could be shorts, they could be pants, they could be a state of undress.
We ask and we ask no questions.
We listen and do not judge.
That's what they're saying online.
that's actually the only question I have.
That was it.
Okay, cool.
Hey, sound off in the comments if you're wearing pants.
I love it.
Now we will be I'm looking forward to next week.
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First of all, I'm looking forward to seeing you down in Irunachi.
We will be there wearing pants.
So you know, yeah, yeah, we'll get kicked out otherwise.
So bring your pants.
Bring some bring some good questions for us guys.
We'd love to have you on the show.
All of our listeners, let us know if you're going to be there.
But dude, Matt.
Not a bad first episode kicking off 2025 here on the show, Yeah, dude, I'm excited to dothis with you.
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It's gonna be fun, man.
Looking forward to it.
So also, well, thanks for being on.
Thank you everybody for listening.
We'll see you in Orlando at InterNACHI next week.
See you next time.
right, bye.
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