December 15, 2025 • 7 mins
Rob Myers of Home Builders Association discusses the Home for the Holidays event where you can buy a $100 raffle ticket and win a $150k home with all proceeds going to Make-A-Wish!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
About twenty minutes before at nine o'clock in the morning
(00:02):
over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
That's where we find Rob Myers from the Homebuilders Association. Rob,
thanks for joining us this morning. How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm doing super happy and I want to have everybody
that's listening take a giant breath to switch gears from
that lead in fellas.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I know it's not not an ideal lead in for you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hug, Yeah, no, no, no, we want to talk about
hope because you can buy one hundred dollars raffle ticket
and hope to win an eight hundred and fifty thousand
dollars house.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, I'm glad you said we're switching gears, because, yeah,
this is a this is a feel good moment. This
is a happy thing that you folks are doing at
Homebuilders Association along with Make a Wish. And as you said,
you're raffling off a new home. How does this all work?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, we are working in partnership with Make a Wish
and each year up in Cleveland for the last five years,
we've built and raffle a home. Over the five years,
we've been able to give Make a wish just a
smidge under a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And we've also been able to raise funds for our
own charitable efforts, which are to bring construction trade training
back into high school. So we've been very successful with that.
So not only have we been able to provide a
lot of wishes for kids here in northeast Ohio, but
by doing this now at Columbus, we want to be
able to do the same thing down in Columbus. So
(01:30):
there's only six days left. The tickets are one hundred dollars.
The website is a home for the holidays Columbus dot org.
And that's how it works. You spend one hundred bucks
and maybe you win a house.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That is fantastic and then you know, and a lot
of folks are contributing to this, right, I mean, you've
got a lot of you know, builders and folks that
are either donating, donating time, or offering discounts to get
this home built.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Absolutely, there's over forty vendors that pitch in and participate
with us in this. The main the main participant is
three Pillar Homes. They've done a phenomenal job. The home
is beautiful and I don't know how many of your
listeners have gone up to Evan's Farm, but if you haven't,
you need to because it's a dynamite community. I flipped
(02:18):
for it the very first time I saw it. And
I've been in the construction business for almost forty years
and I've never seen anything this cool.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That is a really nice area too, Evan's Farm, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Again the website if you want to buy, it's one
hundred dollars ticket for the raffle.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Again the website to get in on this.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
A home for the Holidays Columbus dot org.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
A home for the Holidays Columbus dot org.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
One hundred bucks and you're in the running to win
this and it all goes to a benefit make a Wish.
You mentioned something that caught my ear too earlier when
you talked about, you know, teaching kids the construction business.
You know, we talked so much about, you know, jobs
that are being lost to AI and know do we
(03:02):
are we teaching our kids how to actually you know,
wire up property or get into HVAC or plumbing or
masonry or landscaping. And you know, part of what you
guys do is want to bring some focus back to
those types of classes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, we are short seventy thousand construction workers just in
the state of Ohio, and so we started in northeast Ohio.
We started with one high school and six kids. We
now are in five high schools. Two years later, we
have over one hundred and twenty kids. We're in discussions
with twenty more high schools to bring our programming in.
The curriculum is all set up. All the school has
(03:42):
to do is contact us and we will hook them up.
And if there's any school administrators listening to your show,
give us a call at the Build Trades Foundation and
we will start talking to you about bringing our programming
into your high school. But yes, we actually have kids
that went through our program that pulled wires for our
Make a Wish home last year. They're working with electrical contractor.
(04:05):
We hook them up with jobs after they graduate, and
so we closed the circle that way, and it's an
awesome program. Our schools are great, Our teachers are fantastic.
They're super enthusied about teaching these kids these skills and
we need them because you know, I've been in the
construction business, like I said, for about forty years, and
most of my contractors have retired, so we need new
(04:25):
guys to come into the business, learn their trades, and
maybe get that entrepreneurial bug and start up their own
electrical or masonry business.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I love that so much, Rob Myers from the Homebuilders Association,
that is so important what you're doing. You know, you
and I I don't know how old you are, but
you know, we had shop class in high school. And
I love shop class because it wasn't math, but you
got to go into the shop and you got to
use tools. You learned how to use a bandsaw, and
(04:55):
you learned how to use a router and these tools.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And you know, now I don't use those today every day.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's not my profession, but I know how to use
them because of shop class.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And they just don't teach that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They don't. About twenty years ago, they changed their focus
onto forcing kids to go to four year colleges, and
now we see where that leads is that the kids
come out with a massive amount of debt and not
necessarily having learned anything that's going to help them with
their careers. So now, granted, you know, for some kids
it's a great career path and everything, but for a
(05:30):
lot of other kids, they just want to make things.
And to be honest about it, fellas we as a
species are wired to make things. We've been doing it
for hundreds of thousands of years. And to suppress that
idea that hasn't worked out too good for us. And
so a lot of these kids, they just want to
make things, and we're making it possible for the schools
to help them along that sort of path. And we
(05:52):
need that because you can sit in front of your
computer all you want, but it can't fix your sink.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That is so well said from the home Builders Association
and the reason and it's a good one.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
This is something you should look at.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It is a partnership with Make a Wish and you're
raffling off a home and the website to enter it's
only one hundred bucks. A home for the holidays Columbus
dot com or dot.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Org did you say dot org? Dot org, dot org?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
A home for the holidays Columbus dot org. A beautiful
home up in the Evans Farm area. And what's the
deadline up? When will you draw a winner on this?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We draw on the twenty first, so you've got six
days left and that's all there is to it. You
can you win the house or possibly a cash prize,
depends on how this all goes, and we've we've done both,
and don't don't shy away if you don't want. If
you don't want the house, you cannot for the cash.
And but the home is beautiful. I have to say,
(06:52):
I've been through it a number of times and Three
Pillars did a fantastic job on it. In fact, they're
building out this community and really free your listeners. If
they haven't seen Evans Farm, they should go up and
check it out. It's it's really something else. It's different
About twenty minutes before at nine o'clock in the morning
(00:02):
over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
That's where we find Rob Myers from the Homebuilders Association. Rob,
thanks for joining us this morning. How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm doing super happy and I want to have everybody
that's listening take a giant breath to switch gears from
that lead in fellas.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I know it's not not an ideal lead in for you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hug, Yeah, no, no, no, we want to talk about
hope because you can buy one hundred dollars raffle ticket
and hope to win an eight hundred and fifty thousand
dollars house.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, I'm glad you said we're switching gears, because, yeah,
this is a this is a feel good moment. This
is a happy thing that you folks are doing at
Homebuilders Association along with Make a Wish. And as you said,
you're raffling off a new home. How does this all work?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, we are working in partnership with Make a Wish
and each year up in Cleveland for the last five years,
we've built and raffle a home. Over the five years,
we've been able to give Make a wish just a
smidge under a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And we've also been able to raise funds for our
own charitable efforts, which are to bring construction trade training
back into high school. So we've been very successful with that.
So not only have we been able to provide a
lot of wishes for kids here in northeast Ohio, but
by doing this now at Columbus, we want to be
able to do the same thing down in Columbus. So
(01:30):
there's only six days left. The tickets are one hundred dollars.
The website is a home for the holidays Columbus dot org.
And that's how it works. You spend one hundred bucks
and maybe you win a house.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That is fantastic and then you know, and a lot
of folks are contributing to this, right, I mean, you've
got a lot of you know, builders and folks that
are either donating, donating time, or offering discounts to get
this home built.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Absolutely, there's over forty vendors that pitch in and participate
with us in this. The main the main participant is
three Pillar Homes. They've done a phenomenal job. The home
is beautiful and I don't know how many of your
listeners have gone up to Evan's Farm, but if you haven't,
you need to because it's a dynamite community. I flipped
(02:18):
for it the very first time I saw it. And
I've been in the construction business for almost forty years
and I've never seen anything this cool.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That is a really nice area too, Evan's Farm, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Again the website if you want to buy, it's one
hundred dollars ticket for the raffle.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Again the website to get in on this.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
A home for the Holidays Columbus dot org.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
A home for the Holidays Columbus dot org.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
One hundred bucks and you're in the running to win
this and it all goes to a benefit make a Wish.
You mentioned something that caught my ear too earlier when
you talked about, you know, teaching kids the construction business.
You know, we talked so much about, you know, jobs
that are being lost to AI and know do we
(03:02):
are we teaching our kids how to actually you know,
wire up property or get into HVAC or plumbing or
masonry or landscaping. And you know, part of what you
guys do is want to bring some focus back to
those types of classes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, we are short seventy thousand construction workers just in
the state of Ohio, and so we started in northeast Ohio.
We started with one high school and six kids. We
now are in five high schools. Two years later, we
have over one hundred and twenty kids. We're in discussions
with twenty more high schools to bring our programming in.
The curriculum is all set up. All the school has
(03:42):
to do is contact us and we will hook them up.
And if there's any school administrators listening to your show,
give us a call at the Build Trades Foundation and
we will start talking to you about bringing our programming
into your high school. But yes, we actually have kids
that went through our program that pulled wires for our
Make a Wish home last year. They're working with electrical contractor.
(04:05):
We hook them up with jobs after they graduate, and
so we closed the circle that way, and it's an
awesome program. Our schools are great, Our teachers are fantastic.
They're super enthusied about teaching these kids these skills and
we need them because you know, I've been in the
construction business, like I said, for about forty years, and
most of my contractors have retired, so we need new
(04:25):
guys to come into the business, learn their trades, and
maybe get that entrepreneurial bug and start up their own
electrical or masonry business.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I love that so much, Rob Myers from the Homebuilders Association,
that is so important what you're doing. You know, you
and I I don't know how old you are, but
you know, we had shop class in high school. And
I love shop class because it wasn't math, but you
got to go into the shop and you got to
use tools. You learned how to use a bandsaw, and
(04:55):
you learned how to use a router and these tools.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And you know, now I don't use those today every day.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's not my profession, but I know how to use
them because of shop class.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And they just don't teach that anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They don't. About twenty years ago, they changed their focus
onto forcing kids to go to four year colleges, and
now we see where that leads is that the kids
come out with a massive amount of debt and not
necessarily having learned anything that's going to help them with
their careers. So now, granted, you know, for some kids
it's a great career path and everything, but for a
(05:30):
lot of other kids, they just want to make things.
And to be honest about it, fellas we as a
species are wired to make things. We've been doing it
for hundreds of thousands of years. And to suppress that
idea that hasn't worked out too good for us. And
so a lot of these kids, they just want to
make things, and we're making it possible for the schools
to help them along that sort of path. And we
(05:52):
need that because you can sit in front of your
computer all you want, but it can't fix your sink.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That is so well said from the home Builders Association
and the reason and it's a good one.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
This is something you should look at.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It is a partnership with Make a Wish and you're
raffling off a home and the website to enter it's
only one hundred bucks. A home for the holidays Columbus
dot com or dot.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Org did you say dot org? Dot org, dot org?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
A home for the holidays Columbus dot org. A beautiful
home up in the Evans Farm area. And what's the
deadline up? When will you draw a winner on this?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We draw on the twenty first, so you've got six
days left and that's all there is to it. You
can you win the house or possibly a cash prize,
depends on how this all goes, and we've we've done both,
and don't don't shy away if you don't want. If
you don't want the house, you cannot for the cash.
And but the home is beautiful. I have to say,
(06:52):
I've been through it a number of times and Three
Pillars did a fantastic job on it. In fact, they're
building out this community and really free your listeners. If
they haven't seen Evans Farm, they should go up and
check it out. It's it's really something else. It's different
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