October 25, 2025 • 28 mins
It's an All Calls Saturday with Dean Sharp The House Whisperer...
A caller’s son is trying to figure out a trade to go into for his chosen career and wanted Dean's recommendation.
Dean answers questions about building additional dwelling units.
Dean answers all calls every Saturday on KFI AM640!
A caller’s son is trying to figure out a trade to go into for his chosen career and wanted Dean's recommendation.
Dean answers questions about building additional dwelling units.
Dean answers all calls every Saturday on KFI AM640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, my friend, and welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp,
the house whisper, custom home builder, custom home designer, and
your guide to better understanding that place where you live.
It is a cool and misty mourning around here. I'm
told that it's going to get sunny today. I have
no doubt that that's the case. The sun's going to
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come up and burn all this missed off eventually, but man,
I am loving it. It is autumn in the air
all around us, and it's my favorite time of year.
I don't know why. The air smells better, everything feels better.
The holidays are right around the corner. I guess there's
that sense of anticipation. It's just my favorite time of year.
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I hope you are having a great morning as well,
or if you're listening to on the podcast, I hope
you are having a great fill in the blank, whatever
time it is and wherever you are, We're glad that you're
here too. Today. On the show, it's an all calls show.
Eight three three To ask Dean is the number to
reach me? Eight three three The numeral two ask Dean
eight three three To ask Dean anything you want to
(01:16):
ask about your home. Whatever's got you scratch in your head? Decor, architecture, design, construction,
DIY concerns, whatever the case may be, inside, outside, landscape,
interior design, all of it, from property line to property line,
and from the basement to the sky above. I got
(01:39):
you covered. I'm here to help. Uh what was I
gonna I was gonna fill you in on something really
really important, you know what. It just totally slipped my mind.
So anyway, well, you know what we're gonna do. We're
gonna go to the phones. I want to talk to us.
I'll remember, I promise I'll remember. Wait, let me sip
some coffee here, mm hmm yeah, I'll get to figure
(02:00):
it out. All right. Oh, this is what it was here,
It is here, it is. I just wanted to say
congratulation to Kathy and Scott Dickon. They are our winners
of Last Hours giveaway tickets to the VIP House Whisper
Ghost Tour. Kathy and Scott looking forward to seeing you
guys on Monday night, and we're gonna give away two
(02:22):
tickets before this hour is out. But there you go.
Congratulations to you two. Looking forward to having some fun
on Monday night with you. All right, I'm gonna go
back to the phones. I want to talk to Sergio. Hey, Sergio, welcome, Homelome.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Hey, good morning, Dean. How are you?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I am doing well, my friend. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Thank you? Sir? Hey. Just It's gonna be a really
quick question. I'm in the trade of the service industry,
and I'm trying to understand how I can actually get
my kids to get a trade versus the IT way
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of doing things.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I guess, okay, well did did all right? Do your
kids want to do that? Or there? Are you? Like? Listen,
listen you guys, you go into it. You're going to
be replaced by AI in like three years, So get
yourself a trade. I mean, are they interested in that?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That? That is correct? Exactly what? But my mentality is
I do very well for myself, and they don't want
to take over my business. And I'm ready to retire.
I'm forty five years old and so I'm ready to retire,
and so they don't want to take over my business,
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which I'm into in the pool business. But yet they don't.
So in other words, which industry would fall into that perspective.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, So yeah, man, you know what, Sergio, I feel you.
I feel you, but I do uh it's it is
a it's a weird, scary world and a future out
there for our kids right now. And and I don't
I'm not saying it's it's scary in the sense that
there's you know, impending doom on the horizon. It's just that,
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you know, for guys like you and I, for all
of us looking forward and even for young people, nobody
has the answer as to what's going to happen next
and how the introduction of AI is changing everything. You
hear everything from like oh no, no, it's going to
be really great to know everybody's going to be unemployed,
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and it's a you know, and literally it's hard to
know what the future holds in that regard. But I
do know this, and I will agree with you. I
will agree with you on this absolutely without question, and
that is that the last thing that is going to
be overtaken by artificial intelligence will be service trades because
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it's not just AI, but it also would require robotics,
and I'm not telling you that that isn't coming along
at rapid pace as well. Because it is. But you're
going to have to have an independently thinking, reasoning fully automated,
you know, automaton who can physically move through a house
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and then perform all of the the various you know,
trade activities that humans do right now. And all I
can say about that is not that it won't ever happen.
I can simply say it because of the the additional
complication of the robotic nature of things that it is.
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It's a lot more difficult to replace a plumber than
it is to replace an accountant with AI right now,
because because the job of the accountant can be done
primarily on computers and on a spreadsheet, and the plumber
still has to be local to your home. You know,
I've said this for years, even before AI was a thing,
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that the trades are a beneficial investment in a career
because you know, they can't be outsourced to a call
center in India. All right, If you have a home,
it's located in space, in a particular location. And when
your toilet clogs, I'm just using plumbing as an example here,
when your toilet clogs, you know, a call center in
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India doesn't help you, and neither does an AI, you know,
chatbot online. You need an actual physical person with skills
and tools to come into the home, and right now
those trades are being paid a premium for showing up
and doing those things. Plus you add to that the
fact that this generation and the previous generation, not just
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this one but the previous but has all but lost
its manual dexterity, skills and its understanding. I mean, a
lot of the things that used to be just kind
of taken for granted are now like handyman projects, professional
handyman project, even down to like do you know how
to change a door knob on a door? So these
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kinds of things. So yeah, the trades have as good,
if not the best outlook for a financial gainful employment
future as anything does, in my opinion, simply because of
the difficulty of replacing those individuals with AI, because it's
more than just AI. It would actually have to be
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you know, the physicality of AI in a robotic form
doing that kind of stuff. So I don't know, sir Geoe,
whether or not that means that it's compelling enough to
take you know, a child and say, listen, don't be dumb,
go into the trades because you know. I'm also a
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big believer in letting kids figure out what they love,
what they're passionate about, and what they want to do,
no matter what it is. And so I'm not going
to tell you that you should strong arm your kids
into going into the trades. But I'm going to agree
with you one hundred percent that they are at more
than ever, more than in two or three generations. They
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are a viable source of income and profession for the future.
I hope that helped answer the question. I think you
can make a compelling argument for them, but I don't
think you should force your kids to do what they
don't want to do when it comes to their own
lives and their professions. But I hear you, my friend,
(08:58):
I hear you. And giving them exposure to it that
could also be a thing, you know, doing ride alongs,
showing them what's possible, you know, just get them involved
a little bit more physically out in the garage even
and see if they have a knack for it or
an interest in it, and you can take it from there.
All right, y'all when we come back more of your car.
It was a really good call. I don't think i've
had that I don't think we've answered a question like
(09:22):
that in quite a while. All right, when we return
more of your calls. You're listening to Home for Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the house Whisper here to
help you take your home to the next level. Good
Saturday morning to you, my friends. It's still where I'm at,
at least misty and cool, and even though the sky
(09:43):
is getting brighter, haven't seen the sun yet. But here
we are just a little over an hour and a
half into well about an hour a half into the show,
and man, it just looks like it's going to be
a gorgeous autumn day. I hope you've got great plans
today to take full advantage of it. We are spending
time talking to you on the phone today. It's an
(10:04):
all call Saturday morning, and I want to go back
to the phones right now. I want to talk to
let's say, maybe Christine. Hey, Christine, welcome home.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Hi Ding, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
How are you my friend?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm fantastic. Yes, the weather has been.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Amazing, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It's so great. It's so great. All right, how can
I help you?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So my question is a little complicated, So we have
a primary dwelling unit. And then my sister just had
a freestanding ADU from the ground A built. So I
wanted to get another ADU, a small one, like you
know the one from home Depot that had like a
steel frame, long story shore. I checked with the city
to see about, you know, the zone and the permits,
(10:49):
and they're like, you're you can't get another ADU. And
I'm like, but why it says I can. And they're like,
you have a detached garage and I'm like okay, and
they were really nice. They're like, you have another option
under the Senate Bill nine. You can build another primary
dwelling unit. I'm like, fantastic, that's what I'll do. Well
my unit, it can be a primary dwell unit. The
(11:10):
problem is it's only four hundred and forty four square feet,
which I don't find it to be a problem. However,
they're like, oh, yeah, no, the minimum is eight hundred
square feet. Why do they care? It's for me? Why
do they care about the minimum? I get the maximum.
You don't want our neighbors to be annoyed, But like,
how annoying? There's nothing. And I went back to the
city and I'm like, you know, I'm a nurse. Can't
(11:32):
you just help me and have like an exemption. They're
like no, And I'm like, I'm doing it the legal way.
Everyone's doing it so illegally on my street, and yet
you want to punish good behavior. But it was what
it was. So now I'm trying to get a construction
loan to get the eight hundred square fee because it's
now three hundred thousand dollars. But my main other question
(11:53):
was square footage wise. They're like, no, Christine, three hundred
and fifty dollars per square foot is including land. You
already have your land, so it should be way cheaper.
So now I may have another loop I can go around.
What are your thoughts on this? Have you heard of
something like this at all to get around this permit rule?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, it's just tough. It's tough. You've got to understand
the So at the root of this whole thing cities.
Your city is very very likely not in favor of ADUs. Okay,
most cities aren't. And you would think, why what's the point, Well,
(12:35):
cities are like, well, listen, I'll give you example of
my town that I love. All right, I love thousand Oaks, California.
I live here, I've been here for thirty years, have
no intention to live anywhere else. It's a great town,
and it's a it's a kind of a high income
town as well. Just just admitting the fact that it's
(12:57):
a really nice city. And what I don't like, Yeah,
what I don't like about this is when we put
our noses up in the air and we're like, well,
you know what. You know, for for years and years,
getting getting a guesthouse built or a casita in Thousand
Oaks was nigh impossible in a lot of ways because
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the regulations were like, well, you know, you can only
have ten percent of the square footage of your home
or this, you know, all right. Essentially, what we realized
was you don't want rental properties being built in people's backyard.
And that's what it comes down to. The city was like,
I don't want that element here, uh and uh because
(13:38):
it will lower property you know. So just understand that
cities in general, which is why the state of the
State of California embraced ADUs and ADU codes and basically
passed legislation that says, nope, guess what, all cities and
counties listen up. You have to do this. We are
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over riding. You get to choose, you know a few
things in terms of some square footage rules, but generally speaking,
you got to do this because we have a housing
crisis and you got to allow people to do this.
You know what, Christine, I'm up against a break. I've
been running along today and I'll be bad boy. Let me,
let me, let me yeah, let me throw you on
(14:24):
hold real quick. And I want to pick this conversation
up on the other side of the break and just
kind of finish out because there are some thoughts that
everybody just needs to understand about the ADU process right
now and what is and isn't allowed. We'll talk more
with Christine about her ADU potential right after this your
Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Dean Sharp the house Whisper here to help you transform
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Thanks for joining
us on the program today. It's an all call Saturday morning,
like we do every Saturday morning. The number to reach
me eight three three to ask Dean, Hey, I better
get this business out of the way before I forget,
(15:12):
because I promised I would do it. We're going to
give away two more tickets to Monday Night's special VIP
House Whisper Ghost tour of the of the historic Kellogg
House down in Orange County. It's actually located at the
OC Heritage Museum or the Heritage Museum of OC. I
(15:32):
think that's the right way to put it. In Santa Ana.
And it is a one hundred and twenty seven year
old Victorian mansion that was custom built and designed, a
lot of fascinating architecture, a lot of fascinating history of
living in Victorian times. It's part of the tour. It's
just great. It's gonna be great fun. Yes, my sister,
(15:56):
Darcy stand and Fourth is in fact the she's a
professor at cal State Fullerton. But on the side she
loves paranormal stuff and she actually works with Haunted OC
and is the official doc and she's going to be
leading the tour and they have worked together and set
aside this special Monday Night. And believe me, it's special
(16:16):
because it's Halloween week, right, So if you're gonna do
a Haunted House tour, it's Halloween week, and yet they
have set aside Monday night for just the VIPs of
our house whisper listeners. So it's all gonna get started.
At six thirty. We're gonna do a hour meet and
greet with just me and Tina and y'all on the
steps of the house. And then at seven thirty we
(16:38):
got a ninety minute tour of the house. And yes
it is allegedly i'd say allegedly haunted. Lots of really
really cool story. It's going to be so much fun.
And so that is this Monday night, starting at six
thirty down in Santa Anna, and I'm gonna give away
the tickets to our hall screener, first one that she
(17:01):
picks up, when as soon as Nikki picks it up,
two tickets to that event eight three three two as
Deine ready go, Okay, there you go. In the meantime,
I want to get back with Christine. Hey Christine, you're
still there. I'm here, I lose Okay, there you are. Okay,
thanks for hanging on, Thanks for hanging on through the break.
(17:22):
So we were talking about ADUs. So my point was,
and I you know, I wish I had a definitive answer.
How you get around this, But my point was in
larger scopes, everybody understands because ADUs are such a hot thing.
Now there, I'll give you an example in La County. Uh,
just a few years ago, guesthouse permits used to account
(17:44):
for yeah, three to five percent of the permits that
were being pulled every year. Now, now that the state
has mandated that all cities and counties have to allow
ADUs in the way that they have, they are well
over twenty five percent upwards. I think right now of
about twenty seven percent of the permits that are being
(18:05):
pulled in the city and County of Los Angeles are
for accessory dwelling units ADUs, and the state has been
as liberal with the allowances as I think it reasonably
could be without it, you know, really stepping on toes
because the state essentially the statewide ADU regulations essentially allow
(18:31):
for a full on, full scale ADU and then a
j DO meaning junior ADU. The full on ADU can
be detached up to fifteen hundred square feet depending on
property size and proportions, and the JD can be an
actually has to be within the envelope of the existing house,
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so you can take a bedroom or an attached garage
or something like that and convert it and give it
a separate and private entrance and all of that, so
you can actually have two ADUs on your property, the
primary and the junior. And that's the state basically saying
you got to do that. You have to allow that
to cities and counties. But believe me, nobody is going
(19:17):
to step beyond. I haven't heard of a single city
and call me somebody and tell me that I'm wrong.
But I have yet to encounter a single city or
county that said, you know what, this is such a
great idea, we're going to allow even more than that. No,
they're already having their arms twisted for that much, and
believe me, they didn't want to go that far.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yep. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, when it comes to your situation, I just I
wish I could tell you there was a way around it,
but they're just like, nope, this is what you get.
That's all you get. And so you know, and you're right,
you know a lot of people are just doing it illegally,
and people who really have rational, one off concerns. But
that's the problem, of course with bureaucracy, right, it's not
(20:03):
really uh set up to handle isolated, one off, single concern. Yeah,
we'll give you special consideration, Christine. Yeah, that's that's a
rare thing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, it happens right by chance. Would you know though?
So is it true? Because I don't I know. We
it was really tough to do build the freestanding ADU.
We had to change contractors because after we signed the
whole contract, they came back and they're like, oh, we
won another eighty thousand. I'm like, yeah, no, we already
signed a contract at the peak of COVID pricing. We're
not doing that again. So we found someone new. But
(20:34):
is it true if you have the land, the square
footage for the build should not be the typical three
hundred or three fifty per square foot like today? What
is it going for?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Approximately?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yea, not all that viral areas.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, you've been given wrong information. I mean that that
was wrong information they get you were right to startle. Okay,
when we talk about three hundred and fifty dollars a
square foot, I mean if you're remodeled your house and
just adding on to your house, it's going to be
you know, on average three hundred and fifty dollars per
square foot. So no, land costs are not a part
(21:08):
of that. No, that's just the cost of actually doing
the work of new build these days in southern California.
It's not that that land cost doesn't even Yeah, that's
that's not it. That's not a thing. It's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Okay, good to know, So all right, very good, Well,
thank you so much. I love listening to you. Don't
even know how helpful you are to so many people.
The different topics that I hear you talk about, the
fire everything, fireproofing your home.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
No one knew.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
My cousins were in Lacking nat not looking at an Arcadia,
Pasadena area. Their house was skipped, but everyone else on
that street their homes burnt down, and no one understood
that the embers are the problem, not the structure where
you could try to help that if they get into
your attic that no one, Well, I didn't know it.
(21:56):
And now fireproofing, those you know, vents are a huge help,
like something so simple. They did everything for the roof,
they did this, but no one mentioned the events, no one. Yeah,
and so this is awesome news to have on your
you know, radio station. I just appreciate you all. Thank
you so much, and thank you for all the news.
(22:18):
And you always end on a fun note. That way
people don't have to always go, oh my gosh, I
don't want to hear sad stuff. So thank you again
for everything. You guys have an amazing rest of your
day and I will keep tuning in.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh, thank you so much, Christine, that's so kind. Thank you,
and I really appreciate that. And you're right, yeah, that's
something that all of us have learning, you know, building
and design and home construction. You know, it's always evolving,
always evolving. We're always moving forward, we're always learning new things,
and that that fact. Finally we got our heads around
(22:54):
the fact that embers getting into addicts are this major concern.
And I don't think it really sinks in for a
lot of people. When I say eighty percent of homes
that burn eight out of ten, Does that mean deem
that the Palisades Fire and the Eaten fire and Alta
Dina that if everybody had ember vents in those homes
(23:14):
in those neighborhoods, that you're saying that only twenty percent
of the homes that were devastated would have burnt and
the other eighty Are you saying those neighborhoods would still
be standing today largely. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
And it's not me, it's Colfire, it's it's all the
experts saying, yeah, that's exactly the case. And so we're
(23:39):
learning these things as we go. And when we learn
something so critical and crucial like that, the problem with
an ember in an attic, it's undefendable. Okay, the fire
apartment department can't get to it. You just can't get
to it until it literally burns a hole in the
roof and escapes out. And at that point the house is,
for all intents and purposes lost. And so oh yeah,
(24:01):
it's important stuff. And I so appreciate you, so appreciate
everybody who continues to listen and who benefits from the show.
We're going to do more when we return Your Home
with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer. Dean Sharp, the House
whisper here to remind you every home deserves great design.
You're like, well, you haven't seen my home, Dean. Yeah,
(24:23):
you know what I bet I have. Well, maybe not
your home, but I've seen a home like it, and
uh yeah, I can tell you with all confidence every
home has a path forward. Every home has a path forward.
It's about finding it, unleashing it. It's like once you
find it, you've unzipped the potential in the home and
everything changes. It's not about oh, well, nothing could be
(24:46):
done about this area or nothing got to be done
about that area. It's about seeing your house and your
property as a whole and finding where is the lynch pin.
There always is one, maybe more than one, but there's
always something that unlike it's real storytelling, real house potential.
Every house has it. And I'm talking about even the
(25:07):
worst of tracked homes that have been put on a
piece of property willy nilly without regard to the to
the property itself. Windows might be in the wrong spots,
doors might be in the wrong spots facing weird direct
and whatever the case may be. When you take a
look at it a whole with design in mind, you
can unleash its potential. Okay, you can do it all right.
(25:31):
I want to remind everybody that, well, actually, here here's first.
Let me do this first. Congratulations to Tammy and Jonathan Russell.
You are our latest winners of the VIP Ghost Tour
that's happening on Monday night. Tammy said she's excited to
hopefully meet us there, and you don't have to be
(25:53):
helpful about it. It's gonna happen. We're gonna see you
guys on Monday night at six thirty and we'll hang
out and then we'll tour the house together. It's gonna
be a great night. So congratulations Tammy and Jonathan. We
will see you there. Gonna give away more tickets on
tomorrow's show, The Big Show, and just to let you
(26:14):
know tomorrow, maintaining this same theme, tomorrow's show, we're calling
a little Halloween fun how not to live in a
haunted house, by which I mean there's a lot of
noises and weird behaviors that our houses as they get
older can make, you know, bumps in the night, creaks,
strange knocking sounds, hissing sounds, and yeah, your house may
(26:36):
be possessed by a demon, and if that's the case,
well I'll let you know that too. But generally speaking,
we're just taking it as a fun course of how
do we deal with all that pesky things, everything from
squeaking floors to moisture running down the inside of walls.
Not blood though, just moisture. Anyway, that's tomorrow's big show,
(26:56):
and I have in studio as my special get my
sister who is leading the ghost tour at the Kellogg
House on Monday night. We're also going to be talking
about a real haunted house, the Kellogg House, and I'm
going to talk about it from its architectural perspective, and
Darcy is gonna give us some insights into the alleged
(27:18):
paranormal activity taking place there. So you're not gonna want
to miss tomorrow's show. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna
be architectural, it's gonna be informative of course, also gonna
take your calls as well. That's tomorrow's show from nine
to noon, right here live or on the podcast later
catch us no matter what. All right, y'all, it's been
(27:38):
a great time this morning. I appreciate everybody's calls. Don't
have time to run back to the phones at the moment.
Catch me tomorrow and we're gonna spend three hours diving
into how to quiet your haunted house down, and also
some insights into what does a one hundred and twenty
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seven year old custom, I mean ultra custom Victorian home
look like. And what can you glean from something like
that to apply to your own home. Yep, there are crossovers.
We'll talk about it all and I'll see you tomorrow.
Until then, go Dodgers and get out there into what
is going to be this beautiful day and get busy
(28:20):
building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see you
right back here tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast on KFI
AM six forty every Saturday morning from six to eight
Pacific time and every Sunday morning from nine to noon
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, my friend, and welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp,
the house whisper, custom home builder, custom home designer, and
your guide to better understanding that place where you live.
It is a cool and misty mourning around here. I'm
told that it's going to get sunny today. I have
no doubt that that's the case. The sun's going to
(00:30):
come up and burn all this missed off eventually, but man,
I am loving it. It is autumn in the air
all around us, and it's my favorite time of year.
I don't know why. The air smells better, everything feels better.
The holidays are right around the corner. I guess there's
that sense of anticipation. It's just my favorite time of year.
(00:52):
I hope you are having a great morning as well,
or if you're listening to on the podcast, I hope
you are having a great fill in the blank, whatever
time it is and wherever you are, We're glad that you're
here too. Today. On the show, it's an all calls show.
Eight three three To ask Dean is the number to
reach me? Eight three three The numeral two ask Dean
eight three three To ask Dean anything you want to
(01:16):
ask about your home. Whatever's got you scratch in your head? Decor, architecture, design, construction,
DIY concerns, whatever the case may be, inside, outside, landscape,
interior design, all of it, from property line to property line,
and from the basement to the sky above. I got
(01:39):
you covered. I'm here to help. Uh what was I
gonna I was gonna fill you in on something really
really important, you know what. It just totally slipped my mind.
So anyway, well, you know what we're gonna do. We're
gonna go to the phones. I want to talk to us.
I'll remember, I promise I'll remember. Wait, let me sip
some coffee here, mm hmm yeah, I'll get to figure
(02:00):
it out. All right. Oh, this is what it was here,
It is here, it is. I just wanted to say
congratulation to Kathy and Scott Dickon. They are our winners
of Last Hours giveaway tickets to the VIP House Whisper
Ghost Tour. Kathy and Scott looking forward to seeing you
guys on Monday night, and we're gonna give away two
(02:22):
tickets before this hour is out. But there you go.
Congratulations to you two. Looking forward to having some fun
on Monday night with you. All right, I'm gonna go
back to the phones. I want to talk to Sergio. Hey, Sergio, welcome, Homelome.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Hey, good morning, Dean. How are you?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I am doing well, my friend. How are you?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Thank you? Sir? Hey. Just It's gonna be a really
quick question. I'm in the trade of the service industry,
and I'm trying to understand how I can actually get
my kids to get a trade versus the IT way
(03:13):
of doing things.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I guess, okay, well did did all right? Do your
kids want to do that? Or there? Are you? Like? Listen,
listen you guys, you go into it. You're going to
be replaced by AI in like three years, So get
yourself a trade. I mean, are they interested in that?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That? That is correct? Exactly what? But my mentality is
I do very well for myself, and they don't want
to take over my business. And I'm ready to retire.
I'm forty five years old and so I'm ready to retire,
and so they don't want to take over my business,
(03:57):
which I'm into in the pool business. But yet they don't.
So in other words, which industry would fall into that perspective.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, So yeah, man, you know what, Sergio, I feel you.
I feel you, but I do uh it's it is
a it's a weird, scary world and a future out
there for our kids right now. And and I don't
I'm not saying it's it's scary in the sense that
there's you know, impending doom on the horizon. It's just that,
(04:38):
you know, for guys like you and I, for all
of us looking forward and even for young people, nobody
has the answer as to what's going to happen next
and how the introduction of AI is changing everything. You
hear everything from like oh no, no, it's going to
be really great to know everybody's going to be unemployed,
(04:59):
and it's a you know, and literally it's hard to
know what the future holds in that regard. But I
do know this, and I will agree with you. I
will agree with you on this absolutely without question, and
that is that the last thing that is going to
be overtaken by artificial intelligence will be service trades because
(05:23):
it's not just AI, but it also would require robotics,
and I'm not telling you that that isn't coming along
at rapid pace as well. Because it is. But you're
going to have to have an independently thinking, reasoning fully automated,
you know, automaton who can physically move through a house
(05:44):
and then perform all of the the various you know,
trade activities that humans do right now. And all I
can say about that is not that it won't ever happen.
I can simply say it because of the the additional
complication of the robotic nature of things that it is.
(06:04):
It's a lot more difficult to replace a plumber than
it is to replace an accountant with AI right now,
because because the job of the accountant can be done
primarily on computers and on a spreadsheet, and the plumber
still has to be local to your home. You know,
I've said this for years, even before AI was a thing,
(06:26):
that the trades are a beneficial investment in a career
because you know, they can't be outsourced to a call
center in India. All right, If you have a home,
it's located in space, in a particular location. And when
your toilet clogs, I'm just using plumbing as an example here,
when your toilet clogs, you know, a call center in
(06:48):
India doesn't help you, and neither does an AI, you know,
chatbot online. You need an actual physical person with skills
and tools to come into the home, and right now
those trades are being paid a premium for showing up
and doing those things. Plus you add to that the
fact that this generation and the previous generation, not just
(07:10):
this one but the previous but has all but lost
its manual dexterity, skills and its understanding. I mean, a
lot of the things that used to be just kind
of taken for granted are now like handyman projects, professional
handyman project, even down to like do you know how
to change a door knob on a door? So these
(07:32):
kinds of things. So yeah, the trades have as good,
if not the best outlook for a financial gainful employment
future as anything does, in my opinion, simply because of
the difficulty of replacing those individuals with AI, because it's
more than just AI. It would actually have to be
(07:52):
you know, the physicality of AI in a robotic form
doing that kind of stuff. So I don't know, sir Geoe,
whether or not that means that it's compelling enough to
take you know, a child and say, listen, don't be dumb,
go into the trades because you know. I'm also a
(08:14):
big believer in letting kids figure out what they love,
what they're passionate about, and what they want to do,
no matter what it is. And so I'm not going
to tell you that you should strong arm your kids
into going into the trades. But I'm going to agree
with you one hundred percent that they are at more
than ever, more than in two or three generations. They
(08:37):
are a viable source of income and profession for the future.
I hope that helped answer the question. I think you
can make a compelling argument for them, but I don't
think you should force your kids to do what they
don't want to do when it comes to their own
lives and their professions. But I hear you, my friend,
(08:58):
I hear you. And giving them exposure to it that
could also be a thing, you know, doing ride alongs,
showing them what's possible, you know, just get them involved
a little bit more physically out in the garage even
and see if they have a knack for it or
an interest in it, and you can take it from there.
All right, y'all when we come back more of your car.
It was a really good call. I don't think i've
had that I don't think we've answered a question like
(09:22):
that in quite a while. All right, when we return
more of your calls. You're listening to Home for Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper. Dean Sharp, the house Whisper here to
help you take your home to the next level. Good
Saturday morning to you, my friends. It's still where I'm at,
at least misty and cool, and even though the sky
(09:43):
is getting brighter, haven't seen the sun yet. But here
we are just a little over an hour and a
half into well about an hour a half into the show,
and man, it just looks like it's going to be
a gorgeous autumn day. I hope you've got great plans
today to take full advantage of it. We are spending
time talking to you on the phone today. It's an
(10:04):
all call Saturday morning, and I want to go back
to the phones right now. I want to talk to
let's say, maybe Christine. Hey, Christine, welcome home.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Hi Ding, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
How are you my friend?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm fantastic. Yes, the weather has been.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Amazing, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It's so great. It's so great. All right, how can
I help you?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So my question is a little complicated, So we have
a primary dwelling unit. And then my sister just had
a freestanding ADU from the ground A built. So I
wanted to get another ADU, a small one, like you
know the one from home Depot that had like a
steel frame, long story shore. I checked with the city
to see about, you know, the zone and the permits,
(10:49):
and they're like, you're you can't get another ADU. And
I'm like, but why it says I can. And they're like,
you have a detached garage and I'm like okay, and
they were really nice. They're like, you have another option
under the Senate Bill nine. You can build another primary
dwelling unit. I'm like, fantastic, that's what I'll do. Well
my unit, it can be a primary dwell unit. The
(11:10):
problem is it's only four hundred and forty four square feet,
which I don't find it to be a problem. However,
they're like, oh, yeah, no, the minimum is eight hundred
square feet. Why do they care? It's for me? Why
do they care about the minimum? I get the maximum.
You don't want our neighbors to be annoyed, But like,
how annoying? There's nothing. And I went back to the
city and I'm like, you know, I'm a nurse. Can't
(11:32):
you just help me and have like an exemption. They're
like no, And I'm like, I'm doing it the legal way.
Everyone's doing it so illegally on my street, and yet
you want to punish good behavior. But it was what
it was. So now I'm trying to get a construction
loan to get the eight hundred square fee because it's
now three hundred thousand dollars. But my main other question
(11:53):
was square footage wise. They're like, no, Christine, three hundred
and fifty dollars per square foot is including land. You
already have your land, so it should be way cheaper.
So now I may have another loop I can go around.
What are your thoughts on this? Have you heard of
something like this at all to get around this permit rule?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, it's just tough. It's tough. You've got to understand
the So at the root of this whole thing cities.
Your city is very very likely not in favor of ADUs. Okay,
most cities aren't. And you would think, why what's the point, Well,
(12:35):
cities are like, well, listen, I'll give you example of
my town that I love. All right, I love thousand Oaks, California.
I live here, I've been here for thirty years, have
no intention to live anywhere else. It's a great town,
and it's a it's a kind of a high income
town as well. Just just admitting the fact that it's
(12:57):
a really nice city. And what I don't like, Yeah,
what I don't like about this is when we put
our noses up in the air and we're like, well,
you know what. You know, for for years and years,
getting getting a guesthouse built or a casita in Thousand
Oaks was nigh impossible in a lot of ways because
(13:18):
the regulations were like, well, you know, you can only
have ten percent of the square footage of your home
or this, you know, all right. Essentially, what we realized
was you don't want rental properties being built in people's backyard.
And that's what it comes down to. The city was like,
I don't want that element here, uh and uh because
(13:38):
it will lower property you know. So just understand that
cities in general, which is why the state of the
State of California embraced ADUs and ADU codes and basically
passed legislation that says, nope, guess what, all cities and
counties listen up. You have to do this. We are
(14:02):
over riding. You get to choose, you know a few
things in terms of some square footage rules, but generally speaking,
you got to do this because we have a housing
crisis and you got to allow people to do this.
You know what, Christine, I'm up against a break. I've
been running along today and I'll be bad boy. Let me,
let me, let me yeah, let me throw you on
(14:24):
hold real quick. And I want to pick this conversation
up on the other side of the break and just
kind of finish out because there are some thoughts that
everybody just needs to understand about the ADU process right
now and what is and isn't allowed. We'll talk more
with Christine about her ADU potential right after this your
Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Dean Sharp the house Whisper here to help you transform
your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. Thanks for joining
us on the program today. It's an all call Saturday morning,
like we do every Saturday morning. The number to reach
me eight three three to ask Dean, Hey, I better
get this business out of the way before I forget,
(15:12):
because I promised I would do it. We're going to
give away two more tickets to Monday Night's special VIP
House Whisper Ghost tour of the of the historic Kellogg
House down in Orange County. It's actually located at the
OC Heritage Museum or the Heritage Museum of OC. I
(15:32):
think that's the right way to put it. In Santa Ana.
And it is a one hundred and twenty seven year
old Victorian mansion that was custom built and designed, a
lot of fascinating architecture, a lot of fascinating history of
living in Victorian times. It's part of the tour. It's
just great. It's gonna be great fun. Yes, my sister,
(15:56):
Darcy stand and Fourth is in fact the she's a
professor at cal State Fullerton. But on the side she
loves paranormal stuff and she actually works with Haunted OC
and is the official doc and she's going to be
leading the tour and they have worked together and set
aside this special Monday Night. And believe me, it's special
(16:16):
because it's Halloween week, right, So if you're gonna do
a Haunted House tour, it's Halloween week, and yet they
have set aside Monday night for just the VIPs of
our house whisper listeners. So it's all gonna get started.
At six thirty. We're gonna do a hour meet and
greet with just me and Tina and y'all on the
steps of the house. And then at seven thirty we
(16:38):
got a ninety minute tour of the house. And yes
it is allegedly i'd say allegedly haunted. Lots of really
really cool story. It's going to be so much fun.
And so that is this Monday night, starting at six
thirty down in Santa Anna, and I'm gonna give away
the tickets to our hall screener, first one that she
(17:01):
picks up, when as soon as Nikki picks it up,
two tickets to that event eight three three two as
Deine ready go, Okay, there you go. In the meantime,
I want to get back with Christine. Hey Christine, you're
still there. I'm here, I lose Okay, there you are. Okay,
thanks for hanging on, Thanks for hanging on through the break.
(17:22):
So we were talking about ADUs. So my point was,
and I you know, I wish I had a definitive answer.
How you get around this, But my point was in
larger scopes, everybody understands because ADUs are such a hot thing.
Now there, I'll give you an example in La County. Uh,
just a few years ago, guesthouse permits used to account
(17:44):
for yeah, three to five percent of the permits that
were being pulled every year. Now, now that the state
has mandated that all cities and counties have to allow
ADUs in the way that they have, they are well
over twenty five percent upwards. I think right now of
about twenty seven percent of the permits that are being
(18:05):
pulled in the city and County of Los Angeles are
for accessory dwelling units ADUs, and the state has been
as liberal with the allowances as I think it reasonably
could be without it, you know, really stepping on toes
because the state essentially the statewide ADU regulations essentially allow
(18:31):
for a full on, full scale ADU and then a
j DO meaning junior ADU. The full on ADU can
be detached up to fifteen hundred square feet depending on
property size and proportions, and the JD can be an
actually has to be within the envelope of the existing house,
(18:54):
so you can take a bedroom or an attached garage
or something like that and convert it and give it
a separate and private entrance and all of that, so
you can actually have two ADUs on your property, the
primary and the junior. And that's the state basically saying
you got to do that. You have to allow that
to cities and counties. But believe me, nobody is going
(19:17):
to step beyond. I haven't heard of a single city
and call me somebody and tell me that I'm wrong.
But I have yet to encounter a single city or
county that said, you know what, this is such a
great idea, we're going to allow even more than that. No,
they're already having their arms twisted for that much, and
believe me, they didn't want to go that far.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yep. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, when it comes to your situation, I just I
wish I could tell you there was a way around it,
but they're just like, nope, this is what you get.
That's all you get. And so you know, and you're right,
you know a lot of people are just doing it illegally,
and people who really have rational, one off concerns. But
that's the problem, of course with bureaucracy, right, it's not
(20:03):
really uh set up to handle isolated, one off, single concern. Yeah,
we'll give you special consideration, Christine. Yeah, that's that's a
rare thing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, it happens right by chance. Would you know though?
So is it true? Because I don't I know. We
it was really tough to do build the freestanding ADU.
We had to change contractors because after we signed the
whole contract, they came back and they're like, oh, we
won another eighty thousand. I'm like, yeah, no, we already
signed a contract at the peak of COVID pricing. We're
not doing that again. So we found someone new. But
(20:34):
is it true if you have the land, the square
footage for the build should not be the typical three
hundred or three fifty per square foot like today? What
is it going for?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Approximately?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yea, not all that viral areas.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, you've been given wrong information. I mean that that
was wrong information they get you were right to startle. Okay,
when we talk about three hundred and fifty dollars a
square foot, I mean if you're remodeled your house and
just adding on to your house, it's going to be
you know, on average three hundred and fifty dollars per
square foot. So no, land costs are not a part
(21:08):
of that. No, that's just the cost of actually doing
the work of new build these days in southern California.
It's not that that land cost doesn't even Yeah, that's
that's not it. That's not a thing. It's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Okay, good to know, So all right, very good, Well,
thank you so much. I love listening to you. Don't
even know how helpful you are to so many people.
The different topics that I hear you talk about, the
fire everything, fireproofing your home.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
No one knew.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
My cousins were in Lacking nat not looking at an Arcadia,
Pasadena area. Their house was skipped, but everyone else on
that street their homes burnt down, and no one understood
that the embers are the problem, not the structure where
you could try to help that if they get into
your attic that no one, Well, I didn't know it.
(21:56):
And now fireproofing, those you know, vents are a huge help,
like something so simple. They did everything for the roof,
they did this, but no one mentioned the events, no one. Yeah,
and so this is awesome news to have on your
you know, radio station. I just appreciate you all. Thank
you so much, and thank you for all the news.
(22:18):
And you always end on a fun note. That way
people don't have to always go, oh my gosh, I
don't want to hear sad stuff. So thank you again
for everything. You guys have an amazing rest of your
day and I will keep tuning in.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh, thank you so much, Christine, that's so kind. Thank you,
and I really appreciate that. And you're right, yeah, that's
something that all of us have learning, you know, building
and design and home construction. You know, it's always evolving,
always evolving. We're always moving forward, we're always learning new things,
and that that fact. Finally we got our heads around
(22:54):
the fact that embers getting into addicts are this major concern.
And I don't think it really sinks in for a
lot of people. When I say eighty percent of homes
that burn eight out of ten, Does that mean deem
that the Palisades Fire and the Eaten fire and Alta
Dina that if everybody had ember vents in those homes
(23:14):
in those neighborhoods, that you're saying that only twenty percent
of the homes that were devastated would have burnt and
the other eighty Are you saying those neighborhoods would still
be standing today largely. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
And it's not me, it's Colfire, it's it's all the
experts saying, yeah, that's exactly the case. And so we're
(23:39):
learning these things as we go. And when we learn
something so critical and crucial like that, the problem with
an ember in an attic, it's undefendable. Okay, the fire
apartment department can't get to it. You just can't get
to it until it literally burns a hole in the
roof and escapes out. And at that point the house is,
for all intents and purposes lost. And so oh yeah,
(24:01):
it's important stuff. And I so appreciate you, so appreciate
everybody who continues to listen and who benefits from the show.
We're going to do more when we return Your Home
with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer. Dean Sharp, the House
whisper here to remind you every home deserves great design.
You're like, well, you haven't seen my home, Dean. Yeah,
(24:23):
you know what I bet I have. Well, maybe not
your home, but I've seen a home like it, and
uh yeah, I can tell you with all confidence every
home has a path forward. Every home has a path forward.
It's about finding it, unleashing it. It's like once you
find it, you've unzipped the potential in the home and
everything changes. It's not about oh, well, nothing could be
(24:46):
done about this area or nothing got to be done
about that area. It's about seeing your house and your
property as a whole and finding where is the lynch pin.
There always is one, maybe more than one, but there's
always something that unlike it's real storytelling, real house potential.
Every house has it. And I'm talking about even the
(25:07):
worst of tracked homes that have been put on a
piece of property willy nilly without regard to the to
the property itself. Windows might be in the wrong spots,
doors might be in the wrong spots facing weird direct
and whatever the case may be. When you take a
look at it a whole with design in mind, you
can unleash its potential. Okay, you can do it all right.
(25:31):
I want to remind everybody that, well, actually, here here's first.
Let me do this first. Congratulations to Tammy and Jonathan Russell.
You are our latest winners of the VIP Ghost Tour
that's happening on Monday night. Tammy said she's excited to
hopefully meet us there, and you don't have to be
(25:53):
helpful about it. It's gonna happen. We're gonna see you
guys on Monday night at six thirty and we'll hang
out and then we'll tour the house together. It's gonna
be a great night. So congratulations Tammy and Jonathan. We
will see you there. Gonna give away more tickets on
tomorrow's show, The Big Show, and just to let you
(26:14):
know tomorrow, maintaining this same theme, tomorrow's show, we're calling
a little Halloween fun how not to live in a
haunted house, by which I mean there's a lot of
noises and weird behaviors that our houses as they get
older can make, you know, bumps in the night, creaks,
strange knocking sounds, hissing sounds, and yeah, your house may
(26:36):
be possessed by a demon, and if that's the case,
well I'll let you know that too. But generally speaking,
we're just taking it as a fun course of how
do we deal with all that pesky things, everything from
squeaking floors to moisture running down the inside of walls.
Not blood though, just moisture. Anyway, that's tomorrow's big show,
(26:56):
and I have in studio as my special get my
sister who is leading the ghost tour at the Kellogg
House on Monday night. We're also going to be talking
about a real haunted house, the Kellogg House, and I'm
going to talk about it from its architectural perspective, and
Darcy is gonna give us some insights into the alleged
(27:18):
paranormal activity taking place there. So you're not gonna want
to miss tomorrow's show. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna
be architectural, it's gonna be informative of course, also gonna
take your calls as well. That's tomorrow's show from nine
to noon, right here live or on the podcast later
catch us no matter what. All right, y'all, it's been
(27:38):
a great time this morning. I appreciate everybody's calls. Don't
have time to run back to the phones at the moment.
Catch me tomorrow and we're gonna spend three hours diving
into how to quiet your haunted house down, and also
some insights into what does a one hundred and twenty
(27:59):
seven year old custom, I mean ultra custom Victorian home
look like. And what can you glean from something like
that to apply to your own home. Yep, there are crossovers.
We'll talk about it all and I'll see you tomorrow.
Until then, go Dodgers and get out there into what
is going to be this beautiful day and get busy
(28:20):
building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see you
right back here tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast on KFI
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