Tesla Homes & More!

Once again, interesting real estate personalities on this episode!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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(00:38):
entertain and inspire. Bill Nebek, Welcome to the show. It
is Real Estate Matters with Stuart Title. We're so glad
that you joined us today on show number five sixty three.
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(01:00):
Forward Slash Radio. Let's get down to business. We have
a tremendous show. We assemble tremendous guests each and every week.
Today is going to be a lot of fun as
we welcome Jamie Fallon. She's the director of sales with
Next Gen real Estate.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Jamie, welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Thanks for having me. Bill, please shed ed.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, we appreciate seeing you and it's been a while.
You've been on the show a long time ago. But
let's tell people about your company.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Next Gen real Estate is a little bit innovative. As
a matter of fact.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
We are the number one social media real estate company
in all of Houston and I would say probably all
of Texas. Most of our agents, we have about two
hundred and thirty agents. They're micro influencers. Our CEO is
Julia Wang. She's also an influencer and has about four
hundred and fifty thousand Instagram followers. So when you put
your house on the market, or if you're an investor

(01:52):
and put your house on the market with next Gen,
you can be sure that it's going to have over
a million views within a few hours.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
No doubt about it. And innovation too, what could be
better than that?

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, innovation is huge.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
I mean, if you are an old dog in real
estate and you're not doing Instagram and you're not doing Facebook.
You're not doing all the things. AI is taking over
the country right now. It's taking over the world, and
you are going to be left behind.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
And let's tell people about what you're doing in terms
of leading this team. How many people are you working
with and how those mechanics work.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Yeah, I mean we've got a full team at next Gen.
We've got our CEO, we have our VP Andrea Tran
that kind of does all of our DBA teams. I'm
the supervisory broker, so I'm boots on the ground. I
deal with agents on the day to day basis, contractual questions.
I help them get developments with builders. And of course
you know before in the previous shows, I've talked to

(02:47):
you about my residential development company that I have as well.
So we have a plethora of different facets of our company,
but we primarily focus on new construction with our agents.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
And we want to we have something, sure we want
to talk about, but just give us, as you are
boots on the ground in your words, give us an
idea of the real estate market just generally here in.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Houston and pursuit right now.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Right now, we're in a buyer's market which has been
unusual since COVID kind of took over Houston. Everybody moved
here in droves. Now we're strictly buyer's market. I'm seeing
more inventory. I'm noticing that if houses aren't updated, if
people haven't taken the time to put a little bit
of money into their properties, they're sitting. The houses that

(03:32):
are renovated, though, ladies and gentlemen, fresh code of paint,
maybe some new flooring, nice little pressure wash outside.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Those are starting to move.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
So, as you and I talked about before the show started,
we both anticipate a rally at the end of June July.
I think rates will drop, as you said before, and
I think the fat is on the right track now.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
And you had something special, Jamie, a special community to
talk about that. It goes with what you started out with.
In terms of innovation. Let's talk about that.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah, innovation, love it or hate it it.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Elon Musk has come up with, of course, a very
innovative product, the Tesla product.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
I do have an investor.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
They are with Utopia Homes, the Goldman Investments. This gentleman
had dark old Goldman decided he wanted to bring Tesla
into homes. So we've got a product of eleven properties
in the heights that the oaks of Shady Acres that
has Tesla.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Shingles on the roof.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
And I'm not talking those big ugly platform solar panels
that are rectangle. I'm talking shingles and so they are
the top fire rated, wind rated, water rated, everything. And
what they do is they convert solar energy from the
sun into an inverter inside the house, into this little
box and then out it pops electricity. So you are

(04:54):
no longer on the grid.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I mean, think about that.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
How many well, how many times Bill have you lost
power in your house over the last year?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Be realistic?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
One time? Yeah, I average one time in my neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
One time in your neighbors. So you're lucky.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
You're lucky because most people inside the Loop and in Katie,
those areas Cyprus, they're losing power on a quarterly basis.
And it used to be for a day or two
at a time max. Now it can be a week,
it can be two weeks. There's people dying from losing power.
And we have record I mean this week, do we

(05:28):
not have record breaking highs coming in the hundreds And
it's May, So think about not ever losing power again,
So these houses don't have to be connected to the grid,
and so what you can also do, you can take
that energy from the house that's converted and stored in
these power walls.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's called a power wall.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
So you essentially have these batteries inside your house that
stores power and then what you can do is you
can sell it back to the grid. So not only
do you become a homeowner, you also get a thirty
percent right off from the government for having a solar
home home.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
And you can sell your power back to the grid.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Crazy, So trying to picture this this is these are
not solar panels. Now, these are shingles that are miniature
little panels, I guess.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
I mean just yeah, it's on the entire roof. It's
on the entire roof.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
And so we've integrated these shingles in this this technology
into these properties. And to do your own home it
would probably cost anywhere from fifty to eighty thousand dollars.
So if you are essentially if you're going to take
a generator or rip your roof off and change your
shingles at any time whatever, if you were to do
those two things, you're right around fifty k anyway, because

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the new roof is going to cost you around thirty
depending on the size of your house. Just to get
your house ready for a generator is going to cost
about fifteen to twenty k. So why wouldn't you be
completely off the grid and own your own power?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
And these are homes that are available right now, and
so you have this innovative technology harnessing the abundant sun
power here in Houston. Yeah, it's like we live on
the sun in these days. But it's all these are
also brand new.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Homes, Yes, brand new homes. They're right inside the Heights area.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
It's called the Oaks of Shady Acres, listed for around
five to twenty five. The larger plan is around five
forty five. You know, in that neighborhood there's also new
construction and other properties the same price, but without the technology.
So why would you buy an old dog when you
could get a new dog that's shiny and pretty.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Now, what if I want to buy two of these homes?

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Jams, you can buy two, baby, I'll show no limit
we get or.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
All right, I'll get a real discount on four. But
in the meantime, this is a very exciting thing. Yeah,
very it's exciting to know that it's available right now
people can buy these homes and again harness the sun power,
which is fantastic.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
So right, yeah, if you google Tesla Homes Houston right now,
you can see the zillions of news articles and videos
and everything have been done on and we've been on
newsweek routers, We've been all over the place, and so
it just to me the next house that I buy
will definitely be one of these products, and or I

(08:16):
might build one myself.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, it's going to be interesting. This is just the
beginning of all in terms of technology, and certainly Houston, Texas,
as big as we are and all the different things
and drivers that are going on, we're going to be
I think one of the main places where innovation comes
in every category.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Absolutely, We're chalk full of oil and gas companies that
are now starting to look at natural renewable resources and
so it's just a matter of time before energy clean
energy is it takes over the world.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
And give us some idea. You do so many things,
Jamie Old. Give us some of the other things that
you're doing in the real estate work.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
I'm a residential developer, so I just built and sold
for properties for story homes in the Emancipation Park fifth
Ward area. I just renovated a nineteen sixty five home,
and this one was near and dear to my heart
because I love those old Midisitry modern homes, and so
I added on to it, ripped the roof off, did

(09:12):
all the things, gutted it to the studs, and now
it's a brand new home.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
But I brought life back into those properties.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
So that's my favorite thing to do, is to take
the older homes and stick with the architectural renderings that
are currently there and build on them and modernize them slightly.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
It's funny you mentioned nineteen sixty five. I wasn't even born,
but me neither. That said, I was talking to my
daughter in law and we were talking about new homes
and she goes, oh, well, the new homes aren't built
as well as the old home. Well is that really true?
And tell us about in the nineteen sixty nine to
five vintage, were they really built better at Yes?

Speaker 4 (09:50):
I mean the cabinetry in these things.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
I tried to and people are going to kill me
for this, but it was old cabinets they needed to
come down. Just because the sthetic design of them. But
if you try to sledge hammer those, they're made of
solid oak.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
And I'm not talking.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Solid oak little sheets that are plied together. These are
solid oak, plywood or not plywood. But would the original
studs were still We're still standing, except for the ones
that were eaten by termites, which was.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Half of the house.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
But just know that if you go old, you're I mean,
and if it's not termite driven eaten, then then you're
in good shape.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Just add some new insulation and roll on again.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Though the new homes are I don't know how bad
they can be because they have energy efficient features, say
home insulation in some cases, and those are the kind
of things that I think you need because we're in
such a hot place and we depend on air Condi's
life support here.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, radiant attic barriers are super important. You're low e
led windows, those types of things. But in terms of
you know, being completely brick built, I think a brick
build is obviously going to be about it than just would.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
We're talking with Jamie Fallon, her company is next Gen
real Estate. What are some of the other things we
should know, Jamie.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
I mean, I think that at this point in the game,
it's a buyer's market. So if you have two nickels
to rub together, there's crazy programs out there. I'm sure
we'll hear from a lender. We hear from lenders on
your show all the time. But people can do down
payment assistance. I mean, there's there's help in every facet.
So if you have a dream of becoming a homeowner,
if you're tired of throwing away money on rent, go

(11:32):
ahead and do it. Bite the bullet, get with your
trusted lender, call me for goodness sakes, and let's let's
get it rolling.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Well, when would a good time to buy be now?

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Now?

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Now?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Now now? Because every single year, what are we seeing
houses do? They increase? They increase, your property value increases,
your taxes increase, insurance increases, and so if you wait,
then you're going to weight yourself out of the game,
and then you're not going to be able to buy.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
That's a good phrase. You can weight yourself out of
the game. Yep, buy now. I think it's a good
idea because I think things are going up and I
really feel I'm not basing this on anything special, and
I think rates are going to go down.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
But absolutely time will only it's always cyclical.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Jamie. Let's tell people how they can reach you, Jamie Fallon.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yes, sir, go to Jamie Fallon dot com and my
phone number is two eight one seven sixty three nine
eight two five, and that's Jamie Fallon dot com. Two
eight one seven six three nine eight two five.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Jamie. Thanks for being with.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Us, Yes, sir, thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Bill.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
As we continue, let's talk to a husband and wife team,
Vanessa and fi A Asuo Bene. Vanessa is with Remax
Leading Edge and pi A is with Premiere Coastal Mortgage. Hey, guys,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
Hey, thanks for having us.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Okay, Fay, here we are. We're gonna talk money in
real estate. They go hand and in it end right.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
Absolutely well.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
First of all, Vanessa, let's tell people about Remax and
geographically kind of where you're doing most of your work.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Sure, I am with Remax Leading Edge in Texas and
they are out of Galveston. I believe they are the
number one on the island. I am also duly licensed.
I am a broker in California and my company is
Exquisite Real Estate, Inc. We focus mostly on Sacramento, Walnut Creek,
San Jose area. So I'm duly licensed, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Going to guess they're number one because you're on the team.
I would hope so bye, you would agree, right?

Speaker 7 (13:27):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (13:28):
All right, Well, let's here you are husband and wife team,
and it really sounds like it's very convenient to the
people that you're serving, Vanessa, in terms of the buyers
and sellers that you right here you have fiy A
helping with the money and bringing people to be able
to put the dollars to get the homes.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
It is. It's nice and convenient, easily have your questions
answered and one stop shop pretty much.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, and of course the husband and wife element. Are
you always talking work all the time or do you
ever get Faye, tell me, is there an any a
time where you're just not discussing business and just other stuff?

Speaker 7 (14:03):
Absolutely during the day, Absolutely, all work at night or
after hours. We try not to mix the two together,
so try to keep it separate to stay sane.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
See there you are. That's there for other husband and
wife teams in the real estate world. There's words of
wisdom that they could work with.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
Right, Vanessa, Right, there's a nice balance there.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
So and tell us about just quickly we'll go back
to Houston. But it's always intriguing to hear about real
estate and other markets. And here you are. You have
a license in California, which is such an interesting state
in so many ways.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
Sure, I have about fifteen agents and we sell properties
throughout Sacramento, Walnut Creek, San Francisco, Annia, California, fabulous agents.
The market is slowing down just a little bit, but
they are still moving and there's a lot of potential
for buyers. I have a brand new listing in Atomas, California.
It is a four bedroom, three point five bathroom, three stories.

(15:00):
It's a single family home and it's priced at five
fifty square footage is twenty two forty two.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Now that's surprising because I think we have an impression.
I know I do that everything is a million, a
million plus. But here's a home that actually sounds like
a affordable, affordable home and sounds like a nice home.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Absolutely, it's a nice home. It's in a beautiful community, gated.
There's different areas, different things, different price points in different areas.
San Jose, California. That's where you're looking at average over
a million dollar.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Pro property California. Right now, we hear about people that move.
You're probably doing a lot of helping people moving back
and forth to Houston, California or not.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
There's about three hundred people that move out of California
every day. About two hundred moved to the Houston area,
not specifically from California, but two hundred people moved to
Houston on.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
A daily basis.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Say that again, two hundred people moved to the Houston
area daily.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
That's why the roads are the one. Yeah, that's why
we have more. Our listeners are increasing on Sunday afternoon
the drive time. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Well, we hear about
people that move from California specifically, and maybe you could
add in New York City, but mostly California where they
have tons of money after they sell their homes for
millions of dollars, they pay cash here, right, So when

(16:19):
you're serving people in California, are they paying cash when
they buy the home initially or how often do you
run into a cash California buyer?

Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yes, sometimes they do buy cash in California. Many times
they do finance it as well, so there is both happening.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Well, if I here, you are in the money world
helping Vanessa and others, no doubt, right, yes, And geographically
what area do you serve mostly with helping with loans?

Speaker 7 (16:43):
So Premier cle Some Mortgage is a nationwide lender. I'm
physically in Texas City. I also manage your branch in
Elk Grove, California. But we serve nationwide. We fund everywhere.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
So then you also are able to work in California.
Who would have thoughnt that? Now? We've had many a
husband and wife team, but not a husband and wife
team team that are working in both and licensed in
both cities.

Speaker 7 (17:10):
Yeah, it's a new look just with the migration of people.
It works very well. When we were from California, we
moved here, but obviously a lot of our business is
still in California.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
And how long ago did you move make the move?

Speaker 7 (17:26):
It'll be four years in November this year.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
In the areas in California you're talking about, the weather
usually is way better quote than this or no.

Speaker 7 (17:35):
Weather is beautiful in California.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's one of the good things. Yes, But then again,
if you want to fill up your car, what's the
going rate right now for a gallon?

Speaker 7 (17:43):
Right now? You're probably about five fifty per gallon.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
That amazing, and so it's quote low at a low level.

Speaker 7 (17:49):
Yes, yes, I think last year it hit seven dollars
or close to seven dollars, so interesting. Yeah, a lot
cheaper here, I'll take this.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
But now, speaking of the things that might be similar
in terms of a loan, would it be safe to
say that if I get a loan from you, yes,
by a as you have been a Yes, rolls right
off the ton of pretty nice. Huh. So if I
get a loan from you in Sacramento, all things considered,
it's the same rate as it would be here in

(18:21):
Texas City. Correct, So that's a good thing. Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
absolutely So speaking of Texas City, Vanessa, Yeah, you know
a little bit about Texas City. Describe that. Describe it
as you would to someone that is in California and says, Vanessa,
I want to move to Texas City. What's it going
to be like? Sure?

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Well, that we have a lovely master planned community in
Texas City called Logo Mar. It will consist of about
two thousand, four hundred homes. It's got a beautiful fourteen acre,
well twelve acre crystal clear lagoon with a clubhouse, two
swimming pools, two gyms, and it's beautiful. It's a resort

(18:58):
style living golf cart community.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
And what's the name of it again, Logomar. I heard
about that a few years ago, I think, yeah, has
it been around that long?

Speaker 6 (19:07):
I would say about twenty eighteen is when they started
building in Logomar.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
So then these amenities sound like they're powerful enough to
bring people into this community.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Gorgeous.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
It's gorgeous. Yeah, many people fly out of state to
come and see it. So it's nice to have a
nice sphere of influence that expands out of state.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
So we've taught you mentioned the many people that are
moving into Houston daily, and many of them are from California.
So how often are you helping people that are in
Houston and they say, I want to go to California.
Does that happen?

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Not as frequently though it's so affordable to stay in
Texas and unfortunately not as affordable in California.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
And then here in Houston. How often you run in
when you're helping a buyer, say, in the Houston area,
how often you run in into cash buyers?

Speaker 6 (19:55):
Not as frequently, I would say, I do run into them,
but not as frequently.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Interesting, well, FI tell us some of the other things
we should know about them. What should people do to
get ready for their loan? And when should they contact
you when they're going to buy a home, say here
in Texas City or anywhere in Houston.

Speaker 7 (20:13):
I would say as soon as possible. I try to
if you're looking or have the thought of looking to
purchase a home, I'd usually tell my clients to start,
you know, sixty to ninety days before you actually want
to go out to look, so we can go over
financials if we need to set them on a path
to get approved, and all the little things here, here

(20:36):
and there that go in the mortgage process. So sixty
ninety days before.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
And as you're familiar with both two markets, California more
so Central northern California and Houston, is there anything that's
different about the process or.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
I wouldn't say there's anything different besides pricing obviously, but
as far as the qualification, what's required, what's needed.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
If people are living in California where it's more expensive,
you probably see correct me if I'm wrong. They're making
more money out.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
There, Yes, a lot, that's fair.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
A lot more more than me.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
Probably nobody makes more than you.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I don't know about that before we close the segment, Vanessa,
what are some of the other things we should know
about how you're helping people, not just in Texas City
but also around the area.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Right, sure, sure, I think as a broker owner, I've
had a wide range of experience and overview of what's happening.
I would say to both buyers and sellers right now,
some things have changed. It is now the buyer's responsibility
to make sure that the agent gets paid. However, it's
always been negotiable, and for the most part, we're still

(21:48):
asking for sellers to pay that commission. Sellers should be
realistic into the market changing, leaning more towards a buyer's market,
Buyers asking for concessions, things.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Like that, everything's negotiable. Still, right, everything is negotiable, Vanessa.
Let's tell people how they can reach you.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
My phone ober is eight three two two two five
eight six four eight. Sure, my phone ounber is eight
three two two two five eight six four eight.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
And fy A, there's a lot of people out there.
They say, Hey, fy is the guy to call for
some money. How can they reach you?

Speaker 7 (22:22):
You can call her texts eight three to two seven
zero three, one zero zero eight eight three two seven
zero three one zero zero eight.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, thanks for being on the show, guys, thank you,
thank you. As we continue, let's talk to Brandon Hoague.
He is the owner of Structured Foundation Repairs in Houston. Brandon,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
Thank you, Bill, appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Well here you are. Foundations are so important. I mean
we build homes on foundations, and every now and then
they have to call you Structured Foundation Repairs.

Speaker 8 (22:55):
Yes, sir, the foundations are critical for any part of life,
but especially your home. Where the guys that you call
if you see cracks and things like that, doors sticking
cracks and the tiles, the brick things like that.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well, while I'm thinking of it, I want to ask
the question, and it's a general question our home war
homes built better years ago from a foundation standpoint than
what we're finding right here in the twenty twenty five,
twenty four, twenty three. What do you see?

Speaker 8 (23:23):
You know, the construction of foundations is pretty cookie cutter anymore,
and anymore about from the nineties on is when you
see post tension slabs being built, post tension cables or
cables that run through the slab that give the concrete
of your slab a lot of tensile strength. It used
to be that they would build slabs with rebar, and

(23:45):
we find that post tension cables are really better or
give give the concrete more tensile strength and the ability
to hold.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Together a little bit better.

Speaker 8 (23:55):
However, I still see postension slabs all week long, every
single month, so there's really nothing to tell me that
we see any reduced rate of failure. But I do
think that the post engine slabs that are newer tend
to hole together a little bit better well as opposed
to cracking up.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
And probably the thing that is on people's mind when
do they what are the warning signs? I mean, I
guess cracks in the walls and things. But when should
we call someone like you to come out and check
things out? I mean, what are we looking for? Right?

Speaker 8 (24:29):
So, when you start to see things on your home
on the exterior, things like cracks in the brick, or
separations between the window frames and the brick, if you
have expansion at the expansion joints that are built into
your brick, those are the exterior things that we look for.
And then on the interior you're talking about drywall cracks,
doors that are out of square or they stick, or

(24:52):
tile cracks. Sometimes those tile cracks can be hard to notice.
Sometimes we'll see stress signs at a home own never saw.
So it is sort of on a scale between you
don't have a problem to you know, have you priced
out demolition on this one. That's very rare that we
find that. But then you also have those kind of
in the middle of that spectrum where it's.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Not as noticeable.

Speaker 8 (25:15):
So sometimes you actually have a problem and you may
not notice it. But if you start to see those
things on the inside or the outside, that's when you
need to give us a call.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
And is the would the good news be that you
can fix the problem most or all of the time.

Speaker 8 (25:31):
The vast majority of the time, problems are very fixable
and most of the time we can fix them within a.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Day or two.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
Very very rare that I run into a house that
you just you can't fix because it's not reinforced or
something like that. I might see one of those every
five years or something like that, but that's a rarity.
Most problems are very, very fixable.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
And then when you visit a home to inspect it,
to see if there's a problem that needs serious fixing.
How long does it take you to figure that out
and then to share that with the homeowner.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
Usually takes us about an hour, that's all yeah, to
do our evaluations. If it's a larger house or something
like that, it may take us an hour and a
half or two hours. But what we do is we
draw the property up on an app that we have
on a tablet, and then we take photos of any
of the stress signs, even if they're subtle. We'll take
photos of the stress signs so that we can show you.

(26:25):
And then we take an elevation survey of the foundation itself.
If it's an old peer and beam house or a
newer peer and beam house, we'll crawl underneath.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
The fun part.

Speaker 8 (26:36):
Crawl underneath to inspect everything that makes up the understructure
of that foundation. And then what we do is we
look at deviation in the elevation pattern. We look at
stress most importantly on the house. That's the most important
thing because that tells us if and how the house moved.
And then we look at those elevations and we compare
them to the American Society of Civil Engineers guideline, which

(26:58):
is a guideline that builders you is when they construct
a slab. But there are exceptions to that. We can
have numbers that are beyond that guideline and not have
a problem, or numbers within that guideline and have a problem.
So we can't just go off of the numbers. But
those are important. But the stress is really the most
important thing.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
And when you mentioned the stress, you see where the
stress is coming from. Where does stress on a home
come from.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
So the reason that your homes develop foundation problems is
because of the soil that we sit on and the weather.
You had your guess Jamie on earlier. She talked about
it being one hundred degrees later even you know, just
in May, we're not even to really the hot part
of summer at night.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
I'm distressed about seriously, I'm not looking forward to it.
I'm excited about it. I'm happy for you.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
But anyway, what that does is it dries out our
clay based soil. That causes the soil to shrink. And
then you know, if you take your slab foundation, your
slab will flex downward, and that up and down motion
or that flex of the slab is what creates crack
in the slab and then ultimately, as those cracks propagate
through the slab, the slab starts to settle along those cracks,

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and that's when we have a problem.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Well, if someone's considering buying a home new or otherwise,
certainly that we all everyone should get an inspection, right.

Speaker 8 (28:16):
Right, So we do a lot of business with real
estate agents, a ton of business with them. We look
at homes for their buyers and their sellers, and it's
it's usually a house that has been inspected and the inspector,
the general inspector, finds an issue that he thinks needs
more investigation. Maybe there's a brick crack or something like that.
They're going to flag that in their report, and that's

(28:37):
when you give us a call. But if you suspect
that there's an issue, even if it hasn't been flagged
or the inspector hasn't been out, but you you know,
you see that crack, or you see some things that
you're concerned about.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
You can give us a call and we come out
that easy. That easy. The good news is you can
fix it. The bad news is if there's a serious problem,
while you have to tell the homeowner.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, I've sat with homeowners in tears before. I've
been yelled at, but in reality your.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Fault, it's not.

Speaker 8 (29:06):
But you know, we're just calling balls and strikes on
these things. But it really is not as bad as
generally people are thinking it's going to be, and generally
it doesn't cost as much as people think it will.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
We're talking with Brandon Hoge. He's the owner of Structured
Foundation Repairs. Just a quick word, brand and how in
the world did you get into the foundation business? Of
all the things you could do, what was it about
this profession that brought you?

Speaker 8 (29:29):
It's a good question. I actually was in the healthcare business.
I was, you know, I was a corporate guy and
was in an office every day and I hated every
minute of it. And my brother in law, so a
family member, opened up a business up in the Dallas
area and asked me if I wanted to be part
of it, and so I joined him in that venture and.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
And just took to it. It was great.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
I loved it ever since.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Here you are doing tremendous work, Brandon. Let's tell people
how they can reach you. If they're concerned about their foundation.
Maybe they want an inspection on some properties they're going
to buy. How can they reach you at Structured Foundation Repairs.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
So you can call our office at eight three two
two three oh five four nine oh. You can also
go to our website that's www dot structured Houston dot
com and you can reach us through the website as
well is eight three two two three oh five four

(30:29):
nine oh.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Thanks for being with us, Brandon, thank you for having me.
Let's talk to Steve Rosenberg. Steve is an international airline
pilot for United Airlines. In addition has been maybe still
is a real estate investor, but also does a lot
of coaching, a lot of public speaking around probably around
the world, but certainly the United States. Steve Rosenberg, welcome

(30:52):
back to the show.

Speaker 9 (30:52):
Well, it's good to see again, buddy.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well here you are doing tremendous work out there. You're
an inspiration Steve in so many ways, if nothing more
than the idea of approaching challenges. There you are guiding
leading the charge on flying international flights that in itself
is twenty shows we could talk about. Let's tell people
what you're doing in some of these things.

Speaker 10 (31:13):
Yeah, so you know sold my property management company that
I had here in the Houston market, and you know
my business partner Peton I had the way we built
it is we built it the way airlines run systems, processes, checklists,
And after we started, you know, building it and sold
it to a venture capital firm, just had people approach

(31:34):
me asking me if I could help them build their
businesses the same way. Real estate investors, property managers, realtors, roofers, contractors,
anyone in the trade industry. You know, one of the
biggest challenges is they don't know how to get recurring
revenue systematized over and over again. Well, at our property
management company, we were the fastest growing property management company

(31:54):
in the state of Texas before we sold it.

Speaker 9 (31:57):
So I show people how to.

Speaker 10 (31:59):
Grow and scale their businesses so that it can run
without them, which is processes, procedure, structure, and everything that's
needed to do so.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
And as far as when I talk about coaching and
things like that, what are you doing right now and
how are you're helping people?

Speaker 9 (32:14):
Yeah, so right now I do coaching. I've clients all
over the world.

Speaker 10 (32:19):
I'm fortunate enough that I get to travel the world
and speak definitely around the US, but all over the world,
and just I'm coaching people, showing them how to actually
monetize their business. There's three legs to a business. There's monetization, systemization,
and duplication. Monetization is kind of the way we need
oxygen to breathe, but your business needs money to survive.

(32:40):
And a lot of times we focus on systems or
these back end things, but we don't actually focus on
making money. And the problem is is if your bank
account says zero, it doesn't matter how great your systems are,
you have no money and you're going out of business.
So a lot of the contractors, trades, realtors, they just
they don't focus on the craft of being a communicator.
They don't focus on the craft of selling, closing and

(33:02):
understanding that they're solving a problem and you have to
have a solution for them, and they don't focus on
that part of it. Which communicators are the most successful,
wealthiest people on the planet, not from a monetary standpoint,
but just from a standpoint that they're able to communicate.
I get a lot of people that will say, well, Steve,
I'm not a salesperson. Well, they actually sold themselves on
the idea that they're no good, so they actually made

(33:24):
the ultimate sale. So if talking to your spouse about
you want Mexican she wants Italian food. Talking to your
kids about cleaning the room, talking to your employees about
your vision. All these things is selling. So it's just communicating.
People just have an averse mindset over money. So when
I say selling, they think they cover their pocket thinking money.

(33:44):
It's not money, it's just communicating. So what I'm doing
is I coach people and show them that they need
to focus on that before they focus on anything else.
Money solve short term problems, it doesn't solve long term problems.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Well, and I say this, here is Stewart Title National Company.
But I remember one time years ago you were actually
in Australia and I think you called me on the
phone and you actually had a Stewart Title Rep that
was in Australia. Remember that.

Speaker 10 (34:09):
Yeah, I was in Sydney and yeah, we're having lunch
and well the Stewart Title Rep down there.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
So we're almost everywhere. But let's tell people the unique
experience that you have, and more so, the unique responsibility
as an airline pilot, especially international, as you're trying traveling further.
I mean, so many things come into play. You're responsible
for so many lives that are on board if there's
a mistake that's made, and the systems, processes, and procedures

(34:39):
are paramount, right, But what you've learned in that role
and the role that you're still in, and you've applied
it to business in a fascinating way through these decades.

Speaker 10 (34:48):
Yeah, you know, I remember when this kind of epiphany
came to me. We're building our business, and we're building
it so fast that we're actually putting ourselves into bankruptcy
because we didn't have any back end structure. And so
I happen was is one day I fly Boeing seven
seven seven, and I was sitting at the gate and
I was going.

Speaker 9 (35:05):
To take it out to Tokyo.

Speaker 10 (35:07):
And as I'm watching this plane, so if you imagine
the size of this aircraft, it's seven hundred and seventy
thousand pounds, It holds three hundred and eighty passengers. It
is the length of a football field, and one of
the engines is the size of a seven thirty seven
fuselage airplane. So it's like an apartment complex with wings basically,
And so this massive thing, it's just huge. When it

(35:29):
comes up to the gate, I'm sitting there and I'm
watching this, and as I'm watching, it's called the dance
in our industry. But I'll just explain it for the
people to understand. Is you have three hundred and fifty
passengers getting off the aircraft. Cargo bays are opened and
all of their bags are offloaded and dispersed everywhere else
either other aircraft or to the baggage carousel that's miraculously

(35:49):
where they are going. You've got cleaners coming in and
they're cleaning the inside of the aircraft, all the trash
and everything out. And then from the other direction, you
have catering, water, consumables, food, all getting restocked. Then you
have the fuelers. So this plane bill it holds two
hundred and fifty thousand pounds of fuel. It takes one
hour to high pressure fuel this, so they're hooking up

(36:11):
these huge, massive fuel lines to fuel this thing. Maintenance
is walking around, they're checking the tires of the wheel,
structural integrity of the aircraft.

Speaker 9 (36:19):
Then you got the flight attendants.

Speaker 10 (36:20):
They're in the back, they're checking safety of flight items,
emergency exits, oxygen, and the pilots we are up in front.

Speaker 9 (36:27):
We're loading the flight plan.

Speaker 10 (36:28):
The computers, the routes, we're talking about emergencies, alternates, deviations,
everything that could happen to get the aircraft from A
to B safe, secure and on time. Okay, during that time,
three hundred and fifty passengers are reboarding back on this
aircraft and all of their bags are somehow miraculously found
from where they were connecting or originating, loaded into the belly.

(36:51):
And in one hour, this aircraft pushes back and not
one person had to talk to anyone else to do
their job. Now, this could be in Sydney, Australia, London, England,
Los Angeles. To me, when I saw this happen, I'm like,
that is a perfect system, twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week. And I thought, why can't we

(37:11):
do this in our business, Why can't we run our
business the way airlines run? And the answer was we
could and we did.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
And your Steve Rosenberg spreading that word on a daily basis.
But no, it's an incredible but just the picture you painted,
an incredible display of massive display of teamwork in that
special way. But then let's take it out. You're on
the plane, you're flying the plane with your with your
co pilot, buddies, your Buddies three hundred and fifty of

(37:39):
my favorite teends. Are you ever over the Pacific Ocean?
You say, Wow, I can't believe I'm doing this?

Speaker 9 (37:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 10 (37:46):
So I grew up in Los Angeles and I remember
as a little kid, I didn't know anything about planes,
but I remember looking up in the sky and seeing
these aircraft coasting out, going feet wet over the water,
and thinking, I.

Speaker 9 (37:57):
Wonder where they go. Like I just remember thinking, like,
I wonder where these things.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Go, flying around, flying around?

Speaker 9 (38:02):
And now I do that, and now I you know,
I go to Australia.

Speaker 10 (38:05):
I'm just I just flew in from Hawaii this morning,
and I'm that guy now, and I think, I wonder
if there's any kids down there thinking the same thing.

Speaker 9 (38:11):
That I used to thought.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
I bet there are.

Speaker 7 (38:13):
I bet there are.

Speaker 10 (38:13):
You know, because it's it's I tell people it is
the best job in the world. People say, well, if
you're so successful, why do you quit. I'm like, where
does it say that you should quit doing what you love?
And I truly love. I love traveling in the world.
As you know, I go everywhere. I've been to every continent,
except down Arctica and almost every city in the world.

Speaker 9 (38:32):
And I love it.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
I just I love it, Steve. Let's tell people how
they can reach out to you if they need encouragement
or anything else.

Speaker 10 (38:39):
Yeah, first thing, can go to my website Steve Rosenberg
dot com. It's r O Z E N B E
r G. I'm on all the social media channels, Instagram, Facebook,
if they want to see me traveling, where I'm at
in the world, all those things. I'm pretty easy to
find if you google me. I speak all over I
do a education event every month actually here in Houston, Texas.

(39:00):
And if anybody calls or reaches out to me and
they mentioned your name, I'm happy to give some sponsor tickets.
To sponsor tickets, I do them every month in Houston,
and I show people how to grow and scale their
business and how to be the leader they need to
be to grow that business.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Sounds good to me, Steve Rosenberg dot com.

Speaker 9 (39:18):
Right, that's it. They can do that.

Speaker 10 (39:20):
It's area code eight three to two, four nine, six, eight,
five seven eight.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Thank you, Steve, Thank you appreciate it. Real Estate Matters
with Stuart Title would not be possible without our partner
Stewart Insurance with a focus in real estate and a
special focus on real estate brokers. Stewart Insurance creates insurance
plans to address the risks facing our industry today. They
invest a significant amount of time helping real estate broker
owners offset and manage their risks. Here he is just

(39:51):
flew in from Texas A and m John Bramlett.

Speaker 11 (39:53):
Well, thank you, Bill, I appreciate it. Actually I just
flew in from an HMBA board meeting, but that's right.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, Well, we're going to hear some interesting things about
your role as it's evolving with HMBA pretty soon.

Speaker 9 (40:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (40:05):
Well, we'll have a conversation about that in the next
month or so.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Super awesome. Well what have you brought for us today, John.

Speaker 11 (40:11):
Well, we spend a lot of time talking about coverages
that we offer in and depending upon what needs are,
what insurance plans make sense. But the other part of
our job at Stuart Insurance is to help people manage risk.
So if we can do some things working with whether
they be individuals or real estate businesses, to help them
manage risk. And all our risk is is the probability

(40:33):
of something bad happening. So if we can do some
things to minimize the chance of something bad happening. Then
we don't have to worry so much about needing to
have that insurance used on a regular basis. So part
of what we do working with our clients, especially on
the business side, is help them minimize those risks.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
And it's always a good idea to have a feel
for what our risk, what our exposure is as we
move through month to month, day to day.

Speaker 11 (40:58):
Well, we found, you know, through our studies and just
you know, our experiences, that there are eight kind of
factors that can contribute to a realtor or a real
estate broker and the risks that they come across on
a regular basis. And so when we're working with realtors
or brokers, as we begin to make that or build

(41:20):
that insurance plan, we always talk about these risks and
how that they may or may not affect their business.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
And of course, Stewart Insurance you're there, you and the
team at Stewart Insurance, You're there to help people, not
just here in Houston, but all over the United States.

Speaker 11 (41:35):
Absolutely so, whether we're dealing with the real estate broker
here in Houston or elsewhere within the US, as we're
beginning to build that relationship, or as things have changed
within their business, part of those discussions will have will
be just as you know, many times, just as a
reminder of the risks that they face every day, because
that's half the battle. If you're aware of those risks
that are out there, then you can do things to

(41:56):
minimize them.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
That's right. And of course we think about systems and
procedure at Stewart Insurance. Your team also practices systems and
procedures to help ensure people are properly insured.

Speaker 9 (42:08):
We do.

Speaker 11 (42:09):
We want to make sure that we have these conversations
and that the folks understand. You know, we understand somebody's business,
we understand what their needs are, we understand what their
concerns are, and based upon those some that are known
and some that are unknown, then we've got a better
chance of building that proper plan.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
That's fascinating John. As always, insurance people love the insurance
segment and they wander week to week, what's he going
to talk about next?

Speaker 11 (42:31):
Well, and again it would just be I'd like to
share some of those risks that the folks see every day,
just so the one that they can be aware of
them and then two, if it makes sense, we can
sit down and talk about how we can build a
series of insurance plans that can help offset those if
if those situations were coming to play, and the areas
are factors that we see that really come into play,
are you know, the property condition in history, So making

(42:53):
sure that we understand the best we can what's that
property condition, what's that history of the property, and what's
the history of the neighborhood, because our clients are expecting
us to be experts and understand that. Going hand in
hand is what's that value.

Speaker 9 (43:07):
Of the property.

Speaker 11 (43:08):
We don't want to be in a situation where we've
overvalued it and that's hindered the sale, or we've undervalued
it and when the sale occurs, somebody feels like they've
left money on the table. So we want to make
sure that we work through those kind of things area
specific hazards. If we have somebody moving we talked to
about earlier, somebody moving from California to Houston, they may
not be able to spell hurricane much to understand what

(43:29):
the devastation could be, or that Texas city might have
a different concern than another part of the city, or
another part of the greater use scenario. So understanding those
area specific hazards and being able to share that with
our clients is important. How we establish business relationships. Who
are we referring? Have we done our homework on those
that are we referring, Because if there's an issue on

(43:52):
somebody that we referred, it's going to come back on us.
So I'm not saying don't make referrals, just make sure
that we're comfortable with who we're referring, that we've done
our homework on them. You know, how do we manage information?
You know, we're we're all remote at some level in
today's world, So how are we managing that information? How
are we protecting that information? Because what we have on

(44:12):
our clients is really private stuff, and these bad actors
get a hold of that, they could do some significant,
significant damage. Hand in hand with that is how do
we communicate electronically. We're finding through our interactions with brokers
and with realtors that more and more people are wanting
to interact via text. And that's great, it's fast, it's convenient,

(44:33):
we can move things along, but you really can't get
a feel for how somebody's feeling, what their true concerns
are you're limited to how much you know, how much
of a message you can deliver, so you know, how
we're communicating electronically is critical, but it's also again another
avenue for those bad actors. Because our tent and tent
is to share positive information and help move the process along.

(44:55):
Their intent these bad actors is to steal your money
or steal your information. So how we use electronic communication
as critical? Social media and advertising again a great marketing
tool and one that we're not saying don't use. But
again our intent is, look, how happy my client is
that they did business with me, or here are the
types of homes or services that we provide that would

(45:18):
allow you to accomplish the goals that you have for
you and your family. But again there's folks on the
other side of that coin that their intent is, hmm,
how can I steal money? How can I steal their information?
How can I infiltrate that business? So we just got
to keep that in mind as we're as we're using
social media as a tool. And then the last one,
which we don't see as much anymore, but just the
travel reliance. If you remember early on you would go

(45:40):
and pick up your client and you would take them
around the city and show them homes. And you know,
to today's market with people with Google Maps and with
Wave and with Uber and Lyft, you know, you can
get around and meet people at homes and it's just
a safer, less of a riskier situation because if you
have somebody in the car with you and you were
to have an accident, you've got some responsibilities. So we

(46:02):
you know, we talk about those situations that potentially could
be at risk with our clients just to make sure
that they understand them, and then we can also share
with them ways that they can offset those risks. Well,
if you would like to be properly insured, if you'd
like to have that discussion about what are the risks
that are out there in ways that you can minimize
those and then make sure that you have the proper

(46:22):
coverage so that you can offset that exposure, we'd be
happy to have that conversation. And you can reach us
at Stuart Insurance at eight six six seven ninety eight
two eight two seven. That's eight six six seven ninety
eight two eight two seven. You can learn more about
us at Stuart Insurance dot com, where you can email
us at Stuart Insurance at Stuart dot com.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
You know, John, I was on the walking trail, you know,
I walk every morning get exercise, and I ran into
a guy and he said he's in green trails that
were there in Katie. What numbers should he call? He
said he wanted to be properly insured.

Speaker 11 (46:52):
Well, the green Trail's number is eight sixty six seven
ninety eight two eight two seven.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Let's talk again to Jamie Fallon Amy is with Next
Jen real Estate. Jamie, here we are the final minutes
of the show. What else do you want people to
know about what you're doing?

Speaker 5 (47:08):
Well, I do want to give a call to action
to any real estate agent that's struggling out there that
maybe needs an extra push. After listening to Steve Rosenberg speak,
he's we're pretty much in the same alignment. And what
we do we turn people from moderate producers into killers.
And our job as real estate agents is to educate, educate, educate.

(47:31):
We have one of the top education programs that I've
created at Next Gen real Estate, and we will teach
you number one, how to speak to people, how to
be around people, and how to be better with people
because at the end of the game. Real estate's a
people people game, right. AI can't replace that human connection.
So if you are interested in bringing your brokerage to

(47:53):
an action, we have a DBA program and just look
us up on NextGen dot com or Jamie Fallon dot
com and contact me at two eight one seven six
three nine eight two five. Again, that's Jamie Fallon dot com.
Two eight one seven sixty three nine eight two five.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
And you mentioned texting and everyone texting calling. I mean
people prefer texting by and large. I'm fan, but you
know what, Jamie, I'd like to pick up the phone
and talk to the person and say hey, even if
it's someone I'm looking at a listing and say Arkansas,
I'm looking at buy property here and there. I want
the person to answer.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
I like me too, Me too.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
The phone number again is two eight one.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Seven sixty three nine eight two five.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
And I'm gonna just say it one time. You are
Jamie Fallon, not because Jimmy is Fallen, because you're better
to have on the show.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Come one, look at me, Jamie.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Thanks for being with us. Vanessa and faiy A. As
you open a they are back money and real estate
all to get you know, right, there money in real estate.
That fiy A is just a powerful combination, and that
it's under kind of sort of the same roof is amazing.

Speaker 7 (49:03):
Right, absolutely definitely connected. Last word, if you're looking for
a mortgage, there is a loan product available. So whether
it's FAHAVA, USDA down payment assistance, construction loans, a lot loans,
helocks which we all offer at Premier Coastal Mortgage, there's
something available for everybody out there.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
No doubt about it. And the good thing is that
a dollar in California is still a dollar in Houston. Absolutely,
so there's no the money changing, No good to know, Vanessa,
what else should we know about real estate? Right there?
You're and tell people again where you're serving buyers and sellers.

Speaker 6 (49:40):
Sure, I serve buyers and sellers in California and Texas
and Texas, mostly Texas City. I don't sell solar, but
I do sell homes with solar, and in California they've
been mandating any homes built after twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
To have solar.

Speaker 6 (49:55):
That's sold quite a few. I would say, not all
solar loans are the same. There's a difference between a
pace solar loan and a regular solar loan, and if
the homewer doesn't reach out to a realtor and get
educated before they put that solar loan on their property,
it could make the difference between a short sell for
a closure or a traditional sale.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Once again, super awesome that you guys are connected and
helping people with that power, that connections power.

Speaker 6 (50:22):
Think. You can reach me online at Texas makethmove dot com.
That's Texas makethmove dot com. Or you can reach me
by text or sell at eight three two two two
five eight six four eight.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Number GIN is.

Speaker 6 (50:39):
Eight three two two two five eight six.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Four eight and fire your phone number.

Speaker 7 (50:45):
GIN is eight three two seven zero three one zero
zero eight.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
All right, guy, thanks for being with us. If I
ever want to move to California, I'm gonna call you, Vanessa,
call me all right, and I'll bring dollars cash. Here
he is as we close things down. It's Brandon Hogue,
owner of Structured Foundation Repairs here in Houston. Brandon, final word.
So those foundations are cracking as we speak, unfortunately, but

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you're there to help people.

Speaker 8 (51:12):
Yes, sir, Summer is coming and summer is when these
issues start to get with that right, if you have
existing issues, they're going to tend to get worse. If
you don't have issues, you can develop issues. And that's
because of our hot, dry weather. You know, possible we
might get some storms in here, but a lot of
our summers tend to be hot and dry. If you

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see things that you think are problematic, now now is
the time to call.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (51:40):
You can reach us at eight three two two three
oh five four nine zero, and you can also visit
us at structured Houston dot com eight three to two
two three oh five four nine Oh.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Thank you, Brandon, And we're gonna give you another word
with Steve Rose. With Steve, is there any room in
the cockpit there if I want to just tag along?
Or do they allow or they frown on that?

Speaker 9 (52:06):
I guess anything you want Once.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
There's the words to live by. So the final word.
Speaking of that, Steve, we'll give people a little motivation.
It is someone right now is saying I'm going to
write or something quick. Motivation.

Speaker 10 (52:18):
Look, I think at the end of the day, it's
it's we're halfway through twenty twenty five. Yeah, it's a
it's a new economy, it's a new era, it's a
new everything. My question to people is is it a
new you? Because if you're still working with the same
mindset and the same business plan that you had in
the last economy, the last administration, the last whatever, COVID,
and you're thinking that you're going to be successful when

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everything is changed, but you haven't.

Speaker 9 (52:42):
You have to change the change.

Speaker 10 (52:43):
And I get a lot of people that, you know,
they they want to be successful, they want to be rich,
but what they really do is they complain about it,
and they talk about all the problems for months and years,
and it takes a second to decide that you're going
to change. It doesn't take months and years. It takes
a second to decide you're gonna do something different. And
if you don't decide, indecision is a decision. Steve Rosenberg

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dot com, r oz, E, n B, e ERG or
they can find me on all the social media channels.
And I do have business summits here every month here
in Houston Dell.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
People there you go. Sounds good to me and I
want to say thanks. You know, our show is put
together with a great team, and today we have Anne
Pruitt right here. She's the branch manager of our historic
office in Galveston. It's super awesome. She's doing tremendous work
right there, along with Lisa Burris, developing business in a
magnificent way. Not to mention Stacey Tearheimer, Katie Texas and

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Full Shirt doing magnificent work right there. Reach out to
any of our business development people wherever you're at, certainly
here in Houston, we have about seventeen or so. Go
to Stewart dot com and once again the unforgettable Kevin Davidson.
And it's Kevin that used to work with Steve Rosenberg
and it all comes together. Sometimes it takes years, but
Eavan's doing fantastic work work. Reach out to him and

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sugar Land and Ford Ben, Kevin Davidson. It's phenomenal. And
we thank you all for listening to Real Estate Matters
with Stuart Title. I am your host, Bill Nappick, together
with all of us at Stuart Insurance and Stuart Title
end John Bramlet with Stewart Insurance. We appreciate you listening.
Simply go to Stewart dot com Forward Slash Radio. You
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