The Troubleshooter 5-15-24

Yeah, d News need advice, so you don't have come runcious as fast as we can. Shooter's gonna help come. Man, this is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino. Hey, I'm Tom Martino. Welcome to the show. Three oh three seven one three. Talk is our number. Three oh three seven one three eight two five five. If you have a problem, a question, or complaint and you need help with anything, give us a call. We got all kinds of things to talk about. And I'm

going to start out by saying that congratulations to Colorado. We are now the third most dangerous state in the country. So I thought you'd like to hear that. I was downtown last night the third most dangerous, the third. I mean, think about this, think about this. It's unbelievable to me that that I don't know, we're just we're just that bad. It's according to US News and World Report. Now, this ranking is based on all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stats on arrest convictions, all that,

And of course, what did Colorado do. They shifted eleven million dollars. Well, Denver shifted eleven million dollars from the police department to community outreach, and they decriminalized stealing cars and what else. I mean, it's just I'm moving back to New York City. We're safer than Denver. Now did they say that? I didn't see who who was ranked here? I guess the ten most dangerous states in the US. Shocked the hell out of me.

I really, what do you what do you think the most dangerous state is? Did you look it up? Don't google it? Look? Tell me which one you think is the most dangerous? You got one, doc? I got. I would only say Illinois because Margo Mark New York. You know what? Now, this is US, this is US News and World Report. This is what they say FBI stats, and it's the Okay, here's what it is. Ready, the they you have the safest, the

unsafest, most dangerous states. New Mexico is number one, Louisiana's number two, Colorado's number three, Arkansas for Washington state is five, Tennessee is six, Alaska is seven. What the hell? Where are they getting these? Says? Eight is Oregon, nine is California, ten is Missouri. Now, these rankings are weird. Weird. Now, as far as economies go, it's weird. The economy is not that bad in Colorado the actual economy.

So what do you think has the best economy? In course, now this is again US News and World Report, and they did the economy based on the well you wouldn't call it gross domestic product, but it is kind of like it's got to be California, right Tom, The number one, the best Florida really, yeah, number one. It has the best business growth and employment. Idaho a is tecond to Florida. Utah is third.

Colorado comes in fourth for economy. It's a robust economy. And you know, so there are you know, there are good and bad things about Colorado. The weather, of course you can't be Now. The point is this is that right now, crime is the big deal. Mark, When you went downtown, what did you think it's by the way one area? We were going to stop into a particular brewery down there, and I am telling you, man, for a four block radius, there was nothing but homeless

wandering around. They look like zombies, and there was no normal people anywhere, not one normal person anywhere. We decided to hit the bricks and go somewhere else, a different part of town. But I'll tell you, man, if I didn't have a concert to go see last night and one I really wanted to see. There is no way I'd go downtown. It's a hell hole. You know, I didn't. I don't want to start at the show like with a with a downer. But all I'm trying to figure

out. What I'm really trying to say is is that we sucks as a country right now. I don't know what happened. Everyone says COVID, and then other people say Trump. You know, since twenty sixteen it was Trump's fault. I mean, I don't know why. I mean, but I have not heard one person in my life say it's Trump's fault for a crime. Mark, Mark, I'm not talking about crime. I'm talking about the

country and everything. You hear it all the time. Blame I mean, Biden even blamed him for inflation, which, by the way, now let me tell you he's leading all the swing states, a lot of them by over ten points. Now let's talk to Mary. Hi. Mary, By the way, we love solving problems. And again, I don't want to be a downer, but these are things we need to talk about. You know why Hey talking? Yeah? So down, Tom? What's that not a down if it's reality? Yeah? Now, hold on, both of

you. I just want to tell Mary, we'll take you right right now. Hold on, go ahead. Mark. I'm sorry, Well we saw George Thoorgood. I did not realize this guy's like mid seventies. I think he's seventy four or seventy five. He's popping around on stage, killing it on the guitar. It just remarkable. Man, A man of that age up there doing what he's doing was just phenomenal. I just it's encouraging, isn't it. I like that. I like to see that. I'll bet

you could do that. Tom, You're in a great shop. I here's what I say. In ten years, I can be president. I'll be old enough to be president. I made that joke at Mark's dad's birthday. I said, now you're old enough to be president. That's right anyway, So Mary, what's going on? Can you hear me? Okay? I can, Mary, thank you? Okay. Just before you came on on the regular news, it said doctor Jill Biden and Gay's medical information about heated

interiors of cars. She is not a medical doctor's Oh she's not right. I know what is going on? Well, I just think you know anybody people grab onto people grab onto credibility, issue things for credibility. I mean, she she does have a PhD. But but you're right, I mean, here's the deal. I don't know. I don't know. I just want to forget that. Whoopy Goldberg wanted her to be the surgeon general too?

Are you kidding me? I am not kidding you. Whoopy Goldberg on the View said that she wanted doctor Jill Biden to be the surgeon general. You know, technically, do you have to be a doctor to be the surgeon general? Do you? Technically? I don't think, for example, you have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court justice. I mean I think pretty sure you do, do you? I don't know. I mean I don't think you have to be a lawyer to be a judge. Look it up. I'm looking it up right now. To be on the

Supreme Court, I don't think so well. I might as a medical doctor. I think what they should do is call people who are not medical doctors professor, so that you differentiate them and you don't have this confusion. Yeah, Mark, I mean doc always had that thing he was he was upset about, and I don't blame him. Sometimes PhDs overstep, especially if they have a PhD of nutrition, they start giving medical advice right now, listen

to this. According to Professor Bing, you do not have to be a lawyer to be appointed to the US Supreme Court, nor do you have to be a lawyer to be a judge. The Constitution sets no explicit requirements. How about that, now, no age, no education or job experience. I was in Colorado. In Colorado, you have to be the nominee has to be a qualified elector of the state of Colorado, licensed to practice law in Colido for at least five years? Is that to be a Is that

to be a Supreme Court? Hey? Colorado, Mark, listen to this. The Supreme Court, according to the US Constitution, it does not require citizenship. Wow. Well, if you think about it. They have to be nominated by the President. Then they have to pass Congress. So I mean, really, it's pretty hard to get there, as we all know. So Mary make your final comment. Okay, she's gone. Okay, let's go to Pamela. Hey, Pamela, I'm Tom Martino. What's going

on? I'm mister Martino. What's happening? I have a squatter in my home? Oh no, yeah, do wait, wait, wait, you really do have a squatter in your home or do you have them in a rent to love yours? And my home is rented out? I'm sorry, Yes, it was my rental property. He is now gone. Is that? Oh? Is that the one that you called us that your son caught? Oh? This is another one? Okay, yahness? May I ask

what happened? How did it happen? Okay? He was doing some work for us, cutting our yard, and someone must you know, because it was just my mother and I. So some handyman work. Yes, she'll be ninety tomorrow. And what happened? So this guy's doing some handyman work? And what happened? So he knew a lot about us information and the people that were reading my property who got in October? So because we're Enjoygia for medical procedures. So I had her to give him the key to my

home. Oh. Now, did he claim that he had any kind of an agreement with you? No? How'd you get him out? Set up a court appearance from quit via telephone? And he didn't show? Okay? And then did you get a rent for eviction? Didn't have to do any of that? Did he leave on his own. He's a cat. And not only was he squatting in my home, he was trying to rent too, yes to some people eight hundred dollars a month. I found all this out. Oh, I remember during COVID. This happened to some friends of

mine. During COVID there were some tenants listen to this that moved out and stopped paid rent, stopped paying rent and they couldn't be evicted, but they moved out. Then they rented the place that they did not own that they were getting rent free thanks to the government and COVID. They were collecting rent on a place that they were not paying on because of COVID. Do you remember that Mark that was the most neighbor gave I call and that happened to

him. So they were renting a place in Castle Rock, nice house, you know, and they they weren't paying any rent for a year and a half. And on top of that, they were renting out the basement in a room to other people, if you can believe that, and collected money. So fimiliar to my situation. How horrible. Now, what else do you have going on? What you called about insurance? Yes, because with him squatting the majority of what needs to be done is because of what he

and oh what happens thing? You know, we have never asked that question. I think to Brian Burns, why don't we Why don't we get Compass on because I'm gonna I have a feeling we're gonna need him. Hold on, we'll come right back to you. All right, let's talk about this. Anyone else with a problem, question or complain, give us a call. That's what this show's all about. Let's kick some ass. Let's fight for our rights. I'm Tom Martine. Don't forget waterpros dot net. The

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all three seven seven one help. You'll think you're his only customer. When you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hey Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three all three seven one three talk three all three seven one three eight two five five. By the way, mark you missed yesterday. Drew called in. He was asking about you, and that'll up to you, man. What was he He was upset. Listen to this. His

insurance. He could not get a quote on his car from State Farm insurance. Now he's never had State Farm before, so it's not like they knew him. And they said we don't want you, but they not give him a quote, and he was very upset and he's wondering why. Well, we found out why he actually did have an issue. We ran a clue report and he has an open pip personal injury protection here, the pip acclaim, And what Compass told us is that they will not open a new policy

for someone who has an open claim on personal injury. So that's what happened. And I had our signature sound for Drew. Listen, tell me if you think this is apropos, it's perfect anyway, let's continue with pam here. She had a squatter, she evicted the squatter, and then she has a claim and we're trying to get compass on where do we stand on that? Kachina And hey, Pamela, what did your insurance companies say? You know, they called me busnit train numbers and said they've called back in a

day or two, which more than likely they did. However, I was in the doctor's well. It doesn't matter they if you missed a call, that doesn't negate your claim. Are they going to fix the damage or not? They I have no idea. They have not called me. I've been calling for two weeks, oh three or four times a day. You know, it's very curious. If someone broke into your house and destroyed stuff, you would have coverage. Now, now is this this is a little different.

Remember this is a state farm. We're talking about one of the worst companies in the entire world. Oh, you know, I just I want to ask these state farm agents right now. I want to ask them, how do you sleep at night? I swear to God, if you call in, I will give you the utmost respect, But tell me how you sleep at night? Knowing you can't give people the best option in the insurance world and you're tied to one company, and how the hell does that work.

I'd like to know that. I'd like to know how you do it. I have been reduced to tears because do you have an agent? Do you have? Wait? Don't they say like a good neighbor, state farm is there? Is? That? The song? Got it? Hey, Pam, do you have an agent? I do, and he has not. He has not called you back. No, and the case was put in a march sat Wait, did you call the agent? I'm not talking

about the company, not the claims, not the adjuster. Did you call your local agent, like a good neighbor he is there or she is? Did you call that day? Oh, you didn't call your local agent to find out? I want to listen here. I'm going to give you some homework. I want you to call him today telling you we're on the radio, and I think it's atrocious. You have not even heard from anyone, and you're looking at a bad faith lawsuit. If he doesn't get you action,

then call me back. I mean it. Okay, that's all we're gonna do. I'm gonna give you some homework. You call your agent. You can call me, you can call me back. Even now, let's talk to Compass insurance that they're are expert here. They have nothing to do with State Farm. Now they do the insurance checkup, by the way. That means they will check to see you're not over insured, under insured, that you're not that you're not paying too much. So, uh, let's

see who's there. Jeremy, Hey, Jeremy, listen, man with a squatter. There's damage done that would be covered by homeowners right, okay, I yes, that should be vandalism. Okay. And can they say in the case of him being a handyman and she let him, she didn't let him stay, but he just started staying there. Can they turn it around in any way and say it was her fault for hiring him or anything. Could they turn that into more like he should go to his insurance or you

know, with that change anything. So the handyman is the squatter, yes, exactly, and then he's left, he has since left, Okay, I mean it was if it was a case like a normal case where a handyman, you know, caused a bunch of damage, right, typically you could still go to your Oh okay, would Okay. I mean a lot of that is on intent though, right, So that's the part with the

squatter, you know, like they're not supposed to be there. It's a lot different than a than a tenon right, because what we yet a lot of times with vandalism is hard living versus vandalism. Was this malicious? Did they intend? No? No, you're I see that? What if? What if they were a squatter? Now they left, but while squatting there, he's just a mess. He just you know, dirty and all that. See, when does it become discreet it to be any damage a squatter

would cause, it is intentional because they're not supposed to be there. Okay, excellent, Yeah, hey Jeremy, how about if your house was empty for a long period of time and a squatter kind of broke in after I don't know, let's say it's been empty for a couple months and a squatter breaks in and creates all kinds of damage. A lot of police these are going to have vacancy exclusions that will kick in. Usually it's sixty days,

but it could be vary by company where they're going to exclude vandalism. So you got to be careful on a vacant home. We're seeing a lot of these right now where people will want to keep their policy and just kind of ignore it and you know it's vacant, but it's always best to deal with that and get a specific vacant home policy or a policy that's not going to exclude that vandalism because a vacant home where squatters could come in, you certainly

could have some issues of coverage. Hey, when you said when you said just the vandalism part, the other perils. Let's say you're not in your house for ninety days or a half a year, whatever it is, and forget about that. But a storm comes through and you have hail damage. Does it not pay out for the hail damage either? Do those perils get covered and just vandalism is not. Every company is going to have different exclusions,

So for everyone listening, make sure you check yours specifically. But the two big ones are going to be vandalism and then issues with freezing. So they don't want like if the home's vacant, they want to make sure you're you know, turn your water off or keep the heat on. You can't just ignore the home because we know, you know, if you don't win orize it and you're not heating it that you're going to have problems. So the idea or you know, if it's vacant or yeah, if it's vacant

at some point the you know it's going to get vandalized. So their typic the spirit of it is to exclude damages that are very likely to happen. But every company can write their own as far as what they want to exclude. But typically I would say, hell would not be an issue. Okay, thank you very much, Jeremy. Not the hal's going to happen, so yeah, so what the hell that anyway, Jeremy. Compass Insure Group and remember home of the free insurance checkup three oh three nine nine six nine

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Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three O three seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five shoe canos with us My Money, Myway dot com three oh three seven of a nine sixty six hundred. He's one of our financial extors we talked to, a certified financial planner. Talks about retirement and talks about fixed indexed annuities. He's got like fifty seven of them, and he also does overfunding

of life insurance. And in my opinion, that's kind of like, well, I don't I hesitate to call it an an annuity, but it's a way to raise to have income tax free, and it's also a way to grow tax free. And for those who maybe don't have a giant lump sum, it's an excellent product. And it's a trick that a lot of people do. They purposely overfund life beguers now, Joe, I know you want to talk about both, but can we talk about the life insurance product?

Are you still doing that? Okay, I'm going to go to Justin now. Justin is online one, he has an employment issue? Justin what's going on with you? Hello? Justin I We'll talk to Joe later. Justin what's happening? Yeah? I just had some employment issues and soon where I can go? I mean that work for I'd rather not give you the name, but it's a pretty big, well known company anyway. They treat certain employees different depending on what department you're in. Yeah, what's going on?

Manufacturing? And they're not wanting to give us half hour breaks? They're telling us that they're paid now. Now hold on, So this is a regular w two hourly position? Is that right? Correct? And you're supposed to get a half hour break every four hours? Is that how it works? I'm not exactly sure. I know that you're supposed to get one and then you know, like a ten or fifteen something anyoney of it? What kind of employment? What? Wait? What kind of employment is it? It's

manufacturing? Okay? Can you give me an idea without giving me the company, like like an assembly line or what? Just help me out here. We manufacture products, okay? You managed? Like? Is so you're in a shop right with other workers and you're all sitting there and you all start at a certain time and it's piece work, is it? Is it like piece work running machinery? Okay? Got it? Now tell me how tell me? I need to know a few things here, because there are circumstances

where that could change. So you start at what time generally around six o'clock okay, and then you work till when when is your day over two o'clock okay? So it's exactly at two o'clock seven eight, yeah, eleven, twelve, one two, So that's eight hours. So what they're doing is they're letting you work the eight hours because if they add the brakes, do you understand that, like if they add an lunch hower, you'd be there

nine hours. Right? Do you take a lunch hour? They don't give it to us, right, because they're they're doing for pay us for eight hours and we're there for eight hours. That's exactly, that's right. That's what I was getting at now. Whether or not that's because hold on, if they add time for your breaks and stuff, you know, it just goes on the back of your day, right, They don't have time. They just pay you the exact No, no, bro, bro, I'm

not saying that. I here's what I'm saying, let's say you make one hundred dollars for the day. I mean, I don't know what it is. Let's just use that figure. Now, you're there for eight hours, you make one hundred bucks. Let's say, or make it easy, you know, whatever figure you want. Now that's for eight hours. If they add a lunch hour, they don't pay you for it. So you'd be there nine hours and still make the hundred bucks. Right, but it wouldn't

be an hour and be a half a hour. Okay, well either one. What I'm saying is but some workers would rather have that break, right, And is that the way you feel? You don't care if you're there, say two thirty, as long as in the middle you get a break, get some sort of break. No, I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. Why don't they do that? Then? I mean, you're not asking for extra money, you're asking to take a break. Yeah, And I don't know. They just

tell us if you want it, you need to clock out. And then even if we need to go to the bathroom, you can't stop the machine. Oh wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait, wait a minute. They're telling you you're there eight hours straight with no breaks. You're supposed to get a thirty minute unpaid meal break for every you're not allowed that they're breaking the law. Okay, no matter what, even if even if they I mean, what I'm saying is they're not breaking the wall. They're still

paying you for time work. But you're not supposed to work more than five hours straight, right, right, And even if we need to go to the bathroom, you used to be you could hold the machine and go. Every four hours is a ten minute break, right, And we don't get that. I mean, like I said, even if we need to go to the bathroom, we just to be able to hold the machines. Now they're telling us, nope, you need to come find a supervisor to cover you. Well, okay, hold on, hold on, Like wow,

that's weird, that's weird. Yeah, it's getting pretty bad. I've been there for a very long time, and within the last couple of years. It's just from what I'm from what I'm reading about the law, they're doing it wrong. But now what I mean, in other words, how many workers are there? Quite a few, and everybody's about set up with it, and nobody it seems to me it's no skin off their back for doing it. Now, Now, did they say, if you want to break,

you can take the break. You you clock out and take the break. Yeah, then at that point, then you lose that eight hours and you don't get paid eight hours. Wait a minute, you lose it? You mean you lose the thirty minutes of the eight hours. You lose the thirty minutes. Yeah, you don't get eight hours for that day. I

understand how they are allowed to do They are allowed to do that. In other words, if they're saying you can take thirty minutes unpaid, and now we're so you're only going to be paid seven and a half hours, they can do that ten the ten minute rest breaks from other jobs they're giving us those, Yeah, the ten minutes aren't subtracted from pay. You're right now,

correct the ten minutes. Listen, no matter what. Okay, let's let's just conclude whatever they're doing, they're not doing it one hundred percent correct. So I mean, I'm with you on that. The problem is what do we do about this? In other words, I'm thinking, what does it get you in the end? Wait, great a second, I'm a little confused. If they're getting the ten minute rest breaks. They're not four hours or not. We're not We're not getting anything. We're straight eight hours.

Yesterday I left without a single meal all day. But let me let me put you. But you can clock out for lunch if you want, right, Yes, if you get prission and somebody's able to cover you, yes, Okay, Well, I mean yeah, I read here, but I'm not sure that's you know, what, do we have any labor? God, we don't have labor at anymore, never have. It's the most difficult area of law because waged workers can't afford attorneys, and attorneys don't get

clients. I mean, okay, I mean they're kind of like, man, we wish this place, we could turn it into a union. I mean, hold on a second. By the way, you can do that, but hold on a second. I think there is something you can do as a group and it won't get you in trouble. But I got to take a break. Hold on three oh three seven, one, three eight two five five. Go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance

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Welcome to the show. Okay, so we are here to solve your problems. We hope justin. But here's what I think you need to do. You need to call wage an hour. These are good people and they will enforce it. I think they'll keep you anonymous or you go as a What they might do is shift your shift, your your hours. They may just start, you know, it's from six to three. They give you the half hour, or excuse me, six to two thirty. They give

you the half hour, and then they're going to have to implement. Now, Mark was asking, and I know what he was I think I know what he was going to ask about the ten minute break every four hours. What happens at lunch. What happens is you work four hours, you can take a ten minute break, and then the next four hours you would take a lunch. Is the way it would work. But in some cases where people work overtime and stuff, that's where the extra ten minutes would come in.

So no, no matter what, they got to do something. So how do you guys get a different way job? Man, If you're so unhappy with them, go find something else. Oh yeah, I've been looking. Yeah, I've been looking. But Mark, don't you really think seriously that he's got a good case. I mean, in in liother words, that this man I had fifty I had fifty employees hit to Good Years store, and not one time did any employee I have over the years go, hey, we didn't get to take our break. I just never even heard

of such an issue. Yeah, but when different kind of work, Mark, it's a different kind of work. They're they're not doing piecemeal on a bench or on a on a drill press or on a machine that they were like doing cars and they could get a cup of coffee and they you know what I cou Yeah, I think that's a whole different thing. Really, if you think about it one time in my life, and I think it was a reason for some of my success and and and monoicums, you know,

a moderistic success as far as a life. But I just loved having the experience when I worked at a factory. I worked at a factory after school for about a year and and it was terrible the factory work. And I know what he's talking about. When you do piecemeal, those breaks mean a lot. So justin that's what I would do. I mean, I I I really it's the only solution. Go with a sure thing Denver's Best

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us My money, myway dot com. Last hour, I asked them about alternatives for people other than the stock market, although as I said, we're not recommending you do all of one thing ever, But when it comes to a lump sum, a fixed indexed annuity can get that lump sum growing with a guarantee not to lose. It can also give you a guaranteed income for life. And when it comes to other things, overfunding life insurance we talked about now. Joe introduced me to this many many many years ago, where

you buy life insurance and you overfund it on purpose. And the purpose is not really the life benefit, although the death benefit although it does help. The real purpose is to accumulate tax for earnings and then you start drawing it out as policy loans and it does create kind of a tax free income. Now it's not an annuity, but it still has the same protections. I mean, you're not going to lose, right, Joe, that is right. You know, Tom de life insurance policy is guaranteed and tax free.

And people today, you know, they're tired of a couple of things. They're tired of paying high income taxes and also they are tired of losing money in the stock market and also finance charges. Look at mortgages. You know they're seven percent or more now. So the key is this life insurance policy. You can put money in and a gross tax deferred, and then you can take the money out income tax free. Think about that, income tax

free, so they can do their own financing. The name of the strategy is called become the banker, because you and essence become your own banker. I have done it myself. Was on Jordan. He'll be in, he'll be at the studio year later. But I mean you can ask him about it. He got his first car and he financed it through his life insurance policy. He paid that off to the life insurance and that he bought several other things. It's a fantastic strategy, totally different than the annuity life You

know, they become the bankor policy is for today's needs. People need it today to finance or purchases. The annuity is for retirement. Yeah, and and and so can the UH. Like I said, the overfunding of life insurance can help finance purchases. You pay it back with interest, you grow even more money, and that can be used in retirement too. I mean, let's face it, Joe, a lot of people don't have enough to put in an annuity. That would make a difference, is what I'm thinking.

Now, I'm not I'm not saying you know so, so this to me is like a poor man's annuity, and I don't even want poor man's it's it's it's a good tool. And that's really what I love about it is that anyone can do it. Absolutely anyone agree. I agree. I mean, anybody can do it. They just have to be in good health. That's the main thing. Oh yeah, okay, that's a good point. That's a really good point. Right to qualify for the life insurance with

the reality there's no qualification at all. Okay, listen, what do you think about the uh what do you think about the ideas that people have about you know, like you hear all the time people talking about the stock market, day trading, they talk about all kinds of How about real estate? And there's a guy who, by the way, I trust him. He's a good guy. Locally, he advertises they're not real estate trust, but he teaches you how to get involved in real estate where you buy and rent

out places. And there's a management company that takes care of before you and all that. Everyone but they all try to have one thing in common. They're trying to invest your money right, or get you to invest your money right. So tell me, seriously, now, what is the difference with what you're doing with the fixed indextinity or the life insurance. I would say the biggest difference is one hundred percent safety. That's what I would say that

that is right. I mean, you know, it's amazing that you mentioned this right now, because I just met a couple yesterday. You know, they're in their fifties and they're making a good income, but you know they're highly, highly worried about the stock market accounts that they have. They told me, you know, I'm we're in our fifties right now. We're going to start thinking, you know, maybe in about ten years or twelve years,

I'm going to be retiring. I want to keep my pool of money that I have built up on my four to one case and I erase totally safe. I don't want to play the stock market anymore. I've seen it go up and down. I mean, look that up in in two thousand and eight. I mean, people lost a lot of money. So the biggest concern that people have that I'm seeing right now is the ability to keep their money safe. So you're absolutely right. Safety. Safety is the key

to the annuity. You can grow your money with safety, and then, just like the couple that we met, they want to have a guaranteed income for the rest of their lives. This is what people really want to guaranteed income. Thank you, Joe. I'll be back to you. If anyone has any questions, give us a call. You know, let me just say something about Joe as a certified financial prayer. I'm serious. You can ask them about other things too, not just about this stuff. If you

have any questions about financial planning for your family. Hey, Doug, what's going on with you? Hi? Doug, Hey, how you doing today? Good man? What's going on with you? Yeah? I called in while just trying to find initially find a if you had an attorney that might be able to help me out with this. What's going on with is a lot of times people think they need an attorney. We're able to help. I'm not saying you don't, but what is this situation? What is the

situation? Sir? I have a F two fifty diesel truck that inadvertently had unleaded gas put in the tank. How was it in? Who put the gas in there I did. I was doing a dozen different things. And as soon as I knew it, And so what did you? How much did you put in? All? Probably about twenty twenty gallons fifteen gallons of what exactly what kind of gas? Unloaded? Okay? And what I mean what octanes? You know? Eighty seven properly okay? So so tell me

did you what did you do after that? Did you drive it? It was in a fuel line of pumps, so I turned it on. I drove it about a hundred feet. That was probably turned on. So you didn't realize you did it until you didn't realize you did it right away, then until after you drove a hundred feet. In other words, you didn't pump it. I pumped it in and realized, Hey, I just put an unloaded in my diesel and I have to get it out of the way of the pump. Got it? And oh okay? So you drove it

about one hundred feet and then what happened? And then I had it towed to a shop? Okay? And what happened then? Help me and my son son act went with the toe down to the shop. And what what year truck is this? So twenty thirteen. Okay, and so tell me about what's going on. Now. Why do you think you need an attorney? Well, we dropped it thinking that we need the uh can't dropped, U drained, thrushed, Yeah, fuel you know a couple of things in

fuel line and yeah fuel pump. Uh Huh. So I didn't hear anything for five days. Okay, So you dropped it off, didn't now when you dropped it off? My son dropped it off for me. Okay, did you ask for an estimate? Uh? No, we just uh you just said that, Hey, this is the situation. We didn't need the can't drop, drained, flushed? Uh. And what's the name of the shan It's called uh v R Auto or VR Truck and Auto Repair. How'd you find them? My son's used them before. Okay, Okay, so

hold on a second. We'll come back to you. I want to I want to know what's going on with it. And it was there for five days. We'll come back to you. I'm Tom Martino, and I hope it's not a real serious issue. Well, I don't know. Hang on more. Right after this, go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for

an insurance check up free, no obligation. In comparison, call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three all three seven seven to one. Help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here, let's go to the phones and help you. Hey, listen,

Doug. He had his truck taken into DNR. Thinks I already said DNR right, yeah, And it was for having unleaded gasoline in his diesel tank. So he took it in to be dropped and drained. What's going on now, Doug? What's happening? It was there five days then? What? Well? I hadn't heard anything, so I called and find out what was going on. I thought maybe they were waiting on part or something.

Uh. And I talked to Rick and he said that, uh, that that he had already started to work, and he assumed I wanted it done. Something was dropped there and I said, well, well, usually when you drop a car there, it does give permission to do the work usually, right right, okay, I mean by the by the Colorado or a repair Act, it's assumed you want work done when you drop it off. You're not allowed to drop it off, okay. But but also under the

Colorado Repair Act, they're supposed to give you an essay. So what happened? So he soon I wanted it done with giving me an estimate, and he had already started it. I said, where are we at now? And he said, twelve nine dollars. No, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you mean twelve thousand? What do you mean? Yeah? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, come on, come on, How the hell, How

the hell do they spend twelve thousand dollars of your money? Well, apparently, what they did they dropped the tank and they replaced everything new, from the tank to the fuel injectors. But who said that had to be done. Nobody said it had to be done. They just did it. No, no, no, man, this is unconscionable. This I would say if it was going to be a squabble over a few hundred bucks twelve thousand dollars and he hadn't gone to the hadn't yet put on a fuel rails and

the injectors yet. So I'm probably going to be looking at a fourteen thousand dollars bill. Oh no, you're not, man, I can't believe. Honest to god, this is weird. No, listen, okay. I mean my question is basically, yes, I wanted to tank dropped. I wanted it taken care of. I wanted a new tuel. Let me ask you some did a trow truck drop it off? Yes? Was it after hours? Yes? Damn it? You know what, I'd have to double chip that with my son because yeah, but you did your son talk to

any hold on? Hold on man? If it was dropped there after hours? Did anyone call him or did he talk to your son? He's only talked to my son. Uh, And I told him I never received a call from him. I've never been to the shop. I'm not asking that. I'm asking one thing. Only did he talk to someone? Did your son go and talk to him? Yes? Okay, here's a few things I want to get straight with you, because you're thinking he needed to do certain things. When you drop a truck off or a car after hours at

a repair shop. You are basically opening yourself up. You are saying, fix my truck. Okay, that's what you're saying. Like it or not, it's been decided in the courts before. That's what you're saying. However, however, I'm not sure that allows them to get by the estimate. They may not have to give you a written estimate, but I'm pretty damn well sure they should call you for a verbal and an okay correct? Oh my god, So what did the guy say? What did you say to

the guy? Did you say, what are you kidding me? I just said what And he said I was like to say, what twelve thousand dollars? And he goes, yeah, it's a forty hour job? And well, well no, did you say that's Come on? This sounds crazy? Doc? Doc? Or is doc? There? Are you listening to? Doc? I can't believe you. You got to call this shop, but first let me look up the auto Repair Act. We got to look up

a repair act, my god in heaven. And I actually did turn it into my insurance company and they actually said that they would cover it under my comp insurance. What wait a minute, they're gonna cover your stupid mistake. Surprise me. But they said all I needed was fourteen hundred dollars worth of work to get it back on the road. Oh, so they're gonna pay,

and you know what, they're probably right now. Listen, I just looked up the Auto Repair Act. A repair facility cannot proceed with repairs without written consent of the owner, which includes estimate of repairs. Now, I think there's a difference. Now, here's the exception for vehicles that are towed in or left after business hours. In such cases, the repair facility is allowed to perform work up to one one hundred dollars for parts and labor without

the owner's consent. For any repairs exceeding this amount, the facility must obtain oral or written consent, so they're not required to give you a written estimate. If it's dropped off before or after hours, however, they must still get you an estimate and get repairs. They can't win this now, Doc, Doc, I'm gonna send this to you, Okay, I want you to call them. I'm gonna text this to you, Doc. Jeff.

We've got Jeff. Okay, we can get Jeff. But I mean, as far as calling and stuff, I want to I want duck so I want to bring Jeff up. Jeff vic Kimera transmission. Jeff, are you there, I'm here, Okay, these listen to this. He dropped his car off. I mean, this is crazy. He dropped his far off, and I just I can't believe it. They charged his truck was filled with gasoline instead of diesel. He had it towed there and dropped it off after hours. He calls back five days later and they say, oh,

we're already almost done with repairs. It's going to be like twelve grand so far, twelve thousand dollars Jeff. Now, under the Auto Repair Act, they don't have to give him a written estimate if it was done, if it was dropped off after hours. However, they still have to get his consent if it's going to be more than one hundred bucks. Are you aware

of that, Jeff or not? Yeah? Yeah. If it's towed in, or if it's brought in outside of normal business hours, then there's an automatic consent for the small amouth something like one hundred and twenty five hundred. That's right, that's right, it's one hundred plus you're right plus ten percent or twenty percent something like that, or twenty five you're absolutely right. Then what then you got to at least call the guy and give them an estimate,

right, Yeah, they don't have to be in person. You can document it on the tip as far as who you talk to, what time of day, what phone number you used, or if it was done by facts or email or whatever the case may be. And then who was to talk to him, and what you talk to them about, and the actual price. My god, this is so what's the recourse? What's the recourse? He can't charge them, that's what the recourse is. He can't charge him. He has to refund thirteen thousand dollars. Basically, well, he

doesn't have to refund. You didn't pay it yet, did you, sir? No, I was trying to figure out what my options were. Well, you know, but here's where I look at it. Doc, doc, it's their problem. Okay, it's their problem right now, call them. It's their frick problem. I don't care what they say. It's the law. And he can go and listen you take in the court, but you may have to get an attorney now because these guys, these guys are overboard. They're overboard. I mean, I don't care who that. They're

overboard totally. They don't just get to start doing this, and you know I don't. I've never heard of this place before. Where are they forty one South Federal? Hey, Tom, do they still have his car? Yes? They still have my car. I was going to go try to pick it up today. And unfortunately I'm going to have to put that of fourteen thousand dollars on my credit card because I don't have that. Hey, listen, they're not going to let you as soon as you bring this up.

Okay, you we need to call. Do you want us to call them or not? Because I'll swear to God if they're doing you wrong. Well, the problem is I don't want them to hold his car hostage. That's that's the whole thing is. I think what I need to do is go ahead, go down, pay the pay the bill, get my vehicle, and then go from there and then Cassidy and then you can contest a charge. Yeah. Now, Mark just texted. Mark just texted and said he thinks there's no way. You know what I can do? I can

call Mark on my I can call Mark on Google boys. But I'm going to take this break. Man. Are you sure, Doug your son did not hear from them at all? They have had contact with my son. Okay, hold on, hold on, don't ever tell me. Listen, he was your agent as far as I'm concerned, he was your agent, and if he gave them any indication to do work, you're screwed. Hold On, We'll come right back to you with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer

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Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here, let me bring up my colleague here, Major Mark, Major, Hey Mark, did you hear that game? Did you hear that guy say? Yeah? I texted you there's no way this shop. First of all, how did they even know what to look at. This is what I heard. The tow truck dropped it off at night. And then the next

communication was there's a twelve thousand dollars bill. Find it impot right now, let's talk to and by the way, just so people know, you do consent to repairs when you drop a truck or a car off before or after ours. However, the shop must still if it's going to be more than like one hundred and twenty five bucks, they must still get you some consent from you, whether oral you know, verbal consent I mean, or written

consent. Now, we used to have for the people that dropped off in the middle of the night, not necessarily a tow truck, but we would have these envelopes. You put your keys in and you would fill out what work you wanted done. You could put in a dollar amount in check a box and then you would drop it in our key drop. So, I mean, I find it impossible this shop just did twelve grande. Now, Doug, here's what I want to know. After it was dropped off by

a tow truck after hours. What was the very next communication, Doug. Well, since my son is an agent, I think I'm screwed because I just got off the phone when I was on hold, and the para shops said they have to order a kit that is designed specifically for this, and they ordered that kit. What does that have to do with your son being an agent? Your son? If your son told them to proceed, tell me what happened, because they can't be blamed for that. What happened?

Did your son tell them to proceed? Proceed with ordering the necessary parts to get it done? So? Yeah, but they still have to give them a price, did you know? I mean, if he authorized it and said just fix it, order the parts, I mean, that's authorization, now, Doug, Doug, I guess that could be. I didn't parson into the law that much. I guess that could be. You're supposed to get an estimate though market. That's what the law says, even if not

in writing, you should get it. But then it says verbal consent. So this is a screw job. Doug. Did you talk to your son? I did. I just got off the phone with him. Oh, I thought you said. You just got off the phone with the shop. So your son said he gave them permission to order the parts. Is that right? That's correct and in order. Wouldn't hold on though, come on, it wouldn't be permission to who the hell brings it to a shop and

gives permission to order the parts. Only he gave permission to fix the vehicle. That my assumption. Now as well, I didn't know, Well, of course it is. I mean, come on, if someone if someone I call up and say this is wrong with your car and we need to order the parts. You want to get it fixed, and they say, yeah, order the parts, get it fixed. Now, hell, that's his consent as it gets. Now let's let's consider this mark. Okay,

let's say they did nothing wrong under the Auto Repair Act. Now let's ask about the repair itself. That doesn't give them a license. I'm not saying they did, but it doesn't give them a license to cheat. Now, if it ruined that, if it ruined that engine, twelve grand on a diesel, that's probably right in there. Man, Well what did they do for twelve grand? That's what I want to know. Or you say they have to go another couple grand, it's going to be fourteen? What did

they do for it? What they have completed? And my assurance suggessor said, it looks looks like a great job. The fuel tank all the way to this. Why, here's what I'm asking you. Did it have to be done? To my knowledge and an adjuster's knowledge, says, running it for that short period of time, the fuel contamination probably didn't even get to the fuel rail, So no, it did not have to be done. Jeff Vic you have some comments from Kimmeer Transmission. By the way, one

of our experts. Go ahead, Jeff. I just had a question about the sun because he can't legally all authorise if he's not eighteen or older? Is he? Is he a minor? He's older, he is an adult? Okay, Jeff? Does it sound that Jeff, if someone took a truck into you and it had unletted fuel put in it, can you fathom spending this is that two fifty diesel twenty thirteen? How many miles on a DOUG? I think one hundred and sixteen thousand, can one hundred and one

to one six? Can you fathom spending twelve grand on it? Jeff? It could get up there for sure. Yeah. The GAFF can do a lot of damage and a very short amount of time. All right, You know, if the company listen if this auto shop, unless if they're outright thieves, I mean, even if they're a little high priced. I mean, I don't think they're extraordinary from what I'm hearing. But you would have had to fix it anyhow. I mean, what's the difference here? What

were you going to do if you brought it somewhere else. Let's say they did call you and your son didn't authorize it. What would you say, Oh, just keep the truck or where would you have done with this? Maybe got another got another estimate. I'll wait till the adjust adjuster gets out there and take before you do any work, because I have to say. The adjuster said they could have got it back on the road for about fourteen hundred. I that's I don't know what they did. He say what they

would so subjective. Yeah, that's an adjuster, that's not attack. That's so subjective. But but in fact the guy's an ass for saying that, Well, that's what the estimate from all? Jeff or Jeff Okay, did the adjuster itemize what would have been done for fourteen hundred? Yes? What did he say? Replace? Am filter element replace? And then brings all a few pump as Lie pair and replace, or do the fuel tank,

fuel pump plus the fuel pumps, clean the fuel tank plus. Okay, so Jeff, does it sound like it could have been done for fourteen hundred? For fourteen hundred, I found a little low. But that's the far cry from twelve thousand. From what I meant. There could have been somewhere in the but that stuff, that stuff he just named, Jeff, wouldn't you someone comes in and says, hey, we put gas in our diesel. I mean, wouldn't that be the minimum where you have to start everything

they said? And then as you're doing that stuff you would find out other damage. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So what who cares what this adjuster said? If he didn't tear it down, he didn't find the other issues. Here's what we need to do. Well, first of all, you should pay for it and get it out of there, and then have it analyzed. I mean, why you can't have an anlyes. Everything's removed, everything's replaced. Yeah, everything's going well. Maybe they still have some

of those parts. I don't know. I don't think there's cores on a fuel rail or anything. And here's the other thing. Tell your kid to start mowing lawns. Did you Well, his kid didn't do it? Did he? Oh? Who did it? I accolutely put it in, So here's who did Yeah he did, but run out fifteen twenty seconds? Would the gas get Jeff? If he ran it for fifteen or twenty seconds, let's you even say a minute, would that happen? I mean that fuel

goes through their fast, right, Jeff goes through there very quickly. Yeah. Only about a third of what's going up to the fuel rails going into the engine. About two thirds go back to the fuel tank's cooling. Yeah, so fifteen twenty seconds are running, Jeff? What would have happened if he just drained What if it would have happened on his own if he would have just drained it and filled it up with diesel? What would have happened

in reality? Really after running rough for a few miles? What it wouldn't have ruined the engine? Would it? Well, you have incomplete combustion because you don't have a sparkbook, So yeah, you can definitely ruin an engine. Oh really, all right, listen, but Jeff, thank you? By camera transmission the website Transmissions Denver dot Com three oh three six nine three fourteen hundred. Any last words there, Steve because I mean not Steve,

Doug because I feel really bad for you. But once you said my son was the considered the agent, well, now listen, I'm not going to give you legal advice, but here's the point. You need to check with someone. But I'm pretty sure that if it was dropped off and you gave your son authority to do it, and your son told them to pursue Seed, it would be damn near hard to say that you know they violated anything.

I mean, don't just think common just think common sense. What is every repair shop gonna have to track down the owner, not just track it down or for all they that's exactly right, for all they knew he was the owner, and then they have an action against your son. I mean, the whole thing would get messy, Doug. If they did the work and quality work he've said, Look, price can get up there. I don't know, man, the worst worst case scenario. You have something that

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deals with them along with his father Joe. But I always like real life experiences, Steve. What was your situation? This is a real life situation, Steve. Go ahead, Hi job, Thank you. So Steve, do you did you have a lump sum in retirement or did you contribute to an annuity? How did you come about an annuity? Well, I retired from the Boulder Valley School District in twenty sixteen. I had a modest investment with Voya initially and with Empower later. The modest investment was about sixty eight

thousand dollars. And was that in a four to oh one K or what what kind of investment? Was it? Four oh one K and a four fifty seven? Got it? And it grew over the years up until COVID. It grew from about sixty eight grand to ninety two grand. Okay, after COVID hit I in the past three years or so, I lost twenty four thousand dollars. Oh my god, it was It was not on me because I'm not smart enough to manage the investment, and so Empower and Boya

managed it for me. But I ended up losing twenty four grand. And I listened to you every day of the week, and I've learned so much, thank you and thank you Steve. So I thought, well, why not talk to Joe. Yeah, And so Joe sold me an annuity with what I had left from ninety two down to sixty eight thousand dollars. And I got an annuity of darn near seven hundred dollars a month until I'm dead, no matter how long I live. Is that wonderful? And you got

and did you get? Also on top of that, did you get a bonus going in I'm not sure whether that was included in the ash burial or not. And it's something I've been meaning to ask. Hey, let's ask Jordan. Jordan, was there a bonus when he went into that? To make up for some of that loss he had. Typically there always is. But did you turn it on immediately the nuity? Oh yes, rather than wait a year. Yeah, good, yep, that's beautiful. So I

turned it on immediately. And how old are you right now, Steve ibbab seventy eight in July seventy eight. And here's the good part about this. You have a guaranteed income and if there's any money left, it goes to your heirs and you can't lose a dime. Correct. Yeah, it's great, No, no, it really is. You You typify a great exemple. You had a very important nest egg and it grew and then all then you lost everything it grew from. You know, you know, all that

growth you lost. So you said enough of this madness, you know. Yeah, I want to see thank you yep. And I and I did not want to have to go back to work. Yeah, well, thank you, by the way, and thank you for everything you've done as a teacher too. Listen, here's what I want to say that this is a great example. You see the stock market, they were investing money and they made some money for this guy, and then it went right back to where

it was now here's the deal. The stock market is not a bad thing. It can be done conservatively safely. It can make money, it can outpace inflation. It can. But once if you get your money, you can't depend on it for retirement. The lump sum doesn't stay a lump sum. And and that's what I'm getting at, is that, sure a fixed indextinuity has you know, once you do it, it's it's it starts growing at its own rate, and then you have the guarantees and all that.

And sure you could make a hit in the stock market that would be bigger, and then you can lose it, and then you can make more, and then you can invest in other things. But as you get older, that volatility you don't want. Jordan, Isn't that how you would put it? That's exact. Yeah, that's exactly how I'd put it. It's I always say it's a great way to earn interest, just like a stairway effect. You're gonna go up when the market's up, get the interest, but

the mark comes down and crashes. With these accounts, it locks in. You can't go lower and go negative, just like Steve refer to in that previous annuity. So you're your spot on the This is a great way to grow money, give you income for the rest of your life, and on top of that long term care. Yeah. And I don't mind people if they're in the stock market as they as they're younger middle age or even getting

upper upper middle age. But at some point what you should do is harvest some of the gain and preserve it, and then if you want to still continue to invest, fine, you know That's what I did, Jordan. I I took a lump sum out of my four oh one k, but continued my four oh one k. I mean, and it's in the stock market. I mean, what you don't want to do is put everything at risk in the stock market. And that's the whole point. Hey, anyway, can I give an example? Yes, go ahead, you go ahead,

Doc. I did a lump sum and I got to guaranteed UH income with a minimum of three percent every year. So on the minimum of three percent growth is what you're saying cost of living, right minimum? So yeah, on the on the adversary of my purchase, it's the stock market. If the market goes up up more than three percent, I get whatever the market went up. If the market saved the same or went down. I get to three percent, no matter what, you know, that's a good

option. What is that called, Jordan, What is that called? Cost of living? Yeah? Usually it's like a like the income writer. It allows to step up. So some of them called income writers, some of it just call you know, like roll up, you know, and so it's just a great way that he just like docs saying, there is just a great way to allow your money to continue to grow. Here. Paycheck's better for the future, whether it's inflation or just like you said, cost

of living increase here in Colorado especially, Yeah, thank you. Three h three seven one three talk seven one three two five five. Jay's got to comment on that gas diesel issue. This guy had a truck and he puts some gasoline in the in the tank instead of diesel. He drove he said, one hundred feet called the tow truck and he's facing now twelve to fourteen

thousand dollars in repairs. What is your comment, Jay, Uh, just to start as it's pretty crazy, but I think and you touched on it briefly, but from my days when I was in mechanic, I'll tell you people that bring me things that have been to shop after shop after friend after shop, and I'd always say do you have the old parts, and they say no, keep your old parts. Always tell them you want your parts.

Then if there's something going weird, you can go back and look and see, Okay, this was fine, we can put it back on. You can take it back and come and stick this. Keep the parts. If it does run into a problem, you can always take your old parts with you to someone else who can evaluate the situation much better with your old parts available. Thank you, Jay, And under the Colorado Repair Act, you have a right to get those parts. Thank you very much. Three

O three seven three eight. Yes, this is Deputy bo. I have a comment about uh diesel case. All right, let's look after this. I also want to take Diana, who has an identity theft issue, and uh it's let's get started with Diana at least for a few, for a few for a minute here, So Diana, what is this issue? Well, first of all, thank you so much for taking my phone call. Unemployment is coming after me over wages that I did not claim for. Uh.

Oh are they saying that you got unemployment and you didn't exactly? Yes? Oh, okay, well, we have some contacts there. Hold on, we'll come back to you on this and it'll be a warning to others. Plus, we have some people that can help with this. We do have some good contacts. I'm Tom Martino three oh three seven one three eight two five five go with a sure thing Denvers Rufer Excel Roofing dot com.

You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance checkup free no obligation comparison call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out Now three o three seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three oh three nine to zero sixteen twenty two. So Diana says she's being pursued by the Division of Unemployment,

saying she received benefits she should not have gotten. Diana explain, how did they con how did they contact you? Well, it's kind of the long story, but away I first thought the notion that something was wrong. I've been working at the same company for over two years, and my HR approach man said Diana, why is that unemployment telling us that your file is a benefits like I'm not, and I haven't been for quite anyway. Moving on, well, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Did you ever get unemployment? Yes, but I haven't been unemployment forever? For how long? Oh gosh? Maybe four years? Okay? All right, fine, So maybe during COVID Oh gosh, I don't know how long ago was that, like for let's say in twenty twenty, right, twenty twenty, yeah, twenty twenty. Anyway. One of the crazy things about

the whole situation, I went on my account to unemployment. Yeah. The dates that they're claiming that I called in tom is the dates that I've been working at the company I've been working out and they even took me to court. I did file. Wait wait wait, how long how long were you on benefits when you were on them? Oh gosh, I don't know, maybe six months or so if that. I've never been an unployment much longer

than maybe five or six months. Okay, now hold on, So then, y you say they took you to course, So when did they make this claim? When did this claim first come in you that you owe them money it's been about two maybe two and a half years ago. And like I said, I've been working at the same company, Diana that long, Diana. Hold on, you're calling now about a collection effort that happened two and a half years ago. No, when did they start? When did

they start pursuing you for collection? What was the first time you heard from them for collection on? Just a few months ago? Okay? Got it? So a few months ago they came after you for benefits you supposedly got a years ago. Okay? Exactly and why and how much did they say they wanted? Well, this is going to get kind of goofy. As birthday, were telling me seventeen hundred okay, and we went to court? And why did you go to court? That's the part. Why did they

sue you on? Because they wanted their money and I kept telling them I don't owe you guys' money. Okay? Are they talking about Are they talking about the unemployment you got during COVID or are they talking about something that supposedly happened after that when you started working right right after that, when I started working as the dates that they're claiming that I are they saying that you were

working plus getting benefits exactly, that's exactly what they're saying. That's yes, Well, did your benefits stop when you when you started working at this place? No, I don't know, because again I did not get any money from this. Okay, I don't know where that money went to, but I didn't get When did you start at this new job? It would have been okay, what was this twenty four? Then there for two years? Okay, it would have been in yeah, January of twenty two. Okay.

And so in court, what did they prove? They didn't. They didn't really prove anything. They had a they had a witness. So you won? Did you win? Not? Because the judge told me, he goes, Diana, do you have proof that you filed identity theft and sacked? I put a claim in the on the website. You don't know that. I just need to know this. What did you win or did you lose? Obviously lost because they have a collection agency that is taking money out

of So you got a judgment against you for how much? Well, to begin with, it was seventeen hundred what is it right now it's almost three thousand. I'm very confused about that. Oh my god. And because it's a default and not a default because it's a judgment from the courts for fraud. You're not going to get out of it. You you missed your chance. You missed your chance to defend yourself on this. Apparently the judge didn't believe you. Did you claim that there was identity theft involved? I tried.

I did call the police department out here where I live. I finally found the opposite that took my complaint. No, that's not what I'm asking I'm asking about in court. Did you claim that, yes, it wasn't you who applied for benefits? Yes, yes, And the judge didn't believe you. The judge says, you have no proof exactly, and I've never heard that you have to prove your innocent. So you said that you did not collect these benefits. Do they have a record of where the benefits went?

Well, every time I called him unemployment and asked him that I got up. You never get a hold of the same person twicea Collins unemployment. One guy looked at one guy looked on my record, and he goes, I can tell it was you. I said, well, how can you tell that? He goes, what's your phone number. It's like, that doesn't make in sense. You guys have not researched any of this, and the more lust told me that it was my problem and it couldn't help me.

Well, especially especially because you went to court and lost. Yeah, I mean yeah, so they had an attorney. You didn't have an attorney though, did you You know I couldn't afford one, so you went and defended yourself exactly, Yes, sir, What did you say? I mean, what did they ask you on the stand? Well, they didn't ask me anything. The judge was about ready to make a decision without me and

say, I mean say anything. It's like, wait a minute, I want to quest and fly on my own behafist because I don't have him turney. He's like, okay, what do you want to say? And I said, I did not receive these benefits. I filed for identity theft on the website and I also called the police department. And he goes, well, well, hold on, when did you do that? When did you call the police? Yeah? I first actually reached out to them this January.

Okay, but the fraudulent payments were made a few years ago, so what would make you reach out in January on. Well that was right before I had to go to court. That's what so you you did not You did not file a fraud report until unemployment contacted you and said somebody got applied for benefits in your name. Yes, okay, Well then I know what the judge means. The judge is saying the only reason you filed for identity theft was because you heard about this collection. I get that, and there's

nothing wrong with that. You didn't know somebody was getting benefits in your name, but they claim people got benefits in your name exactly using your social Yes, and don't. I don't know, I just do I just let it go. Well, I don't think. I don't think you have a choice. I mean you said, when were you found guilty? When was that judgment rendered? We didn't have to say I was guilty, But like I said, he just told me. It was like Diana, I don't you

know, you're not giving me any proof. He didn't. When were you found fraudulent? When did the judge rule that a judgment against you? I don't care what you call it, guilty, innocent, purple white eye? What just tell me what was the date of that judgment a couple of months ago. Now you might still be able to appeal it. Did he tell you that? Well, when everything was said and done, I was on

hold theess like, so what do I do now? And he's like, if I were you, I would start with unemployment and then work your way back. I did call an employment Wait who told you that? Who told you that? The judge did? So? Was this was this a regular court where you went downtown to a courtroom or was this a hearing with the unemployment division? It was hearing and it was over the stone, so it wasn't a real trial. Yeah, okay, then then they're an actual judgment

against you. I don't know, because, like I said, I didn't get any paperwork and that all I know is we're taking money out of my thing. Wait, so ho ho ho ho. So they are garnishing your wages? Yes, okay, God, this is terrible. They must have they must have gotten a judgment. Well, when I called into the collection agency, she gave me a choice. She goes, you can need to do this on your own, river garnish your paycheck. So I did it on my own. And then when I found out that the amount had doubled.

It's like, how well the world did that happen? Nobody has reached out or said anything. And then she's like, Diana, let me call them and see what they say. She never reached back out to me anyway. I know that doesn't really matter. But no, this is I don't know. I don't know if you can appeal it or not. I don't know what kind of judgment there is against you. Can you ask the court or where you work for it? Well, no, they only have a rid of garnish. Man, do you have a case number? No?

I do not, well not unless you count the paperwork that they sent me. Yeah, there's a case number on there. Okay, give me one second, serve. I'm going to put you on hold. Three oh three seven to one three talks seven one three eight two five five. This is a sad situation, folks. This sounds like she's gotten man, I don't know. It sounds like she got screwed on this one. We have more coming up. Three oh three, seven to one, three eight two five

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zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here at three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five deb what's going on with Liberty Mutual? Oh? Hi? I have been insured homeworkers anato with Liberty Mutual as and on, and I had a big claim on my house. This is both home and auto. Yeah, but it refers only to my home right now, I have a big claim in twenty and twelve get hail on my roof or whatever? And they now, wait a minute,

do you mean twenty twenty two or twenty twelve? Okay, So twenty and twelve, that's that's where the problem was. I didn't even know. Okay, hold on, We're going back to twenty twelve. Okay, So you had a claim a storm claim with them in twenty twelve. Okay, then why yes, and they paid I thought they paid everything new, whatever car was inside and whatever. And then tell me what the claim was for. Oh, it was a big hailstorm in June of twenty and twelve it

was, And what was the and what was the claim? Four for a new roof, new siding, new what new roof, powerwashing residing and I live in I live in Parker, so gotcha? Okay, So what's going on now? So I left Liberty Mitchell that that claim was to South n'chok. Then I left Liberty Mitchell. When I came back to Liberty Mitchell, I found a claim in twenty twenty three for the hailstorms that we've had in twenty twenty three. The point that was with Liberty. Then went back to

Liberty. You claimed you had a second claim. Yes, yes, okay, I was talking to I was talking to the adjuster on the phone about I had a classical roofs then and I didn't know it, and I was trying to prove it anyway. I was trying to get the name of my roofer. Then. Anyway, he said, hey, he said, do you know you have an outstanding check from us for seventy nine hundred dollars that didn't cast made to you and Chase Mortgage. I said, no, that

stops sighting. And he said, I'll just stop payment on This is twenty twelve, and this happened in twenty twenty three, this conversation. So he said, I'll just stop payment on it and issue you a new one. I said, okay, I said, but I have paid off my house since then. He said, you have to prove it. I said, okay, I proved it. Then I get a communication from them saying, our records only go back seven years and we don't owe you that money because

we can't prove it. That's right. So I tried to prove it, and I went to that and so, how did you try hold on if you didn't even know it existed? How did you try to prove they owed you seventy nine hundred So they sent me the line item documentation of my claim in twenty and twelve. Okay, two other checks cleared, and this check was right in the middle of those checks. And this said outstanding. Now, why didn't you notice it back then? Were you that rich that you

didn't notice seventy nine hundred bucks? No, I didn't have a line item of But that's not an asking, Dab. That's not what I'm asking. Here's what I'm asking. If I had to pay for roof damage and storm damage and I put out seventy nine hundred bucks that I did not get reimbursed for, I would have noticed it. Well, I guess I'm ignorant or something, because Deb, here's what I think happened. You never paid the seventy nine hundred Did you pay out of your pocket and then get reimbursed No?

Nothing out of my pocket. Nothing. Okay, if you never paid out of your pocket, you didn't lose a dime. Someone did not get paid for storm damage. It wasn't you. Here's how it works, Deb. Listen, when you have storm damage, the insurance company either does it two ways. They either pay the contractor directly, or they pay you and you pay the contractor. That's the only way they do it. So if they did not pay you and you did not pay anyone, you didn't lose

a dime. The contractor did. Somebody lost money, but you didn't. Otherwise you would have noticed had you paid seventy nine hundred bucks up front or or in addition to and you would you would have been waiting for a reimbursement check the check was made. Table to me, Deb, tell me something, Okay, I don't know why you don't understand that. If if the check was made and I don't mean disrespect, but listen back, let's go back. Then Let's say the check was sent to you, what would you

have done with that check? Back? Then? What would you have done with it? I would have taken it to Chase Mortgage, which I did, and then what and then okay, and then what? And then what? Keep going? And then they endorsed it. I have copies of it, and then what keep going? They would have endorsed it. Then what would have happened with the money the seventy nine hundred? It would have gone to the contractor or that's right, But it didn't go to the tractor,

did it. No, it went nowhere. It went nowhere, and you didn't lose it. You didn't lose a dime. So in other words, I'm looking at this inorrectly. Well, Deb, what I'm saying is you're not looking at it incorrectly. In a perfect world, they should correct it and give you the money, and you should track down the contractor who didn't get paid and give him the money. So why are you going through all this trouble. You didn't lose a dime. Why do you care if they

ever give it to you or not. The contractor apparently doesn't care either. No one came after you for the money. That's true. That's true. Wow, that's interesting. I mean, somebody got screwed out of seventy nine dollars. And here's what I suspect. So you don't feel bad. I suspect the contractor so overcharged the insurance company and you that they are fat and happy and did not even notice the money missing. So leave it alone. What do you care? I mean, I don't even understand why you want

to collect this money. It's not your money. So I said it was my money, but why Okay, it would have been your money had you paid that money out. If you can show where you paid seventy nine hundred and did not get reimbursed, it would be your money. Okay, okay, I mean deb deb it would be not Now listen, I know where you're going with this. It would be nice to get that check because no

one's keeping track. There's no contractor coming after you. For it. It would be found money if you could get it, but you're not going to get it, so it's not lost money either. I'm Tom Martine Moore coming up. Go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance checkup free,

no obligation. In comparison, call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three oh three seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here, what's going on in your life? Jordan Kanno's with us My Money, Myway dot com.

Jordan, we talked about bonuses. What are the current bonuses being offered by the annuity companies for those who want to pop a lumpsum in there from their retirement account or from their for you know, their four and one case or their pensions or something. What kind of bonus do they get? Yeah,

they're still so the companies we backed step to fifty companies. Uh. The thing is the fifteen percent is still being held right now on the products, and it is strong because this is a great way to help make up any losses or you know, just like the caller we had earlier our clients, do you you know, for any money that people have lost already from other products or the market, this is the way to get it back. But

how how does it really work? Now you put one hundred grand in and let's say you put one hundred I'm just using these numbers to make the percentages easy, and your account value immediately is at one point fifteen, that is correct, and that's growing at one fifteen as well. So truly your return, your return is figured on that bonus you got it boom, and that's a very big difference. There are products out there that don't have that similar effect for our zone. And so if you ever had to get out of

that, though, when does that money come truly yours? Yeah? So every year ten percent of it becomes futal of yours, So after ten years the whole amount is actually your account. But that doesn't mean you could turn the money on before then. You know, if you in turn money on if you had long term care need or passed away that you can do it more coming up. I'm Tom Martinez. Get your calls in three Martino. Go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't

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as you can. Shooter's gonna help come Man six is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino. Hey, I'm Tom Martino. Welcome to the show. You know three three seven We talk three O three seven one three eight two five five here to help you solve problems, answer questions, make complaints, and make your life just a little easier. That's what we do each and every day, and basically what I'd like to know from you is what is

chafing your rear? Is there anything that just bothers you that can't be solved? Let's try to solve it anyway. I know that right now what chafes me is that Colorado and many states believe that passing laws can change behavior. Did you know? And I swear to you this is not I'm not This is not made up? Did you know? Dragon? I want to ask you this. Did Mike Brown ever talk about this? Because you guys are

hip to these things. Did Michael Brown ever talk about the program in San Francisco that tries to cure alcoholism and street homeless alcoholics by giving them alcohol? Do you think I'm kidding? I swear to you I'm not. By the way, if you have a problem question playing, give us a call at three zero three seven to one three talks seven one three A two five five.

It's a program that offers free booze to homeless alcoholics so they won't cold turkey, they won't steal, and they won't drink dangerous forms of alcohol in aftershave and stuff like that. It's the God's honest truth. Now this happened, and it's called the Now. Of course it's not called free free booze for alcoholics. That that wouldn't go over very well FBA free booze for alcoholics. This is called the Managed Alcohol Program, a map to recovery manage alcohol

program. It provides alcohol to struggling alcohol to people struggling with chronic alcoholism who are homeless, and what they hope to do is get people to then somehow manage their alcohol consumption and not be drunk all the time and not have to take to the streets for begging and all of that or stealing. Now, right now they have a lot of clients housed that give free alcohol every day. They have not made any progress whatsoever. What do you guys think,

I mean, sounds good to me. If you're a drug ee, give them drugs. If you're an alcoholic, give them alcohol. The city's helped officials say there's a lot of misinformation about this, and it really is a pretty good programs. But others say one said, even as a Democrat, I think that directing funds to programs like this are foolish and we should direct

it to other objectives for public benefit. Anyway, I just thought you'd like to know that, yes, there is a program that offers alcohol to alcoholics, and as we talked about earlier, in the kind of alcohol, Tom, I don't know, actually I don't know about it. That's a deputy bowl over here, like so vodka and I like whiskey, and you like jin Do we get to pick what kind of a you know what? That's

a good point. Look it up now, Colorado. You know, I felt bad about this until I found out that New Mexico was the most dangerous state. I don't know if I even believe Leave this WES News and World Reports survey. I don't know if I even believe it. The ten most dangerous states in America. I don't get it. How do they figure that New Mexico is the most dangerous, followed by Louisiana and then Colorado number three. Now they have a matrix they go through and they judge them. So

this is US News and World Reports. If you want to look it up. We are the third most dangerous. But we are decriminalizing things. So we're trying. Here's the thing. If we make something not a crime, then we don't have crime. Right. If felony car theft takes more than one car. Then we don't get many felonies, or maybe we do. So what would you do, Tomas? Give people that don't have cars, give them a car so they don't go steal one, just like the alcoholics.

Oh that would be something. Now listen, here's another thing, the total debt of people. By the way, this is what I found shocking. What I find shocking are trends more than I do actual names of cities and counties and all that. But if you counted in the top twenty five counties with the highest debt the highest debt, think about this, where do you think most of those counties are. I'm going to count how many in

the top twenty five are from this state? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, Oh, listen, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, Sixteen of the top twenty five are from California, sixteen of the biggest household debt. Sixteen counties out of the top twenty five are in California. And that place is living on smoke and mirrors. I swear to God, I don't even know how Newsome gets up in the morning and looks in the mirror.

I have no idea I mean, has anyone ever heard of a more hellhole than that place? Heo? San Francisco used to be a beautiful place. You can't even go out to eat down there anymore. And in La it's amazing. Yes, And of course the police has his way, we're going to be just like it. And again, I don't mean to be a bearer of bad news, but look around, folks, Just look around. God Almighty life is its own teacher. So when policies failed, what

does it tell you that policy makers are failing you? Wa? Wait? Wait, wait? Did I just say that I'm not on a coin. When policies fail, policy makers are failing you. But we have this phenomenon here where policies fail and we reward the policy makers. Bye bye, just Ron, what's happening, sir, what's going on? Let's change the subject. Let's let's help people. I don't want to just bitch and moan. My wife sometimes calls me a curmudgeon. I don't like that. Okay,

I'm not calling for myself. I'm calling for another person. I'm very kind to call for someone else. What can we do for you? I am a va appraiser and I got an order from for an appraisal for a property. To do an appraisal, longing to see the property and the property is basically easy. And they CE five for very bad shape. And what did you code that? You said C five the C five that is appraise, So I don't know the appraiser talk. Is that a code for bad?

Well that's bad, Yes, it's beyond Tell me how the coding works. I'm just I'll let you tell your story, Ron, But how what is an excellent pristine property? How would that be? Coding? Like C one is a new construction, nobody has ever lived in it. C two be a property that is one or two years old. It really does not have any kind of deferred maintenance. And then C three and C four is average, and then C five is low average, and then six is one that

the condemned and kind of now what does C stand for? Condition? Okay? Gotcha? So condition one, two, three, four five? So what's going on now? So you won here you found a really like decrepit home and or dilapidated. And what's going on? So this is a veteran who is disabled. He's had some other medical issues currently right now he's in a wheelchair. Is only one lake, and he's taken care of another adult, disabled non verbal child. Now why were you appraising this house? He

was trying to refinance. Oh, get some of these get some of these projects done. But he's just overwhelmed and I don't think he is capable of handling that. Do you think he should be living in assisted living or something? Well that's now I don't think. So he's taken care of his son as best as he could. Problem what's wrong with his son? He is disabled non verbal adults also in a wheelchair. So they're both in wheelchairs,

correct, So you can just imagine how that works. So the other thing is they used to have a drive in shower in the basement that they could take the wheelchair. And how did they get to the basement. Well, they had one of those share lists that goes downstairs, but that was not working anymore, so they took it out. So right now they can't even get to the basement into the shower. So he's trying to help his son. How old is his son and I would imagine in his thirties, maybe

a late twenties. Idol, Okay, God, this sounds like a sad situation. Is he a veteran of what would it be a veteran of what war? Again, I don't know those particulars. All I up from him is he served four tours of duty, but I think two tours were in Germany and I think two tours in How old is this veteran, would you say? I would again I'm not a good but probably in his late forties, maybe shifties. Okay, so in the bathroom, and you know he's

got a lot of projects going on which he can't really do. I mean he took the doors off, the baseboard, tear off the kitchen is a mess. They've got to exposure. And now let me ask you a few questions. Because there are places, there are services that will help remodel or help fix up a house for people. Well that is what I'm trying to get through. And Okay, well we're gonna we're gonna look into it. But I also I would like to know ron. I want to know more.

I want to know a little bit behind the scenes. Is he a hoarder? No? No? Not okay, Well, I mean the condition around the houses, no, I get it, No, I get it, but it's not where you have to make a path through the house. No, no, no, no, okay, next question, Ron, next question. Is he mentally competent? Yes, yes, he's very competent and good. Like I said when I was there, he broke down because

of us, too much stress, too much to handle. But now then he composed himself and he didn't want his disabled son to see him crying. So now his son what what? What? How would you describe his son? Is it? Is it cerebral palsy or multiple sclerosis? What's wrong with his son? Do we know? No, it's just non verbal, but he's in that shape, I mean, just grunting and sitting in a wheelchair. Oh my god. We got to get some people. No, we got to get some people to help. Now, That's what I'm trying to

do, and I've been kind of running into roadblocks. Nobody's been able to help. They always point somewhere else, or they say, well this year, they're all full way to old twenty five. Well by twenty okay, hold on, Deputy Bow, why don't we just start investigating. Do you know that sus has a VA I don't know if they're with the administration, but a veteran angel, someone who has a heart for vets and knows about

programs. Let's just start gathering information on programs available. Specifically, what we need is maybe some home healthcare, and then what we need is some fixing up the house. Fixing it up. I mean, you're an appraiser. You hold on, hold on, I need to ask you some more questions, okay, and I want to ask about it. Since you're an appraiser,

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we will get back to you. That's our pledge to you three oh three Martino three oh three, six two seven eight four sixty six. So Ron's back with us, and Ron's a kind man, a via appraiser. He ran into this guy trying to refy his house and he says it's in very bad shape and that the guys disabled in a wheelchair caring for his son in a wheelchair. And Ron, I want to ask a few questions. What would it take to bring this house up to a normal refine condition? I

mean, first of all, how is he paying for his mortgage? Do you know? I mean, we don't know his name, so you're not giving away anything that to the public that not be No, I don't know. I don't know what kind of the assistance he gets or resently they get put in a ramp in the front yard, which is to me really atrocious a days of the whole front yard. But so he does get some assistance or VA is aware of it. Tell me what is the what is the nature of the house that like, how bad is it? Like? What

would it take to bring this house up to normal standards? Do you think this would be just an estimate, probably twenty thousand dollars, you know, it's like in you know, the whole bathroom probably needs to be redone so it's wheelchair accessible, and he has removed the interior doors. He's kind of redoing the kitchen. The bathroom is in bat shape, and the electrical problems

the outside. The electrical box is open, and I'm surprised that it's even still functioning because rain gets in and some of the breakers have been removed. He's working to try to get a fence put in. How long has he been there? God, I don't know either. I will have to look at public records. I really haven't completed. Hey, Ron, how about a GoFundMe page. He's got a great story, you know, to disabled vets one disabled the sun the sun is not right paid? Would be?

I think a great idea. Right. Yeah. They don't know all the intricacies of house. No, Ron, I understand you called us for help. Doc. He called us to try to get something going. I I really want to start. Here's what I want to do. I want to start one step. The other things. It is not a matter of the money, because if he gets the money, I don't know if he can hire the contractor. No. I understand that we I'm trying to find a service that will come in and do and help do it, not just throw

money at it, because that's not going to work. And you don't want people cheating him or anything like that. So he just needs a bunch of help. Now, the house itself, if it was fixed, is it is it a nice location, a nice house, or as they say, does it have good bones? Oh yeah, no, it's a good housing in a nice neighborhood. Good it's you know, I can tell it's Jared and and it is in an could de sac, so uh, you know, if it is fixed up, you know to be a nice house.

Okay, what about Habitat for Humanity com or they go in there and do a repair. Maybe, Yeah, that's what I want to start looking into. Bo if you could make some calls. And there's also some other programs like Brothers Redevelopment, and then there's Contact that contacted Habitat for Humanity, but they only do stuff in Dinver County and he did houses in a Rapo County, so they they were unable to give any kind of assistance. Habitat for

Humanity is tied down to account. That's what this particular person when I emailed him. That's how they respond. Well, maybe that particular office, maybe they have like territories or something. Bo let's start looking into that. And Cabitet Freemanity, the VA has a big office. They're off of Colfax and two twenty five could go there and get some assistance. And there's a program called LEAP. They might be able to provide some repairs on the house.

It's Government Assistant assistant Housing repairs. Yeah, any kind of repairs or any kind of help we can get them, maybe even home assistance home care. I mean, there's got to be something available for veterans. I know of another veteran in another state who got home health care and he didn't have to pay for it, and they also did some other assistance programs. Now he didn't own the place, so they didn't do any fixing up. But I'm wondering if the house is paid for, or if the house how much he

owes on it. But again, these are things we can find out, right, Okay, I'll get the work. Get Ron's information though, so we can stay in touch with him, since he he has a heart for these guys. Ron, We're not expecting you to do anything, but we'd like to be in touch with you now. Chris, you have a question. I got to take a break soon, but I want to get started on it on home repairs. Then I have Jordan my Money myway dot com. I have a few texted questions for him. What's going on, Chris?

What's your question? Yeah? Real quick, I had about a fifteen thousand dollars sewer job done from Plumbline, and they offered me a way to pay for it over twelve months with zero interest. I'm looking to do the same thing with foundation repairs in the basement. That company doesn't offer it. What are some good options to do that? Well? How much will your foundation repairs cost? About twelve okay? How old is your home? I'm just curious that you needed all this work done? Oh, mid fifties okay.

How much do you owe on the house? Oh? About eighty thousand dollars. Now, when you say when you say foundation repairs, excuse me a basement? Do you mean foundation or do you mean basement? I mean cracks in the walls in the basement. Okay, you're talking about possible. Okay, so you need some structural repairs? Yeah, yeah, that's winning. Okay, Hold on a second, I'll come right back to you. I'm Tom Martine. Go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel Roofing dot

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three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hello Tom Martino here. Okay, So Chris wants to get some basement repairs done structural repairs, and he wants to know any creative way to pay for that. Are there any places that do same as cash with payments. There are financing places that do that. They may not work directly with They may not work directly with a contractor specifically, but they do it for sure. You say you owe eighty grand how much equity in that house? Uh? Jeez, I don't even I don't

even know anymore a lot? Well tell me what it's worth roughly worst case scenario. What is it worth? Probably about two hundred And I mean what can I get for if I sold it? Yeah? Well yeah, yeah? What are the name? Yeah? What's the house worth? Approximately? Yeah about about two seventy five? Yeah? And what is the okay hold on? And what is your rate you have on the mortgage? You have now three point six? I think, oh, yeah, that's a good rate. Okay, yeah it is. Yeah, I know. But sometimes

you know, doing that REFI can can help. I mean you can get you can get every the twelve grand. You know, you can get an equity line for that. Okay, Now it's not interest free, but you can get an equity line. You could easily. I wouldn't REFI for allows e twelve grand, but if you needed a lot more money for other things and you had high interest debt, that might be an idea to do the

other thing. How old are you fifty five? Okay, now a little young for reverse loan product, although there are some that go down to fifty five. But if you're not going to stay there, it's not your forever home, and it may not be a good idea because you know, I don't know what are your plans for this to flip it or what. No, No, I don't want to go anywhere. But you know, I mean I spent thousands of dollars with plumb Line and they're great. They're on

your referral list, right, Yeah, they're wonderful people. Yeah, and they were able to offer me, I don't know how twelve months no interest. I took care of it on my end at it interest for you. That's because they have good relationships with these people. They're really good at that, and they have because they're a solid company. And what I'm thinking is there are places I'm trying to think of the name of it right now. There are Pep, there are uh god, I got to think of the

name. There's one company that's very good at this with no interest and they do it. You know what, here's the deal. If you want, you know, if you ask Plumbline, by the way, who there is you know you can go. Many of these lenders will go direct or work with a contractor if you've you don't In other words, they don't work with just Plumbline. Do you understand that they work with a lot of people. So these people who are these people that I'm trying to track down. They

are finance companies. Okay, that's what they are. They're finance companies and they work in two ways. First, if you don't pay twelve months same as cash, then you're popped with interest. So they work on that principle. The other one is whatever plumb Line charged you, they pay Plumbline a discount. But there are plenty of contractors willing to do that. In other words, they're willing to do the work. By the way, there is

no free lunch. So no matter what if somebody says twelve months same as cash, and you have cash, it's not the same cash, you know, I mean, it just isn't to you. It is to you, it is, but the contractor's taking less money. So whether they take less money from the finance company or less money from you. That's another option is to is to if you could come up with the cash, you get disc

cash discounts or a credit card. See when you if you're looking for no interest, you may not find it, but you may find a credit card or you may find something like that. And before you start thinking, well that's going to be too much interest, but you're going to pay it anyway. Either in the price of the product because they have to discount it or you're going to pay it someway or another. So it's an allusion to you this no no interest. I'm not saying it's a bad deal. It's a

wonderful deal, but it's an illusion a little because it's not free. Scott, you have a comment on this? What is your comment? Tom? Hey, Chris, we offer the same programs as where you have to say what your zero interests. And we're also a company that does spasement, repair of the crack repairs, things like that that you talking about. What's the name of your company, Ramjack of Colorado Business. Ramjack used to be on my referral list. Yeah, it might've been before my time. I've been

with a company for about seven years. Ramjack was absolutely on my referral list and they were, in fact, I had the guy in back in the day on my show. They're a great company, Chris, and you guys do foundation repair and you offer financing right everything that he was asking for a week? All right, Katschina, make that connection, will you, and then try to get Ramjack on the referral list. I'm just kidding, Scott.

I'm not going to pressure you, but get that information from Scott so he can give it to Chris. Thank you very much much man for calling in. I appreciate it. We got more right after this. I want to just tell you that that's what the show's about, making connections. Like if you want window washing, you can go to Premiere. They do window

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