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Giving Back with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  A A thirteen ten WI B A and ask the experts. Joined this morning
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  by our good friend Andrew Larson. Andrew comes to us from Larsen Home Services.
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  The website Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's Larson L A R. S O
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  N Home Services dot com. Check out the website their telephone number. Write
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  this down, type it into your phone, or simply call now six oh
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  eight five three five forty three forty three. That's five three five four three
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  four three. Andrew Spring is here. Life is good and things are just
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  humming along, aren't they. Good to talk to you, by the way,
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  Yeah, things are. Things are really picking up around here. So
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  it's really nice to see. The grass is green, plants are starting to
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  sprout. We're getting some nice rain, and now it's beautiful and sunny,
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  and we're busy, and you know, I was thinking about, you know,
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  contrary to most people's beliefs that listen to this radio show, we don't
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  like get together and like plan this thing out. I mean, no,
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  no, magic just comes together on the spur of a moment. Yes,
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  right, yes, yeah, So I was thinking this morning, you know,
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  what to talk about, and you know we always talking about gutters and
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  houses and roofing and how we can you know, help fix your home.
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  I mean that that's you know, that's what we do. And something we
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  had a staff meeting about yesterday was was a Bob Miltello give back. And
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  I've talked about I believe Bob's done the show before. Sure, he sure
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  did. Yeah, he was fans. We loved having Bob in. Yeah
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  when he came by him, Yeah, so so Bob. For people that
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  are new or listening to this, But Bob was like one of my first
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  employees. So back in the day two thousand and nine, we had three
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  employees and Bob was one of them. And he was one of my first
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  sales reps and became one of my best friends and moved into the sales manager
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  and led a team through really caring. He just he truly cared about our
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  guys. He cared about everybody in the company, He cared about our customers.
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  He was just one of the most caring, nicest people. And to
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  be honest with you, at first when he when he when he came to
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  me and said that he wanted to be sales manager, I was like,
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  Ah, I don't know, I think you're too nice, Bob, you
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  know, and not that it's not that a manager can't be nice, but
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  like you know, you gotta be a little starts work. Yeah exactly,
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  yeah, you know so. But anyway, Bob became a sales manager and
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  like the staple of the company, someone that for oh boy, the better
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  part of twelve years I talked to every day only honestly, almost seven days
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  a week talked Abob. But twenty twenty one we lost Bob complications from cancer.
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  I think there was complications from COVID, COVID whatever, doesn't matter,
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  but Bob passed away and really have the big kind of hole in our company.
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  I mean, we still have a big portrait of him hanging in our
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  conference room. But so we we. Anyway, a couple of years ago,
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  we decided to do something cool and do the Bob Miltel Will give Back
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  project, because that's what he would have wanted to do. I cannot tell
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  you, Sean, how many times this man came to me and said,
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  I was at this homeowner's home. They need our gutters so bad, but
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  they can't afford it. Is there any way I can take forgo my commission
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  and you can take the payments for it out of my paycheck. I'm like,
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  man, Bob, like, we can't really do that, Like I
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  can't, but we can work something out. And because of him, like
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  we did give some people some free gutters and work it out. But he
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  was willing to pay for it himself. So this is the type of person
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  he was. So we started the Bob Milttel Will give Back Project and in
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  twenty twenty two we did our actually twenty twenty three, right at the end
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  of the year, we did our first. We did our first roof for
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  a wonderful lady and Lodi, who had a really old house needed some repairs,
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  but the biggest problem was her roof. And you know her she was.
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  She was nominated by her sister. Her sister let us know that she
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  was just one of the nicest people, and she had had some issues with
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  her her kids. One of her son had had a traumatic brain injury from
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  an accident. And she's you know, she basically in her eighties and taking
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  care of her her grown children and doing the best she can. And I
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  remember the first time I went in her house and it broke my heart.
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  She literally had a dozen or more buckets and cans at different places in her
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  house because her roof was leaking that bad and she could not afford to fix
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  her roof and winter was coming, and it's all she thought about. And
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  we took that stress off of her shoulders when we went to her house and
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  said, look, we're going to fix your roof, tearing everything off,
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  starting from scratch, brand new. You're never gonna have to worry about this
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  again. And I've never seen such relief come from somebody, because at the
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  end of the day, this roof was going to cause her to lose her
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  house. It was going to wreck her house. I mean, look,
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  growing up people, I don't think anybody really goes, hey, I think
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  I want to be a roofer. It's just not something you think about.
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  But if you do think about it, you step back and you think,
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  but what, There's not a lot when it comes to building that's more important.
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  No matter a house, an apartment, a condo, a business,
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  pullshit, whatever it may be, a barn, it has to have a
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  good roof on it. And if it doesn't have a good roof on it,
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  it will rot from the inside out. And that's what was happening to
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  this lady's house. Was it was starting to wreck everything, and it would
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  have her home would have been condemned. But we came in and we fixed
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  our roof, and I may have really really had a full heart that day.
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  I even threw in gutter shutter and I mean, yeah, I mean
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  at the end of the day, it was probably about a forty thousand dollars
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  project because it needed redecking, everything was rotten. It was just it was
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  it was a lot. But at the end of the day, we were
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  able to help this lady stay in her home instead of getting condemned and her
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  having to move out, and it was just it's one of the best feelings.
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  So I wanted to talk about it on here because in the next couple
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  of weeks we're going to be putting some stuff out through social media, and
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  we're not just we're not just going to isolate it to the Madison area,
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  because as people know, we've really expanded and we've got an office in Milwaukee.
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  Now, we're in Rochester, Minnesota. Now we're in the Green Bay
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  Appleton area, and we're going to kind of expanded almost to the whole state.
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  And you know, unfortunately we can really only do one roof, but
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  we want to make sure that we pick the most deserving person because listen,
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  everybody wants to buy a home. It's our biggest asset, it's our safe
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  space, it's what we need to survive. But if you need a new
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  roof, that is a very expensive project that a lot of people can't afford.
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  So if we can help at least one deserving person a year, do
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  it in Bob's name, that's what we're going to do, and we're going
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  to continue to do it. So I just want people to watch for the
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  next couple of weeks. You're going to start seeing some stuff come out.
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  And if you know deserving people, you know, veterans, it doesn't matter,
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  single home owners with kids, I don't care whoever. They are great
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  people, deserving people that need a little help. That's who we want to
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  find and that's who we want to help. Sean, you mentioned the Facebook
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  and social media. Of course, Larsen Home Services you can find them there
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  Larsen Home Services l A R s O N Home Services dot com. And
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  it was interesting as you were talking about Bob, I went back on your
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  Facebook page to look through some of the photos, and I know you've got
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  a few of Bob up there, and there is one that you posted quite
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  a few years ago, and I'm guessing this picture was taken quite a few
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  years before this. It's you and Bob and you look like look like you
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  might be twenty So talk about how long? No? I mean, yeah,
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  you know, like I did. Look. You know what's funny is
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  I was talking about this at home the other day and I found a picture
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  of me and Bob. Yeah, and I showed it to my newly turned
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  fourteen year old daughter. And that picture that I showed her was probably taken
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  when she was she was a baby. Yeah, and I was a lot
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  heavier. I looked really really young. And she goes, you know,
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  Dad, you look a lot nicer than you do now. And I go,
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  what is that supposed to me? She's like, well, you're just
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  not always that nice like I am nice. I just have to I just
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  have to, you know, lay down the law sometimes because you don't listen.
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  I said that nice looking young guy would have made you listen to It's
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  a lot nicer. But I was young. I was probably twenty eight,
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  you know something like that in there. Twenty seven. So yeah, it
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  brings back good memories we miss Bob. I hope Bob is listening to this.
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  I know he was around that day that we did that roof and Lodi
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  and you know his we let his wife know, we showed her the video.
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  It's just a really awesome way to kind of keep his legacy going because
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  he was really special here and I know people that I mean, he was
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  on hospice Sean and I went to his house for I was at his house
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  for a whole day hanging out with him while he's on hospice. And he
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  had two customers from Madison come to his house. I mean he lived on
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  by Lake Geneva. It was an hour away, but he had customers that
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  he had sold gutters and or roofs to come to his house to see him
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  while he was on hospice. Like, man, if that could if we
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  could only all be that good. I mean, he sold these people probably,
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  but he kept in such good touch with these people. They became friends.
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  They came to see him while he was dying, like I can't even
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  imagine. So that's just the type of person he was. So this is
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  this is a little thing that we can do. And you know, like
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  I said before, when when talking about doing a roof. The relief that
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  was on that lady's face, I'll just never forget it. She was so
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  relieved, because when you're talking about a roof, I mean, depending on
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  the size of the home, you're talking ten, twenty, thirty, forty
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  fifty, So I mean, boy, we've done hundred thousand dollars roofs.
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  It's not chump change. It's not an easy fix. You know, other
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  real important stuff in your homes and air conditioning, you know, sometimes you
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  can you can limp that stuff along, you can get fixes, but a
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  roof is tough. It's tough to limp a roof along. You can sometimes
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  we can restore, sometimes we can do little fixes, but at the end
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  of the day, with the roof is bad, it's bad, and it's
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  thousands of dollars. So it's anyway. I just want people to think about
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  it and think about people they know that might need might need some help.
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  It's a great way to remember Bob. And of course we mentioned Facebook and
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  social media. Follow along. Make sure you like, like, and follow
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  Larsen Home Services on Facebook, the website Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's l A
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  R. S O N. Home Services dot com. Another really cool thing
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  too, about about the Facebook page for larsenom Services. You get to know
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  the team and you start to realize real quick as Andrew was talking about Bob
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  and and and their time working together at Larstome Services and how long Bob was
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  there, and I start to realize there's a lot of folks at Larstome Services
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  that have been there a very very long time and we talk about we talk
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  about things like roofs, gutters, those type of things. You want people
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  that are that are very well trained and know they're appreciated, that spend a
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  lot of time and they're happy where they are. And that's the great thing
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  about Larsen Home Services. Know that when you're getting that new roof, put
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  on getting those new gutters, doctor energy saver, having the efficiency, the
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  people that you're working with, when they're smiling, it's genuine. They are
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  happy because they love what they're doing. It's amazing stuff. Again. Learn
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  more online Larsenhomeservices dot com, Facebook and social media. Larsen Home Services.
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  The telephone number six so eight five three five forty three forty three. That's
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  five three five four three four three Andrew, it's always great chatting with you,
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  my friend, you enjoyed this most beautiful of days. All right,
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  talk to you next week. Kevin ham Ham's Arbacare comes your way next right
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  here on thirteen ten Wiba