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Energy Savings with Larson Home Services · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight oh six thirteen ten WIBA talking this morning with
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Larson, our good friend from Larsen Home Services. The
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  Speaker 1: website Larsenhomeservices dot com. That's l A. Rso N Home
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  Speaker 1: Services dot com. Telephone number six oh eight five three
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  Speaker 1: five forty three forty three. That's six oh eight five
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  Speaker 1: three five forty three forty three. And Andrew. We talk
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  Speaker 1: a lot about warranties, we talk about we talk about craftsmanship.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about all the really really important things when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to things like roofs, gutters, energy efficiency, those
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  Speaker 1: type of things. We talk about all these really really
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  Speaker 1: important things in overall value. Something we haven't talked about,
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  Speaker 1: which is a really really important part of this conversation
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  Speaker 1: is rebates, and specifically when it comes to making your
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  Speaker 1: home more efficient. There's some really good stuff out there
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  Speaker 1: for folks, isn't there, Andrew, and welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Hey, thanks, I was waiting for that.
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  Speaker 2: We can jump right into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I don't know if you can tell.
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  Speaker 2: So, Yeah, there are a lot of rebates, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the reason I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: it is there's a lot of information going on or
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  Speaker 2: being being spread around right now about some different rebates.
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  Speaker 2: Many of you know who have worked with us or
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  Speaker 2: looked us up. We are a focus on energy partner,
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  Speaker 2: so we do a lot of home I like to
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  Speaker 2: call it home performance work, yes a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: What really resonates with most of our customers is just insulation,
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  Speaker 2: right people, We know that we need insulation in our walls,
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  Speaker 2: we need insulation in our attic, But I like to
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  Speaker 2: call it home performance work because the way that we
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  Speaker 2: approach insulation work is more of a whole home performance issue,
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  Speaker 2: and we like to educate the homeowner on how the
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  Speaker 2: home works, as in air exchanges, because that's really what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about, is air exchange. Whether it's we're we're
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  Speaker 2: heating that air and we're spreading it throughout the house
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  Speaker 2: and then we lose that hot air, or we're cooling
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  Speaker 2: the house and warm air infiltrates. It's all about air
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  Speaker 2: exchanges and how how tight your home is or how
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  Speaker 2: we fishent your home is really how we fish in
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  Speaker 2: your home is is when it comes to air exchange
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  Speaker 2: or heat and cool loss is our has to do
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  Speaker 2: with air exchange. So there's a part of the inflation
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  Speaker 2: Reduction Act. I have no idea how this is going
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  Speaker 2: to reduce inflation. But the whole other conversation. What the
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  Speaker 2: cool part is is that the state of Wisconsin has
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  Speaker 2: been given a whole bunch of money from the federal
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  Speaker 2: government to give away for energy saving home improvements. And
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  Speaker 2: this is something that we do every single day. This
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  Speaker 2: is something that we're really passionate about, is making homes
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable, educating homeowners on how the home works as
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  Speaker 2: well well as just a side effect of what we
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  Speaker 2: do is that your energy bills should be reduced. So
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  Speaker 2: about it as well. I mean, the way it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of being portrayed is, you know, insulate your home, do
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  Speaker 2: energy saving things, get a five thousand dollars rebate, which
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  Speaker 2: is true in some cases, but it depends a lot
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  Speaker 2: on income, it depends a lot on where you live.
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  Speaker 2: There's a whole lot of things that go on with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I wish I could come on here and be
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  Speaker 2: like really specific, but again another conversation, but it is
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  Speaker 2: a government program, so it obviously has to be really complicated,
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  Speaker 2: and we can cue the chuckles on that one. But
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  Speaker 2: we had if we actually had the Director of Focus
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  Speaker 2: on Energy saver over to our office Monday, because we
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  Speaker 2: really the information's confusion confusing, and the last thing that
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  Speaker 2: we want to do is go into somebody's home and
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  Speaker 2: promise themself something that we can't deliver or let them
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  Speaker 2: know about rebates that they're not going to get. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what we know. In order to qualify for the IRA
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  Speaker 2: homes rebates, that's what it's called IRA Inflation Reduction Act
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  Speaker 2: homes rebates, we first have to have a pretest on
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  Speaker 2: your home. So a pretest done by a qualified auditor who,
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  Speaker 2: honestly it has had to go through a whole bunch
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  Speaker 2: of education learning how a whole home works, learning how
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  Speaker 2: to model a whole home. And what I say model
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  Speaker 2: is looking at the insulation, looking at the air ceiling,
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  Speaker 2: looking at the windows, looking at the water, heater, HVAC,
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  Speaker 2: all the appliances. And what they do is they put
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  Speaker 2: and then they take energy bills, do all of these things.
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  Speaker 2: They put it into a computer program and then they
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  Speaker 2: can model the home by saying, okay, if we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do ABC and D based on the way your
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  Speaker 2: home is functioning right now, you're going to have x
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  Speaker 2: percent of savings. What we have to do In order
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  Speaker 2: to qualify for this IRA Homes rebate, is we have
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  Speaker 2: to create a twenty percent energy savings, which actually can
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  Speaker 2: be difficult to do with just insulating and air ceiling
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  Speaker 2: and getting rims. We average roughly about an eighteen to
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  Speaker 2: twenty one percent savings, right, so we're like right on
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  Speaker 2: the cusp. So that's some homeowners if their home is
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  Speaker 2: really under insulated, no air ceiling, we can get that
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  Speaker 2: with just insulation, and depending on income and where you're located,
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  Speaker 2: we can get you some really good money to make
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  Speaker 2: your home more energy efficient with little sometimes little out
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  Speaker 2: of pocket. Now sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I was just going to ask you too, is
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  Speaker 1: and I want to I as soon as you said now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a second. That wait, there's more, So
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear what you're about to say. But
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  Speaker 1: real quick, just about insulation as well. I know one
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  Speaker 1: of the areas that that people as we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: all these all these benefits, fantastic benefits of efficiency and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, obviously ultimately you're saving money by by
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  Speaker 1: lowering costs when it comes to heating and cooling your home.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing too, and Andrew, I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: important to note the kind of work that that your
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  Speaker 1: crews do. I've talked about the work that you guys
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  Speaker 1: did on my roof and just how how well you
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  Speaker 1: treated my house and how well you treated my property.
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  Speaker 1: That same stuff goes on when it comes to Addicts
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  Speaker 1: and I told you I geek out thanks to photos
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  Speaker 1: you shared over the years, I've I've kind of been
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  Speaker 1: bitten by the bug that you have, which is I
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  Speaker 1: now look at Addicts and your pictures of the before
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  Speaker 1: and after of what was able to be done, and
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  Speaker 1: just how these things kind of look glue and then
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  Speaker 1: they look really beautiful. And again, something nobody's ever going
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  Speaker 1: to see. But that's important to your teams and crews
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  Speaker 1: as well, is to is to really clean that space
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  Speaker 1: up and make sure that that not only is it
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  Speaker 1: performing well, but everything's done right and you can actually
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  Speaker 1: see with your own eyes while they took some time
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  Speaker 1: to really do this do this job right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the worst part about doing really good
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  Speaker 2: insulation work is that you actually cover up.
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  Speaker 1: All the beauties.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing more beautiful than a clean attic
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  Speaker 2: floor with an inch with an inch layer of beautiful
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  Speaker 2: spray foam covering that whole floor. Now we know it's
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  Speaker 2: air sealed perfectly, and then we throw in seventeen inches
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  Speaker 2: of cellulose insulation. We cover up all the beautiful work,
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  Speaker 2: but we know that it's done properly. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: we're able to become a focus on energy partner because
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  Speaker 2: they don't just partner. They really don't partner with just anybody.
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  Speaker 2: They know how important customer service and quality is to us.
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  Speaker 2: And listen for me to sit here and say that
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  Speaker 2: we've never screwed up a job. Trust me, we've screwed
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  Speaker 2: up jobs, but we will we will redo the jobs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's one thing. When you're a sales rep
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  Speaker 2: for Larsen Home Services, you know that I would rather
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  Speaker 2: lose money on a job and have someone be happier
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  Speaker 2: satisfied in the end than to not do something properly
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  Speaker 2: and have people that are that aren't satisfied. So I
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  Speaker 2: guess my whole thing with this Rebates is we are
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  Speaker 2: on the forefront of trying to become experts and decipher
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  Speaker 2: how everything works because we don't want a homeowner to
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  Speaker 2: do some work where there is eligible money for them
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  Speaker 2: to get. One of the greatest things about the IRA
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  Speaker 2: homes rebate is that we can stack focus on energy
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  Speaker 2: rebates on top of it, so you can get both
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  Speaker 2: as well. As there's another rebate program coming out called
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  Speaker 2: the Here's Program. It's an acronym. Don't ask me what
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  Speaker 2: it stands for because I can't remember, but there are
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  Speaker 2: some more awesome rebates involved in that one. So just
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  Speaker 2: know that we are working really hard to become experts
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  Speaker 2: on these rebates to get home owners every bail, every
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  Speaker 2: available rebate dollar that they can get. And for some people,
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  Speaker 2: like if you are already, if you're already in the
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  Speaker 2: market knowing like hey, I know I need air seal,
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  Speaker 2: I know I need better insult, I know it's time
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  Speaker 2: to upgrade my furnace, my AC unit, all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's some good money out there, I mean some
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  Speaker 2: of these people. Once we can do some of these people,
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  Speaker 2: we can reach a thirty five percent energy savings now
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  Speaker 2: that those tiers go up. So it's something to keep
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  Speaker 2: in mind. Although for some people it is difficult to
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  Speaker 2: qualify for much. Some people might actually have to spend
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  Speaker 2: extra money just to get a little bit of money,
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  Speaker 2: which doesn't make sense for everybody, but certain people A
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  Speaker 2: lot of retired people that are on fixed incomes, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to qualify for a lot of money as well.
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  Speaker 2: So again we're working our hardest to really put something
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  Speaker 2: that is simplified together for our reps and for homeowners
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  Speaker 2: to understand so that we can get every available dollar
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  Speaker 2: for homeowners that's out there.
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  Speaker 1: Something that's really important, as we talked this morning too,
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  Speaker 1: is you don't know what's available until you start that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember, you know, you and I had been
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  Speaker 1: and I talk about my roof quite often that you
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  Speaker 1: guys did a few years ago. You and I had
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  Speaker 1: been talking for for a couple of years at that point,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, I know everything there is to know,
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  Speaker 1: and this is going to be you know, your folks
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  Speaker 1: will come out and I'll actually just be going as
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  Speaker 1: soon as I had the chance to talk with And
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a testament to the team that you have
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  Speaker 1: with you at Larstorm Services. They know their stuff inside
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  Speaker 1: and out, and they really do diagnose problems and they're
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  Speaker 1: also very very smart when it comes to things like
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  Speaker 1: as we talk about rebates and other things, you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's available until you start that conversation. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why Today is the day to get the folks from
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  Speaker 1: Larstorm Services out your house. Have them take a look.
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  Speaker 1: All I get to do is give them a call
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  Speaker 1: six so eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  Speaker 1: That's five three five four three four three. And don't also.
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  Speaker 1: I think another mistake people make, Andrew, is they assume
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  Speaker 1: because I've got a new home, it must be perfectly fine.
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  Speaker 1: Things get missed. Let's be honest. Some not all builders
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  Speaker 1: are fantastic when it comes to details. Sometimes they just
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  Speaker 1: kind of cut a corner here or there. You really
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure that house is performing, old, new,
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  Speaker 1: or otherwise. And that's a great thing about Larst Home
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  Speaker 1: Services Today Today, big phone, give a call five three
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  Speaker 1: five forty three forty three. That's six so eight five
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  Speaker 1: three five four three four three Online Larsen Home Services
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  Speaker 1: dot com. That's l A R S O N Home
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  Speaker 1: Services dot Com. Andrew, we could talk for another hour,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and we'll bring us back around in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of a couple more shows, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Will say yeah, to learn more, We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: putting out some really good podcasts kind of breaking all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff down to decipher it for people to understand
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  Speaker 2: what's available for them because there is a website that
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  Speaker 2: they can go to and they can put in location information,
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  Speaker 2: income information, and it's going to tell them what tier
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  Speaker 2: they're at right away. That also helps us know where
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  Speaker 2: they're at, so when we come over to do a
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  Speaker 2: home evaluation, we know, okay, you're in this area and
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  Speaker 2: you are in this income level. That's going to let
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  Speaker 2: us really know where you're going to qualify and makes
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  Speaker 2: it a lot easier for us to help you.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned that stuff. I know you put it
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  Speaker 1: up on your Facebook page as well, and I really
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  Speaker 1: hope that folks are following Larson Home Services on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Have some really great videos up there and some really
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  Speaker 1: really cool stuff as well. Bort thing to do this morning,
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  Speaker 1: pick up the phone, make them ring at Larsen Home
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  Speaker 1: Services six oh eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  Speaker 1: That's five three five four three four three. Andrew, it's
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  Speaker 1: always great chatting with you, my friend. Have a fantastic Dan.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it all again real soon.
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  Speaker 2: All right, next week. See yah.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin ham Hams Barbacare joins us next year on thirteen ten.
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