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  Ten Wi BA and ask the experts, joined this morning by the one and
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  only Andrew Larson of Larsnome Services. Yes there are other Andrew Larson's, but
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  only one Andrew Larson with Arsenal Services. How you bet, my friend?
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  You know, I was literally when you said that, I was like,
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  man, there's so many Andrew Larson not even funny. Is that a blessing
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  or a curse? It doesn't bother me, It doesn't. There's just a
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  lot of you. Yeah, just back from Canada, uh doing a little
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  R and R doing some muskie fishing. Pretty epic time. It was.
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  It was great to be there fishing. It's it's great to be back at
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  the grind. But I can tell you when I was on my way up
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  there, some of the people listening probably heard of Boddet, Minnesota. But
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  we drive to Boddet and that's where we launch our boats. And we got
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  there lates. We stayed the night and as we're sitting there and we're you
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  know, maybe having an adult beverage and sharing some pizza. Wisconsin is getting
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  crushed with some storms. Most of them hit real bad up in the Lacrosse
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  area Holman West Salem, which for a lot of people might not know we
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  actually have a location up there. But then Wisconsin, Dell's poisonette reads burg
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  Baboo, bad bad wind. So I'm just sitting there the anxiety levels going
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  up. I'm not here, that's happening there. But the amazing thing is
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  is then I just had to sit back and go wait a second. That's
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  why we have an awesome team. They're on it. Like as I'm sitting
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  there watching it, I'm getting messages from my sales manager, my assistant sales
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  manager, like this is what we're doing. We're heading out there. We're
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  gonna get you boots on the ground and start hitting some damage head on.
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  So it kind of put me at ease a little bit. But sometimes I
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  can be a little bit of a I don't know, control free well,
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  and you love what you do, and I know we've we've talked about a
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  little bit about your history and when you founded Larsnome Services. You know the
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  importance of having your name behind the business and your touch on everything that you
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  guys do at Larsnome Services. As we talk with Andrew this morning, website
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  Larsenhome Services dot com. That's l A. R. S. O.
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  N home Services dot Com. That's Larsenome Services dot Com. More importantly this
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  morning at telephone number six O eight five three five forty three forty three.
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  That's five three five four three four three, So Andrew. So folks in
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  those affected areas, and if people can hear our voice, if you are
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  in those affected areas, Larsennome Services can can help you. What should they
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  be doing today? How does kind of how does that process work when it
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  comes to when storms roll through, because this has been a weird year where
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  we haven't had many of those. As a refresher no, I mean West
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  Salem area people obviously, well maybe they can hear us. I don't know
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  if they listen from that far away, but they got they got hit with
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  like softball baseball size hail. So that's a no brainer. Now leading into
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  the show, I heard Ham's Arborcare commercial with tree limbs and they can clean
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  up, and I'm like, well that's perfect because great company. They're going
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  to take care of you. My biggest thing with anxiety when stuff like this
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  happens is, you know, over the past thirteen fourteen years, a storm
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  will come through, people will get damage. Somebody from out of town will
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  come knock on their door. They'll be like, oh yeah, take a
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  look. We don't want our customers to get taken advantage of. We don't
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  want our customers to make a deal with somebody who's going to put something lesser
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  on their home than they already have. So that's why we really want to
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  try to get there now. For people in our area. There are a
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  lot of especially where I live Lodi, pointing that around here, a lot
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  of trees down, a lot of tree limb damage. So that can be
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  kind of a sticky wicket, like when it comes to an insurance claim,
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  because sometimes the damage isn't worth filing a claim, you know what I mean,
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  Like, Okay, so a tree limb falls, it falls on the
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  house, it hits the gutter, smashes the gutter, and it scrapes up
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  some shingles. The great part about what we do now the product we use
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  now gutter shutter, And we've already had a couple of calls. You know,
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  with our old product, it was all one piece, it was all
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  seamless, which was cool, but if if a tree limb hit it a
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  sixty foot piece, you'd have to replace a sixty foot piece now with gutter
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  shutter, we've had a few instances already where a tree limb has hit one
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  section. It didn't damage the gutter because of how strong the brackets are and
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  how strong the hood is. So for two hundred fifty three hundred bucks,
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  we just go out. There's a trip charge, a price for the hood.
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  We go out and we replace the hood. You know, there's no
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  insurance claim filed. It's easy peasy. I've talked earlier a couple of times
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  this year about our roof restoration process. Now, this roof restoration proces says
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  can come in huge if you have treelimb damage where you don't need to replace
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  your whole roof, it's just one section. And is it worth filing an
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  insurance claim? That's usually up in the air. If you come out and
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  you do a roof restoration for you know, two thousand dollars. Maybe you
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  got a hole in your roof, limb came down, put a hole in
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  your roof, or it came down it it just wrecked a bunch of shingles.
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  Well, we can come out and we can replace that area. Replace
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  that would get you back to new you know, maybe you're deductibles ad or
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  fifteen hundred, and maybe that process costs two thousand. That's not worth filing
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  an insurance claim. That's not worth raising your rate to file an insurance claim.
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  So I think, personally, if if I've got some tree limb damage
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  on my roof or on my gutters, first I'm going to call a reputal
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  company. I'm probably gonna calm us. I'm gonna have us come out and
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  take a look at it, assess the situation. Our reps are going to
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  be able to let you know if it's worth filing an insurance claimer not.
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  And that's where I would start. One of the things I love too with
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  that. As you mentioned, sometimes you know, obviously if you have significant
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  damage, it's definitely worth getting insurance involved and filing a claim. If it's
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  something small, you know, a few shingles here, a few shingles area
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  mentioned things like maybe some minor damage. One of the things that you guys
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  do at large storm services that not a lot of. You mentioned the roof
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  restoration, the roof refresh that is a big deal. And you mentioned not
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  having to file a claim because oftentimes obviously there's there's costs that go along with
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  filing that claim that I'm cornclin happens to your rates and months and years and
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  we all know what goes on there. They get their money back, yes,
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  put it that way. Yes, they've got a lot, a lot
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  of real nice buildings. I've known somebody's going to get their money back one
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  where. Yes, exactly. Uh. And so that's been that's been a
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  bit of a game changer, hasn't it. It really has. I mean,
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  we're going out to houses and something that we're offering right now, we're
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  offering we just do it. So even if we're just going out for a
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  gutter shutter estimate, you know, when we do that, we get up
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  and we inspect your gutters. You know, we just take a look at
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  exactly what's going on. We're not just going to throw you an estimate.
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  We want to make sure that the face is good, like every everything's okay.
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  And sometimes we can reuse down spouts and we want to inspect them.
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  So since we're already going to be up there, what we're doing now is
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  we're basically doing a seventeen point roof inspection just for the homeowner, just for
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  their information, because nobody ever gets their roof inspected unless it's leaking or it
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  looks like it's ready, it's deteriorating and it's ready to go. You just
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  don't think about it your roof. It's just there and it's something you hope
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  you never have to worry about. But if we can come out hop up
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  to a seventeen point inspection, hopefully everything's a okay, nothing you have to
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  worry about. But if there is some areas of concerns, we're gonna let
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  you know about it and just let you know what it would cost to restore
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  those areas. And I mean sometimes gets you five, ten, fifteen years
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  more life out of your roof because the shingles are fine. There's just certain
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  areas usually pipe flashings, chimney flashings, things like that that will not last
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  as long as your actual shingles will. So that's just something we're doing with
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  any gut or estimate, with any roof estimate, we're doing that for the
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  homeowner, and most times we find nothing wrong. But if we do,
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  now you know and you know, and then it's just up to the homeowner
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  if they want to move forward with getting that stuff restored or you don't just
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  leave it the way it is and you've mentioned in the past. You know,
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  obviously the no cost estimate, having that that seventeen point inspection the one
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  thing you and you brought this up in the past. I think it's important
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  to highlight one of the difficulties with damage to your roof is oftentimes as homeowners,
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  you don't realize there's damage until it's costly, until it's something significant.
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  Having you guys from larg Stone Services out to do that inspection, to do
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  that seventeen point inspection and of course get that estimate or or that assessment of
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  that roof, that can save tens of thousands of dollars in some cases simply
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  having having you guys come out and if there is a minor repair, need
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  to get that done before it ever becomes an issue that the homeowner is even
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  aware of. Yeah, that happens most of I mean really really, if
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  your shingles are shot, for the most part, you can see it.
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  Yeah, But so sometimes you have degranulization where you mean the shingle mattings baked
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  and the granules are falling off, and honestly from the ground to an untrained
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  eye you really can't tell. But shingles these nowadays like they've really gotten the
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  recipe talent. Like most companies are making really good shingles. And we know
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  GIF is making a really good shingle because they will literally back it non pro
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  rated for fifty years. So it's the other things. Like I've mentioned time
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  and time again, you put the best shingle in the world on your roof.
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  If the little things aren't done properly, it will leak, it will
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  not last. And that's what we see. We see good shingles put on
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  improperly. The little thing's not done right. Our guys are trained to be
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  able to go up and pick that stuff out and if we can, you
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  know, for a few dollars dollars or a couple thousand dollars, sometimes we
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  can go and we can fix four or five things and just restore that with
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  your shingles that are already good. Well, now we've just saved you a
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  ton of money in the future and bought you a lot of time on that
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  roof. Because usually those things that we can find in those inspections are going
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  to lead to a leak if they're not already a lot of times we'll find
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  something and then we'll ask to we get in the attic and look and low
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  and behold. It is already actually leaking, but it hasn't leaked bad enough
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  where it's gotten through the insulation, where it's got through the sheet rock.
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  So that's happened quite often. Today it's in. Today is the day to
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  pick up the phone and give Andrew and the team at Larson Home Service as
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  a call. They'd love to inspector, I love to take a look and
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  make sure everything's performing properly. And of course, if repair us are needed,
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  work with you. If the insurance company is needed, work with them
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  as well. But again, it's an important time right now to give him
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  a call. Larsnome Services, we've had a peculiar summer, which means we're
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  probably overdue for some more storms and more rain. He definitely don't want to
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  hesitate on this one six eight five three forty three forty three. That's five
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  three five four three four three. The website for Larsen Holme Services Larson Home
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  Services dot com. That's l A R. S O N Home Services dot
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  com. Andrew Rainey River Larson, all right's great chat with you, my
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  friend. You enjoyed this beautiful day. Thank you, see you next week
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  again on the website Larsonhome Services dot com. Kevin ham Hams Arbercare comes your
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  way next year at thirteen ten WIBA