Aug. 23, 2026

Episode Three | 46 Feet: The Historic 2016 Livingston Parish Flood 10 Years Later

Episode Three | 46 Feet: The Historic 2016 Livingston Parish Flood 10 Years Later
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In this episode, “Local Leaders” Host Jim Chapman sits down with local Real Estate Broker Darren James as he reflects on the 2016 flood in Denham Springs. Darren discusses many topics as it related to the impact to his industry including local v/s out of town investors buying flooded and gutted houses, the impact of the market during and after the flood, the impact of rising flood insurance post 2016 and other topics related to the real estate industry.

In 2016 an unpredictable storm caused unprecedented flooding in Livingston Parish Louisiana and surrounding areas like Baton Rouge. A decade later, Livingston Parish has come back stronger than ever. In this special presentation by Local Leaders the Podcast, you will hear not only hear the personal stories during that flood, but the comebacks that followed.

Timestamps:
01:33 Darren James Recalls 2016 Flood
02:51 Dramatic Rescue on Highway 16
09:35 Homeowners Rebuilding After Disaster
14:40 Katrina Experience
19:13 Insurance and Recovery Challenges
21:13 Market Shifts and COVID
28:44 Renovating Through Crisis
31:03 Today’s Real Estate Market

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In August of twenty sixteen, prolonged rainfall from an unpredictable

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storm resulted in catastrophic flooding in the state of Louisiana.

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In my city of Didam Springs, ninety percent of the

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homes received water, some forty two hundred homes. Of those,

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three thousand of these homes received eighteen inches or more

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of water twenty five to thirty inches of rain in

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less than seventy two hours. The a Meet River, which

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cuts through the heart of Livingston Parish, crusted at forty

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six point two feet, some five feet above its previously

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recorded record and some seventeen point two feet above its

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flood stage at Denim Springs. Hey everyone, and welcome back

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to local leaders of the podcast. And standing across from

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me is a person or sitting across from me is

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a person that you may recognize. As a matter of fact,

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if you don't recognize him, you need to get out

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of the hole you're living in, because he is everywhere.

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Of course, I'm talking about Darren James. So Darren, how

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are you? And thank you for coming on the show. Jim,

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thank you so much for allowing me to be here.

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Man. It's and honor to be here and thank you

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so much for the opportunity to be able to share

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what the opportunities that we had regarding the flood of

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twenty sixteen. That's all we talk about the day. Ten years. Man,

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it's unbelievable how fast time has just gone.

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It really is. And you know, Darren, I look back

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and I'm sure you're the same way. I look back

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on it now and I can't believe the day that

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happened versus where we are just ten years later.

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No doubt, no doubt about that. It's been I mean,

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it's changed a lot. It's changed the forefront of everybody's lives.

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It's changed the landscape of this entire community. It's done

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a lot of things to both positively and negatively impact

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the lives and the parish of Livingston.

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Fisher agreed, if you would, I'd like you to take

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myself and the listeners on a little bit of a

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journey of that day, as Darren James recalls it.

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Yeah, and I'll share something with you. You probably didn't know

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during that day, So I remember it like it was yesterday.

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My dad calls me up and I'm an only child,

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and so we lost my mom in twenty fifteen in

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October of that year. And so the flood comes in

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August of twenty sixteen, and my dad's living right across

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from Seal Funeral Home on a Romney drive. Calls me up.

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He says, Daddy, I said, how you doing today? He said,

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I'm doing great. He said, I don't know what they're

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talking about. All this water. He said, it's dry as

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can be over here. I'm like, yeah. Twenty minutes later,

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Jim no doubt, he calls me on the phone. Here

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it comes, Here it comes. And that's what he says

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on the phone. Here it comes. I'm like, what are

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you talking about? He said, the water's rising. Well. My

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dad had all kinds of memorabilia. He had every Simpson

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comic book from volume one. Oh lost all that Nolan

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Ryan Rookie car lost that just lost so much stuff,

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and so he tried to get it up as high

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as he could. I lost one of my of course,

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you know, I woul drive a wrap car. My dad

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was driving a Sequoia that we gave to him as well,

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and lost that in the flood. And just yeah, I

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remember that day like it was. So my dad gets

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picked up in a Batto, he gets brought over to

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back to the day of Darren. He gets brought over

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to a rushing road by Don Seafood and there's a

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hotel there and he goes and gets the stored over

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that hotel. Well, later that night, I'm calling a check

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on him. Cell phone service is intermitting because everybody's using

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their cell phone as you can't get through. And sometimes

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my dad calls me up and says, Hey, the water's

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rising even higher over here. I don't know if I'm

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going to be able to get out, don't know when

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I'm going to be able to eat, or any of

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that type stuff. So I went to Facebook immediately and

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I posted on Facebook. I said, hey, look, does anybody

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have a boat that I can borrow to go get

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my dad. I'm an only child. I just want to

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get him to safety or whatever. Can anybody help me

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with a boat? Well, my neighbor across the street, and

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I was living in live Ook Landing off of Sims

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Road at the time, and so my neighbor across the

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street said, yeah, I got a boat. Well, his son

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Jared lived with him. Jared was eighteen. My next door neighbor,

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Logan went with me and my daughter went with me

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as well. She was I think sixteen at the time

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yet sixteen at the time. And so we go and

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we put in at Akkadiana Place, which is right to

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on Highway sixteen, right at a meet church road. And

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I remember it, Jim think we go back to that time.

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I remember it like it was yesterday. Have you ever

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been to Gatlinburg, Tennessee And you see the streams and

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you're fishing with a fly ride, right and the water's

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just barely going over the stream, you know, and you're

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standing there fishing. That's kind of like the water looked

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like as it crossed over Highway sixteen right there. It's

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barely moving over. It was like maybe an inch deep

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at that point. And so I'm like, okay, great, So

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we get up a little bit further. We put the

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boat in. We launched the boat at Akadiana Place, and

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so we're going. The logan is my next door neighbor.

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He's in the boat, My daughter's in the boat, and

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Jared's in the boat, and I'm in the boat. And

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I had a flashlight on me and a sell phone

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on me, and then I parked my truck along Highway sixteen,

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and that's where we launched the boat. Well, we put

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in and we start going and Logan's driving and the

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current pushed us so far. And keep in mind we

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were crazy. We didn't have life jackets on at the time. Yes, unfortunately,

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pushed us up against a pole. The boat goes up

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up sideways and capsizes, flips over. Oh wow, all I remember,

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and I went down and I never I finally touched bottom.

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I don't know where I was at. I was somewhere

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off Highway sixteen in a gully somewhere or something, because

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I don't remember touching bottom. And all I remember was

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the water was cold and it was flowing, and I said,

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I got to come out of here, and I got

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to find Darby. That's my daughter. So I came up

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and I saw her and she's crying and the motor

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of the boat is still running at this time, so

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I'm thinking, oh my god, it's going to cut her right.

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So I grab her and I throw her to a

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tree that I saw at the front of a Cadiana place.

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To this day, to this day, as I'm talking to you,

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I call that the tree of life. Every time I

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pass it, right and I didn't know what I was

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going to I didn't know what was going to happen. Right, Yeah,

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Logan comes up. I find Logan. Logan's with Derby, now

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my daughter. They're all hanging onto the tree. I have

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no idea where Jared is. So I'm holding onto this boat.

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Picture this. I'm holding onto the boat on my right hand.

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I'm trying to push myself up to get on top

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of this boat that's moving about I guess three to

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four miles because of the current it's pushing it. And

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I know that at the very back part of I

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didn't know where I was at, really, but all I

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knew was that the Amy River is somewhere near here,

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and if I hit that Amy River, I'm done. I'm gone.

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That's all I knew. And so I tried to get

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enough leverage to push myself up. Well, finally I did

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and got up on top of the boat and Jared

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was on the other side. He comes up on top

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of the boat and we're floating and Jared said, hey,

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you see that tree. You want me to jump to

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that tree? I said no, I said, I'm going to

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try to signal because somehow, and I don't know how

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this happened. It's the lord upstairs. Don't know how this happened.

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I held onto my cell phone and I held onto

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that flashlight that I had. Don't know how that happened,

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and all that I'm trying to push up. I don't

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know what made me hold onto that, but I did

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get up on top, and I'm mars coding back towards

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Highway sixteen, is what I'm doing. I know that Highway

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sixteen that was the opposite where I was going. So

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I'm trying to flicker back and forth. So I'd grabbed

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myself out of my pocket and I tried to dial

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out while I called home my wife because she knew

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we were launching, and I said I couldn't get through,

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So then I called, if you know, Brandon Browning. I

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called Brandon Browning on the phone, and it didn't connect,

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or I didn't think it connected. And all he remembers

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me is he's saying, is help, help, Help, So he

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calls Brandon does calls my wife at my house and

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he said, hey, where's Darren? And my wife says, he

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just launched to go pick up his dad, Douglas at

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over there by Don's. He said, well, I just got

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to wear this telephone call. I got the calls saying help, help, help,

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and my wife just broke down at that point. She

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didn't know right, and so he said, go find him, Please,

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go find him. Well, Brandon's brother worked at the Sheriff's department,

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and I think he was running an airboat at the

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time looking for people or whatever. And somehow a jet

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ski came up to Darby at the Tree of Life

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up front and said, hey, look, my dad's back there.

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They were going to pick Darby up. She says, my

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dad's back there, go get him first, because they were safe.

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They were holding on to the tree. They wasn't going anywhere.

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The she just go off floating. Should have enough knowledge

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to tell them go get my dad first. So me

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and Jared jumped on the back of that jet ski.

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I never been so happy to see a damn jet

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skin in my life, man, say, never been so happy.

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So I got on that jet ski and they pulled

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me out of there, and that was it. I had

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to pay for a boat detect cap size and three

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sail falls because I lost mine and died Jared's and

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so forth. But we didn't lose our life. And that's

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the blessing mind that never made it to my dad,

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never made it to him. I had to rebuild a

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motor to the boat because it was gone. But the

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fact of the matter is is that we were trying.

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We tried and lesson learned. But yeah, we almost almost

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didn't turned out too good because my motor could have

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cut us up, we could have drowned. I mean, the

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several different things could have happened.

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Well, And I appreciate that story, and I'm so glad

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you shared it, and it is a prime example of

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anybody who experienced that in twenty sixteen has a story.

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No matter how crazy these stories get, the most bizarre

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about pointed bout them is the real it really happened,

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and the passion that comes out of people when they

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tell that day, you know, that infamous day in history,

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is just unbelievable to me and so glad that obviously

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you were okay. Now, eventually for the folks out there

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that weren't around, then eventually it did stop raining, the

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water did recede, and then really the mess started. You

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are in a unique industry in that you're a realtor,

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and realtors during this time have already always intrigued me

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because when I look at the flood and I look

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at the fact that so many houses were affected by that,

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thousands and thousands of houses. What was your first thought

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when kind of the smoke cleared, if you will, and

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you're in an industry where this is your livelihood.

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My first thought day and after everything subsided was that,

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how many of these people are going to be impacted? Yeah,

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and where we're going to play some how We're going

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to help them rebuild their lives. That was so important

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to me because a house can be rebuilt, but a

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life you have so many memories there. You have so

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much stuff there that you have accumulated over time that

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whether it's pictures of loved ones, look at all these people.

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So I had to find a way to just connect

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with people to where it was so much more than

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real estate. It's a life and that is still it

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is today. You know, it's a life. This whole real

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estate deal. There's a result that comes along with it,

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and that's a living that I get to make as

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a result of it. But it's so much more. Everybody

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has their different journey and how do we affect that

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journey and how to and to answer your question directly,

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I was worried about the impact of what was going

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to happen regarding the rebuilding stage of this because I thought,

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this is what I initially thought. Initially thought investors were

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going to come in from Florida, from Texas, from all

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over and just buy up everything. That's what I thought. Gutted, Yes, guy,

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flooded and gutted. And it was a challenge because me,

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I'm sitting here, used to selling average sales price at

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the time was two hundred thousand dollars living in Paris

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to fifty you know, as far as that goes. And

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with that being said, now I'm selling flooded and gutted

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houses for thirty five forty thousand dollars, still doing the

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same amount of work, but it's just a flooding and

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gutted house. It's weird to walk into a house and

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take a picture of a bunch of studs and no

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she rock. It's different, you know. People can't envision stuff

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like that, you know, as far as that goes. And

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so it changed our landscape a lot. And on the

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flip side of that, Jim, one of the hardest things

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that was hard to say, and it still is a

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challenge to this day. Believe it or not, you have

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a nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties house that's still in nineteen

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seventies and nineteen state eighty style on the outside, but

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on the inside it's brand new. Yes.

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And before we get off that point, I was one

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of those people. My house was built in nineteen seventy eight.

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I live in a in a neighborhood with the best

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neighbors you could ever want, and I never once dreamed

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of me. It was my starter home that stayed my

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permanent home because I fell in love with the people

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around me, and so we stayed there and we did

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some additions to our house and things like that, but

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no updates. Paneling at one point, well that went away

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and that was a result of the flood, and I

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kind of miss that paneling. That's weird as it is,

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because I'm kind of us right, you know, I'm a

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nostalgic dealer. But you bring up a good point that

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these houses on the outside might say nineteen seventy eight

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was when they were built, but you walk in and

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it's twenty twenty, twenty twenty two. It's the granite countertops, and.

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Everybody was had, they must have a run on this

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gray flooring that they had that lets seramic tile looks

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like what. Oh yeah, everybody, every house, I said, you know,

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five six years from now from the flood time period,

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you know, twenty twenty two, we're going to sell all

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of our houses are going to have the same basic

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flooring in it.

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And it does.

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It's amazing people, Yeah.

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Would like seram mctyle exactly right. And you know, Darren,

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one of the reasons I did that was after the flood,

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the carpeting got soaked and we did nothing but drag

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out carpeting for like a day, and I said, in

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my mind, I will never have corpet.

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A lot of people aren't.

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Yeah, we just if it ever happened again, we're spraying

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it off with the hose.

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You know. It's it's uh that.

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Wood like seramc title was practically water peros.

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Ye And that's great stuff. It doesn't I mean, it's

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really really resilient to a lot of things. Amen. I

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think it looks amazing too, and a lot of houses too.

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They got some pretty pretty pretty shades of that. Let's

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go back to Hurricane Katrina. If you want to digress

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a little bit, Yeah, go back to Hurricane Katrina. Compare

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that natural disaster to what we had right here.

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Now.

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I saw this basically. I was working for Louises State

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Police at the time during that time in Katrina, and

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I got my real estate five years in at that

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time in real estate, and so during Katrina, they had

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a guy come in from out of state and he said,

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I want to buy every three bedroom, two bath home

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that's ten years or newer up to two hundred thousand dollars.

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I want every one of them. Wow. And I think

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he spent like fourteen million dollars or something with one

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company here locally. I won't say the name of the company,

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but it wasn't me. But long in the story shark,

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It's amazing to see those people do that. But fast

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forward to where we were here. I thought that exact

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thing was going to happen. And during Katrina, property values

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increased twenty three percent for a Livingston Parish as a whole.

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I was president of the Border Rilter's two thousand and nine,

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So we still saw the residual effects of that because

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Katrina happened two thousand and five, two thousand and six,

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and so we still saw the residual impact of that

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over those last years of what was happening, and property

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values went up twenty three percent just in Livingston Parish

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because of supply and demand. Everybody was moving in from

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New Orleans, lydeal all over the place to come here.

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Some people actually ended up in Lafayette, some people went

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up in Houston, Texas, a lot of different places, and

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so it affected values tremendously. As far as that, I

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thought the same thing was going to happen as a

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result of the flood. But a lot of people stayed

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in their homes, a lot of people rebuilt, a lot

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of people remodeled, like yourself, And that's probably the best

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thing they could have ever done, because I never ever

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wished that flood on anybody ever. It was an absolutely

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catastrophe event, but it helped people see a new vision

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of what their home could be, and a lot of

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people did a lot of great improvements as a result

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of that.

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So yeah, I tell people all the time, I'd always

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looked at my ceilings and said I need to scrape

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my ceilings at some point. This popcorn is outdated. And

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I always looked at my lighting and said, you know,

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I'd like some can lights up there, and it not

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been for that blood, I would still be scraping my

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ceilings most likely. And I try to look you know,

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you got to find something positive in all of that negative,

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and so I always tried to look at well, it

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just kind of forced me to do everything all at once,

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and of course I never wanted to do that. But

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looking back on it now, uh, it sure updated my house.

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And you know, from countertops to cabinets, to scrape ceilings

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to colors on the walls one percent.

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Would you believe even ten years to this day, right now,

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ten years later, there are still houses in this parish

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right now that are still flooded and gutted and nothing

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happened to them. So is that it's unbelievable. Yeah, I

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saw one. I mean so one. I saw one. I

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guess about four or five weeks ago, maybe it's two

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months ago, but yeah, I saw one. I went into

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the house. I was going to go into the house.

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I didn't walk inside, just due to the situation. So

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it's a yeah.

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Well, and and you were one of the people, Darren

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that one of the things that I picked up on

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that you verbalized earlier was you know, I wanted to help.

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I wanted to see how I could, how I could

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help the community because I was in an industry they

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were going to need they were going to need it.

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A lot of people didn't know what to do. You

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had a lot of older people that they're not wanting

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to redo their Look, I'm just going to cut the

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sheet rock. Have somebody help me do all this, and

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I want to sell it as is. And you could

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help people with that. And you could also help people

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if if they had to buy a new house, maybe

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they you know, they didn't want to live in a

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flood zone anywhere. But the interesting thing about this flood,

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a lot of people that flooded weren't.

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In a flood one hundred percent and a lot of

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people were not in a floods on and they didn't

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have flood insurance. And that was the that was the

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absolute hardest thing for anybody, because how do you rebuild

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that that people are taking their savings that they lived,

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worked for all their life, didn't have flood insurance. This

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thing hits and now they're just wiped out. And that's

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where you have to be a voice or reason. You said,

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find the good and everything, you know, how did this

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change people? How to help people grow. And that's what

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I always looked for in that industry. How could I

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really help these people? And so it's definitely. Uh, it

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definitely changed a lot of people's lives, uh, in many, many,

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many different ways.

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In the industry.

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Uh. Let's let's go say a year post the flood.

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Uh, people at that point or or moving in remodeled homes.

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Everything is getting back to as normal as possible. There

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was a lot more hurdles still to come, but uh,

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but for the most part, people have remodeled those homes

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and they're getting back in them that had decided to stay. Now,

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you had a flood here, and so that's going to

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affect things in your industry, like flood insurance costs, right,

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things like that. I know some people early on in

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that time that they could afford the house, they couldn't

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afford the flood insurance anymore. Yeah, did you see things

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like that?

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Yes, Uh, flood insurances has been a challenge and parish

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for quite some time, you know, just about that because

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we have so much low land here, We have swamp

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land throughout a majority part of the northern part of

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the parish. Uh, and so flood insurance is definitely a challenge,

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and yeah, you're absolutely one hundred percent of right. And

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they flood, they rebuild their house, and then they say, okay,

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well now I got to get flood insurance based off

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of a flood elevation, I can't afford it. And so

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a lot of people were resulting to basically not n

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f IP national flood insurance program. They're going through private

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policies through the Lords of London and some of the

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other ones to get lower inschurch rates. And I saw

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that a little matter of fact this year, one of

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our clients were about to put their house on the

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market for sale. She's had flood insurance for quite some time.

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She's paying four thousand dollars plus a year in flood

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insurance for her home and we got to quote down

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to thirteen hundred through a private through a private policy. Wow,

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same amount of coverage. Wow.

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So that's there are options options.

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Yes, and the public may not know that, right, And

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so that's that's a very good point of view. You know,

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you can always look at your options because if you're

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paying X amount of dollars through the national program, just

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see what your options is. If it's if it's the

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same amount, no harm, no file. If it's more still

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no harm, no file. If it's least, then you can

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save money, just as long as the coverage posse and

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the coverage limits don't change. Yeah.

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Uh, let's let's shift for a minute and let's go

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maybe maybe five years post flood.

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Uh.

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I know at one point you had seen property values

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in this in this area, and a lot of that.

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I'm gonna credit the assessor for he had. He had

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what he called flood discounts. There were several years of

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that program, and then eventually it went away, obviously because everybody,

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everybody for the most part, was back in their house.

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But all those things from a relative standpoint, Uh, I say, relatory,

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it's a realtor, you're good. I had a friend one

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time write it out for me like you do when

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you're in school. I cannot get that out of my head.

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Realtor gym. But a realtor like you, h five years

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post that thing, did you did you have a point,

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maybe even if it's before five years when you said, man,

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you know, we're not only coming back, we're coming back

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even stronger.

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You're loving Well, well, we had a thing that happened

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the year before that post five years and year four

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twenty twenty, which was COVID. Yeah right, And so when

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COVID hit that, that was definitely a challenge in my

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market because now you can't show houses, you can't walk in.

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People don't want you want go to wear booties, you

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don't want nobody in there. So how did I how

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did real tours? How did we How did we fix

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that problem? I can tell you I fixed it. So

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I got teamed up with a guy who owns a

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company called uh Listing's magic is the name of the company, right,

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And so I called the guys from London brilliant and

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brilliant guy just with tech when it comes to that. Sure,

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And I talked to him. His name is Hans Gooth

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and so Hans I thought it's a great name for London.

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Great and so Hans called me. I called him. I said, hey, man,

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I said, I know I've been working with you for

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quite sometimes. I mean we had a relationship since two

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thousand and nine in business. And so I said, look,

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I said, this COVID thing happened and and and I

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need you to figure out how we can build this.

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And so what he did was people, I still have

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to sell houses. That's my livelihood. So what did we do?

468
00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.480
So I had him build an app that basically whenever

469
00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:13.759
I can send I can create it. Like if Jim's

470
00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:16.160
listing his house, for example, for sell it one two

471
00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:18.960
three Smith Street, right, Jim's listening to his house on

472
00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.279
Smith Street, I can send Jim to a gym a

473
00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:24.039
link to his cell phone. It's a text message, and

474
00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:26.960
everybody got self text messages during that time. Sure, once

475
00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:29.559
you press that that message that to open it up.

476
00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:31.920
It opens up your camera and it says, hey, Jim,

477
00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.079
walk through your house and recard your house for me.

478
00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:36.559
So now Jim is in his house because Jim's living there, right,

479
00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:38.599
and Jim can walk through his house and recard the

480
00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:41.920
whole house. And when you press stop, it automatically uploads

481
00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:44.759
it to a virtual web page that I built for

482
00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:46.839
your home. And I could share that link with the

483
00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:48.880
public to say, hey, what does that house over on

484
00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.240
one two three Smith Street look like? Boom, and they

485
00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.319
write it up and then we could schedule it. They

486
00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:55.880
can write a purchase agreement subject to visual inspections of

487
00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:57.440
the property at this self, so they can see it

488
00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:00.000
there in person. Whenever everybody's out in whatever the case

489
00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:02.640
may be. So yeah, it just it just saved time

490
00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:05.240
because we had those people who I don't want anybody

491
00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:07.160
in my house during this time. I don't want anything,

492
00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:09.279
but I still want you to market my property. And

493
00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:11.000
so that I was able to do that and be

494
00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:13.400
have the foresight enough to say, Okay, how do I

495
00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:17.119
get it into the consumer's hands, right, the homeowner's hands,

496
00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:20.039
and let the homeowner and then at that point the

497
00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.319
homemark can sell their house, because who knows their home

498
00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.279
better than the realtor the homeowner. They live there, that's right, right, yeah,

499
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.160
And so hey, tell them all the great features about it.

500
00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:28.880
I love the match of betroom, I love whatever, I

501
00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:31.680
love the Grantite countertops. And they would press the stop

502
00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:34.119
button on the video and then at that point it

503
00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:35.799
uploads to a web page and then I can build

504
00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:37.960
a list of everybody who's interested in one, two, three,

505
00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:40.279
four Smith Street. So when things open up again and

506
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.720
people feel more comfortable with show wings boom, we can

507
00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:44.640
go ahead and sell it and it which is it

508
00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:47.160
worked out great? But let's go to twenty twenty one.

509
00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:49.839
You mentioned twenty twenty one, but after COVID, what happened

510
00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:53.480
to the market twenty twenty one was an unbelievable year

511
00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:55.680
because rates started to go to the twos and the

512
00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:00.440
threes percent at that time, and it was absolutely readible

513
00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.279
for the real estate industry. Everything that we put on

514
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.519
the market one twenty twenty three was selling. It could

515
00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:10.279
be a crooked house, crooked windows, crooked doors, it didn't matter.

516
00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:13.319
It was selling because interest rates was almost free money,

517
00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:16.319
you know, and so legit was yeah, no doubt. And

518
00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:18.559
so what that being said me personally, I'm just telling

519
00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:20.319
my opinion. I think it's the worst thing the government

520
00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:23.079
could have ever done, because people have golden handcuffs now, right,

521
00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:25.680
And it was great for the real tours because and

522
00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:27.119
then the people who are going to stay there for

523
00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:30.440
their forever home, it was great for that, right, But

524
00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:32.559
what about the person who has to move and they're

525
00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:34.680
moving now from a two percent to a six percent rate.

526
00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:37.799
It's a challenge, right, And that's just the truth. It's

527
00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:41.079
the truth. It's the golden handcuffs. You know. The person

528
00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:43.559
that would call dar enough and say, hey, I don't

529
00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:45.359
like where I live because it's just too far from

530
00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.200
my work, right, I want to sell my house. Well,

531
00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:49.880
they're going to say, well, I'll suck up that drive

532
00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:52.400
for an extra twenty five cents a gallon as opposed

533
00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:54.480
to losing that rate at two percent or six percent.

534
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.079
And that's what that's what had happened in those that

535
00:25:57.160 --> 00:25:59.119
time period. That's still what we're seeing a little bit

536
00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:01.839
of right now in market as well. That people don't

537
00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:04.519
want to change, you know, because of the rates. However,

538
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:06.680
the people that are un less flast far to now

539
00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:08.640
just talk about selling real quick. The people that are

540
00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:10.960
selling right now and buying right now are what we

541
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:13.599
call the three d's death and downsized divorce. Then you've

542
00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:16.920
got job relocation in there, right So those people are

543
00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:18.880
the ones that got to sell. They have to sell,

544
00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:21.559
and that's causing a little volatility in the market as

545
00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:22.839
far as that goes. And then we got this war

546
00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:24.799
and I ran that's happened and still that's such a

547
00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:26.920
challenge and some issues there. And then we got to

548
00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:29.160
do fed Chairman, that's making some changes as well that

549
00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:31.640
came in. But back to the flood portion of it

550
00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:36.599
back in twenty twenty one, that is that was some

551
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:38.400
of the best times when it came people were getting

552
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.720
back to normalcy. People were five years post flood at

553
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.720
that point life is back to normal again. We're all

554
00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:48.200
still praying daily that it never ever happens again, and

555
00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:52.960
people are people are just starting to accept that, Hey,

556
00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:56.559
this is how life is going to be, and we

557
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.119
didn't see. And this is where I was really worried, Jim,

558
00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:01.480
Just to be candid, I was worried about the appraise

559
00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:05.680
value of houses even to day when the flood happened

560
00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.680
in twenty sixteen. How was that going to affect a flood.

561
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.960
That's a great question, and that's what I was really

562
00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:14.319
really worried about. And then also on the flip side

563
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:16.960
of that, there's something in Louisiana called legion beyond moiety,

564
00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:19.200
and it's a French word that says you can't sell

565
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:23.200
a property within less than fifty percent of fair market value.

566
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.400
But we were and that was what I was worried about,

567
00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:28.079
because if you do sell it within fifty percent of

568
00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:29.920
the value, then that home seller can come back and

569
00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:32.720
rescind the sale. And so I'm like, what in the world,

570
00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:34.480
how are we doing that? If we got a house

571
00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.400
that's two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in regular fair

572
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.480
market value and now we're dropping down to thirty thousand

573
00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:43.960
dollars as sticks and bricks, right, are you really selling

574
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.440
it half of value or less than half of value?

575
00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:49.960
Theoretically you are, But if it's improved, then you put

576
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:52.160
sheet rock up and you build it. Are you at

577
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:54.039
that point? So that's where that really didn't come into

578
00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:56.279
play at that point. But it popped in my head initially.

579
00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.680
It stopped in my head initially, and so I was wondering,

580
00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:02.640
how how was it going to affect the appraise values? Because,

581
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:06.440
like you said, you personally nineteen seventies nineteen eighties house

582
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:12.400
popcorn ceilings, paneling on the walls, and then you got

583
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:14.440
that going, and then you got to say, okay, well

584
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:16.240
what do I do? How do I make this and

585
00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:19.440
how do I update the outside to match the inside? Well,

586
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:24.160
sometimes you can't because you can't change the outward appearance

587
00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:26.519
other than paint, right, we put a new roof on.

588
00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:29.839
You can sometimes update a little bit by painting the xtray,

589
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:33.640
but as far as basically rebuilding the whole house, you're

590
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:35.680
not going to do that. And so it was a

591
00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:37.599
challenge to say, okay, how was it going to affect

592
00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.559
the praisers? And to this day I didn't see any

593
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:43.599
and I have not seen any negative impact regarding a

594
00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:45.000
praise value from the foot.

595
00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.799
That's interesting, And you know you talk about changing the

596
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.039
aesthetics and how people did that, and a quick story

597
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.359
that just popped in my head. I'll never forget. After

598
00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:58.039
my house was gutted and I had to go all

599
00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.160
the way up because we had over four and a

600
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.079
half feet in our house, so we were all the

601
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:05.640
way up to the ceiling, you know, just sticks and bricks,

602
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:10.720
like you're saying. And I remember once me and I

603
00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:13.160
was so blessed to have so many friends that I said, no,

604
00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:15.599
I don't need any help, and they did not listen

605
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:17.680
to me, and they all showed up. And I still

606
00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:20.119
get goose bumps from that because they know who I

607
00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:23.160
was and they knew I would never say I needed help.

608
00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:26.119
And here comes seventeen guys that are like, you're not

609
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:30.519
doing this by yourself. And you know, it moved me

610
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:32.319
in a lot of ways, changed me in a lot

611
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.480
of ways. But I remember sitting in my house when

612
00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:39.160
everybody had left, and I'm looking around and me and

613
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.839
my wife are in there, and I said, what what

614
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.240
did we not like about this house? Because now would

615
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:47.720
be the time to change it, and both of us

616
00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:51.319
were in agreements that our bathrooms were too small. And

617
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:53.720
I'll never forget it. I had a sledge amer in

618
00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:57.240
my hand, and I walked to where my bathrooms would

619
00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:01.920
have been, and I had two adjoining bathrooms right next

620
00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:03.960
to each other, butted up, and they had a big

621
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:06.359
wall with the joist, you know.

622
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:06.920
Right there.

623
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:09.559
And I took that sledge hammer and I knocked that

624
00:30:09.640 --> 00:30:12.079
whole wall out, and I looked at my wife and

625
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:14.880
I said, congratulations, we just got the biggest bathroom in

626
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:19.960
the neighborhood. And I'm telling you, when you, Darren, if

627
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.960
you walked in my bathroom, you would see a shower

628
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:27.200
that is like six feet long and got sprays water

629
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:31.480
coming out everywhere. It is totally up scene to have

630
00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:34.640
in that particular house. And you would say, this just

631
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.599
doesn't fit here. But you know what I wanted something

632
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:43.519
that I could say we did this, yeah, and you

633
00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:46.160
know that was the thing, bathrooms, And we made our

634
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.400
bathrooms bigger, and now we have bathrooms that it's kind

635
00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:51.240
of like building the biggest house in the neighborhood that

636
00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:53.839
doesn't fit. Our bathrooms are that way they should be

637
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.680
in the country club. My kitchens and.

638
00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:00.519
Bathrooms will give you the high returns win, so you're

639
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:02.599
winning right there. I'm waiting right there.

640
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:05.599
Let me ask you this now, how is the market

641
00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:07.960
today ten years later in this area?

642
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:10.680
So right now, I can tell you in twenty twenty six,

643
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:12.559
I'm having the best year I've ever had in my

644
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:16.079
entire career twenty five years. Wow, even with it is

645
00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:21.400
absolutely incredible. I just I'm just able to to. I mean, like,

646
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:23.559
for example, let's go back to last Monday. I ran

647
00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:28.599
thirteen appointments last Monday. I think it was eleven Tuesday, nine, Wednesday,

648
00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:32.160
eight Thursday, and I think I had five on Friday.

649
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:35.920
So it's just crazy appointments, crazy, just helping so many people,

650
00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.240
and so many people are moving for different reasons. Like

651
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:40.839
I mentioned earlier, everybody has a different journey. Everybody's on

652
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:43.880
a journey and some people you know, and to be honest,

653
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:46.200
three of those appointments last week I told him, I said, look,

654
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:48.519
it's not your time to sell. Yeah, and people are

655
00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:51.519
like what, like, well, you're the real treman to mean,

656
00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:53.079
it's not my time. So well, based on there, sir,

657
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.799
everybody has a different reason, right, but everybody has a

658
00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:59.079
reason why they should sell or should not sell. And

659
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.440
so when I on any appointment, just to be quite frankly,

660
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:04.920
I'm not there to list that house. I'm there to

661
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:08.359
determine what their goals are sure, and what is their journey,

662
00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:10.720
and if I fit into that puzzle, that's great. But

663
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:13.839
in those three instances, it didn't make sense for them

664
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.759
on many different reasons. One, they were unsure on whether

665
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:18.240
or not they were going to go their separate ways.

666
00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:20.240
Let's work on your separate ways first. Let's see if

667
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.119
we can keep this together. You know, that's the thing.

668
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.920
Sometimes you got to be a counselor in the transaction.

669
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:28.039
Another one guy wasn't sure about a job relocation, right

670
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.160
He said, like, I'm relocating the Bowmont with excell And

671
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:33.359
I'm like, okay, I said, I said, well, he said,

672
00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:34.480
I want to go ahead and put my house on

673
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:36.160
the market, and when looking up the days on the market,

674
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.160
you're gonna have to move Twice, I said, you need

675
00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:40.640
to wait until a later time period before they do that.

676
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:43.240
And plus on top of this, at the time, you

677
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.279
know this last week they were scheduled they're going to

678
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.279
do an interest rate drop with the new FED chairman.

679
00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:49.200
But I don't think Rachi're gonna drop. Just be on.

680
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:51.119
I'm putting it on the record right now. I don't

681
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.599
think Rach're going to drop anytime soon, just be honest.

682
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:54.680
So don't wait to say.

683
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.519
I don't think Rachel coming back. I did three weeks ago.

684
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.440
I think they were coming down because I suspectations we

685
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:02.559
were hearing through all the different reports and stuff. But

686
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:04.160
I just I don't. I don't think it's gonna happen

687
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.079
here anytime soon. Wow. Yeah, unfortunately, but it is what

688
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:10.640
it is. But overall, good market, unbelievable market, unbelievable mark.

689
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:13.440
Everybody's like I said, everybody death, downsids, divorced. That's the

690
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.880
reason why. The other d's is diapers, people getting having

691
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:18.480
babies and so forth. They got to upsize. And then

692
00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:20.839
diamonds people going from a smaller house to a luxury house.

693
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:22.759
It happens all the time. Yeah, and so people do

694
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:24.240
that all the time. So that's the five d's.

695
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:27.920
Wow, very interesting. I was not familiar with those acronyms.

696
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:30.599
All like that, the five d's of real estate, death.

697
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.079
Downsuds, divorce, diamonds, and diapers.

698
00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:36.880
Give give. I want you to get in y'all Darren

699
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:39.599
is a broker as well, and uh so I want

700
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:41.680
you to give a shout out to your company and

701
00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:43.920
now people can find you all that good stuff.

702
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:45.960
Absolutely, thank you so much. I'm Darren James with Darren

703
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.160
James and associated. You've probably seen my billboards going down

704
00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.480
the road your home soul guaranteed, that's me and I'm

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very very honored to be able to be part of

706
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this podcast, very honored to be able to provide value. Jim,

707
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.359
thank you so much for this again, and any questions

708
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that anybody has, it's all you know. I'm an open book.

709
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Please reach out to me anytime. They can visit our

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website Agent two two five dot com, Agent two two

711
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five dot com or call me on my cellphone two

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two five three three five seventy six sixty six. Two

713
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two five three three five seventy six sixty six. I

714
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always answer. You can text me call me anytime. I

715
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:18.400
get up at five in the morning. I worked till

716
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past midnight, so yep.

717
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And he also works out at like ten times, which

718
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makes me feel guilty. Every time I pull up Facebook,

719
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I'm like, yeah, I'm sitting on the couch there and

720
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doing chin ups that you know, work out.

721
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I can't do that. I got, I got. I got

722
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some problems with my knee right now that I'm having

723
00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:38.679
I have a man. I tore my a CL, my

724
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.199
MCL and mamniscus last year in June, had surgery on it,

725
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and so it's still giving me some fits. So I

726
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:46.679
went into I'm just kind of off the book. But

727
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I'm sorry I went into a uh. I went in

728
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to get a second opinion from a doctor, and because

729
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.519
I thought something had went wrong with the surgery, because

730
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:55.440
it's been over a year and I'm still having problems.

731
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And I told the doctor, I said, look, I said,

732
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you know, can you can you check on this? He said, Darren,

733
00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:01.119
you that's one of the worst neees I've ever seen.

734
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:02.920
I said, I appreciate that, doc, thank you so much.

735
00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:06.239
I said, how do we fix it? Yeah, we got

736
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.119
good news for me. How we fixed He said, well,

737
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:09.960
you're gonna have to have a knee replacement eventually, and

738
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:12.960
I said, well, I don't know about that. So ironically enough,

739
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.000
this is how this, this is how the man upstairs works.

740
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:18.360
I was, I go eat and I need to smoothie.

741
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.000
And if you ever tried to smooth I'm shout out

742
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:21.719
to Del Brass who owns Paradise Smooth.

743
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:24.280
He's oh, yeah, yeah, great guy.

744
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:27.519
So so Dale walked into his shop one day and

745
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:29.800
I went over there and I'm listening to him, and

746
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.639
they had a guy in there that was retired military

747
00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:36.280
uh general, and he had these these leg compressions on

748
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:39.199
for his legs. And Dale introduced me to himson Man said,

749
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what's the leeds compressions for us? That's just had knee surgery.

750
00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:44.239
Ironically enough, I'm thinking of my mim that's coming up

751
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:47.000
for me, So let's talk. Yeah, right, And so I said, man,

752
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:48.199
how did you go? He said, I had the best

753
00:35:48.239 --> 00:35:50.599
doctor ever. I'm like, really, I said who did you have?

754
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:52.960
He said, you have to see this guy and doctor.

755
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:55.480
The doctor's name is doctor Mushkow. I said, how in

756
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:56.840
the world you spell that? And so I had to

757
00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:58.119
look it up on Google because he didn't know how

758
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:00.800
to spell it either. Anyway, I looked up found him.

759
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:02.760
He said, Austin right there it on Neil And so

760
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:04.280
it took me four and a half weeks to get

761
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:06.079
into doctor Mushcow. And so I went and there and

762
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:08.920
met with him and Jim. I'm going to go ahead,

763
00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:10.840
shout out doctor Muskau here again because I wrote a

764
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:14.519
positive review for him. He spent over an hour with me. Wow,

765
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:15.800
in that doctor's.

766
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.159
Office, and that's rier for a doctor.

767
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:20.159
Unbelievable, just showing me models, showing me how the knee work,

768
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.280
showing me this. And I said, look, I said, this

769
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.119
is the problem that I, having looked at my MRIs

770
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:26.079
from the previous surgery all that kind of stuff. Said yeah,

771
00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:28.559
you're going to need a knee surgery, he said, But

772
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:30.920
can I be honest with you? I said, please tell me.

773
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:34.280
He says, you don't need it now, and I was shocked.

774
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:36.360
He said he did two hundred and fifty surgeries on

775
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.039
the average a year, two hundred and two hundred fifty

776
00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:40.239
a years, so he's very experiencing it. Sure, I said, well,

777
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:41.800
why don't I need it now? He said, Darren, He said,

778
00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:45.239
the average full knee replacement last twelve to fifteen years.

779
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:47.400
And I'm fifty two. He says, by the time you

780
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:49.599
get in your sixties, I'll be having you be had

781
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:51.159
to call me again. I have to do a second one.

782
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:53.039
He says, you need to wait a little while. And

783
00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:54.559
so he told me I needed to go see a

784
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.239
sports medicine doctor, and so on August and knightth I

785
00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:02.239
got a sports medicine doctor appointment for U p RT

786
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:05.840
plasma replacement therapy. You ever heard of? Yes, I have. Yeah,

787
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:06.400
so they're.

788
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:08.119
Gonna you'll have to let me know how that does.

789
00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:11.400
Yeah, So he's very curious. Yeah. So he's supposed to withdraw.

790
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:13.400
So for the listeners out there, they're supposed to withdraw

791
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:15.199
some blood out of my arm and put it in

792
00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:18.159
a little centril future and it spends it around, spends

793
00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:20.639
it around, and it attracts the plasma, separates the plasma

794
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:22.400
from the blood and the water or whatever else is

795
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:26.440
in there, and then they reinject the plasma into my

796
00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:29.679
knee and it's supposed to help they and I asked

797
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.159
doctor Muscale this, I said, that sounds kind of painful,

798
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:34.719
and he said, he said, yeah, he said, it is

799
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.000
pretty painful. He said, you will be in pain for

800
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.159
the next couple of days. He said, because what's happening

801
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:42.719
is you're injecting plasma into your deal, into your knee,

802
00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:44.840
and it's going to cause white blood cells to be

803
00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.519
on alert and it's going to put inflammation into your

804
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:51.079
body on purpose to make them start rebuilding cartilage, and

805
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.679
that's what's going to happen. And he said, the first three,

806
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:57.320
four or five days, he said, you'll be not your

807
00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.480
best person, and you'll be in a lot of pain.

808
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:01.719
He said, but after that, he said, it's pretty good,

809
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.920
pretty good recovery time. And I said, well, let's let's

810
00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:06.760
talk about worst case scenario. What if it don't work?

811
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:08.559
And I asked him that, I said, what happens if

812
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:10.519
it don't work? He says, well, at that point, we

813
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:12.239
can go in there. We'll give you a shot, and

814
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.159
we can go into that area where you're hurting and

815
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.599
do nerve blocks on it and just block those nerves

816
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:18.920
from hurting you so where you can walk a normal Yeah.

817
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.199
Very good. Yeah, So there's all there's a lot of

818
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:23.480
the time, there's alternatives out there. There's always ways to make

819
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.239
something happen. It's always positive, positive results. That's the way

820
00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:29.679
I do. I always lead my life by the acronym

821
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:32.559
of hope h O PE and in my world that

822
00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:35.639
stands for have only positive expectations. So for your listeners

823
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:37.880
out there, go out there, be a light to this world,

824
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:40.119
lead others to him, and be the best you can be.

825
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:44.119
Amen, and again thank you for coming on the show. Y'all.

826
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:47.599
First thought that came to mind, first person that came

827
00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:49.960
to mind, And I know a lot of realtors that

828
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.679
do great work or great realtors, but Darren James would

829
00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:56.159
be hard to beat on his knowledge and his experience,

830
00:38:56.239 --> 00:38:58.199
and so we were happy to have you on.

831
00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:01.800
Appreciate it again. Preciate you so much, my friend and Jail.

832
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:04.480
You're just a leader in this in this industry, local

833
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:08.320
leaders is given for a reason and it definitely follows

834
00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:11.440
you wholeheartedly. So never forget the value you bring to

835
00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:13.599
so many people each day. Man, Thank you. Many people

836
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.519
love you, many people respect you, and I'm one of them,

837
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:17.239
so thank you. I appreciate that.

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To all the listeners, thank you for listening. Please, if

839
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.840
you've got anything out of this podcast, share it on

840
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:27.440
your social media. It is how we grow. And until

841
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.760
next time, I'm Jim Chapman reminding you love your community,

842
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:34.519
support local business, and keep leading. Thank you very much.

843
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Thank you,