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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

#236: PRO TALK with Mike Guertin and Addison Oliveira

The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Leisure, Construction, Keepcraftalive, Home & Garden, How To, Drywall, Craftsmanship, Education, Homebuilding, Houses

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Fine Homebuilding podcast is now recording a second weekly show focusing on the issues facing contractors and professional tradespeople. In this first installment, Patrick talks to Mike Guertin about the industry’s ups and downs, how to diversify your income, and the realities of owning rental properties. Mike’s carpenter, Addison Oliveira weighs in on the same issues and offers advice for those seeking work in residential construction.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Then you've got to plan for profit.

0:07.0

That's the most important thing.

0:09.0

And that's one thing that I've always been lucky I've always done is I've always had some money

0:14.0

that I planned into the budget that I've had that little bit of profit that, you know,

0:19.0

is kind of carried me through when things are lead.

0:27.8

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry

0:33.1

of professionals. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by Fine Homebuilding Editorial

0:38.2

Advisor Mike Gerton. Hello. And his staff, Carpenter, Addison Alivara. Hey, how you doing?

0:46.2

Producer Jeff Rose. All right. Please email your questions to FHB Podcast at Taunton.com. You can find

0:53.1

the Fine Homebuilding Pro Talk podcast and the Fine Homebuilding Podcast at Taunton.com. You can find the Fine Homebuilding Pro Talk podcast

0:55.0

and the Fine Homebuilding podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcast. You can also leave feedback

1:01.4

and ask questions there too. So I'm talking about this thing like it's been an entity for a long

1:06.4

time, but this is the first time we've had the Pro Talk podcast on Fountain Home Building.

1:11.6

But it's something I hope to do once a week.

1:14.0

And that's why I said it's a regular discussion.

1:16.6

So you guys are our first official guests.

1:19.9

The kind of impetus for this was Sean Van Dyke's discussion.

1:23.0

We had a few weeks back.

1:24.6

But it made me think that we should do this all the time.

1:27.2

So thank you both

1:28.3

very much for being here. Well, thanks for having us. I listened to that, the podcast with Sean,

1:35.1

and then you're mentioning that you'd like to do a second podcast and doing one for the pros. And I

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