We go in and we do whatever the work needs to be and work begets more work.

We get referrals, we get repeats.

The next job might be eight hours.

And so if we end up doing a 15-minute long job, we're fine with it.

It's just an investment in our future.

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

industry professionals. This is senior editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by Mike Evans, founder

of Fixer.com, a handyman service in Chicago.

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast at

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You can also leave feedback and ask questions there too.

Mike, it is a pleasure to have you on the show.

You and the family are healthy, I gather.

Yeah, everybody's healthy.

Thanks for having me.

We've all been sort of in place and sort of hunkered down at my house for the last couple months.

But everybody's good.

Is this state of Illinois gradually opening up to stuff again?

Not even a little. We're still locked down tight.

So I think in the next few weeks it should start to open up a little bit.

So this is an interesting scenario here.

You emailed me last week about a discussion we had in

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