You got to love your guys.

You have to treat everybody with the most amount of respect that you possibly can and just take care of your guys.

Remember that these people are human and you will love them because they're human and you will be frustrated with them because they're human.

But these are your people.

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

professionals.

This is Fine Home Building contributor and production manager at TDS custom construction, Ian Schwann.

Today I am joined by my good friend Luke de Blasey of de Blasey painting in Millbrook, New York.

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

at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too.

Luke, it's great to see you and have you on the show. Ian, happy new year, man. It's good to be here.

Thanks for having me. So you run a true family business. You want to walk us through all of your family that works for you

and what it's like to have all of you working together? Yeah, so it's my father, my brother,

myself, and my cousin working actually in the business. My sister has helped set up a bunch of

systems for us, helped on the bookkeeping end.

And then when she got pregnant with her fourth son, she actually offloaded that job to my

other cousin who just moved to Texas. So she does all of our bookkeeping stuff remotely.

But it's so super rewarding working with everyone. I mean,

it's every, I get to talk to my brother, my cousin, my dad every day. And it's anybody that says,

you know, don't don't mix family with business does, in my opinion, doesn't have the right

relationships with their family or the right

relationship with their business.

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