When you are documented is doing business essentially illegally, it's going to come down on your

shoulders because you are the professional, you are the business owner, you do this every day,

it's not going to come down on the client's shoulders.

It's very similar to when you elect to not pull permits, right?

The client doesn't want to pull permits.

I'm not going to pull permits.

When you get caught and when you get fined, it's not going to fall on the client's shoulders

because they're not the professional. Even if they told you they didn't want to pull permits,

it's on your shoulders because you're the professional and you know that regardless you should

be pulling permits. Welcome back to another midweek, Krastin where today I'm going to be diving into digging into a prompt from a listener that he sent me via email.

So listener Chris, in response to a handful of podcast and blog posts that I put out

recently, wanted my take a little bit of insight on cash offers from clients. And I believe that this

was in response to some conversations that I've had around the market, the state of the economy,

how clients will begin to leverage people being hungry for work, just the competitive nature

of the industry, as costs have risen for clients, as costs have risen for our business, as work has slowed down,

any ways that potential clients can leverage us. And one of these that he feels he's seeing a little

bit more often is clients offering cash to pay for jobs and cash and the potential pitfalls

and everything else that may come along with

that so again with with the market tightening and cost rising for everyone clients are

tending to get a little bit more creative and I'm sure just as Chris has experienced you're going

to see more of this and one potential way is with cash offers. And on the surface,

it may sound great. It may sound appealing. But I'm going to break down why accepting cash or

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