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🗓️ 31 October 2025
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Old barns can be gold mines—or legal landmines. Today we cover permits, insurance, and realistic margins for turning reclaimed boards into profit.
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| 0:50.7 | Can you legally profit from salvaging barn wood? Can you go out and sell barnwood? It's also called |
| 1:01.7 | salvaged wood. Salvaged wood is really popular with boutique builders, DIYers. Just imagine coffee |
| 1:08.5 | tables with 1890s nail holes, that farmhouse aesthetic that HGTV made |
| 1:14.4 | famous. |
| 1:15.4 | Of course, nobody talks about the spiders, the tetanus nails, the township inspectors who can |
| 1:19.8 | shut you down. |
| 1:21.1 | I don't know if all those things are always a problem, but we're going to hear from a caller |
| 1:24.1 | today with an idea. |
| 1:25.7 | This is Alec. |
| 1:27.1 | He's looking at these roadside relics, hoping to sell them for cash, but he's worried that something's going to come along and cause some difficulty. Does he need a permit? Does he need insurance? Does he need to worry about those spiders? Well, I can't solve all those problems, but I'll try to talk about what is most important in terms of his side hustle idea. |
| 1:45.4 | Let's see if we can turn the barnyard fantasy into a safe, profitable reality. |
| 1:50.0 | Detailed question from Alec. And my answer coming right up. |
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