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Jennifer is with us in Austin Texas hi Jennifer how are you good good how can we help

um I wanted to find out I have been looking for a house for about nine years and I found one

but it's kind of a flipper and it's about two million dollars so I didn't know if it would be

wise in our situation okay let's just back up looking for a house for nine

years is weird let's start with that okay we would love to build but here in

Texas they do not license contractors, so it's like

almost impossible to manage a project here.

So I kind of have to just remodel something and hope that it's, you know, we've got pretty

good bones and the property is good.

So why does it take nine years to discover you need a general contractor to build a house?

No.

Well, we, I do not want to build a house here because I'm in that industry, but I don't want to have to manage a project.

And their contractors here are, they're not licensed,

so it's really hard to...

They don't license general contractors in Texas?

No, I, no, Google it.

It's insane.

I don't really work in Texas.

No, it's kind of like the wild wild west of construction.

I don't even go into tall buildings here.

If there are more than two floors, I won't go in them.

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