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Not allowed to get on the road before 9am because of school buses through a city. And have to be off the road by 3pm yeah.

But we can take that hour break. We come back on the road at 5. Wow. And run 30 minutes before dark.

Mobile home. Mommy.

And then we put the block on top of the black path. It's just a lot of.

How many blocks is it that you move them?

Let's see. I'd say probably total them right around 100 or so. Yeah. Well, for these, the Big deer Valley, the 32 by 90 foot liners, those require 250 blocks. 250.

Yeah.

So he was just telling me how long this is and then how long it is with the truck. How long did you say it is?

76 foot with a home. And you add the truck in. It's 93 foot long. We do 90 footer, but it's 107 foot long coming down the road. And we sell quite a few of them. Yeah.

And you guys are going to see how he was able to maneuver this over at the place. Coming out and making the U turn and all that.

Yeah.

This is pretty incredible.

The guys before me drove that truck. Dick Moore bought them both practically me. We get our own truck tomorrow. Tomorrow.

Tony just told me that we're picking.

It up out of Jonesboro. Cost us $65,000. Got a six way power hitch on it to be able to six way hitch up, down, side to side, in and out. Then you got all this translator out here.

That's what I'm saying.

And.

Well, that's $47,000 before COVID hit. Well, now it's 67,000. What does this do? I'm going to run that under there. I'll lift it home up there. And we'll take that water level and we'll set all up here, pads here. Pull the axles out. We set the house down on it perfectly.

Ah, so this is going to hold the house up.

Yeah, that.

This is like a jack. Just like a jack for the car.

Yeah, that's a jack with a dozer track. That's what I can pick that house up. I could have put that home in here with that. Without the truck. Without the truck. Without the truck. I could unhook the truck, hook that to the front of that house and put it in here. That's how you would. That's how you would set them up before. Would have a roller system. Yeah, a roller system about as long as this toolbox. You'd set that under the frame, jack it up. And you roll it on them rollers. So we retired them. Oh, you went to this? We ordered this out of Nashville mobile home suppliers. We order. This is your anchoring system. It's the Oliver system. We don't put all the straps in the ground. We put these under, smash them in the ground, build a pier on top of it. That bar hooks to that attachment goes over and hooks to the front. And then we put four toner anchors in. That's the new modern day technology right there is what is. Then you order these. One buys, two buys dip wedges that you go to. We don't carry a generator with us. We plug straight inside that truck, charge our batteries, put our anchors in the ground. That is our power. That box right there is our power. That's what you say. Semi truck over the road, guys. Yeah, that's what they mount in our trucks right now. Refrigerators, microwaves, video games, every. Yeah. We roll our anchor machine, put some anchors in the ground, we run it in all f hammer drill. When we're working on concrete to anchor, we run the hammer drill. We go down the road charging our batteries for our cordless impact to take off the wheels. And t we charging them on the way with a hack. So when we get there, we ready.

It. All right, y', all, we're here with the main mover, Mr. Bobby himself of what company? Bit more housing. That's it, right? Big more house, big more housing. And we wanted to ask him a couple questions, so we started asking him rapid fire questions. He started answering them. But we're gonna give y' all the information. So the first thing we asked him, everybody wants to know how do we find movers? What's the secret?

Called the state fire marshal because they're the ones that licensed us. They know every mover in that state.

So called a state fire marshal.

Right now you'd call Tennessee state fire marshal in national and we could get.

A list of all the movers.

They'll tell you every mover in the.

State intersection, whether they're active or no.

They don't. They don't give it to you unless they're active.

Gotcha. Ok. What, you had a question? That was my question. So what's the starting price of just even a single wide and then a double wide? And how do y' all determine the price?

You have to go evaluate. You have to ride through, say what you got to do if you're staying in state or if you're going through multiple states. That's multiple permit or less toys. That's where it raises the price of something. But if you're local, I mean, if you can come in and do it today, you're at about what you're saying, about four grand around here is what we are. Single, wide, come out, grab it, go move it on a simple move. But if it takes us longer than that, we have to factor all that in. That's what drives the process. And now as fuel keeps going up, we have to keep going up, parts keep going up, we have to keep going up and we have to pass it on to summer kids beyond.

So how often do you change the price?

Just when they change it on us.

Gotcha.

Everything they're doing is based upon what.

The park is doing. It's based upon our supply. We're in place supplies. Yeah. Our price is based on what we can get it for.

Okay. How long does it take you to set up a mobile home?

This one right here?

Yeah.

Well, it's done three or four hours.

Three or four hours?

Yeah. But that's no plumbing hooked up. That's not plumbing. That's not water. Right. We can block it, drop that. So it's anchor about four hours.

Four hours, yeah. Dang. So on average, are you moving two mobile homes a day?

10 if they won't cut. But not many folks can't hardly do that because when school's in session, we run off at a Permian. We're not allowed to get on the road before 9 o' clock and we have to be off the road by three school buses.

Not allowed to get on the road before 9am because of school buses through a city.

Yeah.

And have to be off the road by 3pm yeah.

But we can take that hour break. We come back on the road at 5. Wow. And run 30 minutes before dark.

But then. Okay.

That's how we're able to go with it. We have a lot of regulation. They watch us like a hawk.

A lot of regulation.

Every mile we do, I have to jot down, I have to run the logbook. It's a whole something else.

How long you been doing this?

24 years. Pretty busy.

Wow. So what would you say to somebody who's probably interested in getting started and doing it?

Go for it. Go for it. Yeah.

You can do it. Do you feel like it's a shortage in the industry?

I know they are. Go to school.

You're sitting on the couch, you're watching tv and your life's passing you. You keep procrastinating over and over, well, maybe I'll go to school next Year, maybe next semester. No, do it right now.

Maybe.

I don't know.

Go to one hour student. They'll tell you we're dying. Breathing our plants get smaller and smaller. Wow. Yeah. What it is now, I mean, to be honest. $150,000 you can be in the mo pump setup at your truck trans lift escort. You just gotta go make money then.

Yeah. So 150. 50,000 to get started.

Yeah, that'd buy. I'd buy all your equipment, trucks. Translation.

Gotcha. 150, 000 to get started.

Yeah.

That'll buy my truck escort and that transl. And a trans lift. Yeah, but how many men do I need? And what's. What's the. What's a fair rate? Do I just pay them per day? Pay them per hour?

That's between you and them, whatever they're asking for when you hire them in.

But when I start this like a day.

125 a day.

125 a day? Yeah.

Okay. Plus they get a hit bonus every home we pull. If you run an escort, you get 25. Each home we go to.

If they run an escort.

Yeah, that's my escort.

Okay.

And every home we take, they get a 25 hitch bone.

25 hitch. 125 per day.

And we do a double. We do a double. We're just taking it out there, dropping if they make it 175 a day.

Okay. So that is the insurance, though. I was told I need like a couple million dollar policy.

Yeah, at least a million.

At least a million. Yeah.

That's what you'll need on that with the truck. And you start factoring in all that, there's general liability. You have to have cargo insurance. Yeah, that's a lot to it, but do your homework. You do.

Now, my mover back home in North Carolina, I love him because moving home, my mobile home movers, y' all out of plug. That means y' all got all the information.

Yeah.

So he'll call me and be like, hey, Nicole, I got this house, it's pretty beat up. You want to come look at it? And he'll get it for free and sell it to me for at least a thousand or so and move it for me.

Yeah.

So do you do that as well?

Tommy's the one that goes and looks at a lot of. Before I ever hit it. Okay. I just give my address, tell me, go get them.

You asked Tony that too.

Okay. It wasn't on camera.

Me, Tony had this.

Okay.

They give me that address, they say either take One there or bring one from there.

Do you like. Are you okay with buying mobile homes with no titles? Bill of sale? Yeah, I do in North Carolina.

As long as it don't hurt you. As long as the state ain't after, you know.

Yep.

Yep. As long as it ain't tied up financially.

Yeah.

You don't want to buy something, go set it up, pay all that to invest, have it set up, and then you got a finance company or a bank knocking on your door saying, that's my home. Yep. And they can send a mover out there, snatch that home of their own if they have that title.

So. So in here, do you all also have to pay the taxes on the home before you get the permits?

I don't know if they do that in office. I know you have to say, if you own your house, you own your house, and you're renting a lot from somebody, you have to pay taxes on that home every year. Yep. So that's where the state gets you.

So if I need to get permits, what specific office am I calling?

Planning commission.

Planning commission.

Yeah. They'll let you know everything. All right, Local code enforcement.

Local code enforcement?

Yeah, you got to have them on your side.

You can't do the job, y'. All. We didn't ask Bobby a whole bunch of questions.

I done throw me through the ringer, then.

We didn't ask him a whole bunch of questions. So, Bobby, what would you say? This is gonna be our last question. If somebody said, I'm nervous. I'm calling the mover. I just want to build a relationship. What's the best way for investors to build a relationship with you?

Get one mover and stick with them. Don't. Don't jump from over to mover. Get one you like and lock into them.

Kind of like disrespectful or just like. No, no.

I mean, they. They dealt with you before. Yeah, we deal with all kind of folks. You know what I mean? We deal with irate folks. We deal with crying folks. We. You know, we deal with folks that think they're way smarter than us.

Yeah.

I'm like, why'd you call me Dan? You know.

Sound like, coat.

My videographer was like, oh, I could move a mobile home. And he saw what y' all was doing. He was like, wait, I don't think.

I can do it.

Exactly right. Well, everybody think they can do your job until they actually see you do your job. It's a lot. It's a lot. All right, y', all. We didn't use enough of this man's time, he gotta go make some more money because he got to be off the streets by three. That's it. It's a wrap. Pen. Mobile home, Mommy.