- Plumbers and farmers have an average age in their 60s.
- Aging housing in communities means plumbing and septic systems are likely to go bad.
- There is a shortage of people in the plumbing, heating, and cooling business.
- In some cities, there is a crisis-level shortage of workers in this industry.

If you think of the average age of plumbers, it's a lot like the average age of farmers.

We've had the pleasure of buying a lot of old properties in our little town.

And what you find is, when you start thinking about the volume of housing in any given community and what the average age of the plumbing and the septic and everything that's in it, that's gonna go bad if it hasn't gone bad.

And usually it goes bad after we bought it, it seems like.

But I think we're no different than anybody else.

And then you think of the plumbing, heating, cooling business and fewer and fewer and fewer people doing it.

I feel like we're headed like we're if we're not already there.

I imagine in some cities we are there that it's like a crisis level of doesn't matter what you're going to charge.


Speaker 0: If you think of the average age of plumbers, it's a lot like the average age of farmers. Yeah, 60s. Yeah. We've had the pleasure of buying a lot of old properties in our little town. And what you find is, when you start thinking about the volume of housing in any given community and what the average age of the plumbing and the septic and everything that's in it, that's gonna go bad if it hasn't gone bad.

And usually it goes bad after we bought it, it seems like. But I think we're no different than anybody else. And then you think of the plumbing, heating, cooling business and fewer and fewer and fewer people doing it. I feel like we're headed like we're if we're not already there. I imagine in some cities we are there that it's like a crisis level of doesn't matter what you're going to charge.

There's not enough people to do the job.

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