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Howie's Sales Cons and the Modular Home Hustle
from Built To Win · #43
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2 minMore Howie stories: his rapid-fire fake Wall Street sales pitches, refinancing modular homes as if they were legitimate real estate, and his eventual pivot (like many mortgage guys) into selling solar panels.
- 50:14Tim distinguishes between a double wide and a modular home with a permanent foundation as a sales pitch.
- 50:48He explains how talking fast and babbling worked as his own sales technique without actually being a technique.
- 51:09Mortgage guys Tim knew ended up in the solar panel scam business.
- 51:24Tim describes how solar panel salesmen pitch the government subsidy angle to sucker people into deals they can't afford.
- 51:53A Bravo show about Long Island called Secrets and Wives featured a husband selling solar panels out of Island Park.
solar panelsSecrets and Wives