This is the Home Service Expert podcast with Tommy Mello.

Let's talk about bringing in some more money for your home service business.

Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields,

like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership, to find out what's really behind their success in business. Now, your host,

the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. This is Tommy Mello here. I'm the Home Service

expert. I'm here with Randall D. Hart. He's the co-founder of Fast Easy Accounting in Lidwood, Washington,

and a leading expert in outsourced contractors, bookkeeping services. He usually specializes

in $10 million or less for different companies. He specializes in QuickBooks. He's been in the

contract world for over 25 years. He was born and raised in a

construction family. And I've already talked to him for a half hour before this started. And he's

just a wealth of knowledge. He's got a lot of complex concepts that really makes sense when it brings

it down to the contracting world. And Randall, I'm excited to have you on today. How's your day going?

Tommy, it's great to be here. I really appreciate it. And I'll tell you what, my day is going so well.

If I was any better, I'd be twins. That's amazing. I love that. A little anecdote. So, you know,

you've been in the plumbing industry. You've done a lot of things.

You have your own podcast called The Contractor Success Map.

Tell me a little bit about your father got started in the business. He's a contractor.

Tell me a little bit about that and kind of where you've been and where you're going here

with what you're specializing in. Sure. Let me see if I can. I'll try to eat this condensed as much as I can.

My stepfather, I actually was born in Oklahoma and we moved up here in 1965 in the Seattle area.

I married a guy who was just a really neat fellow. He's my stepfather and he had a

landscape and gardening business which he started in

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