[MUSIC]
What's going on, man?
-Everything's going good. -It looks like you graded it pretty good, man.
-Getting there. -Oh...
[Fred] Cleared up that eyesore, that was a mess.
I see you kinda straightened out the edge, 'cause we do
have a brick man, there's going be a brick thing, so...
Well, I appreciate everything, man.
I'll get back with you later on, easy.
-I'll see you. -Okay.
-What's up, brother? -[Fred] What's going on, man?
-How's it going? -[Fred] Man, tired...
I see you got it cleaned up, ain't it?
[Fred] Yeah, we got it cleaned up, man.
[Martell] Fred Acklin, he is my business partner.
He holds the home builder's license
and the general contractor's license
and Fred and I've known each other for a few years.
So he's kind of allowed me to become his business partner.
So he saw in me, value that could help him
in terms of growing his business as well.
Man, I almost feel foreign from these boot sole, man.
-[Fred] Yeah, I know. -[laughs] It feel good to
be putting them back on and and getting busy again, you know.
-I'm looking up. That's it, man. -[laughs]
-That's good man. -Yeah, seriously.
I'm just glad to see you back in the boots, man. And...
[laughs]
-And back out here, man. -Yo, man, dude, I'm telling you,
I almost didn't know how to tie them up or nothing.
You know, I lost my businesses.
I lost Holt Custom Homes, you know what I'm saying?
-Yeah. -So...
And I juts appreciate the position that you was in to help me.
-Yeah. -You like, took me in and...
-We moving with it. You know what I'm saying? -Hey, man...
Took my experience, my expertise then...
You welcomed me in and, you know, I appreciate that.
It's good to see you, man, you've come through that curve, man.
Yeah. Got to.
You know what I'm saying? Anything I could have did, I'd do it again.
So, yeah, you know, I'm gonna take
my home builder's license by the end of this month.
You know, Mel,
she was the license holder
at Holt Custom Homes, but you know, but now, it's me.
It's Martell Holt, now, you know what I'm saying? So...
I gotta put my best foot forward.
Honestly, like, so we met few years back...
-with your skills and what you knew... -Yeah.
...like, I always thought
-you were the license holder, like... -Yeah.
I just did not know that she held the card.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-Why didn't you already have it? Like, man... -Yeah, I mean...
-I took the test, I failed it. Then she took it. -Okay.
-Passed it. -Oh, my goodness.
I'm like, "Hey, you don't even know job sites, it's like, you ain't..."
And she started that thing and just knocked this [bleep] out.
-You know what I'm saying? -Wow.
And then, I wasn't tripping. I mean, it was my wife.
To be expected. I get it.
I'm out here in the field and you passed the test,
so it's all good, you know we're making the money, that's it.
Yeah, man, but...
So up now it's like a different approach.
Yeah.
Can't depend on nobody like that when it come down to
your well-being and things like that. You know.
[Fred] Mmm-hmm...
Even as we expand together,
-it's gonna still benefit us both for you to have it. -Yeah.
It's gonna definitely be necessary for you, man, just 'cause your brand, your name.
-Right. -You better be on the front of that, man.
When you hold that license yourself, man...
-Yeah. -...you'll sign those contracts.
-Right. -And you'll be on the front.
-Yeah. -And no one can ever, you know,
-try to... -Can't take it away.
Take anything from you.
100%.
Always thought that Mel and I, we would be together...
forever.
But, it didn't turn out that way.
And now, I'm starting over
and this time, I wanna be completely on my own.
Feel good about all of this, man.
-Mmm-hmm. -I really do.
-Yeah, man. -Um...
So, also...
-you know I've been talking about the 47 acres. -Right.
So, like right now, they gave me the first right
-to purchase back the 44 lots. -Wow.
Yeah, so, we need to
-get this written up, like, ASAP. -Okay.
After all the work that I put into the 47 acre deal,
I didn't see a reason to be left out of it.
So before Melody or Chris come into play,
you know, I really convinced the developer already
to allow me to build the 44 houses on the 44 lots.
So you know, my guy, Chris,
you know, he approached Melody to be the builder.
-Okay. -I see your face
-and...[laughs] -No...
No, I'm not feeling a... [laughs]
No. Not like that. What you shading at...
Yeah.
So he approached Melody, you know,
to possibly be the builder.
I mean, I got a little upset about that.
-He promised that to me a year ago. -Right.
-It was a shocker to me. -Yeah.
Considering that I'd brought him in...
-Yeah. -...to be the realtor on it.
I understand what you're saying.
You know, I brought the buyer to the table.
Right, right.
You shouldn't definitely go to my ex-wife to ask her to be the builder.
She got a GC license?
No, on the residential.
Residential side?
Yeah, 'cause you know, she still got her home-builder's license.
-Oh, okay. -Yeah.
I was already gonna get my home-builder's license
but Chris offering Melody the opportunity to build on the 44 lots,
[bleep] really hit home.
So I'll definitely get my own license
because I cannot be relying on anyone else,
you know, not Melody, not Fred, no one.
'Cause you never know what the future holds.
I went through the divorce thing, years ago, man, I understand
kinda how that works, man, and how it can be.
-Everything is still fresh. -Okay.
With us, and, you know, I understand--
-Taking a little time. -There we go.
-Everything will go straight. -I saw you man, like,
in a trauma place.
-Oh, dude, yeah. -So, man, whatever you do now,
I'm saying it can really be about you, man.
-Yeah. -Like, I don't wanna ever see you again,
-in the position where you was taken. -Got you.
-We gotta move forward don't we, man? -Yeah.
And try to keep accomplishing, keep building it.
-that's what we gonna do. -Yeah.
Yeah. Like I said, I appreciate it, thank you.
-Yup. -No doubt.
-Most definitely. Act like a hoe. -Most definitely.
-[Martell] That's it. -[Fred] All day.