its the agents that want to make more money not the owners

@ronniea.7535

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. I'm a liar and since I'm a liar I can tell if you're lying.

@sschueller

10 ай бұрын

Exactly

@smarthome2660

10 ай бұрын

I agree. When Alex was explaining the added $50,000, my first thought was the agent saw a way to make a quick buck.

@l33tninja1

10 ай бұрын

Actually a good part of it is California regulations and the idiots in the government making other issues.

@jankoodziej877

10 ай бұрын

I doubt that. For the agent it's little difference compared to what they get in total, and this is not just bigger risk, it also prolongs the whole thing, which means the agent actually gets less money per time spent. It's not the agent doing this.

Wow! what an amazing change, from "i struggled to start my repair business" to "i struggle to buy a 1.9M$ house"! Congratulation Ali, Alex. 😘 Everything is so easy when you show it, it only take, skills, experience, dedication, passion, etc... Keep the hard work, enjoy the reward 😊"Better than fActory!"🤗😘

It's a well-known fact that we entertain the same class level customer as the prices we charge. My favorite response to my "Life Hacker" customers was, "Sorry, it's not free".... and I was not shy about saying it, even in front of 15 people standing behind them in line....Customers are, what you teach them to be.

As someone who did $20 quotes (20 years ago) I can confirm, it'll end your business. The worst one was getting a win (which means actually repairing it) then the customer knocking back a $120 repair and saying "I'll just buy a new TV". So we removed parts or undid the repair, charged them $20 and lost money time and time again. The new one they bought at the time was likely not as good as the one they had. When there was thunderstorms the front of my shop was full of televisions and other damaged items, I should have been raking it in with quote fees, but instead we were set back weeks with angry customers on the phone. You should have heard the insurance company complaining when I changed my quotes to $40! They were not happy! I do I.T. now, but would I run a repair shop again today with the knowledge I have now? NO WAY! I hate STUPID customers and prefer my sanity.

@Dandan-tg6tj

10 ай бұрын

Well said: stupid customers. Stupid, thinking they know all and on top of everything demanding that they are entitled to everything. They are the worse. I show them the door and hope to not see them and their kind ever again. Unfortunately, there's so many of them. Fortunately, my door works both ways and they can go right through the door they were coming through. To see them go brings me so much peace LOL

@williamvaughan1218

9 ай бұрын

It's in the best interest of real estate agents who work on commission to extract as much as they can from their customers.

$85 is a great price actually. It cost $150 (or more) per hour to take your car to a mechanic.

It's interesting hearing about the California housing through you, would definitely continue watching the vlogs if you continue to do them

The image processing on that microscope is so impressive, you can see how it's trying to stabilize the clarity of the finer contrast details, eg. markings on chips, while also enhancing the illusion of depth perception, awesome equipment.

@phr3ui559

10 ай бұрын

yes

@BasicComputerRepair

10 ай бұрын

I have the newest red version and it's almost too good!

I hope you get the home, Alex! I am sure you and your family would love to close that chapter in your lives. Thank you for the update on the "hot tweezers" and take care!!

Yup for sure. I spend most of my time on diagnostics. People don't realize what goes on behind scenes. Thanks for the cool video always learning from you, thank you so much!

That repair was caused by the ground screw next to it was loose and arcing , and made high resistance to ground at that cap and high heat causing failure, I find a lot of arcing on the ground screws like that on these boards. Keep up the good videos Thank you😁

Good luck with getting the house. Will cross my fingers that you get it. Bidding on houses are shown many times here in Sweden to be scams. Houses been on the market for some time, noone interested. As soon as you call and give them a bid, several others pop up from nowhere and start bidding. Now we have a new law forsing the agents to show the byer who was bidding and how much. Thank you for sharing your house and repair journey.

Thanks for sharing a look into how real estate works. Im always down to learn stuff from you Alex.

there's a place in alaska where they post signs "don't throw food at the wolves", if a seller raises the price once i've accepted their price already twice, i'll go: my offer is now down to the original price, take it or leave it.

Another great video. Appreciate the diversion and transparency with the real estate situation. Hope you find a house soon!

This is so true. If you tell a customer it is too much or to go home and think of it they almost always want to leave it for repair.

It's a very common practice for a seller to list a house well under it's retail value in order to gain multiple competing offers. I admire anyone willing to stick it out in the cesspool California has become.

It’s awesome to see that Alex uses all his own tools!! That’s confidence if I’ve ever seen it!!!

Amazing....funny I was thinking to myself ( do you sell those hot tweezers) as you were installing the new cap and then you mentioned about testing hot tweezers stations to sell. 😉👍 I need one cause i was replacing a blown cap on a IPHONE and IWATCH charging station ( without microscope) and it went into the 3rd dimension 😂 . This cap was so tiny....crazy. I love all your vids and it's nice to see how a wonderful dad you are letting your kids be a part of your family business... keep those vids coming. 🤠

It's a joy for me to see that someone can afford to buy a 2M house. As big boss says bismillah before trying to turn on the device i say inshallah you will buy it.

@Dustii91

9 ай бұрын

True true, I wish nothing but happiness & success for those who are genuine decent and down to earth people

Good job man those house people were def playing games hope u ended up getting that house buddy hard worker u deserve it goodluck and thank you for all the knowledge i watch all your videos now im buying all kinds of these tools and trying for myself greatly appreciated my friend.

Hi Alex, Crazy in asking a selling price and than going up, usually should go down not up😅 Do it again!!! We enjoyed the vibe in searcing for homes😊

You know following you over the past few years has been an incredible journy.

Thank you. I always enjoy your videos. Watching a master at work is very relaxing.

I was just thinking that it's been a while since you did an open house video. I quite enjoy seeing houses out in Ca, even though I can't afford them! Good luck

I agree with you about location. I’m a truck driver and have seen a lot of the country. I was born and raised in the central valley of California. California has it all. You live in an area that has everything in close proximity. 👍

buying a home in the US right now is a sucker move.

House hunting sucks. But your videos are always great. Great quality, great content, (including commercials) and a great education. Thanks Alex!

For a competent fix or attempt your prices are great! Very fair.

Very fair pricing considering the time and expertise required even for a repair attempt 👍👍👍

I really like your attitude toward California. I agree 100%. I would love to get back to San Marino, but for now I'm stuck in Oregon.

Real estate is like this all over the US. It's even like this on the east coast. I have been looking for a house since around COVID as well. Houses are going for way more than they're worth and people are still over bidding.

It's the same with every industry, a final price always sounds expensive until you see what goes into it to generating that price. Customers never see the man hours, rent or insurances etc to run a business. They only ever compare your price to how much they earn & how much the item costs them to purchase.

I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the good work!

⭐I hope your family gets the house. Your such an awesome guy. Peace, love.💕

i was born in california, lived there for awhile. i don't live there anymore and would never live there again but i agree with you it is an amazing state and i understand why you'd want to live there

the ironic thing is that laptops can now be the price you charge for repairs.. just the way it is.. but i fell in that trap fixing computers a few times ... people taking advantage of my good nature .. but i soon learned to harden up... I had one customer say to another oh he does it for nothing..??? since when ... .. your my best mate type thing so .. i just stopped ... i learnt that one...

My Goodness! The real estate prices are crazy. Sounds like you've put a lot of thought behind choosing to live there though. Good luck in your endeavors.

Good luck on the house, I hope you get it!

WOW, you and big Boss have great and amazing hand too. Thanks for sharing your video my idol Alex

Alex I hope you get your dream house for you and your family. I enjoy watching your videos on your profession but as a fan I also love the vidoes you make outside that area. Best wishes 🙏

Good work Mr. Ali...

Based on that conversation, it seems like you chose a really good real estate agent. They are confident without being rude and communicate everything to you very well.

my friend went through a similar experience when trying to buy a home . patience won for my friend. he bought a house 10 doors down that was a better property and a lower price!

Same thing you must do as a mechanic. I cannot give a estimate for a new customer unless I evaluate the vehicle.

I have found if the Battery is disconnected it requires it to be plugged in with charger to turn on, found this procedure changing HD's, I appreciate the work you do and your presentations R-10+

Love the house hunting stories, keep us posted!

Great work from your realtor, please share his details as he seems a good one ☝ hope you get it Alex , trust me UK is no better

"I'm gonna look at other houses .... ok we have short circuit...." lol classic NRFix. :D Looks like this channel is turning into another Louis Rossmann with board repairs and real estate. hehe

Hey Alex, could you please make more videos about the houses you visit, or if you buy a house to see how it looks ? it's interesting and I really miss it. Greating 😊

We offered $250K over on a 1.3M house, all cash no contingencies. Winning bid was $350K over, also all cash, no contingencies. Meh, it is what it is. Also, you never lost it if you never had it.... I too am staying in CA, as I have year round mountain biking 5-10minutes away, with good double blacks.

Hi Alex. I enjoy seeing your videos, Big Boss and your knowledge is amazing! I got a Question for you, maybe a video idea: any heinsight in how you lookup and find donor pieces? Best Regards from Denmark :)

Hopefully you will land your dream house soon brother. That will make many viewers happy, I'm sure.

Was wondering your opinion on how feasible it is for someone to get into the same business as you from scratch. I have heard many say it's just too expensive now to start a repair business unless you have connections or something

$85 is cheap. If someone thinks it's to expensive then why bother thinking about repairs. Just buy a new device.

If you would slowly but religiously write the experiences and new tricks that you learn from repairing just asus laptops alone, I feel like you could write a book about it. Something like "a technician's guide to repairing asus laptops". The sudden click you get when you first inspect the board and know 9/10 what the problem is is very interesting to see. Something knowledge can't get out of experience.

I need some advice should I fix a 7 th gen I 7 that has the mother board shorted and blasted from the battery part seems that there was water between the connector or some liquid fell on it when it was running and the battery connector and a small semicircle around it is roasted ,what should I be doing salvaging for parts or go for a fix attempt it would even require wiring copper wires as the traces on the PCB are burnt and blasted of near the connector of the battery on the mother board ,HP i7 pavilion 7th gen for reference.

I enjoy hearing your life stories thanks for sharing hope you get the house

Tell them how it is man your videos amaze me of the skill shown

if it repairs in a second time does not matter, if it fails time counts, sorry I did not resist :)) thanks for the videos!

I hope you get the perfect house. We are in the southeast and it’s a crazy market here too but nothing like $100k over asking 😮

Yup! $85 is actually a lot of money in Pakistan. Best of luck with your house hunt. I hope you find a good home. Regards from Pakistan.

thank you big boss

Good luck on the house!

I like your channel . It is very valuable, I can see how inflated US dollars have little value. Thank you.

Interesting 😮, in EU we have the opposite: you start from the listed price and then negotiate down, never up. Of course prices can be crazy high depending on location, imagine a house in Rome or Milan.

@hrvstmn31

10 ай бұрын

It's honestly dependent one of the houses we looked as this madness started going down was actually at the point where they were asking 140 and the agent said they'll take 136 because the last few people backed out. Which was a shame its was a meh house, but would have been a pretty great office/workshop.

I hope you got that house brother. I wish you all the best.

thank you

the house video visiting was nice, you need to do again.

How about if they leave the device they must pay the attempt fee up front, remainder on pickup or ship.

here in Tuscany we do the opposite. We lower the price requested from the seller, and wins who cuts less from that price

Hi Alex, just a question. Haven't you tried to turn the anti glare lights to turn the reflection off while using the thermal camera?

@MistrzGrzesiek

10 ай бұрын

They say there are no stupid questions

@engematico

10 ай бұрын

Only stupid ppl.

I loved the behavior of that laptop so you intended to make us miss big boss completely!!!!

2:28 I definately agree as an Indian. We here if have bad laptop's, in most of the cases from a local it costs us about 30 to 50 bucks for a fully functional laptop. It's free for a repair attempt in most cases However if they can not fix it, the will extract expensive parts sometimes.

yeup same in my area, upstate NY . wife is a Realtor. its still crazy.

I wonder if that new Luxary tax is going to move to other areas, I heard of LA, and that its on homes more than 5 million, But i wonder if this tax will move to lower cost homes in the range your shopping. Just something that would worry me over time.

real estate market has been slowing quite a bit the past month or two in many states, not sure if it is the same in California or not, high Interest rates are not helping.

You may have changed the cap, but is BIG BOSS that made the laptop run! 😂

hi @NorthridgeFix , i recently got a job soldering... But I ammm confused. The power supplies we have been repairing take an INSANE amount of heat to melt solder under mosfet chips. We max out our soldering iron's temperature, as well as using a maxed out air blower. Both are set to 900F. This only possible after using an even hotter heat gun to remove the heat sinks from the other side.. I feel like this way too much heat, what am i doing wrong?

@SadiqueKhan449

10 ай бұрын

Switch off the fan or ac😂😂😂

In which year of your business establishment did you start applying this detection fee? I think this is not possible for start-up businesses, or do you think this should always be the case?

Of all the laptops you see and repair, is there any brand that stands out for quality and reliability??

Can you sometimes use atomizer ? I like to see how it works. Thanks

I always cared too little about what the customer thinks about my price. I'm not a mean person I just know my worth. I already have a house for Summer and a 3 rooms apartment for Winter. Me and my family need nothing more. The moment I finished buying the house and fixing whatever it needed to be fixed, my life became a lot more peaceful. Apart from a few more 0.4mm stencils for DDR6 I have absolutely everything I want. Maybe a little bit more 0.4mm leaded balls needed too but that's it 😂.

Hello brother this microscope is the latest you have? How can we differnciate between old and the latest or model number?

Real estate is a fickle game - good like Alex I hope you get a nice house. I rented for 15 yrs before I was able to buy a property. Covid bs made it 10x worse. Houses in Sydney have a median price of over A$1 million and it's just so insane. I could never afford to live in Sydney.

Alex, i hope you get that house, it sounds ideal :-D

@sergei149

10 ай бұрын

didnt Alex bought a house not that long ago? I have lost the track.

If $85 is not much in the US then it also should not be anywhere else in the world. Why is the value of the dollar still so high? Something does not add up.

Big Boss has the magic touch!

Where do you inject the voltage for thermal testing? Thanks,

Would be more informative about the effort that goes into the fix if you also included disassembly and reassembly in the videos. You done it a few times where you've timelapsed Big Boss reassembling. It's really quite pleasant. Consider doing it more often. And consider doing the teardowns as well. The feeling of 'home' is unbeatable. California is a good state. I feel at home in Massachusetts and love it, but it has challenges that California does not. The cold, the snow removal, the deciduous tree leaf removal, etc, The worst place I've ever lived was Texas. The heat is unbearable. The smell is cancerous. But my house was 3400 sqft spec'd just the way I liked it! Built just for me $250k!!!!!!! BUT the house is on less than 0.25 acres 12' from my neighbors on both sides. 13 minutes from the nearest grocery store. Low tier schools for our kids. The only time I lived in an HOA...which I hated. Now I live in MA 100'+ from my neighbors, two grocery stores within five minutes of my house, 2100sqft (38% less than in Texas) on 0.7 acres, $520k (200%+ what I paid in TX) . Within the top 10 school systems in MA. Everything is a tradeoff.

Hope you get the house Alex👍

I've asked before, how do you know the value of the cap? This is the same cap you replaced in an earlier video.

Where do you inject the voltage? Directly on power mosfet or simply plug in the power cord. Sorry im learning from you.

For that Prices that in California is for an House is incredible. In Germany you could Build a House with more than 500 Sqare Feet and with Pool and Basketball Court, a lot of Land too. I personaly would never lose the Christmas Time in White. In the Summer the Wheater is super fine Up here and a LOT saver...

I really want a pair of those tweezers they look super useful

Just realized that you pronounce “California” just like our beloved Arnold Schwarzenegger 🤣👍🏼👍🏼

Please update when you get the answer!

What if someone actually pays u like over price? lets say job cost 345$ and customer just gives u 500$ and says keep the rest?

good job. you re the boss and big boss too 👍👍

I would be happy to buy from store, if I had your knowledge and skill

I try not to give prices at all over the phone I tell them I can let you know more about pricing information in person if they aren't local I tell them a few examples like a price range but I can't he crazy specific since I haven't diagnosed it.