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Older homeowners in the St. Louis area are facing big repair bills, with the average older home needing at least $9,000 in repair.

A study of St. Louis County led by University of Missouri St. Louis professor Todd Swanstrom put repair needs for the county's single-family homes at about $2.9 billion in total.

Swanstrom says repairs are often one of the first things cut when homeowners are financially squeezed, and lower-income homeowners face the most serious and expensive repairs.

He co-wrote a book on the issue called The Other Housing Crisis.

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So somebody texted, catching up on the podcast, Manon LaFleur is a former golfer at UMSL and is definitely a ringer and a delight, they said.

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definitely a ringer.

My husband is the men's and women's golf coach and recruited her.

He's with the teams in Pennsylvania on the last day of attorney, or else I could give you Manon facts.

The UMSL golf teams are regularly in the top 25 teams.

in d2 golf she we were talking about it yesterday afternoon i'm like she could get a job with like a company that plays in a lot of scrambles and that could be her job

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So I did my undergrad at University, I'm sorry, Western Kentucky University.

And then I did my optometry degree at University of Missouri St. Louis.

So, like I said, just in the health care field and I've done it all.

And like I said, especially nowadays, we are very like.

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And you know, even from the time we started off in practice looking for the next location or where we were gonna begin practicing, it was important that, uh, you know, finding that mentorship program.

So when we were first looking, I went to school out in St. Louis, University of Missouri-St Louis, and me and my wife, we set up three different interviews with different practices, kind of varying from small practice, um, single doctor, single location, to multi-location.

And the big thing that, that differentiated the three different visits for us was finding one that the doctor was really looking to help coach and kinda teach, teach background on the practice.

Um, so even though some practices were, um, you know, a little further along in the process and had very impressive metrics, for us it was really about, um, finding somebody who was looking to kind of pass on that information.

And I think also be somebody who can stand in positive opposition to what I think could be really catastrophic policy if we just keep on going and keep treating symptoms instead of the underlying weakness of what's happening here.

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David Messner, GOP candidate for county assessor.

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