 My bad, we don't drug test here. What we do, but we only hire the people that fail. Come here passing no fucking drug test, you snitch. You're not hired. You're not hired. You're not, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're not worth it. Like, hold on, do you do drugs? Yeah, well, we don't want you around. We don't want no bunch of sober motherfuckers in here. Oh shit, I'm fucking up. I'm fucking up. I'm fucking up, I'm fucking up. I'm not gonna over shit, it ain't mine. I'm fucking up shit all the time. No fuck. You just want that girl touching on you. She think I give about, I think she coming back around. We had Tank on here, she was wearing makeup and everything, I didn't kick this shit two minutes half, all right, fuck it, don't worry about it. J.O.N., how you living over that man? Good luck. We been in the trap for a little minute and I've been wanting to do some redecorating. About time. You know, it's time to elevate. This ain't even mine, so I ain't worried about this. Mine look good, but I'll always be thinking about the architectural designs and shit like that. You know, just how to make shit look flat, futuristic. Thinking about starting a little community of small houses and shit. That's dope. I don't know why though. I'm charging this big rent. This small house with big rent. That's how I'm living though. But I got somebody in here with us today that's gonna really help us figure all this out, bro. Our design problems are no more. No more. But before we do that, you know what? I don't like to go to work unless people know that it's, you know, the black market is open. That's all the bell symbolizes. Welcome to the black market once again. I got my man Rich Reed in here from Rich Designs. Rich, welcome. Thank you. Appreciate it. Welcome. Thank you. This couch is comfortable now. That couch makes dreams come true. We have, every time we have somebody on that couch, we always tell them to make a wish. Because it comes true. Prosperity for everybody. Yeah. Property and prosperity. There you go. That couch is blessed by the best. There you go. We had a voodoo lady come through. I ain't gonna tell you what she did, but. What's up, man? What's been going on? Man, just working and making dreams come true for people who want homes, communities, and commercial properties. Bruh, check this out. You thought I was bullshitting when I told you before we got started. Now that everybody's here, tell them that we've had people come through here bringing up his work already. Rich Designs. Man, that's a fact. That's a fact. Your work already precedes it, so how did this stuff come about? Real talk, getting tired of making money for other people. I love that idea. Make some money for yourself. That's what we're pushing in. Yeah, in black ownership. Yep. One more time. One more time. The word black ownership scares people so much. They act like we gonna own something, and then I don't know what they think gonna happen, but they scared for us to have some shit. I don't know what that's about. And sometimes it's an uphill battle, but you gotta persevere and keep going. Right. I've worked for major, major firms, huge firms. I've been practicing for over 15 years, and it was time to step out. Right. It was time to make the leap and say, I'm gonna dedicate my time and effort to specific people in our community, and in Atlanta specifically, city of Atlanta and outside of that, and make dreams come true, and make them feel as if they have a handing in design process. Not only just design it for them, but they're really integral in the whole process. Like a lot of my clients are really close friends of mine now. You know what I mean? That's how integrated I put the design within them, you know? 15 years in the business, give me some of your favorite designs that you've done. I'm talking about something that you look back like, boy, I'm a fool with it. Yeah. You see this? Ain't no edges on this. Yeah, we don't cut corners. They don't edges on this. Shoot, I've designed a brewery in Kennesaw, horned out brewery. Designed homes on 184 in Kirkwood, Clay Street. Four houses, they're all in a row. So you can go down there and look at them. They're all modern homes. I've done historic homes. I got permission to say this from her. It's the first house of a boulevard right across the street from the BP in Grant Park, City of Atlanta. Total redo of her house. That's you. That's me. Sits on a hill. Can't miss it, first house on there. So yeah, those are the ones right now that I can say, you know, that's dope. That's what's up, man. Did some of your work right here? This is some of my work. That's the brewery in Kennesaw right there. That was adaptive reuse. That was nothing, it didn't look anything like that. It was just an empty space, a brick. So I added on to it and the inside is just crazy. It's mainly up to center. And I see you got some articles over here. Yeah, a couple articles I was written about me as being an entrepreneur here in Atlanta and making a difference in the city and the city landscape and fabric. And so yeah. So what's going on with the industry right now? I know once COVID hit, ran the price of everything up. Yeah, lead times were slow. The prices were going up. But now we're seeing it come back down. We won't get that effect. So don't go to Home Depot and think you're gonna get wood cheap. It's gonna hit a little bit later. But the prices are now finally coming down. Lead times are coming down. Usually I would have a lead time of six months or more. Now it's gonna be like three or four months. So we're seeing things come down now. So yeah. The construction is not stopping though. What's new in construction though? You're the whole architect and all that. Man, I remember the whole downtown fabric has changed over time. I remember when Buckhead wasn't Buckhead now. I remember they had the clubs and then they tore it all down and then it's now. So Atlanta is constantly growing. Constantly growing. To the point where we got fine space for stuff for the high rises in the multifamily and all that good stuff. But it's never gonna stop. So yeah. What we need to be looking forward to though, in the future. What they about to start putting in houses, man? Oh man, everything. It's like college campuses are now hotels. Homes are now like luxury apartments. But your square footage price is gonna definitely go up and it's gonna stay going up. And if you hire someone like me, I'm very innovative. So I think of the new stuff. I set the trends. So I don't want you to say go look for something. Come to me and I'll tell you what you want. That's hard. As you see, I easily flip that. Like don't go looking for the new. I got it. Yeah, I have it. Just hire me. I got you covered. Yup. And a lot of people don't know what it's like to work for architect. And that's why I started my own studio. It's because I hand hold my clients. I walk them through the entire process. So any questions, text me, call me, email me. I'm quick to respond and I'll let you know what is necessary from design, going through the city permits. I have relationships with everybody in the city of Atlanta and other jurisdictions. So you don't have to go and deal with that. I have an entire team of mechanical, electrical, employment, engineers. I have a contractor on board that's trustworthy because a lot of people don't like dealing with contractors straight up. So I kill all that lead for you. Right. It's a one stop shop. Okay, so we get this, the whole point of this platform is to bring people in from different industries and things like that. You know, they look like us. So we got to get some game from a 15 year veteran in this industry. What advice are you giving to young black architects and designers and things of that nature who are coming up in the industry behind you? Yeah, stay creative, stay innovative. Learn from other people and keep an open mind and stay persistent. If you want to become an architect, it's possible. It's definitely possible, but just stay creative as possible because when you get out in the real world, you got people that it's hard and they want to hold you back and they want to kill your creativity. Don't let them do it. What kind of game did you pick up working for the big firm? What not to do? No, the good shit. The good? I understand some shit. Did you be like, okay, I see why this works for them? Yeah, business. Learning the business of architecture because they stayed in business for a reason and it's not me and us. So I learned how to deal with the money, all the things that's behind the scenes. How do you deal with the money? We have good contracts. You got to know your contracts and then have revenue to back up each project. You know what I mean? You'll be fine if you can keep your client within their budget. Once you get to see that, then you're going to burn. You're going to burn through fees easily, easily. So you got to know the money and keep to a budget period, you know? You can be very, very creative with limited resources is what you do with it. Yeah, that's what pushes the creativity. Yeah. That's what you do with it. The limited resources. That's dope, man. What can they reach out to you and start their projects through Rich? Oh, man. RichDesign.Studio is my website, not .com or .net. It's RichDesign.Studio, social media. That means he own that. It ain't .com, I mean, .studio. Instagram, Rich Reid, studios. It's easy to find out. Heavy presence on the social media platform and then Facebook, Rich Reid. I'm about to get on you because of that. Should I give up my phone number because they can hit me up directly on, you know? Nah, this show go crazy. You just wait till they hit you on social media because hold on, because I'm about to lock in. I already told you the projects. I need them already. I got you. Do it. Anything you want to leave them with? Just hit me up. Your projects is in good hands with me. Our team will give you a good service for a good price. And have a real dope design. And it doesn't matter if it's adaptive reuse, commercial, residential, it doesn't matter. Or ground up, we do it all. And we have an entire team that can service everybody's needs. Hold on, you ought to put it in here. I'm tripping. But yeah, man, keep doing good work. I told you, your word is already out in the streets, man, people talking about what you got going on. And yeah, we'll get a project in and we'll post it on here. And people will be like, Rich Reed did that. Yeah, that'll be hard, man. But we appreciate you stopping through the black market. Drop everything for them one more time so they can hit you. Instagram, richdesign.studio. Website, it's richdesign.studio as well. Facebook, just look up Rich Reed. And yeah, I'll get back with you. Well, J-O-N, there you have it. Give me your number, bro, because I definitely need my project started. Right here on the black market, making it happen in the black way. 85 South Shelf Black Market, Rich Reed Designs. What cat? Oh, you want me to... Yeah. It's still over, cat.