To be fair, she said the feds need to bring people back OR turn over the real estate to more productive uses.

IMO even shooting the shit has value, in the form of building stronger relationships with your colleagues. Maybe it’s because I work for a smallish organization, but I’ve always found it helpful to find common interests with people whose roles are very different from mine and who I may only interact with a few times a year. It makes the work we do together easier and more productive.

Sounds like it must be a pass-through service for leads, sort of like Thumbtack and those outfits, but specific to decks?

Separate budgets, cap-ex vs op-ex.