diff --git a/tripleoclient/utils.py b/tripleoclient/utils.py
index e1ae81706..f29df3d89 100644
--- a/tripleoclient/utils.py
+++ b/tripleoclient/utils.py
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ def playbook_verbosity(self):
     if self.app.options.debug:
         return 3
     else:
-        if self.app_args.verbose_level < 1:
+        if self.app_args.verbose_level <= 1:
             return 0
         else:
             return self.app_args.verbose_level
diff --git a/tripleoclient/workflows/deployment.py b/tripleoclient/workflows/deployment.py
index 0d5959e20..07471ee68 100644
--- a/tripleoclient/workflows/deployment.py
+++ b/tripleoclient/workflows/deployment.py
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ def deploy_and_wait(log, clients, stack, plan_name, verbose_level,
                               status='DEPLOY_FAILED')
         raise
 
-    verbose_events = verbose_level >= 1
+    # we always want the heat stack output while it's going.
+    verbose_events = True
 
     # TODO(rabi) Simplify call to get events as we don't need to wait
     # for stack to be ready anymore i.e just get the events.