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Christine Has Some Realtor Knowledge · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My dad. He needs a cocktail. It's Goby and Christine
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  Speaker 1: produce a christ It is National Cocktail Day. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you just told me.
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  Speaker 2: I know I started this. I know it is. It's
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  Speaker 2: National Cocktail Day, National cheesecake, National cheese steak Day. Sorry
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  Speaker 2: cheese steak. You rather have a cheese steak than a cheesecake.
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  Speaker 1: We're still two for two. I would take you either way,
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  Speaker 1: either one. I'm loving both of these so far.
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  Speaker 2: And Roommates Day that's going to everybody's going to get
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  Speaker 2: along better with those guys involved with the cocktails and
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  Speaker 2: cheese steak.
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  Speaker 1: Now, do we technically Christine have roommates? Because you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm married and she's my wife, But is she a roommate?
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  Speaker 2: And do you hope not right?
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  Speaker 1: We hope not right right?
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  Speaker 2: That was used as if things aren't going so well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard people would say that, like my roommate.
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  Speaker 1: What are you just my roommate? But technically you are,
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  Speaker 1: like things things are going fine in my marriage. She's
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  Speaker 1: still kind of my roommate. But it's I guess it
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  Speaker 1: does sound like off putting. It does.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotta in our case it has a negative con
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  Speaker 2: But then Miles and Naomi, you've got too little roommates.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're not paying anything.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, three loaders must be nice, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: The average cost of rent in New York City another
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  Speaker 1: thing I've learned already from Christine. What's the total?
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  Speaker 2: Five thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars the average price to rent in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: In Manhattan, That's why roommate Day is so important because
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  Speaker 2: most people have to you know, we're full on adults
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  Speaker 2: and we have to have roommates just because financially, what
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  Speaker 2: are you going to do? Right? Right?
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  Speaker 1: You need multiple people in the home to pay that rent.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can get a really big place for well,
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  Speaker 1: I doubt you can get a really big place for
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  Speaker 1: five thousand, but if you could.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I don't know about Manhattan. But that's
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  Speaker 2: why there's a lot of you know, getting into the
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  Speaker 2: burrows and then you have a better chance.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you think how much square footage do
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  Speaker 1: you think in Manhattan you can get for five thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I can't even hazard a guess.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe eight hundred square feet.
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  Speaker 2: It's not quite five five square feet something insane.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know the square footage of your house. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to tell me, but sometimes that'll come up
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  Speaker 1: in conversations. Oh a contractor and they go, do you
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  Speaker 1: know the square footage?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, uh, yeah, now I do, because you know
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  Speaker 2: I was by selling you know what I went through
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  Speaker 2: last year. Yeah, so I'm like hyper hyper aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: And then I also learned that there's square footage and
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  Speaker 2: there's livable square footage.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like the attic doesn't count if you don't use
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  Speaker 1: it for a living space.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like the stairs or the hallway. There's things that like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're paying your taxes for the square footage, but
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  Speaker 2: how much of it can you really really use?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Right? You want to make sure you're not paying extra
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  Speaker 1: on taxes if you're not using them.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing you can do about it. There's nothing you
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  Speaker 2: can do. But just as you're buying, as you're looking
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  Speaker 2: for homes, like, that's something to keep in mind. You
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  Speaker 2: might see a big number, right right, but when you
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  Speaker 2: go look at it, when you look at the home,
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  Speaker 2: think about what's going to be useful for you. So
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  Speaker 2: it could be smaller square footage, but the layout could
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  Speaker 2: be better look at you know, missed my calling and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know the loophole about a deck in a patio, right, No,
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  Speaker 1: I learned this. I don't know. I'm pretty sure it's true.
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  Speaker 1: This is two days ago. But if you want to
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  Speaker 1: add on a deck to your home that attaches to
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  Speaker 1: your house, yeah, so then that becomes kind of more property,
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  Speaker 1: more property tax, but a patio, a patio doesn't count.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, like a deck will add to your taxes,
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  Speaker 1: a patio will not, because it's just you're walking down
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  Speaker 1: two steps and then you're on the cement.
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  Speaker 2: Very very important.
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  Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong, But you can text me
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  Speaker 1: at four four three sixty three and we'll be right
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