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Summer Home Improvements with Rock Realty · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Thirty thirty and ask the experts brought you buy Rock
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  Speaker 1: to Rock Wisconsin dot com. It's a fun way to
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  Speaker 1: learn more about Rock Realty and learn about some of
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  Speaker 1: the great properties available. If you think about listing your home,
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  Speaker 1: but thinking about buying a home, they'd love to talk
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  Speaker 1: with you at Rock Realty. All I gotta do is
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  Speaker 1: pick up phone, give a call six oh eight six
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  Speaker 1: seven three fifty four hundred at six oh eight six
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  Speaker 1: seven three fifty four hundred at joining us this morning
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  Speaker 1: from Rockrealty, the one the only. Mister Matt. How you been, Matt?
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  Speaker 1: How you been? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning? Been good, been busy?
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  Speaker 1: I bet, I bet? This is This is go time
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  Speaker 1: for real estate.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't It?
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  Speaker 3: Kind of starts in April normally and all depending if
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  Speaker 3: Wisconsin throws us a last minute blizzard it again this year?
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  Speaker 1: Real sure it didn't know did you put your snowblower
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  Speaker 1: away officially now as we're sitting here, uh June second.
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  Speaker 2: Garage, and I brought one.
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  Speaker 3: I bought one of those two stages, so I know
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to know where else to put it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, big, Yeah. I feel like there's a
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  Speaker 1: market for like some type of device to like elevate
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  Speaker 1: like maybe like a like a little mechanical lift where
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  Speaker 1: you can put your snowblower on and then like lift
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  Speaker 1: it up and then there'd be a spot underneath to
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  Speaker 1: put the push more. I love that, maybe like a
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  Speaker 1: design just for the ground, just like a something that
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  Speaker 1: makes it easy for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well to talk about the snowblower caddy here or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, brought to you by Rock Realty.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: We've got oh speaking of seasonal stuff with summer officially
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  Speaker 1: meteorological summer kicked off on Monday, I know, the actual
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  Speaker 1: start of summer got a couple of days. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about getting your home ready for the for
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  Speaker 1: these beautiful, beautiful months ahead. And we could also call
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  Speaker 1: it the power Tool Show as well, because it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of going over a lot of suggestions and that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the fun things. By the way, if if you're
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  Speaker 1: looking to buy your first house, that first trip to
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  Speaker 1: like the home depot or the minards where you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to buy that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I remember that. It was two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and three.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I still have that appliance Dolly.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's amazing. Best purchase ever.
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  Speaker 1: Pro tip. By the way, so we were talking earlier
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  Speaker 1: about some great inventions that may make somebody some money.
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  Speaker 1: If you are in that in that world of like
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  Speaker 1: the home depot or those type of things, you may
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  Speaker 1: want to partner with Rock Realty because I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. I when we first bought our house,
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  Speaker 1: I went with Reobi tools and it was just that
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  Speaker 1: was I would think it was at home depot that
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  Speaker 1: sells them. Now twenty years later, I'm still every time
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  Speaker 1: I need a new tool, it's still a Reobi because
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  Speaker 1: you get that investment of all the batteries and things.
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  Speaker 3: And I bought the the kind of wheeled box that
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  Speaker 3: included all of them, you know, oh yeah over there
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  Speaker 3: there from the chop saw to the Yeah, I did
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  Speaker 3: a package deal.
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  Speaker 2: This is three too, and I'm still using.
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  Speaker 1: Those any particular brand, by the way, it was well, well, well,
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  Speaker 1: got just.
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  Speaker 3: Used it yesterday. I got the Riobi compressor. So I
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  Speaker 3: don't forget when you get a new house, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: need to fill the tires of your your bikes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lawnmowre. Sometimes we've got a lot to cover, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about some of those getting your home ready,
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  Speaker 1: some of those great tools put into use. But first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost, we've got a house right up the road.
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  Speaker 1: This week's featured listing is right on Brian Lane, right
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  Speaker 1: here in Fitchburg. And Matt I was looking at this
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  Speaker 1: try level before we came on the air this morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful home. And I also and Fitchburg is
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  Speaker 1: is an amazing community. As we're as are sitting in
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  Speaker 1: Fitchburg this morning, it's a really desirable area, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Yeah, it's just so centrally located. It gives you
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  Speaker 3: that suburb feel while being like just minutes from the capitol.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty neat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's almost like like deceptive. You're like, because
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  Speaker 1: if you if you were just to drop somebody in,
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  Speaker 1: for example, in the neighborhood of Brian Lane and be
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  Speaker 1: like are you near a city, You're like, yeah, probably,
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  Speaker 1: And then you like you drive them to town. You're
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  Speaker 1: like like five minutes away from like those cities.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're you know, going down certain streets and
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  Speaker 3: you can actually see the capital in the distance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty neat.
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  Speaker 1: That is amazing. It has mentioned this is a tri
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  Speaker 1: level and a very desirable Fitchburg neighborhood. It's moving ready.
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  Speaker 1: It's got all sorts of great things. I did see, uh,
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  Speaker 1: bamboo water resistant flooring, which is for folks that haven't
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  Speaker 1: experienced bamboo flooring. That's some good. It's durable and what
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  Speaker 1: is that that's environmentally? People like that first.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's renewable, renewable. No, it's a it.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that people don't realize is
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  Speaker 3: what makes it great for Wisconsin. We have so many
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  Speaker 3: so much human humidity in the summer, and then we.
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  Speaker 2: Have very dry winters.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of the natural woods, not bamboo, they
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  Speaker 3: will they'll expand and contract a lot, and bamboo is
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  Speaker 3: less less likely to do that.
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  Speaker 1: T I l Yeah, the kids.
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  Speaker 2: I used to work at home depot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I met my wife. So it's a big
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  Speaker 2: deal for real.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my gosh. A ton of today in this
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  Speaker 1: place has has that engineered bamboo water resistant flooring throughout
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  Speaker 1: the main living areas and bedrooms. That looks absolutely beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Great price on this five five hundred nineteen thy nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred right in Fitchburg Brian Lane, right a twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven Brian Lane. Of course you can see it
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  Speaker 1: right online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock Rock Wisconsin
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  Speaker 1: dot com. We'll talk a little bit more about this.
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  Speaker 2: Was that what I was gonna mention.
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  Speaker 3: This one's listed by Maria Moreno. Yes, and Maria is bilingual. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Now we haven't had Maria on yet.
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  Speaker 2: We all have to have her on. Yeah, she speaks Spanish.
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  Speaker 3: So if you are a Spanish speaking home buyer or
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  Speaker 3: a home seller and you've been looking for an amazing agent,
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  Speaker 3: Maria Moreno would be your ticket to some solutions.
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  Speaker 2: So she's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So and also if you're bilingual, you can try your
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  Speaker 1: Spanish maybe if you've been working on it for years,
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  Speaker 1: you want somebody's see if how quick she identifies that
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  Speaker 1: you're maybe a native English speaker, or vice.
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  Speaker 2: For just trying really hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly Again, Maria is the listing agent on this
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  Speaker 1: pick up phone. Give her a call, say I want
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  Speaker 1: to see this beautiful house on Brian Lane in Fitchburg,
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  Speaker 1: her number six oh eight six ninety two double fifty two.
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  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight six ninety two zero zero five
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  Speaker 1: to two for Maria. And of course this house located
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  Speaker 1: right on Brian Lane here in Fitchburg. We'll talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about the details on this featured listing
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on in the program. Matt As
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  Speaker 1: mentioned summer it's it's almost here and it's time to
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  Speaker 1: really get your get your home ready, and there's some
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  Speaker 1: really simple things, budget friendly things. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to curb appeal, and we were talking
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  Speaker 1: earlier about power tools, the first one may very well
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  Speaker 1: be bust out that power tool and kind of give
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  Speaker 1: everything a good scrub and a deep cleaning.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, we got seven budget friendly curb appeal ideas.
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  Speaker 3: So first up is powerwash and deep clean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just using little water, maybe a little gas or electricity
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  Speaker 3: depending on what power washing you have, but yeah, just
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  Speaker 3: wash away the winter grime. You get a powerwasher, siding
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  Speaker 3: your sidewalks, the driveway, scrub down the exterior windows, front trim,
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  Speaker 3: all that and until they sparkle.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you this if you're ever having like
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  Speaker 1: a stressful day firing up the powerwasher and just if
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  Speaker 1: you think the concrete looks fine until you start using
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  Speaker 1: your like, oh my gosh, have.
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  Speaker 2: You watched the videos on social media?
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  Speaker 1: See?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why I watched them so long.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a guy thing, by the way, especially.
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  Speaker 3: The one where they're cleaning the driveways? Oh yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: pretty neat.
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  Speaker 1: Or the guy that goes you see the guy that
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  Speaker 1: goes around to with the lawnmower and the and the edger,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll find these dilapidated lawns. And that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about today, folks. We're talking about making these houses
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  Speaker 1: look good. Little things make a big, big difference. So
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  Speaker 1: the powerwashes is big. That edging and that's another again
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  Speaker 1: talking about spending time watching videos and engaging that edging
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  Speaker 1: and and pruning those type of things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, edging, pruning and maintaining.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, you don't need to have a professional
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  Speaker 3: botanical garden, but you keep that lawn neatly mode. Chris
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  Speaker 3: Pedge is in the on the walkways, clear out the
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  Speaker 3: weeds obviously. And you know what really surprises me every
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  Speaker 3: year is how much a little bit of fresh mulch
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  Speaker 3: makes a difference.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's such a nice look.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can tell, you can see the wear Otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: A little tip I've I learned when we bought our
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  Speaker 1: house was save those realtaires pictures so you know next
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  Speaker 1: summer and spring what it looked like the previous summers
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  Speaker 1: and springs. That kind of gives you an idea.
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  Speaker 2: Of oh yeah, yeah, the pictures outside.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because your guys do such a good job of
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  Speaker 1: putting those, putting those together, and uh, this is and
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  Speaker 1: and the next one. So we've got power washing, kind
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  Speaker 1: of give everything a deep clean edge, prune, maintain, really
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  Speaker 1: make that those garden areas, especially this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: look at their best. But this is one that I've
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  Speaker 1: heard a lot about when it comes to real estate,
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  Speaker 1: which is updating your front door. And it really and
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  Speaker 1: people are like, it's just cliche, it's legit, Like it
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  Speaker 1: makes a huge d it does.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we're talking what of paint maybe, yeah, right,
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  Speaker 3: obviously pick the exterior paint, right, you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be using interior paint on your front door'll you'll be doing.
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  Speaker 2: It every year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But yeah, and I don't know if you remember
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  Speaker 3: the early two thousands, really they blanded.
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  Speaker 2: Out a lot of the houses, right, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of tans with matching brick. That's tan.
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  Speaker 3: And boy, if you throw a quick red door on there,
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  Speaker 3: makes difference.
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  Speaker 1: Pulls your eyes right to it, doesn't it does. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, as we go through these, we've got
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  Speaker 1: we've got seven budget friendly curb appeal ideas this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Are these when you're working with an agent, These are
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  Speaker 1: some of the conversations if you're listing a home that
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  Speaker 1: your agent will have with you, aren't.
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  Speaker 3: They Yeah, yeah, and that And that's the thing is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, walking through the house and deciding which of
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  Speaker 3: these projects are worth it right on a recent listing appointment,
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  Speaker 3: you know, should we replace all the kitchen cabinets or
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  Speaker 3: just fix the doors there, or you know, just refinish
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  Speaker 3: the cabinets right There's you know, different conversations like that,
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  Speaker 3: and you know it all depends on you know, price
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  Speaker 3: point of the house, maybe comparables on whether or not
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  Speaker 3: you want to go super expensive on these repairs. But
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  Speaker 3: for the most part, these these items here are going
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  Speaker 3: to really you know, add a certain appeal as a
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  Speaker 3: new buyer walks through the door or as you just
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  Speaker 3: come home from work.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah. The roughest part of it is you
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  Speaker 1: do this thing and the worst thing that happens is
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  Speaker 1: you walk to walk up to a beautiful, beautiful home
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, that's finny.
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  Speaker 2: Go see honey, liquid I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Talking this morning with Matt Heyman with Rock
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  Speaker 1: Realty Online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c
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  Speaker 1: K Wisconsin dot com. They're telling number six O eight
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  Speaker 1: six seven three fifty four hundred. That's six h eight
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  Speaker 1: six seven three fifty four hundred. After I update your
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  Speaker 1: front door when folks come in, you want to decorate
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  Speaker 1: and declutter, and this is there is a strategy to
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. We're not just throwing anything in and taking
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  Speaker 1: anything out. You really wanted to make what kind of
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  Speaker 1: neutral but also livable like people can kind of relate
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  Speaker 1: to it. How does that? I think you guys call
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  Speaker 1: that staging, don't you. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would say that, you know, outside also
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  Speaker 3: includes you know, some staging right cluttering outside too, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: probably a good idea to remove the Santa Claus Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, time from the outside, but in general, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: bringing out those the patio furniture cushions, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe when you have that pressure washer out, pressure wash
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  Speaker 3: those all those, Yeah, get them nice and clean, and
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  Speaker 3: then yeah, put away the garden tools, hoses and excess
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  Speaker 3: lawn ornaments.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I've noticed you mentioned with the put
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  Speaker 1: away the Santa Is. I have noticed some folks get
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  Speaker 1: those giant skeletons from like the it feels like it's
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  Speaker 1: a home deep on mon arts commercials. I know, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have noticed people now dressing them, like leaving them
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  Speaker 1: out year round and like summer they'll put like a
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  Speaker 1: Hawaiian shirt and sun.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind that. I don't mind that at all.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you know, how do you dress someone up as
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  Speaker 3: Irish for Saint Patti's That's a good Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean a little pot of gold maybe that little
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  Speaker 1: hat that the lepres the buckle on it is that
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  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, leave all your long armaments outside, per Shawn Preble.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, if it shows effort that you're keeping up on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with the Matt Heymen of Rockrealty always
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  Speaker 1: a fun program. Don't forget to check out the website
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  Speaker 1: Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock r o c k
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. I've got a great featured listing this
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  Speaker 1: week Brian Lane in Fitchburg. You can see that right
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  Speaker 1: online at Rock Wisconsin dot com. Our telephone number at
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  Speaker 1: Rockrealty six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about some of these
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  Speaker 1: great tips for getting your home ready for summer. We
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  Speaker 1: will do that with Matt. We'll talk with you next
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  Speaker 1: as asked the experts with Rockrealty continues here on thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and ask the experts brush by Rockrealty online, Rock Wisconsin
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  Speaker 1: dot com. That's Rock Wisconsin dot com. Great website, check
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  Speaker 1: them out online at rock Wisconsin dot com. Also, great
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  Speaker 1: telephon number. Can you have a great telephon number? I
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  Speaker 1: think you can. It's six eight six seven three fifty
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  Speaker 1: four hundred. That's six eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Hanging out with Matt Heyman of Rock Realty this morning,
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  Speaker 1: talking about getting your home ready and again these are
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  Speaker 1: budget friendly things that improve curb appeal and if nothing else,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're not listing your home. It's still nice things,
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  Speaker 1: simple things to do. When we talked about powerwash, deep clean,
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  Speaker 1: etching and pruning, updating your front door, decorate and declutter
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  Speaker 1: inside and out. Next one is install window boxes. And
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, almost like fairy Tales with you with
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  Speaker 1: like well done window boxes with nice little, nice little
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  Speaker 1: plantings in them. They look absolutely fantastic, don't they.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's something we need to bring back a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, you know, I mean, yeah, it doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: to be window boxes, obviously, it could be you know,
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  Speaker 3: just your your pots or plants on your front porch,
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  Speaker 3: hanging baskets, things like that. Boy, just a couple of
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  Speaker 3: plants make a big difference.
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  Speaker 1: Do condos do? We see a lot of times folks
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  Speaker 1: with nice patios and their condos. Maybe putting some nice
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  Speaker 1: flowers and things out just.
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  Speaker 2: Make people see, especially if you're not on the first floor.
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  Speaker 3: You want to you want to bring some nature around, right,
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  Speaker 3: other than maybe seeing a tall tree in the distance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, definitely. Hey, can we circle back on
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  Speaker 2: the phone number. I don't think hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we've ever talked about the fact that
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  Speaker 3: if you call six o' eight six seven three fifty
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  Speaker 3: four hundred. Yes, it's actually going to ring our top
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  Speaker 3: ten agents.
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how that works. That's how that works.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea that way.
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  Speaker 2: You're working with the best, are you so?
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  Speaker 1: So? Six o eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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  Speaker 1: That'll put you in touch directly with one of the
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  Speaker 1: top agents that Rock Reelty exactly. Oh wow, I T
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  Speaker 1: I L. I mean again, I'm learning.
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  Speaker 2: No receptions here. You're going direct.
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  Speaker 1: Going right to an agent. That is awesome and that's
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  Speaker 1: a great thing to know as well. As we talked
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  Speaker 1: with Matt Hyman of Rock Realty again that number six
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  Speaker 1: oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. Six oh
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  Speaker 1: eight six seven three fifty four hundred. Refresh the driveway
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  Speaker 1: and wow does that make a big, big difference. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: it matter?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, fixing minor surface cracks as such,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe let's say you have a blacktop, then you
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  Speaker 3: can actually recoat that and yeah that's kind of nice.
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  Speaker 3: But with concrete, uh yeah, you could reseal it. That's
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  Speaker 3: an option.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen people do that.
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  Speaker 1: That's another video that I get caught up.
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  Speaker 3: The corner go yeah, but yeah, that can make everything
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: a little crisp and clean.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. It looks nice. And I kind of liked
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: that when they do the the recodings that whatever that
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: blacktop so is that smell? I don't know what it is?
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: You know it does it?
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Does it drive you nuts too that they're walking on it,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: like I, oh, it just drives me nuts. Obviously it
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: doesn't leave footprints, but it feels like it feels like.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, something's something's going on there. And this final one,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Matt that and we're gonna we're going to get in
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: also to some of the some of the bigger projects
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: as well and return on investment. But this final one,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: this and I know we've come around on it. And
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: this is I think for so long with so underappreciated,
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  Speaker 1: which is exterior exterior lighting, and what a found difference
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  Speaker 1: it can really make in the overall appearance of your ome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and gosh, I've seen more and more just neat
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: new products or the outside of your house, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with the introduction of all the LED strips and such.
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  Speaker 3: Now they're now they're able to do almost like a
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  Speaker 3: soft lighting along an entire edge, and you know you
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  Speaker 3: can do a color change, so you can, you know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: change it to the green and.
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  Speaker 1: Gold uncertain days.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually ended up throwing a led lighting on
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: our Stoaton office.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so we'll have white.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: And red for Valentine's Day.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I drove bond.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Stoton office yesterday and the business I think is a
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: travel agency nearby you yeah, right, they were sitting outside
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: on on like like a nice little cafe thing going
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: on out there.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, right next door is Wildwood Cafe.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Oh that's what that was.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, we got coffee right next door.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Oh man, old man out.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: It's tough.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Got a couple of reasons to stop buying visit and
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the other thing too. One final thing with those lighting
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you mentioned kind of the under under what.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Do they call it the facia that yeah, yeah, the
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: eaves may Yeah.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if somebody made their way through our
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: neighborhood or what, but I've noticed a bunch of my
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: neighbors now with and you mentioned the kind of it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: They're not intense bright lights. It's kind of a very
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: soft and they cast like a nice little and it
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: really makes the house looks yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a warmer light. You know, it doesn't
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: feel like led. I've priced out the actual professional lighting
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: and that's multiple thousands. Yes, but if you go to
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Amazon or something else, you can just order do it yourself.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And you know, are you handy with a with a
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: power dragon?
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little stuff like talk it's morning man. Yet
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I think that contradicts one of our earlier tips. Let's
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: talk about kind of the breakdown then. Of course, in
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the in the real estate world, some of the some
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: of the projects that could really help you recoup a
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: significant cost at resale. And the first one folks may
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: not always think about, but it really does make a
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: big difference, which is.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: The garage door. Yeah, the garage door.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: You know, whether you're just painting it or you're replacing.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, painting's obviously a huge ROI if it's one
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: of those paintable doors. But boy, if you see one
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: of those houses that change their garage door to that wood, look, yeah,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: it just modernizes it so quickly. So yeah, that one's
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: estimated costs recouping of one to two hundred percent. So
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: that's and that's rare. Usually you're below one hundred percent
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: on recooping your costs.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: So and and along those lines too as we speak
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: on those on those hundred to one hundred plus entryway.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: We're talking earlier about an entry door, and uh, there's
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a wide variety of options, and one of them seems
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to stand out above the rest, doesn't it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be your your your front steel entry door, right,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: And there's so many different options for what you can
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: put there. You can have wood, look, you can have
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the glass inserts. I've seen some really reason and this
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: one was actually a minards. Are some really reasonable, you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: single front doors with glass inserts that look very modern.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: They're not gonna, you know, be the old nineties ones
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: that we're used to.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And when you hear steel, and I don't think
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: of like the back of a warehouse kind of.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, just the just the frame if you will.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, these are are beautifully beautifully built and constructed. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: one final one before we before we get to our
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: featured listing, which is roof replacement. And I do think
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a little tip if you are looking to buy a
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: home or list your home, check the roof it's an
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: important part of the house, but replacing a roof does
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: give it a pretty good ROI doesn't it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I would say so.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Just yesterday, you know, we have a deal that's having
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: issues because of the roof. You know that that is
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: becoming so so common with all the hailstorms around. We've
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: just been having to deal with it to a lot,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: whether it's on the insurance side or the buyers just
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: being very concerned, as they should. And if you can
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: get that replaced prior to especially prior to listing your house,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: it just makes all the difference. And sure you'll probably
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: get eighty five percent back ish, maybe a full hundred percent,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: but you're going to have more buyers interested, so you'll
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: you'll be able to sell it occurring, probably for a
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: higher price.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: And that is one of those things that I think
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: anybody with a home inspection, one of the first things
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that they're going to notice is like, hey, you've got
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you may have some issues there.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: So yeah, the worst words are near end of life
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: expectancy when you get those inspection reports.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: On an inspection report or your doctor visit. Yes. Talking
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: this morning with Matt Hymn of Rock Realty Online, Rock
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock r Ock Wisconsin dot com.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Delph number six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Don't forget when you call Rockrealty you will be talking
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: with one of the top agents at Rock Realty. It
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: doesn't go to an answering service or an answering machine.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You will be talking with a great agent. Again their
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: TELP number six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: That's six o eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Speaking of great agents, Maria has a great listing this
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: week house right here in Fitchburg on Brian Lane, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we talked about some of the flooring, which again is
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: as we're talking about some really important investments. Good flooring
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: goes a long way. But this house is not only
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is it functional, it is the form side. It's a beautiful,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: beautiful home, isn't yeh.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: It's a great, great house.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: It's got some partial brick on the front for some
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: curve appeal like we had discussed.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: In four bedrooms, three baths.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Twenty five hundred square four. This is just the ideal setup.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: LVP flooring. We've even got a gas fireplace, finish lower level,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: back deck, so I don't know what more people would want.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Walk up. It's got a patio, a little porch out front,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: a little space there. It's a very very well designed home. Again,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: this is right at twenty eight ninety seven Brian Lane
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  Speaker 1: here in Fitchburg. Give Maria a call this morning, Save Maria.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I want to check this beautiful house out Delphy number
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: six soh eight six nine two double fifty two. That's
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: six eight six nine to two zero zero five two.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Call Maria for that house on Brian Lane. Of course,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you can see it as well online at Rockwisconsin dot com.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: That's Rock Rock Wisconsin dot com. Matt, it's always great
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: hanging out with you. You have a fantastic day you too.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Vicky McKenna comes your way next right here on thirteen
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