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Featured Agent Erik Rasmuson with Rock Realty · Ask The Experts

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  Thirteen ten dolwu ib a and ask the experts. Hanging out this morning with
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  Matt Hepman of Rockrealty online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock r O c
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  K Wisconsin dot com. They're telephone number six oh eight six seven three fifty
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  four hundred. That's six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. Not
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  only are we joined this week by Matt Hepman of Rockrealty, we've also got
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  Eric Rasmussen, realtor with Rock Realty. And Eric is not only a realtor,
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  he is the top seller for the past two years. Matt, you
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  brought company along this week as well, so it's a little more we got
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  a little less elbow space. Yeah. I thought i'd introduce everybody to Eric
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  Rasmussen here and Eric Good Good And you're a realtor with with Rockrealty, aren't
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  you that? I am? Yep, among other things. Your drummer,
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  am I right on the amag drummer? Yeah, let's talk. Tell us
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  a little bit about yourself. Oh boy, oh, where do you want
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  me to start? This is born? Yeah, I mean I live out
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  in sun Prairie, got two teenagers. All of a sudden, I don't
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  know how that happened. But yeah, junior and a senior coming up.
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  So I'm in a band. Yes, I played drums in a local local
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  rock band in town here, Madison. So did I see a note that
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  you're into pickle ball? By the way, I have gotten into pickleball lately.
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  I come from a tennis and ping pong background, so it was a
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  logical Uh, you know, I had to go there eventually. Exactly.
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  Well, it sounds like it's something you can stick with for a long time
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  as well. And by the way, I'll ask both of you guys if
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  you sold the house with a pickleball court yet, either of you. Yeah,
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  I sold a house with a pick a ball court across the street.
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  Oh, adjacent, So I think that's a real state term. It's an
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  adjacent, Yes, an adjacent adjacent to a park, public land. Does
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  that stuff? By the way, and completely off track, does that go
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  on listings? Like if you see something like as a realtor, like you're
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  gonna list somebody's house. Obviously you're talk about the features of the home,
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  you talk about the school district. Do you mention things like hey, just
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  so you know, and especially something that's hot like pickleball. It's pickleball course
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  right across the way. Is that mentioned in that? Absolutely? I did.
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  Yes. I mean it speaks to young and old, so I definitely
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  put it in there. Oh that is that is perfect. So I got
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  to ask you to Eric, is you point out here kind of vacation Let's
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  talk about ideal vacation spot that came up, that came up in your notes.
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  I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not gonna overlook that part. Uh yeah,
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  okay, I mean it's a goal of mine someday to get to Italy.
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  Yeah. So I'm a big pizza guy, so you know who isn't.
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  But I've lately have gotten into making the Neapolitan pizzas on my my outside
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  pizza oven. So I'm even more now like I got to go to Naples
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  or or something and like, you know, get the real deal and maybe
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  bring home some knowledge on how to even be better. Oh that is fantastically
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  along those lines too. Let's bring that back to circle that back to real
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  estate. Do you find people you mention that you're you know, if you're
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  if you're making a specialty beats, I know, like wood fired ovens,
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  those type of things. That's another popular thing for folks saying, you know
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  what, I'm looking for a specific type of house. I'm a baker,
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  I'm this type of you know, I'm as a guy. Oh I need
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  a big I need a big garage or a big shit. That's something that's
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  important to potential buyers, isn't it. Absolutely yep. Kitchens are you know
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  where most people congregate and you know you got a double oven or a deluxe
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  you know, chef's kitchen as they call it. It's it's always a big
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  seller. Fantastic bonus. Talking this morning with Eric Rasmasin he's a real tour
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  with Rock Realty. Of course Matt Hetman along as well. Of course,
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  if you haven't been to the website yet, what's wrong with you? Get
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  out over there now Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock R O c K
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  Wisconsin dot Com. Telephone number six so eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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  That's sixty seven three fifty four hundred. Let's talk about the culture and
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  a little bit about what it's like working at Rock Realty before we actually get
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  to that, this one to ask how we've been Is this the first real
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  estate agency work for You've been in real estate previous? Is that no,
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  uh, this is my first Oh a goo, Yeah, I was in
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  healthcare for twenty years. So what's what's the culture like at Rock REALTYA and
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  what kind of attracted you to get into real estate? Oh, it's incredible,
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  Yeah, I mean it's Matt and Mike have really you know, they've
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  focused their vision on ensuring that the firm is the highest quality and not just
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  of you know, the agents, but as people. You know, so
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  you're working with with just wonderful people that we all show up for each other.
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  We're all there to help each other. It's kind of just like one
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  big team. Yeah. Are there parallels you think about I think about people
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  that work in healthcare? Is really wanting to help people? Is you know
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  you want to be that assistant? You know a lot of times people you
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  think of when you're you know, whether you're at the doctor's office or wherever
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  you really need somebody to kind of guide you. You're not at the doctor's
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  office. You know that if you're lucky, other than a check up,
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  you don't go into the doctor's office regularly. So when you go in there,
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  having people that you trust you can rely on that can really help you
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  kind of blaze that trail. It's got to be helpful. And I've got
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  to guess some of those skills translate very well over to the state side.
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  I would agree. Yeah, I think that's why I've been, I don't
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  know, as successful as I've been. I guess I just I really I
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  do care. I care about people, and you know that comes from my
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  background and wanting to help them, being being educational in the job to you
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  know, communicating. But yeah, I mean a big part of my job
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  is a when I was in healthcare, was you know, just communicating.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's something we found and educating clients and going through the
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  steps and making them feel like they're not at it alone. Yeah, and
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  so yeah, it comes through. Yeah. I was gonna say that's something
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  we found in general for newly licensed agents, those that are in healthcare,
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  some some that have you know, I had a teaching background, people that
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  just really like assisting others do really well in real estate. Is that And
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  I'll ask you this too, Matt, is I think of sometimes folks say
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  I felt like like people that may have had like a bad experience, I
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  felt like I was literally being sold and that's not something you know, that's
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  something if you're if you're at the uh, you know, if you're if
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  you're going to buy, like let's say I'm trying to get something where countertops
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  for example. Sometimes there'll be a person that's maybe a little a little too
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  when it comes to buying the whole home. You don't want that, do
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  you? You want somebody else? And a lot of times you have to
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  really take the sales aspect out of it. In our opinion, right,
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  it's better to do right by the client, right, I mean, obviously
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  there's some negotiation and pointing out good and bad things, but it's all about
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  the relationship with the client, not necessarily about making the sale. It's fantastic
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  stuff. So we talked this morning with Eric Rasmussen and Mike matt Heyman.
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  Excuse me, Mike's not with us this week. Whereas is he on He's
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  he's out on the road, he's doing work. Of course, you can
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  learn more about Rock Realty online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c
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  K Wisconsin dot com. TELF number six eight six seven three fifty four hundred,
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  that's six seven three fifty four hundred. Talking this week with Matt and
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  Eric and Eric. One of the things we do each week with Matt is
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  we have a featured listing, and you brought one in for us this week
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  on Creek Road in Darien, right, yes, yeah, a little bit
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  about one one nine zero four East Creek Road in Darien, which is actually
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  it's Dairian mailing address, but it's in the town of Bradford, which is
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  Rock County, so it has very very low taxes that listing. It's a
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  yeah, thirty two hundred square foot three bedroom, three and a half bath
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  with us. It's on six point four acres of gorgeous you know, woods,
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  wild grasses, mode grasses, and it has four hundred feet of frontage
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  on Turtle Creek, which is I don't know if you know much about Turtle
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  Creek, but it's not really a creek. It's more of a river in
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  the area. And it's beauty. I mean like tubers and kayakers go down,
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  and I mean it's it's absolutely stunning. And the house was built in
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  two thousand and seven, and I mean it's a five car garage's yeah,
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  it's got a three car tandem attached and then they built another two car detached,
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  so all in all, you got five car garages, five spots,
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  brand you know, new roof in the last six years, brand new patio,
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  brand new driveway, new hot tub which is like a I think it's
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  like an eight seater. Wow that they're that they're keeping there. Yeah,
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  two fire pits. You're gonna need those garages that put all your accessories for
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  all those fantastic things. Talking this morning with Eric Rasmasin. He's a realtor
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  with Rock Realty. Of course Matt Hepman along with us as well the website
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  Rockwisconsin dot com. That's Rock Wisconsin dot comtel for number six so eight six
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  seven three fifty four hundred. That's six seven three fifty four hundred. So
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  Eric, let's talk a little bit about some Obviously, every sale, every
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  opportunity to meet with somebody, it's a unique experience. It's a special experience.
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  It's a big experience not only for the for the buyer and the seller,
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  but it's a big experience for you as well. Let's talk about some
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  of the maybe kind of the more memorable experience you've had with clients. Oh,
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  kind of folks you've met in and run into over the years, those
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  type of things. Yeah. Well, I had a wonderful relationship with some
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  clients that were kind of looking all over the state. They started looking down
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  in the southern area and then they kind of expanded their search and we wound
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  up finding them home up and actually where I'm from, in Sheboygan. And
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  that was a fun experience because we were down in Puntakana on a trip and
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  I want to I get a call, you know, a couple of Margarita's
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  in I check my phone and I have a call from the listing agent that
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  says, hey, I need you to get these these sheets initialed asap.
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  And I mean, without going into too much, that the house was being
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  sold by a relocation company. And I learned very quickly that relocation companies have
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  a lot of paperwork. So it was over one hundred pages and they wanted
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  each page initialed, and there was three buyers on the property. So I
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  had to, you know, go back to the hotel room, you know,
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  load up the paper each page with three signature boxes, make sure all
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  the i's were dotted, teas were crossed. All while I was feeling a
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  little bit good down there on the vacation, and uh, I wound up
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  having to get out a call with a with an inspector that was like out
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  of Indiana, I think he was, did you get the deal done?
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  And yeah, we wound up being out another offer because we were the only
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  ones that had our all our you know, stuff done correctly, even though
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  there was like evidently an offer that was that was better than ours. But
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  so yeah, it was. It was a very memorable one. And they,
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  of course that was their first home and their dream home. So you
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  know, the fact that I was able to even down in Punta Kana get
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  a deal through that one really stuck with me. Man, are you using
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  fax machines down there? Is that how you're setting one hundred pages? Or
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  you that was on email? Yeah? Do you guys still get Matt,
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  You ever get facts or anything like? Oh? No, I mean especially
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  not a you know, an actual physical one. We do have a phone
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  line for a FAX that converts to a PDF, but no, I haven't
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  done for facts a long time, twenty years maybe from that probably more than
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  that I see, even new modern copy you still have a fax option.
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  I'm it's like, who is using that? I thought maybe real estate apparently
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  not going to check that off, but you know, it essentially can fax
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  it through and then usually they convert them to PDFs. And Matt, I've
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  got to ask you about this as we as we talk about, you know,
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  kind of getting the job done, and as you're as you're looking for
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  agents, you mentioned of course you know people that are that are helpers and
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  that are you know, kind of really passionate about helping people. Is commitment.
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  That's got to be a big part too. As we talk with as
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  we talk with Eric here and he's kind of discussing, you know, he's
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  on vacation. Yeah, I'll tell you this when I'm on vacation. I'm
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  on vacation. Yeah, yeah, are you looking that well? And that's
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  the thing is as a realtor, you know, people get into real estate
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  thinking, well, good news is I know no longer have a boss,
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  per se and my my schedule freeze up. The truth of the matter is
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  is is you're kind of now beholding to your clients right and you know,
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  if if it's the right time, you know, for you to be working
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  and getting that perfect home for him, then that's what happens. And it's
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  it's it's neat that you know you can be on vacation and do what Eric
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  did and still have the attention to detail to beat out the other offers.
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  He didn't have the attention to detail. So yeah, it takes the right
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  type of person. Great. Great to hear talking this morning with Matt Heyman
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  and Eric Rasmussen with Rockreelte Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock Wisconsin dot com.
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  Tell but number six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. That's
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  six seven three fifty four hundred. Woks into our conversation with Matt Eric next
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  as ask the experts with Rockrealty continues right here thirteen ten dou w U I
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  B A thirteen ten double U I B A and asked the experts hanging out
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  with the friends from Rockreelty. We got Matt Heyman and Eric Rasmussen in studio
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  this morning. I had a chance to check out the website. Head on
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  over now rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c K Wisconsin dot com.
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  Tell for a number six oh eight six seven three fifty four that's six
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  three fifty four hundred. Again, the best way to make contact is get
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  to the office this morning. Just log right onto Rockwisconsin dot com. A
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  lot of great details on are as. A matter of fact, I will
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  review our featured listing from the week. It's a fantastic spot, a beautiful
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  spot. You're thinking about having some water access and some other really cool things
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  with low taxes. We'll get the details from Eric again on that in just
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  a moment. But Eric, I've got a guess, and I think as
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  much as I think a lot of folks, as much as we may dread
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  what we do for a living, I think sometimes parts of it then I
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  think of like challenges, those type of things. I also think that those
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  are kind of the things that define us and really make us actually strive.
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  And real estate's probably no different. There are probably days where you're like,
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  oh my goodness, there's so many challenges, so much to it. Yeah,
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  there's always a challenge. Yeah, but seeing those resolutions, and especially
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  you think of the reward for that resolution of you know, somebody getting that
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  house and taking that stuff, it's got to be really, really a good
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  feeling. Let's talk about some of those challenges and kind of a significant one
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  that you've come across in your in your experience as a realtor. Yeah,
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  I mean every I feel like every deal, every transaction is different and that's
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  what makes a job great. But they all seem to have a challenge.
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  It could be you could be smooth, you know, going smooth, smoothly,
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  and something will pop up inevitably. But yeah, I had one recently
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  that the of all things, the lender was being very difficult to work with
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  and you know, wanting more and more, and the buyers were giving their
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  giving them documents and then they two weeks later they'd say, hey, we
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  need these documents, and well they already got them, and then it was
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  just it was just that going on and on, lenders dragging their feet and
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  then got to be downright rude to me, not not even educated on on
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  some things. I don't know how many how much detail they want me to
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  go in. But it turned out that eventually I got him hooked up with
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  a different lender and like you know, at the eleventh hour, who was
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  able to make it work and we closed on time. They were they were
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  looking at they were leaving their their apartment or getting kicked out of their lease,
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  so they had no place to go, moving in with together with family.
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  So it was really important that that this got done and we were able
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  to get it done. But of all things, I didn't expect the lender
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  to be as difficult as that you'd think they'd be. You know, you
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  work together closely with the lender, and I'm gonna I'm going to ask you
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  about that, is you know when it comes to Okay, so folks listening,
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  maybe you've got somebody listening buying their first house, or maybe somebody you
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  know, kids or grandkids looking to buy the first off. Who how does
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  that pro Should you contact the agent first? You get your lending set up
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  first. Matt also looks like he wants to chime in on this as well.
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  I mean, you know, in my experience, you know, if
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  you're if you're dealing with a realtor that's been in the business long enough,
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  they've gone through and got burned. Like here's experience here, right, they've
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  gotten burned in the past, and they build a team around them that they
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  can rely on that the clients can, you know, respect and know that
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  the deal is going to go in the right way. So, yeah,
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  having a preferred lender in place is important, but make sure that you know
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  you're picking someone that someone else is recommending. And if you work with an
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  agent that's the perfect person to ask. I've got to guess there's somebody you're
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  not recommending anymore. But with that, there's obviously yeah, those who those
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  who work. And I think what's what I think a lot of times people
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  find interesting about that is lenders. Obviously they want to get the job done.
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  Also they will get I remember, like when we bought our house,
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  our lender giving us you know, don't go out and buy a I don't,
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  don't buy a new car, you know, just hold wait till after
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  everything closes. But that type of thing and working with with your agent kind
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  of letting you know, those type of things to make everything move smoothly.
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  Again, bumps are inevitable. We're talking about buying buying a home. You
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  never know what's going to be uncovered, You never you know, you just
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  never know until you're kind of going through it. Minimizing those those bumps and
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  distractions and other things. Working with a good real estate agent can really help
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  you avoid those pitfalls, can't absolutely And going back to your question, I
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  would say, first get a hold of a good agent, and then the
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  very next step is to get a hold of a lender. Like if you're
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  a first time home buyer. Yeah, that next step after talking to an
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  agent is to get get pre approved. Get that step done, because find
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  out how much you can afford. Yeah, that's true. It's only fair
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  to both both sides. So we're not showing you homes that are out of
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  your budget and they know what their budget is. And then you know,
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  in this market, it moves so fast that if you're not pre approved by
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  the time you go through that process, that home that you love is gone
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  well or you make it lucky and it may already be on the marketing,
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  not to say probably not. Let's talk about speaking of really really cool listings
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  and great opportunities. Let's talk about this week's featured listing one more time,
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  because I feel like folks that are looking for for a nice piece of land
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  with a nice, nice place to store your stuff on water. These things
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  are hard to come by, and you've got a great, great place down
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  in Darien or near Daryan for Yeah, it's beautiful again. The address is
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  one to one nine zero four East Creek Road, Darien, Wisconsin. I
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  mean it's you know, twenty minutes from from Delavan, Lake Delvan in the
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  Lake Geneva area. You know, not too far from Janesville. It's in
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  Rock County town of Bradford, so again the taxes are very low. And
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  through a three bedroom, three and a half bath ranch finished lower level beautiful.
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  They just finished off a portion of it that is like a wreck room,
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  wet bar, you know, game room with a fridge and a kitchen
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  and seven point four acres six point four acres away on yep with four hundred
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  feet of frontage on the Turtle Creek. Sounds like a tough vine. That's
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  yes, a nice little spot. I'll airbnb that that someone else buys.
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  But one thing I just found out too. Evidently there's a bridge down there,
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  not too far from that that you can maybe a few miles down from
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  the house. That is the only five arched stone bridge in the Western hemisphere.
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  Wow. Really Yeah, it's like the one left. It's kind of
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  modeled after the old European aqua fors, those like arched arched stone things.
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  Yeah, so kind of anything people like to go through when they when they
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  kayak. But yeah, you can put your kayak in right from your own
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  property. And are there ever houses that As an agent, you just want
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  to make an offer yourself. You walk in you're like, you know because
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  as you're talking this, gosh, how you don't that was a great opportunity
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  for you right now. All you had to do is pick a phone,
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  give McCall six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred for Rock Realty.
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  That's six oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. The website Rock Wisconsin
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  dot com. That's r O c K Wisconsin dot com. By the way,
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  Uh, Matt, we've got to talk Airbnb's one of these, one
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  of these weeks on a feature program, because I think there's a lot to
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  it. Matt Heiman and Eric Rasminson, thank you both for hanging out this
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  morning. You have a great day, all right, You're welcome. Thank
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  you for having us. News comes your way next right here on thirteen ten
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