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When is it the Right Time to Move with Rock Realty · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Hey, you know the catchy too, and it's time now
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Speaker 1: for asking the experts brought to you by Rock Realty
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Speaker 1: joining me in studio as Matt Hepman of Rock Realty.
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Speaker 1: You can learn more about them online the website for
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Speaker 1: Rockrealty Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c K
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. Tell whatever six oh eight six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred. That's six oh eight six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred. Matt, how are you doing this morning?
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Speaker 2: Doing good? How are you doing, Sean?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing really well. Are we in full swing? We
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Speaker 1: are just getting ramped.
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Speaker 2: Up right now. I mean we're we're practically full sprint here.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thank you for taking time because I know
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Speaker 1: that obviously we get into this time of year it
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Speaker 1: is really really busy for the folks at Rock Realty,
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Speaker 1: and it's great to have you in studio this morning.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about some important stuff about things like building
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Speaker 1: equity in your home and other areas to know when
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Speaker 1: it comes to getting ready, is it time to move
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Speaker 1: making those decisions you want to join that market. It's
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Speaker 1: a good time to be talking with Matt and the
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Speaker 1: team at Rock Realty. We're gonna get that and just
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Speaker 1: a moment. A couple of things I mentioned the website
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Speaker 1: rock Wisconsin dot com. That's oro ock Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: Great starting point, great website. There also the website Rocklistings
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's Rocklistings dot com. As well as another
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Speaker 1: great website we've been talking about if you're looking to
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Speaker 1: buy Wisconsin buyeragent dot com. That's Wisconsin buyer agent dot com.
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Speaker 1: All singular Wisconsin buyer agent dot com. Nice website and
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Speaker 1: gets know the buyer's agents at Rockrealty a little profile,
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Speaker 1: see a picture of them, learn a little bit more
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Speaker 1: about them, and of course set up a conversation. If
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Speaker 1: you want to interview your agent, your buyer agent, you
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Speaker 1: can do that right online. Set that up at Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: buyer agent dot com. And before we get to the
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Speaker 1: feature listening this week's conversation, I want to ask you
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Speaker 1: about that website, Matt. It's got to be wildly popular
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Speaker 1: right now. As I remember a couple of months ago
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Speaker 1: when you first unveiled this site, I thought, oh, this
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Speaker 1: is kind of cool. But the more I've thought about it,
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Speaker 1: and the more times I've seen it and talked with
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Speaker 1: people about it as well, it's a stroke of genius.
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Speaker 1: It's really a really a great idea. Are you the
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Speaker 1: only ones doing this? This is a rock realty? This
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Speaker 1: is your exclusive, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I mean I have nothing exactly like this. Yeah. I
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Speaker 2: think that it's an.
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Speaker 3: Advantage to be able to get to know your agent
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Speaker 3: prior to having to make a decision. I know who
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Speaker 3: they'll be right, so, you know, most of the real
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Speaker 3: state sphere is focused on the listings, and I thought, yeah,
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Speaker 3: if we had a website where you could see the
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Speaker 3: different agents, see what their their personal life's like, see
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Speaker 3: where they're located, see what means most to them, I
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Speaker 3: think it's Yeah, it's a good chance to make an
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Speaker 3: educated decision on who's going to represent you.
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Speaker 1: Is that one of the mistakes you see people making
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Speaker 1: sometimes is not doing that that upfront? I mean, because
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Speaker 1: it's exciting buying a home is massively exciting, Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: kind of forgetting that you really want to make sure
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Speaker 1: that you're picking the right agent for you. Is that
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Speaker 1: a mistake you often see and is that part of
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Speaker 1: why you created the website? Well, I think.
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Speaker 3: It's definitely something that's missed for people that don't have
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Speaker 3: an established agent already.
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Speaker 2: I think that they go in.
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Speaker 3: They get excited by the pictures, they click a button
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Speaker 3: online and all of a sudden they're randomly assigned to
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Speaker 3: one agent, multiple agents there, maybe their phones blowing up,
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Speaker 3: and this allows them to kind of take back control
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Speaker 3: a bit, allows them to make a decision prior to
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Speaker 3: going out and seeing those houses and make sure they
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Speaker 3: have the right fit and the right person on their side.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think it's something that's missed quite often,
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Speaker 3: and yeah, I think it's going to be a popular website.
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Speaker 1: It's a great tool and great resource. If you are
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Speaker 1: looking to buy a home, start at Wisconsin Buyeragent dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's Wisconsin buyer agent dot com. Maybe we're driving over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, saw a beautiful house you'd like to take
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Speaker 1: a look at. Make sure you set up with a
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Speaker 1: buyer agent and of course they can arrange getting you
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Speaker 1: that's showing and all that other great stuff. Again that website,
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Buyeragent dot com. Of course, with Rock Real Team Matt,
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Speaker 1: this week we are going to be talking about if
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Speaker 1: it's time moving, some of the things to think about,
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Speaker 1: whether it's time to do it, and of course are
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Speaker 1: you looking for maybe a bigger home or desirable location.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that in just a moment, but first,
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Speaker 1: speaking of bigger homes, more desirable locations, and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: get much more desirable. And I'm massively biased.
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Speaker 2: You're a little partially a little, just a little bit.
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Speaker 1: You've got a great house, a big house down in Edgerton, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about about this property and
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Speaker 1: about this home. It's a really nice looking, big place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean it's down by the Indian Ford area. If
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Speaker 3: anybody who knows where that is just a very kind
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Speaker 3: of rural scenic spot. Yeah, I think, you know, it's
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Speaker 3: close to everything, but you don't feel like you're near
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Speaker 3: any big city. Right by the river there, the Rock
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Speaker 3: River runs literally across the street, so it's you know,
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Speaker 3: it's got views of the Rock River and it's a
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Speaker 3: four zero zero four West Riverside Drive and Edgerton. It's
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Speaker 3: currently listed for three hundred and eighty nine thousand, brand
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Speaker 3: new listing just hit the market and for anybody looking
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Speaker 3: for you know, a lot of space. Yeah, this thing
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Speaker 3: has five bedrooms, you know, and looking and do it further,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's all the bedrooms are above grade, so
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Speaker 3: you don't have bedrooms in the basement. It's five bedrooms
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Speaker 3: four four upstairs. And the nice thing is they do
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Speaker 3: have one main floor bedroom just in case you're not
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Speaker 3: looking to have stairs to get to your to your bed.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's at you mentioned that five bedrooms. Has got
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Speaker 1: a lot of square footage twenty six hundred square foot
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Speaker 1: again right, hence hence the address Riverside Drive in Edgerton.
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Speaker 1: It's a newer home two thousand and three. Again, you
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Speaker 1: can check that out online rock Wisconsin dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: Rock Wisconsin dot com. Lindsey is the agent. If you
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Speaker 1: are looking for a beautiful home, maybe you're looking for
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Speaker 1: a little bit of space, other great opportunities with this
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Speaker 1: as well. Again, you can call Lindsay. You're telephone number
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Speaker 1: six O eight nine three one seventy eight sixty three.
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Speaker 1: That's six oh eights nine three, one seventy eight sixty three.
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Speaker 1: Ask Lindsay to see this beautiful house in Edgerton. Again,
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Speaker 1: it's at four thousand and four West Riverside Driving and
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Speaker 1: drive in Edge and we'll talk a little bit more
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Speaker 1: about the house coming up a little bit later on
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Speaker 1: the program. Meantime, if you want to see it, online.
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Speaker 1: You can also head on over to rock Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's Rock R O c K Wisconsin dot com. Questions
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Speaker 1: folks often have about is now the time to sell
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Speaker 1: and list my home? Is now the time for us
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Speaker 1: to move on? Maybe it's your moving up looking for
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Speaker 1: a five bedroom home, I know, the perfect one for you.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you're looking to go smaller, Maybe you're looking to
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Speaker 1: do the condo thing, or maybe getting one of those
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Speaker 1: smaller homes. I'm starting to see new ones popping up
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Speaker 1: all over the place. There are some questions that folks
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Speaker 1: should be asking themselves, aren't there, Matt.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's a few main questions. You know, it's
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Speaker 3: an interesting decision. You know, most of the time, those
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Speaker 3: that own a home are you know, at least looking
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Speaker 3: and shopping for homes even though they're really not technically
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Speaker 3: in the market, right, So at what point, you know,
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Speaker 3: is it a good idea to pull that trigger and
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Speaker 3: you know, go through that change and make that big move.
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Speaker 1: And we're going to work our way through some of
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Speaker 1: the some of the factors in it, and obviously a
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Speaker 1: big one is if you built equity, if you built
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Speaker 1: up substantial equity in your current home, definitely something to
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Speaker 1: be thinking about.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it.
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Speaker 3: Matt, Yeah, I'd say that's a pretty big factor, right.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people have built up equity just because
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Speaker 3: the market's gone up for so many years, you know,
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Speaker 3: the last ten years, a little little more than ten
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Speaker 3: years really, and so there is some substantial equity built there.
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Speaker 3: You know, if people have taken out helocks and kind
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Speaker 3: of already taken advantage of that equity, you know, maybe
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Speaker 3: it means they wait a little bit before they make
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Speaker 3: a move, But there's a lot of people there that
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Speaker 3: have built up equity and could kind of take advantage
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Speaker 3: of that by making a move.
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Speaker 1: And you think about you mentioned kind of what home
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Speaker 1: values have done over the past. It's been a while.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're they're going up and up and up,
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Speaker 1: and I think sometimes folks who haven't investigated that for
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Speaker 1: a while will be pleasantly surprised at their houses value
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Speaker 1: and then what kind of buying power that ultimately gets
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Speaker 1: them if they are looking to list and then looking
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Speaker 1: to buy as els. We talked this morning with Matt
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Speaker 1: Heytman of Rockrealty the website Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: r O c K Wisconsin dot com. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if this is the biggest factor, but this next one
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Speaker 1: seems to me to be like a huge one, which
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Speaker 1: is family dynamics change, kids, kids grow up, kids move out,
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Speaker 1: kids come along, expecting children, all that stuff. I mean
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Speaker 1: that kind of those that family makeup really affects the
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Speaker 1: type of home you're going to live in, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
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Speaker 3: I would say it's the most common reason, right whether
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Speaker 3: or not. Let's say you're recently married and you moved
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Speaker 3: into a small condo, and but you're you're ready or
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Speaker 3: expecting to increase the family size by one or two digits. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's obviously a big one. And you know,
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Speaker 3: the kids situation definitely has a very pinching, pinching effect
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Speaker 3: when you have a smaller square footage. When you have
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Speaker 3: when you're putting the crib in the same bedroom as yours,
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Speaker 3: you know, and they're running around all over you, it's
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Speaker 3: easy to want to move up. And you know, likewise,
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Speaker 3: you know, let's say that your kids have grown up, right,
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Speaker 3: and let's say this year, the last of the kids'
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Speaker 3: plans to graduate high school. You know, the other one
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Speaker 3: or two have gone off to college. You know, at
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Speaker 3: that point you're you're sitting in this large home and
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Speaker 3: you're thinking, this is a lot to clean. You know,
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Speaker 3: So it goes both ways, and it's definitely I would
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Speaker 3: say that one of the biggest motivating factors for people
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Speaker 3: is whether or not they need a smaller home or
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Speaker 3: a larger home. The majority of the time it's they're
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Speaker 3: looking to expand, but there comes times when when you
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Speaker 3: definitely want to kind of reduce the size and make
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Speaker 3: your life a little bit easier.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think about cost, cost to the time to clean,
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Speaker 1: cost to heat, all those things. Do we see people
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Speaker 1: too as they maybe as they become empty nesters, looking
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Speaker 1: maybe for a little bit more land, maybe less home,
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Speaker 1: but but more acreage. I think that's that seems to
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Speaker 1: me to be something as you get older and opportunities
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Speaker 1: present themselves that seems to be a very desirable thing,
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Speaker 1: is just to have acreage space to for nothing, if
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Speaker 1: it just to get away from the road.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I would say it goes both ways.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's some that would prefer to get into
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Speaker 3: a condo, have the you know, the association fees pay
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Speaker 3: for a lot of the maintenance and the the upkeep right,
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Speaker 3: maybe get out and walk more and have things more
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Speaker 3: within walking distance to to where they can just you know,
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Speaker 3: either hole up in the condo or head out to
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Speaker 3: dinner across the street.
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Speaker 2: Right. So there's that.
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Speaker 3: There's that group, and then the other group are those
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Speaker 3: that I would say not necessarily acreage, but a scenic view, right.
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Speaker 3: So maybe that means it's a small little plot of
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Speaker 3: land but surrounded by farm right, or or a home
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Speaker 3: like Riverside, where you know, you've you've got a house
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Speaker 3: that's that doesn't have a huge lot, but it's surrounded
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Speaker 3: by nature and right across the streets of river. So
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Speaker 3: you know that that allows people not to have to
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Speaker 3: necessarily maintain the the you know, the yard and the grass,
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Speaker 3: but still have that feel of being out in the country.
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Speaker 1: Really good perspective. It's funny when you mentioned that that
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Speaker 1: house the featured listing this week on Riverside, before I
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Speaker 1: even realized where it was. You could tell whatever it
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Speaker 1: was facing from that first picture was clearly something you
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Speaker 1: wanted to see. Because the front of this house, by
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Speaker 1: the way, as we're talking about this week's featured listings
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Speaker 1: on Riverside Drive, in front of this house is windows,
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Speaker 1: a lot of windows, like like they're looking at something.
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Speaker 1: There's got to be something cool to cry and then
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Speaker 1: you read you're like, oh yeah, you're right there from
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Speaker 1: the water. Talking this morning with Matt Heyman of Rockrealty
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Speaker 1: Online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c K
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. Talking this week about some of the
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Speaker 1: questions and some of the things that come up that
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Speaker 1: may make you think, you know what, it's time to
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Speaker 1: time to take that next step when it comes to
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Speaker 1: home ownership, whether it's moving up to a bigger home,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's simplifying things and getting maybe that that great
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Speaker 1: view or that great condo that has all those great amenities.
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Speaker 1: For a lot of folks, financial things change. You know,
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Speaker 1: you'll work longer, you make more money. We started off
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Speaker 1: talking about some of that equity in your current home
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Speaker 1: that could really open up some some opportunities that may
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Speaker 1: not have been there when you originally bought your current home.
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Speaker 1: It really worth exploring, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you've been working at your job for five
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Speaker 3: or six years and you suddenly get that big promotion,
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Speaker 3: you know the U and sometimes you know, with multiple incomes,
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Speaker 3: you could have two different raises or promotions in the
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Speaker 3: same household and things completely change, right or you know,
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Speaker 3: a big thing is obviously switching jobs. Let's say you
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Speaker 3: get hired somewhere else at a higher amount. You know
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Speaker 3: that Obviously, when you have more expendable income, you could
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Speaker 3: choose exactly how you want to spend it. Some decide to,
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Speaker 3: you know, spend it on just the experiences, and others think, hey,
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Speaker 3: you know, why not finally get that house that we've
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Speaker 3: been talking about that does actually, you know, fit all
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Speaker 3: the things that we want, versus just staying here and.
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Speaker 2: Going on more trips.
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Speaker 3: It's it's different for everybody, right, I guess With this
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Speaker 3: question in mind, it's also so important to kind of
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Speaker 3: mention relocation. You know, that's a big deal. Now most
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Speaker 3: often you don't have a lot of choice in that
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Speaker 3: one though, if you're getting relocated to a completely different city,
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Speaker 3: completely different state, you know, it's kind of been taken
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Speaker 3: out of your hands. But regardless, it's those big life
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Speaker 3: changes that can you know, either force you or make
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Speaker 3: you think about moving.
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Speaker 1: Are you able to help folks who are relocating? Obviously
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Speaker 1: you can definitely help them list their currentel Definitely, do
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Speaker 1: you guys have connections with Let's say I'm moving to
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Speaker 1: let's go, I'm going to Phoenix. Would you be able
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Speaker 1: to help me find a real estate agent in Phoenix
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Speaker 1: that might be able to put me in touch with
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Speaker 1: for helping me purchase. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: We actually have a nationwide network of realtors where you know,
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Speaker 3: they've been kind of vetted and qualified to make sure
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Speaker 3: that the best realtors are part of this network. So
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Speaker 3: whenever we have you know, friends, family clients that are
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Speaker 3: looking to move out of state or even let's say
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Speaker 3: just down to Illinois or you know, up north really far,
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Speaker 3: you know, we have that ability to get them in
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Speaker 3: touch with a really good realtor.
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Speaker 2: So that's helped a lot on both sides it.
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Speaker 3: So we can help them on the Wisconsin portion of
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Speaker 3: the side of it, whether it's buying or selling, but
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Speaker 3: then be confident in knowing they're going to get taken
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Speaker 3: care of on the other side.
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Speaker 1: Really great stuff this week from Matt Heytman of Rock
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Speaker 1: Realty Online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's our o c
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Speaker 1: K Wisconsin dot com. I remember the reason when we
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Speaker 1: bought our house. One of the reasons we were looking
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Speaker 1: for a home as we starting a family, and I
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Speaker 1: remember coming to the house that we ended up buying
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Speaker 1: and you could hear the kids at the school across
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Speaker 1: the road. Perfect ideal, all the schools right there. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: as my son gets older, maybe those school bells may
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Speaker 1: not be as may not be as enticing to me.
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Speaker 1: Maybe somebody else may want to move on. But neighborhoods change,
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Speaker 1: don't they, And desires for what you want out of
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Speaker 1: a neighborhood change, don't they.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you can outgrow a neighborhood, right, And
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Speaker 3: it's an interesting concept.
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Speaker 2: And you know I've experienced at firsthand.
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Speaker 3: You know, we had been in a neighborhood that at
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Speaker 3: one point didn't have kind of the same age demographics
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Speaker 3: that we have, right, which I mean is fine. But
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Speaker 3: you know, if you're if you're looking to, you know,
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Speaker 3: be good friends with the neighbors. It does help with
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Speaker 3: they're similar age, right, And when you have young kids,
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Speaker 3: having young kids in the neighborhoods important. But as they
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Speaker 3: grow older, sometimes maybe it's better to go somewhere a
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Speaker 3: little more quiet without having to worry about running over
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Speaker 3: bicycles when you back out of the garage.
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Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. And one of the great things to
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Speaker 1: do about that is I do know if you if
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Speaker 1: let's say you had that house that you raised the
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Speaker 1: kids and the family end near the school. Uh, there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of people just waiting to buy that home.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: As we talked this morning with Matt Heypman, of course,
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Speaker 1: Matt comes to us from Rockrealty. The website Rock Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's r O C K Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: Tellph number 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: Speaking of phones and phone numbers, you probably got a
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Speaker 1: smart smart phone, whether it's an Android or an Apple.
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Speaker 1: They do have an app for Rockrealty. Just go to
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Speaker 1: MLS dot rocks slash app. That's MLS dot rocks slash
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Speaker 1: app and you get of course, uh link there to
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Speaker 1: download the Rock Realty app again their website Rock Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot com. We're gonna continue our conversation that we'll talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit more about some of the considerations when
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Speaker 1: it comes to maybe listing your home and why folks
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Speaker 1: decide it's time to maybe go up or get we
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Speaker 1: get something bigger, maybe get something a little more small.
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Speaker 1: Also the importance of the current markets and interest rates
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Speaker 1: on that decision. We're gonna get the details from that,
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Speaker 1: and we'll do that next as Ask the Experts with
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Speaker 1: Rockrealty continues right here in thirteen ten w ib A.
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Speaker 1: Let's just ask the experts with Rockrealty online Rock Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's R O c K Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: Hanging out with that. Heymen of Rock Realty. You mentioned
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Speaker 1: the website rock Wisconsin dot com. I met yourself one
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Speaker 1: number six O eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six eight six seven three fifty harder. We're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about this week's featured listing in just a moment. Also,
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Speaker 1: some really cool stuff when it comes to Rocklistings dot
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Speaker 1: Com missed program from a couple of weeks ago. We'll
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Speaker 1: get you an update on some of the really cool
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Speaker 1: things they're doing at Rockrealty. Right now, though, we're talking
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Speaker 1: with Matt about some of the things that to consider
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Speaker 1: if you're thinking about maybe moving up moving on listing,
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Speaker 1: some of the reasons why folks may may want to
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Speaker 1: explore that option, or why folks have in the past,
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Speaker 1: what has led them to decide, Hey, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: probably a good time to list. And sometimes we're just confined.
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Speaker 1: You know. We were talking earlier about maybe getting smaller.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you want to go bigger, and unfortunately, Matt, there's
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Speaker 1: just no way to get bigger with the current situation,
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Speaker 1: with the current configuration, with the current lot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 3: And it all depends on the house, you know, whether
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Speaker 3: or not you have a finished basement, whether not you
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Speaker 3: have a nice flat yard in the back to add
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Speaker 3: an addition, right, I know, three years ago we had considered,
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Speaker 3: all right, if we want a little more space, what
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Speaker 3: do we do, you know, and we kind of weigh
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Speaker 3: our options, and we said, well, we love the location.
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Speaker 2: We love the layout. I call it the three l's right.
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Speaker 3: You got your your location, your a lot in your layout, right, and.
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Speaker 1: We loved all of those.
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Speaker 3: We just needed more space, but we had an unfinished basement.
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Speaker 3: So we also really enjoyed the neighborhood and enjoyed the neighbors,
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Speaker 3: so we decided to remodel the basement instead. So it's
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Speaker 3: just one of those options you have to consider, and
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Speaker 3: everybody kind of does, and they go back and forth
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Speaker 3: between they're remodeling or just buying new or buying a
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Speaker 3: different one that has everything done. And yeah, it's interesting
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Speaker 3: to see what everybody chooses in the end. So a
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Speaker 3: lot of people choose to move, others decide to remodel.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I know we've talked in the past
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Speaker 1: about some of the things that are often desirable for
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Speaker 1: listing homes. Is a finished basement. Is that a popular
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Speaker 1: thing to have as far as you're going to be
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Speaker 1: listing your home. If you've got a finished basement, A
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Speaker 1: lot of folks are looking for that type of space.
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Speaker 3: It's funny how it varies in states, you know, because
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Speaker 3: here it's a huge deal, right if you have the
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Speaker 3: finish basement, this extra kind of wreck room, you know,
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Speaker 3: man or she cave. Right, it's it's a big deal.
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Speaker 3: It's that escape that you can get away from the
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Speaker 3: hustle and bustle that's happening on like the main floor.
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Speaker 3: But other areas, the finish basements are just unheard of
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Speaker 3: or non existent, like in Florida, right, you just have
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Speaker 3: a slab.
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Speaker 2: Right, But around here it's a big deal.
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Speaker 1: That is that it's a it's a cool thing to
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Speaker 1: I know, a lot of folks look into doing those
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Speaker 1: type of things and Matt One of the other things,
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Speaker 1: speaking of different markets in different areas around the country,
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Speaker 1: I know, obviously here in southern Wisconsin it's been a
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Speaker 1: very good market, I mean a really really solid market,
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Speaker 1: and that of course causes any any market condition. People
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Speaker 1: need to think about that, whether it's whether it's hot
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Speaker 1: like it is or wherever. However, you really want to
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Speaker 1: make sure you're comfortable moving in the in the current
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Speaker 1: environment of things, don't you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean comfort level is important. I think that
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Speaker 3: if things are too hot or too crazy on the downside,
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Speaker 3: it's always shocking and it just leaves you unable to
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Speaker 3: make a decision. The nice thing about the Madison area,
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Speaker 3: and that kind of flows to its extremities unto the
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Speaker 3: Dells and down to Janesville, Bloyd even is that there's
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Speaker 3: staples there, there's the government, the capital, there's the hospitals,
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Speaker 3: there's the University of Wisconsin. And it's this stable employment
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Speaker 3: that really has made for less up and down swings.
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Speaker 2: Like other markets that you see, like a Florida area.
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Speaker 3: Or you know, Phoenix, things like that, they're just they
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Speaker 3: have larger swings than we do. So it's it's made
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Speaker 3: for a better environment to make decisions speaking of things
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Speaker 3: that can that can fluctuate interest rates, and that is
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Speaker 3: something that is it's an important part of the decision.
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Speaker 1: Although I I this is me speaking. I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to put words in anybody's mouth. Sometimes I think we,
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Speaker 1: especially historically, we tend to dwell too much on interest rates.
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Speaker 1: But it is certainly something that you need to need
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Speaker 1: to be thinking about, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And it's it's probably the biggest thing that's
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Speaker 3: keeping people on the fence right now. It's been the
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Speaker 3: hot topic since twenty twenty three. In the last couple
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Speaker 3: of years now, people are starting to getting accustomed to,
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Speaker 3: you know, their interest rates starting with a six, right
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Speaker 3: and sometimes a seven.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: What I like to attribute to is obviously we've spoken
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Speaker 3: before about you know, in the future, you can always
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Speaker 3: refinance if the if the rates come down. But you
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Speaker 3: know how I like to view it as this, like
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Speaker 3: we're all working harder to kind of have a better
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Speaker 3: quality of life, right, and so if you've gotten to
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Speaker 3: the point in your career, in your life where you
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Speaker 3: know that hard work has has made some more income
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Speaker 3: for you, and regardless if you're having to pay a
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Speaker 3: little bit more that's what you were working for, for
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Speaker 3: a better quality of life.
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Speaker 2: So if you can find a house.
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Speaker 3: That's going to, you know, make a significant impact on
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Speaker 3: your family and on your on your home life, why
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Speaker 3: not make that move.
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Speaker 1: That is a really good guidance, a really good perspective
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Speaker 1: this morning from Matt Heytman of Rock Realty Online Rock
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock r O c K Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot Com. Mentioned the website earlier, rocklistings dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: rocklistings dot com. If you've been thinking about listing your home,
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Speaker 1: you want to head on over to rock Listings because
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Speaker 1: all the details on what we're about to talk about
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Speaker 1: are on the website rocklistings dot Com. We had, we
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Speaker 1: had the folks from from out. I'm totally space, totally
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Speaker 1: spaced out. I'm like I've spaced out. I'm like I
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Speaker 1: was telling you, I'm seeing there. I'm seeing there's stuff
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Speaker 1: around town quite a bit. Now let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: partnership and kind of the deal right now for folks
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Speaker 1: that are working with Rock Realty and you guys are
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Speaker 1: making the.
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Speaker 2: Move a little yeah, you know, it's exciting.
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Speaker 3: We've seen a lot of interest, a lot of people
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Speaker 3: really being drawn towards it and totally space out. Will
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Speaker 3: deliver large container units to your driveway or to the
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Speaker 3: side of your house where you know you have a
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Speaker 3: nice flat, you know, piece of ground and you know
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Speaker 3: they're sixteen foot twenty foot in length.
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Speaker 2: So they're very large.
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Speaker 3: They're you know, almost brand new these units. Because it's
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Speaker 3: a newer company, it's locally based out of Edgeton, and
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Speaker 3: so we partnered with them and we are offering that
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Speaker 3: as a service. That's included for you know, people that
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Speaker 3: commit to a rock realty agent. You know, so if
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Speaker 3: it's a buyer agency agreement where you say, hey, I
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Speaker 3: want this agent to represent me on the buy side,
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Speaker 3: or whether or not you're just looking to sell, and
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Speaker 3: it's a listing agreement, we can include that in there
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Speaker 3: as a feature and a bonus. And people are really
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Speaker 3: liking it.
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Speaker 1: It really makes the move process a whole lot easier
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Speaker 1: and it really really clears some major hurdle for folks.
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Speaker 3: That's the container delivered right to the new place.
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Speaker 1: So how slick is that? Again? You can learn all
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Speaker 1: the details online rocklistings dot com. That's roc K listings
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Speaker 1: dot com, all one word rocklistings dot com. Get all
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Speaker 1: the details right there on the website. And speaking of listings,
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Speaker 1: this week's featured listing is a great, big house in Edgerton,
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Speaker 1: right along the river, right at four thousand and four
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Speaker 1: West Riverside Drive. We're talking about the space. The other
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Speaker 1: thing that I that I started, I kind of dig
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Speaker 1: into the more of the details. Matt fireplace, large kitchen,
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Speaker 1: it's got. This thing's got a lot of really really
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Speaker 1: nice not just the space, but it's really nice, nicely
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Speaker 1: put together as well as far as amenities.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and under four hundred thousand. So hard to
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Speaker 3: find five bedrooms under four hundred thousand these days, right,
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Speaker 3: So yeah, you'll be able to fit everything you need,
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Speaker 3: maybe have an office and a workout room. Yeah, and
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Speaker 3: you can overlook the river at the same time. So
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Speaker 3: I think it's a great opportunity.
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Speaker 1: And Lindsey is the agent on this. Lindsay's telephon number
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Speaker 1: six so eight nine three one seventy eight sixty three.
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Speaker 1: That's six h eight nine three, one seventy eight sixty
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Speaker 1: three for the spacious home. Again, it's two thousand, six
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight square feet to be exact, right
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Speaker 1: on it. Three showerheads, three Showerhead three. What yes, man,
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Speaker 1: You've got it all with this play, and so, of
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Speaker 1: course Lindsay would love to show you the home. You
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Speaker 1: can also get more details if head on over the
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Speaker 1: website rock Wisconsin dot com. That's roc K Wisconsin dot com. Matt.
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Speaker 1: It's always great seeing you, my friend. You enjoy this
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Speaker 1: great table. Do it all again real soon you too, sir,
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