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Holiday Guests with Rock Realty · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Eight thirty four, thirteen to ten w I B A
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Speaker 1: and Ask the Experts, joined at studio this morning by
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Speaker 1: Matt Heytman of Rock Realty Online Rock Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's Rock r O c K Wisconsin dot com. Of
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Speaker 1: course you can download the app, just head on over
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Speaker 1: to MLS dot rocksbackslash or forward slash app. Just a
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Speaker 1: slash works, doesn't it? Yeah? I think it's forward slash.
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Speaker 1: The ford Ford tilts to the right, tilts, Yeah, up
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Speaker 1: up to the top part tilts to the right. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's I always think it leans forward that kind of
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Speaker 1: the way. I like that. Good to see you. How
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Speaker 1: how I got to ask? We were We've got a
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Speaker 1: fantastic show ahead and we're going to talk about the holidays.
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Speaker 1: Got big plans for the Thanksgiving holiday at the Heypeman Household.
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Speaker 1: It's it's going to be.
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Speaker 2: One of those times when we actually host. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be an adventure.
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Speaker 1: Pressure's on, Yeah, the pressure is on. There is always
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Speaker 1: like and correct me if I'm wrong. I think this
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Speaker 1: is universal, like a different level of cleaning that needs
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Speaker 1: to be done when there's company coming over, like things
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Speaker 1: that like I'll use the pre households. We're not slobs.
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Speaker 1: And to me, I come home each day and I
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Speaker 1: don't think, boy, this house could use a good scrub.
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Speaker 1: And but if gosh forbid, the in laws are coming over,
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Speaker 1: my wife will send me a text basically do a
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Speaker 1: good scrub, and it's like there's like this other level
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Speaker 1: of clean that has to happen. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think that that's when you take a kind of
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Speaker 2: a step back in your living room and you realize
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Speaker 2: all the little clutter that's made it onto the shelves
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Speaker 2: and such. You know that you just normally don't notice.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's some of that applicable for getting a house
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Speaker 1: ready for a showing. By the way, well, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know it's one of those things, especially
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Speaker 2: when we first list of house, you kind of take
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Speaker 2: that same kind of step back and say, Okay, if
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Speaker 2: I'm a buyer, what do I see? And know things
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Speaker 2: pop out to you that wouldn't normally like the dust
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Speaker 2: in the in the corner or on the window sills,
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Speaker 2: things like that.
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Speaker 1: Do you guys have a junk bull at your house.
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Speaker 1: I know everyone's got a junk drawer, but you have
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Speaker 1: like a bowl or a container that like things out
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Speaker 1: of your pocket that just kind of accumulate.
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Speaker 2: We have multiple shelves, okay, yeah, but again I think
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Speaker 2: these are universal thols.
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Speaker 1: Are like the things that like for the holidays, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we gotta get meg.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you picked the shelf that's the least visible and
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Speaker 2: just kind of keep throwing things there. Yeah, the coupones
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Speaker 2: that you think you're gonna use evctually.
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Speaker 1: A lot of those Bucky books on those file. We're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about getting your home ready for the
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Speaker 1: holidays with Matt, and of course Matt comes to us
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Speaker 1: from Rockrealty Online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O
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Speaker 1: c K Wisconsin dot com. Before we get rolling though
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Speaker 1: on this week's conversation, what a house we were looking
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Speaker 1: at this before we came on the air this morning.
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Speaker 1: A great home for a family or maybe looking to uh,
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Speaker 1: looking to get into a really nice place in Rock County.
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Speaker 1: You've got a fantastic listing right in Janesville. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: about this house on Plymouth Avenue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, before we got live here, we were
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Speaker 2: talking about first time home buyers and what first time
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Speaker 2: homes would look like, and this is this is one
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Speaker 2: of those homes.
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Speaker 1: In my opinion, we're.
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Speaker 2: Looking at two five one eight Plymouth Avenue in Janesville.
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Speaker 2: It's listed for two hundred and seventy thousand. These days,
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Speaker 2: just finding again two in the front is exciting, and
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Speaker 2: it's got the three bedrooms that most people are looking for,
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Speaker 2: one bath, and it's got a two car attached garage
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Speaker 2: which is really nice with an extra wide driveway so
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Speaker 2: you can fet your toys and such, and listed at
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Speaker 2: a great price at two hundred and seventy. And also
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Speaker 2: it's a ranch, so it'll work for those that have
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Speaker 2: younger knees or older knees.
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Speaker 1: That is, that's and that's an important thing. Yes, it's
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Speaker 1: very as we get older or of course got the
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Speaker 1: kiddo's as well. And the other thing too, it's not
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Speaker 1: less thing for people that aren't familiar with Janesville. A
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Speaker 1: really kind of a great stretch of road is that is.
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Speaker 1: And also I don't know if folks haven't had a
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Speaker 1: chance to get down to Janesville. Three lanes both ways
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Speaker 1: on the interstate, which means you're if you work in Madison,
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Speaker 1: for example, you're in town like that, and then you've
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Speaker 1: got the benefits of Janesville downtown is.
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Speaker 2: Just oh manful place, like you were saying, especially the
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Speaker 2: changing the on ramps and offering. I'm so it just
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Speaker 2: made it very convenient. And then every time that we're
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Speaker 2: thinking about going out to dinner, it just seems that
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Speaker 2: every idea we come up with, Jaans Will happens to
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Speaker 2: have that restaurant.
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Speaker 1: So where else are you going to find three chicken
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Speaker 1: restaurants on one intersection other than James Will Wisconsin. Of course,
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Speaker 1: this house again listed at two seventy It's a really
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Speaker 1: really beautiful house. You can check that out online rock
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. That's roc K Wisconsin dot com, or
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Speaker 1: to set up a list name called Britney Doyle or
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Speaker 1: telephone number six so eight for nine eight seventy seven
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Speaker 1: ninety seven. That's four nine eight seventy seven ninety seven.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about the house as
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Speaker 1: the as the show progresses, and we kind of I
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Speaker 1: guess I kind of spoiled the lead here as we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk this week about getting your home ready
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Speaker 1: for holidays. Kind of that big first point is decluttering,
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Matt, Yeah, yeah, I thought that, you know, with Thanksgiving
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Speaker 2: coming up and you know the fact that we were
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Speaker 2: having to host, maybe we should look for some tips
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Speaker 2: online and so Lindsey Edgren, arm marketing director threw together
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Speaker 2: a good list here that starts with clean and declutter
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Speaker 2: your home. So, yeah, as we mentioned earlier, take a
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Speaker 2: step back, take a look around, view the house as
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Speaker 2: if somebody that was first seeing it is viewing it,
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Speaker 2: and you may notice some of those shells that have
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Speaker 2: the coupons on them, or you know, some extra dusting
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Speaker 2: that needs to happen, or windows that need to be cleaned.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's not a lot of people often complain
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Speaker 1: about why do you play Christmas music? There's not a
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Speaker 1: lot of Thanksgiving music. There is no good point. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of thanksgiving to core. By the way, that
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Speaker 1: may be a million dollar idea for you, that is
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Speaker 1: we'll record a Thanksgiving album. Yeah, we should do that.
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Speaker 1: Is that the mood got the soprano part or I
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Speaker 1: think you know, I've got I've got a range, I've
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Speaker 1: got a vocal range.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a plan.
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Speaker 1: I could do the I could do the base. You know,
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Speaker 1: we do a little that all. Yeah, but you really
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Speaker 1: want to set the kind of the atmosphere and putting
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Speaker 1: together some Thanksgiving the core. There's a lot of options there,
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Speaker 1: isn't there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, And obviously, I mean there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that really enjoy, you know, doing the themes inside
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Speaker 2: their home, right and they have the extra space in
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Speaker 2: their storage area to keep all those extra decorations. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: decorating for Thanksgiving, you know, normally you'd want to have
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Speaker 2: like a warm, festive environment, right, create the right mood
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Speaker 2: table settings that you know, have those those oranges and
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Speaker 2: browns and you know, leaves.
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Speaker 1: Or gourds, sometimes pumpkins.
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Speaker 2: Right, different centerpieces, maybe some fall accents on on said
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Speaker 2: shelves or around the house near the entrance way.
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Speaker 1: Would you encourage people if if they're thinking about listing
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Speaker 1: in the in the coming years, maybe get kind of
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Speaker 1: some pictures of that set up. Is just kind of
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Speaker 1: a look of like different seasons of I know, we
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Speaker 1: think about oftentimes, you know, summer, great outdoor pictures or
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Speaker 1: or fall, especially if you've got a tree that gets
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Speaker 1: a lot of color. But like sometimes and I don't know,
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Speaker 1: you're the you're the expert here. Seeing the house through
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Speaker 1: the seasons from the inside is benefit. I mean, if
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Speaker 1: folks are thinking maybe of listening. Would that be of
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Speaker 1: any benefits in that?
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Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea. I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: whether that's Christmas, Thanksgiving something like that, or even Easter,
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Speaker 2: who knows. Interior photos like that, you know, could kind
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Speaker 2: of give the vibe and it's almost like a virtual
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Speaker 2: staging right for the rest of the year. The other
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Speaker 2: thing is, while we're on the subject, is making sure
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Speaker 2: to take some pictures of the home when the grass
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Speaker 2: is green and when the flowers are out. It takes
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Speaker 2: some good pictures that has some nice qualities so that
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Speaker 2: you can use those just in case you do list
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Speaker 2: in the fall or the winter and people just don't
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Speaker 2: get a chance to see all that.
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Speaker 1: I think two of you know is aspiring home buyers
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Speaker 1: or whether you're moving up or first time homebuyers. I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of us kind of have that until
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Speaker 1: we've done a couple of them. Then maybe the fantasy changes.
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Speaker 1: But hosting that first big holiday, whether it's Thanksgiving or
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Speaker 1: having having the parents over for the you know, for
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Speaker 1: the for the Christmas holiday and the siblings and you know,
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Speaker 1: it kind of a chance to show off and also
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Speaker 1: kind of a chance to kind of break in the
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Speaker 1: welcoming environment of the new home. So I just think of, yeah,
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Speaker 1: some great pictures of those holidays to kind of kind
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Speaker 1: of set the mood. What about kitchens, and kitchens are
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Speaker 1: are kind of a gathering place and a lot of homes,
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Speaker 1: you really want to get that kitchen space ready, don't you, Matt.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that it's important to obviously
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Speaker 2: make sure you have all the correct ingredients at a time,
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Speaker 2: but I have a meal plan in general, kind of
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Speaker 2: you know, write it all down, make sure that you're
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Speaker 2: not taking six trips to to the grocery store, even
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Speaker 2: though you probably still will. Yeah. One thing that we've
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Speaker 2: really found a lot that's been really helpful is and
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Speaker 2: we'll go on Amazon and you can find really good
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Speaker 2: deals on kind of plastic to go containers and you
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Speaker 2: get them like fifty at a time even and they
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Speaker 2: end up being pretty darning expensive, like I can't remember,
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Speaker 2: and maybe even less than.
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Speaker 1: A dollar each.
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Speaker 2: And if you have that ready, then you're not having
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Speaker 2: to find room for all those leftovers in the refrigerator.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny, as I think is as guys, typically
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Speaker 1: our role is the last minute run. So if like,
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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, we need more butter. We need. That's
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Speaker 1: it's it's always it seems to be in and probably
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Speaker 1: because the spouses are typically doing the hard work that
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Speaker 1: we get sent out. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I always am I go for that. I raise my
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Speaker 2: hand that way, I'm not having to cook or clean
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Speaker 2: smart right, Yeah, I mean I am down for being
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Speaker 2: that caurier.
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Speaker 1: You can just call me grub hub. Yeah, because there
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Speaker 1: are like two times where you see men at the
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Speaker 1: at the grocery store outnumbering women. One is Thanksgiving and
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Speaker 1: the others like Valentine's Day and I love On Valentine's Day,
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Speaker 1: you'll look down the cardile For some reason, men keep
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Speaker 1: like a two foot distance from the cards until they're
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Speaker 1: ready to select.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and from each other, and there's just kind
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Speaker 2: of like the silent nod to each other.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So I'm talking this week with Matt Heytman
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Speaker 1: of Rockrealty Online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O
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Speaker 1: C K Wisconsin dot com or telephone number six so
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Speaker 1: eight six seven three fifty four hundred. That's six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred. Speaking of Thanksgiving coming up next week,
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Speaker 1: we will be doing a shown next week, so definitely
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Speaker 1: mark that on your calendars and matt as we work
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Speaker 1: through Thanksgiving, and I know one of the things that
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Speaker 1: happens when you've got family and friends over there could
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Speaker 1: be a little stress. And one way to kind of
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Speaker 1: lighten the mood a bit is to have a good
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Speaker 1: beverage station, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Having that kind of separate area I think is
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Speaker 2: important to keep the flow going, you know, having the
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Speaker 2: beverages with the ice and the glasses all and kind
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Speaker 2: of one spot. I prefer like having it after the
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Speaker 2: food so people can maybe set down their their plates
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Speaker 2: and then go grab the the beverages. But yeah, just
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Speaker 2: make sure that you're not making the alcohol accessible to
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Speaker 2: the younger ones.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, keeping that stuff and the yeah, I exactly
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Speaker 1: clearly separate and go it's it's, it's it is. Can
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Speaker 1: be like one of those things where I gotta be
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Speaker 1: really careful because some of these and even as as
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Speaker 1: an adult, sometimes I look at some of these energy
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Speaker 1: drinks and other things or or beverages and they all
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Speaker 1: look the same and you're like, you got to really
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Speaker 1: read them closely to make sure that they're that they
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Speaker 1: are either grown up or not that you should be
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Speaker 1: giving children energy drinks anyway.
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Speaker 2: But well, some of the energy drinks look just like
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Speaker 2: Seltzer is alcoholic Seltzer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting and vice versa for sure. And we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about some of the other things to
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Speaker 1: get your house ready for the holidays. So we talk
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Speaker 1: with Matt this morning. I hope you get a chance
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Speaker 1: to head on over to Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: ro O c k Wisconsin dot com. What a great
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Speaker 1: way to spend the day is perusing even if you're
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Speaker 1: not looking to buy a home or list your home,
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Speaker 1: just see what's out there. It's always a lot of
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Speaker 1: fun to see online Rock Wisconsin dot com. If you
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Speaker 1: are looking to buy or you are looking to sell,
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Speaker 1: the telephone number six so eight six seven three fifty
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Speaker 1: four hundred. That's six seven three fifty four hundred. We
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Speaker 1: were talking last week to Matt about job opportunities. Are
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Speaker 1: you guys still got some somebody looking to make a
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Speaker 1: fresh start in the new year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a a few spots open now that
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Speaker 2: we're looking to build the team some more. We've got
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Speaker 2: around thirty five agents at the moment, but we're looking
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Speaker 2: to expand and trying to find people that are looking
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Speaker 2: to do full time real estate.
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Speaker 1: It's a fun career and it's I think again. With
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Speaker 1: a new year coming up, maybe you're looking for a
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Speaker 1: fresh start. Just head over to My rockstar job dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's my rockstar job dot com for details on that
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Speaker 1: looks into our conversation Matt. We will do that in
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Speaker 1: so much more next as Ask the Experts with Matt
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Speaker 1: Heyman and Rockrealty continues right here on thirteen ten. Wuib A,
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Speaker 1: I know what I'm added into my holiday playlist this year, Dude,
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Speaker 1: do do do?
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Speaker 2: Do?
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Speaker 1: This is ask the Experts with Rockrealty Matt Heyman of
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Speaker 1: course in studio with us this morning. You can learn
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Speaker 1: more online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c
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Speaker 1: K Wisconsin dot com. Our telf one number six oh
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Speaker 1: eight six seven three fifty four hundred. That's six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred. It's a great day whether you're
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Speaker 1: looking to buy, sell or just curious to head on
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Speaker 1: over to that website, Rock Wisconsin dot com. It's also
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Speaker 1: a great day if you are looking for a fantastic
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Speaker 1: career working with some great folks. Learn more online my
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Speaker 1: rockstar Job dot com. That's my rockstar job dot com
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Speaker 1: and Matt. Speaking of playlist, have you uh, have you
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Speaker 1: perused any Christmas music? Get the season and are you
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Speaker 1: still hold Are you one of those hold off until
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Speaker 1: like Christmas? Even then it's it's full go.
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Speaker 2: I do try to delay it pretty long, to be honest,
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Speaker 2: and then I just you know, kind of depend on
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Speaker 2: Spotify or Pandora, yeah, or the iHeart Radio app or
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Speaker 2: I mean that's iHeart radio app is actually my number
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Speaker 2: one go to.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I'll speak of the iHeart Radio app. Folks who
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Speaker 1: may not know this, you have really cool. One of
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Speaker 1: the cool features of what you guys are doing right
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Speaker 1: now is listings on online and audio listing streaming for
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Speaker 1: folks that have a chance to be listening. And what
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Speaker 1: a cool thing that is too. So you know, you're
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Speaker 1: at the gym and you're thinking, okay, one more, one more,
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Speaker 1: you get ten more minutes left on the on the
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Speaker 1: stair climber, and then you get a little little, a
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Speaker 1: little jolt to get to hear about.
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Speaker 2: Some Oh no, it's it's hard to sometimes reach people
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Speaker 2: that aren't already shopping for a house, right, and so
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Speaker 2: we thought that utilizing the iHeart network and actually advertising
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Speaker 2: some of our listings as kind of audio ads and
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Speaker 2: streaming audio ads would do that would get in front
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Speaker 2: of people that didn't even know they wanted to buy,
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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden they hear about a
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Speaker 2: listing and they went they go.
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Speaker 1: Out and look at it. So one of the things
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Speaker 1: that I think sometimes we take for granted here in
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin are and it sounds cliche, but you get all
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Speaker 1: four seasons. We forget that there are people that don't
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Speaker 1: experience what we experience, and like you think about like
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Speaker 1: reach and reaching people from theres the idea of snow,
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Speaker 1: I think most of us native Wisconsin is like I
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Speaker 1: got a shovel. Now, if you come from even even
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Speaker 1: you know, northern or southern Illinois and down, you would
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Speaker 1: love to have a white Christmas. What a great benefit
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Speaker 1: that is.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, we sometimes consider it a blessing when we
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Speaker 2: don't have a white Christmas, but just because we know
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Speaker 2: we have a lot ahead of us.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's a lot of work, ad and a
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Speaker 1: lot of cold, cold days. And you know, one of
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Speaker 1: the cool things about owning a home is of course
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Speaker 1: I get all. I will tell you I remember when
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Speaker 1: I got our first house. The cool toys that's always fun.
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Speaker 1: The first time you fire up the snowblower's fun. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: the thousandth time a little less fun. It is something enjoyable.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of getting your house ready, you want to really
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Speaker 1: prepare for guests, don't you. With that Thanksgiving get together?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of times when people are coming in
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Speaker 2: for the holiday is there's a good chance they may
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Speaker 2: stay overnight. So you know, a good thing to do
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Speaker 2: is just make sure that your guest accommodations are ready.
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Speaker 2: That you know, all the sheets are cleaned and you've
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Speaker 2: maybe washed those comforters for that one time per year,
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Speaker 2: throw blankets and such. You know, another thing for just
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Speaker 2: accommodating guests in general is just making sure you have
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Speaker 2: enough seating for everybody. Got your folding tables out there,
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Speaker 2: and you've you know, found where you hit all those
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Speaker 2: folding chairs. And one thing that you know, one tip
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Speaker 2: that that we've we've been doing is you can actually
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Speaker 2: find these kind of temporary rolling hangar racks. And so
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Speaker 2: it's always hard to get people to actually throw their
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Speaker 2: coats in the in the front hall closet. It seems
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Speaker 2: to always wear them in and then throw them on
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Speaker 2: the couch. So we we put ours like right out
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Speaker 2: in the entrance way with with some you know, plastic
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Speaker 2: hangers on there and kind of give give them that
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Speaker 2: reminder to hang that up right away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a great idea. And uh, you know
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Speaker 1: you mentioned too about making uh space for out of
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Speaker 1: town guests. Maybe we have a rule at our house
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Speaker 1: comfortable but not too comfortable, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: like like we want you to be comfortable if it
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Speaker 1: means you're gonna stay for one, you know, we love
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Speaker 1: don't pass out after the turkey. Yeah, exactly exactly. Talking
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Speaker 1: this morning with Matt Iman of Rock Realty Online Rock
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c K Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: And uh, things to keep in mind too is stock
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Speaker 1: up on you know, and not to be crude on this,
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Speaker 1: but stock up on any things like bathrooms. These are
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Speaker 1: you're seeing an influx I think for anybody that's maybe
16:43
Speaker 1: worked in retail or maybe it's like a bartender or something.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you get influx of people, you got
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Speaker 1: to be prepared on a number of aspects. You mentioned
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Speaker 1: of course having the seating and you know, betting of
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Speaker 1: your but some of those like soaps and stuff and
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Speaker 1: make sure you got that stuff. Napkins, Yeah, plenty of napkins.
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Speaker 1: Plenty of napkins. A good day to make a shop
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Speaker 1: co run. And of course, look look while you're doing
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Speaker 1: that stuff, check out online rock wiscons dot com look
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Speaker 1: at some houses and that's and Matt, I one of
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Speaker 1: the things I really enjoy, and I think I've said
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Speaker 1: this to you before, is you go to the website
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Speaker 1: and you've got obviously some listings on the front page,
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Speaker 1: main page of the website, but then you kind of
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Speaker 1: go down this rabbit hole. You start clicking things and
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Speaker 1: before you know it, you've looked at dozens of homes
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Speaker 1: and you get you get ideas. It is something that's
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Speaker 1: really to me. It's very exciting to see of you know,
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Speaker 1: different styles of homes and different different areas, and to me,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun to head on over to
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Speaker 1: rock Wisconsin dot com. It's r O c K wiscons
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Speaker 1: dot com. Do some cruising again, even if you're not
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Speaker 1: looking to buy and then look into sell anything. It's
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Speaker 1: just a fun thing to do. Matt. One of the
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Speaker 1: things that I do always envy is when I see
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Speaker 1: some of these houses, is some of these places with
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Speaker 1: these updated very modern kitchens with like god like islands
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Speaker 1: and they've got all this space, and I think how
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Speaker 1: nice that must be to be preparing food in that area.
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Speaker 1: Having a timeline, even if you've got a small kitchen,
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Speaker 1: having a timeline for turkeys and everything else. You want
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Speaker 1: to make sure you're sticking to that, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say that's one of the more important things
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Speaker 2: because you can have everything prepped properly, but if the
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Speaker 2: food isn't out and people aren't eating, it was kind
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Speaker 2: of a failure. So yeah, I have a cooking timeline.
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Speaker 2: You know what's going to take the longest, what should
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Speaker 2: start first? You know, you know at what point should
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Speaker 2: you put in the croissant rolls or whatever you're going
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Speaker 2: to make the biscuits, right. So, yeah, that's something that
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Speaker 2: I'm not good at, but it's definitely something to have.
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Speaker 1: Do you have Do you have, like, is there like
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Speaker 1: one thing that you are responsible for food wise on
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Speaker 1: on the holidays.
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Speaker 2: I'm more of the prep around Okay, the actual food. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: my wife does quite well at uh doing the cooking
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Speaker 2: and the prepping and knowing when to do what. I
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Speaker 2: tend to just delay the process and possibly mess things up.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm the I'm the bringing out the full
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Speaker 2: and chairs and the table guy.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, you're the muscle. Yeah. Everyone needs a labor Yeah,
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Speaker 1: everybody needs the other thing, probably the food tester as well.
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Speaker 1: Are you the one that gets called in?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's an important role I do.
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Speaker 1: Obviously I will carve the turkey. Yeah that's important. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know what would be fun one of these years
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Speaker 1: is for like, and this is probably perfect for something
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Speaker 1: you guys can do at Rock Realty is for first
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Speaker 1: time homeowners their first Thanksgiving submit pictures of their turkey
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Speaker 1: as they carve them. Because I remember the first year
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Speaker 1: we hosted and carving the turkey. It wasn't a pretty sight. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: well it looked. It looked horrible and like my slices
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Speaker 1: a turkey, like they'd start out like on top, nice
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Speaker 1: and thin, but I like didn't. I hadn't mastered yet
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Speaker 1: the art of carving, so like the line like they were,
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Speaker 1: it looked like wedge pieces of turkey. So that might
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Speaker 1: be fun just to see how how full they gotta
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Speaker 1: have a sharp knife, yes, off a sharp yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: in a steady, steady hand and you can get a
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Speaker 1: good division on that stuff. And finally, of course, overall
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Speaker 1: this is I think, aside from the meal and time
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Speaker 1: with family, you want to make it comfortable, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean kind of a simple one, but
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Speaker 2: maybe throwing some candles, dim the lights, and like you
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Speaker 2: had mentioned before, get a good playlist of music to.
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Speaker 1: Set the mood. That's important stuff. Of course, you've missed
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Speaker 1: any part today's program, you can always listen back at
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Speaker 1: And before we wrap up this week's conversation with Matt
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Speaker 1: from Rockrealty, this week's featured listening. And this is a
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Speaker 1: It's amazingly affordable with three bedrooms. Let's talk about this
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the property is located at twenty five to eighteen
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Speaker 2: Plymouth Avenue in Janesville. Very convenient location. It's a ranch,
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Speaker 2: which is always an attractive style of home to almost
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Speaker 2: all home buyers. It's got three bedroom, one bath, and
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Speaker 2: and seventy thousand, which yeah, this day and age. That's
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Speaker 1: That's r ock Wisconsin dot com. Matt. It's always great
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Speaker 1: chatting with you. You have a fantastic day, Yes you
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