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Speaker 1: Thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts. Hanging out this
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Speaker 1: morning with Matt Hepeman. Matt, of course, comes to us
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Speaker 1: from Rockrealty online, Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock RCK
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. Dell phone number six oh eight six
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Speaker 1: seven three fifty four hundred, that's six seven three fifty
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Speaker 1: four hundred for Rockrealty. Matt, How you doing this morning?
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Speaker 2: Doing great? How about you, Sean?
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Speaker 1: Doing really well. It's great to talk with you, and
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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, and we've got got a great conversation,
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Speaker 1: very timely. It's always saying, you know, for folks that
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Speaker 1: don't know this, you can set your watch to the
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Speaker 1: timeliness of this program. We're actually going to talk about
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Speaker 1: getting your house ready to sell in the fall months
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Speaker 1: and fall maintenance. But before we get to that, Matt,
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Speaker 1: A great feature of the program also is the weekly
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Speaker 1: featured listing. And I don't know, I'm guessing that the
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Speaker 1: entire portfolio at Rock Realty is just spectacular because every
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Speaker 1: week when you bring in a featured home, I am
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Speaker 1: always amazed by the property. And this week you've got
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Speaker 1: one here in the city of Madison in a fantastic
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Speaker 1: nameborhood on Gladstone Drive. Tell us about this week's featured listing.
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Speaker 2: Matt, Yeah, this is a west side property located kind
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Speaker 2: of off a merefield north of PD McKey Road there,
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Speaker 2: and it's a seven three zero five Gladstone Drive that's
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Speaker 2: in the five three seven nine area code zip code,
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Speaker 2: and it's listed for four hundred and seventy nine nine hundred.
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Speaker 2: This one's got four bedrooms, which is a you know,
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Speaker 2: a desirable amount of bedrooms, and everybody's looking for at
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Speaker 2: least like three bedrooms in office and this one, this
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Speaker 2: one's a large property, so it's got four bedrooms and
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Speaker 2: then the potential of a bedroom in the basement too
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Speaker 2: if you just add a negress.
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Speaker 1: So so sounds nice, Matt. The other I years and
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Speaker 1: years and years ago I had I'd rented a duplex
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Speaker 1: there when I was a much younger person, And I
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Speaker 1: will tell you this, it's a that's a fantastic neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: great area. A turning friend of mine has lived over
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Speaker 1: there for many years as well. It's a really really
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Speaker 1: good neighborhood. And you talk about that price point, Madison
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Speaker 1: is such a such a desirable community obviously to get
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Speaker 1: into the city proper and having something at that price point.
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Speaker 1: We talked about four bedrooms, three baths, a half bath
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Speaker 1: as well. You're talking about a really, really good opportunity
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Speaker 1: for you think about for a family, being great schools,
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Speaker 1: being a great neighborhood. There's all sorts of amenities nearby,
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Speaker 1: and that price is pretty phenomenal. So I have a
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Speaker 1: feeling a lot of folks are going to be calling about
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Speaker 1: this one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And you know, it's you know,
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Speaker 2: it's built in the nineties, nineteen ninety three, it's not
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Speaker 2: a quarter acre. The one thing I really like about
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Speaker 2: is just the amount of space two different living areas
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Speaker 2: on that first floor, even with four bedrooms. That upstairs
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Speaker 2: primary bedroom is like seventeen foot long, so it's huge.
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Speaker 2: It has its own, you know, on suite as well,
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot to like about the property. I
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Speaker 2: think it's a it's a perfect for you know, any
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Speaker 2: size family, and I think it should go pretty quick.
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Speaker 1: I bet it will. And of course, if you're interested,
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Speaker 1: now it's time to pick up phone. Give Matt a
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Speaker 1: call six oh eight, six seven three fifty four hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six seven three fifty four hundred. Asked to see
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Speaker 1: the house on Gladstone Drive. Speaking of seeing homes, if
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Speaker 1: you head on over to Rock Wisconsin dot com, it's
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Speaker 1: always great. Not only do you see our featured listing there,
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Speaker 1: but you can also peruse other houses in the area
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Speaker 1: for sale, and it's always a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: I Matt.
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Speaker 1: One of the things I always tell people is like,
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Speaker 1: if you're looking for something to do, I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of us, you know, we automatically pick up our
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Speaker 1: phone bookmark Rock Wisconsin check it out. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what it is, and maybe you know what it is,
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Speaker 1: but there is something just even if you're not looking
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Speaker 1: to buy, there's something really cool about just scrolling through
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Speaker 1: and looking at homes for sale.
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Speaker 2: Well absolutely, I mean, especially over like the last few years,
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Speaker 2: just seeing what things go for now. You know, either
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Speaker 2: either you're looking to buy your first home or you're
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Speaker 2: wondering how much your home is worth. So it kind
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Speaker 2: of satisfies both.
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Speaker 1: Yes it does, Yes, it does. You can check those
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Speaker 1: out at Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock r c
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Speaker 1: K Wisconsin dot com. Let's talk about tis the season
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Speaker 1: and there's never a bad time to be listing a home.
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Speaker 1: And one of the important things though, is making sure
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Speaker 1: that whether you're looking to sell or you're just simply
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Speaker 1: looking for maintenance, you want to make sure you're taking
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Speaker 1: care of your home. And there are certain areas, i know,
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Speaker 1: hotspots if you will, around the house that really do
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Speaker 1: make a difference as far as overall longevity of your home,
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Speaker 1: a peal of your home, safety of your home as well.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the things you can be
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Speaker 1: doing right now, Matt when it comes to fall home
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Speaker 1: maintenance and kind of putting together a bit of a
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Speaker 1: checklist for folks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we put together a good checklist of things
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Speaker 2: to kind of keep in mind and you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: take a look at in your house. I know, with
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Speaker 2: the eighty degree weather, it's hard to believe this is
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Speaker 2: getting near fall, but yeah, it won't be long. Just
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Speaker 2: around the corner of those temperatures a drop. We do
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Speaker 2: live in Wisconsin, so yeah, the first thing we have
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Speaker 2: on the list is cleaning the dry events. That's something
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Speaker 2: that's missed pretty often and it's a good idea to
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Speaker 2: take a look at that while it's a still somewhat
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Speaker 2: warm weather out and that can really have a dramatic
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Speaker 2: increase in the risk of fire. You know, if if
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Speaker 2: you've got clogged dryer vents. I know that. You know,
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Speaker 2: one of my agents actually had this just recently, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's she found out that they've been clogged, and she
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Speaker 2: actually even had a little bit of a smoke happening.
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Speaker 2: So we don't you don't want it to get that far.
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Speaker 2: I get.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that folks may not
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Speaker 1: realize either about like dryer lint and other things that
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Speaker 1: like if you talk to like woodsmen outdoors people that
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Speaker 1: are like you know, these naturalists or naturalists or whatever
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Speaker 1: they call those people that like to just go out
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the boondogs and like survive off
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Speaker 1: of nature. One of the things that they used to
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Speaker 1: start fires is they will take pocket lint and lint
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Speaker 1: from their clothes or they'll have a little tin full
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Speaker 1: of pockelynt. That stuff is crazy flammable. And you mentioned
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Speaker 1: about the importance of cleaning those dryer events. You've got
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Speaker 1: you've got heat, you've got you know, air flowing through there.
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Speaker 1: You certainly don't want to do that with that with
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Speaker 1: that process. I know, I don't think this is the
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Speaker 1: most effective, but I know one of the things that
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Speaker 1: we'd like to do at the prevole household a couple
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Speaker 1: of times a year is unhook the the the little
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Speaker 1: vent on the back and take the leaf blower.
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Speaker 2: Just there you put it through there.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, it's probably just another justification for the
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Speaker 1: leaf blower, but it's something that that that you can
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Speaker 1: do yourself, or there's companies out there that'll actually do
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Speaker 1: a job and do a job well, aren't there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean some of the first indicators are if
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Speaker 2: your your clothes aren't trying as quickly. But yeah, I
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Speaker 2: mean you can double check make sure there's no kinks
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Speaker 2: in that hose that's leading up to the vent. But
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Speaker 2: in generally it's probably going to cost you know, one
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Speaker 2: dollars if you had a professional out there to clean
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Speaker 2: those events, get it done properly, or as Seohn said,
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Speaker 2: you can use a yeah, a little blower, so you
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Speaker 2: know that that that may work as well.
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Speaker 1: May I think there's also some kits and other things
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Speaker 1: out there that that you can do as well. As
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Speaker 1: we're talking this one with Matt Hetmen of Rock Realty
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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, DELF number six so eight six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred. That's six seven three fifty four hundred.
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Speaker 1: You talk to about some of the indicators. I think
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Speaker 1: for a lot of folks who are like, oh, my
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Speaker 1: dryer isn't working well, and they blame the dryer. In reality, again,
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Speaker 1: it is those it is those vents. What about as
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Speaker 1: we as we look around the outside of your house
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Speaker 1: really making sure, especially we get into those winter months,
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Speaker 1: things are sealed up nicely. That's an important step as well.
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Speaker 1: And fall, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean the winter's pretty harsh on all services,
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Speaker 2: but especially services that can show where more often so
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Speaker 2: the exterior surfaces. If you can, you know, apply a
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Speaker 2: stain or a seilant or even a paint, that's that's
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Speaker 2: definitely helpful. I know that especially that trimwork like around
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Speaker 2: the bottom of your doors and your garage doors tends
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Speaker 2: to really see a lot of weather from from rain
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Speaker 2: and such, and that'd be that'd be definitely a good
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Speaker 2: one to seal our paint as well.
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Speaker 1: Do we see By the way Matt and we talk
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Speaker 1: about talking about some of those areas that that tend
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Speaker 1: to tend to bear the brunt of it, is that
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Speaker 1: one of those things that when people are looking especially
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Speaker 1: so with maybe a little bit of experience, maybe they
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Speaker 1: they've bought a couple of homes over their life, or
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Speaker 1: they're working with a good agent, are looking at just
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Speaker 1: kind of like as we kind of think maybe for
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Speaker 1: a lot of these things kind of signs was this
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Speaker 1: house well maintained or is it one where they just
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Speaker 1: kind of quickly cleaned up to put it on the market.
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Speaker 1: I've got a guess when you start to look at
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Speaker 1: like some of those you mentioned, things like that the
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Speaker 1: window frame and the casing around there, taking a look
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Speaker 1: at that, if it's in good shape, it's probably a
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Speaker 1: good indicator that the homeowner has been maintaining the house
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Speaker 1: as a whole quite well for a number of years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting, like how often that stands out, especially
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Speaker 2: near the bottoms of the door trim and such, Especially
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Speaker 2: if a house has actually been maintained pretty well everything else,
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Speaker 2: it sticks out a little bit more because there's not
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Speaker 2: much else to look at, and it's something that is
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Speaker 2: missed by a lot of homeowners, is just touching up
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Speaker 2: the trim on the exterior just to kind of show
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Speaker 2: that it has been taken air care of.
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Speaker 1: You to your point talking this morning, with Matt Heytman
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Speaker 1: of Rock Realty. The website Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: roc K Wisconsin dot com. It's a great day to
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Speaker 1: be checking out the website. Bookmark the website as well,
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Speaker 1: because obviously they're always updating new homes. The latest homes
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Speaker 1: all up at Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O
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Speaker 1: c K Wisconsin dot com. Tel for 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: fifty four hundred and Matt, I've seen what happens when
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Speaker 1: this next one is ignored. You don't want to forget
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Speaker 1: about your garden hose, do you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's a that's a big deal that gets
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Speaker 2: missed quite often, right, and when we hit you know,
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Speaker 2: sub zero temperatures, you know, it can really have an issue.
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Speaker 2: That's stewing your hose and taking care of your spigots, right,
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Speaker 2: stewing the hose, detatch it from the house. You know.
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Speaker 2: One of kind of a clever hack that you can
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Speaker 2: do to make sure you get all the water out
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Speaker 2: is you can lay out the hose on a decline
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Speaker 2: and then kind of roll it up from from the
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Speaker 2: top of the hill, right so that the water just
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Speaker 2: exites out the bottom. If you have, you know, some
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Speaker 2: water in that hose, it can expand crack the hose
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Speaker 2: actually push all the way back to the spigott as well.
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Speaker 2: So it's definitely something you want to take care of.
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Speaker 2: And then the external faucets on your house there. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: sometimes it's hard to find that turn off valve, but
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Speaker 2: it's really important to turn that off. You know, open
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Speaker 2: up the valve to make sure any waters drained out,
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Speaker 2: and you know, you can close it back up at
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Speaker 2: that point. But it's always a good idea for that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know they do have some ones that
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Speaker 2: are kind of protected from frost, but I still do it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you as well. Yeah, we've got the
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Speaker 1: we've got the faucet that when you turn the outside
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Speaker 1: spigot that when you turn the outside the actual valve
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Speaker 1: and everything is on the inside of your house. We've
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Speaker 1: also we've got those, folks, if you haven't checked, definitely
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Speaker 1: want to check that out. We've also got I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of homes have that due like a secondary
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Speaker 1: that's even further down the line that you can turn off.
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Speaker 1: Because you don't realize this, but if one of those
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Speaker 1: were to burst and start flooding the inside of your home.
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Speaker 1: It literally will flood the indie your home.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty Oh yeah, pretty drunk. I had I had
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Speaker 2: a similar issue. It turned out as actually a defective
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Speaker 2: valve on this wigot So it happened actually during the summer.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, the whole basement was getting water. Uh luckily
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Speaker 2: I'd just gone down there otherwise, who knows how many
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Speaker 2: days it way.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty pretty dramatic stuff. Great tips. As always, we're
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Speaker 1: talking this morning with Matt Heiman. Of course, Matt comes
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Speaker 1: to us from Rockrealty online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: r o Ck Wisconsin dot com. Telph 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. Easy to make contact with the
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Speaker 1: folks at Rockrealty again that telephone number six oh eight
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Speaker 1: six seven three fifty four hundred, and the website Rock
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock Rock Wisconsin dot com. We'llk
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Speaker 1: to do our conversation with Matt a little bit more
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Speaker 1: details on fall home maintenance. We'll also check back on
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Speaker 1: our featured listing this week. We will do all of
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Speaker 1: that next as ask the experts with Rockreealty continues right
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Speaker 1: here on thirteen ten wib A thirteen ten WIBA and
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Speaker 1: ask the experts. Hanging out with Matt Heyman. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Matt comes to us from Rockrealty online Rock Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's our ock Wisconsin dot com. You can learn more
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Speaker 1: about Rockrealty. You can also peruse and browse, choose your
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Speaker 1: term there and a little bit of everything when it
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Speaker 1: comes to checking out houses on the website, whether you're
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Speaker 1: looking now to buy, looking to list always a fun
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Speaker 1: thing to do, even if you're not today looking. I
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Speaker 1: always like doing it. Check it out Rock Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's our ock Wisconsin dot com. TELLFHT number six O
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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. As we're talking this week with
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Speaker 1: Matt about fall home maintenance and a checklist touched on cleaning,
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Speaker 1: dryer events, sealing some of those outdoor services, also surfaces,
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Speaker 1: also stowing your hose. We'll get to some more in
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Speaker 1: just a moment, but real quick, Matt, before we get
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Speaker 1: back to our conversation, we've got a big The FED
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Speaker 1: meets UH later this week, and there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: anticipation when it comes to do what they're going to
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Speaker 1: do with rates. And this may be something for folks
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Speaker 1: contemplating buying or if you've got an adjustable rate mortgage,
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Speaker 1: something you may want to q in in, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean obviously when the Fed started raising
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Speaker 2: rates aggressively had a big effect on mortgage rates and
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Speaker 2: buyers being able to afford a certain amount of house.
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Speaker 2: So everybody's got eyes on whether or not at this point,
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Speaker 2: the big question is whether or not they will cut
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Speaker 2: a quarter point this month or if they're going to
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Speaker 2: cut a full half point.
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Speaker 1: Interesting, do we still by the way, I got to ask,
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Speaker 1: do we see folks with adjustable rate mortgages? I know
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Speaker 1: they were wildly popular it kind of ebbs and flows.
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Speaker 1: Are we still seeing a lot of those out there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? So the thing about adjustable rate mortgagees is typically
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Speaker 2: they're kind of a portfolio alone is what it's called,
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Speaker 2: which means that whatever bank it is or credit union
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Speaker 2: is offering it kind of on their books versus your
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Speaker 2: standard conventional The advantage there is they can sometimes do
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Speaker 2: it at'll typically do it at a lower rate for
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Speaker 2: those first few years that it's locked in, and so
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Speaker 2: we are. We did see kind of an uptick of
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Speaker 2: those as the rates got pretty high there because people
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Speaker 2: realize those rates are going to eventually come down and
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Speaker 2: they can refinance at a later date.
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Speaker 1: Is that something you mean when you talk with your
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Speaker 1: mortgage persons like some of those options, because you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: you know, having a plan, having a strategy and understanding
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Speaker 1: you know these these there's so many great tools and
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Speaker 1: I know we talked the other week a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about some of the options out there when it
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Speaker 1: came to lending. You think about just the different options,
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Speaker 1: using the right basically using the right the right type
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Speaker 1: of mortgage as a tool to to you know, to
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Speaker 1: save you the greatest amount of money. Is that something
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Speaker 1: you oftentimes folks should be having conversations with their with
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Speaker 1: their mortgage lender and broker.
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Speaker 2: It's a it's a huge deal. I mean when you're
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Speaker 2: when you're borrowing that much money and then you know,
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Speaker 2: for a house, it's important to get the right product. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we plan to have a lender on here this month,
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Speaker 2: so we can definitely get much more details into that.
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Speaker 1: That'll be exciting, that'll be really really exciting. By the way,
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Speaker 1: just one more thing before us with you know me, Matt,
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Speaker 1: everything bobs. I can't let it go for commercial purchases
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Speaker 1: and those type of things. You guys work with folks
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Speaker 1: who are who do do commercial buys and sells often,
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Speaker 1: don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we still do. We do commercial as well
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Speaker 2: and mixed use, so you know, if you have apartments
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Speaker 2: above a commercial space, we do that as well.
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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. More information online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: rock Rock Wisconsin dot com. TELF forh number six O
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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. Work on our way through some
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Speaker 1: fall maintenance, some things that should be taking care of.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, Matt, And maybe it's
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Speaker 1: because I don't have to shovel it and I don't
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Speaker 1: have to mow it. I do tend to appreciate fall
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Speaker 1: maintenance more leaf clean up. I know it can be
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Speaker 1: a bit of a pain in the hinder sometimes, but
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Speaker 1: there's something kind of joyful about it. It's like, I know,
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Speaker 1: once you get the leaves taken care of, you won't
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Speaker 1: have to deal with with them on the grasscan. And
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Speaker 1: we're gonna actually talk about one of the areas that
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Speaker 1: they can become a nuisance a little bit later on
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Speaker 1: this segment, But yard furniture this time of year, obviously
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Speaker 1: this week you're gonna get a lot of use out
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Speaker 1: of it, but you want to get ready for putting
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Speaker 1: that stuff away and getting it taken care of, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something that I kind of learned the hard
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Speaker 2: way myself, always getting fading cushions, you know, and the
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Speaker 2: umbrella just really not lasting long when you have a
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Speaker 2: yard furniture out there. So you know, if you have
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Speaker 2: an indoor space, a shed, a garage, anything at all,
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Speaker 2: that you can take those chairs and take the cushions
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Speaker 2: and store them away. It definitely makes a big difference.
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Speaker 2: It makes it lasts a lot longer.
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Speaker 1: One of the real nice features too, you mentioned making
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Speaker 1: it last longer and kind of stowing that stuff away
16:36
Speaker 1: is there's also I mentioned some of the some of
16:38
Speaker 1: the joy of you know, home maintenance this time of year.
16:42
Speaker 1: It's also a lot of fun when you get to
16:43
Speaker 1: bring that stuff back out again and just kind of
16:46
Speaker 1: like it's like opening a Christmas present.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, exactly.
16:49
Speaker 1: So kind of an overall kind of catch all is
16:53
Speaker 1: things like fall cleaning both outside and inside. It's a
16:57
Speaker 1: good time of the year to be thinking about those
16:59
Speaker 1: type of things too, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean take advantage of the waning warm weather,
17:04
Speaker 2: you know, and get outside, get those windows cleaned, open
17:08
Speaker 2: up the whole house aired out a bit. That's always
17:10
Speaker 2: a nice feeling. Yeah, and inside too, I mean get
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Speaker 2: up there and take care of all that linth crews
17:17
Speaker 2: on the ceiling fan and the spider webs in the corners. Right,
17:20
Speaker 2: it's a good time to do that. And you know,
17:22
Speaker 2: home cleaners, you can even have one of those out.
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Speaker 2: They tend to run around two hundred dollars if you
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Speaker 2: wanted to have a home cleaning. This time, I actually
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Speaker 2: had someone come out and clean the exter of my windows,
17:31
Speaker 2: and that's not bad bad price either. And yeah, if
17:34
Speaker 2: they bring the right tools, it's a lot quicker.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is, Yes, it is. And it's always
17:39
Speaker 1: you think about talking about investments. It's always a good
17:42
Speaker 1: investment when it comes to just saving your time. And yeah,
17:44
Speaker 1: they've got the right tools for its kind of things.
17:47
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, and and it's it's
17:49
Speaker 1: just probably the way that they're used. But ceiling fans, oh,
17:52
Speaker 1: my goodness. Yeah, they get they get kind of filthy
17:56
Speaker 1: pretty quick. So that's definitely something to do. Is that
17:58
Speaker 1: by the ways we talk about it, we've we've talked
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Speaker 1: about staging and some other things. Is that part of
18:03
Speaker 1: that conversation with homeowners as well as like some of
18:05
Speaker 1: those areas that again I think that the ceiling fans
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Speaker 1: one that catches a lot of dust and lint and
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Speaker 1: you don't always necessarily pay us close of attention. Are
18:13
Speaker 1: these type of types of conversations some of the things
18:16
Speaker 1: you may have with homeowners saying, hey, maybe you just
18:18
Speaker 1: want to make sure you know these things that you
18:20
Speaker 1: probably overlook but can make a big difference visually to
18:23
Speaker 1: a potential buyer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, sure, it's definitely when we bring
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Speaker 2: up you know, it's one of those small things that
18:31
Speaker 2: could get noticed that would have been an easy solve
18:33
Speaker 2: if you just front run it.
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Speaker 1: You know, good point there. As we talk with Matt
18:37
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Speaker 1: Tell for number six eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six seven three fifty four hundred. Feed your lawn.
18:50
Speaker 1: Your note says it's a good time a year to
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Speaker 1: do that, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean if you want to get a
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Speaker 2: jumpstart and have that alawn looking great, you know once
18:58
Speaker 2: the grass turns green again, and uh yeah, get feed
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Speaker 2: that long. I mean, there's a lot of different mixes
19:04
Speaker 2: that are weed and feed that are actually geared towards
19:08
Speaker 2: adding in fall, right, something that's kind of a longer
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Speaker 2: term to help help your grass over the winter and
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Speaker 2: then help it have a head start, you know, once
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Speaker 2: spring comes again. You know, we.
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Speaker 1: Started this conversation this this half hour, this this part
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Speaker 1: of the segment. I had mentioned leaves. I like raking leaves,
19:23
Speaker 1: I think mostly because it's it's again once a year
19:26
Speaker 1: kind of thing. There is one area, though, of the
19:28
Speaker 1: of the property that I hate seeing leaves, and that's gutters.
19:31
Speaker 1: And you really want to keep up on gouter gutters
19:34
Speaker 1: and downspouts, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big deal, you know, and obviously it's
19:38
Speaker 2: it's gone too far when you have things growing out
19:40
Speaker 2: of them, but h but staying on top of that
19:43
Speaker 2: is a big deal because you know, anytime that you
19:45
Speaker 2: have a clog gutter and it's the rain isn't able to,
19:49
Speaker 2: you know, be pushed away from the home, then you
19:52
Speaker 2: can cause other issues to happen. Right when it's leaking
19:55
Speaker 2: over the top of the gutters and ending up next
19:58
Speaker 2: to your foundation, then I'll of a sudden, you've got
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Speaker 2: some seepage through the windows of your little window down
20:06
Speaker 2: there with the window well, and it's coming over the top. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you don't wear anything like that.
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Speaker 1: Certainly something that's worth worth looking into and inspecting. As
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Speaker 1: we kind of go over that fall home maintenance checklist.
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20:37
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20:42
Speaker 1: especially you get into the west side and some of
20:44
Speaker 1: these great areas really really desirable. The other really great
20:48
Speaker 1: thing about this is it's got a large deck. Just
20:51
Speaker 1: a great area to enjoy. I mean, we've got a
20:54
Speaker 1: great week here. Fall weeks are going to be fantastic.
20:57
Speaker 1: Just a great, great place to kind of congregate and gather.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen by fourteen foot deck. That's that's that's a good
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Speaker 1: sized deck. It's got on the bag.
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Speaker 2: It is a good sized deck. Yeah. Yeah, enough space
21:07
Speaker 2: to put the fall furniture out there and bring them
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Speaker 2: back in right. Yeah, it's a it's a twenty five
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Speaker 2: hundred square foot house that's got quartz counters in the
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Speaker 2: in the kitchen and stainlessteel appliances. Seven three zero five
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Speaker 2: big reck room in the basement too.
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