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The Moving Market with Rock Realty · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Hey, thirty five thirteen ten Wi b A and ask
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Speaker 1: that's our ock Wisconsin dot com. They're telling number six
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Speaker 1: oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. That's six
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Speaker 1: oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. And joining
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Speaker 1: us in studio this morning from Rockrealty, the one and
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Speaker 1: only mister Matt Heitman, Matt, how you been Man? Good?
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Speaker 2: More, I've been doing good. It's good to see you.
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Speaker 1: And we are going to be talking about the real estate,
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Speaker 1: the kind of an overview of the climate kind of
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Speaker 1: cooling some may say, some may say, well, it's just
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Speaker 1: compared to what it was previously, maybe cooling, but it's
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Speaker 1: still red hot. So we'll talk a little bit about
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Speaker 1: about where things stand there. But uh, a few thanks.
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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, as we talked about I mentioned the
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Speaker 1: website Rock Wisconsin dot com have mentioned the website rocklistings
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Speaker 1: dot Com, and before we get to this week's feature listings,
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Speaker 1: let's actually listening. Let's actually talk about rocklistings dot Com.
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Speaker 1: Really cool promo you have going on right now for
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Speaker 1: sellers and buyers things to really help them when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the moving process. And correct me if I'm wrong, Matt.
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Speaker 1: For a lot of folks, what holds them back from
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Speaker 1: buying or selling is simply the active of moving. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: can slow folks down, can't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I mean I'd say that's the obstacle is
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Speaker 2: the inconvenience of it, all right, And especially if you've
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Speaker 2: lived at a place for a while and piled up
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Speaker 2: as much stuff as you or I have, you know,
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Speaker 2: having the ability to get a container delivered to your
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Speaker 2: house and not having to move same day in a
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Speaker 2: big truck is really important. So we wanted to put
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Speaker 2: together a promotion to offer that as an included service
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Speaker 2: for our clients. So, yeah, people are taking advantage of
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Speaker 2: it signing up at rocklistings dot Com, and we've gotten
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Speaker 2: really good feedback on not only just the process for
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Speaker 2: the real estate side of things, but the move itself
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Speaker 2: and how partnering with Totally spaced Out has really worked
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Speaker 2: out well for them.
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Speaker 1: Make the moving days moving days as opposed to one
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Speaker 1: single day with ITCHES. It gives you tom as it
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Speaker 1: convenes a really great feature and really great benefit of
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Speaker 1: working with Rock Realty. All the details available to you
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Speaker 1: at Rocklistings dot com. That's Rock r o c K
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Speaker 1: Listings dot com. Speaking of things that are listed, we've
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Speaker 1: got a featured listing this week, Billy Shipier, Shiplear.
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Speaker 2: Shipler, Shipler.
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Speaker 1: Why did I say Shipleier Shipler?
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Speaker 2: Have I met Billy? I feel like I believe, I
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Speaker 2: think yeah in one time.
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Speaker 1: His name sounds very familiar and he's got a fantastic listing,
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Speaker 1: and I was absolutely amazed. As we talk about this condo.
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Speaker 1: It's if I say a Madison condo, people get a
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Speaker 1: vision of what it is. This is not does not
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Speaker 1: necessarily fit that vision. It's got the benefits of both
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Speaker 1: condo ownership but also the benefits of of your own home.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about about this property right
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Speaker 1: at ninety three Craig Avenue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is this is my type of condo. Yes,
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Speaker 2: right ninety three Craig Avenue. It's two bedroom, one bath.
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Speaker 2: But it's a standalone condo. It's a it's a house,
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Speaker 2: it's a it's a single family house that is part
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Speaker 2: of a condominium association, so that you know, get your
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Speaker 2: lawn mode and you get your snow taking care of
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Speaker 2: and yet you still have a house. So really big
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Speaker 2: fan of this one. I think it's perfect for you know,
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Speaker 2: whether it's a first time home buyer or you know,
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Speaker 2: someone looking to downsize. You're you're sitting right in the
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Speaker 2: thick of near west Side Madison, over by Whitney Wayne University,
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Speaker 2: near Hilldale, Maull and two hundred. Yeah, that started with
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Speaker 2: the two two hundred and sixty five thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: That is the price, and we probably should have led
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Speaker 1: with that too.
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Speaker 2: I probably should have led.
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Speaker 1: You're in a great neighborhood. You're right by Hilldale, You're
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Speaker 1: right by the bus line, you're right by the campus
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Speaker 1: you mentioned too. It's a home run if you are
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Speaker 1: somebody looking maybe that first home or you're looking for
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Speaker 1: you know, you kids are out of the house and
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Speaker 1: you're looking for a great place to live again. All
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Speaker 1: one level, Absolutely fantastic. Yeah. Main Florid laundry, which is
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Speaker 1: really really cool on this and again that price two
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty.
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Speaker 2: Five poul you're not gonna fine very very low Kondo
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Speaker 2: fee as well.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you would point that out as that's and
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Speaker 1: that's great to hear also, and so you know, I
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Speaker 1: will hope Billy's phone starts ringing and ringing quick because
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Speaker 1: his telephone number is six oh eight three seven one
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Speaker 1: forty six forty. That's three seven to one forty six forty.
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Speaker 1: Tell them you want to see this house at ninety
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Speaker 1: three Craig Avenue, all the great greatness of city living
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Speaker 1: of course with your very very own house. And again
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Speaker 1: you let somebody else take care of all the all
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Speaker 1: the maintenance stuff. Again going back to just like the
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Speaker 1: perfect first home and else the perfect home for for
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Speaker 1: somebody that may want to spend some time away from
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Speaker 1: their home and not have to worry about mowing and
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Speaker 1: other things. So really cool property. Again, this is right
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Speaker 1: at ninety three Craig ab Give Billy a call to
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Speaker 1: help number six oh eight three seven one forty six
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Speaker 1: forty that's three seven to one forty six forty, and
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Speaker 1: also see it at rock Wisconsin dot com. So question
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Speaker 1: folks will often ask is cooling. The real estate market
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Speaker 1: is a cooling. What's kind of going on? What are
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Speaker 1: the numbers showing, Matt, What are you seeing on the ground.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that, you know, we're definitely and
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Speaker 2: I've talked about this, but we're definitely seeing a leveling
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Speaker 2: out of the market, which is, uh, it's healthy. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 2: it's good for buyers. Right I would say that we've
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Speaker 2: had a lot more buyer interests in the past couple
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Speaker 2: of months than we've seen and we're also seeing houses
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Speaker 2: sit on the market a little bit longer.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned being good for buyers, the market is good
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Speaker 1: for sellers as well right now. I mean we talk
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Speaker 1: about you know, things kind of leveling off and and
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Speaker 1: kind of stabilizing a bit. Is not only is it
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Speaker 1: great if you're looking to buy? Is is there some
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Speaker 1: great opportunities out there? But folks that have maybe been
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Speaker 1: holding back on listing their homes, they would be amazed
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Speaker 1: at what the type of value that they're that they're
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Speaker 1: sitting on right now.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's been a lot of equity that home
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Speaker 2: owners have been able to build up over the last
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Speaker 2: you know, ten to twelve years, let's call it, right,
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Speaker 2: that that homes have appreciated in price. I think that
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Speaker 2: you know, if you if you're thinking about selling, it
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Speaker 2: would be a good time to get that on the market.
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Speaker 2: I think that, you know, if rates do drop a
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Speaker 2: little bit over the month, next month or two, I
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Speaker 2: believe the Fed's meeting what today or tomorrow today? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and if if you know, rates do come down to touch,
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Speaker 2: you're going to have even more buyers coming back into
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Speaker 2: the market. Right But you know, we are seeing that
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Speaker 2: homes are staying in the market a little bit longer.
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Speaker 2: But there's there's there's a nice a nice levelness right now.
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Speaker 2: There's you know, you can you're you're seeing that home
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Speaker 2: inspection contingencies are being accepted again, you know, and homeowners
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Speaker 2: are still getting solid prices for their for their house.
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Speaker 2: But you know, it all depends on how they price it.
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Speaker 1: And interesting when you mentioned the interest rates, people sometimes
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Speaker 1: wonder about level the Fed. If the FED raises are
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Speaker 1: lowers rates, what does that mean for for my data?
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Speaker 1: It it that's for banks and that eventually trickles through
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Speaker 1: the entire system and can see some season pretty saving
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Speaker 1: it's pretty good savings. So a really really good thing
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Speaker 1: to be to be aware of and keep an eye
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Speaker 1: on as well. It's a great time if you're looking
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Speaker 1: to list. Also great time if you're looking to buy
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Speaker 1: right now again, you can learn more online Rock Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's our o c K Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: So what are some of the factors that are that
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Speaker 1: are helping house prices kind of moderate and kind of
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Speaker 1: kind of level off, Matt, What are we seeing in
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Speaker 1: that area?
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Speaker 2: Well, we're seeing some inventories kind of rise a little
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Speaker 2: bit so that there's more options out there, you know,
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Speaker 2: to where previous years we would have you know, homes
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Speaker 2: on the market for less than thirty days and now
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Speaker 2: we're now we're up pushing closer to forty days, right,
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Speaker 2: so that buyers can actually go through and see a
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Speaker 2: couple of homes before making making an offer. And you know,
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Speaker 2: inventory is compared to you know, last year, we're probably
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Speaker 2: up about sixteen percent as far as how much inventory
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Speaker 2: listing inventory is out there for buyers.
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Speaker 1: One of the things to what we're seeing is kind
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Speaker 1: of it's it's people may not think as directly related,
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Speaker 1: but things like you know, as we have a very
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Speaker 1: strong economy when it comes to job opportunities, we're seeing
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Speaker 1: wage growth as well. Those type of things as well
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Speaker 1: are very encouraging for house sales, aren't they.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, as we're you know, over the years,
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Speaker 2: we've seen between four and six percent kind of price
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Speaker 2: appreciation year over year for homes, and you know, but
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Speaker 2: we're also people are forgetting that. We're also seeing wage growth,
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Speaker 2: like you mentioned, and it's kind of averaging around four
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Speaker 2: percent annually. So people are getting paid more, right, that's
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Speaker 2: kind of one of those things that's almost demanded with
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Speaker 2: the inflation that we had seen over the last few years,
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Speaker 2: and to stay competitive, you know, employers are having to
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Speaker 2: increase their pay to people and so that does help,
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of put a floor under the housing
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Speaker 2: market as well, because if people are getting paid more,
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Speaker 2: they can afford more and they can buy a more
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Speaker 2: expensive home.
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Speaker 1: What is it when we talk about that something when
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Speaker 1: it comes to pricing on these on homes, obviously there's
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Speaker 1: going to be some one of the I think one
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Speaker 1: of the very fascinating things. It's just for folks that
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Speaker 1: even just are interested in kind of watching and seeing
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Speaker 1: what goes on in real estate is kind of how
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Speaker 1: the inner workings work in pricing what exactly when it
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Speaker 1: comes to pricing. Does this data indicate for folks what
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Speaker 1: should what should sellers know then about pricing that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think pricing right now is more important than ever.
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Speaker 2: You know, the difference between let's say, listing your house
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Speaker 2: a three ninety nine or four hundred thousand or listing
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Speaker 2: it a little more attractively at like three seventy five
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Speaker 2: could be a big, big difference. It could be a
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Speaker 2: difference between you know, six to eight showings and no showings.
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Speaker 2: So it's it's super important to work with an agent
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Speaker 2: to find out exactly where to price your home. The
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Speaker 2: last thing you want to do is is price it,
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Speaker 2: price it too high, have it sit there and then
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Speaker 2: appear stale right and looking at previous sales, looking at
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Speaker 2: current pending sales, things like that are are that much
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Speaker 2: more important right now how to price it since we're
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Speaker 2: in such a kind of level market. If you're in
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Speaker 2: a level market, you want to have an advantage compared to,
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Speaker 2: you know, the people down the street that are selling.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned kind of stale. Like people do pay very
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Speaker 1: cool attention today is on market, don't they?
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Speaker 2: They seem to write, I don't you know the online
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Speaker 2: websites and portals contribute to that because the older the listing,
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Speaker 2: you know, the further number of next pages you have
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Speaker 2: to share, yes, right, so you gain less and less interest,
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Speaker 2: you know, unless you've got to a firm that's actually
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Speaker 2: pushing it via social media and throwing paid ads at
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Speaker 2: it like we do people to try to keep people engaged. Right,
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it it has a natural effect of a cooling.
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Speaker 1: Period you talk about two bout kind of building that
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Speaker 1: excitement and keeping keeping things fresh. And that's an important
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Speaker 1: thing too, is you know, when you're choosing an agent
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Speaker 1: to work with, I think sometimes you know, buying working
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Speaker 1: with a buyer's agent, the importance of one that's really
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Speaker 1: actively working and understands you, but a listing agent as well,
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Speaker 1: that that's not only going to help you kind of
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Speaker 1: price things and from the beginning, but really make sure
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Speaker 1: that that that that effort is sustained that if you know,
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Speaker 1: you never know, this weekend there may be thirty other
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Speaker 1: houses just like yours that hit the market and that's
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Speaker 1: going to affect things. Having an agent that's going to
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Speaker 1: be that's going to be responsive during that time and
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Speaker 1: say listen and working with with like Rock Realty for example,
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Speaker 1: that's going to keep promoting and making sure that your
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Speaker 1: house is is before people's eyes to get that sale.
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Speaker 1: That's an important aspect of all. This isn't a matt Yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Think you have to act in real time, right and
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Speaker 2: and not necessarily go off the old data. I mean
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Speaker 2: they can even go in and looking at current pending
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Speaker 2: sales to see, you know, which home's gotten accepted off
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Speaker 2: for how are they priced? Right, We're not going to
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Speaker 2: know what the sale price was until after closing. But
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Speaker 2: it's it's a data point, right, And I think that's important,
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Speaker 2: especially in this market, because you have to bob and
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Speaker 2: weave as you see what's happening with the market at
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Speaker 2: the moment.
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Speaker 1: Use that word data point. By the way, for folks
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Speaker 1: that in real estate can be a very glamorous, a
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Speaker 1: very enjoyable fun. We talk a lot about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the emotion and helping people find that perfect home. There's
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Speaker 1: also a lot of numbers involved in. I know. One
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Speaker 1: of the things with with what you guys do a
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Speaker 1: Rock Realty is work really hard at collecting data, disseminating data,
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Speaker 1: working on those those points to make sure that that
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Speaker 1: using not just the reality of this is a great investment.
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Speaker 1: It's a great place for families, but also it's a great,
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Speaker 1: great financial choice as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's interesting. We're trying to incorporate as
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Speaker 2: many different things as we can to get to kind
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Speaker 2: of the best result for our clients. And one of
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Speaker 2: those things we've always looked at, you know, previous sales
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Speaker 2: factor in a number of bedrooms, square footage, updates, all that.
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Speaker 2: Now one of the things that we've tried to start
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Speaker 2: incorporating is actually taking the data, taking the Excel sheets
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Speaker 2: and maybe that's even of just a particular subdivision, throwing
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Speaker 2: it through AI and seeing if they have any trends
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Speaker 2: that they're identifying too. Oh fa. So yeah, we're we're
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Speaker 2: doing a few things like that, a little outside the
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Speaker 2: box to get an idea where we need to be.
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Speaker 1: For people that don't know, I know this because I
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Speaker 1: get a chance to talk with you off the aquirit,
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Speaker 1: you're very For people that I love technology, you're on
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Speaker 1: a whole other level. I mean that is something though.
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Speaker 1: For people that don't know, that is something that that
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Speaker 1: you're very interested in, is using technology, using basically any
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Speaker 1: tool out there to really improve what you guys do
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Speaker 1: are doing it Rock Realty. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, one of our core values is innovation and
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Speaker 2: we've always kept that close to heart and it's very
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Speaker 2: important to us, so we're always trying to stay ahead
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Speaker 2: of what the latest is. And you know, originally it
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Speaker 2: was one of the one of the first firms out
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Speaker 2: there to even you know, procure online leads to one
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Speaker 2: of the first firms to have their own home search
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Speaker 2: app right that we use. And now we're incorporating AI
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Speaker 2: to not only you know, coach our agents, but to
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Speaker 2: also get better data and better better ideas for clients.
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Speaker 1: As we talked to about the app and some other
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Speaker 1: really cool things with Rock Realty. If you haven't had
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Speaker 1: a chance to download that app, it's MLS dot rocks
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Speaker 1: slash app. That's MLS dot rocks backslash app. You can
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Speaker 1: download the app right there the website of course, rock
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. That's our ocka Wisconsin dot com. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit more with Matt about about the
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Speaker 1: housing market and of course what we're seeing when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the overall climate of real estate. We will
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Speaker 1: do that and look again at our featured listing. We'll
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Speaker 1: do that next has ask the experts with Matt Heyman
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Speaker 1: and Rockrelde continues right here on thirteen ten Wui v
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Speaker 1: A eight fifty one thirteen ten doubu I b A
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Speaker 1: and ask the experts with Rockrealty hanging out this morning
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Speaker 1: and studio with Matt Heyman of Rockrealty. The website Rock
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. That's our ocka Wisconsin dot Com mentioned
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Speaker 1: the app before the break, Get a chance download that
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Speaker 1: whether you have an iPhone or an Android, they have
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Speaker 1: an app for both platforms against MLS dot rocksbackslash app.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned Rocklistings dot Com. Great website. There another one
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Speaker 1: that we haven't mentioned yet, and we talk about innovation,
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Speaker 1: technology and kind of moving things forward. Wisconsin Buyer Agent
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Speaker 1: is a cool concept and I think it's a to
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Speaker 1: Rock Realty and that you have a chance to get
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Speaker 1: to know the agents at Rock Realty. They've got nice bios,
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Speaker 1: great information. You can schedule an appointment as well, whether
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Speaker 1: it's a phone chat or a video chat with the agents,
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Speaker 1: kind of interview them before you choose one. Just head
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Speaker 1: on over to Wisconsin Buyeragent dot com. That's Wisconsin buyer
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Speaker 1: agent dot com. Anyone that's ever bought a home or
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Speaker 1: listed their home knows that that relationship with your with
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Speaker 1: your real estate agent is really really important, having a
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Speaker 1: good connection and that Wisconsin buyer agent can really help
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Speaker 1: you make a great decision. And Matt as we talk
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Speaker 1: about making great decisions, and one of the things I
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Speaker 1: saw one of the notes for buyers says, seize the day.
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Speaker 1: And that's really important, isn't it to kind of be
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Speaker 1: in the moment and be ready to go when when,
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Speaker 1: when the opportunity presents.
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Speaker 2: Itself, right, Yeah, on the buy side, you mean, yeah,
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Speaker 2: for buyers, Yeah, yeah, definitely, it's important to do your
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Speaker 2: homework and your legwork beforehand, have everything in order, right,
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Speaker 2: have gotten not only preapproved, but maybe even gone a
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Speaker 2: little bit further. You know, in the underwriting process. You
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Speaker 2: can do things like that so that when you submit
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Speaker 2: an offer, it shows that you are very prepared. You've
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Speaker 2: you're a seasoned buyer at this point because you've done
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Speaker 2: the homework on the back end. So being prepared to
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Speaker 2: go in and make an offer on the home of
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Speaker 2: your dreams right is super important. I think that you
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Speaker 2: know that also includes like going on a few showings,
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Speaker 2: even if it's not the perfect home, so you can
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Speaker 2: get an idea of what your priorities are.
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Speaker 1: I you know, I always encourage people to go to
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Speaker 1: rock Wisconsin dot com, even if they're not looking to
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Speaker 1: buy or even if they're not looking to sell. But
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Speaker 1: it does I think some of it. One. I find
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Speaker 1: it a lot of fun to just to peruse. But
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Speaker 1: I do think, as you mentioned, kind of having you know,
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Speaker 1: whether it's looking at houses that you may not even
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Speaker 1: necessarily be exactly what you're looking for, to get a
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Speaker 1: feel for it. Kind of tracking this stuff too is
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Speaker 1: fun as well to kind of because you don't know
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Speaker 1: what you don't know, and you don't know what you're
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Speaker 1: gonna like until you see it. You don't know what
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Speaker 1: you hate until you until you see it, and kind
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Speaker 1: of following following along on the website rock Wisconsin dot com,
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Speaker 1: I can really give you a good base so when
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Speaker 1: that day does come, you've got you've got a little
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Speaker 1: background information and understanding the market. What about speaking of
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Speaker 1: background information in the markets, one of the things that
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Speaker 1: is fascinating about real estate is the changing market is
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Speaker 1: it's fluid. It's never it's never sat in stone. And
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Speaker 1: that's an important as we talk about, you know, checking
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Speaker 1: in at the website, and of course working with a
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Speaker 1: good agent, really having somebody to communicate will and well
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Speaker 1: with and understanding that the markets are changing and being
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Speaker 1: being responsive and proactive to that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, especially in Wisconsin, you know, April in May,
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Speaker 2: the market's a lot different than September October, right, you know.
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Speaker 2: And I've said on the show before that, you know,
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Speaker 2: I think every time I've ever purchased a home personally,
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Speaker 2: it's been in October. No, I think that there's an opportunity,
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Speaker 2: especially for buyers to go in and have a little
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Speaker 2: bit of negotiation room. Right right now, we're seeing a
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Speaker 2: lot of offers that are getting submitted below listing price,
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Speaker 2: right you know. A lot of times they're not way below.
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Speaker 2: It's not like it's this huge discount, but it's an
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Speaker 2: opportunity right now. And I think buyer, the savvy buyers
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Speaker 2: are realizing, Hey, if I can get in now and
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Speaker 2: I get the right house, the refinance can happen in
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Speaker 2: the future.
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Speaker 1: What about And I want to ask you too about
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Speaker 1: that real quick, as we're kind of looking towards October
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Speaker 1: and fall, and it is and you mentioned every you know,
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Speaker 1: the houses you bought typically in October It is really
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Speaker 1: just a little tip if if somebody's been kind of
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Speaker 1: on the sidelines, are kind of looking for that right moment.
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Speaker 1: It is a really great time right now, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, we have a number of available listings right now,
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Speaker 2: and they're awesome homes. We talk about them here on
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Speaker 2: the radio, and it's just it's surprising that some of
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Speaker 2: them are still still available, to be honest. So I
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Speaker 2: think a lot of people rushed in in before September
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Speaker 2: so to try to get in the home before the
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Speaker 2: kids go back to school. And then I think that
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Speaker 2: right now that buyers are going to come back out
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Speaker 2: soon if the rates drop and so over the next
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Speaker 2: month month and a half, we're going to see an
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Speaker 2: increase in the buyer pool. However, if you act now
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Speaker 2: before those buyers hit the market, then you have an
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Speaker 2: opportunity as a buyer.
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Speaker 1: We're in a really nice window right now. It's a
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Speaker 1: great time. But thinking about looking at a new home,
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Speaker 1: great day to give them a call it Rock Realty
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Speaker 1: six eight six seven three fifty four hundred. That's six
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Speaker 1: oh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. Of course
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Speaker 1: you can learn more online and check out some great
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Speaker 1: listings at Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's r O c
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Speaker 1: K Wisconsin dot com. And speaking of that, we're going
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Speaker 1: to get to the featured listing and just one moment,
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Speaker 1: but I did want to ask you to, uh, Matt,
19:29
Speaker 1: as we as we kind of take all of these
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Speaker 1: you know, people I hope are kind of getting the
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Speaker 1: understanding of there's a lot to real estate. And one
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Speaker 1: of the great things about working with a really good
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Speaker 1: agent is they're able to kind of kind of break
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Speaker 1: it down, if that makes sense, Like there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of different factors going on and understanding like this is
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Speaker 1: why we this is why we'll make this offer, this
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Speaker 1: is why we're setting this price for listing. Agents do
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Speaker 1: a lot of work that people don't always fully appreciate.
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Speaker 1: There's a great value there. There's also a great value
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Speaker 1: in kind of having that that really good relationship working
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Speaker 1: relationship with yourself and your agent. And I think of
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Speaker 1: things like the Buyer Agent Wisconsin buyer agent dot com.
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Speaker 1: What a great opportunity is that that is for folks
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Speaker 1: to find somebody that they really connect with them work
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Speaker 1: well with.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And you know that that site can be
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Speaker 2: used for listing as well. You know, and you can
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Speaker 2: go through and see if there's there's a right fit
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Speaker 2: for you. Maybe there's two or three that you're you're
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Speaker 2: thinking about interviewing, and you can just request an interview
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Speaker 2: on there, whether it's an in person or a video meeting.
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Speaker 2: Pretty easy, you know, no pressure, and there's chat with
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Speaker 2: it one or two agents and see which one do
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Speaker 2: you jive with? Right because being in this market, this
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Speaker 2: market's different than the other markets. Yeah, sometimes similar, but
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Speaker 2: you know, always different. So even if you've been through
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Speaker 2: this a number of times, this is your fourth transaction
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Speaker 2: in real estate, it's really important to you know, find
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Speaker 2: the right person that's got the the boots on the ground,
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Speaker 2: that knows exactly what's happening.
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Speaker 1: It's a really great day to start that relationship. Tele
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Speaker 1: for number six so eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six O eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
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Speaker 1: Quick peek at our featured listing this week and an
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Speaker 1: amazing opportunity. A beautiful condo on the city's west side,
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Speaker 1: right at ninety three Craig Avenue, two bedroom, one bath,
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Speaker 1: uh two hundred and sixty five thousand. You're not going
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Speaker 1: to beat that and it's a standalone condo too, Matt,
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Speaker 1: which is a very unique opportunity for folks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, ninety three Craig Avenue, right over near University and
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Speaker 2: Whitney Way close to Hilldale Courts. Countertops your own yard
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Speaker 2: and someone else mows it for you. Uh here your
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Speaker 2: own driveway, but someone else shovels it for you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, as we're almost October, we should probably mention ours.
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Speaker 1: You may be mowing and shovel in the same week
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Speaker 1: and leave that to somebody else. So it's a great opportunity.
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Speaker 1: This morning pick up phone, give our good buddy Billy
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Speaker 1: a call his telephone number six so eight three forty
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Speaker 1: six forty that's three seven forty six forty Tael, Billy,
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Speaker 1: you want to see this beautiful house ron on Craigsab
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Speaker 1: craig ab and of course the website for Rock Realty
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Speaker 1: is Rock Wisconsin, Rock Wisconsin dot com. Matt, it's always
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Speaker 1: great chatting with you and enjoy this great day YouTube
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