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Speaker 1: Thirty ten wy b A and ask the experts with
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Speaker 1: Rock Realty. Joined this morning lie from the Wisconsin Realtors
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Speaker 1: Association convention in the Wisconsin El's mister Matt Heidman. Matt,
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Speaker 1: how you doing this week?
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Speaker 2: Doing great? Sir? Are you doing?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing really well. How long of a convention is
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Speaker 1: this little this little soiree? Is that a few days
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Speaker 1: or Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's a yearly thing. Typically it's a Sunday and it
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Speaker 2: runs to Tuesdays. So it's up at the Kalahari Spot
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Speaker 2: Time Convention.
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Speaker 1: That's a perfect spot for convention. Yeah, bring the kiddos up,
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Speaker 1: you send them to the water park for the day,
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Speaker 1: you do your thing, and then at night everybody gets together,
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Speaker 1: gets goes to the steakhouse, gets a good dinner, and
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Speaker 1: then wind up with movie night. I know how that
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Speaker 1: goes all too well. We've got we've got some great
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Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. We're gonna break down August the
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Speaker 1: market stats and rates as we talked this morning with Matt.
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Speaker 1: As mentioned, of course, he comes to us from Rockrealty.
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Speaker 1: You can learn more about Matt and the team and
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Speaker 1: Rockrealty as well, and check out some great listings online
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Speaker 1: at Rockwisconsin dot com. That's r O c K Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot com. They're telephone number six oh 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: Before we get into some of the some of the numbers,
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Speaker 1: some of the digits, as the kids are saying these days,
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Speaker 1: let's look at this week's featured listing. It is a
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Speaker 1: fantastic property. And I love Jamesville for many reasons. It's
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Speaker 1: got quite possibly them in Stoton, I think, have some
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Speaker 1: of the coolest downtown areas and are really becoming very
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Speaker 1: very cool areas to be part of. And also Jamesville's
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Speaker 1: got a little bit of everything. They've got fantastic parks
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But what I really love about
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Speaker 1: Jamesville is, uh, it's a good area and houses are shockinglyfordable. Matt,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about this week's FI featured listing, which is
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Speaker 1: a house on Island Avenue in Janesville.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, james Will can be relatively affordable, as affordable as
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Speaker 2: houses are these days, right, Yeah, Yeah, This one is
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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Highland Avenue in Janesville, and that's listed at
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Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy four thousand so it's under the
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Speaker 2: three hundred thousand dollars parce point that many people are
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Speaker 2: trying to get to. What I like about it is
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Speaker 2: it's one of the older homes that has character, but
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Speaker 2: it's been renovated to give you kind of those modern amenities.
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Speaker 2: So even though it's built in nineteen ten, it has
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Speaker 2: a kitchen that's very modern looking, but it's still they
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Speaker 2: still manage to keep all of the classic would work
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Speaker 2: throughout the home. So it's kind of a mix of
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Speaker 2: both worlds, which is nice. Three bedrooms, two and a
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Speaker 2: half bath, and a huge deck on the back there
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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred and thirty six square feet, so that's fifteen
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Speaker 2: thirty Highland Avenue, and that's two hundred and seventy four thousand.
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Speaker 1: Dollars, and it's right right. I think was Washington one
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Speaker 1: of them. Entry schools is like I think, like a
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Speaker 1: block away, which is I know, like when we bought
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Speaker 1: our house. If you've got kiddos, there is nothing better than,
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Speaker 1: especially for elementary school, being able to rather than drive
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Speaker 1: and deal with that chaos, simply being the being able
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Speaker 1: to walk down the block. Oh, what a blessing. That
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Speaker 1: is so a fantastic No noticing no excuses there. And
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Speaker 1: you mentioned too, Matt, about you know this is it
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Speaker 1: is a beautiful home. It's it's clearly been amazingly maintained.
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Speaker 1: And then I look at you know, mentioned things like
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Speaker 1: new cabinets and and you know kitchen, just how great
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Speaker 1: that looks, and just a ton of curb appeal as well.
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Speaker 1: This is definitely one you're going to want to check
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Speaker 1: out again. That is right at fifteen thirty Highland Avenue
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Speaker 1: in Janesville. You can call Sadie for that one tellphone
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Speaker 1: number nine two zero nine eight eight sixty seven oh two.
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Speaker 1: That's nine two zero nine eight eight sixty seven oh two.
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Speaker 1: I'll probably bring it back around talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about that fantastic house in Janesville that is on
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Speaker 1: the market. Speaking of checking out houses on the market,
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Speaker 1: if you are at your computer, are going to be
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Speaker 1: on a computer later this morning, I know what happens
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Speaker 1: when you get into the office, you log in, you're
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Speaker 1: looking for something to do, head on over to Rockwisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot com. Even if you're not looking to buy, it's
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Speaker 1: always fun to browse at Rockwisconsin dot com. And Matt,
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Speaker 1: the numbers are showing people are doing just that not
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Speaker 1: only are they browsing, they're buying. Let's kind of let's
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Speaker 1: got a breakdown on We're going to go back to
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Speaker 1: August some of the newer numbers available on these on
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Speaker 1: these markets. But let's start out with new listings. There
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Speaker 1: are there are a fair number of houses hitting the market,
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Speaker 1: aren't there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in one of the biggest issues balanced market over
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Speaker 2: the last couple of years here has been the lack
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Speaker 2: of new listings. Well we're starting to see that change
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Speaker 2: a bit, which is nice. So when we're looking at
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Speaker 2: the different counties, we can see that new listings hitting
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Speaker 2: the market in twenty twenty four have increased in a
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Speaker 2: few cases. So for instance, in August stats in Gaine
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Speaker 2: County in twenty twenty four we had five hundre sixty
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Speaker 2: one new listing versus twenty twenty three it was only
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Speaker 2: five hundred and thirty four hit the market in August.
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Speaker 2: And so for in Dane County specifically, that that was
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Speaker 2: a five percent increased in the number of new listings
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Speaker 2: hitting in the market.
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Speaker 1: And that's something fore we go ahead, go ahead, No,
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Speaker 1: I was going to I was going to say, and
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Speaker 1: you think too about new houses hitting the market the
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Speaker 1: number of sold homes. That was another area I see
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Speaker 1: all green there as far as and kind of let's
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Speaker 1: kind of break down some of those counties when it
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Speaker 1: comes to houses being sold. We're seeing an increase in
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Speaker 1: house sales, aren't we Yeah, yeah, so.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of correlating. You know, we have a more
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Speaker 2: inventory to sell and so there's actually more transactions happening,
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Speaker 2: which is fantastic add some liquidity to the market and
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Speaker 2: helps balance it out a bit. So in Dane County
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Speaker 2: twenty three, we had four hundred and forty six actual
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Speaker 2: sold homes and this this August we had four hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy four, So that was actually six point two
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Speaker 2: eight percent change. So obviously we sold a few home
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Speaker 2: pretty listed prior to August, since you know, we are
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Speaker 2: only up five percent in the inventory. Rock County was
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Speaker 2: a huge change. Rockcounty sold seventeen percent more homes in
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Speaker 2: August of twenty twenty four than they did in twenty three.
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Speaker 2: And if we go over all the way over to
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Speaker 2: Jefferson Jefferson County at Fort atkinscenario, you're looking at just
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Speaker 2: under twelve percent increase in the number of soul homes
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Speaker 2: in August, so good, good things to see.
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Speaker 1: As we talked to Matt this morning, talking with Matt
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Speaker 1: Heyman of Rockrealty online, Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's our
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Speaker 1: o c K Wisconsin dot com telphone number six so
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Speaker 1: eight six seven three fifty four hundred. That's six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred. All that information available at Rock
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com telphone number and other information about Rockrealty
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Speaker 1: on the website Rock Wisconsin dot com. Matt, when we
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Speaker 1: look at some of these numbers now, now for Rockrealty,
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Speaker 1: you guys obviously Dane County, Rock County, you get into
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Speaker 1: Jefferson a bit as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, service Jefferson quite often as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeffer. And I've got to say one of the
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Speaker 1: as guy that grew up in the next county over
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Speaker 1: in Walkeishat County, I lived for a while in Jefferson.
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Speaker 1: It is a really really cool community as well, and
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Speaker 1: so I'm not surprised at all when we're seeing these homes,
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Speaker 1: you know, the number of homes sold that Dane, Rock
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Speaker 1: and Jefferson are doing so well. Let's look at for
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Speaker 1: folks looking to list, how long are we seeing their
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Speaker 1: houses spent on the market. And these are days. These
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Speaker 1: are not weeks, these are not months, these are days
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Speaker 1: on the market, right, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, So you know, you know, we've been used
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Speaker 2: to seeing the accepted offers within one to three days
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Speaker 2: of a listing coming active. We are seeing more of
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Speaker 2: a balancing out in the market trade. And if you
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Speaker 2: look at Dane County in August, the average days on
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Speaker 2: the market was twenty eight days to the year before
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Speaker 2: was twenty three, so it's a five day increase, which
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Speaker 2: is just a pretty significant increase the number of days
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Speaker 2: on the market, meaning there's more listings out there, there's
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Speaker 2: a little more market, so buyers have a bit more
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Speaker 2: opportunity not to have to necessarily just overbid like crazy.
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Speaker 2: And we've seen as a result, we're seeing more inspection
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Speaker 2: contingencies get through, so a little more protection for buyers. Great.
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Speaker 2: You know, if we look at Rock County and Jefferson County,
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Speaker 2: similar Rock County went from sixteen days on the market,
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Speaker 2: which is insanely to twenty two days on the market.
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Speaker 2: Jefferson went from twenty days to twenty five days, so
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Speaker 2: a smaller increase, but yeah, all of the counties seem
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Speaker 2: to be having the invatory sit a little bit longer. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: sellers are panicking after two weeks, it's okay, Yeah, the
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Speaker 2: average is about twenty eight days at this point.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine, well, I'm saying, can you imagine you've
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Speaker 1: obviously experienced that and shorter, but listing your house in
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Speaker 1: two days or two weeks later? Kind of to me,
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Speaker 1: that just seems mind boggling that that was going on.
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Speaker 1: And correct me, I'm wrong, Matt, and I'd like to
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Speaker 1: get a little insight on on these numbers from you.
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Speaker 1: But as that number gets, you know, a couple extra
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Speaker 1: days on the market, that's really good for everybody, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's really it's showing a much healthier not
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Speaker 1: that not that the market's wherever unhealthy, but you can
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Speaker 1: always get better. That shows an improvement in the markets overall.
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Speaker 1: Am I am? I understanding that right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a more balanced market and it allows it
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Speaker 2: allows a better market for both buyers and sellers. We've
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Speaker 2: been in such a seller's market for so long that
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Speaker 2: you know, now it's it's leveling out, right. I think
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Speaker 2: that it's just a matter of time at this point.
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Speaker 2: Not necessarily priced per se, you know, obviously, you know,
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Speaker 2: you just speak to your agent and see if uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, a good choice. But a lot of times
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Speaker 2: it's just now waiting for that buyer to come through,
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Speaker 2: because buyers can be a little more specific now when
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Speaker 2: they when they're looking and trapping.
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Speaker 1: Does does that change the approach, whether it's for listing
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Speaker 1: or for or working with a with a buyer agent?
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Speaker 1: Does does the approach to to buying a home change
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Speaker 1: a little bit? Knowing that, for example, if you're a buyer,
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Speaker 1: you might have you know, a few extra days to
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Speaker 1: to kind of explore things. And again we still look
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Speaker 1: at you know, you're still talking about twenty two to
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty five days on the market. That's not
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Speaker 1: that's not a ton of time, but it seems to
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Speaker 1: give you a little bit more of a little bit
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Speaker 1: more breathing room. You're not on the you know, you're
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Speaker 1: not on the one yard line here and with your
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Speaker 1: back up to your up to your end zone, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're out it. You've got to you got a little
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty yard gap there, am I Am I reading
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Speaker 1: that wrong? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: No, that's correct. And you know, it gives gives buyers
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Speaker 2: a chance to maybe see a few homes that we're
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Speaker 2: making a decision right, not just jumping on the first
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Speaker 2: one that happens to be available. So and I would
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Speaker 2: say to any buyers that are out there sitting on
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Speaker 2: the fence, like this is just such a great time
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Speaker 2: to get out on this. I mean, we're we're having
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Speaker 2: mortgage rates drop a bit, and we'll talk about that
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Speaker 2: maybe a bit here. And the inventory has increased and
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Speaker 2: a lot of people shopped in the spring, fought in
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Speaker 2: the summer, and maybe they're out of the market, so
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Speaker 2: you can you can go through and find that perfect place,
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Speaker 2: maybe get a great price for it.
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Speaker 1: I just talked this morning with Matt Hetman of Rockrealty
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Speaker 1: Online Rock Wisconsin dot com that's roc K Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: Definitely check out that website. It's so fun to prouse
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Speaker 1: look at different homes out there that are available. Speaking
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Speaker 1: of homes that are available out there, fantastic house in
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Speaker 1: Jamesville and Rock County, a great house on Highland Avenue.
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Speaker 1: That's our featured listing this week. We'll get into some
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Speaker 1: details on that coming up a little bit later on
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Speaker 1: the program. In the meantime, you heard us talk about
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Speaker 1: it earlier. If you've got questions, you can always call
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Speaker 1: Sadtail phone number nine two zero nine eight eight sixty
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Speaker 1: seven oh two. That's nine two zero nine eight eight
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Speaker 1: sixty seven oh two. And let's talk rates, Matt. I know,
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Speaker 1: big news the other week, and we talked about it
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Speaker 1: when it first happened, when the when the Fed changed rates,
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Speaker 1: and that rate obviously affects banks, but ultimately it trickles
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Speaker 1: down to us as consumers. Let's talk then about interest
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Speaker 1: rates and kind of where they were in August and
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Speaker 1: maybe what we're we're projecting to see as we as
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Speaker 1: we move forward through October and November.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for most of the year, you know, we had
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Speaker 2: a rising rates and you know, caused buyers to be
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Speaker 2: a little trepidacious to wait a bit to see what
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Speaker 2: would happened. We heard for a few months now that
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Speaker 2: there was a chance that the Fed with lower rates,
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Speaker 2: and this past month they did the lower rates for
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Speaker 2: the first time by a full half half percentage point.
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Speaker 2: You know, the consensus was almost fifty to fifty on
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Speaker 2: whether they'd do a quarter percent or a half percent,
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Speaker 2: and they did decide to do the larger the larger cut,
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Speaker 2: so kind of in expectation of the FED lowering rates.
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Speaker 2: Mortgage rates have been have been tending down since May.
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Speaker 2: So if we look at the if we look at
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Speaker 2: the stats the mortgage rates, and we're talking average mortgage rates, right,
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Speaker 2: this would be kind of a national average. But they
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Speaker 2: peaked it looks like around May seconds of this year,
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Speaker 2: up at seven point two percent, and they've dropped significantly. Well,
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Speaker 2: the FED has only dropped a half point. The rates
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Speaker 2: are now averaging six point zero nine, so right around
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Speaker 2: that six percent mark. And I've I've heard locally here
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Speaker 2: we're seeing some five seven fives and maybe even lower
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Speaker 2: depending on credit.
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Speaker 1: What Matt real quick too is is obviously when you
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Speaker 1: I you know I got a thirty year, you got
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Speaker 1: a fifteen year option. I know that some of the
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Speaker 1: credit unions and others offer even shorter options, and oftentimes
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Speaker 1: those are are much lower rates as well. What exactly
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Speaker 1: and I don't know the inner workings of those banks,
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Speaker 1: And I know we had we had a great guest
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Speaker 1: on last week to talk a little bit about rates.
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Speaker 1: But with some of that in lending, why is that?
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Speaker 1: Why do we see and is that something an important
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Speaker 1: kind of conversation to be having as we talk about
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Speaker 1: rates as say, you know what, maybe even rather than
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Speaker 1: going fifteen, let's go let's look at eleven, let's look
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Speaker 1: at I know, some of the institutions offering twelve and
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Speaker 1: ten year as well. Some times you can you can
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Speaker 1: get a better rate and you're only paying a small
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Speaker 1: amount more each month and you're getting that that mortgage
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Speaker 1: taken care of four or five years earlier than even
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Speaker 1: if you had done a fifteen year. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, if it's if if it works for you,
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Speaker 2: if you're financially feasible, if you can do a fifteen year,
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Speaker 2: they're averaging five point one five full percent lower for
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Speaker 2: that shorter term, and the amount of mortgage interest you'll
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Speaker 2: save over the term of that versus a thirty year
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Speaker 2: is huge.
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Speaker 1: So is that And you mentioned, you know what the
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Speaker 1: ultimate what you pay on on that is that you know,
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Speaker 1: when you're meeting with with your agent, is that something
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Speaker 1: kind of to go over and obviously is when you
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Speaker 1: start finding you know, working with your your finance people
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Speaker 1: as well. That's something you want to look into also
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Speaker 1: is kind of what the not just what it's going
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Speaker 1: to cost each month, but also what what is you know,
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Speaker 1: what are some of my options as far as you know,
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Speaker 1: here's here's what I'm comfortable with. As far as far
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Speaker 1: as that payment. What can we do to get kind
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Speaker 1: of the best, the best rate and the best terms
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Speaker 1: out there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I would say the lender definitely, that's who
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Speaker 2: you want to speak with. They're going to know your
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Speaker 2: financial situation, you know, and they'll be able to advise
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Speaker 2: what what you know to help you out with say this,
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Speaker 2: this probably would be a comfortable payment. Maybe you could
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Speaker 2: pay down the rates for more. So there's lots of
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Speaker 2: options the lender can go through.
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Speaker 1: Fantastic information this week, as always from Matt Heyman. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Matt comes to us from Rockrealty. The website Rockwisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's our Ock Wisconsin dot com telph number six so
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Speaker 1: eight six seven three fifty four hundred. That's six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred. I mentioned the website Rock Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: dot com r O c K Wisconsin dot com. Really
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Speaker 1: cool website. Again, even if you're not looking, it's good
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Speaker 1: to look obviously, if you are looking to buy, definitely
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Speaker 1: check out Rock Wisconsin. If you're looking to list your
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Speaker 1: house as well, it's a great starting point to learn
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Speaker 1: more about Rock Realty again their website Rock Wisconsin dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's our ock Wisconsin dot com. Talk with Matt a
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Speaker 1: little bit more about, of course, our featured listing. Also
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Speaker 1: want to ask him a little bit about what goes
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Speaker 1: on the business side of the real Tours conference up
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Speaker 1: in the Dells. Get some details from Matt on that.
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Speaker 1: Next as Ask the Experts with Rock Reealty continues right
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Speaker 1: here on thirteen ten w U I b A eight
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Speaker 1: fifty three thirteen ten WUI b A and Ask the
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Speaker 1: Experts hanging out with Matt Heiman of Rockreealty. The website
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Speaker 1: Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock r O c K
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin dot com. Telph number six oh eight six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred at six oh eight six seven
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Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred and Matt. We left off talking
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Speaker 1: about rates where they're where we're seeing them go, which
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Speaker 1: is the right direction. And again you talk about even
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Speaker 1: even at its peak, you know, six seven percent, that
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Speaker 1: is that is historically, uh you know, you start looking back,
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Speaker 1: that's still amazingly low. Now looking you know recently we're
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Speaker 1: down to six and five percent there as well. But
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Speaker 1: there are some great mortgages out there and some really
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Speaker 1: good information. You have an important link for folks this
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Speaker 1: morning when it comes to mortgages, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, A lot of a lot of times people
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Speaker 2: will be maybe they have an accepted offer, maybe they're
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Speaker 2: considering refinancing, but they're not sure when they should lock
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Speaker 2: in their rate. Well, I did find a site that's
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Speaker 2: written by mortgage industry expert Al Bowman, and it gives
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Speaker 2: his opinion on whether you should lock now or wait
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Speaker 2: a few weeks. And I thought it might be helpful
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Speaker 2: for people to also then, you know, see the average
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Speaker 2: mortgage rates on that page. So I created a little
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Speaker 2: short link you can use, and it's m l S
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Speaker 2: dot rock r O s d k s slash rate
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Speaker 2: r a t e s MLS dot rock dot rocks
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Speaker 2: is like dot com. It's my own kind of customly
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Speaker 2: short link website. So yeah, show MLS dot rock slash
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Speaker 2: rate and you can see, you know, what he's advising
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Speaker 2: as far as wind to lock and such. So I
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Speaker 2: thought it might be neat for everybody.
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Speaker 1: Oh, really really cool. And again that link is m
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Speaker 1: l S dot rocks backslash rates. That's m l S
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Speaker 1: dot rocks backslash rates and sounds like it's probably really
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Speaker 1: really informative. And that's that's one of those you know,
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Speaker 1: those big great things about the Internet is there's just
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Speaker 1: so much fantastic information out there for you at your fingertips.
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Speaker 1: And of course, Matt, we talked about information. I know,
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Speaker 1: one of the important things for you is of course
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Speaker 1: as as a member of and and at the at
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Speaker 1: the convention this uh this weekend with the Realtors Association,
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Speaker 1: you get a lot of good information, a lot of networking.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about for for you and
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Speaker 1: the agents as you're attending this stuff. What what are
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Speaker 1: you guys doing there and how does that help you
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Speaker 1: improve working with with your clients and working with folks
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Speaker 1: looking to buy and sell.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a great it's a great uh, you
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Speaker 2: know thing to come to the event. Uh, Different training sessions,
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Speaker 2: a lot of different speakers. We for instance, the yesterday
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Speaker 2: one of the classes was how to utilize AI, how
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Speaker 2: to uh you know, create different things with AI, how
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Speaker 2: to have AI simplify your life, you know, and and
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Speaker 2: help do a lot of the mundane things. So that's
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Speaker 2: that's always helpful and you know, and always something that
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Speaker 2: anybody can learn from we've had how to bring better
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Speaker 2: data to listing appointments to really see where the market's going,
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Speaker 2: where it has gone. We've had quessions on how to
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Speaker 2: help people through divorces. There's just a lot of different
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Speaker 2: classes that had added value in just specific areas.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and that's really neat to see and hear,
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Speaker 1: and you know, it's always good. We talk about the
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Speaker 1: importance of of you know, of of having these type
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Speaker 1: of conventions and attending and getting that great information. Really
19:48
Speaker 1: cool to hear. And Matt before we wrap up this morning,
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Speaker 1: we've got just about a minute left and uh and
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Speaker 1: we've started off talking about a fantastic listing. The featured
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Speaker 1: listing this week a house in Janesville right on Highland Avenue.
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Speaker 1: Really really cool, really really cool home. And obviously you've
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Speaker 1: got a unique guy on these things as a realtor
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Speaker 1: as well as being one of the co owners of
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Speaker 1: Rock Realty. When you look at a house like this,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to ignore just how well cared for it is,
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Speaker 1: at least for me what I see as I look
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Speaker 1: at it go that is not only is it is
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Speaker 1: it's got a really cool personality because of its age.
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Speaker 1: You look at you go, that house has clearly been
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Speaker 1: loved for its entire life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, you can just tell from the pictures. You
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Speaker 2: can tell from the improvements they've done, even the new
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Speaker 2: steps in the front, that they cared about the house
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Speaker 2: and they're looking to move up or having to move
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Speaker 2: out to a different area. It's hard to say, but
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Speaker 2: this one definitely was well take care of. And you know,
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Speaker 2: there is two open houses this weekend if people wanted
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Speaker 2: to come through, so October fifth from ten to eleven
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Speaker 2: and then October sixth from eleven to twelve, so they
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Speaker 2: can swing on by it.
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Speaker 1: Awesome. Check that out. Another thing, and this may seem
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Speaker 1: like a small detailed some but to those of us
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Speaker 1: with kiddo's that have computers and electronics upgraded two hundred
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Speaker 1: half service throughout the house, it's also a huge peace
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Speaker 1: of mind. We talk about about things like that of
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Speaker 1: you know, old houses with things like nob and tube
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Speaker 1: that says the upgraded, upgraded electrical as well, So you're
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Speaker 1: definitely gonna check that out. You can also call Sadie
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Speaker 1: That's Rock R O c K Wisconsin dot com. And
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Speaker 1: that bitlelylink that we shared from Matt again, that's MLS
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Speaker 1: And speaking of the website, Rock Wisconsin dot com, Matt,
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Speaker 1: it's always great chatting with you. Have fun at Kalahari,
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Speaker 1: and we'll do it all again real soon.
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Speaker 2: Sounds great, Sean, thank you.
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