Real Estate Exposed 4.3.2024

Episode Transcript

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Good morning, and welcome to RealEstate Exposed on news radio WCCF, A
fast paced hour of discussion about ourlocal real estate economy. If you're buying,
if you're selling, if you're curious, whatsoever, You're gonna want to
hang on every word, and I'llbet you do. It is brought to
you by the Patterson Group at KellerWilliams Peace River Partners. I'm Todd Matthews

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here to facilitate the conversation. We'vegot saying, Scott, who's our engineer
today? And then I'm a littleconfused as to who to introduce to you
as the host of the show.Is it Shannon, Is it Matt Patterson.
It has been a little bit ofa debate. I think it should
be Matt Patterson. Ladies and gentlemen, Matthew Patterson. I think it should
be Shannon Patterson. Been carrying meowner back for a while now as I

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was sick. Yeah, and thecontain snow good feeling back. I love
it that komp will linger for many, many many months, right, the
gift that keeps on giving. Yes, that's where I keep saying. I'm
here in two months, three months, four months. I'm not a month

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so yep, yeah, I'm afraidthat's the case. So hopefully that won't
interfere two months. What we haveto do here today, which is to
look a little deeper, take adeeper dive into the local real estate economy,
things that affect the real estate market. That might be growth in the
area. It might be new businessesopening, real estate trends that. Of
course, the final segment is alwaysthe found the real fun one. For
me, I love listening in.I might a fly on the wall to

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Matt's picks of the week. He'sgot some hot picks, some listings that
in some cases you're just not goingto hear about or find anywhere else.
So where do we begin. Wenormally take a look at the local real
estate market and what's happened over thelast week or so. Let's do that.
Okay, all right, So let'sstart this time with Cap Coral Fort
Myers four hundred and eighteen new listings, three hundred and seventy five hundred contract

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Okay, market is moving right.Lee County is a hot mine, it
really is. Yeah. I've beengetting a lot of a lot of interest
and a lot of action there.Absolutely very high growth. Let's talk about
our area, one hundred and eightyseven who listening, one hundred and fifty
nine under contract. This is agood sign because what we you know,
we were seeing a lot more listingsthan what was going on under contract.

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So we're starting to see more movement, more activity, which is great for
everyone. Okay, very good.I mean I can't do the math in
my head very quickly. Are wein in a balanced market or almost balanced?
Nearly balanced? Depends on the pricepoint, It's a good question,
something we'll probably get to. Yeah, yeah, it depends on the price
point. I will say we're seeingimprovement in almost every price point. You

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know, we were as high asas you know, and we talk about
it, you know, six monthsas a neutral market, so under five
your seller's market over seven buyers market, we've seen every single price point decrease
except one, and that was ourseven to fifty to a million. I
think you'll see that decrease in thenext couple of months. So I think

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later this year you're gonna you're definitelygoing to see this inventory gobbled up and
uh, we'll start seeing more multipleoffers. Does that mean in a nutshell
to the novice like myself, Isort of missed the boat. If I
wanted to sell my home, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. If you wantto sell your home, no,
you definitely didn't miss the boat.If you're wanting to buy a home,

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you're going to miss the boat.You know. A couple of years ago,
we were on the show and Iwas saying, if you're waiting on
the peak to sell your home,we just crossed it. Well, I'm
telling you right now as a buyer, if you want to get concessions,
if you want to get meaning sellercontributions, if you want more negotiating power,
you're going to miss the boat ifyou don't engage. So I say,

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the other side of the coin,so to speak. And when we
talk about those concessions too, oftentimeswe can talk about I'm sure this will
come up somewhere along the line.Buying down the interest rate, which is
also important to a lot of peopletoo. Absolutely. I mean that's just
rates huge, I mean, aswell as insurance. Right, it's affecting
Yeah, it's affecting everyone. Imean I'm seeing some quotes go from twenty

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four to thirty seven hundred, andthat's non flood homes and you've got the
flood insurance, so all of thatfactors into affordability. And now you've got
we were just talking about Lee County. There is the FEMA Lee County battle.
Now you see that, Yeah,where a lot of flood insurance discounted
rates no longer will enjoy that discount. FEMA says Lee County didn't do what

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it needed to do. Lee Countysays, we sent a fifty one page
report. What are you talking about? So that's said, right, don't
know, that's gonna put a lotof people on the time, that's right.
A lot of folks are going tobe in jeopardy. So it's going
to put a lot of people intough positions. I know a lot of
people are self insuring. Now Idon't really want to weigh in on that
because obviously you have a risk there. I do understand it. You know,

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it's tough. It's tough affordability,you know, I mean from going
to the grocery store to buy athomes. Well, every situation is going
to be unique and you have toweigh what's best for you. That's right.
So what I can't tell you affordabilityIf you're going to buy a house.
Now's the time, okay. Nowis the time. You've got some
leverage, You've got some negotiating power, So I would jump into the market.

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I would not wait around again.We talk about we can refinance you
up to thirty six months, soyou know, date the RPE, marry
the home. I love that expression. Can well do a deeper dive into
the individual, all right. Soup to three hundred thousand, three point
eight months of inventory, three tofive hundred eight point two, five to

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seven fifty four point six. Sosee that drop, that almost dropped in
half. And the reason there wasthe mouth that went under contract. We
had ten in the previous month.Now we had twenty one. So this
is what I'm saying. Some ofthe buyers are engaging and they're getting these
homes in their contract. So Idon't want you to wait three, four

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or five months from now and say, oh man, I wish I would
have known. Now's the time.You're million to one point two five million,
eight months of inventory. Still notsuper heavy, okay, I mean
these homes are moving and a milliontwenty five and up. You've got eleven
months of inventory, so you've gota little bit more negotiating power. Okay,

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all right, get off the fencebuying or selling. The Patterson group
here to help. Here's the phonenumber case you like to reach out to
the nine four one six eighty sixhundred, and you might want to.
You might want to go to MatthewPatterson dot com because what you could do
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your address and get a number thatcomes back to you very quickly, and

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it'll tell you what your home isworth. My guess is you're gonna be
a little surprised at the amount ofequity you have with the value of your
home. And Matt sees this allthe time. He presents these comparative market
analysis to owners and they go,what that's exactly right. I'm sitting out
how much? That's right? Yeah. I signed four listings this last week

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and same thing, and most ofthem they were still shocked. That's excellent.
That's a very nice shock TOI too, is nice. Right, Hey,
oh, I've got an extra fiftyone hundred thousand dollars. That's great,
and it gives you options and itdoesn't mean necessarily that you're even selling.
It's good to know, and it'scertainly good to know for insurance purposes.
As we kind of circle back aroundto that, tell you what,
let's take our first time out.We'll come back with more real estate exposed

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on news radio WCCF. Whether youlive right here or live out of state,
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were in the middle before of crunchingnumbers. It's interesting to see and during
the break we're kind of looking atsome differences between just one county. A
difference is quite different or wine.I guess you could say between Lee and
Charloie County. That's right. SoShannon kind of schooled me and said,
hey, we need to talk aboutFort Myers and Cape Coral, which she's
right, because I can tell youit is quite a difference. Yeah.

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Inventory, if you know, ifyou're in and we've seen this for some
time now, if you're in FortMyers or Greater Lee County, every single
price point is under six months inventory. Okay, if you're in Cape Coral
until you get up to about fiveseventy five, you're under six months in

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inventory, then you're in about sevenmonths, you get up to six seventy
five to seven seventy five, ninemonths, but still nothing over ten months
of inventory. So we are talkingabout quite a difference if you're looking to
purchase a home there. And alsoI heard a little bit of talk about
this, and I'm certainly not theone that would have the best information on
it, So fill in the blanksfor us. Wouldn't it be advisably if

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you wanted to invest in real estateto look north of the county line,
Well, sure, yeah, absolutely. I mean, looking at the inventory
right, everything's supplying demand. Iwould be looking at Pontagorda and Port Charlotte,
which has been a great investment locationfor many years. But if you're
in the Cape Coral Fort Myers market, you're going to be up against more
off ersionier to be paying more money. And I know you get calls every

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day from out of area, outof state investors asking about such properties.
But you don't have to be,you know, an out of state real
estate mogul. It might be timeto put a toe in the water if
you've always thought of owning investment property, and that'd be a good time to
talk to the Patterson Group. Absolutely, the rental market here is very strong.

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I do not see that changing.Obviously. You know, we're going
to see a change in rents.That's normal because they've gotten very high.
But even my parents, you know, I, you know, I grew
up, they had fifteen rentals inIndiana. I took care of. They
sold them off and bottom here inthat fifteen or in twenty twenty five years.

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They did well on the rents,but we sold them for about the
same amount of money the homes theybought here. On average, they made
one hundred, one hundred and fiftythousand per hole. Interesting, that's the
difference in the Midwest to here.Yeah, well, not only get the
rent, but you also get theappreciation. So keep that in mind because

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a lot I know, there area lot of listeners who have said to
themselves, I could do that.I get investment property and I could be
a landlord and I could make alittle bit of money each and every month
and then watch it appreciate and andyou know what, these are the folks
to talk to you at the PattersonGroup, and you can absolutely do that.

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And we love helping people do that. Hey, we need to talk
about the buyer. Some narts comingup. Oh, that's getting close,
It is getting close. It's Aprileleventh, five to seven. It's at
the PGI Civic Association on Shree Streetand absolutely free. Come, you know,
definitely go on sign up, comeenjoy yourself, and we're gonna have

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a title company there, lenders there, inspectors there. It's gonna be it's
gonna be an amazing time and gonnabe able to answer all your questions.
It's a week from Thursday tomorrow.YEP, sign up in advance, right
string in advance RSVP, YEAP ourSVP. Let us know this way,
we know you know what type ofrefreshments to offer if I'm gonna buy twelve

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dozen cookies or if I'm gonna buyfush, you know, thirty seven dozen.
So yeah, let us know thatyou're coming, and you know,
we're really excited to be able toshare some new information with hopefully some new
home buyers. You have me atsnacks right and good information and you know
what, you probably know a firsttime buyer. You probably knows somebody younger

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person perhaps who's now making noises aboutbuying their own home. Young couple starting
out refer them to that, letthem know this is going on. It's
a great resource to get you aleg up. Yeah, it's gonna be
a it's gonna be a good timeagain to get all of your questions answered.
To have a good plan moving forward, whether you're three months out,
a month out, six months,a year, but to know what what

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to look for when to get preapproved. You know, you know first's
preapproval. If if you're twelve monthsout, you don't want to be running
your credit taking a hard hit onyour credit. So we're going to go
through all of that. It's interestingbecause you said have a plan. I
wonder how often I mean to me. I never really thought about having a
plan. It's time to buy ahouse. I'm going to go and call

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my friends at the Patterson Group aregoing to help me look for a place.
I don't really have a plan,but it's definitely something that's a good
idea. And we have that happena lot. That is normal. We
handle that. But also obviously themore time we have, the better we
can prepare you and have a plan. And I feel like I just goes
smoother and mistakes can be made.Like you said, along the way you

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could start this process and then endup saying, well, I think I
think it's time to buy a newcar. No, no, you might
want to wait, right, Sothese are the kinds of things that a
plan would help avoid. Yep,all right, awesome, what is next
on the agenda? I look atShannon because I haven't heard much from her
today. Is she the one thatis she hitt the weather? No?

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No, I'm great. I'm justletting the boys do their things. So
yeah, you know, I thoughtabout what we should talk about today,
and I figured, here we arefirst of April, technically the third.
But it's like spring. You know, it puts you in that frame of
mind of you know, we've comeout of hibernation, and it's time to
get the house cleaned up. Youknow, open up the shades, open

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up the windows. Maybe not today, I think a lot of things will
be blown over in your house today, but it's a good time to start
that spring cleaning. And you knowthat also leads into what should you do
for your home to get it readyif you want to put it on the
market. What are the what arethe top things you should do to be
market ready when you do decide toput that sign that says, you know,

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the Patterson Group in your front yard. What are you going to do
to make your house stand out?Now? You need more than a month.
Apparently you need a little bit oftime. But yeah, I think
it's just it's smart to get organand you know, I was at home
depot the other day, and youknow, I saw tons of people there
with the flatbeds getting new plants andmulching your flower beds and pulling those weeds

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and just just those things. Youknow, get the get the power sprayer
out, you know, hire aneighborhood kid to come and powerwash the driveway,
powerwash the sidewalk, and you knowthe pool cage. You know,
it's just interesting when you think abouthow we go into our houses. You
know, I pull in my garage, I go inside. I don't think
about it, but when you docome into the front door, Oh wow,

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look at all these spider webs,or you know, you gotta wash
the screens, you know, mopthe front entry, just kind of refresh
everything. So I thought it'd bea this would be a good time to
talk about some of the things thatyou know, you guys can do,
whether you're selling or not. Tojust get ready to be in that happier

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summertime frame of mind that's coming.Well, springtime has always been the season
of renewal. It is so itis. The flowers are blooming out,
the pollen is floating all over,dusting everything with yellow. So that's also
another reason to wipe down that patiofurniture, because you did it on Saturday,
and after today you're going to needto do it again because it's going
to have a fresh coating of yellowpollen. I'm sure all over it,

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all right. So I love thepoint of the front entry, and I
talk about this when I'm in listingappointments because you're exactly right. A lot
of times you come in, yougo on the gruge, you don't see
end of the house. You don'tthink about it. So think about whenever
you've looked at homes. You know, you know, the clients show up
with the agent, We walk tothe front door, the agent's opening the

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lock box. They are spinning onaverage three minutes, maybe looking around or
look at the ceiling, looking everywherelike it's really really important. I say
it all the time. You getone first impression, so you know,
light bright, declutter and it andfresh. I mean, that's what's important.

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And on top of that, thesmell absolutely. I mean, at
most everybody, when you walk inthe front door, there's an outlet.
You need to have some glade orfor breeze plugins right there to where it
smells enticing. You know, it'slike, oh wow, this is great,
okay talking out though, I've gotto add to that, you do
not put ten of them in,No, because I gotta tell you,

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I've been into homes. Yeah,and they put them everywhere, And the
first thing that potential buyers say iswhat do they covering up? True?
Or a lot of people are verysensitive to that kind of yeah, yeah,
don't overkill, no, overkill No. But obviously let's just say it's
Sunday night and you know you're goingto work on Monday, and you've got
a showing, run the swift fer, run the mop over. You know,

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put that once again with the smellof the cleaning. But just people
want you know, when you whenyou're fortunate enough to have someone clean your
home and you come home and you'relike, oh my god, she was
here today. It's such a greatsmell. You want the people walking and
your house already entice. You know, it's a dating thing. You want
to date, you know, youwant them to kind of fall in love

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when they walk through the front door. And that includes painting your front door
too. Yeah, a fresh coat, what do you can eat? A
court a court of paint. It'ssuper easy. You can do with that
in an afternoon. And just refreshingeven your hardware on your front door.
Yeah, and that's a very goodpoint because I've repainted a door too in
my time, and I admit totaking the shortcut of A not removing the

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door boy, and b not removingthe hardware. You know what, No,
you can pull that off, youcan. It can make a dramatic
difference. Yeah, and just evena magic eraser. You know, if
you have a white door, justtake a magic eraser. I think those
are the best things since sliced bread. And they clean. They just do
such a great job, and it'seffortless. It's literally twenty minutes of your

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afternoon. Or you just let ussit our handyman over and he'll take care.
Well. Actually, that's so funny. If all of this sounds daunting,
I know the Patterson Group has gota list vetted professionals that are ready
to help. So whatever it isyou think you might need, For example,
at Matthew's manor, is I liketo call it the place. Right
now, we're finally getting some somelong overdue hurricane repairs. But you know

(22:15):
what, you end up breaking someeggs to make an omelet, so there's
some mess that accompanies that. Andafterwards, I want to want to get
a pressure wash, and I'll becalling you and saying, who do you
recommend? That? Isn't crazy?A year and a half. Yeah,
we're finally now going to get ourroof this month. And you know,
we think they've got they've got themtore off, they've got them dried in.

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It's in progress. I still willbelieve it what I see it.
Yeah, it got to be cautiouslyoptimistic about although I got to admit the
crew is working like crazy and doingan excellent job so far. Good good.
Yeah, it's exciting. No,I'm not even watching the time.
We're up against the next break.So let's go ahead and take a little
time out here and back with moreon real estate exposed at news radio w

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CCF Clay. If you were sellingyour house, how would you get the
most money in less time, buck, I'd call Matthew Patterson of the Patterson
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my house on thirty A, andI've looked at agents all down the Florida
coast. Matthew with the number onelisting agent of twenty twenty one, which
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Patterson dot com. You can alsocall nine four one six two one eighty
six hundred and Shannon came prepared todayto get into cleaning mode. That is

(26:42):
to say, to help you getinto cleaning mode. As whether it's spring
cleaning and it is at time moreyou're preparing to sell your home, they're
kind of the same thing, itis. I mean, it works both
ways. And you know, wewere obviously talking about the front entry and
all of those things, but youknow, it's good to take a walk
around your house and look at thoselittle things that might need to be fixed.

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Something that you know, maybe yourscreens are in crooked, you know,
minor little repairs that you can doyourself, get a screwdriver or a
hammer, or if you don't feellike it, we're happy to refer you
to a handyman who can come inin an afternoon or maybe a couple of
days and just do those annoying littlethings that you just keep putting off that
you're going to finally dedicate I'm goingto do it, you know, fix

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the shutters, broken windows, youknow, exterior light bulbs that need to
be fixed, you know kind oflook yeah lighting both two and then here
here's the one that nobody wants totalk about. But it's called gutters.
You know, the rainy season's comingand we've got to clean the gutters out

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and you know, just simple thingsjust to make the outside done. Get
it done, and this way you'reready. You don't have to think about
it. But then, you know, you go inside, like we said,
you know, once they open thatdoor or you once again, and
you just want to be like Ithink about when I get up in the
morning, I walk through my houseand everything's all neat and tidy. It's
like, oh, I feel good. You know, it's a great way

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to start your day. So youknow, taking the time, you know,
do the floors. It's it's nota fun job, but somebody's got
to do it. You know,little things like you know, clean your
sink drains. You know, everybodyyou know, have you ever stuck a
hanger or one of those drain cleanersdown the sink and pulled it out.
It's it's just be prepared. It'sa little frightening, Yeah, it's frightening,

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but you know what it's better thanyou know, having to have a
sink problem later down the road.Again, I go back to just you
know, remember if you're going toput your home on the market, and
we we help with all of this. We can talk about this in our
consultation, but you really have tothink about what do you want to see
when you walk through yeah a home? Right, I mean, because we

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all are critical. We all lookat base boards, we all look at
you know, we ignore our own, but we go into somebody else's house,
we're looking at that. Oh whatwas that running across the floor.
Was that a dust? It's funny. Okay, somebody needs a swiffer.
I'll tell you a big one thanme. And I've seen it with multiple
buyers in my ears. When Isee ac ducks like the greats and if
they're filthy, I'm like, okay, they're not maintaining anything, not at

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all. And and you may,you may maintain everything. Your appliance is
crosh or openers everything, but thatis the perception it gives. And I
think, oh, this hounds hasn'tbeen maintained. And ceiling fans, you
know, we we don't really noticehow bad our ceilings fans are until we
turn them off. There's an easytrick. Get on the ladder and put
your killow case and just pull thepillowcase off. It's it's super easy.

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There's all kinds of tips and oruntil my daughter shoots a nerf gunner and
sticks on the fan that that didhappen. And then you're like, well,
since I was good, aim there? Look at well and you know
what. Homelight is a company thatdoes a lot of cleaning tips and all
kinds of tips for your home,and they say taking the time to deep

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clean your house can boost your valueby thirty seven hundred dollars on average.
Wow, So you know what,that's not bad. And you figure to
hire a professional to clean a twothousand square foot home, say a typical
two bedroom, three bath, you'relooking between two and four hundred dollars.
So maybe your time is more valuableand it might be worth it for you
to have someone come professionally clean yourhome. Because we know sometimes we skip

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the corners of the window sills.Let alone, do we even clean the
windowsills or the blinds. You know, there's just certain things we just kind
of glaze over. But the otherthing is closets you know, when you
have people looking at your home,they're going to open the closets because they
need to see the cabinet, see, and they're going to open the cabinets,

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right, So you know, youmay think, oh my god,
I have a showing, let's justthrow all the you know, laundry in
the corner of the closet. Well, when people open your closet and see
that, it does, it's justsomething in your mind psychologically changes and you
have a certain opinion about this property. So yeah, just pick things up
off the floor. This is agreat time to go to Amazon and order

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some boxes and you know, notboxes, but you know storage storage containers
to put on the upper shelves andorganize your socks and your winter stuff.
Pack it away. You know,we don't have to have winter jackets in
our closet anymore. I don't knowof any of us who really have them
period. But well I did fora little bit, and then I've slowly
started giving them away. Yeah.Well I put them in the zipper of

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the vacuum bag and I show himunder a bed. After two years they
were all gone. But also it'sthis is a really good time to clean
out your closet, donate it.You know, there's so many charities in
town. You know, I've talked. I took a ton of stuff to
the care Donation Center shortly after theCare Ball this year. So if it's
hanging in your closet, you haven'tworn it in six months. The reality
is you're never going to wear it, So get rid of it. Somebody

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else could use it. And here'sthe truth. And and and we talk
about this, you know with clientsin our in our appoints, if you
have clutter and things that you know, yes, you know, we all
put it off packing it up.You're going to be moving anyways. I
can tell you. If you've gotme there and we're listening to this house,

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well then I you know, we'vealready had the consultation, and I
know you really want to move.You're moving, Yeah, we're going to
sell this house. As we alwayssay, start packing. You will be
moving, So why not go andpack that up, you know, just
get ahead of the game exactly.And I mean think about books. I
mean, I know I bought thegoing digital with books for a really long

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time, but now that I've crossedover and I do digital books, what
do you do with all those hardcoveredbooks now, will donate them because they're
heavy to move and they clut dust. So that clean, open look in
your house is not only going tomake you feel better, but it's going
to present very well when people arecoming to look at possibly purchasing your home.
So everything you've talked about is somewhatgeneric. We've all got too many,

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too much clothes in our closet.Yeah, we've got too many pictures
on the wall we've got But whatabout the s These the uncomfortable conversations I
would dread if I were in yourbusiness, the one that says, you
know, I think your mermaid statuein the middle of the living room is
gorgeous. When the mermaid's naked,it gets a little exactly, we're gonna

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have kids coming through here, Andyeah, well, I think sometimes you
just have to be honest and say, listen, I love mermaids. I
poo that if I could have yourMermaid, I would take it right now.
But not everybody loves mermaids. Somaybe for the safety of your mermaid
statue, you might want to wrapit and pack it up so when you
move nothing happens to it. Inbetween showings, so maybe just suggest to

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them that they protect it. Idon't want to sell my house to somebody
doesn't like Mermaids, right. Iknow there's always going to be the diehard,
but you got to be open mindedto a little honest conversation. Not
what you have done isn't gorgeous,especially to you. And your neutrality is

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your neon green kitchen with iguanas allover it. Maybe very tropical to you,
but maybe somebody is not of thattropical mindset. So maybe a more
neutral palette will show better and itlooks better in pictures. The reality is
you want to appeal to the masses. Right. The more people have interested
in your home at one time,the more money you're going to get,

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and the faster it's going to sell. Go visit. And I'm not pointing
any specific direction here. Any modelhome in the area. That's what you
will see, the kind of lookthat you should be trying to achieve.
It's neutral. It's not any culturesexactly right. And my daughter loves show
purple, but if she had apurple bedroom, I would be painting it

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neutral if I was selling the horn. The reality, you know, and
I know it's tough because it's it'spersonal, all right. We've taken care
of our home. We've loved ourhome. We've been on our hands and
knees pulling weeds and you know,and especially if you built your home and
you designed your home. But whatyou have to think about is when you're

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ready to go to put that homeon the market and sell that home,
you've got to attach some of thatyou know it, Yes, and some
wost say, well, it's stillmy home and I've got a lot.
That's true, but okay, andwe can do that. We can list
it the way it sets, ordo you want to change a few things
to help, you know, youknow, get it sold faster and for

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more money, right, and appealto the masses. Start thinking about the
things you're going to do in yournet. You just said it, because
you're going to do everything you didin your old one. That's right,
and one up yourself. Right.It's almost like saying goodbye and thanking the
home for all the years that itgave you. And now you're going to
give it a clean, fresh bath. You're going to scrub it all and
make it look crystal clean, andyou're going to neutralize it for the next

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person to come men and put theirloved possessions and their footprint right on it.
Who comes to view your home iswanting a sort of blank canvas because
they're going to want to do thethings. Yeah, they make them happy
the way you did, the thingsthat make you happy, and it's harder
to imagine they did. Yeah,they want to be able to see themselves

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there. Okay, Now I willsay I was in a listing appointment this
past weekend and they had had advicefrom someone else to empty the home totally
empty, totally empty, which Iwill tell you right now, there's a
reason why we stage. So youknow, of course, every home is
different. I will tell you ifand I'm from Indiana, I'm from the

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Midwest, everyone knows it. Iused to have all oak furniture, right,
that was the thing. That's whyI grew up with us, so
I knew didn't really fit in herein Florida. So you know, there
is times that I'm like, Okay, this really doesn't fit this home if
you're on the water with that Floridalifestyle. But to you home completely,

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if you have nice furniture, Iwill get a second opinion because most time
we're bringing furniture in and staging them, and and and uh to have them
look the best. Would it bebetter under the circumstances to have uh,
some furniture then totally empty. That'sa long conversation. We need to do

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a show on this. But somewhen you say some, that's kind of
a gray area. You don't wantto You still don't want to look empty.
So you know when we say,I mean, it's got to be
decorated, right, I'm talking wallhangings. Uh yeah, yeah, stuff
like that needs to give people anidea because not everybody could walk into a
blank canvas and immediately know where tostart painting. So you've got to You've

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got to help them see their theirlives in there, but you've also not
got to let them see chaos ofwhat your current life may be. Why
you need to turn into the Patternsand Group because they do this day in
day out, and they help peopleachieve that goal of making their home perfectly
ready to sell. I'll just giveyou the phone number on again in case

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you want to call them nine fourto one six eighty six hundred, or
go to Matthew Patterson dot com.Tell you what I was going to say,
we've got to take our final timeout. On the other side,
I see a really big stack oflistings. We've got a lot of proberts.
Okay, gonna be some fun here. In the final segment, the
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During the break, we're just talkingabout we'll just call it pest eradication,
because if you need help in thatarea, then a lot of us do.
Mm hmm. You can call thepass recommendation. You have recommendations for

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you nine four one six one eightysix hundred nine one six one eighty six
hundred. But it's the kind ofthing that a potential buyer is gonna notice
if say, armadillo has dug outunder a concrete pad, for example.
Yeah, and that's that's part ofthat walking around the house and kind of

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doing that maintenance that look, andyou may have to call somebody to come
and remove some of those things.But the other point I wanted to make
real quick is before we go tothe listings, is you know, when
when you're not in somebody's home,they don't smell what you smell. And
if you have a pet, acat, a dog, or multiples,
a lot of times you don't understandhow your dog smells to other people's.

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So when your home is on themarket, especially when you're having showings,
get in the habit of every weekendwashing their bedding, making sure you're vacuuming
all that carpet and the furniture,because that dog hair is everywhere. It's
it's it's that musty smell. Justjust step up that maintenance of your dog.
Give your dog a bath a littlemore regularly so the dog smells well.

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And do your best to put thedog in its kennel during showings.
Don't leave it running around. Well, but it can. Yeah, you
know a lot of our clients willyeah, take the dog with Yeah,
exactly. And then plants also,plants are really good to help stabilize odors
in the house. So yeah,though, those two little tips. So
keep on plants and make sure yourpet area is extra extra clean, and

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I think it'll it'll help the saleof your home. Not picking on dogs,
No, those out of site ifyou can, Yes, exactly.
Okay, all right, so let'sgo to Cape Coral. We got to
get into these houses because we havehot listings here that you may not find

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anywhere else. Right, So thisis a great family home, five bedrooms,
oh my, three and a halfbath, twenty seven eighteen Southwest eighteenth
Place, Cape Coral, built intwenty thirteen, so you've got some nearer
building codes. Introduced to the marketis six twenty five. This home is
twenty seven hundred and forty one squarefeet with a private pool. Wow,

(44:50):
all right, good size. Let'shop over to PGI and this is one
of our favorite streets in PGI,Deborah Drive. We've sold probably five or
six homes on Deborah in the lastfew Yeah, this one is a canal
home. It has a beautiful waterview from your living room, three beds,
two and a half bath, atwo car garage. This has got
a private dock, a new roofin September of twenty three, and a

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new panoramic poolcag so that means there'snot a lot of bars in your view.
No HOA fields, Sorry, noHOA fees, which is one of
the great things about PGI. Thisone's going for nine hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. Okay, all right.Next we're going to eleven seven sixty Grand
Belvedere Way. This is in FortMyers, Unit one three. Uh.

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This is an end unit, twobedroom, two bath, introduced to the
market at four thirty five, builtin twenty seventeen. Sixteen hundred and twenty
one square feet, community pool,a lot of amenities. Fantastic second home
or second condo fuel just a beautifulunit. I like condo living. It

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sounds appealing to somebody who needs todo a hawful lot of lawn maintenance.
It over if you don't want tokeep a condo, is it? But
if you don't want a condo.Here's a great place in Northport, a
three bedroom, two bath, twocars, I'm sorry, three car garage
with a den in an above groundpool. No hoa, no flood.
This is at two four five zeroSahara Lane in Northport. Listen for three

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sixty. Do you like money,yes, because that's where I'm going here.
I've got a very very very successfulbusiness. This is the Philadelphian Restaurant,
the Philadelphian Cheese Steaks. Again,like I talked before, please do
not change it. I love toeat there. My body loves these cheese

(46:42):
steaks. So we are we're makinga price improvement on this on this business
at four forty nine. And Ican tell you it is a multi generational
business with a very successful history anda great income. So give us a
call for one hundred. Yeah,they use the term turnkey and awful lot.

(47:02):
If you're ever looking for a turnkeybusiness, it's they actually just put
it and they just provedew oven inthere and new equipment. I mean,
it's it's ready to go. Youjust walk in and just just don't change.
Don't change it change. It's sosuccessful you So for those of you
who love the anger list English Countryside. We've got this fantastic home one four

(47:29):
zero Balder Drive in Port Charlotte.This is a two bed, two bathlish
English cottage with a pool and aworkshop on a double corner lot. No
hoa's no flood required. Beautiful,beautiful home. It is decorated so well.
This is listed for five hundred andfifty thousand dollars English Cottage. Yes,
they were very authentic in a lotof their designs, so it's absolutely

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adorable. All right, let's goto Northport. I'll go back Mouse Coffee
eighteen forty nine Bobcat Trail, Wellin Northport. This is a beautiful home.
This is a turnkey as Todd justmentioned, four bedroom, three bath
with an oversized two car garage,pool with a family room, office and
media room. This isn't Bobcat Trail. So if you want that gated community

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lifestyle, it's got the pool,it's got all the great things. This
one is listed for six ninety nine. All right, she did too,
so i'll do too. First we'regoing to three four four to one Olt
Court. This is in PGI BirdSection. Yep, and a boy I
like it. I like it.Three bedroom too bad private pool, amazing

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water front sat on right out ofquarter acre. This home is listed in
a million four. Absolutely gorgeous,built by a very rapable builder. And
you've got a forty one foot concretedock with electric water, ten thousand pound
boat lift, one hundred and fourteenfeet of water frontage. Just gorgeous.

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Bring your boat all right? Sonext we're taking you same neighborhood, nineteen
thirty two Loss almost Drive. Ihave talked about this house in the past.
I'm in love with this house.I sold in this house. It
was brand new construction, sailboat,waterfront, three bedroom, two bath,
three car garage, absolutely gorgeous witha private pool, just under twenty four

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hundred square feet, built in twentyseventeen for a million two fifty. Both
these homes are paradise. They arebeautiful. So let's go to townhouse living.
If you love once again a gatedcommunity, resort style living in Riverwood.
This is the Grand Vista three threethree two Grand Vista Court. This
is a beautiful townhouse, two bedroom, two bath, two car garage,

(49:42):
first floor condo with a din inoffice. Obviously, it's got a brand
new roof of twenty four new garagedoor, new window coverings, granite countertops,
updated flooring. This this condo haseverything you need, listed for three
forty. If you want to goa little further well, head out to
Rotunda one O two Nature's Way,Unit two two oh three. This is

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a three bedroom, two baths,second floor condo with a water view.
This is at waterside at Rotunda West. Beautiful, beautiful community listed for three
ten. All right, I'm takingyou back to PGI quick sailboat access.
This is fourteen twelve c Fan Drive, built in two thousand, just under

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twenty six hundred square feet, threebedroom, two and a half bath private
pool. Here's the big thing onthis house. You're just under a million
dollars. It we just had aprice improvement on a of seventy five thousand
dollars and it is listed at ninetynine and very very beautiful home. Brick

(50:49):
pavers and quick access sounds gorgeous.Next we're going to one seven to sixty
one three Quirkwood Been Trail. Thisis in Ponta Gorda. Uh. It
is in Bapco ranch, three bedroom, two bath community pool, built in
twenty twenty. So you've got anewer home and it's introduced to the market
at four twenty five. Okay,I still see a pretty big stand.

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I know, I'm trying to getall right. One three A two Onion
Creek Court, Fort Myers three threenine to one to two. This is
a golf community, two bedroom,two bath villa and it is introduced to
the market at three oh five.This is partially furnished, so in a
fifty five plus community. Next we'regoing to fifteen oh one Beach Road,

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three ten, unit three ten inInglewood, so you're close to everything,
walk to the beach. Updated furnishedthird floor condos, so great views.
Sandpiper Community introduced to the market atthree eighty five. Seven. All right.
The last two we're going to bedown in Puntagorda, Burnstore Village two
five five four Product Drive. Thisis a pristine three bedroom, two bath,

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two car garage with a family roomlocated in Burnt Store Village right off
Burnt Store Road. This one islisted for three ninety and this is another
one of our favorite homes. Thisis in Burnt Store Aisles. This is
seven to one four via Tripoli.This is an absolutely gorgeous home view.
The canal view is gorgeous you're rightat the long part of it. This

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one has let's see, three bedrooms, two and a half bath, to
car garage. This is listed forone million dollars. So come and enjoy
the beautiful Florida lifestyle. You knowwhat I didn't hear this SI is open
houses. Usually we have an openhouser two. I'm sure we have a
bunch of them, but a shorton time, so I skipped them.
So go to our website and youcan definitely get the times and locations.

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Matthew Patterson dot com. Matthew Pattersondot com. Don't forget to type in
your address there so that you canfind out exactly what your home is worth,
or call the Patterson Group for acomprehensive comparative market analysis ninety four one
six two one eighty six hundred.When we are just about out of time,
thank you for being here. Iknow you're still struggling with barely.

(53:04):
I'm getting there. I'm almost there. Yeah, next Wednesday, I'm sure
everything's going to be well. Idon't know if he went back to school
yesterday. Next Wednesday, we areglad to have whoever comes and joins us
from the Patterson Group at Keller Williamson real estate exposed here on news radio

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