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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, thirty six thirteen ten doubuib and ask the experts.
Brought you by Rock Realty Online, Rock Wisconsin dot com.
That's our o c K Wisconsin dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Great website.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I've been looking for something great to do on a
daylight today. It is so nice when you get into
the office. I just check your emails quick, just to
make sure that there's nothing pressing, and then head on
over to rock Wisconsin dot com. Take a little break.
You deserve it, You've earned it. You were at the
office for a wop in fifteen minutes this morning. Peruse
those houses for sale, those listings. Get a smile on
your face. Maybe you're thinking about vine, thinking about selling.
(00:32):
I know some folks that can help you. The folks
at Rock Realtea, Matt and the team are there for yourself.
Number six O eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
That's six soh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. Matt,
How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Doing good? Doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Do you guys see a spike in traffic at like
nine oh five where people get into the office and
start looking on the on the website.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's interesting that, yeah, to see the different times that
it happens, you know a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's around it's round lunch. Yeah, but yeah, a lot
of people it doesn't take them long.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And it is because I think that that's one of
those and I think one of the great things. And
we're gonna i know, we're going to talk about technology
and that stuff with with real estate and it's got
to be a huge game changer for a number of reasons.
Just having the availability of rock Wisconsin dot com and
that website. It does allow people that you know that
are just kind of I'm not maybe not necessarily today,
(01:21):
but I've just kind of like to familiarize myself. It's
fun to like do those It's almost like the the
window looking stuff where you're like, how do they decorate
their house? It's like a it's just like a fun
little escape to see what's out there and you know,
dream and think and say, hey, maybe that that might
be a place for me. So seeing a bunch of
people at lunchtime makes perfect sense, right, I say, we're
all closet, you know, home shoppers. We're always you know,
(01:44):
taking a peek.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
If nothing else, we're seeing what the neighbor's house looks
like but and you know, you can either be on
your desktop at work and go to Rock Wisconsin dot
com or if you have take a bathroom break, we
have an app. Oh yeah, so if we accommodate wherever you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Are at work, let's do Rock's backslash app.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And yeah, you can bring bring it with you anywhere
that you go Rock Rock Realty real quick. Before we
get to our feature listing this week's topic, the other
thing I wanted to ask you about is we talk
about folks that that you know you mentioned, we're all
we all like to do a little bit of a
little bit of that for folks that are super passionate
about real estate and and have an interest. I know
you are always looking for really good agents or really
(02:24):
dedicated people that are maybe looking to start a career,
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, I think that, you know, we're really concentrating on
people that wanted to do this full time, are already
doing it full time. There's a much pretty big time
commitment for real ters between the showings and building up
enough clientele base to earn a living. And so we
we uh, you know, we do a good job of
getting our agents just tons of live leads so that
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they can fill their plates and have a bunch of
clients that are awesome and and work with them and
get to.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Get to a successful kind of a career level.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So that you know, it's a it's a it's a
new transition for him.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Sometimes and we talk about all the benefits of working
with Rock Realty. We don't always talk about the benefits
of working for Rock Realty as we do this radio
show each week and we talk about featured listings, and
I hear on the FM station. I'll hear some dude
talking about featured listings there as well. You provide a
lot of great tools for agents at Rock Realty, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, we try to, you know, be in front of
innovation and the technology forefront and you know, whether it's
you know, having live leads transferred right to their to
their phones, to allowing them to you know, communicate with
their clients via an app, to.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know, having the.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Best tools possible, you know, for them, whether that be
AI or you know, different visual tools that they can use.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, we're trying to stay ahead of the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
And we'll talk about some of those great tools as well.
How it works on both sides of the equation. And
speaking of folks working at Rock Realty, I'm noticing obviously
it's a great place to work when you've got families,
entire families where at Rock Realty. And this week's featured
listing a last name I've seen recently, and I'm like, Kayley,
though I don't think we've heard Kaylee yet. Killy is
(04:10):
Killy Kristowski Kristowski. I will someday out yet there we did.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
We did have Lindsay on at one point, Lindsay Kristowski.
She uh has been an agent for us for a
couple of few years now, and uh, you know, she
also invests in real estate and apparently has you know,
raised a family that's also interested in real estate because Kaylee.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is her daughter.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
She got license and she's an amazing agent for us.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Just kind of crushed it right out of the out
of the blocks so well.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And you know, it's a good place to work when
when parents are encouraging their kids to come work as well,
that's a really good, really good sign.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And it's happened more than once.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So this home that we're featuring this week is a
beautiful home in Janesville, right on Blaine Avenue. Let's talk
a little bit about this. I was, I was blown
away by the price on this on this home, especially
when we started I started going through and looking at
some of the details. We're talking about two hundred and
twenty four to nine for this for this home in Janesville.
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It is a beautiful, beautiful property and it's got not
just is it currently beautiful, but it's got room for
expansion as well, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I know last week we wanted to bring an affordable
option in Madison, and this week it's one in Janesville
to twenty four nine hundred. It is eight oh six
Blaine Avenue in Janesville, listed.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
By Kaylee Krassowski.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And yeah, it's a cute little two bedroom, one and
a half bath bungalow and it's just perfect for an
empty nester or if you're a first time home buyer.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's got a brand new roof that's a big deal,
twenty five had roof, garage, door, central air.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
There's just a lot of updates for the price.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And it's got you know, a detached single car garage too,
to you know, keep some snow off your car.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yes, and that's that's another thing that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
As well as anybody that's that's had to get up
early in the morning and had your car in a snowbank.
You definitely appreciate that perfect gurage as well. As mentioned
Kelle is the listing agent to on this pick up phone.
You ever recall us morning six so eight three two
two ninety eight fifty five. That's three two two nine
eight five fives. I'd love to see this beautiful house
Blaine Avenue in Janesville. Of course you can see it
(06:22):
as well online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock roc
k Wisconsin dot com. We'll talk about more of the
features of this great house in Janesville on Blaine Avenue.
We'll do that a little bit later on in the program. Again,
if you want to get a preview, you can head
it over to Rock Wisconsin dot com. Talking this week
about real estate and the and the technology boom, and
obviously tech has effected all aspects of life, and real
(06:45):
estate is one of those areas I think where you
really see some of the some of the some of
the big changes. And Matt, let's talk a little bit
about before kind of break down specific areas, just kind
of an overview. And I know we've mentioned on the
show before, not only do you love real estate? Are
a tech guy yourself, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, I tried to stay ahead of things. I mean,
my daughter calls me a boomer, but.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Uh doing doing my best to stay stay ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Of the things. Right.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So, you know, we initially, you know, made sure to
to source a good app for people to search, and
since then we've kind of been moving on and to
the next latest and greatest things, right you know, the
most recent thing, of course is your.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Your AI and integrating your AI.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But you know there's there's other, you know, visually appealing
different technologies that we've gotten into as well, and we
can talk about those today.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
We'll get we'll get into all that stuff and we'll
start off with that AI thing as well. As AI
is not just I think for a lot of us,
you know, we hear, we hear the the horror stories,
which and that's that's reality. But if used properly and
if used professionally, AI is a really I I full disclosure,
I use AI a lot in my in my professional
(08:01):
like it is a great tool for everyone, and especially
with real estate as It's become a great, great option
for you, hasn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, it's been surprising how how many aspects of it
we've been able to use. A lot of it's been
in the kind of the management side, Right, We'll use
AI to help come up with.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Ideas for this show.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, well we'll use AI for putting together outlines and
things for when we're having meetings right where else I
we just started using AI to kind of you grade
agents calls and give them suggestions and how they could
be better in the future. Right, So we're definitely using
that a lot. And on the you know, the client
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side of things, we've been using AI for a number
of years just to be able to chat with clients,
you know, if they have questions and such through the
website and things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
One of the great things I found about AI is
it's able to bring in It used to be you know,
you have to google it all the time, like, oh
this this little aspect AI can it does all of
that in the background, gives you all that information. It's
also really good and we talk I know. One of
the things that you know, every month we break down
some of the market numbers. There's some big numbers. In
real estate, a lot of data, a lot of information.
(09:15):
AI does a really good job of compiling that information
and really helping with that. So when it comes to
things like home valuations and other things, it could be
a great tool to help you take some very large,
very complex math and really do all that heavy lifting,
can't it.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, that's something we've.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Just recently been integrating when we have a listing or
when we're considering having an agent consider putting an offer
in to try to get an idea of valuations. You know,
real estate agents have always been good at kind of
looking at the property and getting a feel for right,
you know, and that's something that is probably isn't doing
as well yet, right, which is the esthetics, you know,
(09:53):
the location right, things like that that kind of are
not necessarily metrics, but there's a lot to the day I
can do or you can you know, we've we've had
classes where were taught our agents how to you know,
take metrics into an Excel sheet, upload it to AI
and identify different trends that it's seeing and that's really neat.
So you can see market to market and zip code
(10:15):
to zip code different things that are happening so.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I think about to the you know, we talk about relationships,
we talk about that, you know, working with an agent,
and you know the importance of the human connection, and
that is something I know at Rock Realty, you guys
really focus in on is making sure that that your
agents are really committed to the people getting that stuff
done the great thing and I think that for folks
that don't always see the understand the full benefit of AI.
(10:39):
It allows agents to spend more time with people, spend
more time with those actual human connections while it's kind
of doing the stuff that let's be honest, we're talking
about big numbers and other things. I don't really want
to be worrying about.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
AI has been. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, I do the research, ye exactly, and let folks
focus more on folks be folks. Yeah, we got a Matt,
We've got you've got a T shirt company there are
talking this running with Matt Heyman, owner of Rock Realty Online,
Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's our ock Wisconsin dot com.
Or top number six O eight six seven three fifty
(11:15):
four hundred. That's six oh eight six seven three fifty
four hundred. There was it's been a few years now,
but we did go through kind of a very rough
spell a lot of folks dealing the COVID and shutdowns
and other things. One of the things that did come
out of it was kind of forced a lot of
I will say, on the consumer side, a lot of
us to start using our computers and our smartphones a
(11:39):
little bit differently. And I know a lot of businesses
like retail did a lot of work to make their
websites more robust, things order from home, delivery, that type
of things.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Same deal with real estate.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I know, you guys did we have done in our
continue to continuing to improve that online experience because even
though we are obviously completely open, everybody's living their day
to day life just like normal, we did get a
bit spoiled and now we kind of expect that and
things like videos and virtual walkthroughs and really high quality photos.
(12:13):
That stuff has now become an expectation for the for
the industry, hasn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of it has. The virtual tours
was obviously a huge thing during the pandemic. You know,
we have a photographer that also is certified for you know,
Zillo Virtual Tours as well, so that you know when
when when you have that service, it'll show up on
Zillo and just have that you know, Zillo walk through
(12:37):
icon that you can go through and actually feel like
you're walking through the property. So it's really helped, you know,
buyers and real estate agents to kind of do a
little bit more research and just when they're going into
a showing, it's it's much more likely that they're going
to place an offer because they've done things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
What is I circle two things here and I put
a question mark what are these two items?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, I just thought i'd share these things in case
you wanted to use them.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Matter Horn matter Horn.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Is a pretty cool service where and you've probably seen
it where you can do a virtual tour by clicking
on different areas on a map in the house so
that it'll bring you to that location. Then you have
a three sixty degree view in that location, so then
you really get a feel for the house versus a
video walk through.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's called matter Horn, So that's a that's a service
that you can you can pay for have done and
there'll be a website link that people are brought to
and they can walk through the house that way. And
Blonde Waterfall was a recent one that I came across,
you know, got snagged on my social media and it
got me Blonde Waterfall. It can take you know, high
res images and then create a video off of those.
(13:44):
It literally turns it into three D that image and
lets you kind of, you know, walk through the space
a bit in each video.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So it's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
My mind's blonde is pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
So for ninety nine dollars, I feel like I supposed
to pay for ninety nine dollars, you can take your photos,
upload them and whatever photos they are.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And they can turn them into three D images.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
So I don't know if that works for nature photos
or not, but there might be some other ways to
use that site.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
So I thought that was pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That those are really really cool. I'd never heard of
either of those before. Very very cool stuff this morning.
So you talk with Matt Heypman, owner of Rockrealty Online
Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock Rock Wisconsin dot com.
We'll talk with Matt a little bit more about technology
augmented reality.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What exactly is that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
We'll find out for Matt how that works, talk a
little bit more about the technology as well in real
estate and specifically at Rockrealty.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
We'll do all of that next.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
In the meantime, been to the website Rock Wisconsin dot com.
I urge you to head on over there now as
soon as you get to the office. That's our Ock
Wisconsin dot com. You can even bookmark it now. We
won't tell your boss. If that's how you spend your
lunch break, that is perfectly fine with us. That's Rock
Wisconsin dot Com. Telp number six so eight six seven
three fifty four hundred. That's six oh eight six seven
three fifty four hundred. More of our conversation with Matt
(14:56):
next as Ask the Experts with Rockrealty continues right here
thirteen ten double U I B I eight fifty four
thirteen ten W I B and ask the Experts with
Rock Realty. Hanging out this morning with Matt Heyman of
Rockrealty online, Rock Wisconsin dot Com. That's Rock R O
c K Wisconsin dot com. Talking more tech during the break.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Is well just which is always fun. We did.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We talked about the different you know, like the the
video walkthroughs, those type of things. We're talking drones off there.
Do you guys do drones stuff?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is that? Is that real? Stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
If it's uh, you know, if it's appropriate for the property,
then yes, I mean if it's a small little, you know,
tent taker a lot, maybe not necessary. But yeah, we
do drone shots fairly often, especially if you want to
kind of see the surrounding areas.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'll see, like when I drive drive down to Edgerton
where I get out into those like those wooded lots
and those things, I'll see the Rock Realty sign there.
So I'm guessing those are probably the ones that that
you're using on those where they're very very cool. Before
we get to a review of this week's featured listing,
as we talk about a little bit about about the
technology that you guys are applying at Rock Realty, let's uh,
(15:59):
let's bring up and just kind of rap about that
augmented reality word and that type of thing. It kind
of ties in a bit with that virtual tour tour
stuff that we were talking about earlier, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Yeah, aug rendered reality.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I mean sometimes like on the I guess on the uh,
the short side, it would be taking photos and virtually
staging them.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
If anybody's looking to virtually stage their own photos, go
to box Brownie dot Box boax brownx Brownie dot com.
They'll virtual stage, they'll do your little twilight photos, so
little tidbits, you know. But you know, as far as
augmented reality, I think that's probably the next big step,
and it might be a few years out, but I mean,
I could see a situation where you know, you're wearing
(16:40):
your your ray band, meta glasses, you're walking through the
house and it's pointing out different features within the house.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
That would be pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Someday we'll get there and you know, we'll have that stuff. First,
it'll be Matt and the team speaking of bouth firsts
and and fantastics. We talked, uh talk. This started this
show off. The first thing we talked about was this
great featured listing in Janesville, two bedroom, one bath, two
hundred twenty four dollars, a great, great deal on a
(17:11):
beautiful house at eight oh six Blaine Avenue. We talked
about some of the updates, new roof, the garage, door central,
there a bunch of other things as well. What we
hadn't had a chance to talk about is it's got
like a like a workshop and and all these you
know the stuff. It's the bag got beautiful trees. This
is a really really great, great property just all around
(17:32):
there's just a little bit of something something everywhere you look.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's very modern feeling inside. You know, the white trim,
and it's got some you know, beautiful round flooring off
that kind of accentuates off the white.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And then you know downstairs.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I love it when older you know basements have like
painted concrete, right, it just makes it feel clean and fresh.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And that's what this one feels like. Right. You know,
a few.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Steps upstairs you have a large kind of private room,
so it offers a lot. I think this is a
this one won't stay on the market too long at
two twenty four nine.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's why you've got to pick up the film this
morning and call and call Ashley. Excuse me, Kaylee right
late this morning. Don't call her Acghley. She'll be like,
oh who you call for? Call Kaylee right away this morning.
Her telephone number three two two a ninety eight fifty five.
That's six oh eight three two two ninety eight to
fifty five for Kaylee Kurstowski, uh listing agent on this
(18:25):
great home again. It's at eight oh six Blaine Avenue
in Jamesville. If you had on over to Rock Wisconsin
dot com, you can check it out there as well.
But again I would urge you. As Matt pointed out,
this one's not going to be long on the market.
So if if you're in the market for for a
great home, you definitely want to call this morning. It's
three two two ninety eight fifty five. That's three two
two nine eighty five five.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's always great chatting with you. Time flies by way
too fast. We're hanging out. I feel like we've got
to start doing an hour long show.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Let work on it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Let's let's work on that. Vicky McKenna, she comes your
way next right here on thirteen ten. Double you, Iby
Hey, thirty six thirteen ten doubuib and ask the experts.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Great website.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I've been looking for something great to do on a
daylight today. It is so nice when you get into
the office. I just check your emails quick, just to
make sure that there's nothing pressing, and then head on
over to rock Wisconsin dot com. Take a little break.
You deserve it, You've earned it. You were at the
office for a wop in fifteen minutes this morning. Peruse
those houses for sale, those listings. Get a smile on
your face. Maybe you're thinking about vine, thinking about selling.
(00:32):
I know some folks that can help you. The folks
at Rock Realtea, Matt and the team are there for yourself.
Number six O eight six seven three fifty four hundred.
That's six soh eight six seven three fifty four hundred. Matt,
How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Doing good? Doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Do you guys see a spike in traffic at like
nine oh five where people get into the office and
start looking on the on the website.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's interesting that, yeah, to see the different times that
it happens, you know a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's around it's round lunch. Yeah, but yeah, a lot
of people it doesn't take them long.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And it is because I think that that's one of
those and I think one of the great things. And
we're gonna i know, we're going to talk about technology
and that stuff with with real estate and it's got
to be a huge game changer for a number of reasons.
Just having the availability of rock Wisconsin dot com and
that website. It does allow people that you know that
are just kind of I'm not maybe not necessarily today,
(01:21):
but I've just kind of like to familiarize myself. It's
fun to like do those It's almost like the the
window looking stuff where you're like, how do they decorate
their house? It's like a it's just like a fun
little escape to see what's out there and you know,
dream and think and say, hey, maybe that that might
be a place for me. So seeing a bunch of
people at lunchtime makes perfect sense, right, I say, we're
all closet, you know, home shoppers. We're always you know,
(01:44):
taking a peek.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
If nothing else, we're seeing what the neighbor's house looks
like but and you know, you can either be on
your desktop at work and go to Rock Wisconsin dot
com or if you have take a bathroom break, we
have an app. Oh yeah, so if we accommodate wherever you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Are at work, let's do Rock's backslash app.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And yeah, you can bring bring it with you anywhere
that you go Rock Rock Realty real quick. Before we
get to our feature listing this week's topic, the other
thing I wanted to ask you about is we talk
about folks that that you know you mentioned, we're all
we all like to do a little bit of a
little bit of that for folks that are super passionate
about real estate and and have an interest. I know
you are always looking for really good agents or really
(02:24):
dedicated people that are maybe looking to start a career,
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, I think that, you know, we're really concentrating on
people that wanted to do this full time, are already
doing it full time. There's a much pretty big time
commitment for real ters between the showings and building up
enough clientele base to earn a living. And so we
we uh, you know, we do a good job of
getting our agents just tons of live leads so that
(02:48):
they can fill their plates and have a bunch of
clients that are awesome and and work with them and
get to.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Get to a successful kind of a career level.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So that you know, it's a it's a it's a
new transition for him.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Sometimes and we talk about all the benefits of working
with Rock Realty. We don't always talk about the benefits
of working for Rock Realty as we do this radio
show each week and we talk about featured listings, and
I hear on the FM station. I'll hear some dude
talking about featured listings there as well. You provide a
lot of great tools for agents at Rock Realty, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, we try to, you know, be in front of
innovation and the technology forefront and you know, whether it's
you know, having live leads transferred right to their to
their phones, to allowing them to you know, communicate with
their clients via an app, to.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know, having the.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Best tools possible, you know, for them, whether that be
AI or you know, different visual tools that they can use.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, we're trying to stay ahead of the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
And we'll talk about some of those great tools as well.
How it works on both sides of the equation. And
speaking of folks working at Rock Realty, I'm noticing obviously
it's a great place to work when you've got families,
entire families where at Rock Realty. And this week's featured
listing a last name I've seen recently, and I'm like, Kayley,
though I don't think we've heard Kaylee yet. Killy is
(04:10):
Killy Kristowski Kristowski. I will someday out yet there we did.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
We did have Lindsay on at one point, Lindsay Kristowski.
She uh has been an agent for us for a
couple of few years now, and uh, you know, she
also invests in real estate and apparently has you know,
raised a family that's also interested in real estate because Kaylee.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is her daughter.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
She got license and she's an amazing agent for us.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Just kind of crushed it right out of the out
of the blocks so well.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And you know, it's a good place to work when
when parents are encouraging their kids to come work as well,
that's a really good, really good sign.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And it's happened more than once.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So this home that we're featuring this week is a
beautiful home in Janesville, right on Blaine Avenue. Let's talk
a little bit about this. I was, I was blown
away by the price on this on this home, especially
when we started I started going through and looking at
some of the details. We're talking about two hundred and
twenty four to nine for this for this home in Janesville.
(05:10):
It is a beautiful, beautiful property and it's got not
just is it currently beautiful, but it's got room for
expansion as well, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I know last week we wanted to bring an affordable
option in Madison, and this week it's one in Janesville
to twenty four nine hundred. It is eight oh six
Blaine Avenue in Janesville, listed.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
By Kaylee Krassowski.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And yeah, it's a cute little two bedroom, one and
a half bath bungalow and it's just perfect for an
empty nester or if you're a first time home buyer.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's got a brand new roof that's a big deal,
twenty five had roof, garage, door, central air.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
There's just a lot of updates for the price.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And it's got you know, a detached single car garage too,
to you know, keep some snow off your car.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yes, and that's that's another thing that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
As well as anybody that's that's had to get up
early in the morning and had your car in a snowbank.
You definitely appreciate that perfect gurage as well. As mentioned
Kelle is the listing agent to on this pick up phone.
You ever recall us morning six so eight three two
two ninety eight fifty five. That's three two two nine
eight five fives. I'd love to see this beautiful house
Blaine Avenue in Janesville. Of course you can see it
(06:22):
as well online Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock roc
k Wisconsin dot com. We'll talk about more of the
features of this great house in Janesville on Blaine Avenue.
We'll do that a little bit later on in the program. Again,
if you want to get a preview, you can head
it over to Rock Wisconsin dot com. Talking this week
about real estate and the and the technology boom, and
obviously tech has effected all aspects of life, and real
(06:45):
estate is one of those areas I think where you
really see some of the some of the some of
the big changes. And Matt, let's talk a little bit
about before kind of break down specific areas, just kind
of an overview. And I know we've mentioned on the
show before, not only do you love real estate? Are
a tech guy yourself, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, I tried to stay ahead of things. I mean,
my daughter calls me a boomer, but.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Uh doing doing my best to stay stay ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Of the things. Right.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So, you know, we initially, you know, made sure to
to source a good app for people to search, and
since then we've kind of been moving on and to
the next latest and greatest things, right you know, the
most recent thing, of course is your.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Your AI and integrating your AI.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But you know there's there's other, you know, visually appealing
different technologies that we've gotten into as well, and we
can talk about those today.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
We'll get we'll get into all that stuff and we'll
start off with that AI thing as well. As AI
is not just I think for a lot of us,
you know, we hear, we hear the the horror stories,
which and that's that's reality. But if used properly and
if used professionally, AI is a really I I full disclosure,
I use AI a lot in my in my professional
(08:01):
like it is a great tool for everyone, and especially
with real estate as It's become a great, great option
for you, hasn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, it's been surprising how how many aspects of it
we've been able to use. A lot of it's been
in the kind of the management side, Right, We'll use
AI to help come up with.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Ideas for this show.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, well we'll use AI for putting together outlines and
things for when we're having meetings right where else I
we just started using AI to kind of you grade
agents calls and give them suggestions and how they could
be better in the future. Right, So we're definitely using
that a lot. And on the you know, the client
(08:40):
side of things, we've been using AI for a number
of years just to be able to chat with clients,
you know, if they have questions and such through the
website and things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
One of the great things I found about AI is
it's able to bring in It used to be you know,
you have to google it all the time, like, oh
this this little aspect AI can it does all of
that in the background, gives you all that information. It's
also really good and we talk I know. One of
the things that you know, every month we break down
some of the market numbers. There's some big numbers. In
real estate, a lot of data, a lot of information.
(09:15):
AI does a really good job of compiling that information
and really helping with that. So when it comes to
things like home valuations and other things, it could be
a great tool to help you take some very large,
very complex math and really do all that heavy lifting,
can't it.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, that's something we've.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Just recently been integrating when we have a listing or
when we're considering having an agent consider putting an offer
in to try to get an idea of valuations. You know,
real estate agents have always been good at kind of
looking at the property and getting a feel for right,
you know, and that's something that is probably isn't doing
as well yet, right, which is the esthetics, you know,
(09:53):
the location right, things like that that kind of are
not necessarily metrics, but there's a lot to the day I
can do or you can you know, we've we've had
classes where were taught our agents how to you know,
take metrics into an Excel sheet, upload it to AI
and identify different trends that it's seeing and that's really neat.
So you can see market to market and zip code
(10:15):
to zip code different things that are happening so.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I think about to the you know, we talk about relationships,
we talk about that, you know, working with an agent,
and you know the importance of the human connection, and
that is something I know at Rock Realty, you guys
really focus in on is making sure that that your
agents are really committed to the people getting that stuff
done the great thing and I think that for folks
that don't always see the understand the full benefit of AI.
(10:39):
It allows agents to spend more time with people, spend
more time with those actual human connections while it's kind
of doing the stuff that let's be honest, we're talking
about big numbers and other things. I don't really want
to be worrying about.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
AI has been. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, I do the research, ye exactly, and let folks
focus more on folks be folks. Yeah, we got a Matt,
We've got you've got a T shirt company there are
talking this running with Matt Heyman, owner of Rock Realty Online,
Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's our ock Wisconsin dot com.
Or top number six O eight six seven three fifty
(11:15):
four hundred. That's six oh eight six seven three fifty
four hundred. There was it's been a few years now,
but we did go through kind of a very rough
spell a lot of folks dealing the COVID and shutdowns
and other things. One of the things that did come
out of it was kind of forced a lot of
I will say, on the consumer side, a lot of
us to start using our computers and our smartphones a
(11:39):
little bit differently. And I know a lot of businesses
like retail did a lot of work to make their
websites more robust, things order from home, delivery, that type
of things.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Same deal with real estate.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I know, you guys did we have done in our
continue to continuing to improve that online experience because even
though we are obviously completely open, everybody's living their day
to day life just like normal, we did get a
bit spoiled and now we kind of expect that and
things like videos and virtual walkthroughs and really high quality photos.
(12:13):
That stuff has now become an expectation for the for
the industry, hasn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of it has. The virtual tours
was obviously a huge thing during the pandemic. You know,
we have a photographer that also is certified for you know,
Zillo Virtual Tours as well, so that you know when
when when you have that service, it'll show up on
Zillo and just have that you know, Zillo walk through
(12:37):
icon that you can go through and actually feel like
you're walking through the property. So it's really helped, you know,
buyers and real estate agents to kind of do a
little bit more research and just when they're going into
a showing, it's it's much more likely that they're going
to place an offer because they've done things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
What is I circle two things here and I put
a question mark what are these two items?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, I just thought i'd share these things in case
you wanted to use them.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Matter Horn matter Horn.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Is a pretty cool service where and you've probably seen
it where you can do a virtual tour by clicking
on different areas on a map in the house so
that it'll bring you to that location. Then you have
a three sixty degree view in that location, so then
you really get a feel for the house versus a
video walk through.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's called matter Horn, So that's a that's a service
that you can you can pay for have done and
there'll be a website link that people are brought to
and they can walk through the house that way. And
Blonde Waterfall was a recent one that I came across,
you know, got snagged on my social media and it
got me Blonde Waterfall. It can take you know, high
res images and then create a video off of those.
(13:44):
It literally turns it into three D that image and
lets you kind of, you know, walk through the space
a bit in each video.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So it's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
My mind's blonde is pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
So for ninety nine dollars, I feel like I supposed
to pay for ninety nine dollars, you can take your photos,
upload them and whatever photos they are.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And they can turn them into three D images.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
So I don't know if that works for nature photos
or not, but there might be some other ways to
use that site.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
So I thought that was pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That those are really really cool. I'd never heard of
either of those before. Very very cool stuff this morning.
So you talk with Matt Heypman, owner of Rockrealty Online
Rock Wisconsin dot com. That's Rock Rock Wisconsin dot com.
We'll talk with Matt a little bit more about technology
augmented reality.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What exactly is that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
We'll find out for Matt how that works, talk a
little bit more about the technology as well in real
estate and specifically at Rockrealty.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
We'll do all of that next.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
In the meantime, been to the website Rock Wisconsin dot com.
I urge you to head on over there now as
soon as you get to the office. That's our Ock
Wisconsin dot com. You can even bookmark it now. We
won't tell your boss. If that's how you spend your
lunch break, that is perfectly fine with us. That's Rock
Wisconsin dot Com. Telp number six so eight six seven
three fifty four hundred. That's six oh eight six seven
three fifty four hundred. More of our conversation with Matt
(14:56):
next as Ask the Experts with Rockrealty continues right here
thirteen ten double U I B I eight fifty four
thirteen ten W I B and ask the Experts with
Rock Realty. Hanging out this morning with Matt Heyman of
Rockrealty online, Rock Wisconsin dot Com. That's Rock R O
c K Wisconsin dot com. Talking more tech during the break.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Is well just which is always fun. We did.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We talked about the different you know, like the the
video walkthroughs, those type of things. We're talking drones off there.
Do you guys do drones stuff?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is that? Is that real? Stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
If it's uh, you know, if it's appropriate for the property,
then yes, I mean if it's a small little, you know,
tent taker a lot, maybe not necessary. But yeah, we
do drone shots fairly often, especially if you want to
kind of see the surrounding areas.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'll see, like when I drive drive down to Edgerton
where I get out into those like those wooded lots
and those things, I'll see the Rock Realty sign there.
So I'm guessing those are probably the ones that that
you're using on those where they're very very cool. Before
we get to a review of this week's featured listing,
as we talk about a little bit about about the
technology that you guys are applying at Rock Realty, let's uh,
(15:59):
let's bring up and just kind of rap about that
augmented reality word and that type of thing. It kind
of ties in a bit with that virtual tour tour
stuff that we were talking about earlier, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Yeah, aug rendered reality.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I mean sometimes like on the I guess on the uh,
the short side, it would be taking photos and virtually
staging them.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
If anybody's looking to virtually stage their own photos, go
to box Brownie dot Box boax brownx Brownie dot com.
They'll virtual stage, they'll do your little twilight photos, so
little tidbits, you know. But you know, as far as
augmented reality, I think that's probably the next big step,
and it might be a few years out, but I mean,
I could see a situation where you know, you're wearing
(16:40):
your your ray band, meta glasses, you're walking through the
house and it's pointing out different features within the house.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
That would be pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Someday we'll get there and you know, we'll have that stuff. First,
it'll be Matt and the team speaking of bouth firsts
and and fantastics. We talked, uh talk. This started this
show off. The first thing we talked about was this
great featured listing in Janesville, two bedroom, one bath, two
hundred twenty four dollars, a great, great deal on a
(17:11):
beautiful house at eight oh six Blaine Avenue. We talked
about some of the updates, new roof, the garage, door central,
there a bunch of other things as well. What we
hadn't had a chance to talk about is it's got
like a like a workshop and and all these you
know the stuff. It's the bag got beautiful trees. This
is a really really great, great property just all around
(17:32):
there's just a little bit of something something everywhere you look.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's very modern feeling inside. You know, the white trim,
and it's got some you know, beautiful round flooring off
that kind of accentuates off the white.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And then you know downstairs.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I love it when older you know basements have like
painted concrete, right, it just makes it feel clean and fresh.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And that's what this one feels like. Right. You know,
a few.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Steps upstairs you have a large kind of private room,
so it offers a lot. I think this is a
this one won't stay on the market too long at
two twenty four nine.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's why you've got to pick up the film this
morning and call and call Ashley. Excuse me, Kaylee right
late this morning. Don't call her Acghley. She'll be like,
oh who you call for? Call Kaylee right away this morning.
Her telephone number three two two a ninety eight fifty five.
That's six oh eight three two two ninety eight to
fifty five for Kaylee Kurstowski, uh listing agent on this
(18:25):
great home again. It's at eight oh six Blaine Avenue
in Jamesville. If you had on over to Rock Wisconsin
dot com, you can check it out there as well.
But again I would urge you. As Matt pointed out,
this one's not going to be long on the market.
So if if you're in the market for for a
great home, you definitely want to call this morning. It's
three two two ninety eight fifty five. That's three two
two nine eighty five five.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's always great chatting with you. Time flies by way
too fast. We're hanging out. I feel like we've got
to start doing an hour long show.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Let work on it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Let's let's work on that. Vicky McKenna, she comes your
way next right here on thirteen ten. Double you, Iby
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