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Thank you for listening to The John and Heidi Show Bonus Hour. I'm
excited for some fun things that are coming up this week. We've got a
very funny comic that's going to be in the area on Thursday. I tried
to get him on the phone today, but we're gonna actually chat tomorrow,
which is just fine. Coming up later, we're gonna have Brent Baker stop
in the studio with a little real state update for the city of Sioux Falls
in the surrounding area. So if you're in the market to buy a home
or sell a home, I encourage you to talk to Brent Baker. He's
amazing. He's actually the realtor that we worked with, So I just did
a different home about a year ago. Also coming up, we've got this
day in Sioux Falls history, and today's Sioux Falls history has to do with
a person who became president not once, not twice, not three times,
but four times. The only person to be elected four times to the US
presidency was in Sioux Falls on this day. We're going to chat about that
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John and Heidi Show Bonus Hour. On a Monday. I'm excited to have
Brent Baker join us. He is with Keller Williams and Clients First Group.
How are you doing, sir, I'm doing well. I'm excited to have
you in here. We've been talking for the last couple of weeks, kind
of going through a checklist on things that people should be aware of to make
sure that their property is well maintained, not only for them while they're living
there, but to also keep the value up when it's time someday to sell
that home. We went through a lot of stuff for the outside. We
talked about a lot of plumbing things now and we mentioned dryer vents last week,
which is another thing that people don't necessarily think about. But now let's
talk about the hood vent and you're stove, because that's another thing. I
guess I've never even thought about my hood vent. But that's kind of important,
isn't it correct Not many of today's homes vent directly to the outside.
They recirculate, So the underneath of your microwave, if your microwave is mounted
above your range, there is sort of a hood there. There's a filter
in there that gets dirty, or if you have just a typical stove hood
and it's also recycling. Kite recycle recycles the air. Excuse me, there's
a filter there that needs to be cleaned. And those things cannot do their
job if they're plugged. And so if your house is starting to smell a
little bit, or when you cook bake and you get smoke everywhere, maybe
that's just made from cooking it too hot. I don't cook very often,
but over time, you just know that things add up. Speaking of appliances,
there's others that are probably important to think about as well, like a
refrigerator and freezer and those kind of things. Correct, refrigerators need to be
cleaned. Some have a filter for the air, some have a filter for
the water. So there's things to look at. And you know, nobody
likes a dirty fridge. Nobody wants to pull food out of a dirty fridge,
and you need to clean behind it. Yeah, it dirt collects back
there, and you have big dust bunnies and those affect the efficiency of your
refrigerator. So those coils get dirty. They need to be cleaned. Thes
a reason there's wheels on that thing to roll it out and get back there
and roll it back. They weren't just for installation, No, And now
the electrical system is another thing that you might not think about, but that's
a pretty important thing. A newer home maybe not something you have to worry
about nearly as much, but if you're looking at an older home, there
could be some concerns there, couldn't there correct A lot is changed in that
field over the decades. You know, there's still homes with fuse boxes and
with knobn tube wiring or steelcase or fiber cover, and sometimes those have been
affected by rodents. Older homes tend to have a problem because rodents have had
more opportunity to get in because there's just more places for them to get in.
Yeah, but even in a newer home, an outlet could go bad,
could short out light switches. We have ceiling fans, all the different
types of light fixtures. So when a fixture goes bad, sometimes it's just
a ball, but if the ball doesn't fix it, we have something deeper.
And you know, electrical is probably one of the main causes of fires,
you know, home, and if there is an issue like that,
don't leave that issue. If you go what's going on? It's not a
light bulb it's something else, get somebody in to fix it right away,
because you would hate to find out that it's something else really bad by waking
up in the middle of the night with a house on fire. Yep,
that's not not to wake up call. I want no now. Another thing
that's really important is a foundation. Everything is built upon that, and that's
something that you want to make sure. I remember we were looking at some
homes and we're like, oh, that's kind of like humped in over there,
and that's kind of cracked over there. So these are things that are
really important when you're working on making sure that a home is as good as
it can possibly be. This is kind of where it all starts, has
none correct If you see a crooked rough line and the floors walk crooked,
well, then your problem has started in the basement. Yeah. And whether
that is a foundation that is shifting, buckling, or maybe just the center
beam is needing to be re leveled. Older houses, you'll see that quite
often. But sometimes you have a wall that's starting to buckle from outside pressure.
And that's more common in a block wall than a board wall by far
when it comes to newer construction. But also this goes back to that very
first discussion we had about gutters. Yeah, if the gutters are not present
or are not functional because they're plugged, now the rain is collecting at the
base of the foundation and that has potential for a great harm. And there
are companies that can fix that. So you know, just because there's an
issue with the found dation doesn't mean oh, we're done. This is not
going to work, But there are companies that can fix it. But there's
also an investment. And that's where you're saying, if I'm going to sell
my house, maybe it makes sense to get that done first, so now
you don't scare away a lot of buyers. And you can also say,
hey, we just had all of this done and it's not a project that
the next person has to go, oh, hey, look what we get
to do. You know, we get to deal with all of this.
Well, it tends to be a great fear in people's minds, and they
tend to walk away from a lot of houses where the foundation could be fixed.
Yeah, but in their mind, the house is collapsing. Yeah,
and perception is reality quite often, so it's best to just get those things
addressed. They can be straightened, they can be repaired and that puts people's
mind at ease. Absolutely. I think the last thing that we get to
talk about now is the heating and cooling, and it's an important thing.
I don't know why we put it last on the list here, but this
time of year, you want to make sure the air conditioner works. In
the winter time, you want to make sure the heater works. That's another
thing to just a little maintenance goes a long way, doesn't it. It
truly does. You know here in the Midwest, where we have heat and
humidity in the summer and we get very, very cold in the winter,
the last thing you want to do is to make an emergency call, especially
in the winter. Yeah, it takes time to get furnaces, it takes
time to install them, and there's not a lot you can do to offset
that emergency. So it's best too, on an annual or semi annual basis,
have your furnace inspected, make sure it's clean, that the burners are
adjusted correctly, change the filters. Change filters is a big, big thing.
And maybe just have your duckwork cleaned and eliminate some pollens and some other
things, and and then your air conditioner it is supposed to stand level.
It's they I've always been told up to five degrees, it's fine. Another
thing is that those coils get dirty, so to turn the AC off,
pull the fan motor and wash it from the inside out so that you're not
packing the dirt further in because it entered from the outside. But that will
make your air conditioner much more efficient and give it a lot more life.
Nice Brent. If somebody listening is going, hey, this has been fascinating,
I'd like to know more. First of all, they get this checklist
from you, or if they maybe want to buy a home or sell a
home, how do they get a holding Brant? The best way is six
zero five three one zero zero two nine seven, or you can email me
at Brent Baker at kW dot com. Very nice, Brent, Thanks for
coming in swer It's always fun. John again, Brent Baker. You can
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This day in Suf Falls History brought to you by the Sioux Falls Fund Page,
West Sioux Studios and Sunny ninety three point three. He was on this
day, August fourteenth, nineteen twenty. Fdr Franklin Delano Roosevelt made his only
trip to Soux Falls. Now, this is long before he became the president
that guided the US and the world for that matter, through World War two.
FDR at the time was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in the nineteen twenty
election. He was running alongside James Cox. Interestingly enough, much of that
campaign, just over a year and a half after the end of World War
One, focused on America's involvement in European affairs and the actual parameters of the
New League of Nations. Actually, FDR speech in Sioux Falls opened up touting
the benefits of America's involvement in the League of Nations. This day in Sioux
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