You're listening to the John and Heidi Show Bonus Hour. If you miss any
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Show Bonus Hour on a Monday. What a busy weekend we just had for
all of you who came out to the air show Saturday and Sunday. That
was amazing. Sadly got cut short yesterday because of the weather and then it
got nice after that, which is really also kind of sad, But again,
they made the right decision because they had thunder and lightning and all kinds
of stuff. A lot of people to get off the airport grounds, by
the way while they were doing that, So good job to everybody who was
involved in the Sioux Falls air Show. Also a big thank you to everybody
who came out to the Soup to the South Dakota Chislick Festival that was on
Saturday. I got to be the MC for the first half of that event.
It was so much fun. It was a very busy, busy,
busy weekend. I got a whole lot of sun. I'm looking at my
arms right now thinking wow, I'm a little darker than I was last week.
So I hope you had a nice weekend as well, and I hope
you have a lot of fun stuff planned for this week. We've got a
lot of fun things planned here, Like Johnny Strong. He's gonna be my
guest at the end of this hour. So he was in a program called
Blackhawk Down. That movie it's been I don't know about a decade ago,
I suppose for that. And then he's also got another franchise that he was
a part of, Fast and the Furious. He's my movie star Monday guests.
We're gonna be chatting with him coming up at the end of the hour.
Between now and then, I have Brent Baker from Clients First Group will
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The John and Heidi Show on a Monday Our guest right now is Brent Baker.
Welcome back, sir, it's great to be back. We love having
you here. Brent is with Client's First Group and Keller Williams. He's a
realtor in Who Falls, and we talked last week about home maintenance checklist we
kind of started going through and last week we talked about the roof, we
talked about the gutters. Let's work our way down to the siding, because
again, this is all part of that outside envelope we were talking about.
But these are important things because if there's something wrong here, there could be
other problems too, right, correct, I mean if it starts on the
outside, it's gonna work its way inside, whether that's rain, snow,
rodents. Yeah, it's very important that you protect the exterior of your home,
and with the siding. Part of that might even just being making sure
that it's painted, because if you've got paint that's peeled away and now there's
little cracks and there's room for moisture and things to get in. So it
could literally be as simple as a gallon of maybe more than a gallon if
it's a whole house, but a couple of gallons of paint correct, and
different types of sighting where differently. So the house that I grew up in
had what was called hardboard, and it's sort of a paper type product,
and so if you don't keep it painted, it starts to delaminate and come
apart, and then it looks hideous. And it's also then allowing rodents or
some type of credits to enter your home. So taking care of the siding
is a really big deal, not just for beauty, and there are so
many ways to do that, if it's painting it or replacing the siding with
a different product, but making sure that that looks nice. Because in addition
to providing that envelope that we were talking about, that keeps your home safe
but also makes a huge difference on curb appeal, huge difference. Correct.
You know, at some point every home is going to get sold, whether
you do it while you're alive or your errors sell it. Curb appeal that's
a first impression item, just like when you a person on the street,
and it has a huge impact on value. Absolutely. One of the other
things on the outside is the trees. And when we were looking at homes
with you, it's been can you believe it's been over a year ago.
Now that's less. It seems like just the other day. But we we
bought our home last July, and when we were out looking at homes,
I was amazed at there were some that you'd you'd go up to the house
and you're going, man, these trees are like rubbing the house. And
there's you know, others that were all maintained and beautiful. But we were
looking for a project, so so a lot of the ones we were dragging
bread too. He had to be thinking, what the world is wrong with
you too? But I just kept in mind who I was working with.
It like, Okay, these two are insane, but when it's all said
and done, it's going to be nice. So but when it comes to
trees, there's some things to probably look at when you're maintaining and making sure
that they're all taken care of correct. You know, what starts out as
a shrub can become something that is harmful to the entire house, not at
the sighting. So if the roots keep expanding and keep shooting up, you
might be damaging your foundation. And if those brush shrubs are not trimmed,
they're rubbing on your sighting and if they get tall enough, they're going to
start pushing on the gutter and damaging your shingles. And a tree if it
overgrows, those branches swing across your shingles and take the graining off. And
not to mention that at some point a windstorm may take a branch down and
now you have more damage. So pruning trees and shrubs is really important.
And trees are so beautiful. Unless they're not maintained, then all of a
sudden they can become a huge, huge problem. They provide shade, they
provide you a little bit of wind block, but again, if they get
to a point where they're too big for that space, now instead of all
the beautiful beauty and wonderful things to add, now they're a big subtraction.
And when people are looking at buying a home and they're going, I'm going
to spend how much just to get rid of all these trees, that conversation
has been held more times than I can imagine. And if it's a healthy
tree and it's been trimmed and maintained, it doesn't come up. But when
it's allowed to overgrow and the branches are really hanging down, yeah, I
can't tell you how many times people have walked away from a house and said,
I don't want to pay to have that pruned. Absolutely Well, we're
gonna head indoors next week. We're gonna chat more about that. If somebody
listening would like to chat with you, whether it's about this checklist and seeing
what they need to do to make sure their properties maintained properly, or if
they're going, hey, Brent, I'm the I'm in the market to buy
a home or sell a home. How do they get a holding? Well,
the easiest way is six zero five three, one zero zero two nine
seven or email me at Brent Baker at kW dot com. Very nice,
Brent, thanks for coming inswern always a pleasure. John again Brent Baker with
Clients First Group and Keller Williams, and again you can find him online at
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