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Welcome the duke pod a unique twist of Real estate news through the experience a top producing brand featuring tales from a plethora of client tales; how transactions went well, or very wrong and everything in between! When listing this podcast, the audience will learn about fascinating situations behind the scenes. They include great learning experiences, precious advice, often a good laugh and never a dull moment. My name is Filip Hajduk out of dukerealtyhomes.com and these are our stories for your enjoyment!
Episodes
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Greetings friends,
We are now knee-deep in 2021 and so far things look and feel exactly the same as in 2020. Currently, the only difference is as I am writing this, Trump is no longer the president and after what happened in Washington a couple of weeks ago, that seems wonderful.
The Great news, for us at least, is that we did not have to wait long to secure our first deal of the year. It was a home purchase that was long overdue and finally bleed into the new year. This is good business yes, however, the experience for the client was a long, long, tough, in fact very tough road, perhaps the toughest road of all to experience. It took them 2 years to make this purchase, which they were potentially ready to purchase a home some 730 days ago. Guaranteed, they experience the maximum amount of emotions in their home search possible.
This episode explores clients that take their time to purchase homes in the current market, often delaying or waiting. How this thought process leads to many tough, challenging situations that in hindsight could have been avoided. Strap in as we analyze two years ago all the way to this very day. Enjoy the ride!
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Greetings friends,
Yesterday was my wife's birthday, happy birthday to her!
Over the weekend I met with a few people that made me think. The real estate market has buyers scared since prices are so high while being very competitive. So what is the point of looking? A tenant told me they can not seem to find anything they like for their buying budget and would rather just lease for a couple of years instead. Is this a good idea?
We explore this concept: is worth waiting or better to just buy whatever you can actually afford, even if the home you can afford is not great.
Or stories include clients who bought and sold homes in a short amount of time, even being very apprehensive about their purchases. We will review what happened and how much money they made if at all.
Clients who bought homes that looked terrible inside and others that bought homes that looked good inside and terrible outside! A client that bought for a lot of money in competition a few years ago and how they feel now. Finally my own example!
Enjoy!
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Greetings,
Even in a fantastic and fruitful year of success, there are always situations that do not work out! 2020 was a great year for us in terms of sales and business success but it did end with two clients that just could not find a home. These clients even told us they are done, a "super" seller's market can have that effect.
Here are some stories of when it did not work out recently, with new and old clients and how to handle those situations. Mostly it comes down to staying positive and maintaining a professional approach for each client. Even when things are not going well, you need to maintain professionalism and never make it seem like you are giving up on a client. Your output on effort must be consistently high until the case is closed!
In this episode we discuss
- Issues when a home is not selling to your client's expectations
- Hiccups with clients
- when honeymoon phases end
- How maintaining a good attitude can circle back around even years later.
Enjoy!
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Greetings,
2020 was hard for everyone. Saying that, you made it though as the new year is upon us, congratulations! However, it was actually a pretty good year for us with the addition of our daughter, good health and lots of real estate transactions to complete so you guys get lots of stories to digest!
Here is a thank you to everyone who supported us and many more great things to come in 2021.
Also lets review what happening in 2020 for our real estate market
1. Starting with a seller's market
2. Full slow down once Covid hit
3. A slow revival in the spring (April- June)
4. A Summer busier than most Springs, full Seller's market.
5. A busy yet steady fall market
6. An explosion in Winter as prices spike 5-7% in days.
7. What is to come in 2021!
Happy new year!
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Greetings friends,
Is everyone ready for Christmas? Which 2-3 family members made the cut to come over for the holidays? Either way, I am ready to be festive and enjoy some downtime. We here have been working A LOT all year and all the way to literally the day before Christmas, we have been working. Busiest December I can remember.
The Real estate market is on fire, and not just a small flame, but seems like a super sellers market right now. Homes that sold 30 days ago, now seem to be up 5-8% in different cities in a matter of days and prices continue to climb. Many clients and buyers are getting priced out of areas, types of homes and have to pivot or even consider quitting. It's getting messy out there. Here are a couple of stories about what is really happening out there as buying a house all of a sudden has the same feeling as going to war, with no guarantee of winning.
Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Greetings friends.
Every once in a while we hear of people doing wonderful things in the world. Sometimes they are helping others, other times doing something daring, or following their heart bicycling around the world for two years.
Mark Quattrocchi is a dear friend is mine, who I met at University. After we went our ways, he finally got a chance to attempt one of the most difficult, dirty, challenging and rewarding journeys of his life when he set off on bike from China and did not stop until he got back to his home in Canada. This is a tale of grit and grind, pedal by pedal. This is a tale of saying hello everywhere he went and where that leads him. His tale becomes a reality, and with that, the publishing of his book about his encounters and lessons we can learn. This trip was a magical mission, all for a good cause as he was able to collect enough donation to build 5 schools across the world!
His book is called "The cycle of Life: The Power of Saying Hello". You can check it out on his website.
Markqspeaking.com
Mark is now a motivational, public speaker in the Ontario region. Join us and get to know Mark, his stories and the motivation behind this incredible trip. Who knows, maybe you too could be inspired to jump on that bike and pedal away!
Don't worry folks; we sprinkle in some real estate at the end!
Psst. Stay to the end for the blooper.
Marks Bio
Mark Quattrocchi believes in the power of creating positive sustainable change for ourselves and those around us. He is a Motivational Speaker, Facilitator and Author, who has returned from an unsupported 35,000km bicycle journey around the world from China back to Canada where he fundraised $50,000 to build five schoolhouses in communities along the way. Before Mark came to work as a speaker, he was a certified teacher who taught internationally in South Korea, China and locally in Canada. Now, Mark lives a more comfortable life in the small town of Smiths Falls with his wife and daughter.
Enjoy
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Greetings
Welcome to December, almost. Today I have a home inspection, those have been very rare this year with so many homes selling like hotcakes. The masses are being forced to waive their home inspection conditions just to have a chance buy a home, seems like all the time now. The market is just moving too darn fast.
With that in mind, we discuss everything you need to know about home inspections such as;
- what is a home inspector and what do they do
- how to choose a home inspector
- The cost a home inspection $$$
-Why it's important
- what you should know about doing a home inspection and its value
- Examples of inspections, clean and bad ones!
- How to negotiate if you find something in the home inspection that is a pickle.
- How to use home inspections for yourself in a seller's (today's) market.
- and more
Enjoy!
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Greetings friends,
In this episode of the Duke pod, we get an insight into the cottage market and what Covid19 did to increase the value of cottages to some insane market never seen before! If you are reading this and own a cottage, you may be a millionaire without knowing it! In the span of 6 months, the value of cottages has risen so much that some of them are selling $200-300,000 more, within just a few months!
We just closed a deal on a cottage for a client and learned a few things on the way. If you are looking for all the ins and out of what to know when looking at cottage acquisitions message me and ill forward you a wonderful training from a colleague of mine who is a long time real estate lawyer that knows his country stuff. His 50-minute presentation goes over everything you need to know about buying a cottage.
This episode also talks about the longest negotiations of my life as it basically took 2 months and many many days of patiently awaiting with two stubborn groups of people on both sides. We are really happy to finally get this done for my clients as they just purchased their first cottage, which in these days seems to be like winning the lottery. Join us on this episode and find out how it all went down!
Enjoy
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Greetings,
Welcome to Episode 16 All Things Mortgages with Kishore Nagarajan from CIBC. He joins us to discuss the state of the world when it comes to mortgages from a bank perspective. After 11 years with CIBC he brings a wealth of experience. In this episode we discuss:
- The current mortgage rates (1.74 Fixed and 1.64 Variable)
- The state of current mortgage and what's coming
- Differences in A, B mortgages, aka different levels of mortgages
- Tips about qualifying for a great A Mortgage with the bank
- Tips for how to fix your credit
- How immigrants can build their credit & more!
Enjoy the episode!
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Greetings,
Its November, during a pandemic, 20C outside and Biden is now president. What a time to be alive! In this wonderful episode, I go through my golden tips of home selling, especially if you are planning to sell your home in the near future. If you are planning to sell your home in the spring, or in the next month or months, plan ahead and use this tips to sell your home for the maximum value all while having the easiest and least stressful time possible.
Ours Tips are
1. Call your realtor ahead of time to give you advice on what to do and not to do in your home to get it ready.
2. Make sure you have the home freshly painted to a neutral based color everywhere!
3. Decluttering and storage tips: where do a store all this crap?! Advice on religious items and family photos (Personal stuff on walls).
4. Tips on managing 50-100 people coming to view your home in the first week!
5. Small renovations that can be done to avoid major buyer objections!
Enjoy!