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I'm Dave Anthony Fox news evidence showing the Army veteran turned Isis terrorists. So didn't you bar before he drove his truck through a crowd in New Orleans early News Day. New surveillance pictures showing you bar in the and the hours leading up to the attack walking through the French Quarter and placing two coolers with IEDs inside that he apparently planted detonate during the massacre. Fox's Gary Tenny on Bourbon Street where police killed you bar after he murdered 14 people with his truck and injured more than 30 others.

Fox's book Taylor talked to his brother in Houston. He told me it was just shocking and heartbreaking. And a huge part of this investigation are his ties to ISIS, which authorities say he claims he joined this summer. His brother told me he grew up Muslim, but he spoke about his brother feeling extremely lost, especially after his two divorces.

No links been found from New Orleans to that cyber truck explosion in Las Vegas New Year's Day that injured seven people, the driver found dead inside. Thirty seven year old Matthew Livelsperger of Colorado Springs. Authorities found evidence that Livelsperger had sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. U.S. defense officials tell Fox News Livelsperger was active duty U.S. Army Special Forces, most recently a green beret, who was on leave from Germany.

That's Fox's Jeff Paul in Las Vegas. The new Congress takes over in about four hours with Republicans now in control of the Senate and the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson is confident he'll be reelected. We'll have maybe one no vote. I think I think we get it done on the first round. Well, the slim majority, however, Fox's Ryan Schmels reports from the Capitol.

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The Medal of Honor is the highest military honor reserved for conduct involving bravery or self-sacrifice, involving risk of life at the White House. Jared Halpern, Fox News. All that the day after the president caused controversy awarding citizenship medals to 20 Americans, including Democratic Congressman Benny Thompson and ex-Congresswoman Liz Cheney, a Republican.

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Good morning and welcome to the seven o'clock hour of Buyers and Company. We'll check in with Mark Tupper and Tupper on Sports. Tom Brinketer will be in studios to give us a look back in 24 and a look ahead at 25 in real estate. Company starts now. Buyers and Company W. S. O. Y. 13 40 a.m. 103. 3 F. M.

I got to tell you, I love the Notre Dame helmets. It looks so good. Oh, yeah. And I think it's the fact that I know like schools like Oregon have like a lot of different uniforms and they're into all the metallic, but there's so much going on with them that it's like, I think the Notre Dame helmets work because the unis are so simple that that really spectacular gold lid just looks even better.

matches the, you know, the building on campus and matches a lot of stuff. I agree. It seems to work for them and being independent works for them to $14 million awarded to the conference of the winners. They don't have a conference of $14 million to them to them. Why not? No splitting. I watched part of the game was entertaining. The helmets are just great though. I'm normally not like the flashy helmet guy, but I think it's because the basic stuff, everything else is basic.

Yeah, I've noticed some really good football uniforms this year of in that vein that are that simplify it and strip it down the bangles all white with just simple black stripes.

I've seen. They got the busiest helmet and sports though. Yeah. But I love you. It's like you can. If you have the other, it works. It does work. I don't like the Georgia Bulldogs helmet. Big red with that seal just stamped on it. It works. Yeah. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. I watched a lot of that game yesterday afternoon. It was a good game. We've had good games. I mean, you know, like close and

Coming out on you know, you know, like it's fun if you're not really rooting one way or the other. That's right because you you're entertained no matter what exactly right. Yeah, and you're not heartbroken I Feel bad fans that just live this stuff. I mean I really do because it there's such a fine line between just you know unbelievable accomplishment and just abject failure and you both put in all the same kind of work and it could have gone either way and it's just that fine line and

a ball bounces a certain way. Sometimes a ball penned up. Look, a ball being penned up against a helmet is going to probably put a guy in the hall of. That has never been one of the best players that is positioned during his life. Those annoying Miami dolphins that are still alive still do their thing. All right. Good morning and welcome. We're back here on a I'd like to say a beautiful morning. It's great. It looks a little foreboding, but we're going to keep an eye on the weather. You should too. I would encourage you.

just to make sure you got salt and stuff like that in your garage. You know, the brushes, the brushes, the stuff that we've not had to deal with for quite a while. And sometimes, you know, you just wake up and it's January and all of a sudden we got a winter weather watch and you go, Oh, I haven't, you know, made sure I've got water in the car or, you know, a couple of protein bars or just the kind of stuff that you should pack up and have ready to go just in case and hopefully you never need it. That's right. And don't make a run on toilet paper.

They don't need this thing's going to be gone in like 48 hours. We're not doing a week. That's right. There's also that fine line of people who don't do anything and then people who do way too much. You know, I was at Sam's Club one time during a preppers period and and I we and we were out of or it was time to buy toilet paper and they have the big and I felt guilty walking around with the big thing. Oh my God. We actually need it. We're not worried. Yeah. Well, everybody.

Like everybody says that notice there's not 50 cans of baked beans. Yeah, just the toilet paper

We had the great deal of the Decatur Fire Department blowing through downtown, heading 51 South. I'm not sure what was going on there, but hopefully they're all safe. And that's got to be the worst time in the world. I mean, not that there's ever a great time to be a firefighter and have to do that job. But when it's so cold and you think about trying to put out fires and the water that turns into ice and everything else, it's just got to be a miserable time.

I watched recently a video of somebody showed me, I think probably from TikTok or YouTube or something. Fire truck coming in hot, you know, like it needs to into a cul-de-sac and then it was all ice and it started sliding and rolling and it crashed into a house. It wasn't there. I mean, they were responding to an emergency, but once they got there, it was treacherous in a different way.

It's just one of those things. So be careful out there. And if you hear the sirens, make sure you're stopping with plenty of time as well. OK, first made ticket window. We have a line of tickets to give away for next Wednesday is the next home game. And that is Penn State, I believe. Yep. Home at Penn State at the State Farm Center. So we'll be giving away two pairs of tickets for that. These are physical, right? These are these are digital. I email them. I've had nobody.

We've had all different ages. We've had all different whatever. It takes you minutes. I was just questioning about timing about when to give these away. We can do it next week, beginning Monday, if we want. Yeah. Well, that might be, is everybody's home? And we're the only idiots out working Monday morning. We'll give somebody a reward. So by Wednesday, it'll be a little cold, but you'll be great to go over to the State Farm Center and check out the Illini against Penn State. That's right. They've got how many games in between there? Because there's another game Sunday, right? They play at Washington.

They do. That is a 3 p.m. Central time game. So not nearly as bad. That's an afternoon game. So you'll be able to watch some football and then go right into the line of game and then they play again at home Wednesday. Eight those will be the tickets that Wednesday, the eighth is that Penn State Saturday, the 11th is probably what you meant. They play USC. I'm sorry. What? No, January 5th this Sunday.

Yeah. Yeah. They play Washington, then the eighth. Oh, I seriously. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to correct you. I have two home games back to back after these two. No, they're playing. I was just saying before they get home, there's another game on that coast swing with Washington that's taking place Sunday and then they'll be back at home on Wednesday for the home game, which is the ones we will be giving tickets away to. So, you know, hey, easy peasy. Thanks to first mid and the ticket window. We've been doing this. I don't know how long.

I don't have clue longer than I've been here. Well, by a decade, probably two. I mean, it started out as the team. So I take it window and then through the sale and all that, the first mid ticket window, but the same sponsor. And I can't tell you how many Cardinals games, how many Alainai games. You know, we've sent people to World Series. I mean, everything. It's awesome. I mean, you know, all those years ago, that game when David Freeze became legendary, somebody was sitting

there at Bush Stadium because of the first mid ticket window. Oh yeah. That magical Darren and D run. I mean, that was another one. I mean, there have been few times them playing the number one team Tennessee just a couple of weeks ago and almost pulling that off. Yeah. Coming down to the literal last second.

at the buzzer. We send people there. So over the years, we just really appreciate it. And it's a lot of fun. And it's just our way of giving back. We love to do that. And we're going to be doing a lot of that as we celebrate our century party. We're going to be taking the century tour out of the road all this year. And we've come up with all kinds of ideas and things that we are implementing and putting in place. And there'll be surprises along the way.

And a lot of ways for people to get involved. But here's the thing. This birthday party isn't for us. It's for the community, you know, 100 years of telling, you know, this community stories.

and looking forward to the next. And we want to really get out and celebrate all of the great folks and businesses and companies and people that are out in this community making a difference every day. We just decided a long time, at least I did. And I noticed like when you put the garbage story up, you know, yesterday, now the story was informative. It wasn't meant to make you mad of just saying, hey, as a reminder, January 1, this is what your water rate or your garbage rates are going to be.

And to your point, if you've got the two totes, maybe you can go down to one and check your thing, and that's all in the story. But you put a story like that up there, just meant to inform, not to inflame, because that's just not what we do here, or particularly with notacator.com. And it automatically divides the commentary, right? And then there's people to just zero in, and what a horrible human being the mayor is. It's like, OK, well, the mayor is one vote. I mean, even if you want to be,

this is the path you're going to take. I mean, unless it was a four three vote, which it was not, you know, there's

There's a whole council. There's a whole city. There's the garbage company. You know, why does the hate always got to zero in on one person is making all the decisions about everything that happens in this community? It makes it easy, doesn't it? Yeah, but it's wrong. And so people like to indulge in that and other media love to do it because they just look at, oh, look at the clicks and look at the clicks. And that's just not what we're doing here. And so we're going to spend our year, yeah, having fun on our birthday, but telling all the great stories.

And I'm really excited about it. I am too. And, you know, the first hundred years of this, of this radio station were filled with all sorts of things, stories being told and different things that have come and gone and need to be remembered, need to be retold, some things that still exist. And it'll be fun to see what the next hundred has and which has already begun. And it is fun and it's not.

This isn't a forced fit because the business of a hundred years has been telling and sharing the stories of the things around. Yeah. Let's continue the tradition in doing it in all kinds of new platforms and ways. But anyway, we're having fun. If you think you might want to be a part of that, you know, let us know because we're going to, we're, this is all about the community. Yeah. And if you have ideas, please, yeah, tell us, we'd like to, we'd like to celebrate with you. Tell us your story.

Um, what color is associated with 100? Um, I don't do that thing. I don't know as an artist. You don't know. I mean, people are hiring me to do like, I don't know. I don't know birthstones. Those sort of things. I don't know. I'm just curious.

probably gold, right? No, gold's 50. Gold's 50. And but it does say the AI is telling me which I find by the way is inaccurate. More times than not. Yes. They've they've totally messed this thing up. They're going to have to start over. Yeah, the Google AI, which pops up in your just when you're just doing your feed. It may not even be inaccurate. It's just information that was six years ago that's not reflective of what the truth is today. You know what I mean? It's not.

like a sports score is an easy one. The Alignite beat Oregon 71 to 63 and you look and it's like that was 1984. Right. And that's the first thing it pulls up. Yeah. All right. So what are the colors for 100th anniversary? I think that gold, silver and purple seem to be the. So we can do everything like the village people. Purple tends to be those commonly used

OK, AI, AI, I forget them not looking at that traditional anniversary colors. Here we go. It says for let me go to 80. You stole the good one. Well, you know what? That's fair because you just said I'm looking forward to the next 100. I always said, yeah, good luck, pal. Neither of us are going to come close to seeing that. That's right. Yeah, that's funny. They're like, we'll stop at 80 arbitrarily. It's kind of funny, actually. Well, I mean, really?

They're mostly associated commonly with wedding anniversaries. So that's why. Yeah, right. Cause I mean, people are going to have a hundred year wedding anniversary. No one. So it's going to change soon, though, probably. Well, I think we just forget about all that. I'm not a big purple guy. I know people like Bogle and Prince and, you know, Vikings fans. Sure. I'm not a dude. Are you a fan of purple? I don't know. But it's not. Okay. What's that? I mean, it's fine. Okay. It's and there's a lot of different purples.

Oh, by the way, you said 50 is gold, right? Well, that was me speculating. But yeah, probably. I found in my searching through the archives, the 50th anniversary cookbook. Oh, yeah, you told me about that. That's in gold, the covers in gold. Nice. Well, we should think about a digital. OK, like a community cookbook. That would be very cool. Like as an old school throwback,

to the 50th anniversary. I love that. And I remember being at enterprise school, we would do cookbooks where we would bring in our recipe. And I don't know who did all the work, but we would one teacher probably would bring in our recipe. They'd type it up to fit the format and then they would cloth bound these little things. I did the art for one. Yeah. And you buy them as a fundraiser. We have a couple of them. Yeah, I still do too. I did like in the third grade or something. I drew the picture that was used for the cover for the cover. Oh, nice.

So there's the 50. There's a stamp right here that says spiral brown bound on the top. Yeah, 50 a half century of service. The golden anniversary.

Yeah, it's cool. Does it open horizontally or is it vertical? And the cover looks like it would be the other way. But no, it's vertical when you get into it. Yeah, it looks like it'd be like a desktop calendar the way that they didn't. But you got the cover doesn't match that or 50 years ago. They didn't have standards. Yeah. That was the gold standard back then. Half right. No, you would think it would be turned the other way. Yeah, I agree with it. But so, I mean, these were just these are just an example.

Uh, Lois Woolley with hot slaw, uh, with medium head cabbage, chopped fine eggs. Let me give you all a thing. Slaw salad. So it's, it's basically is broken into sort of categories. Yeah. So there's like meats and main dishes, salads and stuffings. Uh, that's fun desserts, whatever it might be. Golden peach pie.

possible coconut pies. And then these these folks and their names are in this, you know, forever. I love that. Yeah. I think that's a blast. And I wonder how many of those recipes have been handed down. Well, two things. How many have been handed down to their families? Because they're probably important enough to send. Absolutely. But how many did listeners pick up because of because of that? And now it's sort of been their thing.

We have a couple of cookbooks at our house that get used around holidays and stuff that are of that lineage, that kind of thing where some have origins from our family or, but there are a couple where it's like, Hey, I bought this at a community thing. And now I use that to make my potato salad. That's exactly right. So this would have been 1975. Oh, wow. That right? Yeah. No. Well, oh, it. Yeah. Yeah. 50 years. Yeah. Yeah. 50 years ago.

So that's in your imagine. Yeah, I told you what 1985 looks like watching Spencer for hire 1975. Doesn't look 50 years old. I mean, you know what I mean? Like it looks well, it's very basic. That's why I mean like they played it safe. It doesn't. It's got a little the Tron sort of font. I do love that. It's got a little CBS and the zero there. I just noticed and the 50th, the half century of service. I have a cigarette lighter from this as well. Oh, neat. Like the Zippo is a gold too.

the logo and everything else. The printing of it. Yeah. Cool. I don't think they were doing the fancy Zippo's back then. No. It's a stainless steel. That gold, but the idea that you would hand out cigarette lighters is hysterical. Mm-hmm. I mean, can you imagine today? Oh, it's ridiculous.

be expensive and it'd be dangerous. No, obviously. Yeah. What do I do? If you think society hasn't changed, like I said, all you got to do is just kind of go back a little bit. Yeah. What are you doing? It's a cool item. I love having it. Do you remember when we first started getting like it probably happened around the iPhone time, the accessories that would be gifts, like the little plug-in speaker, the

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on sports on W. S. O. Y 13 40 a.m. And 103.3 FM streaming live at now, Decatur dot com. Each and every weekday morning we check in with Mark Tupper and Tupper on sports man has been fun to talk a line. I lately big win last night for the basketball team. Yeah, no kidding. I mean, you think about the bowl game win the other day and then this game last night.

flying high right now. Now, well, as you guys know, it was a late start last night out in Eugene, Oregon. They didn't tip off until about nine 10. And but a line of fans were well rewarded for staying up late as Illinois put on a show that will have the whole college basketball world talking today. You know, with any team you wonder, what's their ceiling? What's the best this group could look like?

and Illinois flash their ceiling last night. This is the youngest team in the Big Ten, playing the ninth ranked team in the country on their home floor, and Illinois beat them so severely, 109 to 77.

that eventually Dana Altman stopped coaching them. He yelled at them early, then he yelled at them some more, and finally he just took a seat and watched the last few minutes of what turned into an epic beatdown. That really happened in an unusual way, because in the first half, Illinois's most talented player, Casparas Yachasione, has picked up two quick files. Brad did not want him to get a third file in the first half, so he pulled him.

Casparas played very little in the first half and did not have a point. And so Brad had to dip into his bench looking for a spark. And the two guys he called on were rarely used Jake Davis and then Drake Gibbs Lawhorn and they were sensational. They hit threes. Jake Davis crashed the boards. Drake Gibbs Lawhorn was just relentless attacking the basket. And those two combined for 23 first half points.

as Illinois led 45-38 at the half, and then Illinois lowered the boom. An 11-2 run to open the second half included three straight threes, and then it was on. Ben Hummerkhouse finally showed why Brad Underwood starts him. He hit four threes, made the dunk of the game, broke out with 18 points. Cass Baras, who I said was scoreless in the first half, and with NBA scouts watching from courtside,

Put on a show in the second half, he ended up with 16.6 rebounds, six assists, Trey White really good throughout 20 points, 11 assists. So I mean, celebrate it now, but get ready for Sunday when Illinois goes to Seattle to play a Washington team that upset Maryland last night.

Sunday's game starts at three. You can listen to it here on WSOY or watch it over on the Big Ten network. But that was stunning last night, 109 to 77. Crazy man. All right. Let's take a quick break on the other side. We'll check in with college football with Mark Tupper and Tupper on sports. It's brought to you by First National Bank, the quality bank with two locations, indicator.

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back here with Mark Tupper and Tupper on sports. All right. Over to college football. Well, they delayed the sugar bowl a day to complete that security check of the super dome. And when they finally did get going at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, Notre Dame was ready and beat Georgia 23 to 10 in what was a quarter final game in the 12 team college football playoffs. And as a result, Notre Dame moves to the semi finals.

and we'll play Penn State Thursday night at the Orange Bowl. The other semi-final is Ohio State against Texas in the Cotton Bowl on Friday. Notre Dame season has been eventful. I mean, they opened with a road win against a ranked Texas A&M team and then came a home just a stunner on September 7th when they laid an egg and suffered a shocking loss to Northern Illinois.

that look like it might torpedo their season or at least their college football playoff hopes but if you're going to have a clonker have it early so there's plenty of time to make amends and that's what Notre Dame did they went to Purdue the next week and won 66 to 7 and then they won every game since and many of them blowouts leaning into a group of key transfers they really

Um, got the right guys in the transfer portal, including their quarterback, Riley Leonard, who came over from Duke. Jaden Harrison, who returned the second half kickoff last night for 98 yards and a touchdown is a transfer from Marshall. Riley Leonard was really good running and passing last night. Um, it was funny. I was listening to the Notre Dame Georgia game on the radio as I traveled back and forth to the studio for sport talk and the announcers were talking about the pace at which the coaches

were shuffling in substitutes. And I was amused when one of the announcers said, hey, take your time. Do a BOMO, a reference, of course, to a line I coach, Brett BOMO, who caused a stir.

with his substitution strategy in the citrus bowl. So do a Beelma is a thing. And it's just like in gymnastics. If you invent a move, they will name it after you. If you take your time substituting your players, that's now called do a be almost. So I love t-shirts are on the way. All right, Mark. Have a great weekend. We'll check in with you Monday. Mark Tupper and Tupper on sports. The coach for Notre Dame looks like he's 22 years old.

I don't even know who it is. It's Marcus Freeman. He's actually 38 years old, relatively young for a head coach. He's got a lot of charisma and he just, I don't know. I didn't know who he was either. I didn't watch much Notre Dame football this year. But watching the game is like, God, this guy's like, he's good on camera. He's good with the reporters. He's good looking kid. Looks like he could, you know, be an athlete still. And I thought, how old is he? 38 is 38. Yeah. Looks younger than that, though.

I bet he's good. I mean, he looks like a guy. I think about what college coaches used to look like. Oh, yeah. And I mean, what they look like today, relating with kids, you know, versus just kind of coming in and so much has changed. That team was fun to watch yesterday. I might be rooting for them out of the teams that are left. Oh, I do recognize him. You're right. He does look young. He looks fit too. Oh, yeah. Looks like he's ready. He's polished. I mean, he's like, he's squared away. Yeah.

All right. Hey, causes pizza in Mount Zion. We've got a $25 gift card up and ready to go on our Facebook page right now. Just go to Natick Inter Facebook page. Look for the Brink Otter home highlight. How do I enter to win? Simple. Like comment. If you'd like to, feel free to share. Tom Brink Otter will join us in studios. We'll give you Michael Sexton's listing at 2953 Bentley Court Indicator.

with Mount Zion School District and all of the other amenities. But we'll also get a real report, you know, what a 24 end up looking like. What does 25 look like it's going to be? So look back and a preview forward. Yeah, guys got it all, man.

I'll imagine 38 year old kid. I mean, I say kid relatively speaking and coaching ranks, you know, you end up maybe winning a national championship. Yeah. He's getting a little long in the tooth. If he wants to be an NFL coach, though. Yeah. Did you see who they're floating out? There's potential bears. Mike McCarthy. Pete Carroll. Come on. All right. Let's take the break. Brink out our home highlight on the other side. Stay tuned.

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back here on a Friday and every Friday this time we have the Brink Otter home highlight but at the beginning of the month we check in with Tom Brink Otter and this is a great time to check in because it's a new year January but we also can reflect back on what 2022 2024 ended up looking like and where we think 2025 is heading cold out there this morning huh?

I'm sorry I got the wrong mic on my bed. Go ahead. Let's get a little chilly. We're going to have some stuff between now and Monday. How much hopefully it misses us a little bit. We're not too bad. But hey, you can curl up this weekend on your laptop or your iPhone or whatever it is and peruse through Brinkado.com. It's one of my favorite things to do when you're chilling out. What did we end up looking like in 2024?

Well, let's talk about December because the year 2024 finished with a bang. We had quite a jump in volume in December 24 versus December 23. We went from just under 12 million in volume last year to almost 16 million in volume this year. That's almost a 32% increase in volume December on December. Give me an idea of what, I mean, in your business, how big is a 32% increase?

That's huge. I will say there was a couple of really big sales in December. Doesn't hurt. One was a package deal of about nine houses that sold. So we have that quite often. But the thing of it is, Brian, is the units were down 13%. So we only had 81 units sold. But the volume was up because, again, as we've been talking for the last couple of years, average sales prices continuing to climb.

So average sales price for December. And this is going to be skewed quite a bit. Was $195,000. But that's because of those three or four really, really big sales. OK. And when you look at those big sales, because we've talked about a couple of those, you don't want to bring out our home highlight. It's an interesting market out there, right? I mean, a lot of different levels.

Yeah, it kind of depends on what your price range is, where the marketing times and exposure times are, you know, high end is high end, right? Yeah, but that audience is looking specifically, they find it banned, they're moving in. That's right. Yeah, that's right. You can get a heck of a lot of house in this market for your money. There's no doubt. And what do we think 2025 is going to look like? Or I mean, it's way too early to probably have any indicators, but what are you expecting?

Well, if you look at 24, it was up over 23. OK, all three key indicators that we look at units were up almost 2%. Average sales price is up to 158, too, which is the highest I've ever seen it. Yeah, I mean, that's that's quite a bit. Yeah, that's up 7.1% over 23. And then volume was up 9% to $196 million. OK, so we had a nice little

three to twenty four. Interest rates are kind of the key to this. And what's happened is as they kind of went back up. They're hovering right now around seven percent. The Fed's been cutting the rate a little bit, but the mortgage rates haven't gone down. The mortgage rate isn't necessarily tied to the Fed rate. The lenders set the mortgage rates. But I look for interest rates to be in that six

to maybe seven and a quarter range throughout the year. Hopefully they'll come down and get in the fives. But if you look historically over time and you think of a six, six and a half percent interest rate, that's not really bad when you look back over the last 30 or 40 years. Sure. That would have been unheard of.

I'd like for 2025 to be a really good year. All right. So talk a little bit before we get to our property today. $29.53 Bentley Court. You can go to the now to get your Facebook page and like and comment, we got a $25 gift card to causes in Mount Zion for grabs because Brinkon are not only do they the real estate company here in town, but they take care of small businesses every week by giving away those gift cards. Hopefully you've been before, but if not, maybe it's your first time there and you go back and keep doing business with our local folks. Local, local, local. That's exactly right.

when you're looking right now you know obviously the weather looks terrible over the next few days but you know are we still in those trends of like okay now everybody's hunkered down for winter so I'm gonna be less likely to sell my house or is

This time that might be a really good time because a lot of people are doing just that. I think it's a good time. Right now, if you want to get your house on the market, inventory has dropped down into the mid into the hundred and thirties. There are 136 homes when I checked last night active for sale. That number has been running in the 160 to 170 range. So December, that'll tell you December was a good year because we had more pendants and the active listings dropped.

which means inventory is still extremely low. And if you put your house on the market right now, you have less competition for your home and supply and demands what's driving the market value. Yeah, and moving is moving, right? I mean, everybody goes, well, it's cold. Yeah, I don't know what the moving trucks are still going to be the moving trucks.

Yeah. The guy's picking up the stuff and moving. They're going to pick up the stuff and move it. Well, you know, you got you got to consider if you put it on now. Let's say it's on for for two weeks and then you got at least a 30 day close if somebody's getting a mortgage. Yeah. So by the time you're ready to move, we might be, you know, whether we're heading towards St. Patrick's Day. That's exactly right.

That's great. Well, check out, what do you know about 2953 Bentley Court? Michael Sexton is your broker agent. The contact information, by the way. If you click on that link on our Facebook page, it'll take you right to this listing and you can get Michael's cell number, office number, email. There's a, you know, gazillion ways you can get in contact with him.

This home is located in a nice little pocket of homes off of Lost Bridge Road. Okay. So if you go around Lost Bridge Road, follow the lake or, you know, if you come across Lost Bridge, take a right, follow the, follow Lost Bridge like you're going into Mount Zion. You turn, uh, I believe it's burdener and you go down the vining drive and it's a nice little pocket, not a whole lot of homes down there. No through streets. So, so it's all called a sex streets. And this is a great home. Have you seen this one, Nick?

I have and I'll tell you what, if my favorite, this is growing on me and it's from looking at these houses. I was like to start with my favorite thing and it is that sunroom man, especially in that neighborhood. And I looked up the dimensions. It's 10 feet. It's like 24 feet or something. It feels like it's 40 feet by like 25 feet. All that natural light.

just beautiful view. I saw that it has the double of it in the kitchen. I saw the countertops. I think they're they're granite and then all the different space. But I really like the outside the backyard backyard. Oh my goodness. Yes. Here's the thing. You have a beautiful lake view.

but not Lake House taxes. So you've got a great view of the lake and you just save yourself several thousand dollars right by not actually being on the lake. Because when you get on the lake your value goes up. That's exactly right. So but this is I mean you talk about that backyard view right and the fire pit area you know right there next to it down the stairs. It just

That looks like I think about, you know, football season and the ball hanging out, you know, it's an unbelievable house. It also has got a character. It's got two walkout levels out to the patio and the kitchen is phenomenal. If you if you're a cook, it's got an island kitchen, granite countertops, nice spacious kitchen. It's just a it's a great house. It's got a cooktop in in the in the island there.

with seating as well. So you could almost do your own little hibachi right there and cook it and serve it hot right away. I mean, the kit you're right, Tom, the kitchen is beautiful. I think I saw three different fireplaces and I'm a goodness, a basement, all the things I want. And you talked about the walkout. There's a lower patio on the back where there's a grilling area, you know, kind of shielded.

And then along the side, there's this huge space. They have a work table sitting out there, but you can see that space being used for all sorts of different things. And then that nooked out backyard experience with the fire pit right there is Brian pointed out. This house is meant for entertaining.

Or not. Or not. And I'm telling you, I bring that to the table. Nick wants to always throw a big party. I don't want to throw a party. I like the idea of being into a party every night, just it's our party. It's just us. But I like the nooks and the, you know, it's got character. It's not cookie cutter. And it's also when you think about the bones, I mean, you could go anywhere you want to go with this, right? It doesn't have a particular style inside, meaning you're not like

you're not going to have to do a lot of work to put your own thumb print on this. And this is one of the homes with a decatur address at nine times in school. I'm looking at all the patio area, the decks, the levels. I mean, isn't this a lot of patio relative to, I mean, premium houses have a lot of, you know, stone and whatnot.

at this price point. That's a whole lot of finished outdoor experiences, isn't it? It's a great outdoor experience. And Nick, the added bonuses that you you have multiple walkouts to the patio. So when you're on a different level, you can walk right out to the patio. And that patio goes around the corner of the house and down the north side of the house. So it's huge. Yeah, it is just different views from every level. And this is what I always like to look at first. You know, yes, you know that it's for bad, right? It's it's three full baths, half bath.

You've got how many square feet? You've got 3,012 square feet, you know, 1930 above, uh, uh, uh, total finished above grade. You got the main, you got the upper, you got the basement. 106 dollars a square foot is your price on this house. Yes, sir.

I'm telling you, I mean, that's it's just unbelievable. We're we are with a lake view. We are sitting in one of the most affordable housing markets in America right here in Decatur, Illinois. That's a hundred and six dollars a foot for three thousand square feet. And I'm noticing in a lot of the rooms some crown molding. I'm noticing the extra long vanity in the bathroom.

I'm noticing some things that make me ask this question. And I'm going to ask it wrong. But is this a sneaky premium house built into what would be considered just a run of the millhouse? Is this sneaky fancy? Well, I think there's been some upgrades to it, Nick. You know, you don't really have a quartz island when this home's built. So over the years, the homeowners have done some things. And I will tell you that it's got a brand new roof and brand new siding.

Wow. So, you know, your typical risk gonna last 25 years, so there goes that maintenance cost for the next.

you know, 20, 25 years and then brand new siding, which I don't know this for sure, but it could have been a factor of the hell storm. A year ago, a lot of new siding, a lot of new roofs. There's a lot of new reasons. No doubt. But you're right when you're thinking about making an investment. And this is, you know, it's three, it's three nineteen nine. You know, I mean, it's it's a, but it feels like these houses we've been looking at that are like five and six. The amenities inside feel that way. I have that feeling. Well, the view you're not going to be. No.

And once again, I point out Lake View, not Lake House, which makes a big difference in the taxes you're going to pay because you're still going to get that spectacular view. And that area is a year long view. I mean, I think people think about Lake stuff, but man, in the fall when all that foliage across the lake turn, I mean, it's a

If you want to talk about views, a lot of lake views are better in the winter because there's no leaves on the trees. Yeah, you can see the whole thing. You can see the whole thing. And one other thing I want to point out about this house is it's got two bathrooms with double vanities. People don't think about that a lot, but that's a really, really nice convenience having two vanities in your bathroom. And one of them even has like an extra looks like eight feet of countertop running off the double vanity. It's ridiculous. And some of the basic things I always like to point out

right there. It looks like sidewalk right there. You've got neighbors. They're fairly close. Be of privacy fence. You've got. I mean, it's just a nice setup. Really not a lot of land to take care of. Just like point two acres and double garage. Yeah. I mean, as the house is built up over the top of the garage. Very nice. A lot of character. Great

character, but it also it's in a lot of ways will be your own blank canvas coming in, right? I mean, you could do I just I think about like what your decorating taste is, you know, or you can temporary traditional. I think you could put anything in this house. I would say if you're interested in this house, you better call your realtor today because it probably won't be there after this weekend. Michael Sexton would be that person. And if you're interested in 2953 Bentley court, Decatur address,

You're looking at a nice size home, but yet still feels cozy and feels like so much character and that outdoor space. Man, what are you renting for 1500 bucks? Anything close to this? No, no, not even close. So using the just the default settings, the standard amount down 20% down 30 years at a six percent, 1500 ish bucks is your payment. You're you're not you're renting less than like way less than this.

a quarter. Yeah. It's silly. Yeah. This isn't going to last long. You're right. All right. Go to our Facebook page. We do have a twenty five dollar gift card. If you want to set up an appointment with Michael to see the house and then go grab yourself some causes pizza and Mount Zion. You can win that gift card on our Facebook page right now. All right. So new agents new year new. I mean, you know, give us a preview of what's to come over twenty twenty five. We got our young guns going. Amy Amy. My trainer has got four four new

Bradley Harbison has just joined us, just been licensed and has gone through his eight week training program. We'll get him in here in the next month or two to talk to you. But things are going really well at the company. We had a fantastic December and we had a great year. Always great to end with a great month, isn't it? Yeah.

especially December. You know, usually slows down December and January. We're pretty busy. All right, time to listen. Happy New Year to you. You guys have a great year. Yeah. Well, as you as well, we're going to do this when we get back on the other side of the break. Angela is just back from the citrus bowl. She was down there to see the line. I win that great bowl game. We'll get a firsthand accounting coming up after the news. We'll take a top of the hour break. It's the Friday edition of Buyers and Company. Don't go anywhere.

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