What color socks is Aaron Weber wearing? Sock Duality meets Real Estate

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We have Aaron Weber from the Aaron Weber group in here again. He's the namesake of the

company and he's one of our great sponsors here at maxing radio, great sponsor of Live

in the Lair. Live music segment. And so when I get here, here's Aaron. Here's the big question.

Let's see this ox. Let's see the sock. We've got different sock. We're betting. We're betting on

what it is. We've got one grade two sock. Classic grade. Oh, and it's darker gray with an

emblem. Almost matching. That's the best. The closest. It's very close tonight. Yeah, but

different brands, distinctly different brands of socks, absolutely different brands, different

links, different, you know, material. Yeah, one shorter than the other. It just makes you feel

better about yourself. If that's messed up, everything else is going to go right. I was guessing

polka dots earlier, Alan, one of the socks. I was way off. But do you think, do you think other

realtors use this trick of different socks? Are you the only one? I think I'm probably the only

one because I'm the only one who is confident in it that I just don't care. Does it? So no one

else in your agency? No, no, no, different socks. They're way too more way too professional.

Well, tell us about your real estate brokerage. They Aaron Weber group. I mean, how many agents do

you guys have? Well, I've got eight agents to work with me now. Yep. Besides me. I mean, so eight

people do way better work than I do. Wow. So that's always good. Then I got support staff. I got

two support staff that helped me all the time. So realistically, without all of them, we want to be

here. So they're doing a great job. They're out there hustling every day. I'm out there hustling

every day. But you call us at any time. We're ready to go. How's that? How's the new partnership

with Compass work enough for you guys? It's almost like a marriage made in heaven, right? It's

awesome. It's the best thing I think we've ever done. We never knew what we're missing

till we got there. And now we're just going places we didn't know because we didn't have a compass

to see. Wow. And look at that prophetic for people that mean I know explain the compass and how

that really helps the home search. Well, the compass really helps the home search because

then you get directions where you're going. It's like having a garment in your car. You know,

would you don't use Garmin A. Marks. That's old. So you're using Google Maps. So you can find

the place. Yeah. Siri, tell me how to get to this house. We don't know how to do anything without

technology. It's what I'm looking at here. And what compass brought to us is the technology we

needed to get in front of everything else that's out there. Wow. That's incredible. What is the

current climate around Dane County for buying and selling homes? You said it's it's been changing

a little bit. It's changed. I mean, in the last week or so, there's been a lot of things going on

in the market in general. A lot of economic news, a lot of other news going on. It's kind of

shifted in the market slightly. Interest rates and theories should be going to go down this fall.

Now they're talking about many rate cuts instead of a few, which is great for home buyers. You

can have lower interest rates. You're going to be able to afford more homes, which is now giving

buyers leverage because some people don't want to go out in an uncertain economic environment right

now. Yeah. And it has been a huge seller's market for so long. Huge sellers, I

still think it's a huge seller's market no matter what's going on. So let's not get ahead of

ourselves saying you can look at a house this week and it'll be there in three weeks from now.

It's not happening. Wow. But you now have options. There's so many more options out there. There's

so many more houses hitting the market. We're starting to hit that cycle the season where there's

the maximum amount of inventory can be on the markets. You have maximum choices, but there's

also maximum amount of buyers out there. Yeah, there is. So you have to partner with somebody that's

going to get you into the house before everyone else know what you got to do to get the house and

get it done. That means writing a sweet offer, right? Oh, it doesn't have any bad things in it.

Exactly. It's usually about, you know, you want to put a photo with your offer with the thumbs up

on it. You know, a nice space. Really? Be like, you know, we got you. And you see what happens. I

mean, try something that's outside of the box. That is a little bit outside of the box.

I mean, I've had realtors right on my house to send me a pair of socks and like, here's a

matching pair. I'm like, this is not going to work for me. So they're obviously listening.

They are. They do listen. They know me. Yeah. Yeah. If I was thinking about buying a house for the

first time here in Madison, how can I prepare myself before I give you a call?

Oh, then the prepare yourself before you give me a call. So you're going to want to stretch out

your hands, grab your phone and give me a call. Because I will tell you, it takes you through

the entire process. You know, there's no, you don't need to mentally prepare. You don't need

to like get all your banking stuff in order. Talk to me and I'll get you in touch with the right

people to get you where you need to be. Wow. That sounds so helpful. And it's stress free.

Stress free. Did you hear that, Jimmy? I heard that. Now you just bought home. Did you,

did you get any stress? Did you have stress? Tons of stress. Tons of stress. I know I

didn't see a lot of great hair though. It wasn't, well, I'm a good guy. I live a good life here.

Now my experience, I wouldn't say, the stress was self-induced on myself just looking for the right

thing. Well, you know, and of course, you know, lining up the financing, making sure the numbers

all work out. You know, say there is a little bit of homework, but having a good realtor is key.

And to help you along, especially, you know, looking for things that might be wrong with the house

beforehand or or or or just steering you in the right direction. That's what I like about

you, Aaron, is that you really have the the ability to be able to steer people to get where they

want to be. Make that dream come true for them. And I would say how we make the dream come true

for you. And everyone else is sometimes buyers will pick out houses they want to see.

We go to them. They're not overly impressed. And then I finally will sit them down and say,

hey, can I just pick out a few? I'm pretty sure I know what you're looking for. And they're like,

well, I don't want to see that house. I'm like, let's go see it anyways. We go see it and they're

like, this house is amazing. This is what I love. I'm like, you're welcome. Thank you. I'm sorry

that I listened to you, understood you and took you to the house you run by and got you the house

you wanted. Sorry. That is so true. I think that that's true. And a lot of time people are out there

looking on Zillow and different, different programs. And by the time they get back to you,

the realtor, you're like, yeah, there's an offer accepted on that already. Exactly. So that's why it's

so critical to get in front of us so early. Yes. In your process. So you know what's coming. We can

tell you about things that are coming before they get here. Right. We have a crystal ball. It's

really cool in our office. It's in the middle of the office. We touch it every day. It's kind of

like the matricade ball tells us every house is coming. We know everything. Right. So that's what we do.

That's key. That is actually one of the keys, I believe. And if you don't have somebody working on

your side that's ready to go out there on the ground, hitting the pavement, know what the beat is,

everything that's going on, you're going to get left behind. That's right. I tell you what,

buying a house, selling a house is one of the most challenging things you could do as an adult.

It really is. And to have that friend the hell, it really goes a long way. If people wanted to

get ahold of you, obviously you can go to the website, move to Madison.com. The website's full

of great information, useful tools. But what do they want to call you, Aaron? If they want to call

me, they could call me in my cell phone directly at six, wait, five, five, six, four, one, seven,

nine, or they could call you know, Max, in here and just, you know, ask for Aaron, have me patch

through. Yeah. I mean, you guys can be my reception. It doesn't sound like a bad play. Right.

I could do that probably. Yeah. The Civic Media operator. Exactly. Civic Media. We'd like to talk

to Aaron. We hear he's great at real estate. And Civic Media is going to say, hey, we deal with music.

We'll figure it out. We'll get this handled. I was wondering why there was a AWG button on our phone.

There's a lot of things. There's a lot of random swag that you're going to have just shipped here.

We got new merch coming out. So there's all sorts of fun stuff here. Wow. Aaron, thank you so

much for coming in tonight. It's always a pleasure seeing you talking to you. And thanks for your

support, support of Max and Gradio and the rocker, Jamboree, you coming out? Absolutely. We'll be

there. We'll bring the team. We'll have some fun that day. Oh, thank you so much for helping out.

Great. Absolutely. Can't wait. We're going to have details about the rocker, Jamboree coming up

next hour. Is it nine o'clock hour? Actually, we'll have all the details. That's when subatomic is

stopping in. That's right. Subatomic in electromagnet. Excellent. Let's do some Lake Street,

Lake Street dive. These guys are out of Minneapolis. I love this band. Check it out. Better not tell

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