(upbeat dramatic music begins) - Welcome to "A Shot of Ag!"

My name is Rob Sharkey.

I'm a fifth-generation farmer from just outside of Bradford, Illinois.

And yes, I'm a farmer.

I know how to farm.

I know how to buy a farm.

Luckily, I haven't had to sell a farm.

(Lauren chuckles) But I recently realized I have zero clue, and I mean zero clue, on how to buy a house.

I moved into my grandmother's house.

- Okay.

- I should introduce you.

Lauren Gerdes.

- Sure.

- Yes, you're from Washington.

- Hi.

Yes.

- Thank you for being.

You are a realtor.

- Yes.

- Right?

- Yes.

- And you're with the JBG Group.

- Yes.

- Jill Barclay Group.

- Yes.

- That's here in Peoria?

- It is!

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- I met you, my son was looking for a house.

- Mm-hm.

- And it's very exciting.

- Yeah.

- It's his first house.

And I'm very proud of him, because he's worked hard for this.

I mean, he's working on the farm, and then he spends his nighttime, he's editing podcasts and that.

- Wow.

- So, he's gotten to the point where he can afford a home.

- Yeah.

- And that's why we met you.

And then you made our life difficult.

- (chuckles) Yeah, I tried not to.

Tried to make it a smooth transition.

- We will get into all the difficult things you have done, but let's learn a little bit about you.

You're from Washington.

- Live there now.

- Live there now.

- Grew up in southern Illinois, yep.

- Where'd you grow up?

- Mount Vernon, Illinois, so, about 3 1/2 hours from here.

- Okay.

- So, yeah.

- Just, you don't have any farming, but you said maybe a grandparent?

- Mm-hm, my grandparents were farmers, yeah, outside of Mount Vernon.

My dad's family did a lot of farming.

We still have ground in our family, and we have some.

- Mm-hm.

It's just, you know, as the generations span out, it gets a little more spread out, so.

- Diluted.

- Yep.

- Yeah.

- So, we have some, and some relatives have some, and, you know, yeah.

- Okay.

So, where did you go to college at?

- McKendree University.

So, it's down by Saint Louis and Lebanon, Illinois.

- I've never heard of it.

- It's small.

(chuckles) - Is it?

- Yes, it's small.

- Why'd you wanna go there?

- I didn't.

My mom wanted me to go there.

(laughs) - Did she go there?

- Nope.

She just thought it was a good school.

It was like, an hour from where I grew up.

- Ah.

- So, you know, far enough away, but she could still visit.

- Oh, it was an hour, but you lived there?

- I lived at school, yeah.

- Okay, you kinda, I don't know.

- What?

- The first two years I went to ICC, I lived at home.

- Oh, yeah, I went.

- And then I'm like, "You know what?

Just, I need," you need to spread your wings.

- See, I was the opposite.

I didn't want to leave.

I didn't wanna go.

I was, like, crying, you know.

- Sounds like your mom wanted you to leave.

- She did.

Just booted me outta the house.

It worked out.

I mean, it's where I met my husband, so.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- I mean, was that traumatic?

- No, it was, I mean, I was just being dramatic.

I was, you know, like, a dramatic 18-year-old.

Didn't wanna leave my mom.

(both chuckle) It wasn't that bad.

It was a really nice school, but.

- Did they have housing?

- Yes, yeah.

- Okay.

Sometimes that's hit or miss.

- It's been, it's better now than when I started.

No offense, McKendree.

- I got a feeling there's a story you're not telling us.

- I just, no, it was just a good school.

I just didn't want, you know, all my friends were staying close to home.

I had, you know, like, a, - Yeah.

- you know, when you're gonna marry your high school sweetheart.

I was in that stage of life.

- It is tough because, I mean, - Yeah.

- when you're in high school, and you got all your friends, you're graduating, - Mm-hm.

- and then, now if you're going off to college, you know, you go from knowing everybody - Yes.

- to nobody.

- Yes, and I'm a people person.

I like, you know, to be surrounded by my friends and my family.

- Yeah.

- And so, like, to go somewhere I knew nobody was not high on my list of things to do.

But, I mean, it obviously worked out.

I met my husband, and I still have several really good friends - Yeah.

- that I met at McKendree, and were in my wedding, and, you know, are like aunts and uncles to my kids, and so.

- What were you studying there?

- I did athletic training, is what I started, or that's what my degree is in, but.

- Oh, really?

- Mm-hm.

- Did you play sports?

- I played volleyball in high school, and then I went to college, and if you do the athletic training program, and you do a sport, - Mm-hm.

- because athletic training, you have a sport each semester.

So, if you play, then it takes a little bit longer.

So, like, going into it, they told me it would take five years, and I didn't wanna go the one year, so I didn't.

- Yeah.

- But then I, like, ended up staying five years anyways, so, I just should've, you know.

But, I've always liked sports, I still enjoy sports.

- Yeah.

- So it was nice, a way to be around it, and not participate, really, if that makes sense.

- You're tall, were you the?

(Rob pops lips) - I played middle hitter, when I was in- - That's the spiker?

- One of 'em, mm-hm.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- Did you set?

- Not very well.

- No.

You were mainly, you were the one - I just mainly hit, yeah.

- taking people's heads off.

Okay.

- Well, sort of, yeah.

- (chuckles) Is this the, from your school?

- Yes, it is.

Just.

- Okay, it was, like, too big.

Do you know what's fun, is, the camera guys, they don't like when you do stuff that you've, - That you haven't.

- yeah.

They want me to sit here.

They wanna put baby in a box, basically.

- Mm, yeah.

- They want me to sit here, and behave myself.

They want you to sit there, - Mm-hm.

- and behave yourself.

And then when you start doing stuff, already, although I refuse to wear an earpiece, Kayla is screaming, "Don't let him do anything stupid."

Well, let's do, I want, we gotta show the flag, though.

- Here.

- Do you wanna hold it up?

- Yeah, this side, switch.

- Like that one.

Okay.

- Yeah.

- Let's stand up, - Let's do it.

- and hold this up.

- Oh my gosh, oh!

They're really gonna hate me now.

- Did your mic fall off?

- Yep.

- Okay.

See, yeah, they hate this so much.

- They're so mad.

- Okay, so this, so you really don't have a mic?

- Nope.

(both chuckle) I really don't.

I'll find it.

- Okay.

Yeah, you broke it off, didn't you?

- Well, it was stuck in the chair!

- Here.

- I think I saw 'em do this.

- You could, here, I'll put it on, and nobody will see.

Don't look behind!

Don't look behind!

- It's like "The Wizard of Oz."

(laughing) That'll work.

He probably is not gonna like that the cord's out either, but, that's okay.

- Okay.

- It'll work.

- That was a lot of work to show a flag.

- There we go, McKendree, you should be proud.

- Yeah.

- Sorry about this, folks.

- Can you hear her?

- I don't think they can.

Hello?

(both chuckle) - Look how mad they are.

- I don't wanna.

- There's like- - I'm such a people pleaser.

I can't look.

- There's like teasing mad, - I can't look.

- and then they're like, "Well, you asked for this."

- I can't look.

- "You figure it out."

- I'm sorry, you're gonna see the cord.

- Okay.

- Maybe if I do this.

- Thanks for bringing the flag.

- You're welcome, everyone.

So sorry.

(laughing) I'm so sorry.

I'm such a people pleaser.

I am, I feel terrible.

- I would like to announce, this is probably the last show we're ever doing here.

(Rob laughs) - Sorry.

(laughing) I'm so sorry.

- All right, so, you were majoring in?

- Athletic training.

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Did you pursue that?

- Yes.

I did that for about 10 years outta college.

So, I worked at a couple clinics, and at a high school, with their sports teams, and did rehab with people.

- They're mad.

- I know.

- I know.

It really bothers you, doesn't it?

- Yeah.

(chuckles) - Literally, every show, I strive to a way to make them upset.

But you would never do that.

- No, no, I'm such a real follower.

I hate this.

(both laugh) If they can't hear me, I'll just lean like this.

- No, they're fine.

- Yeah, so I did, I worked at a high school as their athletic trainer, and then I worked at a couple different integrative medical offices.

So, doing, like, physical therapy type work with patients.

I just, I loved it, I just wanted more flexibility with, as my children, I had two kids.

They're two and four, so, - Mm-hm.

- just wanted to be able to spend more time with them, and so.

- You met your husband in college?

- Yes.

- Tell me that story.

- He played football at McKendree, and he tore his ACL, actually, in his first college football game.

- Oh no, really?

- Yeah, so, which was a blessing, 'cause that's how we met, is, like, through the athletic training.

So I helped him, yeah, with his- - It was a blessing.

- It was a blessing.

- (laughing) It was a blessing.

- It was a blessing, later on, because we got to spend so much time together, we truthfully became like best friends.

- [Rob] Yeah.

- And so, I just feel very blessed to have put up with what my mom wanted, and went to McKendree, got to meet my husband, you know, making, like, lemonade outta lemons, that whole thing.

- How long you been married?

- It'll be six years in October.

Right?

- But you've known each other for the 10 years?

- Yeah.

- I don't know.

You could lie to me.

I wouldn't know.

- Six, it'll be six.

- Six, congratulations.

(chuckles) - Seven, it'll be seven.

When you get on, like, lights and cameras and stuff, you, like, forget everything in your life.

- [Rob] So you've been married for six to seven years.

- Yes, yep, yep.

We were actually just talking about it at lunch with, a girl I work with was married, like, the same month, same year as me, and we were just talking about it, so I should know this.

But we've been together about 10, married about six.

- Had two kids.

- [Lauren] Two kids, they're two and four.

- Okay.

- That's why I don't remember.

It's just busy.

- And it was, you're doing real estate now.

- Yes.

- [Rob] Were the kids kinda the push?

- Yeah, I think, you know, I wanted to be able to go to field trips, and I wanted to be able to help in a classroom.

And the flexibility of real estate, being able to make my own hours, and, you know, - Yeah.

- is what I wanted to do.

- Now, I don't know anything about being a realtor.

I do know you gotta, what, go to some schooling, or get a license.

- Mm-hm!

- I don't know what you gotta do.

- So, I did my classes online, and then you do a, you have to pass a state exam to be able - Mm-hm.

- to get your license.

And then I've been lucky with the Jill Barclay group of, they're all, have so much experience, and they're all so wonderful to work with.

They've just taken me in, and taught me, and, you know, helped me, guide me along the way.

And so, it's just been fun.

- Tell me how that works, like if you work in a group.

- Yeah, so, that's all I know.

So, for me, excuse me, for being in the group, I just have, like, training, so, they teach me contracts, and they teach things that, like, you don't learn in your class.

Like, they go over it - Yeah.

- in a class, but it's so much different.

Every transaction's different, every house is different, every purchase price is different, every, you know.

So, they've really helped me understand the legal side of everything, they've helped me understand, you know, the people side of everything, what to look for, for a good house for a client, you know, what to point out for a client, that kinda stuff.

Just how to be an all-inclusive group - Mm-hm.

- that helps our clients meet their real estate goals, so.

- Sounds like you were kinda born to do this, because, tell me what you used to do in your dollhouses.

- Yeah, when I told my, honestly, like, I was laying in bed, and I was like, "What about real estate?"

Like, I've never thought about going into real estate, anything like that.

- Mm-hm.

- So I called my grandma, who's, like, my sounding board, and she- - What's your grandma's name?

- Norma.

Hi Gram.

- Thank you, Norma.

- (laughs) She's like my sounding board.

And she was honestly like, "I don't know why you've never thought about this."

They built me this beautiful doll house when I was a kid, her and my grandpa, and I never played, like, dolls in it.

- Mm-hm.

- I just, like, took all the furniture out, and put all the furniture back in, and, like, rearranged it.

And she's like, "You've always loved houses."

Like, "You did that as a kid.

When you got older and moved," you know, when she would come to visit, I would drive her to different neighborhoods to show her, like, houses that I loved, - Really?

- and, yeah, I just, I don't know, I'm just, like when I moved to Peoria, I would, like, drive down Grandview, just to, like, look at the beautiful homes, and like- - That is a cool road to, yeah.

- It's so pretty!

Yeah, and so, I don't know, maybe it's just always been in there somewhere, and I just, this is the path that I had to take - Mm-hm.

- to get there, so.

- Tell me about that discussion with your husband.

- What, about real estate?

- You're like, "Hey, I'm gonna go into real estate."

- Yeah, I was kind of like, "Can we do this?"

'Cause it's a whole different, you know, it's a whole different thing than a nine to five, where, you know, you have this timeline.

And so, we just, like I said earlier, we're really, we're best friends.

Like, we just view life the same.

- [Rob] Mm-hm.

- We're also very real with each other.

We're like, he's gonna put me in check, I'm gonna put him in check, if it needs, you know, if that's what needs to be done.

So we had, you know, an adult conversation of, "Can we do this, what would this look like?"

And he's my biggest supporter, and has rooted me on, you know, the whole way.

So, just.

- Okay.

Let's talk about all the mistakes you made.

All right?

- Yep, there's been several.

(both laugh) One would be this microphone.

(Rob laughs) So, still sorry.

- You were, and I don't know, you were, like, running point.

You were in the house when we did - Yeah, I was hosting the open house, yes, yes.

- the open house, yeah.

And we'd never bought a house before, but my son, - Mm-hm.

- and we agreed too, because it helps us out too because our youngest son was going to a school - Yes, yes.

- that's close to there.

So it's, having a house closer is good for everybody.

- Yeah.

- So, we liked it, and then we called you, - Mm-hm.

- and we said, you know, "Okay, we'll put in an offer."

- Mm-hm.

- And then you kind of said something about, "I don't know if that's gonna get it," - Mm-hm.

- "because houses are going very fast," or whatever.

- Mm-hm.

- So, one of my best friends is a big real estate guy in Virginia Beach.

- Mm-hm.

- So I call him.

- Yeah.

- I'm like, "Hey, what do I do?"

And he's like, "Let me make a couple calls."

He calls back, he's like, "If you want it, you better buy it."

- Yeah.

- So, I didn't wanna do any of that.

You think you could've helped me out.

- I tried.

- Can't you, like, just keep other people from bidding on it?

- No.

I can try.

I mean, I could, I mean, I don't know how legal it is to, like, stand out front, you know, and act like a crazy neighbor, or.

- That would've helped.

- I should've.

(Rob chuckles) What was I thinking?

- Then we buy this house, and I've never bought a house before, - Mm-hm.

- and we didn't know we were supposed to call about the electricity, - Oh!

- and the water.

- The water.

- Everything got cut off.

So he's got 'em coming back on now.

- Oh, I'm so sorry.

- But he's loving it.

- Good.

- Yeah.

- Good.

That's what matters.

- Does that feel good to you, when you sell a house - Mm-hm.

- to someone that's, like, super excited about it?

- Yes.

I mean, I loved healthcare, 'cause I felt rewarded.

You know, I was helping people, helping them, you know, get well.

And so, I think it's just a different way of reward, is like, this is one of the biggest investments people will make, is their home.

And so, I want, you know, when I bought my first home, I know how I felt, like, this was mine.

- Mm-hm.

- And that feeling is just, you know, like, heartwarming.

And so, I like to help other people, facilitate that feeling for other people, so.

- In my mind, buying a house, - Mm-hm.

- all right, we would've put it an offer, they would've countered, - Mm-hm.

- and over a month, we would've come to an agreement.

- Mm-hm.

- Does not sound like that's the housing market in Peoria.

- Not currently, no.

It's kind of like, if you want it, you gotta speak up.

We gotta move, we gotta be hustlers.

- Inspections?

- Which, like, I- There's not a lot of those happening right now.

- Really?

- It just, I mean, it really depends on the property, you know, how much interest is in the property, really, so.

- Mm-hm.

My friend from Virginia Beach, - Mm-hm.

- Trey, the realtor, - Yes.

- he said the same thing.

He says there's no inspection.

He says there's starting to be a few, with interest rates going up.

- A few more, yes.

I would agree.

- So, is that interest rate, is that slowing things down a little bit?

- It's honestly the inventory, is what I feel like is driving the Peoria market, is that there's just not a lot of houses for sale.

- Mm-hm.

- So, like, people still, they're like, "Well, we still need to buy a house."

Like, "We need a bigger house, we need a smaller house, we have to move, we need this."

So, like, interest rates aren't deterring people as much as you would think.

It's that there's just nothing out there that's for sale, so.

- Mm-hm.

I would see, some of the bad parts of your job, would, people are so picky, right?

- People are picky.

- Yeah.

- Mm-hm.

- They're like, "Oh, there's a little rip in the carpet.

I'm not gonna, this whole deal's off until this gets fixed."

- Mm-hm.

- Is there a lot of that?

- I haven't ran into that.

I've been really lucky.

I've had great clients.

I've had, you know, everyone's fun, and, you know.

- Mm-hm.

- I think it's helped that the majority of my clients have known what they wanted.

So, like, that helps.

Like, if someone's just like, "I'm open to style, I'm open to bedrooms," you know, it's hard to, like, narrow down what they're looking for until you can, like, get into everything, so they can start checking what they want and what they don't want.

- It's gotta be hard, too, if you invest in people, like, to really get 'em what they want, - Mm-hm, mm-hm.

- and it gets snatched up.

Yeah.

- I would say that's, like, you just have to be ready to hustle, and be a go-getter, and I've just always been like that, so.

- Advice for people, - Mm-hm.

- especially, let's take my son for example.

- Yeah, yeah!

- Because he was totally off guard because he didn't realize that he was supposed to, like, go get pre-approved, - Yes, mm-hm.

- and all that stuff.

- That would be, I mean, if you're looking to use financing, that would be my first step of advice.

That's what I tell, like, any new client, is, if you're not pre-approved, and you're gonna be using financing, - Mm-hm.

- in this market, I would get a pre-approval.

- Okay.

- Because, like we were saying, it goes so quickly.

So, if you find it and you love it, like, you don't wanna wait the 48 hours, however long it takes your lender to get you a pre-approval.

- Do you ever sell farms?

- I would love to.

I would love to.

Our group does.

I personally haven't yet, but I would love to, I would.

I grew up on a farm.

- Mm-hm.

- My family were farmers.

I, like I said, I have some farm ground.

It's definitely- - You do?

- I do.

- You wanna rent it?

- I already do.

Sorry.

- See how bad farmers are?

- But, like, I do love- - I could do $10 an acre more.

- Yeah, see, well, it's in southern LA.

I do love the demographic of farmers.

Like, it's just, I just feel at home, like that kinda feels like family to me.

And so, I would love the opportunity to work in farming, and I know our group would too, so.

- Tell me about the sweet corn story.

- (chuckles) I was telling your wife earlier.

We, my family, did sweet corn.

You know, we harvested sweet corn, however you wanna, processed it, each fall.

And I always looked forward to it as a kid 'cause our, it was like another Christmas.

Like, our whole family was together, and everybody had their, you know, these people went into the field, these people shucked it, these people, and I was the one that, like, cooled it after they parboiled it.

- Oh!

- So, like, it was such a fun job.

- Yeah.

- You know, like, I'm just in there listening to music, moving ears of corn from ice bucket to ice bucket, 'cause I was young.

And then, as I got older, I'm like, "This is not fun."

Like, "This is work," like.

So I got moved to, like, the cutting and the bagging station.

- Yeah.

- You know, I got moved to, like, just full, like, "Oh, you're not a kid anymore."

Like, "You have to go shuck with the adults until that's done."

- [Rob] Sounds shuckin' awful.

- Yeah, well, you said it, you know?

I would do it a million times over, to get to have, like, my entire family together again, - Yeah.

- 'cause we don't do it anymore.

So, I do miss that.

So, around this time, we usually did it around this time of year, like, about time to go back to school.

And so I do miss it, at this time of year, but.

- Do you have a retirement plan?

- (chuckling) Well, our, I mean, we do have, like, a serious retirement plan, you know, like.

- But that's not a fun story.

- But that's not a good story.

My husband and I have joked that, like I said earlier, we like sports, we watch sports, we both played sports, we want our kids to be involved in sports, if that's what they want.

- Mm-hm.

- But we want to rent an RV, and follow, like, college game day around when we retire.

- Really?

- Just like all the tailgates.

I think that would be so fun!

Like, see different college campuses, get to watch cool football games, get to hang out at tailgates, you know.

So, the older we get, but obviously not retirement age, I think, like, "I don't know that I wanna wait 'til I retire."

Like, maybe when my kids are just older and like- - What are talking about?

You're not, I don't wanna ask you how old you are, but you're nowhere- - I'm an open book.

That's what I mean!

I don't wanna wait that long.

- Oh, okay.

- You know, I don't know.

- Well, you're a go-getter, like a leader.

You should set something up, to where, you know, - That's what I'm saying.

- you've got 20 RVs, and you all travel together, and you could charge those people for whatever you do.

You do stuff, you set up stuff.

- See, it as a business.

See, I set up, making plans here.

- And that's your retirement.

- That's the real retirement plan, that's the real retirement plan.

If real estate doesn't work out for me, game day retirement plans.

- Well, how tall is your husband?

- 6'2", 6'3"?

- Okay.

So, with your height and his height, you'll probably be involved in sports with your kids.

- I hope so.

They're both not too big right now.

(chuckles) - Well, those spurts.

- They're late bloomers or something, yeah, yeah.

- Spurts, yeah.

- I mean, he was a linebacker in college, so.

- Okay, so you had a linebacker and a volleyball spiker.

- Mm-hm.

- I'm guessing some sort of judo, your kids are gonna be into.

- My four-year-old wants to start karate, so we'll see.

Right now, we're doing soccer and dance, so, we're gonna try to fit karate in there somewhere.

(laughing) The little one, she's the one you gotta watch out for.

- That dance, I mean, that'll make flexible, so you can, (clicks tongue) - There you go, yeah.

- really, yeah.

- We're just all well-rounded around here.

- What's the goal?

I mean, do you wanna just - Mm-hm.

- continue with the realtor, - Yes.

- and grow with that?

- I do, I think, 'cause it's something that, like, my success depends on me, like, how hard I work, or how little I work, - Mm-hm.

- is how successful or unsuccessful I would be.

So, I would like to do it, you know, forever.

It's also something, like, you know, it's not manual labor, it's not, you know, it's fun.

You get to be out seeing houses, so, you know, I can do it at 33, and I can do it at 63, and, Lord willing, 83, if I want to, you know?

So I do.

I think it's something that I'm passionate about.

It came outta nowhere.

I'm surprised at how much I love it, but I do, I wanna do it.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- I will say, you've been my only realtor, right?

So I've got nothing to gauge you against, - (laughing) Good.

- but you did a fantastic job.

- Thank you, so much.

- And the reason I say that is because I did not know what I was doing.

My son didn't know what he was, Emily doesn't, you know, we'd never done this before.

So we had a lot of questions, a lot of probably dumb questions to you.

- Mm-mm.

- And we would text you.

I don't even, I think I remember, like, texting you, like, at 10 at night, or something like that, and you would send back a response, or a, "We'll get that back to you."

It felt like that you were truly out trying to help us.

And that's exactly what we needed.

- Thank you.

I appreciate you saying that.

That is my day-to-day goal, is I do want my clients to feel like I have their best interests at heart, 'cause I do, so, yeah.

- Okay.

Where can people find you?

Are you on socials?

- Yeah, Lauren, I mean, Lauren Gerdes, is, I'm on Facebook.

We have the Jill Barclay Group.

We have a TikTok, where our- (chuckles) - Who has a TikTok?

- The Jill Barclay Group.

Check out the TikTok.

(laughs) You'll see us all, yeah.

- Dancing?

- Dancing, doing the trends.

- You doing the trends?

- We were just saying we need to do a new one.

So, be on the lookout for our new TikTok.

(chuckles) - Well, you should, I don't know, do some, is there a PBS trend?

(Lauren laughs) I'm guessing no.

- We could start it.

- Yeah.

- Yes.

- Okay.

- So, yeah, I'm on Facebook, my personal, and Jill Barclay Group, TikTok, Instagram.

- [Rob] What's their TikTok?

Do you know?

- The Jill Barclay Group, yeah, all one word.

We're not hard to find.

(laughs) - Okay, you believe, I'm gonna be checking it out, a bunch of realtors.

- Please do, please do.

It's fun, I, like, for being an outgoing people person, I don't, I'm not, like, a social media person.

- [Rob] Yeah.

- But, so that's, real estate's pushed me out of that comfort zone, 'cause you have to, like, you know, promote yourself.

And so.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- You seem like you are.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

I wanna thank you for coming on today.

- Thank you for having me.

- Because when Emily and I were talking about it, we're just like, "Okay, she's not a farm, she's not related in ag or whatever," but here we were as farmers, and you definitely helped us out.

- Thank you.

- So, I thought it was fascinating, the difference between buying a farm - Yes.

- and buying a house.

And you definitely helped us navigate through all that.

So, I wanna personally thank you, - Thank you.

- for helping our family out.

And my son is over the moon, - Good, good.

- with this house.

And now he has to go buy a lawnmower.

(chuckles) - At least it's not a lot, yeah.

It was a pleasure.

- Well, - Thank you so much.

- Lauren, thank you very much.

- Thank you.

- Everybody else, we'll catch ya next week.

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