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What Common Mistakes Do Home Sellers Make—and How Can You Avoid Them?
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Mar 10, 2025
Selling a home can be a complex and emotional process. For most people, it’s one of their most significant undertakings, and mistakes can lead to delays, lower offers, or even a failed sale. In this episode of Real Estate Crunch, Anita highlights the top 15 mistakes home sellers make and shares practical tips to avoid them. 🎧 Listen now to ensure your home sale goes smoothly—and click here (https://real-estate-crunch.com/top-15-mistakes-home-sellers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them/) to read more about the top mistakes and how to sidestep them! #RealEstateCrunch #HomeSellingTips #AvoidHomeSellingMistakes #RealEstateAdvice #SellYourHomeRight #HomeSellingProcess #PropertySellingTips #RealEstatePodcast Support the show (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2029617/support)
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hi this is Anita from Real Estate crunch
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today we're going to talk about the 15
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top mistakes that home sellers make and
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how to avoid them so you you know you
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have your home you want to be able to
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sell it and what are some things that
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you should look for well one mistake
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that a lot of them make is by working
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alone they think well I really don't
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need professional assistance I can do
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this all on my own I don't need anyone
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to help me I'm I'm going to figure this
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out and you know that's one of the top
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mistakes because then they're really
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losing out on a lot of the expertise
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that a real estate agent can give you or
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can bring along to this the other one is
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waiting too long to
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sell you know holding off on selling and
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hopes to get a better price can
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sometimes backfire you especially if
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your home depreciates in value or the
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market becomes saturated so you know
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some people might just say oh they think
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their home's worth so much more than it
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actually is so they keep holding off on
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it hoping it will get better pricing too
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high that's another one where people
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they really price it too high so they
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scare up potential buyers you know
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people will look around and they'll
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they'll see what's going on in other
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places of the market what's a price
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that's similar to the one that I'm
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looking at now a good buyer will always
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do their research and always know what
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the price of about should
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be and that's again where a real estate
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good real estate agent could be able to
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come in and help you and to be able to
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tell you what you need to do for the
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pricing another one is selling as is
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listing your home without addressing
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obvious issues or making repairs can
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deter buyers and may lead to low lowball
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offers if people go into house and feel
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like they got to make a whole bunch of
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repairs a whole bunch of adjustments to
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it they may not be happy and decide to
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go with something which will have less
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hassle to it so you know even minor
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repairs like a fresh coat of paint
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fixing leaky faucet can make a
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significant difference you know for
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major issues consider the cost to ratio
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and then you know you can decide which
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repairs you would need to do to get your
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best turn on relate on the investment
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obviously if you're can do a bunch of
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expensive returns it's going to make no
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difference it may not be worth doing it
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so that's where you got to really check
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it out and decide what is worth doing
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the other thing people do is they keep
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clutter they leave your house clutter
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during showing to make it appear smaller
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and less appealing so if you really want
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your house to seem appealing please you
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know take out the Clutter make it look
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good so that people want to come in and
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say this could be a place that I would
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want to live in the other thing is not
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depersonalizing the space they um they
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keeping personal items such as family
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photos or unique Decor can make it
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harder for buyers to EnV Vision the
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space as their own so so if you're
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really looking for people to come in
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they want to see it as their space help
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them to be able to see that this is
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their space By the way that you
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essentially that's why they call it
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staging the home the way that you make
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the home look and feel so that people
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will want to come in and will want to
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purchase the property skipping major
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repairs is another one which we've
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talked about before like I you know
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leaky roof or you know faulty Plumbing
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most people don't want to come in and
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don't want to fix that stuff unless
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they're going to buy it cuz they're
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going to flip the house or they have the
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ability to do it then maybe they do but
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most people don't want to come in and be
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harassed with this cutting cost on
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photography that you know they may try
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to skimp on photography so you don't
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want to spend the money on it to make it
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look as good as possible you want to be
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able to drive people to come in to your
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home to be able to view it to see it if
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they don't really come in to view and
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see it you can't really sell it so you
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need to make sure that all the marketing
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is appealing for people to want to come
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in hiding problem s is another one that
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you know concealing known issues such as
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mold or structural damage can lead to
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legal trouble and it can also erode the
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buyer's trust if suddenly you the buyer
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knew that you knew that this was a
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problem and you didn't disclose it to
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them then at the same time they they
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probably won't trust trust you you will
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not be considered trustworthy being
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unavailable for showings you know
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limiting availability for showings can
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frustrate buyers and reduce your chance
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of selling quick quick uh quickly you
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make make your home accessible for
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showings at convenient times even it
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means accommodating evenings or weekends
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the more flexible you are the more
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opportunities you have to attract
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serious buyers you know if you're going
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to say to somebody like oh I can only
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show my house from you know 9: to 10: in
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the morning well you're going to limit
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yourself because a lot of people will be
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working then so you're going to have to
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be able to be accommodating to you know
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to basically maybe get out of the
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property and to um allow people to go
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through your property without you there
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being unwilling to negotiate you know
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sometimes you know most people come in
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and they expect that you know here's the
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price and we're going to nego negotiate
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the price so being unwilling to
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negotiate it can really be a problem
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when it comes to being able to sell your
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house letting your emotions get the best
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of you you know some people they're
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they're very much emotionally attached
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to their house they you they overprice
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it because of the emotions they you they
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just allow it to Cloud their judgment
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they have unexpected expectations and
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this can lead to very poor decision
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making failing to Stage the home if you
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really want your home to sell you need
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to make it look the best that it can and
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that will probably require that you
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stage the home so make it more
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attractive more appealing for people
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when they come in you could consider to
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hire a professional stage or can come in
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and to help you to be able to Stage the
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home overlooking curb appeal you know
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when people drive up to the home and
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they want to feel like oh this is a nice
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place I could see myself living here you
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want them to have that feeling the
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minute they drive up that driveway and
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so a lot of people they they don't think
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about the outside they don't think about
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what that means and make having a really
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good curb appeal so people feel like
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they want to belong there the last one
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is Miss managing marketing failing to
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Market your home effectively can uh
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limit exposure and reduce your chances
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of finding the right buyer if you don't
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really you know get the exposure you
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need then you're not going to find the
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buyers you need it could really slow
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down the sale of your home if You' like
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to be able to read more about this you
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can read our blog post entitled top 15
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mistakes home sellers make and how to
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avoid them and where we give you some
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more information and more tips for you
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to remember in this we'll put a link to
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the blog in the description below so
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that you should you will be able to find
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it
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we thank you so much for listening to us
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we hope you'll check out our blog real
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estat crunch.com and we just thank you
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for being part of our community we truly
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do appreciate you thank you
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