Episode 365 – Luke Carl – The Short Term Shop, powered by eXp Realty

The Short Term ShopEpisode 241 - Avery Carl, The Short Term Shop powered by eXp Realty Time Stamp(00:01:28) The Benefits of Using Short-Term Rentals(00:07:32) Rock and Metal Enthusiast's Musical Journey(00:11:40) Finding a Southern Balance in Nashville(00:16:26) The Responsive Vacation House Experts(00:21:09) Short-term Rental Success in Vacation Towns(00:27:19) Creating Memorable Experiences with Short Term Rentals(00:32:22) Cautious Sellers and Increased Competition in Real Estate(00:36:44) Responsive Communication: Key to Agent Success Transcript00:00:00 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopBut if you don't have the money to go buy the deals, you got to hustle and crush it and work hard and patience. Got to take your time. Slow down. I see all these new folks that are just, like, so shot out of a cannon. I got to have 14 doors tomorrow, and it's just not realistic.00:00:20 - Bill RisserYou're listening to the Real Estate Sessions podcast, and I'm your host, Bill Risser, executive Vice President, Strategic Partnerships with Rate, my Agent, a digital marketing platform designed to help great agents harness the power of verified reviews. For more information, head on over to Ratemyagent.com. Listen in as I interview industry leaders and get their stories and journeys to the world of real estate. Hi, everybody. Welcome to episode 365 of the Real Estate Sessions podcast. As always, thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you so much for telling a friend I had so much fun recording this episode. If you could see me right now, if I can beam, I'm beaming. I got to talk to Luke Carl. Luke is Avery Carl's husband partner in the short term shop. Powered brokered by EXP Realty, luke handles all the nuts and bolts of the business that the Short Term Shop has built. A fantastic background, much like Avery. Rock and roll all the way. So we're going to have a wonderful time in this conversation. Let's just get this thing started. Luke, welcome to the podcast.00:01:28 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopMy pleasure, man. My pleasure. Absolute honor to be here. Thank you for having me.00:01:33 - Bill RisserI'm really excited about this because it's very rare for me to interview the husband and the wife right on the podcast, especially literally. I think this is almost three years after I had my first conversation with Avery, and she was just doing some great things. Both of you were doing some great things at that time with the Short Term Shop. We're going to spend a lot of time talking about that, but first I like to find out about my guests. I like to go back in time. And I know that you and Avery lived in Brooklyn at one point, right in your lives. And I know that Avery's from Mississippi originally. I'm just guessing you're not. Did you grow up in New York?00:02:08 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopNo, I didn't, as a matter of fact. Blow your mind again. I'm from Nebraska, so we're both from states that nobody's ever heard of, but yeah, we both come from really small town. My town is actually smaller. I win on that one. She grew up in a college town, Mississippi State, Starkville, and I grew up not far from Omaha. Not too far. She makes jokes when I say I'm from a town of 1100 people, because I did grow up about 45 minutes to an hour from Omaha. So big city, but way out in the sticks in a cornfield. But, yeah, small town boy, for most purposes. And we both moved to the city. Yeah, I lived in New York for, man, a long time, like 1415 years.00:02:48 - Bill RisserOkay, so how old were you when you left Nebraska? I mean, did you go to high school there? You went all that, stayed there till.00:02:53 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopThat time, yeah, born and raised. My folks and my brother and most of my family still lives there, immediate family. And I moved when I was 20. I couldn't wait to get out. I said, I'm going to go move to the biggest city on the planet and take over the world. That's pretty much what I did, at least to my standards anyway. And I did go to college at University of Nebraska, Omaha for three years. That didn't go so well. And so I just basically I hopped in a van with a couple of guys I never met. And this is the early days. That's actually a pretty good story. I won't get into the weeds. But way back, this was like, MySpace hadn't even been created yet, and it was like right on the verge of that MySpace era. And there was a band from one town over Lincoln where the football team is, and I knew that they had moved to the big city, and I found their email address somehow. This was like email. I mean, this would have been like 1999, probably, and the creation of all that internet stuff. Email as I knew it. Anyway, and I shot him an email and he said, actually, we're coming through town. You can get in our van and go with us back to New York. And I said, Sign me up, let's go. Wow.00:04:00 - Bill RisserNow, look, it's no secret that you are a massive fan of rock, especially, we'll call it metal. But you're way too young. Like, right now, you're wearing an Iron Maiden shirt. I've seen the Motorhead, I've seen these other shirts that you're wearing. You're too young. So I want to hear from you. Who influenced you? There had to be somebody in your life that loved that music and played it when you were younger, or did you just discover it on your own?00:04:23 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopNo, 100%. Yeah, it was my dad.00:04:25 - Bill RisserOkay.00:04:26 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopSame with Avery. She's quite a bit younger than me. My gray hairs are coming out like crazy, but I'm technically too young for like an AC DC era. I was like eleven years old when Nirvana came out. And so right in that era was kind of my, heyday, that Grunge era, but I didn't really like it. It was okay, but my dad was blasting Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath and Zeppelin pretty often. He had a big record player, old school record, big giant speakers, and he was always playing his old records and it just rubbed off on me. He never really went to concerts or anything like that, but man, I got hooked. I got hooked at a real young age. I started playing music when I was really young. I think I was probably seven when I first started kind of getting a little bit more serious and started taking lessons and things. And I had my first drum set by the time I was eight years old and just took to it at an early age in the middle of a cornfield where there was nothing else to do, know, so the rest is history. And Avery, yes, she's quite a bit younger than I am. Same thing with her. Her dad was a major rocker, and he goes to rock shows with us. He's an awesome dude, too, and we were just raised right on good music.00:05:38 - Bill RisserSo I'll make that really tough question for somebody who's as deep into the music as you are. If you had to pick one band, you only get one. That's hard to do.00:05:50 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopIt is hard to do, but that's a question. I've been in rock and roll radio for a long time, and that question comes up a lot. We'll talk about that, but for me, it'd be ACDC. If I had to pick one band, period, that was like, I guess, my favorite, because we can go on about this for hours. I don't know that my desert island or deserted island, however you want to say it band would be the same as necessarily my favorite band. That might be two different questions, but maybe not. But if I had to pick one band as my favorite of all time, I believe AC DC would be the top of the list. And we're taking the kids. We have a five and a three year old next week. There's a concert where they do Coachella in California, and it's a bunch, know, the really biggest rock bands ever that are still around, know, they're getting older, and AC DC is going to be there as well as Iron Maiden, who's on my shirt today, and Guns N'Roses Metallica. And this is a big event, and we are taking our five year old and our three year old because I can't imagine they're ever going to get the chance to see ACDC again. And so that is important to us at some point. My son just turned three. I do feel that he's got a pretty good chance to be the last person on the planet someday that can say he saw ACDC live.00:07:05 - Bill RisserThat's great. Is Axel touring with Guns N'Roses again?00:07:09 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopYeah, Axel's been back with the band. Well, it's the other way around, really. He's always had the know, Guns N'Roses was Axel with a different band for many, many years, but the band has been back together for four, five, six years now and touring full time with the original guys, except for the drummer, Steven Adler has not been in the band for two or three years.00:07:32 - Bill RisserSo you played drums, you had to be in multiple bands. I mean, I can't imagine you weren't playing and playing music and doing covers of this kind of stuff. Is that what you were kind of driving towards?00:07:43 - Luke Carl - The Short Term ShopYeah, I was. I started playing in bands when I was very young and my parents were driving me to nightclubs because I couldn't drive yet. And dropping me off and playing shows with, I'd say about 15 is where that started to get pretty serious, and 16 somewhere in that neighborhood. And I always had at least one band, even at that age, I usually had two. And I never really made a career out of it. There's not like any band that I...