Most people spend months picking a house and about eleven seconds deciding whether they want to get out of the car...

That decision happens in the front yard.

This week Zac Small and Shay Brickhouse sit down with NC Real Estate Agent, Realtor, and Broker Jordan Calzaretta to talk about the place where their two industries touch the same house at the same moment and almost never talk to each other.

They also discuss how a neglected yard tells a buyer to ask about the crawl space, roof, or other neglected areas they haven't seen yet, whether landscaping is a real investment or just cosmetic spending, and where a seller with five thousand dollars and thirty days should put the money.

Jordan brings the buyer's side of the table.

Shay brings what the work actually costs and how long it really takes.

Then we shift to the part neither industry puts in the brochure...

Real estate and landscaping share the same problem; neither one is a nine to five, clients need things at nine at night and seven on a Sunday, and the pressure to look permanently available wears people down.

Jordan speaks honestly about what that has cost her and what she's changed, not what she knows she should change.

If you're listing in the spring, if you just bought a house and inherited a yard you don't understand, or if you run a business where the phone never stops, this one is for you.