Bob Sokoler hosts a weekly panel of Louisville lenders, attorneys, and other professionals answering real listener questions.
Someone asked his agent where the property line ran. She said she'd call and find out. Sixty seconds later her phone rang with the answer, and she never dialed a number.
The caller was unclear as to how that happened. But the panel had a theory worth hearing: your doorbell, your security system, half the smart devices in your house record more than you think, and in Kentucky only one person in a conversation has to know it's happening for that recording to be legal. That's the kind of question this show exists to catch before it happens to someone else.
The Louisville Real Estate Show airs weekly on NewsRadio 840 WHAS, and the hard answers rarely come from just me. Every week I'm joined by a rotating panel of specialists, financing, closing and title, home inspection, and sometimes others, who field whatever a listener actually asked that week. Nobody on that panel is selling you anything live on the air. They're answering the actual question a caller sent in, which is usually messier and more specific than anything a listing page prepares you for.
This page is where the best of those on-air answers live, with links out to the full breakdowns.
Segments Worth a Second Look
Miss This Deadline, Lose Your Earnest Money in Louisville Most buyers think they can walk from a contract whenever they get cold feet and keep their deposit. The inspection deadline in the standard GLAR contract says otherwise, and once it passes, "time is of the essence" is not a suggestion.
The Pre-Approval Letter That Wasn't Worth the Paper A seller accepted a contract on a solid-looking pre-approval. Four weeks later the loan fell through. What a pre-approval actually guarantees, and what it doesn't.
The $4,000 Tax Bill Nobody Warned Him About The full version of the story aboout how an escrow waiver gets buried in closing paperwork, and how to check whether yours was waived before it costs you.
Does Kentucky Require a Sewer Line Inspection? (No, and Here's Why That Matters) Buyers relocating from California ask this one constantly, because California requires it. Kentucky and Indiana don't, which puts the burden on the buyer to ask, not the seller to offer.
