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Hi there, Richard. How you

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doing, Kim? I'm fantastic.

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Thanks for your call. Good.

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I get your newsletter and

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I watch your podcast

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never live. It's always

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that's one of the

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the Kim Commando show or

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that, you know, now you can

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your schedule, which is fabulous.

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Good. Yeah, I get tons

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of chips from you. I've

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been, I'm retired, I'm over 80

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years old, and we're getting ready

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to move. And I can't, I've

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got a list. I'm a... I've been

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in IT for 40 years probably

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before I retired and

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I'm just used to making

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lists. And so I made a

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list of about 40 different

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things that I have to

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change addresses on. And you know

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every time you go to a

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new website or something it

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always asks you for

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all your personal information

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before it'll get you

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actually what you want. So

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like I said, I'm up to

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about three dozen places.

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is I have to change my address. But

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one of the things that I...

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Are you talking about, when you

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say change the address, are you

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talking about what? The

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physical address. Okay,

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okay, because you're moving. Okay, you're

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moving. Yeah. Got that? Yep.

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And now the other problem,

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and that's one problem, that's not

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why I called. The big problem

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for me now is what

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to do with the house. In

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the old days, when you

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signed the papers, you walked away

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from the house. Well, now

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my IDs and everything are tied

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to the house because I

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have some of these wonderful new

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automation gadgets. My

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sprinkler system, for

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instance, my thermostat, my

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garage door opener. Those

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are all tied to

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my personal address. And

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so now I'm trying to figure out

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exactly how to handle

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that. Well,

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know, it does pose a

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challenge, but it's not that hard

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to fix, Richard. So

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let's take, for example, you have

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your... Like you said, your thermostats

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and the sprinklers and lights and

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whatever else it may be. Is

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that what you want to do in

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the beginning, and you can still do this now, is

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that you create an email address for

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your house. I've written about this, I've talked

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about it here on the show, and I know

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it sounds really strange, like, well, why would

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I want an email address for my house? Well,

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for this precise reason, so that when you

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do move, is that all of your

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smart gadgets are tied to that email

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address and then you can just give the

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new owner that email address access and

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then they would, you know, have full capabilities

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to go in and configure and do

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things like that. So you set up a

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home, you set up an email address

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for each of your devices. Then

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that's if you want to be a nice seller.

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Okay, what I mean by that is that if

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you want everything to work... afterwards. Or

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otherwise, you just go into all

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of your smart devices and you

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do a complete factory reset, and

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then when you are actually in

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your account settings before you do the

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reset, you want to make sure

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that you, you know, cancel the account,

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cancel any recurring subscriptions, anything along

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the ways. But there may be a

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way that you could also transfer

8:22

ownership from you to somebody else. I'm

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never that person. You know, what I

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do is I go in and

8:29

I make sure that all

8:31

of the subscriptions are canceled.

8:34

And then I do, then I

8:37

remove my account from, say, Nest

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or Radico or wherever it may

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be. And then I just do

8:43

a complete reset on the, on the gadgets

8:45

so that this way, none of my personal data

8:47

is in the history. And they have to

8:49

set it up themselves. And it's up to them

8:51

to figure out how to go to the

8:53

Nest website and do that. But if you want

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to be a nice person, like I said,

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you can set up an email address for your

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house and then set up accounts for each

9:01

of your smart devices. And then you can just

9:04

turn that over to the new owner. But

9:06

I'm always for the whole factory reset

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because, you know what, I don't know what

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data is in there. And I don't know how much

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of my data is in there. And I don't want

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anybody else to see it. And so that

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should wipe everything out. Richard, thanks for

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