April 2019 – The "Prescott Pickle Lady"

Home Alerts

Technological Reality
Computer technology can deliver astounding results, but at the same time, when it comes to home searches there is still a long way to go.

This video explores what you can expect, and what is still beyond our current systems’ ability.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello my new friends my my my pickle friends out there peeps pickle peeps yes backlight randall bro here with prescott pickle lady yep diane bro yeah arizona there you go oh my gosh that’s a lot very fast if i can keep up with that i talk southern so i talk a little slower life’s moving on live is moving on all right anyway we are enjoying another lovely day here at mark’s beer garden here’s some of his specials he’s a dog he’s great he’s great yes so what are we here to talk about today randall bro we’re at uh alerts home alerts oh yeah people people so we set people up with home alerts like you don’t know what a home alert is you go to our website and you can register and when homes come on that match your criteria you will get an email says all right the following homes just came on and you know you may be interested i call it a home search home search they call it a home alert um that sounded funny i’m channeling some strange accent i’m not sure where it was rather alien alien-esque might be the beer yeah maybe i think it is one of the things we wanted to talk about is what your expectation should be with regard to the specificity of that what degree can you you know find what you’re looking for that’s a specificity you know at least i can say it yeah you’re right yeah okay so here’s the thing um we can set up home searches like you want a single story you want a two-car garage you want a three-car garage you want square footage certain amount of square footage price points one of the things you need to understand is that our searches are only as good as the data that the listing agents have entered so if you’re looking for a fireplace we can ask for a fireplace if the agent has indicated there is a fireplace in the house you’ll get that house but a lot of agents aren’t really that thorough in what they code for right and they are limited as to the number of things that they can list i just want to say something real quick you look really cute today thank you you’re welcome thank you i didn’t i was going to wear my scarf but yeah yeah only i can wear the scarf you’re cute all the time well thank you but i just want to say honestly this is the house that sells the face that sells right here the face that launches a thousand faces i don’t know i don’t know specificity anyway yeah but here’s the thing sometimes i will get um some notes from people and they’re like yeah this is what i would like dark maple wood floors in the mask and the master and then lighter floors another okay i can’t go there i wish i could you know or they’ll say and they’ll get angry at us they’re like i told you maple floors i can’t that’s light maple i want a dark maple you know we can’t control everything it’s it’s pretty specific but there’s certain things like uh i want to have rv parking that’s fine i can add that on yeah that is not a problem you can do it but a lot of the agents but here’s the other thing if you give a specific measurements like it must be 20 feet bite it’s not it it’s not that refined it’s not good so please you know we try our hardest to put everything in of your wants and desires but some things i can’t quite control you know and so if you are looking for a you know a newer home but maybe it’s five years old and maybe it doesn’t have it has carpet in the bathroom um don’t scream at me because it kind of kind of hurts my feelings well there is one way you can actually get exactly what you’re looking for for the first time yeah and that’s called building a new home a brand new home your wife yeah and we can hook you up with builders and we’re happy to do that too but if you’re looking for a home that exists we can’t poop out your home but we have to show you something that that exists in time and space so i mean we’re limited yeah so don’t think oh we’re not doing our job we really are we’re trying to the best of our ability but oddly enough some of these computer programs are don’t say maple floors only in the master and i like that i wanted i want two acres with mountain views in downtown prescott and i want it for 350 thousand dollars it’s not going to happen can i be honest no yeah it’s not going to happen so sometimes we have to go up in price to get you what you’re looking for or we give you the price you want and we have to take some of the features off correct that’s just the nature of reality okay just real quick technical problems here this is what happens when you use your cell phone as a camera somebody will call your camera that’s the problem so so we apologize thank you whoever called and didn’t leave me their caller id thank you thank you appreciate it thank you fellow solicitors yeah fellow solicitors one of the things that people get get freaked out about is the the even so that our system will require you to register that’s so it can have your email address it’s going to send you home alerts uh it will monitor what you seem to like and it will send you what it thinks that you like automatically that’s why it does that if you don’t like those emails you can unsubscribe if you’re getting them too often let the pickle lady know she’ll change how often they go yeah we can do daily we can do twice a week we can do weekly yeah so people will freak out oh my email my email my house is gonna fall down but you know it’s really not that we’re not invading your privacy yeah we’re just trying to help you find a home yeah we’re just trying to help you find out we’re happy to do that and so anyway we try real hard to hone it in especially when you’re getting ready to come in town so don’t get thrown like you sent me something it doesn’t quite fit i understand but when you come in town and we’re in person i’m really gonna hone that search down to really include what you want um and we show you we show you homes that we know personally whenever possible yes now if you’re here and you’re looking at homes in the 200s 300s sometimes the 400s those homes turn over very quickly and we can’t do that get out there um enough they’re already sold they’re sold yeah yeah um it’s being snatched up it’s a hot market so we try to send you to homes that we know are good in advance but we can’t always do that that’s right so anyway um be patient with us on the home searches we try our utmost uh you know hardest to get exactly what you want sadly the program isn’t written to include some of these requirements as hard as we you know look and we try so just be patient with us uh we’re trying super hard to find exactly what you want exactly so that’s all that’s all we wanted to say all right is that all you want to say that’s all i want to say and and so i’ll have another beer oh okay so sign up pick a lady okay thank you again for reaching out reaching out to us and uh being a part of this today and you can reach us at you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or online at prescottpicklelady.com thanks guys see you soon

Tour Tips

Coming to Prescott to look at homes? Here are some do’s and don’ts for conducting your Prescott home tour.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello happy april this is randall and diane bro your friendly prescott pickle peeps and she’s the person pickle lady i am and happy to be here and um we have been super duper busy yeah things are heating up things are super heating up we have some really great buyers coming in from all over the united states um and they’ve been delightful yeah absolutely um and anyway i thought i would pass on a few how to be a good buyer yeah fire buyer etiquette buyer house buying etiquette house buying etiquette yeah there’s something near and dear to my heart because i work with a lot of buyers as does randall yeah as does a lot of our fellow agents and i think the vast majority of them are wonderful but even some of the really wonderful people from time to time they just they don’t know right they don’t know we work super super hard we we make it look super easy when we take you out but actually it takes a lot of work and preparation yeah to set up your appointments yeah and so when you give us an idea of what you want um then i go ahead and do a really intense uh home search and so what happens is is that i’ll make the home search up and then i also lay it out geographically so i make these appointments um so and we map it out uh geographically so we’re not taking you all over like a ping pong ball okay that takes some time yeah and then you’re calling people right who have to evacuate their house right uh they gotta get the dog out they gotta pick up and everything they wanna make sure their house is in great showing yeah uh you know showing form yeah and so anyway it takes a lot of work i mean it could you know when we take people out sometimes we we look at 10 houses yeah right yeah we like to give you a good taste of everything prescott has to offer so it could easily take several hours yeah that it could take two to three hours because i then you got the the time of the the homeowners themselves the sellers you know it might take them an hour to get the house ready and make arrangements for the dogs so it’s a process on both sides it’s a process on the seller’s side it’s a process on our side yeah so what you don’t want to do is you don’t want to call the morning of and say guess what we’re not coming never say that oh well yeah oh god don’t evolve i’ve had that happen now look now look if you are violently ill and you’re going to give us a plague and i okay you know they might appreciate it but it’s not a simple oh it’s saturday morning and we decided we just decided against we want to sleep in late that’s a no-go that’s kind of nice yeah it’s not cool i mean think about like you you’ve been invited to someone’s house and they’ve gone out and they’ve bought a special meal just for you and they’ve made it and you know and then you don’t go uh it’s the same sort of thing again you know if you wouldn’t go because you’re going to give everyone the plague that’s fine but uh respect yeah you need to be respectful and it takes us a lot of time to really we’re realtors so some people don’t think we’re human beings and we know our sellers are and the agents are involved in that so you know try to be cool about it we work really really hard yeah a little wind yeah anyway we try really hard um and like i said booking 10 appointments is not just booking appointments we prepare packets for you yeah we prepare i mean i mean we really make it a a special thing for you to come in and you may you may have worked with other realtors in the past and maybe they don’t go through quite that same level of effort or whatever uh but we do we do and not only that here’s another pet peeve sorry i’m not really trying to go after you you nice buyers out there don’t just show up in town we’re here oh yeah converse yeah we’d like to see it we’re here now it doesn’t it’s very difficult yeah it’s very difficult i can’t want to die that’s called i can’t be i would love to be but i can’t be a pop-tart agent where i just pop up out of the toaster and throw it together it takes a lot of time and preparation yeah to do a proper job yeah well first of all you know our schedules are pretty busy yeah but i mean even if you just show up and we are available we’ll we’ll try to take you out uh but you know it takes a while to put together the search otherwise it’s going to be a waste of your time and yeah and a waste so yeah let plan a little bit in advance call us in advance we’ll put you on the calendar so when you come you get our full undivided full day 10 house search you’ll be exhausted when it’s done but you’ll know where you want to be we do give you snacks we do give you snacks we come fully snacked and watered fortunately we’re snack ready because we know sometimes you can get angry that’s right and we don’t want that that’s right all right so uh where can they reach your pisces pickle lady you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or online at prescottpicklelady.com yes so we look forward to hearing from you yes so be a good buyer book your appointment ahead of time let us do a great job for you and follow through and follow through yeah don’t don’t pull up in front of a house and say absolutely not i’m not going yet and and i’ll tell you why sometimes you go in that house and you think this is not the house for me and you walk in and it becomes the house of your dreams that’s right so never they will surprise you never cancel an appointment yeah when we pull out in front well it happened to us yeah right absolutely the house we we ended up with was everything i said i didn’t want guess where i’m living exactly where i said i didn’t want and i loved it i loved it so never say no keep your mind open absolutely don’t cancel that appointment it’s kind of rude all right all right next time sorry nice to see you have a wonderful day bye

Sprung 2019

Spring is springing in Prescott… and the great buying season for 2019 has begun. Join us in Mark’s Beer Garden to celebrate.

Video Transcript

hello hey peeps how’s it going out there yeah it’s going well here yeah we are so happy to be celebrating the start of spring absolutely here in our beautiful prescott and we are at uh one of our new favorite places mark’s beer garden yeah absolutely so we’re not drinking wine we’re drinking uh a little german beer drinking a local uh hard cider made locally here prickly pear prickly pear hard cider and it is delicious yeah it’s also a strangely pink color it’s well it’s prickly pear yeah it makes sense but anyway mark was cheers to you mark was kind enough to uh let us come shoot and his beautiful beer garden out here garden beautiful it’s off of iron springs uh we highly recommend it it is fantastic good food too good eats great time for an open uh open place because it’s spring it’s bright right and he has sprung darts here and corn hole here you can come here and have a great time german beer yeah yeah you did it but anyway let’s get back to the task at hand i am diane and this is randall bro she’s the pickle lady i am your local prescott pickle lady or sometimes we’re just the press kit pickle peeps peeps it’s hard to say though yeah pickle peeps pickle eater yeah people um and we are just very excited now that spring has sprung and uh the market is warming up yep we’ve got lots and lots of people coming in um ready to start that next chapter and uh we are happy to help you yeah absolutely and so what we’re super psyched about is interest rates suddenly have gone low yeah we were told at the beginning of this year all the lenders were saying oh you know it’s going to be five five and a half six as high as six and a half by the end of the year and of course uh interest rates immediately started to drop so yeah just goes to show you nobody really knows what it is nobody knows but it’s good for you guys out there who are thinking about it get in now we just closed one at 4.125 that’s crazy that’s crazy crazy that’s crazy and the lowest it’s been in a while so if you are really thinking about making a move that’s a good time now is the time that’s good get in here get it while you can lock up those super low rates before they start creeping absolutely a lot of new listings coming on people put their homes on spring is uh home selling time that’s right it’s time to be it’s time to be here and you don’t want to miss the spring so we’ve got i’ll intersperse some uh some beautiful pictures of what spring is like here in prescott we’ve got red leaf plum trees that look like cherry blossoms from washington dc bradford pears that look like giant snowballs yeah well they may not know i thought about this but i refer to these trees as snowballs because uh in new orleans you call some of you other people may call it shaved ice or snow cones or snow cones yeah i call them snowballs so when we say the trees look like a snowball a snowball for all you others it means a shaved ice or a snow cone yeah whatever you may refer that tasty treat honestly that is the proper term if you ask me i mean that just makes sense i don’t want to think about that a snowball just sounds fun and delicious and tasty and and uh anyway anyway i digress i digress so now is the time to come for spring uh we’re already booking up we’re pretty much booked in april to take people uh buyers out give us a call we always want to always can add more we always can add more we’re going into may and uh i think it’s just the time time for you to plant where you know how is it blossom where you’re planted that’s it [Music] replanted transplant yeah well and yeah i think in this case it will be blossom where you’re transplant transplant that’s right and you should transplant you know you should try something new and you too could become a snowball if you just yeah you too could enjoy the snowball yeah or be a snowball or be a snowball transplant if we should open a snowball stand here that would be awesome that would be hot that would be a little rum yeah i had a little rum new orleans style new orleans style anyway i’m digressing again we’re gonna go uh to experiment with some shaved ice that’s right but anyway just wanted to tell you the weather is gorgeous here it’s perfect perfect house hunting weather perfect storm perfect yeah perfect interest rates perfect weather and perfect realtor pickle lady yeah you could spend time in spring in worse places with worse people than the pickled lady in spring and breast can everything we try to make it fun honestly we really do because it is a hard process and it’s a lot of homework and so we try to bring some humor in it and have fun absolutely so anyway this is randall and diane bro here pick a lady pick a lady where can they reach you my love you can call me at 713-302-1964 or reach us online at prescottpicklelady.com yes hope to see you soon thank you mark’s beer garden bye