August 2019 – The "Prescott Pickle Lady"

Inappropriate Attire

The Pickle Lady dons some very inappropriate attire to demonstrate a very important point.

hello hello hello hey pete hello randall bro how are you i am good how are you governor i’m doing okay governor hat on yeah that’s right well good morning good morning i am diane breaux and this is my better half randall grove here in the beautiful square of downtown prescott yeah uh we are in august but we’re wearing our winter garb drinking coffee here yeah because we wanted to explain to some of you who think i can’t move to arizona it’s too hot yeah it’s desert yeah it’s broiling you are wrong you are wrong there are some sections as in phoenix and tempe that yeah has that terrible 120 115 yeah crazy weather but we’ve done the summer challenge man we’re dressing up for winter weather that’s right in our summer challenge in august summer challenge here in the square of recipe rescue the downtown square right by the courthouse so you can’t you can’t do this in phoenix no if you did this in phoenix or las vegas in august you’d burst into flames you’re right yeah so we decided let’s put our coats on so people who who just think arizona is too hot to move to we want to show you it’s not especially here in prescott we have four true seasons so here we are august 29th uh it’s 8 o’clock in the morning we are in full winter gear not even breaking the sweat not even breaking news it’s a lovely split 70 degrees right now yeah i made 75 sometimes early in the morning it’s about 8 a.m but it will get a little hotter later on today but it’s that much hotter yeah no it’s not yeah so here we are in in arizona and crossfit as well yeah yeah and it’s just not what you think when you think of arizona we have just the perfect perfect weather even our summers aren’t that hot nope right our winters are great our fall is even better yeah absolutely and spring is just lovely yeah so when you’re thinking i don’t want to move to arizona too hot too arid to this to that look at all the greenery around us just not we’re not not here in prescott no not at all it’s the perfect four seasons absolutely so we’ll do a winter challenge too yeah i don’t know how much how many clothes we can take off oh yeah nobody wants to see that but yeah i won’t be in a bathing suit yeah like you said nobody would want yeah yeah i work in the region my love you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or find us online at prescottpicklelady.com you’ll find a link there to our prescott relocation center lots of good information about prescott and moving here and making a new life for yourself so come to prescott don’t think about vegas and phoenix and and florida and all that too hot yeah you can’t bundle up in august there like we are absolutely come to prescott and enjoy beautiful living and great great weather all right have a good day bye

Friends in Strange Places

In this episode we explore the importance of having good friends in strange places – and reveal the first place you should look to find them.

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hello hello hello hello hello peeps it always makes randall feel more comfortable if i start off yeah i don’t know what to do if you don’t start with yeah he doesn’t like it otherwise but anyway yeah welcome this is the prescott pickle lady yes it’s our weekly wine down weekly wine and we drink some wine and share some thoughts and some information about life in general real estate in general and prescott in general i’m impressed in general yeah and uh so i am diane bro and this is my partner randall brown yeah i’m the pickle ladies data troll or something that is correct kind of what we wanted to talk to i talked to you about today is uh people’s fear about moving in general not just in prescott but just moving to a brand new place that they don’t know because they don’t know anyone right and i’m going to go there i don’t know a soul i don’t know anyone and uh what this what this wine down is about is if you come to prescott and you work with us you will know us that’s right and that’s worth a lot more than you would think just knowing uh a real estate agent so uh we thought we sort of talked to you about that so many good friends yeah that i’m like wow i just love these people we’re still friends we still i’d like to see people a whole lot more and go out to eat a whole lot more but we’re always we’re always busy yeah but but when we do have availability i love to get together with former clients and now they’re just good friends yeah um and when you’re when you are brand new in a town uh just knowing one person or one couple i guess or three of us i get three of us in the pickle brigade just knowing three people well uh is of amazing value it is as you move in you can feel comfortable calling us yeah you know after you move in uh there are a lot of agents who are like done the deal’s done papers are signed see ya and you’re never here going to the next thing yeah we don’t like to be that way no no it’s kind of like everybody becomes my little peeps yeah the pickle peeps the pickle teeth they kind of come into the family and then i feel like i want to check in hey how are things going are you okay do you have any questions um you know besides our relocation guide yeah but you know sometimes you still just need to have that personal touch you need to be able to reach out and uh we like for me at least that’s my favorite part of the job yeah is i like still being in touch i like still being of assistance and helping you for us it’s not just give me that commission check when you’re moving moving is one of those things it’s uh do you want to get that turn that off somebody’s coming after the pickle lady tallahassee florida sorry i can’t talk right now sorry about that right now so uh when you are moving somewhere new that’s one of the phases of your life where a lot of things can go wrong you know if you’re starting a new job you just had a new baby god help us if that yeah you know what that you don’t go to there again no i would be shocked but you know when you go through these these points in your life where you’re sort of vulnerable yes and moving to a brand new house moving to a brand new city is one of those so having just a few people that you can call on and you know you make a call and you say uh can you get over here right now with every towel you own yes this was a recent event this is for you genie yeah who i consider a good friend yeah a really good friend uh genie weenie just moved into her house poor little thing she called me and said oh my god my house is flooded i’m out of towels and i ran out of towels and so we raced over there luckily we were actually home we raised my wife has a lot of time i do have a lot of time a lot of exceptionally large numbers yeah but anyway we literally raced over there and helped her wipe it all up stop it up get somebody out there to help her fix the problem turn the water off at the bridge um you know and so that’s the kind of service we like to provide yeah don’t think oh my house is closed and now you guys yeah if you would call a friend if you would call a friend you know where you’re living now and there’s somebody you would call uh because you need help uh you can call us you know i don’t like to talk the deal is done once you get your official recordation of your home yeah we are making connections you know dealing with hoas we’re dealing with we’re dealing with an hoa right now on two things on a fence and paint colors and and having having negotiated this myself it’s something i’m happy to do yeah i know when you move in you’ve got a hundred and fifty thousand boxes to one pack and it’s like you know i really wanna put my fence up but i gotta get my house together i’ll kind of try to do that part for you maybe you know if you want me to yeah we’ll do what we can yeah and then that way that’s one less thing you have to worry about and the wheels are in motion with the hoa to get whatever task you need to have done yeah and you don’t have to lose three months waiting time while you’re unpacking you know we like to kind of fill that blanket if you’d like you know what gets you hooked into the social scene absolutely introduce you to people we think you might get along with and you know yeah so you come to a brand new town you come to a brand new city my voice is changing yeah [Laughter] yeah so uh you know you you are vulnerable when you’re moving here but uh if you you reach out to us and we help you out then you got at least three people who will have your back we have your back yeah we don’t just consider you a job check done see you later um we like to keep in touch with everybody um we celebrate our relationship with you and that’s the way we like to do it that’s the way we roll absolutely we like to keep it personal and keep in touch sometimes i’d like to keep in touch a little more than i can but yeah you know we all get busy and everybody but we’re here so if you have anything major like hey tell them what do you really think about your doctor i can give you the speech oh yeah we’ll give you the scanning who do you think really does a good job with hair i can give you this you’re going to get it on that too i’ll tell you who really proves good beer yeah yeah so the point is um uh-oh uh just uh one quick tip uh just in this particular case if your house is flooding for whatever reason you should know how to turn the water off uh so if you go through the buying process and uh you know you’re going to have an inspector the inspector will show you where your main water turn off is uh most most appliances like the refrigerator it it’ll have its own shut off so you don’t have to shut off water to the whole house you’ll be able to shut it off there so that’s your fridge leaking just turn it off turn it off at the source that’s what that’s was the you know that’s what we did we you know mopped up the water there but that’s just a quick tip just a quick tip i learned myself yeah i learned myself happy that i actually i was super impressed that daddy here knew that i was really surprised tell me how i know uh because we had a dishwasher that flooded and i learned the hard way yeah ruined the floor i was i was impressed with that good job yeah yeah you live long enough you learn a few things anyway in conclusion in conclusion let’s talk about how wonderful and sweet [Laughter] yes she does but uh ultimately the goal of our practice is we want to be there for you before during and after absolutely um we really want to make your life here in prescott just fantastic no regrets we want you to have a nice smooth transition and we enjoyed it and we did we really do and we really become friends with some lovely lovely people i love you all [Music] you guys are awesome and you make the business fun and uh and worthwhile to be in it makes me feel good to to work with some really nice people so anyway call us if you need anything we again will be there for you before during and after we absolutely love to help you find the right place here in prescott so how do they find you you can find me at three three zero two one nine six four or on the web prescottpicklady.com correct you can find our relocation guide there lots of good information if you are looking to sell your home you can find a link there to our listing site which is we sell prescott.com uh but you’ll find the link just go to frescopiclady.com all your dreams will come true that’s a big yes that’s a big thing to deliver [Laughter] it may be your nightmare but yeah it may be your nightmare but we’re going to try real hard for you yeah but we’ll keep those snakes away yeah we’ll be all right all right folks this is randall and diane bro thanks for joining us till next week when we do our next one yeah nice balloon all right take care have a good night bye

Critters… and an Escape

Worried about the critters you might find in Prescott? The Pickle Lady gives you the low-down on all the creepy crawlies that might have you on edge… plus a fortuitous escape caught on camera.

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hello hello hey peeps randall and i am bro she’s a lady i am i get to hang out with her it’s one of the perks one of the perks of being a realtor he doesn’t know he doesn’t always think that but yeah don’t be fooled by that especially when i fail at technology which is a lot yeah is that so nice i didn’t marry her for her technical savvy is that a word savvy i think that is i don’t know i don’t know i don’t know okay we’re outside our office here i have a little balcony that overlook i’m gonna see if you can see the square behind us here yeah down that street it’s right to the square in the square yeah to the square in good times yeah we’re still having fun making it work absolutely all right so today what we wanted to talk about was uh a lot of times we get texts emails phone calls i hate snakes i’m scared of scorpions yeah what’s the story i hear uh i was about to say alaska not alaska i know what’s wrong with me i don’t know we have friends yeah we do no but they’ll call and ask about arizona i hear they’re just written with all the critters all the time oh yeah i’m here to tell you that’s that we first one’s the snakes right so let’s do the snakes correct so we have the diamondbacks i’m not a sports guy what are the diamond banks basketball i’m not even sure i don’t know we uh we’ve been here three years we’ve had a few snakes none of them rattle snakes just like snakes the ones that eat the the mice and the bad so yeah i’ve never had a you know a diamondback yeah no i’ve never had an escape from that or anything it’s all good of course you know we’re all god’s creatures yeah um we cannot say unequivocally 100 you’ll never find one here um but i myself have not run in across one i go hiking i’m on the i haven’t run across one on the path um but it’s not like we’re we’re tons of snakes no i mean there are snakes all over the world so we can’t give you a hundred percent guarantee separate except for ireland ireland is supposed to not have sleep i’m not sure what that has to do with it but well i want to work that in i don’t want to speak falsely that the whole world doesn’t have something oh you heard that yeah that is rude somebody live in the present all right yeah but anyway all right scorpions scorpions same thing uh i’ve lived here three years i’ve never seen one in or outside of my home no um it’s not like they’re crawling around here owning the place at all no no you won’t see them uh again are they here sure is it a chronic problem like cockroaches no which is another thing no roaches and no mosquitoes oh my god the mosquitoes here are so stupid like you have one you could just go and kill them yeah they are amazingly stupid coming from the south yeah i mean you’re just eating a lot eating a lot it’s very refreshing to sit out on your deck people here think they have here yeah they’re mosquito they think they have bugs here yeah so they’ll put like screens on the windows like why do you bother you have no bugs here it’s amazing delightful absolutely delightful which is your usual favorite one i love the word but i’m going to adapt adopt it not adapt it i’m going to adopt that word it is very uh delightful so tarantulas i have seen maybe once a year i see tarantulas in some areas they like to uh they like to get on asphalt they don’t see them on the road yeah uh i have seen two since i’ve been here so on average maybe about once a year you’ll see a tarantula in an area where there’s asphalt and there’s not a lot of traffic and on the road just sitting there it’s not like they’re hanging out in your house yeah we’re not in the home or anything yeah so you never fear coming to prescott arizona that’s a hot rod never fear coming to prescott arizona about really lethal fatal scary critters they’re not that common and just for good measure we don’t have earthquakes either yeah we get that too we have earthquakes we have water we don’t yes that’s another one yeah yeah we’ll do one on water yeah no lack of water no lack of water the water comes from the tap here you turn it on it comes out we do not have earthquakes not to say that we could hold on another another motorcycle yeah not to say that you couldn’t but uh we don’t get tremendous i mean we are not god we can’t predict at all we try hard but no hurricanes no hard things just nice weather yeah nice beautiful four seasons with no critters with no critters hardly any critters don’t worry about the craters yes all right well this is diane and randall bro signing off on our critter chapter yeah you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or on the web at prescottpicklady.com you’ll find a link there to our prescott relocation center with links to all kinds of wonderful stuff so if you have a listing where do we go if you want to sell oh yeah yeah go you can go to we sell prescott.com or preschoolpicklady.com you’ll see the link there that we sell we are all here to help you sell and buy both sides and we do both sides extremely well and protect you from critters and we will personally protect you from any any diamondbacks that not randall yeah she will i’ll be gone somebody else may yeah we’re looking at houses and there’s a snake on we will make sure that it doesn’t get we’ll run real fast we’ll run real fast we’ll set the pace for you time to run but anyway all right good to see you guys take care have a good day bye you

Dog Heaven

Prescott is a great place to be if you are a dog… or dog owner. Check out this over-the-top dog park and meet the Pickle Lady’s pups.

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hello hello hello hey peeps this is randall and diane bro he’s the pickle lady and i’m the i don’t know pickle person he’s pickle pickle man pickle pickle man um we have our sunglasses on because we’re standing directly directly in the sun so uh but anyway we’re having a great time we’re here at the biggest dog park here in prescott yeah huge and we’re having kind of look pan around here there’s some dogs and some people and people with dogs and all kinds of huge yeah yeah we would love to come here with our dogs we have one dog that behaves yeah one dog that absolutely does not she does not get along well with others not play well i should say not to sound like one of those moms but i think the others just don’t get along with her she’s misunderstood she’s largely misunderstood she is misunderstood her name is stella and the good one we have is frankie lou beautiful dogs yeah but uh but sadly we can’t do the dog park no but i wanted to show this to you guys yeah um and like you have well-behaved dogs or if you move here and get a well-behaved dog you can come here what i wanted to tell you was uh how prescott it’s a huge huge huge dog community yes everybody loves dogs yes everybody has a dog here yes um you go to eat at any restaurant and you’re on an outdoor patio they’ll probably have their pockets a couple of pups you come here to the dog park they got a huge i mean a huge piece of land yeah for the big dogs and then a smaller area for the smaller pups yeah they do and kind of kind of an area i don’t know if you can see it over there but they have a place that uh it’s kind of cordoned off for the smaller dogs although most people have small dogs don’t bother yeah they don’t they don’t follow the blue i know and their little dogs are the ones that come those are the ones yeah no offense to anybody out there but you know it’s true it’s true you can’t deny it you can’t deny it you can’t deny you know it’s true but it’s also cool they got a lot of stuff that the dogs can run on and have fun and climb on and jump off of and water and it’s it’s just great it’s right it’s located at the end of willow creek across from finley toyota there you go so for those of you who are new you pass by the fry shopping center and come on why do i have some shade on me but i do strange i feel like i’m in solar eclipse interesting yeah i don’t know but anyway um nature’s nature is a phenomenon yeah it is but don’t feel bad for our dogs though because uh we take care of them we uh we walk them quite a bit and uh we also ride them around they love to go for a ride yeah go like go for a ride so we have a dog that is devoted to the dogs it’s our dog car and uh at least twice a day in the morning in the afternoon they’ll come by us and start jumping around because they know it’s time for their run time for a ride so we take them for a ride everybody knows our car because it’s a black car and we have two black dogs they stick their heads out their heads and everybody’s like they’re going to pickle people again so you see crazy people driving around with their dogs hanging out the side of a black car that you know that’s us that’s us but we wanted to tell you when you move here in case you didn’t know about this great dog park you can come here and meet people here as well they’ve got a lot of chairs and people sit around and chit chat and there’s kind of a little dog family uh friendly community yeah yeah so please make a make a trip out here with your pup if you’ve got a good one yeah people here are super friendly dogs are usually friendly and uh it’s just a good place to kind of come enjoy a beautiful day like today beautiful beautiful day so all right that is it for the dog parks and the dog-loving city of prescott so where can they find you my love you can find me at 713-30 or on the web at prescottpicklady.com where you find a link to our prescott relocation center all kinds of great information about the city and where to find things and stuff about buying houses and everything where to get your hair cut yeah yeah yeah anyway so good good good information there so check it out happy to be here today and spread the news about this great dog park you guys have a good day bye