Month: November 2021

Moving to a mountain town may bring to mind images of rugged outdoor living in remote forests... eating wild nuts and berries with the other animals. Well, dreams of getting away and off the grid are possible, but you'll need water. Here's how that works.

well good afternoon hello peeps this is diane and randall bro yes i am the pickle lady here in prescott and this is my sidekick here he always makes sure the car is stocked with pickles that’s right because everywhere i go somebody’s like could i have some could i have something so uh he’s my little stock boy yeah and uh making sure he’s stuck in the van with pictures right he makes sure the inventory is up he’s like uh are we down on pickles time for you to get i’m gonna do production she that she’s i do all the production production i just stock the heat stocks and make sure hey i think you need to make some more yeah i’m like okay let me get right on that right on there but anyway pickle lady pickle lady that’s what that’s all about so if i see you or if you come visit you too because we’ll get some pickles but we’re here to talk about something interesting i had never heard of i’m from the deep south yeah it’s called hauled water yeah that’s how we call it that’s how we say h-a-u-l-e-d it’s like called gas except it’s water right exactly so halt water i’m like so i heard this term but it wasn’t i say hall they said hurled girls i can’t even say we’re not allowed to say that people in arizona have an accent because we’re not from here right yeah we’re the ones with i can’t do it it was like um anyway so somebody was saying i need to get um some hold the hold hold water and hold and hold hold on and i said i don’t don’t know what that they were like don’t you have the number and i’m like i don’t what is that could you say it again and they kept saying it the way they were hauled her and i said i’m so sorry i don’t know what that means and then i said could you spell it and then i said oh hold hard okay i got it i got it and so what that is is sometimes in some areas here because where we live we grew up in the suburbs and everybody was on city water and water whatever and things like that yeah it came from the tap um so here uh especially in some more remote areas up the mountains and everything you don’t you either have to have a private well or a shared well there’s no city you know they can’t get the the water to you i mean up a mountain so they’ll have uh wells and sometimes even that is not enough and the well may run low so in addition to that they will get hauled water ordered and that comes in giant what is it like two or five hundred gallons yeah i know more than that that yeah i think it tanks like two thousand gallons or something and so they’ll bring this giant plastic container that will sit on your property and that can be used for additional things or emptied into that well and that’s another way to get that water there yeah so it’s literally driven in a truck yeah and driven into the actual they literally call it yeah so if you have a well particularly if your well doesn’t produce that that much water quickly you know the the quantity is not good you’ll have a storage tank you get a storage tank so the well is constantly pumping water into the storage tank and you draw the water from the storage tank uh if you consume the water faster than your well as pumping into the storage tank well you’re going to have to top it off or eventually you’re going to run out and that’s hot water that’s what they do they’ll they’ll come out and they pour the water into your storage tank and uh i i it’s like i don’t know three or four hundred dollars to have the water hold out right and uh we looked at one house and particularly had two storage tanks so you’re looking at you know about 700 bucks to uh to fill up and uh the people who were selling the house there were just two people living there and i mean this part time yeah it was a weekend getaway yeah cabin but it so that was sufficient yeah for two people it worked fine the well produced enough that if there’s a shortfall there it’s not much so you might have to haul the water out once or twice a year yeah uh but our buyers wanted to use the property for an airbnb and that’s when four people come in like they will burn they would run through that water fast so a lot of times people will call us and they’re like i want a cabin in the woods and i want that these are things to think about um because it isn’t going to be on city water yeah and you will have to make sure your well doesn’t go dry and you need to consider if you want to use it as an airbnb that you have a very good producing well yeah that you won’t have to rely on halt water because that could get costly for you yeah well if you’re if the place that you’re again running with the with the uh scenario that you want to do in airbnb uh you don’t want to buy a big house because lots of people will go in there and use that water water yeah but if a small place that might work it might work you know if it’s just you you know you and your spouse and every now and then you have the kids in for a holiday you’re probably going to have to top up the tanks for the holiday uh but that might be doable you know it really depends on how much your wells producing how big your storage tanks are uh and how many people are going to be there so i put together like a little spreadsheet so yeah we as your agent if you’re interested in that we we’ve kind of learned some information yeah we now have a spreadsheet so when we look at how many gallons per minute is that well producing and we can tell you that’s going to be a problem or that’s great yeah you’re you’re done how many people yeah so it’s something as a realtor here in prescott you kind of have to be educated on um it’s kind of unusual we weren’t used to it coming from suburban areas and now we know what hauled water means even when they pronounce it a weird way now we get it so every day as i say living and learning or as my daughter sings that song all the time living and learning every day she says that every day yep she well it’s her song it’s her song it’s not not a not a popular one but not like a jay-z no no jay-z so yeah so that was something that we learned and are are now quite educated yeah so if you are coming here yeah and if you’re looking for some place remote particularly up the mountain uh you might be looking at hot water yep and uh and we can help you make a good decision there it’s it’s not necessarily a deal killer depends on um you know what you’re trying to do what you’re trying to accomplish so that is our little chapter on hold [Music] but i got it now so anyway i hope that this is a little tip for you if you’re thinking about living remotely things to keep in mind and to ponder upon yeah there are a lot of pieces and parts and if you want to learn more the place to go is pickle411.com our hub of free information whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of useful and highly entertaining information you need to know if you’re considering either buying or selling a home particularly here in prescott some people may argue with that about being entertaining but some people may not agree but hey we try hard i was entertained we entertain ourselves myself we entertain ourselves living and learning all day long living sometimes i’m learning lessons i don’t want to learn yeah there’s a lot of that yeah but that’s life yeah those are the ones we have to share that’s right i don’t know why that’s hilarious but it is it just makes more poor things more things more people yeah i heard water