In this video, we dish on the area’s top neighborhoods—from the resort-style luxury of Talking Rock to the social charm of Prescott Lakes and the cozy, low-key vibe of Granite Dells.
Whether you’re craving daily golf, a built-in social life, or a quiet spot to call home, there’s a perfect Prescott fit waiting for you!
Want the juicy details on each neighborhood?
Check out our videos below for fun, in-depth tours and insider scoop that’ll help you find your perfect Prescott match!
I would say some of the top neighborhoods in here are Prescuit Lakes, uh, Talking Rock, sometimes Hympa Village community. Um, a new one that’s kind not new, but it’s starting to come up a little bit more we’re seeing is Granite Dells. All beautiful developments. Um, nicely done, newer construction. Uh, Hiyia, Prescat Lakes, and Talking Rock obviously offers great golf courses. (00:30) and more country club style living. Talking Rock is amazing. It is truly living out in the like in a resort year round. The only negatives are it’s a little farther out. You’re about 25 minutes outside of Prescuit proper and not a lot of grocery stores or doctors and you know some of your conveniences aren’t readily available there. (00:56) But it’s kind of like your own community 100%. Amazing golf. They have hiking. They have pools and pickle ball, their own coffee shop. So, they even have a little convenience store in there because they know nothing’s close by. So, you can go over there and get milk if you need or something like that. But those people who live out there, they are avid avid golfers. So, they will they’ll be golfing seven days out of the week. (01:20) So, if you’re one of those people and you really want to enjoy the good life and enjoy all that you’ve worked hard for and you want to golf every day, Talking Rock is a beautiful option for you and if you want peace and quiet um and just kind of be away from far far from the maddening crowds. Yeah. Yeah. Good choice. (01:41) Uh a couple people on the survey were asking specifically about Prescuit Lakes. I didn’t Oh, Prescate Lakes. Okay. He wasn’t listening because we have I didn’t mention that. I know. We have been married 39 years. So he just kind of goes offline. We have we have marines. It’s mind. It’s all good. I was talking about talking rock, but Prescat Lakes, we live in Prescat Lakes. Love it. It’s right by town. 8 minutes drive. (02:02) It’s It’s lovely. Different price points throughout. Great golf, private restaurant, pickle ball, all of it. We’re getting botchi courts, um tennis courts, pools, exercise class, athletic center. Yeah, I made clubs within the club. So, you meet people in the reading club, bridge club, whatever you want, you know. Yeah. (02:24) You come into Prescuit, you don’t know anybody, you want to sort of jumpst start your social life and start to meet people here. Uh, Prescat Lakes is a is a great option. I would say out of maybe maybe 10 people that we bring in as buyers, what percent do you think end up in Presley Legs? It’s pretty high. It’s uh people love it here. Um, our HOAs are not extreme. (02:49) So, every neighborhood, there’s about 13 different neighborhoods in Prescuit Lakes. Yeah. Notice that she didn’t answer my question. I would say I would say 40%. I would say more like 60%. You think? Yeah. Six out of 10. You think? Yeah. And almost everyone has interest in it. Very, very popular place. Are you giving me the eye? I’m giving you the evil. Answer my question. Sorry. It doesn’t answer the question. Well, yeah. Well, I would say four. (03:12) Uh, I would say half, but anyway. But he’s okay. If he wants to say 60, that’s cool with me. It depends. You know, it depends. It It comes and goes. Usually, if somebody has a specific need, they’re looking for horse property or they really want to be kind of a remote area, you know, special special considerations. (03:37) But most people, you know, if you will, the middle of the fairway is going to be Prescuit Lakes. Yeah, we love it here. Um, and the good thing is everybody who comes to Prescat Lake, they it’s not a 55 plus, but for all practical purposes it is. Um, everybody here is 60s basically. We’re kind of the youngsters. If you’re in your early retirement years, you’re going to be among the younger folk here. Yeah. (04:01) But what’s nice is no one is from here. So, it’s a great way to kind of plant yourself. Yeah. Get out to the club, go to some of the events. Yeah. and all of a sudden you’re meeting folks, everybody’s in the same boat. Yeah. And so we’ve made a lot of excellent friends here. Yeah. If if you’re if you’re not a social person, more of a home body, Granite Dells is a really good option. Granite Dells is great. (04:22) It’s a smaller It’s, as I say, an abbreviated version of Prescat Lakes or Talking Rock or Hiappa. No golf, no private restaurant. They simply have a really nice community center workout. They have a nice pool and a few pickle ball. Yeah. Um, and I do believe there’s some neighborhood driven clubs like the neighbors kind of Yeah, the neighbors kind of organize it. (04:46) So, not quite as involved as a Prescuit Lakes or Hanapa and No Golf, but and they they do have they have a social membership ship at Prescat Lakes. So, if you just want to go to, you know, the they’ll have uh pool parties and things like that you can attend, you can go to the restaurant and stuff like that. The same is true of the Hyianas Club um Capital Capital. couldn’t think of it. (05:10) Uh that is not tied to that subdivision, right? So you can live really and then join Capital Canyon. Uh if you’re joining golf, you can do the same thing at Prescuit Legs. If you’re a golfer, you can do Prescuit Legs that way. That’s right. Uh unlike Talking Rock, Talking Rock, you have no choice. You have to join the club. Whether you golf or not, you’re paying that Yeah. that initiation fee. Yeah. (05:36) I would say well talking rock has always been mostly about about golf. It is now it’s about botchi. Botchi is a big thing that’s coming up. I understand botchi has become really really popular. Pickle ball is very very popular. Uh there are pickle ball courts at talking rock at prescuit legs and just around town. There’s also a private club you can join. (05:58) They have mostly indoor pickle ball courts but you can also play outside. It’s it’s in the old Sears in called Eastire. Eastire. Very very cool place. I think did we do a I don’t know if we did a wine demo on Eastire, but we should. But it’s a good one. It’s a really good one. So you know you you know if you wash up in Granadell’s, Prescuit Lakes, any of those, you know, it’s quite social. So it will be good. Good for you. Good for”Video Transcript
On this week’s episode, the Pickle Lady Team discusses the pros and cons of leaving your property vacant when you move. Worried about breaking the bank staging your home? We give you tips on how to save time and money, and have your home look perfectly staged!
Hello, hello, hello, hello peeps. I am Diane Bro with my fellow co-host here, Randall Bro. Uh we are the Pickle team. I am the pickle lady. We are local uh husband and wife team here in Prescuit and we are today we’re going to talk to you about vacant homes. Vacant homes. Vacant homes. So, we have a lot of listings where the folks head out um for whatever reason. (00:29) They’ve identified their other home, they’re moving on, and they leave the home vacant. And so, um it can be a good thing. It doesn’t necessarily have to be staged. A lot of times what we like to do is um we’ll take pictures of the empty rooms. We will have it virtually staged. will get a picture of a virtually staged room in your house, put it on a big easel, so when people walk in, they can get the idea without you having to spend that extra money to officially stage. (00:58) So, a lot of times we’ll do that. We also will virtually stage your vacant home online. So, we’ll have a picture of the actual empty room next to a picture of what it could look like if it were virtually staged. We even have one that uh can change the color of the walls. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we can. That’s pretty cool. (01:18) Yeah. Yeah. If uh if you’ve got a a a paint that may not be as popular as it once was, or maybe you kind of took a chance on a color that’s not going to really hit a broad a broad audience, we can fix that for you virtually and show people what it would look like. One of the big things about vacant homes, particularly now, is, you know, the open concept is so big. Yeah. (01:42) Uh people don’t understand. You’ve been around long enough. You know, open concept is going to die eventually. It it everything they’re going to bring back popcorn ceilings. I’m telling it goes around comes around. Goes around comes around. That beautiful brass, you know, fixtures in the bathroom. It’s heading back. I’m sure it will. (01:58) The glass block has come in and out of style like three or four times. So anyway, the open open concept’s really big. The thing about a vacant home that’s open concept is people see a big open space and they have there’s nothing to define what the areas of the room are. So, we find if you’re going to show if you’re going to have a a vacant home that is really open concept, it really helps to do some virtual staging to give people an idea. (02:30) Okay, here’s where I would put my dining room table and here would be a seating area. And you know, we’d probably put the TV here or maybe there’s another option. You could put it there, you know, so that people can begin to solve. They need to visualize the room. They need to be able to visualize and if they can’t, they just kind of stay too confused uh and and they just move on. (02:53) So, the good thing about vacant homes, too, is we can list it as a go and show. Yeah. which means uh people can just an agent can call and make an appointment and get in there like in five minutes. Um there’s no hold up. I’m waiting for approval. It’s instant confirmation of an appointment. So people can get right in. (03:11) So you get a little bit more showing sometimes that way. Yeah. Especially if you’re in a busy road, people will see it and say, you know what, I want to see that. And so they’ll stop and they can easily get in. So it’s kind of a win-win. Um but that’s how we kind of deal with it. We do some nice virtual staging. (03:29) We do some uh artwork, you know, canvases on just that people can see right when they walk in. Boom. Oh, wow. This is what it could look like. Yeah. So, don’t be intimidated if you feel like you have to move and move on and leave it vacant. It can still happen and happen easily. Yeah. A lot of times, too. Yeah. A lot of times too, people uh have lived in homes where they had to downsize and over time they began to push on the confines of that home, putting a little bit too much furniture, a little too many pictures on the walls, a little too much kit on the on the the (04:06) shelving and everything. And uh if that process goes on long enough, actually the home shows better vacant. It does. There have been a number of homes that we’ve done. It’s like, why don’t you move and we’ll show it vacant. We think it’s going to show better. Right. Right. Right. And I would be for smaller homes. (04:24) I would be guilty of one of those. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We filled the space. We’re speaking from the heart. Absolutely. We know of a personal experience. So, sometimes it is better just to move on. Absolutely. All right, my friends. For more tips, please check us out at pickle411.com. Go ahead. (04:43) That is our free information site. Whether you’re a buyer, seller, or somewhere in between, because some of you are somewhere, that’s still the place to go. That’s right. Stuff you will find there is absolutely free. It will amaze, entertain, astound, and inform you. It will become a part of you. You will tell all your friends about it. So, go to pickle411.com. (05:04) All right. So, don’t be afraid of of going bye-bye and moving on to your next chapter. We’ll take care of it and get it done. Absolutely. All right, friends. Take care and have a wonderful day. Bye bye.
We have a great bar for you to try with some of the best craft cocktails and skilled bartenders in town! Find out why everyone is flocking to the Fairweather Social Club in this week’s episode
Hello, hello, hello. Randle and Diane Bro, I am the pickle lady. He is the pickle man. We are the pickle team. Uh we’re all about the pickle. You’ll see that on my car if you ever come in and you jump in the van. Don’t be embarrassed because you’re going to be in a van that is emlazed with a pickle. Yeah. Because I will give you a jar of pickles just for coming in and seeing us. (00:28) Some great Cajun pickles. Um, but some things, one of our favorite things to talk about, and so we’ll kind of jump right into it, is some of the different venues, restaurants, fun things to do around town. Another cool bar. Another cool bar. They had a whole bunch of them that kind of popped up uh late last year, so we’re getting around to talking about it now. (00:48) We’ve been to this place a couple of times now, both times. Just a really cool venue. It’s called the Fair Weather Social Club. The first thing you need to know about the Fairweather Social Club is that it’s really not a club. It’s a bar. Anyone is welcome. So, they actually put on the there was the very first thing. It’s a social club, but anyone’s welcome. (01:11) What the hell call it a club if you’re going to confuse people. Other than that, I love the place. It’s uh a old uh old architecture, old old building that they’ve redone with brick walls. Uh the bar is really really cool. And uh they’ve got a lot of in-house cocktails that are really delicious. And uh very charming. (01:31) Very very charming. Uh they have live music in there. And next door they have an empty lot and they’ll have a food truck. They have uh an area for bands to come play so you can go sit out under the trees. Uh it’s just great. It’s very charming. It’s a really good venue. Now we were there in we with first time we went was around Christmas time and then we were there a few weeks ago. (01:54) It was still pretty nippy and we were there at night and they did I think they had some heaters out to kind of keep you warm or whatever, but it wasn’t really happening because of the weather. You know, the band there was was really uh was really good, but it’s kind of hard to get a crowd out to an open air venue when it’s kind of chilly. It’s chilly. (02:17) But now that summer’s coming in, they’re going to be packing and it’s going to be a happening place. It’s very It’s a great place. Again, it’s close to the square. Y easy to go down and have a drink or two, have a nice meal, cap off the night there, listen to some live music, or even if you don’t want if you don’t have dinner, they’ll have a food truck. (02:38) You can just sit out under the trees, listen to music, get some good grub from one of the food trucks there. It’s a good time. Yeah. And the bar itself is very charming. Very charming. And good good drinks. So bartenders are all very professional. I got good bartenders. We have really good bartenders. We really impressed by that. Yeah, it’s all about the the drinks for us. So, yeah. Yeah, it’s important. We are from New Orleans. We know our thing. (02:59) So, we we like a good bar and so lately we’ve been finding some really good ones and we just felt like we should be talking about it and sharing it with you guys so you can check it out for yourself. So, hopefully maybe one day we’ll see you there. We’d love to say hello and introduce yourself. Every now and then I get people who come up and they’re like, “I’ve seen your videos. (03:20) ” And I’m like, “Really? And uh so they’ll know at least one person’s watching. Yeah. So we were very happy that we have one one viewer. That makes warm my heart. But anyway, it’s nice. So if you ever see us out, come say hello. Yeah. Say hello. We’ll we’ll raise a toast and uh just say hi. So uh anyway, hope to see you maybe at the fair weather and uh or outdoors and enjoying that side of it. (03:43) And if you have any other information you’d like to ask or if you’d like to set up an appointment to come see us, check us out at best place to go is pickle411.com. That is our free information site. Whether you’re a buyer, seller, or somewhere in between, there’ll be something there for you that will amaze us down, entertain, and inform you. (04:02) There you go. It’s absolutely free and it will touch your heart. Maybe Lord. All right, my friends. Well, we hope to see you out and about and around town. Take care and have a good day. Bye bye.
