Diane Breaux. Realtor
In this week’s Wine Down, we give you tips on how to get the best of both worlds. A quick watch that might change the way you think about finding “the one.”
Video Transcript
Hello, hello, hello. Dian and Randall Bro here. I am the pickle lady coming to you from Prescuit, Arizona. Let’s get Arizona. That’s us. We’re so happy to be here. Um, we love to chitchat with everybody out there about the latest and greatest stuff that’s going on. Uh, one thing we want to talk about is dual search. (00:21) Dual searches. So, a lot of times people are interested in getting home searches and they’re not quite sure what they want. Uh before you can pick a home, you really kind of need to pick a lifestyle, right? So, uh you may want to live in a community with lots of amenities, lots of people to meet. (00:41) There’s always things going on and and that’s the kind of life you want. You may want a life that’s very quiet, not no traffic, no city lights, uh kind of get away from it all and and be on the side of the mountain. Uh those are available. other other lifestyles are available too. Uh but before you can pick a home, you kind of have to pick the lifestyle. (01:05) And one of the tricks that we’ve learned with people come in and they haven’t really decided what kind of lifestyle they’re looking for is we’ll do multiple searches for you. A lot of times you try to get it all into one search and you’re really talking about two completely different searches. And a lot of times we get husband and wives who come in. (01:23) Yeah. and they will answer our home survey tour, but it’s really just kind of based on one person in the relationship. And then they come in and they’re like, “Well, I’m the one who wanted two acres and I kind of wanted to be out there. I didn’t want a lot of people around me.” Whereas the spouse might be like, “Actually, I wanted to be more in a neighborhood with amenities and I didn’t mind having neighbors by me. (01:47) ” So, we would have set up two searches for that if we had known that and we would have combined looking at both more of both of those types of homes. Yeah. So, it’s really important to don’t just gloss over your home tour. Really hone in and think about what you want and let us know. I don’t know if I want to just live in an HOA with amenities or I might be remote. Let me know. (02:11) Two different searches. That’s right. and two different types of homes to show you completely on opposite ends of the spectrum. And you kind of have to walk down the street a little bit before you decide really what lifestyle makes the most sense. Absolutely. You know, you really start looking at something. (02:29) It’s like you go to the store, you try on different clothes. Do I want a suit or do I just want a shirt? You know, you kind of have to try it and explore it a little bit before you really understand what your heart wants. That’s right. And we really like to make both, you know, people happy. So, we want to show you a mixture of, okay, here are homes with amenities and here are more uh more remote without amenities on two acres. (02:55) If I know ahead of time, then I can split that and say, “Okay, I’m going to show you three houses that are remote, three houses with amenities.” Yeah. And it’ll kind of give you a good sampling, but I need to know ahead of time. And so it’s important for uh especially married folks. Yeah. Really talk to each other and communicate what what your goals are when you move here. (03:17) Where do you really want to wash up? Where do you think you’d really be happy? And then that way we can really deliver a great tour and show you everything because we can deliver anything. Yeah. Um but it’s kind of hard if people are on differing opinions. Yeah. So, let us know ahead of time and then we can try to show you both sides. (03:37) That’s right. And we we’ll let you run with both your premises uh for a while until you kind of focus and yeah either come up with some sort of uh compromise or you know one person decides you know what the more I think about it the more I don’t really want that. That’s right. Uh eventually you come to some kind of consensus and you will and we are happy to guide you through all of that. (03:59) But when you come in town, we want you to be happy after your home tour. We want to really give you a good sampling of different areas and different communities so you’re fully educated. But unless I’m told, it’s hard for me to do that and deliver. That’s right. And we just want you to leave here happy and more knowledgeable about what life is like here. (04:18) That’s right. Well, if you’re interested in booking a tour Yes. you can go to our pickle411.com site. There you’ll find free information about Prescuit, uh the town, real estate, things to do. Uh you’ll find a link there to book a a buyer tour. That’s right. So, if you want to come in town and uh look at homes, look at neighborhoods, uh you can sign up, you can get on our calendar, uh it’ll give you hotels to choose from and all that kind of stuff. (04:48) Or if you’re somewhere in between and you’re not not really quite sure to put boots on the ground, we have a private one-on-one sessions online and you can at pickle 41411.com. You can sign up for that. Same thing. It’ll connect to our calendar. We’ll talk just like this. Just like this. And you can ask us anything you want. (05:11) So private one-on-one time. So pickle411.com might be a good next step. Yes. So we look forward to hearing from you. Can’t wait to show you around. Take care and have a good evening. Bye bye.
Have you been holding back because of “market jitters”?
In our latest Wine Down, we explain why being afraid to act might be the costliest decision of all, and give tips on how and why to avoid waiting until the same home costs thousands more.
Video Transcript
Hello, Diane Bro here coming to you live in our beautiful little mountain town of Prescuit, Arizona. I’m with my friendly sidekick here, Randall Bro. That’s me. I’m the sidekick. Yep, I am the pickle lady. He’s part of the pickle team. Yes, I am. And uh we’re so excited to come to you today in this beautiful September morning to talk about what everybody’s all nervous about. (00:26) Market jitters. Market jitters. I don’t know if it’s necessarily the market. I It’s just jitters. People have It’s just jitters. People are and we’re just here to tell you kind of get over it. Yeah. Uh the world is not coming to an end. We’re going to keep spinning. Um yes, we may have some challenging times ahead in the world throughout the world. (00:46) We don’t know what’s going to happen next. I get that. Uh but you have to decide. Yeah. Do you want to have uh go through some bad times in a place maybe you’re not happy with? Or do you want to be in a prettier town like Prescuit and and enjoying life and just not worrying about where the chips may fall? Now, if you’re thinking about retirement, then you should know your time is limited. (01:09) And if you waste your time just kind of sitting on your hands wondering when is going to be the right time to act, I would encourage you to act now because it’s a good time. Things are going to change. Um interest rates are coming down which means prices are going to start coming up. Y so your window of opportunity to get something at a nice price you know may change. (01:30) Yeah it should. The uh for the most part our market has been a buyer market or strong buyers market. Yeah. Uh for a long time and uh that’s starting to change the and you were the boss but now times are changing. So uh we may see prices increase a little bit again. Y uh we’re already seeing it. Uh some of the sellers are kind of like, “No, we’re not giving the house away. (01:55) ” They’re pushing back. Um inventories are up. Yes. Inventory is up. So we’ve had a couple of people, we’ll all wait a year and they waited a year and they came back and it was 100,000 more. Yeah. So don’t always try to hold out and wait for the market to see what’s going to happen. You can always always always refinance your home. (02:18) Uh that’s never something you’re not allowed to do. So you’re not tied into that. So if Yeah. If you’re you get if you’re borrowing at all, a lot of a lot of people who come to Prescuit don’t uh but if you’re borrowing and you uh you end up with a high interest rate and it ends up uh going lower, then you can always refinance and get the lower rate. (02:39) You won’t have lost your favorite dream home while you were waiting for interest rates to adjust. Don’t lose out on a beautiful home. Um, we’ve had a couple of people like, “Damn, I should have done this.” Yeah. Years, two years ago, we should have pulled the trigger and now it’s going to cost me more. And I’m like, well, yeah, it is what it is. Don’t be afraid. (02:58) You know, grab the bull by the horns and just make the move and everything else will fall into place. And the world, as I say, will continue to spin around. Continue to spin around. Um, you know, the the media really had a field day in 2024 with the election and everything and oh, it was the end of the world. (03:19) It was the end of democracy and and everything was up to 11 and uh, you know, the election ended and things really kind of should have gotten back to normal, but I think the media had um, you know, a habit that that it couldn’t break. You know, if you make people afraid, they will watch the news. And so they’ve been there’s been a lot of fear-mongering particularly about economic issues like the tariffs. (03:45) And I you know the the thing about the tariffs the reason why the the tariffs were anti-American for so long is that came out of uh World War II. After World War II uh America got in the habit of letting other people raise their tariffs and we didn’t because the world was destroyed and we weren’t. And that just kind of became a habit. (04:05) It’s been going on for a long time and President Trump seems to think that now’s the time for that to end. Uh we’re just doing what everyone else is doing. We’re protecting our industries. I I you know, for the most part, it’s working. This is I I just don’t see that it’s the end of the world the way the media uh made it out to be. (04:29) Um, in terms of the interest rates, you’re not in all likelihood, we will never see interest rates below 4% in our lifetimes. Probably not. That was a really weird demographic thing that was going on for about about a decade. And now since baby boomers are starting to retire. Yep. That’s kind of over. So, it really was pretty historic. (04:49) I mean, that’s not the way interest rates are supposed to work. Um, most people think they are, but it isn’t. Um it’s not good economically. So I it’s really adjusting the way it should be. It’s just everybody wants that two or 3%. That’s over. Yeah. It’s not going to happen. It shouldn’t have happened when it did. Yeah. (05:08) Um but it’s over. But it’s okay. I mean, we’re we’re you can still make it at a 6 and a half% interest rate. Yeah. Well, the good news is if you’re paying 6 and a half% on your mortgage, then uh your in your investments are are uh are should be doing well as as well. Uh for the longest time, bonds bond rates were really really low. (05:30) And now, you know, you you you have some investment income to uh offset that. So, and that perhaps a good thing. Yeah, it’s a good thing. So, everything will adjust and in the new reality and it’s not going to be so bad. and you know, come enjoy beautiful life here in Prescuit while everything’s being ironed out. Don’t wait. (05:52) It might be too late if you continue to wait. And don’t let the media set your mood. Watch the numbers. Oh, yeah. The market’s doing very, very well. We’re like, I don’t know, 15% or more over last year. Uh we just read had uh record highs uh not too long ago. Uh the market’s doing great. Unemployment is low. Inflation is low. (06:14) Look at the numbers. They tell a different story. Numbers don’t lie. They don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie. So, just wanted to talk to you a little bit about market jitters. Don’t be afraid. It’s all going to iron itself out. It’s all going to work out. Um, don’t let that stop you from moving on to the next chapter of your life. (06:33) We all, you know, life is short. Let’s have fun. Let’s Let’s be where we want to truly be and where we truly will be happy. That’s right. And we sure hope it’s here in Prescuit. We’d love to welcome you and we’ve had a great life here and uh we’d love for you to enjoy it as well. Absolutely. So, a great next step for you is pickle411.com. (06:53) That is our information site. You can go there to get information on Prescuit, on real estate, on the town. Anything you can think of as you search, you’ll probably find it. Uh if you’d like to meet with us online, we would gladly do a private one-on-one session just like this. just like this face to face. (07:12) You’re going to ask us anything. If you are interested in homes, we can talk homes. If you have questions about the city, we’ll talk about the city. We’ll talk about whatever you want. Whatever you want. We talk about old times. We’ll talk about old times. Whatever you want. We can do that, too. We like to chitchat. (07:27) And if you’re ready to come in and takes take a tour either of communities or homes, pickle 411 can help you there. There is a link where you can sign up and have that as well. Please come see us. We’d love to show you around. Absolutely. All right, my friends, on that note, have a great rest of your day. (07:45) Good to see you. Bye bye.
We’re back, better than ever! Pickle411.com is still your go-to spot for all things Prescott—only now it’s been freshened up with a few exciting updates. Come take a look and see what’s new!
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Hello, hello, hello. We’re so excited to be back live. Yeah, there we are. Our fellow pickle peeps. Fellow pickle peeps had a little fall several weeks ago and my face was all banged up. Is not camera ready. Not camera ready. So, we could not film for a little while, but here we are. We’re back. We are back. Better and stronger than before. (00:23) Stronger than ever. So, gave us a little time to uh rethink some things. And one of the things we rethought was pickle4411.com. So those of you who have been tuning in to our videos for a while should be familiar with pickle411.com. At the end of our videos a lot of times we’ll say, you know, go there to get free information, all the stuff that you need, blah blah blah. (00:47) Uh well, you can still get that at pickle411.com. If you go there, there’ll be a link to our Prescuit Relocation Center, which is our free information site, and you could get lots of free information there. Anything you can think of, you can search and you can find it there. So, absolutely that hasn’t changed. (01:05) What has changed is we’ve added uh some additional some additional links. We’ve added a link for buyer tours. Yeah. So, if you are interested in coming to Prescuit, uh you can go to pickle411.com and you can schedule a buyer tour with us. You can schedule yourself. Yeah. Directly online. Online connect. It will magically appear on my calendar. (01:27) Yeah. So, it connects to our calendar. So, uh it will show you when we’re available. Yep. And when you book yourself, it’ll automatically go on our calendar. We’ll reach out to you. We’ve got some assessment tools uh that we’ll send you so we can help you find homes. It will tell you about hotels, recommended hotels and restaurants and things to do and all that kind of stuff. (01:49) Absolutely. It’s a great great source. Easy to get to and that is our infamous pickle 411. 411.com. It’s coming to you new and improved. New and improved. And then uh as a final thing, we we kind of started offering something new that has turned out to be pretty popular. Yeah. And that is our private one-on-one sessions online. (02:11) Yes. Give us a call. We are happy to chat with you, answer any questions. We can meet each other face to face over Zoom. Um, we’ve had several clients do it before their little trip in and it really was quite effective in narrowing down what they were looking for. Yeah. And uh just it helped to make the search that much better. (02:33) Yeah. And if you’re not ready for home searches, maybe you just want to ask questions about the city. Yeah. Uh or different communities or whatever whatever floats your boat. If you’ve been in town, if you’ve been on a buyer tour, you can still meet with us online anytime you want. Absolutely. We try both to be present and we’ll answer whatever questions you have and uh get you hooked up and get you on your way and uh very simple, easy to do. (03:00) The technology is very very simple and uh we’ve got really good feedback on it. Yeah. And we’ve enjoyed meeting you in person and uh it really makes for a great home tour once we’ve kind of touched base and it’s kind of like we’ve already established a little absolutely relationship before we even meet you. (03:17) So uh it’s lovely. So don’t be shy. Feel free to sign up for that. We are happy to talk. Yeah, absolutely. Happy to chitchat. And again, it patches into our calendar automatically. So make sure we get you a slot that will work for everybody. It’s very very cool. Very cool. So that is pickle411.com. So when you send you the we try to send you to pickle411.com. (03:39) That’s what you’ll have. You can find free information. You can book buyer tours or you can get a private one-on-one session. That’s right. Cheers to that. There you go. We’re always cutting edge, folks. We’re always trying to reach you and and uh help you in any way we can as you’re thinking of next steps. (03:56) Hopefully marching over here to Prescuit and making it reality. You’ll love it here. So anyway, we’re so glad to be back. This is Diana Randall Bro. I am the pickle lady coming to you live from Prescuit uh at the start of fall. Just about almost there. So excited. Changes in the air. Weather’s changing, right? Starting to little nip in the air. We’re so excited. (04:19) Yeah. So anyway, hope to see you at pickle411.com. Come and sign up and come visit us. See you soon. Bye bye
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