Author: Pickle Lady

hello hello hello
pickle peach pickle peeps
this is diane and randall bro here
how to join you up here
you gonna move up yeah the pugs decided
to join us
yeah as well as frankie there she is
so we’re rounding out 2020 thought we’d
make a wind down
on what we expect to come in the year
ahead
uh what that will mean for real estate
basket life life in general life in
general
yeah so first let’s chose 2020 2020.
it was a rough ah you were a my
friend
not me i meant the year
yeah i did mean the year although you
know you could argue
okay we’re about to end this one
shortest one ever yeah i get one get her
uh coconut water on my face that’s gonna
say wine it’s not really not one no
yeah google we’re not drinking wine
we’re not drinking water we’re using
wine glasses
this is a delicious diet k drink
okay from kroger nothing but only the
best for you
um so yeah it was 2020 rough horrible
horrible it was uh unexpected it was
insane it was
unprecedented uh it
made you dig down real deep some of the
positives
were new ways of doing business yeah
absolutely
new ways of approaching things some of
which we’re going to continue doing in
the future with our own business
oh definitely and um and businesses all
over the country
absolutely i can’t say it was a new way
of doing business the whole
zoom thing and remote and all that that
technology had been around for at least
20 years
but people are they change slowly the
way that they do things
and this pandemic forced people to do it
that’s right
and when they when they started doing it
they found out well you know
like most americans works what happens
the ingenuity comes in yeah that’s
exciting we dig down deep
pull it out and we make it successful at
least that’s what the pickle lady
brigade
yes we had a banner year we had a great
year
and so we kind of wanted to talk about
some predictions for 2021
yeah and uh so one of the predictions
that
uh the pickle lady has already made is
uh let me close it okay so one of the
one of the predictions
that the pickle lady already made is
that some of these new patterns of
business
will continue and i expect they will yes
yeah it’s been great for us we do a lot
of virtual home tours
now um when we could not hold
open houses uh we got drones we got into
more creative ways of filming properties
to send it to all of our clients out of
state
keep them interested let them know hey
we’re still out here we’re still viable
um and we can still find you the home
yep
and that’s that’s gonna lead to some
changes in the long term i think for
prescott
prescott as we’ve said a hundred times
is a retirement community
yes so the people coming here are
retiring
uh there aren’t a lot of jobs to be had
here
uh but and the city has been thinking
about trying to change that
uh but now with this new zoom technology
being used in businesses all over the
country you can have a job
really anywhere in the world and we
still live in prescott one of our new
predictors for 2021
it’s going to open the door boom not
just to retirees
it’s going to open the door to young
people who maybe have families and they
want to go to a nice small town
and live the beautiful life nice fresh
clean air
affordable housing beautiful weather
great schools
but they can do it now because you work
via
the via zoom or whatever it’s called
whatever you want yeah whatever
technology you’re using
yeah the the uh the key word there is
small town and small towns
are now in yeah uh big challenges always
been that way though
you and i have always no no i mean we
always kind of run ahead of the trend
yeah yeah yeah we’re kind of what you
call it what’s the word train stutters
yeah i was smoking cigars when nobody
knew what that was anyway
that’s right that’s right that kind of
thing so we kind of have uh
we kind of jump on these things ahead of
time yeah we do so we kind of
once again once again setting the
current i couldn’t really predict
uh but the covet thing really is pushing
small towns people don’t want to live
in areas where there’s a lot of people
per square mile anymore that’s right and
they are
rediscovering small towns in the past
small towns were kind of dying on the
vine
um because everybody had to be in the
big concrete jungles and
going to work and they had to have their
fancy millennial space you know with
basketball courts in the office and all
that
but what people have found is you really
don’t need all that my jammies at home
you can be in your jammies that’s it
that’s right you can leave your jammies
sit in front of your fireplace working
on your computer and honestly you’re a
little bit more
i think more productive oh yeah um
yeah so anyway uh it’s been interesting
so i think it’s opening the door for a
lot of young families to come out here
um and work uh
remotely yeah so uh i think it’s gonna
change the nature of our little town i
think it’s gonna change the nature of
of the uh the community of who it was oh
yeah it’s not just gonna be retirees i
think well the smart ones out there
going to be like hey
instead of me spending 3 000 a month on
an apartment in
l.a i can get a gorgeous house you know
for like 400
and and pay half that on a mortgage so
something to think about for all young
people and speaking of mortgages well we
can’t talk about 2020 without talking
about the
huge uptick in business yes uh the last
uh report i ran we were actually 18
year-over-year median sales price per
square foot for the entire town
yeah which is really it’s unsustainable
yeah so one of the predictions
unfortunately i think for
2021 is i think we’re going to have a
little bit of a price decrease
at least back in line with the longer
term trends
what we saw was uh there was a spike in
buyer interest i think because of covid
what there wasn’t was a spike in seller
interest a lot of people did not want to
have their homes on the market they
didn’t want to you know do open houses
yeah they kind of hunkered down they
hunkered down they’re like i’m going to
ride this out
now it’s not the time so we got we had
demand
uh but we had plenty of demand didn’t
have much supply at all
and i think pretty much as soon as this
vaccine thing or whatever it is comes
through
and kobe it’s not really a threat
anymore i think we
have pent up supply i think a lot of
sellers
are going gonna jump in they’re gonna
put the homes on the market and try to
take advantage of the high prices and
all that
and i think what will happen is we’ll
have uh twice as much
supply as we normally have which will be
nice yeah it should be nice for a
it change we’re hunting down and exactly
so i think that’s going to open up the
doors more sellers will now be like you
know what now’s the time maybe i want to
downsize
maybe they moved to prescott you know
and they bought a 5 000 square foot
house
now they want to downsize so they’re
going to put it on the market and what’s
going to happen is our younger families
are going to be like i need a 4 000
square foot house so
i think it’s going to be a beautiful
story yes it will yeah of
young young buyers needing bigger older
buyers needing less
and so it’s just going to open up the
floodgates uh yeah i think you’re right
for houses for sale people are concerned
about
interest rates interest rates are so low
right now
inflation is so low right now so for
some of the older population out there
you can remember when interest rates
were
12 up to 19 it was insane
it was insane i mean so
don’t bicker about three percent or
three and a half
it’s almost laughable it really is this
has been an error a free of essentially
free money
uh the the interest rates may go up but
i i don’t unless something really
catastrophic happens i don’t think
interest rates are going to be high
enough to change the longer term
bigger trends that we’re seeing uh
exodus from the west coast
uh huge numbers of people retiring as
baby boomers reach
a certain age yes uh the attractiveness
of a town like
uh prescott which is surrounded by
desert on all sides
uh you know those things aren’t gonna
change so we’re expecting
long-term trends would be good for
prescott and black dogs
and black evidently hello love prescott
love prescott all part of the family
here
hello frank oh she likes me so
you know interest rates may creep up a
tiny bit but come on people we all
remember the olden days
three percent three and a half is not is
still
amazing still amazing prices yeah i mean
you
you can still buy beautiful homes here
uh but anyway
that hasn’t happened yet but uh keep
that in mind
think back in the olden days when you
had to wait in line for gas remember
that
i remember that was to get a free gas
when you fill up your tank they’d give
you
three glasses that you wouldn’t have
free glasses you wouldn’t have uh
drink in it but you get the glass for
free
yeah we’re right on the edge of that we
remember all that we remember the high
interest rates from my i was
yeah we’ve been through astonishing now
when you think about it it’s like my
gosh
you know yeah some of these things make
uh covet seem
a little bit more perspective so i think
the beautiful thing about covid
is it is open people’s minds um
people have decided i think the most
positive thing that has come out of it
my prediction is
uh that people now are like you know
what now is the time
i’m not gonna waste any more of
well i’ll wait another five years i’ll
wait another two years
let me just do one more thing time is of
the essence and now is the time
now is the time to do it i think the
lockdown has forced people to kind of
inwardly reflect and
and make some changes in their life make
some positive changes
i think quarantine was good to open
people’s eyes
that how important family is how
important it is
not to spend so much time on the career
so many hours
less is better less is better i’m gonna
kill that dog
we’re really in trouble we’re having
trouble today but anyway less is better
so my prediction is uh
that 2021 is going to be
a year a year barking dogs
i lose my my train of thought my
prediction for 2021 is it’s going to be
a year of change for people positive
transformation people are going to now
take the chance now take you know the
risk
you know perhaps you were sick and you
were like you know what my eyes are open
life can be taken away in a second it’s
short
now is the time to make it happen and we
of the pickle lady brigade
are here to help you absolutely we’ve
got a great team assembled we’ve got a
great
lender who can walk you through every
step of it
we’ve got great home inspector uh i am
your
favorite hopefully buyer agent she’s my
favorite well i don’t know
not always not always he’s our grumpy
grumpy marketer that’s me
not always when these dogs are barking
on my film they are
yeah it’s hard it’s hard to do this
but anyway so we look forward to 2021
our prediction is
come see us in prescott we promise we’ll
find you a great place
we promise we’ll help you make a brand
new start
in life here yeah we’re not about sales
here
we’re about service that’s what our team
does we’re about service
we want to get you integrated into the
new community
we want to help you make friends we want
to help you uh
make that transition and you can be free
and you can meet friends
that’s my prediction give us a call at
the pickle lady brigade
we’d love to help you step forward into
2021 it’s
nothing but positive changes people it’s
all good in the hood
on that note goodbye
you