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Hello, hello, hello peeps. This is Diana Randall Bro coming to you live from the ever beautiful, always charming town of Prescuit, Arizona. Now, once again, it’s live for us. It won’t be live for you. You’ll be watching a recording. That’s right. But we are alive. He likes to correct me on that, but and I always forget. But yeah, he is right about that. I shouldn’t say that. So, he’s right to clarify. No, I just It’s live for me in the moment. Yeah. Um, it will be live one day when you watch it, but anyway. Anyway, whatever. Thank you for that. Something sad today. Something sad today. We heard uh the recent passing of uh one of the one of the real characters of Arizona. And that is the uh NASA hoax guy. Yep. NASA hoax guy passed this past month. And as you know, in every town where you live in, um, and in particular smaller towns, there’s always a couple of cast of characters. Absolutely. That you think, “Wow, I just love this person and what they bring and their uniqueness and what they bring to the community.” Always a topic of discussion and uh maybe that’s what he was all about. He made people think, made people talk and it’s the NASA hoax guy. The NASA hoax guy. Yeah. It makes me think of uh again kind of showing my age. It’s been a while, but it used to be the ducky lady in New Orleans. I forget, which is we’re originally from New Orleans. So, this was a lady that would uh roller skate around the French Quarter and just I don’t know, just be a character. She does really kind of strange. Of course, in New Orleans, more people, I guess, are characters than normal, but uh we love characters. We love characters. We embrace them. We’d like and our goal is to eventually be our own characters one day. That’s right. That’s right. So, uh weird. We’re going to be one of those. Yeah. So, the NASA hoax guy had a pickup truck. You would see it all around town and he uh he would write NASA as a hoax that they know you’re stupid, you know, don’t fall for it. Come. It was spray painted all around his car. And he regularly would park by the square. He would drive slowly around the square so everybody could read it and uh kind of get the old noodle thinking. Yeah. Is this guy on to something that we don’t know? But he in his mind truly felt like NASA was a hoax. Moon landing, all of that. None of that was real. Some of it, some of it might be. I think maybe some of it. I don’t know. But uh sadly, he uh it was just written up in the local newspaper here that he had passed away. So, I think all I think we speak for a lot of people here in Prescate, we’re going to miss seeing that miss that damn truck. I mean, it was always something that you saw and it was comforting. It was like there he is. He’s still, you know, it was just it was just part of our part of our little scenery and uh you miss those little things. Yeah, absolutely. Well, one day you you guys may miss the pickle driving around. Appreciate Appreciate your characters. Appreciate your characters. You never know. And people like to celebrate diversity. To me, that’s diversity at its best. uh people with a different opinion, different outlook on life and a different way of being and that’s what makes life enjoyable. So now there are two others that I kind of see floating around and well one is uh it’s a car. It’s vaccines are are Yeah. Yeah. are are killers and their whole cars, you know, and I’m sure they’ve had a personal experience or something. They may and they’re entitled to their opinion. Absolutely. Um but again, it’s always nice to see it. It’s just it’s just it’s nice that people can maybe open your eyes and like, hey, let me think about that. That’s something maybe I never thought about. Yeah. So they serve a purpose. Yeah. And we have another character. She li loves to walk around the square really fast and arms and legs of Kimoo and you’ll see her all the time walking around the square. And again, it just gives you a sense of comfort like, “Hey, here’s my little cast of characters. These are they’re kind of like friends you didn’t know you had or they don’t know you have, you know, but um there’s Boondog and Bob. Uh shout out to Boondog and Bob.” Who’s that? Why? His car says Boondog and Bob. Evidently, he boondoggs in his car a lot. I guess if you’re boondogging, you probably shouldn’t. A boondoggy thing. I think it means uh you go out to the boondocks where there’s uh no water, electricity, maybe off the grid. I don’t know. He’s in the boondock. Boondog and Bob. I haven’t had a conversation with Boondock and Bob, but there you go. Kind of a crazy car. You know, the car is kind of crazy. Absolutely. We have zebra landscaping. They have zebras all over the place. uh signs that they put. Um, again, it’s part of part of the scenery. I mean, I’m sure people think we’re crazy driving around with pickles on our on our on our car. So, I pickle van’s probably uh that’s kind of weird. People, it’s fun. So, if you come to visit us, you will get in the van with pickles. So, if you are have any kind of embarrassment magnet, by the way, just a just a women just throw themselves. They love the pickle at the pickle van. Beat them off with a with a stick. Sure. Everybody. Yeah, pickles are Yeah, exactly. But I mean, so, uh, maybe we’re part of the Yeah. Yeah. part of the background here. I don’t know. But it’s fun. So, I think anybody who does stuff like that, there’s just something about them. They’re they’re brave. They don’t care. They’re like, you know what? I’m putting it out there. Take it or leave it. Be me, baby. We got to be us. So, we drive with the pickle. And I got a pickle hanging in my car. I got the whole thing. We We fully embrace it. We love our characters. Yeah. And uh we’d love to share them with you if you ever come visit. So maybe you’ll see one of these people we just mentioned. Every town has them. So rest in peace, my friend. Yes, that is our information. NASA hoax guy. Cheers to you, my friend. That is uh that’s our information for this particular video. If you want more free information and place to go pickle411.com, that is our free information site. You will find information there on restaurants, what’s going on in town, real estates. Pretty much you want to know about anything at Prescuit, you’ll find it there. There’s a search bar, pickle411.com. Absolutely free. We could charge, but we don’t. We don’t. It’s all free. It’s all absolutely. All this foolishness is free for you people. That’s right. There you go. That’s right. We hope to hear from you. Come see us. We’d love to show you what our town is all about. Hope to hear from you soon. Take care. Bye.

Hello, hello, hello, my fellow Prescott pickle peeps. Hello, peeps. Well, you might not all be in Prescott yet. No, you should be, though. But we sure hope you are. We hope you’re thinking about it and that you’re anxious to come here. Um, first of all, we wanted to say season’s greetings. That’s right. Hope you guys had a great holiday season. Yes. And, uh, we’re we’re looking forward to a happy happy 2026. 2026. Hard to believe. No, I cannot. It’s a big number. No, but we’re really excited. I think it’s going to be an awesome year. I think so. And we’re very excited about what’s coming. Yeah. Obviously, we wish all of you a very happy, prosperous. What are other positive adjectives you can think about for the upcoming year? Stupendous. Amazing. I like stupendous. I like stupendous. And uh just a happy truly a happy new year. We hope everyone is healthy and wise and happy. Yeah. So, uh, we thought we’d spend a couple of minutes talking about what we expect for 2026 for real estate, for Prescuit. Uh, just life in general. I mean, I’m expecting a lot. I wish it was a baby. A grandbaby, but a grandbaby would be good. Don’t mention that to my daughter. Yeah. But no, I don’t think so. But that would be cool. That would be cool. But anyway, we’ll see. We’ll see. We’ll see what the year brings. That’s neither here nor there. We’re really here to talk about Prescuit and real estate. Yeah. In terms of uh in terms of real estate results, I have yet to look at the numbers uh for December because I don’t have them yet. Uh I will talk a little bit about what we saw in November. In November, there was actually a significant price bump bump up which no one was expecting. Surprising. Yeah. Uh you know, volume is kind of slow near the end of the year. So, it’s not like those statistics really based on a lot of homes closing. Uh, so that’s probably a fluke, I’m guessing. Uh, prices in Prescat have been pretty flat since uh, COVID ended. Uh, we’re kind of expecting much of the same for 2026. Uh, people are talking about the economy. Y I think most of the the the shenanigans for 2025 will be over. Yeah, I think so. I think a lot of people are starting to calm down. We’re not so concerned about uh we we’ve heard this a lot like what if we go to war with Israel and the Ukraine and things like that. And I think people are starting to take a breath, calm down. They were worried about the market and what was going to happen. And nothing dramatic has happened yet. In fact, we’ve just had another um interest decrease. So, that’s a a positive. Um and so, I think people were just kind of holding their breath a little bit and saying, I just kind of want to see what’s going to happen in the world. Yeah. And now that we see the world is still spinning and things are still pretty much okay. Um I think people are starting to relax and think, well, all right, maybe now I will be coming back and uh making some decision. the the media kind of goes crazy anytime anything new comes up. Sure. Uh the media was predicting or at least some of the media, I don’t know, was predicting uh problems with the economy, problems with real estate. None of that materialized. Right. In their defense, we had a newly elected president. Sure. Uh we had uh a lot of new things were tried uh like the tariffs. People were very nervous about the tariffs. Yes, that’s true. Very. That’s very true. People, it it just felt like uncertainty. You know, it’s kind of like when you get newly married, it’s like, hm, is this going to work out or not? I don’t know. He’s kind of weird. She’s kind of weird. I don’t know. What have I done? Yeah. And then you realize it’s all good. It’s all good. Not a lot has changed. I’m going to hang in there. Yeah. If the press is uh rattling the sword again, just keep in mind that that’s what media does. Yep. Uh when there is anxiety that makes people want to I was going to say buy newspapers but I you know I’m showing my that’s obsolete. Yes. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Whatever whatever whatever they’re selling now. I’m not sure what they’re selling but it still works the same. Uh the more people worry the more more they tend to watch news and the media and all that and who knows anymore what’s real. Yeah. Whatever we’re watching I’m like I don’t know if this is real or not. Is this AI? Is this this real thing? It’s all Yeah. Yeah. Who knows what to truly believe anymore in my opinion, but I just keep moving forward. That’s all I do. For the foreseeable future, Prescuit will be a retirement town. It will be a very popular destination for retirement and it will be uh pretty much surrounded by states that people are leaving uh when they retire. They don’t want to stay in places like California and Oregon and places like that. And that much we know is true. It is still continuing. That has not changed for our retirees. Yeah. California was in the news again. They’re they’re they’ve lost a couple of refineries that have been there forever. So gasoline prices are expected to go higher. Every time things like that happen, uh that’s good for Prescuit. All the more reason why people want to get out. They don’t want to stay. They want to come to Prescuit. Uh, so I I’ve always said the long-term projection for Prescuit is is very positive still. Yeah, we’re holding on and we’re not a big we’re not that big a town, so it doesn’t take much to make our cup pretty full in terms of economics. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. The uh uh home prices we’re expecting to stay stable. Uh that’s kind of been the way for the last several years. I in Prescuit. Yes, definitely. uh our the median price of a home is uh in the city of Prescuit proper is about 650,000. So, you know, keep that in mind. Uh I don’t think that’s going to change much. Uh we have some other cities where they’re not quite as high. Um so, yeah, I none of that is changing, I don’t think. Yeah. So, we’re just in a nice holding pattern. It’s uh we’re in a sweet spot. Um we’ve been actually we found higher priced homes are really flying off the shelves which was not what we expected at all for us personally. Yeah. Not the case in the past and not kind of what we expected. Uh but Prescuit has developed a a higherend market now and there are people who are very interested in very high-end homes here. So and those are flying off the shelf whereas more of our mid-range priced homes are sitting a little bit lower. a little bit, which is very surprising to us. Yeah, we might need some slight price decreases to make those move. Obviously, we’re in a slow time now because of the holidays. So, right, but it’s good for you guys who are in that mid price range. This is your chance. Get in here. Um, you know, get in here. They’re waiting for you. We’ve got a lot of some beautiful homes. We have two that are lovely, lovely, lovely. And, uh, great prices, great, beautiful homes. move in ready and um yeah, so come on in, bring us an offer. I mean, you’ll be surprised. There’s a lot of mid-range homes that are just kind of waiting for the right person. Yeah. You know, when you’re projecting what’s going to happen in 2026, um you know, it’s easier to project things like January and February. Harder to project November and December. Yes. Uh so what we’re telling you, you know, now is a good time. Well, now is like the first quarter, so uh get in here. Yeah. Get in here. get in here before they’re all snatched up. Yeah. So, yeah, we’re expecting uh a much uh easier year, smoother year. Um we’re expecting a lot of business actually. Um uh a lot of our brokerages uh people are saying the same thing. People in the biz as they say. They’re saying put your seatelts on because uh we’re going to get busy. Be a wild ride. It’s going to be a wild ride. So, we’re looking forward to that. We like to be busy. We love to meet new people. So, come see us. Come see us. We want to show you some beautiful neighborhoods, some beautiful homes, and show you what life here in Prescat is all about. Absolutely. So, cheers to 2026. Happy New Year. Stupendous. Stupendous. Wishing you a stupendous spectacular. Um, what’s it? Super. I’m trying to think of some other s adjectives. S words. Supercalifragilistic. There you go. That’s and showing my show my aging. Yes, you are. Yeah. But anyway, we would love to have you. We’d love to show you around and show you what life is like here and share what we found and have enjoyed living here the past nine years. I can’t believe that already. It’s been awesome. So, so these videos are uh our effort to uh bring you free information about the city of Prescuit, real estate, life, and everything else. If you want more free information, a place to go is pickle411.com. That is you our information site. Everything there is absolutely free and it will all amaze, astound and uh hopefully educate you as well. 100%. We look forward to hearing from you soon. Please give us a call. Take care. Bye bye.