Category: Making the Move

hello hello hello this is diana randall bro here coming at you from the the terrace out at the raven cafe one of our red places around town yes really cool vibe very nice but we’re not here to talk about the favorite cafe no we’re not what do you want to talk about my love we’re here to talk about downsizing downsizing we have a lot of people coming here from all over and they want to downsize so here’s my advice to you if you’re coming from a home three to five thousand square feet which we see a lot of yep and you think you know what i’m getting rid of everything and i’m starting over i only want 1500 feet i’m here to tell you that’s a mistake it’s not gonna work out it’s not gonna work out you really need if you’re truly downsizing start at two thousand yeah because it’s hard at least eighteen hundred yeah it’s hard to divest yourself of divest yourself of your belongings especially if you’ve lived in a house about 40 years or so which we see a lot of yeah it’s really hard to comb through that stuff and move into a new home and make it your place because you miss some of your familiar belongings yeah so i don’t know what it is about hutches in particular people want hutches i gotta take my my china hutch gotta do the hutch but here’s the thing measuring a lot of space for hutches that’s right if you go too small 14 or 1500 square feet you’re going to be miserable and especially for you married couples that are retired that is too much togetherness and too much under footness yeah you might end up separated and or divorced yeah because it’s a little too close for comfort so just keep in mind do about 2 000 square feet you’ll be fine you’ll make a wonderful adjustment you’ll be able to keep some of your favorite pieces and still have the comfort and feel of your old home but in a much more manageable livable space yep that being said there you go that being said that’s my two cents that’s your two cents my two cents is if you’re going to downsize a lot of times what we hear is we want to downsize we want to downsize one’s someplace small so we show them a place that’s small the first thing they say is well i’m not going to be able to fit all my stuff in here that’s right you may have to get rid of some things yeah well here’s the idea if you’re downsizing you’re not going to bring all your stuff you’re going to bring a subset of your stuff correct i like that the smaller the subset the better uh one thing we will do is if you’re looking at a particular home we’ll go through and do a video i’ll i’ll intersperse an example so you see what we’re talking about where we actually uh put the dimensions like the length of a wall in the video so you can see the house and see how much space you have to see if your height is going to fit we’ll be glad to do that for you we do that all the time uh but my advice is if you want to downsize if you’re serious about it be open to losing the hutch don’t make it all about the hutch or whatever piece of furniture uh we’ll try to find you a space for it but you don’t want the house that you bought being driven by your old touch correct because there’s some great houses you’re missing out on just trying to fit your dining room table your dining room table or your hutch your life is going to change you significantly make the change yeah you got to jump in with it with both feet uh you don’t want to come here buy something and then have to sell it buy something else because it doesn’t get what you want to do exactly just don’t go too small but don’t bring everything with you it’s you gotta strike the dude though if you’re gonna make the move make the move embrace the change get rid of the old crap that’s right here oh hutch get rid of the old hatch i think hutch is a french word for crap yeah eat that much you don’t need that it’s all good the bureau come here yeah it’ll all be good and they’ll be good embrace the change yep where can they find you you can find me at prescottpicklelady.com or 713-302-1964 she’s the one and only press could pick a lady and she’ll be there wrecked or we sell basket yeah we’re looking to sell a home check out we sell press get done so cheers cheers to downsizing make it happen have a whole new life get rid of that old stuff that old history you don’t need smaller you have smaller lives smaller is good smaller is good all right cheers to that cheers to that oh you gotta hand me your glasses bye see you later have a great day bye

hello hello hello hello hello peeps it always makes randall feel more comfortable if i start off yeah i don’t know what to do if you don’t start with yeah he doesn’t like it otherwise but anyway yeah welcome this is the prescott pickle lady yes it’s our weekly wine down weekly wine and we drink some wine and share some thoughts and some information about life in general real estate in general and prescott in general i’m impressed in general yeah and uh so i am diane bro and this is my partner randall brown yeah i’m the pickle ladies data troll or something that is correct kind of what we wanted to talk to i talked to you about today is uh people’s fear about moving in general not just in prescott but just moving to a brand new place that they don’t know because they don’t know anyone right and i’m going to go there i don’t know a soul i don’t know anyone and uh what this what this wine down is about is if you come to prescott and you work with us you will know us that’s right and that’s worth a lot more than you would think just knowing uh a real estate agent so uh we thought we sort of talked to you about that so many good friends yeah that i’m like wow i just love these people we’re still friends we still i’d like to see people a whole lot more and go out to eat a whole lot more but we’re always we’re always busy yeah but but when we do have availability i love to get together with former clients and now they’re just good friends yeah um and when you’re when you are brand new in a town uh just knowing one person or one couple i guess or three of us i get three of us in the pickle brigade just knowing three people well uh is of amazing value it is as you move in you can feel comfortable calling us yeah you know after you move in uh there are a lot of agents who are like done the deal’s done papers are signed see ya and you’re never here going to the next thing yeah we don’t like to be that way no no it’s kind of like everybody becomes my little peeps yeah the pickle peeps the pickle teeth they kind of come into the family and then i feel like i want to check in hey how are things going are you okay do you have any questions um you know besides our relocation guide yeah but you know sometimes you still just need to have that personal touch you need to be able to reach out and uh we like for me at least that’s my favorite part of the job yeah is i like still being in touch i like still being of assistance and helping you for us it’s not just give me that commission check when you’re moving moving is one of those things it’s uh do you want to get that turn that off somebody’s coming after the pickle lady tallahassee florida sorry i can’t talk right now sorry about that right now so uh when you are moving somewhere new that’s one of the phases of your life where a lot of things can go wrong you know if you’re starting a new job you just had a new baby god help us if that yeah you know what that you don’t go to there again no i would be shocked but you know when you go through these these points in your life where you’re sort of vulnerable yes and moving to a brand new house moving to a brand new city is one of those so having just a few people that you can call on and you know you make a call and you say uh can you get over here right now with every towel you own yes this was a recent event this is for you genie yeah who i consider a good friend yeah a really good friend uh genie weenie just moved into her house poor little thing she called me and said oh my god my house is flooded i’m out of towels and i ran out of towels and so we raced over there luckily we were actually home we raised my wife has a lot of time i do have a lot of time a lot of exceptionally large numbers yeah but anyway we literally raced over there and helped her wipe it all up stop it up get somebody out there to help her fix the problem turn the water off at the bridge um you know and so that’s the kind of service we like to provide yeah don’t think oh my house is closed and now you guys yeah if you would call a friend if you would call a friend you know where you’re living now and there’s somebody you would call uh because you need help uh you can call us you know i don’t like to talk the deal is done once you get your official recordation of your home yeah we are making connections you know dealing with hoas we’re dealing with we’re dealing with an hoa right now on two things on a fence and paint colors and and having having negotiated this myself it’s something i’m happy to do yeah i know when you move in you’ve got a hundred and fifty thousand boxes to one pack and it’s like you know i really wanna put my fence up but i gotta get my house together i’ll kind of try to do that part for you maybe you know if you want me to yeah we’ll do what we can yeah and then that way that’s one less thing you have to worry about and the wheels are in motion with the hoa to get whatever task you need to have done yeah and you don’t have to lose three months waiting time while you’re unpacking you know we like to kind of fill that blanket if you’d like you know what gets you hooked into the social scene absolutely introduce you to people we think you might get along with and you know yeah so you come to a brand new town you come to a brand new city my voice is changing yeah [Laughter] yeah so uh you know you you are vulnerable when you’re moving here but uh if you you reach out to us and we help you out then you got at least three people who will have your back we have your back yeah we don’t just consider you a job check done see you later um we like to keep in touch with everybody um we celebrate our relationship with you and that’s the way we like to do it that’s the way we roll absolutely we like to keep it personal and keep in touch sometimes i’d like to keep in touch a little more than i can but yeah you know we all get busy and everybody but we’re here so if you have anything major like hey tell them what do you really think about your doctor i can give you the speech oh yeah we’ll give you the scanning who do you think really does a good job with hair i can give you this you’re going to get it on that too i’ll tell you who really proves good beer yeah yeah so the point is um uh-oh uh just uh one quick tip uh just in this particular case if your house is flooding for whatever reason you should know how to turn the water off uh so if you go through the buying process and uh you know you’re going to have an inspector the inspector will show you where your main water turn off is uh most most appliances like the refrigerator it it’ll have its own shut off so you don’t have to shut off water to the whole house you’ll be able to shut it off there so that’s your fridge leaking just turn it off turn it off at the source that’s what that’s was the you know that’s what we did we you know mopped up the water there but that’s just a quick tip just a quick tip i learned myself yeah i learned myself happy that i actually i was super impressed that daddy here knew that i was really surprised tell me how i know uh because we had a dishwasher that flooded and i learned the hard way yeah ruined the floor i was i was impressed with that good job yeah yeah you live long enough you learn a few things anyway in conclusion in conclusion let’s talk about how wonderful and sweet [Laughter] yes she does but uh ultimately the goal of our practice is we want to be there for you before during and after absolutely um we really want to make your life here in prescott just fantastic no regrets we want you to have a nice smooth transition and we enjoyed it and we did we really do and we really become friends with some lovely lovely people i love you all [Music] you guys are awesome and you make the business fun and uh and worthwhile to be in it makes me feel good to to work with some really nice people so anyway call us if you need anything we again will be there for you before during and after we absolutely love to help you find the right place here in prescott so how do they find you you can find me at three three zero two one nine six four or on the web prescottpicklady.com correct you can find our relocation guide there lots of good information if you are looking to sell your home you can find a link there to our listing site which is we sell prescott.com uh but you’ll find the link just go to frescopiclady.com all your dreams will come true that’s a big yes that’s a big thing to deliver [Laughter] it may be your nightmare but yeah it may be your nightmare but we’re going to try real hard for you yeah but we’ll keep those snakes away yeah we’ll be all right all right folks this is randall and diane bro thanks for joining us till next week when we do our next one yeah nice balloon all right take care have a good night bye

all right i’m sitting harder than you that’s okay they give the important people the tall chairs oh give me i don’t think so give me a break give me a break hey how are you guys hello yeah okay we are now in fish capacity you want to introduce ourselves i was about to go ahead don’t jump that’s what i do i oh my god give me patience all right we’re here in our official capacity as realtors in our very nice beautiful new conference room here at our office i am diane and this is randall bro she’s pickle lady i am the pickle lady um and we are happy to be here this evening we wanted to kind of hang out at the office because it’s been a little hot yeah it’s nice and cool in here we’re waiting for the monsoons to come through they’re running late this year they are very much really weird weather patterns this year all over the country yeah we’re no exceptional hurry monsoons right absolutely yeah just one or two rain so far exactly so we’re here to talk about something that um well i’d like to help any of my clients when they’re moving in so just mr bro um and we kind of wanted to talk a little bit about customer service and some important things so recently we sold a lovely home in prescott lakes and my little lady wanted to have her whole home repainted so i do know you have your hoa so i went over and filled out the whole application and helped you pick out the paints and sadly they only meet every couple of weeks to decide yeah um because she was closing the next day they declined her colors yeah yeah it was kind of dumb but anyway kind of dumb so now we have to wait till august 6th so i wanted to talk to you about things like that when you need to do anything with your hoa be aware you can’t just go in fill the form send it in and say oh approve today no sometimes it takes two to three weeks and the board meets the board and then if you don’t get the answer you want then you got to do it all over again you know yeah so always check with your hoa if you want something done ready or fast you better you know expect it’s not going to quite happen that way yeah we try to get to get it all choreographed just so yeah uh obviously you know this is if you are moving from it in from out of town right so you’re trying to coordinate all this obviously get get the pickle lady uh involved right as your boots on the ground to try to get it all coordinated um so part of it is just so you know that we can help you do stuff like that and negotiate and administer that kind of thing and the other is just adjust your expectations adjust your expectations so we were declined on one color so now we have to wait till august 6 but that’s okay we’re going to resubmit and we’re going to start over but uh so i wanted you to be aware of that sometimes with hoas it takes a little time to get the final approval but you will always also we suspect that part of the reason why they didn’t just approve everything is that we had not closed yet mm-hmm and uh we suspect they wanted to make sure that we were closed before they do anything well that makes sense yeah i mean you can’t approve something on the house that someone doesn’t own yeah i totally get it yeah i was just my my point is yeah that’s how proactive we are as a team yeah i’m so proactive i’m like you know what this lady needs her house painted i’m on this i’m gonna make this happen i know where the hoa is i’m gonna go while she was still in california so we and our practice we very much like to help our people in any way we can we’ve had clients call and say i can’t get my ceiling fans to work okay so we come over and and then we call our other friend and our other agent and say hey uh how do we get this turned on we can’t get it oh did you get the remotes that’s another tip too so there are three of us working together to try to figure out some of these problems and get you the best help as fast as possible whether it be us or we have a whole list which is on our relocation center location center which lists painters handymen uh we have somebody who does stucco so our team we try super super hard to have as much information available so when you move and you need to have things done we are a source of information for you to help you get whatever you need to have handled and also on the on the social side too so not just it’s not just about your home uh a lot of times people want information about the local activity center or contact information for different clubs and stuff like that right uh so we’ll coordinate that we try to be super super available and i have to say not all agents are no nope they just say thank you so much goodbye have fun but if you come to us we’re all about customer service absolutely we really want to help you and give you some delicious pickles that’s right and sometimes i give you another bottle of pickles don’t underestimate the pickles some of you people love these pickles are a little to me can i have some more can i have some more don’t worry mama will give you some pickles yeah anytime she’s always making pickles call me i’m always in production i’m always in production so even after you move here don’t be shy give me a call give me a call if you need help with anything and if you need more pickles right absolutely all in one place to get the good pickles you’re right about that all right cheers for that so give us a call we’re here to help you non-stop 24 hours 713 302 1964. yeah it’s a houston number we know we moved here we didn’t change yes you don’t have to either no and the other thing is uh prescottpicklady.com you’ll find a link to our prescott relocation center which is a website full of all kinds of wonderful things right you need if you’re coming if you’re thinking about or you are already enroute coming in that’s it exactly all right bye guys have a good day good to see you bye cheers