Prescott Relocation Center – Page 15 – The "Prescott Pickle Lady"

Garbage

Service is set up automatically when you set up water (may want to double check).

Waste Management 928-777-1116
Patriot Disposal 928-203-9995

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Sewer & Water

Initiate your transfer at least five days in advance.

City of Prescott 928-777-1291
Must be done online. Need copy of driver’s license – letter of credit to waive deposit or deposit $200 for a single family.

Prescott-AZ.gov

For areas outside of the City of Prescott…
Prescott Public Works 928-777-1130
Prescott Sewer Dept. 928-777-1118
Prescott Valley Water 928-759-3020
Town of Chino Valley 928-636-6084

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Propane

Barrett Propane 928-636-1600
Yavapai Bottle Gas 928-776-9007

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Gas

Initiate your transfer at least five days in advance.

Unisource Energy 877-837-4968
Letter of credit dep. Depends on address – usually 2X the average. They will break it down.

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Electric

Initiate your transfer at least five days in advance.

APS 800-253-9407
May require deposit, depending on your history. Go online to transfer service.
APS.com

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Fast Food

There’s nothing like a fast food fix. If you have a hankering, chances are that Prescott can deliver.

In this episode we cover the Top 5 “Gotta Have” fast food places available in Prescott.

BTW: There is a Wendy’s in Prescott Valley.

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Hello fellow pickled peeps peep starts randall and diane bro here something we’re kind of excited to talk about well because we just found this out the other day and we almost flipped our lids yes and then we have our yes so excited so we thought let’s do something on facebook and i’ll tell you why uh lots of people come here and they think we’re just this little bitty old town and do you even have fast food i’ve had people ask do you have movie theaters do you have we have all of them we have all of that yes it’s nice small town living but we do have a lot of the infrastructure that you’re used to coming from a bigger city yeah so we’re here to talk about fast food fast food the ones that we think might be you know really important to you the ones that you just can’t live without hold on i’m so glad you got one of those people come here and they’re like so we did a top five we did our top five so just to let you know for only people coming in in town and like jeez do they have chipotle i love it chipotle yes number five there are two of them one from prescott valley yeah yeah and one in brisket yeah so not a problem if you’re a huge uh chipotle you like their rice bowl and yeah all that other stuff so we have tons of fast mexican food yes of course we have taco bell and taco bell is there and you know but nobody makes nobody makes a better honestly dr pepper than we’re talking about taco bell they’re found dr peppers to die she goes there for the doctor i do we also have uh filibertos there’s a lot of little local fast food mexican chains but yeah so that’s here so yeah chipotle we’ve got it we’ve got it people you gotta miss your chipotle you won’t have to because you’ve got one we got it the other thing we have papa john’s dominoes i also have a local restaurant bill’s pizza yeah bill’s pizza lots of pizza yeah we got a lot of great pizzas no worries i don’t know if you i mean if you want it delivered um you know i haven’t delivered all the time yeah so we it’s here people yeah papa john’s dominance i don’t want you to think oh what will i do without him little caesars we got a little caesar we do where’s little caesar it’s on iron springs it’s uh iron spring i’m positive not just you’re positive okay all right well we’ll have to take his word for it i’m not sure we haven’t we don’t order little seizures but if you do we got it we got it it’s across where the um uh the uh starbucks is on gail gardner it’s across the street in that area that little place with that okay yeah someone didn’t know that the other thing is burger joints burger joints everybody the two that people are very happy that we have [Music] i love that animal style animal style it’s really hard to be it’s good so all of our californians come in and they’re delighted they’re like oh my gosh i can still have a little taste of home yeah you can’t we have red robin we have panera [Music] yeah we’ve got all those little fast food yeah we’ve got you know the burger king and mcdonald’s oh yes there’s an orbeez all that’s outside oh that’s standard i don’t know i don’t know about wendy’s i don’t know but anyway yeah we haven’t done one these now yeah but you know that they’re fast food but the ones that are important we find are five guys although they’re not doing the peanut thing during cole bed well they might that might be coming back because that’s my favorite thing at five guys i like to crunch those peanuts the five guys in in and out is very very popular we got it we do the other thing we have which we were so excited coming from texas we were right around the corner from a chick-fil-a yeah oh my gosh so every morning you know when the kids are on the way to school if they have a big day going to some drama event we would go get chick-fil-a chick-fil-a breakfast we’re going to raise children without chickens oh my god it’s essential it is essential so we were absolutely delighted that presque valley brought a chick-fil-a into our town yes well worth a little trek from from prescott it’s not even that far maybe 15 minutes 10 minutes but um chick-fil-a’s here super long line super good food so if you’re a chick-fil-a fan we got it we got it not on sundays not on sundays i know and that’s what i always seem to crave at the moment i want to we call it a chisket isabel that’s a shout out to you and your family yeah they used to call their chicken biscuit so now we do but anyway and then our newest and latest greatest that we were so excited we found we just tried to drive by there last night because we were going to pick some up yeah but they’re not but they’re not open yet they’re still under construction very much under construction not even close but we’re coming from new orleans yeah popeye famous fried chicken is now coming here it’s also in prescott valley actually it’s across from chick-fil-a yeah very close uh we are super psyched uh i don’t know for all of those uh who who maybe don’t know but popeyes originated in new orleans al copeland developed all the spices that make it special and uh so popeyes started in new orleans the best part of uh popeye’s is not the chicken although the chicken’s good the chicken it’s the sides oh my god cajun rice and red beans and rice biscuits oh yeah the biscuits season fries the onion rings oh oh yeah it’s all good yeah good stuff good stuff we also have kentucky fried chicken you know your usuals but we are particularly being from new orleans excited to hear about love that chicken from papayas that’s how the song goes yeah i don’t know if it still goes that way but that was in the that was in the commercials what’s the other part of it i think that’s it spice geek delicious chicken they used to actually have pot pie on the couch yes they did it spicy yeah that’s i’m showing my age it’s been a while since how did he say spicy spicy delicious chicken or something i don’t know popeye accent popeyes came out when we were kids yeah right they’re teenagers yeah so it’s been a while we know all the old commercials that’s why you miss it you know you grow up with it it’s a it’s a little slice of home absolutely and i’m sure some of these other places are also kind of a slice of home for you yeah wherever you’re coming from so when you move to prescott or prescott valley you will still have that little sliver of home it’s here people we have it all we have it all right so anyway we were just so excited yesterday to see popeye’s tried to drive through the drive-through and realized that this man hadn’t been bored yet yeah it’s kind of already so it wasn’t going to happen of course but maybe in two months couple months yeah we’ll be uh hitting it hard some other good ones they have uh uh subway got lots of subway lots of subways um i don’t know i can’t think about anymore there’s a another sandwich shop i can’t mike subs oh no uh jersey mites jersey mike’s jersey mike’s not as good as scottish and the big chains as well yeah so if you’re looking to come here and you’re like wow is this going to be like living out in some rural you know little town no we have it here and you’ll be excited if you need that fix one night and you’re tired and you’re like you know i just want pizza i want popeyes chick-fil-a we have it it’s at your disposal absolutely all right so that is all we just want to share we’re so excited about popeye’s coming here yeah it it evolved into this whole wine down need more information the best place to find it is pickle411.com and whether you’re a buy seller somewhere in between lots of great information about real estate about restaurants about press kits life in general just lots of things we got useful information and we’re here so give us a call if you need any help finding finding a home or selling we’re happy to help you take care bye

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Stupid Tax

A stupid tax is a tax you don’t have to pay if you’re smart enough to avoid it. Right now in real estate, across the country, people buying homes are pulling out their wallets to pay up – bidding up the price of homes well beyond what anyone thinks they’re really worth.

In this episode, we cover what we’re doing in the trenches to help our clients avoid paying the stupid tax.

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Stained Glass

Whether it’s those three little square windows over your master bed or a particular spot that gets too much sun during part of the day, if your home has any of those “weirdo windows” and you’re not sure what to do with them, we may have the perfect solution: stained glass.

Turn full sun exposure into an asset with a gorgeous custom creation from our good friend, a local glass artist… or re-purpose an antique window from one of the local shops.

Check out some beautiful examples in this week’s episode.

Pete Churchill – (805) 205-3202

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Grinder Pumps

If your house goes over a cliff, you’ll probably need a grinder pump. A grinder pump takes what you don’t want and moves it up to a higher level, so you can get rid of it more easily.

Confused? Don’t be… For all the dirty details, check out this week’s episode.

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well you waited for me such such uh discipline i’m trying to i’m trying to be in the moment in the moment i’m trying to trying to let me have time to sit down i know i’m working on it i’m working on it good afternoon to all of our pickle picks pickle stirrers peepsters this is diana randall bro and uh we are here today to do another little community service uh kind of picking up on where we all left off last time yeah we wanted to talk to you about grinder pumps this is something totally new to us when we moved here uh we are from louisiana and texas they come with terrain and we’re from areas of the country that are very flat super flat so this was something totally new to us uh so back home for especially in louisiana we’re below sea level so we don’t have we don’t have a need for such things that we’re about to talk about what we’re going to talk to you about and educate you about is something called grinder problems you will find them throughout prescott and all kinds of homes particularly in homes built out on stem walls yeah so we have a video on stemwall construction in the wine down so you can search for that on the website but very briefly a stemwall home is a type of construction specifically for homes that kind of hang over a cliff so the upstairs is the where the where you live and then you have space underneath which is where the where the cliff is the stem wall is the support structure that kind of keeps the cantilevered part of the home up in the air so it will be built out and a lot of them are closed and finished in yeah it’s not a basement per se because you’ll have bathrooms embedded yeah it’s closed high ceilings and it’s completely finished out um but the main level that’s level to the street we’ll have city sewer lines connected to it or even septic i mean that’s where are you accepted yes where it is is on the top of the cliff right and so for those bathrooms that are below the cliff level that the street level that’s where the grinder pump that’s where a grinder pump comes in had never heard of it don’t know what it means i’ll tell you what it means it is a very important uh piece of machinery whatever pump in your home on the bottom level so when your bathroom’s downstairs we’ll go to the grinder pump the grinder pump pretty much grinds it up grinds it up sucks it up and then pumps it up to the street pumps it up to the street level uh sewage so it connects into the city so of course the city can’t dig all these pipes below to hook up downstairs so that’s where the grinder pump comes into play the grinder pump does that job um kind of like a bank teller yeah you know when you put your taylor kind of thing they tell you hit that button yeah this is a different kind of deposit yeah very different kind of deposit still a paperwork involved yeah yeah pretty much but that’s what the grinder problem does it gets it all together shoots it up with a vacuum and connects to the city sewer upstairs so if you if you’ve ever seen one you go downstairs you open up a closet somewhere where they’ll have a grinder but it’s like oh my god i don’t understand what is this that’s what it is imposing yes you have heights and everything right you usually you you will have it maintained once a year have somebody come check it out because believe me when something happens and it doesn’t work you know yeah you’ve got a load of trouble yeah you know trouble and it’s they’re expensive to repair so you want to try to maintain them always maintain them but they they will last forever a long long time yeah and occasionally you have to replace the float in there or whatever [Music] no pun intended yeah yeah but um there you go i’ll move this one along but um she’s getting bad anyway grinder pumps are important you will find them in many many homes all throughout prescott so terrain something when you are moving here and you see it don’t be like i have no idea what this is now you know yeah so but if you if you build a home in an area that’s flat then you probably won’t have one right and then the other thing is if you get a home warranty make sure your home warranty covers the grinder pump yes now it doesn’t always cover replacement yeah or yeah it covers some repairs yeah so just but a lot of them the the basic one it’s not included at all yeah that’s because the warranties are offered all over the country areas where they don’t exactly exactly so if you want yours covered make sure you read the fine print make sure you read the fine print you have to upgrade a little bit make sure it’s covered so more than you ever wanted to know about grinder pumps so that’s what we’re here for to teach you education behind the scenes dirty jobs equipment that go unglorified right and it’s the pickle lady it is behind the scenes yeah behind behind the scenes okay i’m sure that grinder parts get their due that’s right so that’s a little uh education there we just had some people we took out and they were asking us about grinder problems and we might you know what this is something different growing problems we need to give the info on that if you need more info yes 411.com that’s where all of our free information begins if you are a buyer seller somewhere in between information on grinder pumps toilets tushies uh remodeling restaurants you name it we are it is truly a wealth we cover it all from a plethora to z free information free information very useful stuff yeah it’s all things you should know yeah okay it’s been a pleasure seeing you today and i hope you take something away from this don’t flush it away all right friends until next time bye

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Toilets and Tushies

The latest rage in home decor is sure to take some of your most private moments up to a whole new level, plus a new game-changing technology that is just a blast… right where you need it most.

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Petroglyphs

People have been living in Prescott for a long, long time… and we have some very old rocks to prove it. Check out Prescott’s famous petroglyphs in our latest episode.

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Spring is a’Bloom

Delight with us in the glory of Prescott’s latest spring, and see the white and pink blossoms through the holes in the Pickle Lady’s chest.

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Meat Sticks & More

When it’s comfort food you’re looking for, there’s no better place around than Prescott’s family-owned diner located right in the crook of where Highways 89 and 69 meet – Prescott Junction. Cheeseburgers, meat loaf, home-made pies… with friendly service and 50’s music. Join us as we celebrate the re-opening of their famous breakfast bar, an extravagant spread featuring, among so many other things, the ever-elusive fried meat sticks – which you really don’t want to miss.

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Solar Compass

Identifying where the sun rises and sets isn’t just for constructing megalithic structures in bronze age agricultural societies any more.

Sun exposure can greatly impact the living experience you have in your home and its value in the marketplace. Is there a precise way to track the sun’s path in the sky across the seasons of the year?

Well, ask a nerdy question, get a nerdy answer in this week’s episode. (Always be careful what you ask for.)

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Bypass Prescott’s Switchbacks

If you’re driving in to Prescott from I-10, your GPS will likely take you through some annoying switchbacks that run between Yarnell and Prescott. Unless you’re into motion sickness, you might want to bypass them. Here’s how to do that.

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Birds of Prescott

Prescott is a convenient stop for birds heading north, south or just hanging out – so we get lots of different varieties in town. In this episode we cover local birds and Prescott’s bird-loving community.

Local Resource –> Jay’s Bird Barn

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Atmesfir for Fine Dining

Despite the spelling, this restaurant never fails to please. Prescott’s foremost venue for fine dining, Atmesfir is the kind of place any city would be proud to claim. Makes any occasion special.

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Awards & Recognition

Prescott is consistently listed as one of the the very best places in America to retire, best places to visit, best places to live, most charming cities, healthiest places to live, etc. etc.
Here are some notable examples…

One of the Top 5 Places to Retire – Money Magazine
2nd Best Place to Retire in U. S. – Smart Money / Wall St. Journal
#1 in Top 25 for Clean Air – American Lung Association
One of 50 Best Places to Live: The Next Great Adventure Towns – National Geographic Adventure Magazine
#3 in “10 American Spots You Don’t Know About Yet, But Should” – Huffington Post
#3 in Top 10 Destinations on the Rise – Trip Advisor
Top 20 Medium County Hospitals – Solucient
One of 7 Top Trail Towns – Trail Runner Magazine
8 Cities for Golf (and much more)! – Where to Retire Magazine
In Top 10 “Dream Cities” – Sunset Magazine
1 of 7 Greatest Places to Live – Bottom Line
One of Top 10 Most Popular Retirement Towns – TopRetirements.com
One of a dozen “Distinctive Destinations” – National Trust for Historic Preservation
An Emerging Art Town – American Southwest Magazine
One of 100 Best Communities for Young People – American Promise
Top “Green” Arizona City – Sperling’s Best Places
Top 10 True Western Towns – True West Magazine
#47 among Best Small Places for Business and Careers – Forbes.com
Top Ten Public Spaces: #3 Courthouse Plaza – American Planning Association
A Top Adventure Town – National Geographic Adventure Magazine
76th of Best 100 Small Places for Business and Careers – Forbes
3rd in the country (all metro areas) for job growth and economic vitality – INC. Magazine
3rd Best Metro in the Country for Job Creation – Milken Institute

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Utilities – Typical Costs

Here is a record of the recent utility expenses we’ve had in Prescott. Keep in mind that we live in a house that is about 3100 square feet, and we like to keep it COLD in the summer… Utility Expenses

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Vehicles

Motor Vehicle Registration – Registration $8.00; Air Quality $1.50; Title Fee $4.00; Total Registration: $13.50
Vehicle License Tax – In addition to title and registration fees, Arizona assesses a vehicle license tax in lieu of a personal property tax on all vehicles registered in the State. This is based on the manufacturer’s based retail price for the vehicle, when new, less depreciation. The value of the vehicle is decreased 40% the first year and 15% each year thereafter. You will be charged a rate of $4.00 per $100.00 of the vehicle’s taxable value in any year. This will decrease to a minimum annual charge of $10.00. Required to have an Arizona Standardized Insurance Card.

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