Category: Finding Your Home

If you have a Corvette or other type of car that rides low to the ground, then you'll want to tune in for our latest Wine Down episode.  Here's the rub: Prescott is a town with terrain, so low-riding vehicles can bottom out easily here - especially in driveways that are steep or have not been properly graded.  

In this episode we reveal our very own Cajun-style invention you can use to check to make sure you can get the Corvette in the garage without scraping.  And like all good DIY tools, it's cheap to make and easy to use. 

You can find our episode on Bridjits here...
https://prescottpicklelady.com/vehicles/

More info on the Bridjit device...
https://www.bridjit.com/ 

good morning good morning peeps randall and diane bro here he’s breast piccolating i am i am the gherkin sidekick he is the gherkin sidekick yes i just jarred another five gallons another five gallons doing our part in production yeah so if you give me a call or we see you i’m happy to bring you a jar of my famous cajun that’s right logistics problems do not hold back never the pickle production that is correct always in production and always excited to share yes um my pickles with everybody but anyway uh we are i digress we are here to talk today about something called driveways and corvettes driveways and corvettes well what i’ve noticed yeah how about you lately everywhere in prescott i see people driving corvette after corvette yeah lots of corvettes here it’s a big cars of all types are big here vintage cars and they have uh uh we’ll have shows with mg and but it seems the corvettes are kind of uh taking center stage yeah vintage corvettes brand new corvettes um the new ones have beautiful colors yeah beautiful so shout out to mr goodman and to the lucex who are also fellow uh friends and clients yep who corvettes yeah corvettes here’s the thing about corvettes they ride low to the ground super super low to the ground not the only cars that ride low to the ground no they’re producers also ride low to the ground priuses uh any number of so the hot rod cars you know testosterone and all that stuff that they ride low to the ground which helps you i guess with the air flow when you are i get it i mean i get the design yeah um the design doesn’t always work for us as realtors that’s right yeah the problem is we are a mountain town so we do have terrain they have any number of areas around town you’re driving your corvette you’re going to bottom out yep and sometimes when you don’t expect it and i hate the sound of that we have a sedan uh we also have the pickle van the pickle band rides low the scene does not ride very high yeah uh from time to time you know we get a bit of a scrape if you have a car that’s really low you’re gonna be scraping a lot so be careful with that and in particular be careful about your right way yes so but the pickle lady team yeah we’ve come up with a solution yeah we did yeah so a lot of times kind of thing right people will come in and they’re like oh my gosh i love this house i love everything about it the driveway is not going to work for my corvette we just had this with a really super nice climb so i was out i came home and like where are you because we were getting ready to go meet them and randall says well i’m i’m over here at lowe’s i’m like what are you doing we need to be gone and he came back and he actually devised this tool that helps us measure yes um the the the how low the car is the clearance on the driveway so just it’s very science you think it would be easy you know it’s not about the front of the car it’s really not about the back of the car it’s really about the middle of the car so what happens is you have you have like a little hump in your driveway you know because it’s it’s you’re going up terrain or whatever and you have like a little hump if the front tires go down faster than the back tires are going up uh you may scrape in the middle so i made a little device where it uses yardsticks and uh it’s pretty much it you know it’s orange and engaging contraption it’s our own invention nobody tried to patent this that’s right i think i’m gonna make one instead of instead of rope i might do one with uh with some kind of wood to get but the idea is you uh you measure the clearance of the tires and how far apart the tires are and the yardsticks kind of show you they represent the tires and if the rope is touching your driveway then you’re probably going to scrape and it’s not an exact thing but barring you know actually bringing the car in and trying it out it’ll give you a good idea um i don’t know why they don’t use a device like that to actually pave what else did your driveways what else did you bring oh we also did uh the other issue was the the slope of the driveway may be of concern for the the pods the storage units the storage containers so we had to we had to measure the pitch to see if they were going to allow the client to put the storage unit in the driveway or it was going to be too angling that’s right so here’s the thing people you think we’re just here writing up a contract and chit chatting as we do with this on these little videos we actually are full service yeah uh we’re out there measuring we’re coming up with new measurements uh measurement uh equipment we’re inventing a group correct we we are we’re double time here we’re like you know what we’re going to figure out about this corvette for sure before you make a decision the other thing we love to talk about and we have it in our own house is something called a bridget oh yeah the bridge shout out to the bridgette the bridgette company yeah i think we did it we did a video i think on bridget’s so in our particular little babies subdivision or neighborhood of uh prescott lakes called creekside they did a really horrible job on the curbs the curbs are too high yeah so in effect it you have a speed bump going into your home driveway okay so most of the neighbors here have this device called a bridge which is made out of the same kind of rubber that make tires it’s amazing so shout out to the bridge the bridging company so that’s a tip for you guys yeah definitely if you are having a hard uh you know jump up over a curve into your garage look at the bridge of the company yeah i’ll put it if i find that our old wine down on the bridgette i’ll put to think on it it’s it’s supersize so between the bridget and our measurement tools and uh knowledge and know-how yeah we will make sure that car is gonna work it’s gonna fit yeah yeah because a lot of times homes here are built into terrain we don’t have super flat necessarily driveways and uh it’s important to understand that when you’re coming here um either get rid of those cars or we’re gonna try to figure it out and make it we’re trying to make it work don’t be disappointed if not listen buy a new car and get a higher higher clearance because you’re going to you’re going to want that we’re going to run into it time and time again here unfortunately just because of the nature of the terrain if you’re you’re a collector or you know you have a a really beautiful car and that’s kind of what you’re in you may want to consider some sort of alternative storage you know a garage or something where you can store it might you might do better than keeping it in your own garage but the main point of this particular video though was just to talk about how we’re full service um we have a measurement uh equipment now in place to help you really determine with pretty much 95 accuracy i would say well i mean you’re going to really tell you you just you know if it says you’re you’re not going to scrape you probably want to try the car you know i mean the ultimate test is the car itself um but if it tells you you’re gonna scrape and you’re probably gonna scroll i mean it’s it in the end it’s yardsticks and it’s rogue it’s yardstick you know and i’m not an engineer now you know but i mean we will try to help you do your due diligence for it and show you what’s going on but the good thing is is that uh you know if you’re coming in from out of state you may not have that car with you right we try to in the interim give you some idea of whether or not it’s going to work yeah so that is our tip of the day yeah it is important here so cheers to you for coming up with that little system we love it we love it and we love it so give us a call if you have any questions or if you’d like to see a home or list a home we’re at 713-302-1964 yeah if you’re just looking for information place for that is pickle411.com that is our information site whether you are buy or sellers somewhere in between all kinds of information about prescott and uh real estate and life and restaurants and all kinds of things that are going on you never know what will pop in our little in our little p brains and out of cons trying to make it informative and entertaining try we try that’s what we do okay well good luck to you if you’re out there looking call us we’re happy to help you and have a great rest of your day absolutely bye

In this episode, we discuss how to get a decent deal even during adverse market conditions, celebrate leaving the craziness of 2021 behind... and hold on to our cautious optimism for what lies ahead in 2022.

hello hello hello my fellow prescott pickle peeps out there that’s right this is diane and randall bro that’s right realtors in prescott arizona correct here we are here we go cheers to that love it here love it here um we’re very excited first we want to wish everyone a happy 2022. 2022 hard to believe yeah isn’t it well you know the last two years went by were so crazy very crazy and uh went by so fast and at the same time it lasted forever well it has they were the best of years and the worst of you i mean honestly it’s been pretty grim things have can only go up can only go up can only go up from here that’s what we’ve learned and i think they will i think 2022 is going to be good i think it’s going to be an amazing i think we’re going to recover from a lot of the stuff absolutely yeah people will get nice again yeah with all those things absolutely tough year for our buyers very tough 2021 but we are happy to say that uh oh well i can’t think of any any any of our clients who ended up with either crappy homes or prices that they shouldn’t have paid correct we tried super hard even though as you know a lot inventory was very low very low very very good usually we have like 1200 homes uh throughout the year um inventory dropped to like 300 at some point below 300. one point it was below 300. it was in the same hundreds and when we say below 300 homes we and that covers all price ranges so really hard yeah but i am happy to say so two one or two things were happening you had buyers that were just getting into stupid money and paying homes uh prices for homes that could in no way be worth that right exorbitant going over uh ask uh in exorbitant amounts and uh we are very proud to say yeah we did not let our clients do that it’s very easy to get swept up into it and like where am i going to live i’m going to be homeless so yeah i need to go 50 000 over and at some point we would just say it’s time to stop you know prices are appreciating you know and as best we can tell we think the home might appraise for maybe this much and you might want to think about going maybe a little over that but we’re getting into the realm now where you got to stop and so a lot of them you know ever they listened and we said don’t give up hope we will find the right one and we will find just the right price i think our record but you know what he ended up with a great home he did for a really good price even in this crazy market uh most of our clients got pretty good prices yes uh and the other thing is there are always homes that no one ever wants to buy even in the strongest seller markets they don’t sell because there’s a reason they don’t you don’t want to sell and you know when you’re a buyer and you your home is already sold and or you’re desperate for home or uh you’ve been through 10 offers and you still haven’t found one there’s there’s this little nagging thing well maybe maybe it’s not as bad as you think and we were like no we had to wave off a couple of those too we don’t want you to settle yeah we’re gonna try as hard as we can to find the right fit the best house maybe you might have to replace the flooring maybe you didn’t like that but we never got anything that was just so awful but it was like oh i can cry every night the inspector report comes back about two or three times the length that it ought to be he’s like you know this is not a good sign you know maybe you know you know inventory was low you might have to do some painting but nothing major and we tried really hard to get some great houses and some good neighborhoods uh maybe put your personal touch on it without exorbitantly overpaying so proud of that so we are very proud cheers to us and to our clients who are patient correct and you know who really had the trust and faith in us and it’s very important in this business to have a good relationship with your realtor and have a level of trust that they have your back and they’re trying as hard as they can which we do we try super super hard yeah uh and honestly one of the things yeah one of the reasons why we’re able to do that is because our clients did trust us yes you know if you have your clients trusted you’re really acting your clients best interests you can reach those kind of outcomes really in very adverse market condition and i would recommend if you’re working with someone and you’re just like i just don’t think they care they’re really not into me they’re really not look around find someone else this is one of the most important financial decisions you will ever make and you want to have someone who is in your corner and has your back they’re not just looking for their next commission and paycheck they really want to make you happy they want to you know make you uh welcome to the community and everything else so if you’re not feeling that look around look around you don’t have to come to us we’d love to help you but we yeah there are lots of us out there yeah but uh they’re you know being in the business you come across agents and you know that there’s some that uh you know you would recommend uh wholeheartedly and and others well maybe we’re more run-of-the-mill you know and that’s okay i mean but you want someone you can you can trust and you feel confident and you feel confident 100 so if you’re not feeling that keep on searching because this is a very important decision you’ve got to have someone in your corner that can help you with repair people that can help you with where do i get carpeting where do i get you’ve got to get somebody with a complete package and something you trust enough that when she says you need to stop yeah you don’t want to pay any more than that you feel you feel like that’s good yeah yeah so anyway this is twenty-two words of advice 2021 is over who are coming in 2022 looking for a new house make sure you have good working relationship with your realtor um and we are very proud this year we were able to get some people into some lovely homes despite despite our super low inventory and we wish we could promise you a better market for 2022 but i know nobody knows what really will happen i find it hard to believe it would be worse but yeah and we’re we’re uh what do you call it cautiously optimistic we are cautiously optimistic so but we will sure plug away for you if you decide to give us a call and help you find that right place for the right price without too much work and have a great time and help you every step of the way so if you’re thinking about coming to prescott and trying this out give us a call we’d love to show you around our lovely town if you want to schedule a tour there’s a place website where you can put yourself on our calendar there you go we talked a lot about market conditions uh we do a monthly market report which you may be interested in so the best place to get started if you need information on any of that is pickle411.com that is our information hotline whether you are a buyer seller anywhere in between free entertaining insightful information yes yes so get on that site and check us out and uh give us a call we’re here we’d love to help you buying or listing not a problem have a good day and most importantly happy happy 2022. absolutely and here’s to an amazing year i feel like the tide is turning for the whole world i just think it’s going to be great cheers to that exceptionally good coffee yeah have a good day good to see you bye bye

Moving to a mountain town may bring to mind images of rugged outdoor living in remote forests... eating wild nuts and berries with the other animals. Well, dreams of getting away and off the grid are possible, but you'll need water. Here's how that works.

well good afternoon hello peeps this is diane and randall bro yes i am the pickle lady here in prescott and this is my sidekick here he always makes sure the car is stocked with pickles that’s right because everywhere i go somebody’s like could i have some could i have something so uh he’s my little stock boy yeah and uh making sure he’s stuck in the van with pictures right he makes sure the inventory is up he’s like uh are we down on pickles time for you to get i’m gonna do production she that she’s i do all the production production i just stock the heat stocks and make sure hey i think you need to make some more yeah i’m like okay let me get right on that right on there but anyway pickle lady pickle lady that’s what that’s all about so if i see you or if you come visit you too because we’ll get some pickles but we’re here to talk about something interesting i had never heard of i’m from the deep south yeah it’s called hauled water yeah that’s how we call it that’s how we say h-a-u-l-e-d it’s like called gas except it’s water right exactly so halt water i’m like so i heard this term but it wasn’t i say hall they said hurled girls i can’t even say we’re not allowed to say that people in arizona have an accent because we’re not from here right yeah we’re the ones with i can’t do it it was like um anyway so somebody was saying i need to get um some hold the hold hold water and hold and hold hold on and i said i don’t don’t know what that they were like don’t you have the number and i’m like i don’t what is that could you say it again and they kept saying it the way they were hauled her and i said i’m so sorry i don’t know what that means and then i said could you spell it and then i said oh hold hard okay i got it i got it and so what that is is sometimes in some areas here because where we live we grew up in the suburbs and everybody was on city water and water whatever and things like that yeah it came from the tap um so here uh especially in some more remote areas up the mountains and everything you don’t you either have to have a private well or a shared well there’s no city you know they can’t get the the water to you i mean up a mountain so they’ll have uh wells and sometimes even that is not enough and the well may run low so in addition to that they will get hauled water ordered and that comes in giant what is it like two or five hundred gallons yeah i know more than that that yeah i think it tanks like two thousand gallons or something and so they’ll bring this giant plastic container that will sit on your property and that can be used for additional things or emptied into that well and that’s another way to get that water there yeah so it’s literally driven in a truck yeah and driven into the actual they literally call it yeah so if you have a well particularly if your well doesn’t produce that that much water quickly you know the the quantity is not good you’ll have a storage tank you get a storage tank so the well is constantly pumping water into the storage tank and you draw the water from the storage tank uh if you consume the water faster than your well as pumping into the storage tank well you’re going to have to top it off or eventually you’re going to run out and that’s hot water that’s what they do they’ll they’ll come out and they pour the water into your storage tank and uh i i it’s like i don’t know three or four hundred dollars to have the water hold out right and uh we looked at one house and particularly had two storage tanks so you’re looking at you know about 700 bucks to uh to fill up and uh the people who were selling the house there were just two people living there and i mean this part time yeah it was a weekend getaway yeah cabin but it so that was sufficient yeah for two people it worked fine the well produced enough that if there’s a shortfall there it’s not much so you might have to haul the water out once or twice a year yeah uh but our buyers wanted to use the property for an airbnb and that’s when four people come in like they will burn they would run through that water fast so a lot of times people will call us and they’re like i want a cabin in the woods and i want that these are things to think about um because it isn’t going to be on city water yeah and you will have to make sure your well doesn’t go dry and you need to consider if you want to use it as an airbnb that you have a very good producing well yeah that you won’t have to rely on halt water because that could get costly for you yeah well if you’re if the place that you’re again running with the with the uh scenario that you want to do in airbnb uh you don’t want to buy a big house because lots of people will go in there and use that water water yeah but if a small place that might work it might work you know if it’s just you you know you and your spouse and every now and then you have the kids in for a holiday you’re probably going to have to top up the tanks for the holiday uh but that might be doable you know it really depends on how much your wells producing how big your storage tanks are uh and how many people are going to be there so i put together like a little spreadsheet so yeah we as your agent if you’re interested in that we we’ve kind of learned some information yeah we now have a spreadsheet so when we look at how many gallons per minute is that well producing and we can tell you that’s going to be a problem or that’s great yeah you’re you’re done how many people yeah so it’s something as a realtor here in prescott you kind of have to be educated on um it’s kind of unusual we weren’t used to it coming from suburban areas and now we know what hauled water means even when they pronounce it a weird way now we get it so every day as i say living and learning or as my daughter sings that song all the time living and learning every day she says that every day yep she well it’s her song it’s her song it’s not not a not a popular one but not like a jay-z no no jay-z so yeah so that was something that we learned and are are now quite educated yeah so if you are coming here yeah and if you’re looking for some place remote particularly up the mountain uh you might be looking at hot water yep and uh and we can help you make a good decision there it’s it’s not necessarily a deal killer depends on um you know what you’re trying to do what you’re trying to accomplish so that is our little chapter on hold [Music] but i got it now so anyway i hope that this is a little tip for you if you’re thinking about living remotely things to keep in mind and to ponder upon yeah there are a lot of pieces and parts and if you want to learn more the place to go is pickle411.com our hub of free information whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of useful and highly entertaining information you need to know if you’re considering either buying or selling a home particularly here in prescott some people may argue with that about being entertaining but some people may not agree but hey we try hard i was entertained we entertain ourselves myself we entertain ourselves living and learning all day long living sometimes i’m learning lessons i don’t want to learn yeah there’s a lot of that yeah but that’s life yeah those are the ones we have to share that’s right i don’t know why that’s hilarious but it is it just makes more poor things more things more people yeah i heard water

good morning
good morning good morning
pickle peeps
diane and randall bro here um we are
here to really give you um
what do you call it dianne’s rendition
of mr rogers
well um that’s that that’s not mr rogers
it’s kind of like mr rogers
it’s just i sing a lot in the morning
she does she’s a morning singer
yeah easily identified
you don’t need one of those apps to tell
you you know what bird is that
no you’re pretty easy that’s right it’s
me don’t have a good
to sing it to the pugs don’t have a good
voice but i sure try
yeah she does i like to sing with a
happy heart happy heart
not always happy at least she’s that way
in the morning
i i try to start off in a position to
start off on a positive and positive
thing
um today though we are talking about
something pretty important pretty
serious
um that you should know when
you are coming in town every time we
meet people for the first time
we always have them uh sign off that
they have received
a buyer’s advisory guide because we
actually because we have to
yeah correct it’s a state thing and it
is put it’s a document that’s made by
the state
right and we have to give you a copy of
that
and we have to be able to demonstrate or
prove
that all of our buyers have had it and
you received it
you know they’ll come inside we could be
on it mr and mrs jones show me where
they’ve signed up so one of your papers
when we meet is you
sign off saying yes thank you i did
receive the buyer’s advisory guide
and you may ask what is the buyer’s
advisory guide we give it to you you put
it in your folder
don’t ever lose that it is so important
it is a huge
wealth of information something you may
not know about realtors and people just
kind of take it for granted that you
should be able to tell us that
we are not necessary we are not allowed
to discuss uh politics or what the
politics of the town are
religion family whether this is a family
everything they got a lot of a lot of
things
you really kind of have to do your due
diligence
on your own because there are things
that
we can’t talk about right there are
regulations that you know keep us from
doing that
and we got to be really careful about
things like that because there are
people out there that will try to sue
you
purposely trap you and then turn around
and sue you
so it’s not all about just achieving
fair housing it’s about avoiding
litigation
right for people who are out there to
get you so it’s
well that’s a little heavy yeah it’s a
little bit i don’t think it’s that so
you know
no it’s not that prevalent but it does
happen we’re under obligation
uh we have to follow fair it is you have
no idea
fair housing practices yeah and we are
very very strict about that
so there are a lot of things too that uh
sellers are not
obligated to tell tell us tell you
either right
and one of these and you guys may not
believe it changes state by state that’s
another thing you should realize
real estate laws change state by state
in the state of arizona
we as agents and the seller we do not
have to disclose
if a murder happened in a home yeah or
someone died
if there was a suicide if um
you know someone was sick with hiv or
aids
we do not have to nor does the seller
have to disclose that our state does not
make that a mandatory
disclosure sex offenders sex offenders
that’s up to you
right it’s very important for you as the
buyer
to take advantage of that buyer’s guide
and do your due diligence
yeah that is your time to do your
homework your 10
or 15 day inspection period is not about
just getting the home inspected it’s not
about just getting a termite inspection
it is very much about those things but
also
doing this extra homework looking up
crime rates
looking up if there’s a sex offender
looking up if you’re being
if your neighborhood is next door to a
super fund
site uh looking up all those important
things that’s also part of your due
diligence
and you have to do that during your
inspection period and you have the lace
inside the buyer
advisory that will send you to online
places where you can look those
absolutely it’s filled all kinds of
websites
super easy you know you can find
whatever you need and look it up
and it will answer all of those
questions that you may be having
but that we sometimes are precluded from
discussing you know what i mean as as
licensed
agents so it’s very important uh
do your due diligence especially during
your
inspection period that’s what that time
is to be spent doing
right talking about your neighborhood
your neighborhood i’ve been meaning to
upload
the latest copy of the buyer advisory to
the website so you can just download it
there
and i’ll do a link on this one as well
absolutely
it has so much information there uh
anything that you have a question about
you can find it answered through that
buyer advisory guide
so anyway i want to share with you how
important that is don’t throw it away
it may come in handy one day and
a lot of that is part of your homework
during your due diligence period so take
advantage of it
so that is our tip for the day check out
your buyer’s advisory guide i actually
just checked mine out the other day i
had to look up something like hmm
it’s fascinating and i was like wow it’s
a surprise ending
and i could find it who done it who done
it
you name it if you have it’ll tell you
all kinds of info
info all kinds of info all kinds of
crazy crazy stuff
yes all right yeah and you can also find
lots of crazy stuff
at pickle411.com which is
where your information source or
search should start uh whether you’re
buy or sellers somewhere in between
lots of free useful and fun information
absolutely including buyer including the
buyer’s advisor
for the more heavier questions you may
have and we may not be able to provide
those answers
we want to give you the answers so we
will forward you to the buyer’s advisory
guide
absolutely all right friends that’s our
tip for the day
pull out your buyer’s advisory guide
start your homework
all right have a good day bye