Category: Finding Your Home

are we ready are you ever gonna say anything yes i will say it now hello hello hey peeps it’s time for another weekly one down ahead to find the one thank you yeah with diane and randall bro here had a great day today uh went to our little award ceremony yeah we did and we were very excited we won two awards tickle pink tickle pink and uh it’s very nice to see uh at our organization your heart efforts and work yeah is recognized yeah and so we were very happy to go we had a lovely time and also support all of our other agents who are out just killing it yeah we are we’re a really really good agency we’re a little bit better dressed though we were a little bit dressed uh we’re a little tired now so we decided actually we were on our way after our lovely award ceremony we were on our way to film our weekly wine down we were all dressed up and looking good and then a client called yeah cowboy’s work is never done and so she had a couple of questions so instead we mixed that we raced home to look up uh some things that she needed to know about and give her some information so now here we are we’re like you know what tired tired yeah we’re very tired we got clients all the time that tell us you know we’re homebodies yeah they watch these wind downs and they say you guys are out all the time and you’re partying all the time but we’re kind of home buys the truth is we’re kind of homebodies yeah you know so after today we were yeah so i said why fake it you know i’m gonna put on my robes and we’re gonna light the fire and we’re just gonna be who we are drink our wine keep it real yeah last couple of times we had to skip the one because we were in public you know but uh at home no public intoxication although there’s a guy looking over my shoulder here that’s our that’s my favorite statue okay come back over here okay all right anyway what we wanted to talk today about was after having a lovely day and helping clients a lot of questions we get about hoa hoas yeah yeah yeah um a lot of people especially coming from out of state are like i absolutely refuse do not want an hoa i hate them i don’t want to spend them don’t even show me a house with that unfortunately i’m here to tell you you might want to look at hoas here in prescott a little differently yeah um they are not as cost prohibitive as they are right yeah the high hoas are generally tied to some sort of uh golf community there’s a country club and all kinds of amenities and all that stuff so those can get pretty pricey although some of it would be a lot more reasonable than you would think right and you don’t have to be a golfer you know to get your money’s worth they got a lot of other things going on in the community uh but setting that aside if you think you’re never going to use something like that um you may want to consider hoas north of zero uh because hoas kind of police your neighborhood you may not want to be policed uh but if you’re not police that means your neighbors aren’t policed either and that can lead to trouble it can lead to big trouble we’re going to show you a little clip yeah i’ll clip in yeah i’ll show you kind of show why sometimes hoas are not that bad yeah for instance you know here there are some beautiful neighborhoods the hoas are 300 a year yeah so don’t automatically say no hoas because what you may think is a monthly thing is not it’s an annual it’s an annual thing or a semi-annual yeah and you know some are like three to 500 a year yeah and a lot of that you know it’ll be uh the limited public areas they may have like little parks or something yeah uh where the upkeep is is taken care of for you but at the very least it’s office administration so when you call and you say you know my neighbor next door is doing this and that’s against the uh the covenants you have some recourse well they need money to be able to pay for the people who follow up and put the liens and all that other kind of stuff so i think a lot of people are afraid like especially coming from california i don’t want any hoas i spend 500 a month it’s not quite the same hoa experience you might have elsewhere yeah hoas here are not yeah that crazy yeah so the the clip in particular is a home that we showed a number of times adorable property it was kind of a small place it was a cutie pootie but it was really cute precious precious in a real convenient area of town it couldn’t it didn’t move for a while i mean usually homes like that move in a heartbeat and it was because of the next door neighbor uh no hoa no h.o.a next door neighbor had about 150 cars yeah in the front yard yeah and you know nobody wants to live next to them yeah no recourse no resources no recourse there’s nothing you can do about it they’re not breaking any laws they’re parking on their own property uh and when i say own property they were they were vehicles parked on the sidewalk the front lawn the front porch yep yeah you know just they were like half a dozen cars so you know when when you say i don’t want hoas you need to maybe think twice about it because they’re not that bad something stupid like that destroy your property absolutely unbelievable yeah and you know and then other than that some hoas with country clubs well that goes towards a lot of you know nice things we live in a nice area but our our rates are what 150 a month for hoas not bad yeah yeah and that includes a lot of maintenance yeah stuff yeah so i have no complaints with that at all yeah we went went by you know prescott has a lot of little old ladies and they love things like gnomes you know uh little elves you know and and those can be cute you know but we passed a home just the other day beautiful neighborhood yeah how many how many little gnomes do you think we’re in the front yard i think approaching 200 yeah yeah i mean it was like it was a little overkill a little i mean it was like you couldn’t see the light it was all gnomes it looked like a gnome invasion and without an hoa guess what then you can they can add one more gnome to that whole display i mean if they put like you like a nazi gnome or something like that you might be able to appeal to the city council something that’s really offensive but but gnomes gnomes are known i do like gnomes though i’m not opposed to them yeah just not too hard i have a i have a son-in-law that could be a gnome uh a son-in-law to bee that sort of gnomish so i like nose shout out to ian carr there you are he’s our favorite little gnome yeah he is well now we’ve got a new favorite gnome yeah yeah he’s he’s more of an elf i think he’s morbid he’s not his hair yeah sorry guys you know you’re at risk jake yeah hey jake and ian jake future son-in-laws yeah so we like there’s nothing you know we like cute things we’ve got you know like we have saint francis over here you know uh we like that kind of thing too but some people go crazy right and and when it does it’s amazing it can destroy property values and if you don’t have an hoa office uh there’s nothing you can do there’s nothing you can do so don’t write off hoas you if you automatically say i don’t want an hoa you cut down a list of beautiful homes that that could be yours just by you totally will cut off you seeing multitudes of pretty homes so instead of no hoa maybe low low hoa you know low hoa is the way to go there does that kind of rhyme i’m gonna trademark that yeah low hoa is the way to go all right well that is all for today’s lesson that’s it because i need to move because i’m getting hot this yeah rope is warm and this thing is putting out so uh but anyway let’s wrap this up the beautiful lady have a good evening and uh anyway cheers to you for our awards so you can reach us at 713-302-1964 or find us online at prescottpicklelady.com glad to help you out with your prescott real estate needs exactly all right cheers to you cheers on our awards right congratulations all right thanks again have a good night you

hello hello hello hey peeps how’s everybody doing i’m doing okay are you okay i’m good i’m doing great as well this is diane randall bro that’s us he’s randall i’m diane just in case you got confused yeah we get confused too sometimes sometimes yeah absolutely we’ve been together so long my god i know but anyway blend after a while yeah but anyway we’re here to talk to you today about what it’s like to live here in prescott when you hear these terms single level living if you’re looking for a single story versus single story so we’re going to do a quick little tutorial on that yes so if you’re coming from another area you’ll understand a little more about what that means i mean the short short of it is people don’t like stairs right so we have a lot of people coming in i don’t want stairs i want a single story house and we have single story houses here we do uh but if you go for a single story home it kind of cuts off your options we have some other options that’s right uh if you’re going to build a single-story house you pretty much need flat land completely flat yes completely flat and like which we do have we have some areas like we have but if you’re also looking for a lot of trees and views and terrain sometimes when you go with flat land you don’t get those things here and so one of the things we wanted to explain is what a stem wall construction home looks like and what uh single level living looks like that’s right so i’m going to intersperse some uh some video here where we took an example and we’ll kind of so you can understand here’s a quick example of a stemwall house looks like a single story house from the front here but as we creep around the side you can see that this house is actually on the edge of a cliff and on the other side of the cliff underneath this first level there’s a second level that is the stem wall section and the uh space down there is generally reserved for guests so here’s a shot of the whole house well we’ll explain to people coming in i understand you want a single story but single level living will also fit the bill because a lot of times if we’re built onto the side of a hill you have to build out onto a stem wall to to have that happen so you come in and you’ll be on one level it looks like a single story and you’re like well that’s exactly what i wanted and so you come in and single level living here is your master maybe another bedroom and a couple of bathrooms your kitchen your den everything’s on one floor which is great which is exactly what you’re looking for however you can go downstairs where that stem wall has been built out and there’s a whole nother level where maybe you’ll have two more bedrooms in attendance yes just for your guests so even though you come in and you want a single story don’t get thrown by single level living yeah because for a lot of people it’s what they need uh they don’t really use the square footage that they have for their guests so this way they can be downstairs you don’t even have to look at that space and it’s zones so you don’t have to you’ll have dual ac exactly you’re not doing this you’re not yeah you’re not acing and heating the whole shebang you have the option just to ac and heat that top level where you’re mostly living yeah and then when your kids come in you can throw them downstairs never see them again well you know you don’t want to make it too good because you do want them to go home but that’s right that’s right but turn off the heat turn off the gold and that might do the trick i don’t know yeah a lot of people come in there like i said i just want single story but you don’t really necessarily are going to be able to find that in the house you exactly want don’t let those stairs so they’re like i don’t want stairs yeah but those stairs would not be a part of your everyday life that’s really just your guest stairs and what’s nice too about about the single level living versus single story is a lot of times out the back of the stem wall construction homes they have decks and that’s where you really get nice views so if you’re looking for magnificent views of of trees or mountains check out some some single level living homes because you might find those fit the bill you’re right decks are great decks are awesome and a lot of times you have a deck upstairs and then you still have a lower level patio yeah which is you know one of the perks of stem wall you know construction stem wall construction so don’t necessarily rule out stairs that go downstairs because you’ll still be living on that main level but you’ll get the perks of the deck yeah and the views yeah so that’s just a little tutorial what is single level living versus a single story yeah i think we did a good job yeah i think so anyway call us if you have any questions further we’d love to take you out and show you exactly what we’re talking about yeah we’ll put some if you do a tour with us we’ll give you a couple examples you’ll see exactly what we’re talking about just keep an open mind at this point absolutely don’t scream and say no stop staring back you might be surprised yeah absolutely absolutely all right well this is dining oh yeah 713-302-1964 or you can find us online at prescottpicklelady.com very good and we also have more wine downs there too if you want to check those out yeah they’re a lot of fun all right everyone have a good day good chatting with you and um hope you learned something today and something that you’ll understand better when you come visit us and we take you to see some of these houses all right have a great day talk to you soon bye