Category: Seller Tips

 Selling a home can be grueling, particularly when it requires significant cleanup and prep... or when you're facing very difficult circumstances. If the idea of bypassing all that with a quick cash offer in hand sounds attractive to you, then you need to check out Express Offers - a new seller program we introduce in this episode. 

hello hello hello my friends hello peeps this is randall and diambro here in the lovely town of prescott arizona just good arizona with the prescott pickle that’s right we are very excited to share something new that has come through our brokerage and that is express offers express offers so a lot of there are companies out there that will uh pay you cash for your home you know we buy ugly homes i mean we’ve seen all these kinds of things uh we have a program like that we can offer you money for your home uh it functions as kind of a last resort if you will or our worst possible case or if you’ve got to get out fast something happens you’re like i really don’t have time to market this i need to sell quickly yeah so so these are investors that are investing in homes uh they are either looking to hold in rent or they’re looking to renovate and flip uh and so depending on the kind of situation you’re in you might want to consider something like this absolutely it’s an amazing program it’s a great program easy to use yeah easy to use you can always get uh get an offer and if it’s not to your liking then you can go the traditional route and use us though or anybody else for that matter the list journal in a more traditional way that’s right but if you’re looking for something quick and easy uh it’s pretty good the if your home is completely you know kind of up to date and ready to rent uh probably a little closer to market value than if it’s a flip situation uh if you are if you want to redo your own home and then sell it i mean essentially you’ve gone into the flipping business right professional flippers can do it cheaper and easier you may be surprised at how uh good offers the the quality offers that they can give you so there’s something to think about before you dive in and start your and in particular if you’re really kind of in a time crunch yeah because we understand life happens yeah things happen and um you’ve got to get a skedaddle out of town yeah or something dramatic has happened financially and you’re health-wise yeah health-wise uh if you are uh if your parents have been in the home for 40 000 years right gee you know we’re gonna have to sell mom’s home and i don’t know been there and done that yeah a lot a lot what are we gonna do with this yeah so yes you’re going to get less than market value because it is an investor and they are looking to make a profit by giving you more convenience but maybe less than you think and a whole lot easier because uh having done it uh it’s or you’ve done it more than me but um it’s it’s it’s not a good time people it is a lot it’s not a lot of fun yeah so you have to consider yeah yeah been there done that i wish maybe we would have had at that time access to express offers yeah that would have been so that would have been amazing certainly something to consider absolutely so i mean consider this among you know a whole battery of different options we’ll be glad to learn more about your particular situation and help you explore what options make the most sense for you but it is nice that we have you know an extra bullet in the chamber if you will another tool in the tool bag i like the first thing’s a little violent yeah i don’t know yeah i mean coming after that one thing yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we don’t want to talk about anything because that could possibly be in the chamber all the bullets in the chamber are the same tools i like the tool yes i like that better we’re just kind of in kind of crazy crazy times crazy time you never want to assume yeah that’s right that anything is is or is not in the chamber [Laughter] as we’ve been taught in gun gun safety yes every gun is loaded every gun yeah you should always just safety tip always safe always uh i’ll say that all guns and you know what express offers is also listed it’s also loaded it’s ready to never assume that your toolbox is full because if you take the toolbox uh chances are you won’t have the tool that you need that yeah yeah i guess i don’t know but anyway we just wanted to share that with you because we think it’s an exciting new program with our brokerage and we are happy to share it with you yeah we’ll be glad to run some nights absolutely and help you uh if you’re in a bind or just you know don’t even want to put it on the market and show it a ton of times this is something another option so give us a call or look us up yeah you can find more information at pickle411.com that is our information site whether you are buy or seller somewhere in between you will find something there that is informative and entertaining and worthy of an oscar absolutely worthy of an oscar we’re here to help people that’s what we’re all about customer service bar none that’s us that’s all i have to say that’s why i’m tired all the time have a great day thank you for listening take care bye

Often the things that make a house a home are the very things that will cost you plenty when it's time to sell.  This is particularly true when it come to color choices.  

In our continuing series on home staging, we offer our tips on paints, finishes, and color choices.  Check it out! 

well good morning friends hello brandon diane bro here your prescott pickle team we are indeed i am the prescott pickle lady um when you come in you’ll see why i’ll bring you some of my cajun pickles they are fabulous yeah the pickle lady often wears uh green but not during our wine downs i can’t can’t wear green i love green i know green is my lucky color i have green eyes they get really green when i wear green i have my lucky green jade earrings i’m all about green all about green well we’re here now let’s talk about color so we’re doing staging tips for our sellers out there uh as i said in a previous wine down uh professional staging isn’t that big of a deal and prescott not a lot that go not a lot of that going on uh yourself we trust you guys yeah no that’s the way it’s good it’s done by the sellers and done by the agents it’s not done by professionals but just because it’s not done by professionals does not mean it’s not important it’s violated and it’s vitally important and it’s very necessary now and one of the important factors in staging your home is color color color color we’re going to talk about some colors some things that you need to keep in mind about colors in a home right uh one of them so if one of the i think we’ve talked about this before if you’ve got weird colors yeah you need to paint yes if you’ve got like yeah uh bright aqua yeah yeah peach peach is so dated yeah peaches love is so dated yeah um seafoam green is so dated and a lot of the painting techniques are dated the faux finishes and stuff like that a lot of that is really kind of passe people really get turned off when they see it it’s kind of like popcorn ceilings you just can’t sell anything with a popcorn ceiling now there are certain colors where that is the case um i would i would i always tell people avoid just white uh it’s too strong it’s too stark people go to white because they think it is uh safe right um but it can be too bright and too jarring yeah particularly if you don’t have a lot of too sterile too sterile particularly if you’re not gonna have a lot of pictures on the wall yeah if you just show a home that’s empty with white walls it really cheapens it quite a bit so be careful like when we say hey these peach walls you really should paint go with a nice neutral gray or a nice neutral soft white or soft cream yeah or like a taupe very soft completely neutral nothing jarring nothing startling nothing um for instance we had a house in baton rouge way back in the day and our daughter’s playroom we we did this whole all four walls were beach scenes and sea creatures and murals and we had a great time we also did it in texas in their house too um but as soon as we went on the market nobody had to tell us we immediately covered it up and painted and did all it was kind of sad yeah we did take some movies of it and some pictures so the kids could look back and realize what amazing talented parents they had yeah because we need to you know constantly put that in front of that like send them the evidence yeah not many parents paint their walls like this for their kids yeah but your parents did yeah you had a blue a killer whale yeah we had a killer yeah yeah and jellyfish and we allowed that to happen but anyway that’s just a shout out to the kids and all you parents out there who did the same thing you know you know what we’re talking about kids rooms are always suspect so if you’re yes if your daughter just loved hot pink and her whole room is hot pink including the trim you’re gonna have to paint that absolutely you know uh little boys like uh you know crazy dark colors sometimes black walls yeah they’ll be terrible get rid of that space scene or whatever and or whatever it is uh crazy purples we’ve seen some crazy purples it’s got to go yellow it’s got to go don’t push the envelope with colors if you have something that’s pushing an envelope you really should paint them and you know it may cost you maybe a thousand dollars to repaint all that yeah it’s worth it you will reap that in in the price of your home you will regain all of that and more and again if you leave it and it remains in place your house will probably sit on the market yeah and the longer it sits on the market you’re going to have to drop the price drop the price so that little bit of investment ahead of time will actually get you more money even if it doesn’t so so i’ve told the horror story before there was a home beautiful home uh the walls were a mint green that’s not that offensive no not about uh but everyone took in it was like this doesn’t match any of my stuff uh in the end long story short i think that color ended up costing them at least fifty thousand dollars they had to keep it was they ended up having it anyway yeah they should have painted it in the beginning and you’d be done and they would have been done right away and they would have gotten more money for the home it’s not just oh i can’t sell my home so i have to lower the price right if you have two people who are interested in your home then they compete with one another on price you get more money if your weird color only makes one go away it’s going to cost you money even if the home sells right away it can still cost you money that’s right and the other thing is people people were like well they can paint it themselves and they can pick whatever they want people just don’t have the imagination the vision and also they think to themselves i want to be move-in ready i don’t i don’t want to come in and have to hire painters have to find a painter i want to be able to move right in and unpack my stuff hang my stuff on the walls if they have to wait for a painter and it might take two or three weeks to get the whole house painted it’s a turn off they may walk away from a perfectly great house just because they’re not interested or they find one that they don’t have to do that and that’s a deciding factor right yeah so i know when we moved in our home i painted it from top to bottom and it was about a three week process because i had a small team yes and um so yeah if you want to live with your painter and get to be really good friends yeah you know and that’s okay um but it’s you’re really better off just doing a a minimal touch-up painting yeah and and adjusting the color it will save you a lot of time and money in the long run time on market and more money absolutely absolutely so another another seller tip if you’re looking for seller tips or just information about real estate or just prescott in general whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between go to pickle411.com correct that is our information center everything there is free and highly highly entertaining and insightful it can be it’s very insightful too and anyway if you’re making uh thank thinking of making a trip to prescott give us a call we’d love to show you around our great town and show you some interesting properties some good places absolutely all right take care and have a good day bye

Real estate has gotten kind of spiritual.  Life coaches and spiritual healers will tell you that the first and most important step in selling your property is to create a canvas that allows your buyers to paint a picture of their new lives inside your home.  

Deep, right?

While all that may make sense to sellers drinking mushroom tea, you may be looking for some more specific steps - a little less spiritual and a little more concrete.  

Well, in this Wine Down, we bring this concept straight down to earth (where most homes are sold anyway).  Come check it out!

hello hello hello hello beats randall and i am bro here your local prescott pickle team that’s us i am the pickle lady uh happy to join you today and uh we want to talk a little bit about something that i think everybody should learn when they’re about to list their home and uh you know just listen to the advice of your agent and one of the main things we’d love to talk about when you are ready to go live and we’re getting ready to take pictures and video of your home you want it to be shown in the best possible light possible mm-hmm i said that this might be possible best possible light as possible forget about that yeah only one possibility just take one of those possibles ignore all that but yeah possible ignore the extra possibility if it’s possible if it’s possible ignore the extra possible that’s right so this is yeah seller tips staging tips so in this town uh professional staging is relatively unusual in some markets it is a matter of course that sellers will pay a professional stager they’ll come in and stage the home for the most part that doesn’t happen in prescott usually yeah there’s some uh you know usually staging you’ll see if the home is empty right and uh they don’t think it shows well empty they may put a few things in absolutely uh but state professional staging is not that big a deal in prescott but that does not mean that staging isn’t important it’s super important but it’s up to you to get it done that you are my agent right so the most important thing is i’m sure most of you have heard this if you’ve sold a home before declutter declutter declutter yep declutter i’m famous for this i have a stack where my mail goes i have a stack for here stack for there yeah i have my books tucked you know irregularly that’s a good word they’re regular books yeah in the in the in my bookcase and things like that and you get little pigeonholes like yes you stuff stuff in the in the space between the book and the top of the bookshelf just as a temporary holding spot and three years later that paper is still there well we’re not here to talk about the issues you have with you no i’m not trying to i i’m i’m assuming that i feel like he’s he’s addressing that to me because that is what i am famous i am uh we see that in homes that we are listing we see that in homes that we were taking our buyers through it’s like you know they really should spend a couple of minutes to stage the home better right and the decluttering is just sort of a base you know you you you get used to seeing that paper in the pigeon hole or whatever it is you don’t even see it anymore and after a while you stop seeing you don’t see it but other people other people will yeah and then they’re like oh that was you know and and they get not fixated but that’s all they see yeah and they don’t see the other good qualities of your home yes and so anyway it’s very important to get rid of the stacks of magazines you may have okay national geographic oh my gosh my parents must have had 150 right i have never had a buyer ask them you think you can get them to uh give me those copies of national do you think that’s not gonna happen just letting go interested in your national geographic that’s right yeah and and you know people need to understand that a home purchase is in large part an emotional decision absolutely investors maybe not so much they’re looking at the numbers and that kind of stuff but typically uh buyers either fall in love with your house or they don’t right and they don’t always know why they fall in love or why they don’t fall in love and honestly you know some clutter on top of the books in the bookshelf might be enough that that little you know brains and synapse or whatever shut it down just doesn’t fire and the home doesn’t really connect they won’t connect with them and they don’t even know why yeah uh they couldn’t even explain it so absolutely it’s not like we’re being irrational oh they can see past the papers like honestly we’re here to tell you but they won’t they most of them can’t they just they just it’s like they don’t have the imagination so it’s very important um when we say declutter we don’t mean to be insulting to you or this that and the other we’re just telling you we’ve been in homes and the ones that are decluttered they’re so they sell quick they sell fast just say bye bye bye yeah you know if you haven’t used it in two years get rid of it and it doesn’t bring you joy is that lady says that japanese lady who yeah i can’t think of her name condo yeah it’s actually she’s she’s she’s on the money which is absolutely if you haven’t used it in two years it’s never going to happen get rid of it and make your house look good just but if you’re a child of the depression you just can’t throw things away that’s fine too get some storage get some storage and get it in storage correct pull it out yeah roll it out it’s got to go go down yeah one of the things you need to be aware of is that in large part people coming to prescott are looking to retire they are typically coming from homes that are much bigger than the homes that they will be buying so if your home feels like it’s not all that spacious uh it’s gonna be a stumbling point for them they’re trying to fit their 3 000 square foot life into 1700 square feet you want to make your 1700 square feet or whatever it is look as big and spacious absolutely and then they can envision wow maybe i could take my china hutch and put this here yeah um that’s that which leads us to our second point if you’ve got a ton of furniture jammed in there pull some pieces up if you’ve got two end tables and a sofa table and a coffee table and huge sofas pull some of that stuff up pull it out it’s too much people think oh gosh i would never fit in here i can’t bring my stuff that is yeah and people don’t think about that they’ll have a small uh a small living area and his and hers big fat lazy boy chairs or something and they just put them side by side in front of their 50 000 square inch tv uh you know and that’s how you want to live that’s fine but those big chairs take up a lot of room and and you come in you say well this room only holds two chairs yeah yeah you know and they can’t they can’t envision for themselves so it’s always good to de-furnish yeah pull out some of the bigger pieces um and just go put them in storage uh just present it as open and as spacious as possible so that people can envision their pieces of furniture in there yes and if it’s too much furniture i’ve seen it time and time again because i take hundreds of buyers out a year if they go in a house that is heavily furnished with big big pieces big king-size bed four dressers it shuts them off they’re like uh yeah i can’t i can’t no this is not for me it’s too small the reality is it’s really not too small you just may have a little bit too much furniture more than once we have been out with buyers looking at homes and we show two homes that have the same floor plan yes and they will talk about how one of them is so much more spacious than the other same square footage you understand those homes are exactly the same they have but they can’t they they can’t that’s not that’s not the impression it was so much darker and it was just because there was too much furniture in the room that’s a really good point a lot of furniture too will also make a house seem much darker than it really is if you’ve got a lot of big pieces especially if it’s dark wood or this that in the other yeah it does tend to darken the home even if you’ve got your curtains open and blinds up so again just take some advice and just say okay i will remove some of these pieces and i’ll go put it in storage it will just save you some time and time on the market yeah because we’re always like let’s wrap it up let’s get this sold for you so you don’t have to have the torture of visits and showings and it can be hard to do that so we want to make it as easy and stress-free as possible so listen to mom and dad when we say please declutter and please remove some of this bigger furniture it’s not meant to be not an insult but it’s not meant to yeah it’s just to allow you to sell your home more easily and for more money you can get an extra buyer uh interested in your home uh that could mean tens of thousand dollars absolutely time on market is time that you might lose some money absolutely the more time you’re on that market the price could you know be affected yeah absolutely all right keep that in mind and uh we hope to see you soon i’d love to take you out and show you some declutter defurnished homes yeah that’s right i’d love to do that if we have somebody out there thinking about listing we’d love to come talk to you in person and help you in those steps to get ready to get on the market if you’re just looking for more information at this point whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between check out pickle411.com that is our information center everyone everything there is uh free and it’s also highly entertaining it can be finally i watch it all the time you watch yourself all the time absolutely good for you me and john travolta he takes me up in that plane of bits all over gosh okay well good for you i’m glad you enjoy watching it

hello hello hello peeps
this is all of our little fellow pickle
peeps out there um we hope that you are
having an amazing day
we sure are we’re having a good day i
think we’re having a pretty good yeah
we’re having a very good season
off to a very good start randall bro
realtors in
prescott arizona and so something we
talking about listings we want to talk
about
um this is kind of out there for our
people who are considering selling
and are starting to think about well i
think i might want to go on the market
something to think about that we’re
running across right now in this crazy
intense on fire uh
market is uh because i handle a lot of
buyers
this is something to keep in mind when
you’re getting ready to list
try to make your home make the showings
as easy as possible
um encourage your agent we always do
this go
on you know make sure your agent is
registered on showing time
so they can easily make appointments
yeah it’s easy
um don’t do crazy times don’t you know
uh or three hours in advance right don’t
do three hours in advance
invite the bullet here’s the thing yes
it is difficult to bring
people in to see homes into prescott yes
most of the buyers are coming from out
of town people like us have to reach out
find them convince them to come and
visit this town right
and before we even have a chance to sell
your home
so by the time we are scheduling a
showing of your home
we’ve already like done a lot of heavy
lifting for you right
so the last thing you want to do is to
make it hard for people like us to bring
you
our buyers because you can undermine
you know if you’re trying to get a uh
you know a good price for your home
you’re trying
what you need is a lot of showings and
the easiest way to get a lot of showings
is to make showings easy correct just
bite the bullet because what’s gonna
happen is the market’s moving so fast
just accept i’m gonna have two maybe
three days of hell
yeah of constant showings but for
instance i’ve had several clients come
in ready to go and i’m like oh this is a
great listing let’s go look at it and
they’re like
we won’t start any showings until i’ll
just make up a date
until thursday well it’s monday and then
you don’t find that out until you call
right so you go to call and it’s like i
want to start on a certain day that’s
fine put it in mls put it well in
advance so everyone knows
right don’t wait until someone’s calling
you with the buyer to schedule the
showing
oh we’re not going to show until
thursday we decided we’re going to wait
until thursday and then we’re going to
have it
or you know some of the uh some of the
some of them are like it’s uh
uh we’re gonna have one day of showing
and we are only gonna have appointments
between
ten and two okay well my people are
going to be here that day
they’re gonna be the next day and
there’s no way to get back in
so as you as a potential seller
think about making your home easily
accessible
easy for the buyer’s agent to make an
appointment for you
just be welcoming let it go fast this
market’s so
fast moving yeah your house is going to
sell in one or two years
it will and but if you make the showings
difficult you get
fewer showings you’re gonna have fewer
options you’re gonna end up with less
results
one key too is to make sure your listing
agent understands at least the basics
of real estate technology um so diane
mentioned before there’s showing time
yes which is an online app that agents
use to schedule showings for your home
and if you know how to set it up right
it kind of takes care of everything for
you
it’s great it’s great for all parties
involved it’s great for the agents
involved it’s great for
the the seller so they know they can
even be contacted when you’ve left so
they know when to come home
yeah it’s an amazing thing so make sure
you tell your i want showing time
i want to be i’m showing you if you
don’t do showing time then you need to
figure out how to do showing time
because it’s going to make a difference
in selling
your own it absolutely is so you know
and you shouldn’t have to email to make
an appointment you shouldn’t have to
call and then you call them
you have to call one and they say oh you
know what actually this is the wrong
number to call you need to call this
number
and then listen
this market we don’t have time for that
i don’t have time for that make it
simple make it easy make it yeah as
worry-free as possible for all parties
yeah if it were a slow moving market
everyone would have time to work out all
these kinks for the one showing that
you’re getting
when you’re getting lots of showings
it’s going to run like a well-oiled
machine or it’s going to crash
now the pickle lady brigade as your
listing agent we have all those things
in place absolutely
we’ve got it simple we’ve got it fast
you won’t have to worry about that
but i just wanted to kind of pass this
tip on to those of you who are thinking
call us we’d love to help you list we
will have
all of these things in effect and and
ready to go
uh so when you’re ready to go on the
market your appointments will be super
easy
yeah and it’ll be handled you know
stress-free worry-free as best as we
possibly can
so these are just some little tips when
you’re thinking say hey
i want to be on showing time and only
showing time yeah
you know i want to i want to get this
thing done and
limit your uh your showings to specific
target days
and just bite the bullet on those things
get up early stay out late
and that’s you know fill the day with
jones and get it over with
and we appreciate that it is it really
is we really made every effort to show
up on time
um but you know it’s easier than you
think
yes to get people and you have buyers
that show up late and
you know if we could if we only brought
buyers out that are
punctual and you know all these things
we would have maybe one buyer a year
buyers it’s difficult sometimes things
happen
people are driving in flat tire that
throws off the pace of all the other
they’re not familiar with the city and
which is why
you know you should have showing time in
effect because
then if something should happen the
agent can quickly get on and say
i either need to cancel or reschedule
when we’re driving
it’s hard to i gotta look up that phone
number i gotta
so these are things to keep in mind of
course i would call uh we would love to
help you list
again you won’t have these issues but if
you’re looking at other agents or
thinking about it these are things that
you should
educate yourself about so you are ready
and uh willing able to show that home
in a timely and easy fashion absolutely
so that is all we just wanted to share
that with you it’s just one of the
things we’re sharing that’s one of the
things we’re sharing we share a lot
if you want more you can find it at
pickle411.com.com
and it’ll take you whether you’re buy or
sell or somewhere in between lots of
free tips
uh tools information ratings
about the city about the real estate
market you name it
just about anything you can we try to
cover a lot we try to cover a lot
so if you’re thinking about listing your
home give us a call
we’ve got everything systematized we’re
ready to go
get your home sold for you in this hot
hot market
okay that is our tip for the day have a
fabulous day
and uh we look forward to hearing from
you that is all folks

hello hello hello
pickle peach pickle peeps
this is diane and randall bro here
how to join you up here
you gonna move up yeah the pugs decided
to join us
yeah as well as frankie there she is
so we’re rounding out 2020 thought we’d
make a wind down
on what we expect to come in the year
ahead
uh what that will mean for real estate
basket life life in general life in
general
yeah so first let’s chose 2020 2020.
it was a rough ah you were a my
friend
not me i meant the year
yeah i did mean the year although you
know you could argue
okay we’re about to end this one
shortest one ever yeah i get one get her
uh coconut water on my face that’s gonna
say wine it’s not really not one no
yeah google we’re not drinking wine
we’re not drinking water we’re using
wine glasses
this is a delicious diet k drink
okay from kroger nothing but only the
best for you
um so yeah it was 2020 rough horrible
horrible it was uh unexpected it was
insane it was
unprecedented uh it
made you dig down real deep some of the
positives
were new ways of doing business yeah
absolutely
new ways of approaching things some of
which we’re going to continue doing in
the future with our own business
oh definitely and um and businesses all
over the country
absolutely i can’t say it was a new way
of doing business the whole
zoom thing and remote and all that that
technology had been around for at least
20 years
but people are they change slowly the
way that they do things
and this pandemic forced people to do it
that’s right
and when they when they started doing it
they found out well you know
like most americans works what happens
the ingenuity comes in yeah that’s
exciting we dig down deep
pull it out and we make it successful at
least that’s what the pickle lady
brigade
yes we had a banner year we had a great
year
and so we kind of wanted to talk about
some predictions for 2021
yeah and uh so one of the predictions
that
uh the pickle lady has already made is
uh let me close it okay so one of the
one of the predictions
that the pickle lady already made is
that some of these new patterns of
business
will continue and i expect they will yes
yeah it’s been great for us we do a lot
of virtual home tours
now um when we could not hold
open houses uh we got drones we got into
more creative ways of filming properties
to send it to all of our clients out of
state
keep them interested let them know hey
we’re still out here we’re still viable
um and we can still find you the home
yep
and that’s that’s gonna lead to some
changes in the long term i think for
prescott
prescott as we’ve said a hundred times
is a retirement community
yes so the people coming here are
retiring
uh there aren’t a lot of jobs to be had
here
uh but and the city has been thinking
about trying to change that
uh but now with this new zoom technology
being used in businesses all over the
country you can have a job
really anywhere in the world and we
still live in prescott one of our new
predictors for 2021
it’s going to open the door boom not
just to retirees
it’s going to open the door to young
people who maybe have families and they
want to go to a nice small town
and live the beautiful life nice fresh
clean air
affordable housing beautiful weather
great schools
but they can do it now because you work
via
the via zoom or whatever it’s called
whatever you want yeah whatever
technology you’re using
yeah the the uh the key word there is
small town and small towns
are now in yeah uh big challenges always
been that way though
you and i have always no no i mean we
always kind of run ahead of the trend
yeah yeah yeah we’re kind of what you
call it what’s the word train stutters
yeah i was smoking cigars when nobody
knew what that was anyway
that’s right that’s right that kind of
thing so we kind of have uh
we kind of jump on these things ahead of
time yeah we do so we kind of
once again once again setting the
current i couldn’t really predict
uh but the covet thing really is pushing
small towns people don’t want to live
in areas where there’s a lot of people
per square mile anymore that’s right and
they are
rediscovering small towns in the past
small towns were kind of dying on the
vine
um because everybody had to be in the
big concrete jungles and
going to work and they had to have their
fancy millennial space you know with
basketball courts in the office and all
that
but what people have found is you really
don’t need all that my jammies at home
you can be in your jammies that’s it
that’s right you can leave your jammies
sit in front of your fireplace working
on your computer and honestly you’re a
little bit more
i think more productive oh yeah um
yeah so anyway uh it’s been interesting
so i think it’s opening the door for a
lot of young families to come out here
um and work uh
remotely yeah so uh i think it’s gonna
change the nature of our little town i
think it’s gonna change the nature of
of the uh the community of who it was oh
yeah it’s not just gonna be retirees i
think well the smart ones out there
going to be like hey
instead of me spending 3 000 a month on
an apartment in
l.a i can get a gorgeous house you know
for like 400
and and pay half that on a mortgage so
something to think about for all young
people and speaking of mortgages well we
can’t talk about 2020 without talking
about the
huge uptick in business yes uh the last
uh report i ran we were actually 18
year-over-year median sales price per
square foot for the entire town
yeah which is really it’s unsustainable
yeah so one of the predictions
unfortunately i think for
2021 is i think we’re going to have a
little bit of a price decrease
at least back in line with the longer
term trends
what we saw was uh there was a spike in
buyer interest i think because of covid
what there wasn’t was a spike in seller
interest a lot of people did not want to
have their homes on the market they
didn’t want to you know do open houses
yeah they kind of hunkered down they
hunkered down they’re like i’m going to
ride this out
now it’s not the time so we got we had
demand
uh but we had plenty of demand didn’t
have much supply at all
and i think pretty much as soon as this
vaccine thing or whatever it is comes
through
and kobe it’s not really a threat
anymore i think we
have pent up supply i think a lot of
sellers
are going gonna jump in they’re gonna
put the homes on the market and try to
take advantage of the high prices and
all that
and i think what will happen is we’ll
have uh twice as much
supply as we normally have which will be
nice yeah it should be nice for a
it change we’re hunting down and exactly
so i think that’s going to open up the
doors more sellers will now be like you
know what now’s the time maybe i want to
downsize
maybe they moved to prescott you know
and they bought a 5 000 square foot
house
now they want to downsize so they’re
going to put it on the market and what’s
going to happen is our younger families
are going to be like i need a 4 000
square foot house so
i think it’s going to be a beautiful
story yes it will yeah of
young young buyers needing bigger older
buyers needing less
and so it’s just going to open up the
floodgates uh yeah i think you’re right
for houses for sale people are concerned
about
interest rates interest rates are so low
right now
inflation is so low right now so for
some of the older population out there
you can remember when interest rates
were
12 up to 19 it was insane
it was insane i mean so
don’t bicker about three percent or
three and a half
it’s almost laughable it really is this
has been an error a free of essentially
free money
uh the the interest rates may go up but
i i don’t unless something really
catastrophic happens i don’t think
interest rates are going to be high
enough to change the longer term
bigger trends that we’re seeing uh
exodus from the west coast
uh huge numbers of people retiring as
baby boomers reach
a certain age yes uh the attractiveness
of a town like
uh prescott which is surrounded by
desert on all sides
uh you know those things aren’t gonna
change so we’re expecting
long-term trends would be good for
prescott and black dogs
and black evidently hello love prescott
love prescott all part of the family
here
hello frank oh she likes me so
you know interest rates may creep up a
tiny bit but come on people we all
remember the olden days
three percent three and a half is not is
still
amazing still amazing prices yeah i mean
you
you can still buy beautiful homes here
uh but anyway
that hasn’t happened yet but uh keep
that in mind
think back in the olden days when you
had to wait in line for gas remember
that
i remember that was to get a free gas
when you fill up your tank they’d give
you
three glasses that you wouldn’t have
free glasses you wouldn’t have uh
drink in it but you get the glass for
free
yeah we’re right on the edge of that we
remember all that we remember the high
interest rates from my i was
yeah we’ve been through astonishing now
when you think about it it’s like my
gosh
you know yeah some of these things make
uh covet seem
a little bit more perspective so i think
the beautiful thing about covid
is it is open people’s minds um
people have decided i think the most
positive thing that has come out of it
my prediction is
uh that people now are like you know
what now is the time
i’m not gonna waste any more of
well i’ll wait another five years i’ll
wait another two years
let me just do one more thing time is of
the essence and now is the time
now is the time to do it i think the
lockdown has forced people to kind of
inwardly reflect and
and make some changes in their life make
some positive changes
i think quarantine was good to open
people’s eyes
that how important family is how
important it is
not to spend so much time on the career
so many hours
less is better less is better i’m gonna
kill that dog
we’re really in trouble we’re having
trouble today but anyway less is better
so my prediction is uh
that 2021 is going to be
a year a year barking dogs
i lose my my train of thought my
prediction for 2021 is it’s going to be
a year of change for people positive
transformation people are going to now
take the chance now take you know the
risk
you know perhaps you were sick and you
were like you know what my eyes are open
life can be taken away in a second it’s
short
now is the time to make it happen and we
of the pickle lady brigade
are here to help you absolutely we’ve
got a great team assembled we’ve got a
great
lender who can walk you through every
step of it
we’ve got great home inspector uh i am
your
favorite hopefully buyer agent she’s my
favorite well i don’t know
not always not always he’s our grumpy
grumpy marketer that’s me
not always when these dogs are barking
on my film they are
yeah it’s hard it’s hard to do this
but anyway so we look forward to 2021
our prediction is
come see us in prescott we promise we’ll
find you a great place
we promise we’ll help you make a brand
new start
in life here yeah we’re not about sales
here
we’re about service that’s what our team
does we’re about service
we want to get you integrated into the
new community
we want to help you make friends we want
to help you uh
make that transition and you can be free
and you can meet friends
that’s my prediction give us a call at
the pickle lady brigade
we’d love to help you step forward into
2021 it’s
nothing but positive changes people it’s
all good in the hood
on that note goodbye
you

are you ready
yeah anytime you’re ready i’m waiting
for you to start
hello hello hello this is randall and
diambro here
sitting underneath a beautiful tree in
the square
pretending like we’re young lovers ah
i had to sit down it made me tired we
had a hard time getting down here yeah
i’m hoping we can easily get up we’ll
see yeah they might have to bury me here
we’ll see
it’d be a beautiful place you know it’s
not a bad place if you have to go
my family can come visit me here that’s
right i’m right across from whiskey
right all the dogs are here
you can see all the pups you want yeah
wouldn’t be a bad place
anyway how do we get there i don’t know
that’s not what we scripted no not at
all
but anyway we are here to talk about
something fun that the pickle lady
brigade now does
uh randall bro here has bought some nice
equipment
yep this segment’s called attack of the
drones attack of the drones
we are armed with drones now we are
armed with drones
and we are ready to shoot uh all of your
beautiful homes that we have your
listings
and we put it up on the website so
people can see
your home from up above we’ve done
drones for a while
yeah uh but we would hire it in yes
you know we’d have a professional come
and have the drone go around and
everything
and uh i don’t know we were talking
about it and just kind of decided you
know what we
we are a lot a lot of our business has
to do
with video we have the wind downs and we
shoot houses and
yeah take pictures and all that it’s
like yeah well why don’t we why don’t we
do that and sometimes we want to
we’re so busy it’s like oh we got a slot
let’s go get a drone done right now
yeah i think that i think that’s what
did it it was the scheduling you know
you’re trying to get somebody to
schedule to come
and then they come and it’s too windy to
fly and
yeah and the pickle lady brigade
when we’re ready we’re ready today’s
drone day
let’s hit it let’s get this house done
so you know the thing about it is when
you
when you first get a tool you think it
it’s only good for one thing but then
once you have it you start seeing
applications for it everywhere
uh so that i could make a room i could
make a joke but i’m not
yeah she’s i can’t take her anywhere i
could
not in public anymore i could say
something really funny but i’m not
gonna hold it back i’m gonna i’m gonna
reign it in if you wanna know what the
joke is you have to call
but anyway so we love to do our own
drone work now
uh randall has become quite the
aficionado
i don’t know you learned the basics and
uh
it’s very funny to see him chase a drone
up a driveway
yeah driveways are
you gotta chase the drone up the driver
to keep it it’s not as easy as it looks
if it’s a street driver that’s one thing
if it’s a curvy driveway
or it’s on an incline it can be wacky
wacky it could be wacky wacky you can
find me dead out there
yeah you got a hustler yeah you got a
husband
is one of our many services that we
provide when we have a listing
yeah um when you sign with us you get uh
beautiful photographs first first of all
stills of your home
yeah followed by a virtual home tour
where randall goes in with another piece
of equipment we have
and he films a 360 360. so people can
really get a sense of hey i’m walking
through this house like as if you were
in person yeah in a real open house yeah
if you
if you go through one of our virtual
house uh uh virtual open house
videos it’s like you’ve been through the
house you’ll know the house very very
well and that’s the intent
followed by randall narrating all the
pros and cons all the beautiful
description of the house and what the
house comes through
comes with comes through back to the
spirit
but what the house comes with and so
you’ll get it fully narrated
and then he also does the drone work
yeah so people get a good idea of what
your backyard is you’re outside of your
house
here’s the thing it’s really not about
the technology
i mean drones are a technology but
the drone is supposed to sell the house
it’s not supposed to
you know oh look how cool it is flying
around the sky
and taking pictures uh we just we have a
new listing
and one of the features of the new
listing is it’s within an easy walking
distance
of the club yep so we talked about well
how we’re going to
show this like we want and i’m going to
just like
you know write it in in the description
we want to show it
well we did a drone and i actually laid
out some
hey dotted yeah you didn’t see it yet i
didn’t laid out a dotted yellow line
showing you where you would walk to go
from your house to the club
demonstrating just how close it is and
it is
really close so how else would you how
else would you visually
uh sell that feature you know well the
drone worked i mean it really worked
well
and a little yellow dotted little yellow
dotted lines so the point is that the
pickled lady brigade
works hard we really try to sell your
home and show
all the positive features of it uh with
narration
with film with stills with
i mean it’s top-notch stuff absolutely
and it’s personalized
it’s personalized and sometimes it’s
funny
sometimes it’s fun sometimes she always
you always notice in my
my videos she’s always photobombing yeah
that’s the biggest problem we have in
the marriage
is that no matter where she stands
that’s where i want and what you’ll hear
across here you’re in the shot
you’re in the shot you’re in the shot
there you are
again so i’m i’m coming i’m watching i’m
shooting i’m shooting don’t get in the
shot
and she’ll take a right when she’s
supposed to take a left i think she was
the youngest child i don’t think they
took enough pictures of her
i think she wants to get more pictures
of herself taken i don’t mean to but
without fail i hear that voice barking
at me
get out of my shot yeah yeah it’s uh
it’s a lot of fun
you know it’s a lot of fun one of the
perks but
also uh one of our funniest ones was we
thought we did it i wasn’t in any shots
i’m like you know
we i nailed it i really listened i
followed directions
i stayed out of all the shots there was
my complete silhouette and picture
in the mirror in the mirror it has
hawaii
it’s just it was it’s like the universe
once around the shot yeah
you know i don’t know but anyway we do
have a lot of fun when we do it
well when he’s not being grumpy but when
he’s grumpy i’m just like i leave you to
it
but anyway the point is pick a lady
brigade it’s a full service
realty team we do it all for you we make
it happen captain
if you need information the place to get
it is pickle411.com
whether you’re a buyer seller lots of
free information nice place to start
your search
start your selling process uh
pickle411.com
first step give us a call yeah pick a
lady for games and have fun with all
this
we should we’ll attack you with drones
yeah all right see you until next time
bye

good morning
this is still morning cheers
good morning hello whatever hello
bonjourno
um oh my god
[Music]
i i don’t think the world wants us to do
this podcast
and the world is conspiring against this
wind down
we’re going to try it again we’re going
to try it again are we live yeah
yeah all right lady good morning good
morning
hello peter i don’t know whatever time
you’re going to see this
um dogs and we got neighbors
that’s right a lot going on hey are you
doing your podcast i’m like well is that
really yeah
as a matter of fact we’re recording it
as we speak but it’s okay but that’s
okay
it’s okay we have fun we have this is
diambro with my better half randall bruh
yeah that’s me she’s pickle lady
pickle lady brigade as you can see here
we are we’re represented
so we are here today to talk about team
stuff two stuff did i do a great job
segwaying then yeah it’s just right in
terms of stuff
team stuff yeah so talking about pickle
lady brigade
uh one of the reasons why i think we are
very successful
as a team um in performing and
everything is because
we have systems in place
so some systems well really randall
that’s his deal
and people laugh you know we got pickle
lady mugs we drive a pickle lady car
yeah yeah i think the band uh everything
is branded
everything is thought through there’s a
reason for that the world doesn’t start
off that way
we make it that way we work overtime to
improve well
let me clarify that um randall makes it
that way yeah
i’m more of a fly by the sea to your
pants kind of person
uh they are wearing me down and forcing
me to comply
into systems that’s right that’s right
yeah i’m clearly the systems person she
is my opposition
you know so we we uh we work well
together we support each other
we defend each other and we fight
against each other fight against each
other to the death
sometimes but one thing i have to agree
with on this is that
i am not a systems person i am like i
feel good i feel
let’s just do this right now in the
moment but the fact is to be a
successful team
and to perform at your top top peak
performance
you really do have to have systems in
place you got them in place right now
prescott is going through a crazy real
estate period
uh we’re ten percent year over year uh
with very little inventory i mean things
are flying off super low inventory below
inventory
a lot we find a lot of agents uh
agencies that we’re working with in our
transactions they keep dropping the ball
yep and it’s because they do it on
purpose not that they do it on purpose
but they’re sharp in a lot of balls
it’s a lot yeah well i mean when you
when you go into escrow there’s like 80
different steps
yeah that you need to to assign
and do and run the ground and everything
and if you don’t have your systems in
place
then you’re going to drop some balls
right people are dropping balls
but i would like to think we we are
doing better because
we have systems we try no one’s perfect
yeah no one’s perfect occasionally we
drop the ball and then
mr bro comes down hard okay well listen
uh how we’re going to stop how we’re
going to avoid dropping that ball next
time
so we need to adjust our process we have
what we call pickle pow wows
and the team gets together and say you
know what that kind of fell through the
cracks
what could we have done better to make
this transaction
yeah um run a little bit more smooth so
one of our favorite things we’ve done
actually randall is not he is a good
logical analytical thinker
um he’s not a handy person though with
tools
but right over my shoulder is something
i was super impressed i was like
um i’m getting a little warmed up just
thinking about
i didn’t know what a pegboard was until
i got to lowe’s and the guy explained it
to me
so i spent i don’t know like a couple
hundred thousand pegs and
boards and stuff and we just we we were
having trouble
finding the riders that we needed the
signs that we needed we’re running out
like
we gotta go hang up a sign oh where is
the sold sign
where is the pending where is the view
sign where’s
and we’re going through the garage and
yeah anyway
not anymore so this is one of our
systems we put into place so now it’s
handy dandy
super organized we know what we’re doing
yeah we can grab something
see it readily the other good system is
we have all kinds of um
checks and balances so when you go under
contract
we we are always conferring every day we
pull up our board we look up what’s
going on what’s going on
we call it the board yeah or the matrix
or the matrix whatever you want you have
to move
whatever you feel the matrix is a little
sexy yeah a little sexier but whatever i
don’t care
i mean this is the pegboard oh the
pegboard yeah
it worked for me it worked for me too
you know what i’m saying
you can put it out there you’re gonna
have to add it
we’ll see i’m saying i may or may not oh
anyway but um
i can’t even get back on my train of
thought i’ll get back on your train
anyway we as a team what i’m trying to
say is not only do we have our
magical pegboard but we also have a lot
of systems in place behind the scenes
yeah where we are on top of everything
we contact our agents
i mean are not agents clients um and
keep on top of everything so that you
close on time
optimization avoid problems instead of
solving problems
that’s right our goal for us to provide
good customer service
is to have whether it’s the the seller
or the buyer we want you to close on
time
we don’t want to have all these licensed
snafu’s we forgot to do this or the
other
agent forgot to do this we’re on top of
it yeah and i think that really helps us
although it’s i’m so bored sitting
through some of these meetings
going through the board but i do that’s
a joke
i’m just bored of the board and you get
bored i get a little bored of the board
that’s yes just a little bit i do
see the merit of it and uh
now now we’re seeing the merida because
here’s the thing if you’re an agent and
prescott you’re
real busy right now you don’t have time
to do a peg board
no but don’t try to go out and do a
pegboard right now you have to hold on
you barely keep it
you barely tread in water you got to
wait till we hit the beach and you get
some free time
before you can do stuff like this yes so
we invested the time when we had the
time now that we don’t have the time
we are reaping the benefits we are but
you know who else reaps the benefits
more than anybody else
is our clients oh absolutely our clients
our clients our clients
um you know if they call us and
sometimes we get a phone call at nine
o’clock at night you know what i was
thinking about blah blah blah
all we have to do is pull up one of our
systems and be like you know what don’t
worry about that
handled yeah check yeah check the box
you’re handled you’re good it’s all good
in the hood i would like to
think that we have super powers but it’s
really systems it is systems
so that is super power yeah
the other thing about the pickles and i
wish i had a better superpower if
anybody knows a source where i can buy
the jars
apparently the jar makers are not going
to make them until 2021.
yeah crazy the strangers you can’t order
anything
and all my pickles are weeping weeping
to be jarred and handed out they’re
weeping they’re sad
they’re sad i’m sad because they’re like
please please we just want to go
in somebody’s tummy but anyway
i’m tired put me in your tummy
put me in your tummy anyway got a
request today somebody said hey i’m not
ready to buy a house yet but hey can i
get ready for those pickles
and i said you know what i’d love to
hand out pickles to all my friends
yeah and i consider anybody who reaches
out to me a friend
a friend so anyway that’s it for today i
hope we weren’t too
preachy about systems or this that and
the other
they are valuable they are valuable to
our team and
that goes out to you the benefit goes
out to any
clients present and future so
we have our systems in place to help you
make it nice and easy
and and have as less of a stressful time
selling buying because we know it’s hard
it’s hard it’s hard
it’s a lot to it it’s a lot to it a lot
to it
but anyway so is that all would you like
to add anything else mr brown that’s it
okay that’s it all right we have an
information system
if you need information go to
pickle411.com
there are websites there where you can
find all kinds of information if you’re
a buyer seller
just follow the bouncing ball and it’ll
take you to where you think
uh to what you need to know yeah
there you go there you go all right
cheers we didn’t have any other
neighbors drive by
yeah it was cute yeah somebody’s backing
up somebody’s backing up
i think that’s a golf cart yeah golf
cart backing up golf cart but anyway
that
that’s what that is the world did not
want us to make this video but we tried
i think we did good though all right for
all of you guys out there please give us
a call
we’d love to help you list we’d love to
help you find a home
our team is working hard systems in
place to make it a go
next time adios amigos goodbye