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Fretting a Crash?
People worry that what goes up must come down, and nothing has gone up more than real estate in recent years. Are we overdue a crash? In this episode, we share our thoughts on the crash potential for Prescott-area real estate.Video Transcript
hello hello hello hello peeps good afternoon and this is randall and diane bro here in the lovely town of prescott arizona prescott arizona with vic lady yes here’s my little pickle somebody uh suggested this to us of course i immediately went on and bought it i love it and also yodles i won’t hit that yodel this time yeah yeah i’ll just let you see my pickle yeah um but anyway uh we are here where we uh wanted to chat with you about fretting a crash yeah so we’ve been having a lot of people asking us about the ever increasing home prices not just here and prescript across the country and whether we are due some catastrophic crash as we had back in the late 2000s and the answer to that at least as far as prescott is concerned is we don’t see where that would come from so the the crash in 2008 depending on where you were maybe it was a different time a lot of that was driven by people who had financing that no one should have ever given them that’s right no money down for an eight hundred thousand dollars probably not a good idea yeah so people were buying extra homes on credit and flipping them there’s a lot of stuff that was going on the the short answer on that score is that is not happening it really you know a lot of our clients are retired yep and when you retire this market in particular yeah you know they have a lot of money but not necessarily a lot of income sometimes they struggle to qualify because of things like debt ratios or income ratios right you know the the the ratios and the finances are are not and you know what they don’t weigh that uh they gotta jump those hurdles uh clearly it’s a good loan but they follow the regulations getting financing even when the interest rates are really low you think they’re begging for business guess what if you can’t make the ratio you will not get a loan it ain’t gonna happen it ain’t gonna happen it ain’t gonna happen yeah so yeah we’re not worried about a crash per se and particularly in the press kit market yeah because most of our buyers are cash buyers yes they’re retired um they’re either paying cash or they’re putting substantial amounts down for a down payment and so you know the creeping interest rates it doesn’t bother them so much because they pretty much have a pretty low mortgage yes um so if we’re kind of a unique market here yeah you may have seen there was an article i believe it was in fortune one of those magazines they listed a number of cities around the country we were one of them prescott arizona makes it makes it into this magazine as as one of the towns that is destined uh destined for a price adjustment and the reason they give is that the i’m sorry sorry are you okay um can i help you out yeah give me a hundred real quick real quick let me get that given that uh the reason they give for that is the if you look at the price of homes and divide that by the average income in the town that number is extremely high which would indicate that people are not making enough money to afford the homes there and so that that affects a lot of towns here’s the thing in prescott a lot of people are retired correct they don’t show a lot of income they have a lot of money yes so when you look at that ratio it’s going to be yeah oh you know your your uh uh property value to income is off the chart yeah he’s got four million dollars in the bank right it’s not going anywhere so we say nay to that yeah because just because we are a very unique market yeah they they ran the numbers they picked the top 10 15 cities in the country that popped at the top and they wrote an article about it um obviously they’ve never been to prescott i can’t see why that’s an issue here i don’t know of anyone i can’t think of anyone offhand who’s even close to you know oh it’s going to be difficult for them to maintain the payment on their homes these guys came here to retire and they’re having a great time and they’re going to be here for a while they’re not worried about making their house note yeah because number one either they pay cash yeah or number two they’ve had such a huge down payment their house note is negligible yeah so for us i always keep in mind the prescott market is quite unique yeah um our median age here is 55 and older so these are people who are not moving here for the industry for the jobs to start a new career this is a career test yeah and all of our friends god bless you we hope we can join you one day everybody’s having the time of their lives that’s right uh they’re golfing they’re jeeping they’re you know uh hiking they’re having a fabulous time they’re not really worried about income so when you hear these stories um don’t fret so much about prescott in itself uh this is a huge retirement town i have people who call me and say i’m looking for a 55 plus neighborhood and i’m like can i be honest all of prescott is basically 55 plus yeah it’s it’s it’s essentially a retirement community yeah i mean you don’t need to be in a particular neighborhood um most of our neighbors are retired um we’re kind of one of the few that are not but um don’t fret the crash crash here in prescott yeah i feel like it’s gonna be okay yeah i you know i i struggled to see what would what would do it yeah uh what drives a lot of our home sales here and the home value prices are people coming from other states mostly along the west coast uh that relocate here because it’s more affordable uh it’s a nice place you don’t have to go someplace where it’s a skabillion degrees uh and in 157 humidity or you know mesquite we don’t have any of that right you know it’s a very nice place so people can come here um the cost of living is low we talk in some of our other videos we talk about the arbitrage where you can sell your home where you are now typically some place like california and you can buy a home equivalent and bank a fair amount of money if the prices in california go down they may go down here too as long as we have a a as long as we’re less than california it would still make sense uh to make that move and i i i just i don’t see how um i don’t see how we end up with a bubble i really don’t i i don’t think price prices can’t keep going up the way they have i understand that we all do i think things are going to flatten out i think things are going to moderate i just don’t see a bubble that there’s something artificial that’s been holding this up all along and it’s just gonna crash i think maybe we undervalued real estate after the crash in 2008 for too long and uh and we had a big you know upward correction and and kobe pushed to store that i don’t know i i was surprised to see the prices go up as fast as they did but uh i don’t see them i i don’t see what would is their bubble to pop i don’t know i don’t know at least you know prescott is a very unique market and um we’re kind of a special little bubble here so you can’t really compare us to the other national markets yeah you know that’s my opinion yeah um and we’re small too we’re not a big player it’s not like we need millions of people moving here to get this right i mean do we have a crystal ball no no but i do have a crystal ball but i but i can’t use it to predict the future i’ve tried i just can’t okay so anyway we just thought we’d share this little two-bit uh two cents of information and uh just our personal opinion of course it is an opinion it’s not fact that’s right it’s not scientific but we just thought we’d give our little two cents of info on how we think things are going we are a very special market here so anyway if you’re thinking about buying or selling give us a call or you can go to our information site that’s pickle411.com whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between there’s information that’s waiting for you absolutely we’re here toll free it’s all free it’s all free all free people you don’t have to pay anything it’s free no subscription yeah all right just a final note if you are on the verge of retirement and thinking of retirement don’t put off retirement too long don’t do that don’t do that don’t wait don’t wait until you’re too old we have met so many people here who were like wow i should have done this years ago i’m loving my life here and we love it through extension we’re not quite retired but we are having fun anyway so give us a call diane and randall bro with our famous pickle whatever it is [Music] oh [Music] a lot of people anyway
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New Paperwork Requirements
Real estate runs on paperwork, and if you've bought or sold any recently, you may have been struck by just how much there is. Well, the Prescott real estate association (PAAR), keepers of the local MLS, have just come down with new rules that could lead to fines if some of that paperwork isn't completed quickly enough. Find out about these latest gotchas and what we think about them in this episode.Video Transcript
hello top of the morning to you good morning folks this is diana randall bro here prescott lady and sidekick respectively that’s right we are your husband and wife duo here in prescott arizona happy to bring you here show you around hopefully you’ll stay we’ve made so many great friends from clients it’s just been um that’s part of the happy part of our time it’s a great time guys yeah and there’s a reason why people come here it’s a great time so today we wanted to talk about some new things that are coming up in real estate yeah lots of rule changes lots of little changes yeah this is actually this is something that should have been done a while ago so i was glad to see this come down uh so the new rule from the local association is that you cannot go live so you’re selling a home your home cannot go live on mls until you have uh if you need disclosures for an hoa or lead-based pain so lead-based pain is anything before 1978. that’s right home was built before 1978 you’re going to need a lead-based pain disclosure so you’ll know that right away uh if you’re in an hoa you will need an hoa disclosure this is paperwork uh in particular the hoa it could be a pain yeah someone more complicated yes some can be complicated uh it has to be done and posted as part of the mls record before your home goes live in mls let me tell you why that makes sense from a buyer perspective so we have buyers that that come in they like a home we know there’s an hoa and we want to make an offer part of that offer is who pays the hoa the transfer fees basically um if we don’t have a disclosure then we can’t really make the offer yeah yeah so what that does is yeah so essentially that’s the listing agent making the buyer agent call the hoa to find out what’s going on and that’s not the buyer agent’s job that’s the listing agent’s job yeah so uh buyer agents have gotten smart and what they do is they send an offer that anything that’s undisclosed you have to pay and sellers didn’t like that sellers aren’t happy with that they’re like wait a minute i so we’ve been why am i paying that things have been getting sort of better we’ve been seeing more compliance there well now if you go live and you do not have an hoa disclosure or a lead based disclosure if you need that uh the listing agent will be fined like just straight up so uh that’s good because listing it that’s part of the listing agent’s job it’s a little bit of homework it’s a little bit of homework part of the negotiation uh in particular in hoa areas where those fees can be substantial um so it’s something that needs to be done and now now you have to do it yeah it’s fair and you should not expect a buyer or the buyer’s agent to have to figure that out and sometimes the seller you know maybe they’ve lived there 20 years like jeez i don’t even remember do i have to pay a transfer fee yeah i think there is a transfer fee like if you live in prescott lakes there is a transfer stream um all sellers have to pay a disclosure fee regardless period end of sentence yeah we all know that but there’s some transfer fees if you’re in an hoa some don’t have it some do and you should also disclose what your ho your quarterly hoa is is it monthly is it annual is it quarterly and there’s always something to know that yeah that’s an important part of their yeah decision they’re like you know i have so much of a budget for my house note how much is my uh hoa going to be because if it’s too much i might have to reconsider and go to a different area all important stuff if you were out there and you’re the buyer and so anyway we’re kind of excited that our local listing service is putting that into effect yes um because sometimes my buyers are here for a short time they want to write that offer up and the hoa is not open until monday yeah if they’re here in a weekend so we can’t give them the answer yes some of the the transfer fees involved are negotiated how are you going to negotiate if you don’t know what they are exactly so uh it this is the was the right thing to do we supported 100 yes and we’re excited yeah we’re excited in our listings we’ve always done this because it’s the it’s the way to do it right if you’re working with buyers you know that uh and and we work with both so uh we’ve kind of always done that we’re glad to see it one thing i will point out if you are a seller this is yet one more thing that has to be done before your home can go live uh generally it’s it from the time you sell a listing agreement until your home is hitting on all cylinders it’s on mls and agents out there are seeing it one or two weeks uh you know the more that the listing agent has to do the longer that takes yep so uh that’s true understand now that uh this is yet one more thing that has to happen and it’s important so we wanted to explain why it’s important and and why uh the rule makes sense so uh yeah good job we’ll be a little more a little more patient as a seller because there are a bunch of things that have to happen absolutely so that is our little tidbit of the day we hope that this helps explain some of the process yeah right absolutely right thank you for listening and give us a call at 713-302-1964 if you need any kind of help or have questions we’re happy to try to answer and help you out we also have uh information site you can find that at pickle411.com whether you are a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of information about prescott the prescott real estate market local restaurants things to do uh things to do with your dog i mean [Music] we just have a lot of fun sharing our wealth of information every time we come across a nugget we put it on that’s right we actually make a list people let’s lose and uh over a month we might have eight topics and we will sit down and film all eight topics one nugget at a time yeah pop in our little brains like that’s something to talk about let’s do it our website is where you need to pan for gold it’s where all the 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Picking the Right Lender
You may have heard that weirdness prevails in the real estate market these days, and nowhere is that more true than with lenders. In short, lenders are struggling right now... big time. In this episode, we discuss some of the major lender fumbles we've seen recently and how you can avoid the nightmare scenarios that have become all too commonplace in real estate transactions because of them.Video Transcript
hello friends this is diana randall bro your local friendly husband and wife realtor team located in prescott arizona she’s depressed pickle lady that’s right i am her sidekick in arms that’s right sidekick have arms i’m not sure i’ll get some water i’ll get some more or at least some tools sidekick but yeah you probably do but tough topic too yeah a tough topic it’s something that um i try and try again some people listen and some people how shall i say i think they know better than mama and that is using an out of state lender so we’ve been having a lot of trouble with lenders um and that’s just i mean the lending process the lending process you know we’re going the whole covet thing and logistic problems and i i don’t know what but we’re finding it very hard to match our buyers with lenders who can close in a timely manner well yeah and this is my biggest pet peeve lately particularly if you use an out of state london oh i have a relationship with them i’ve been with wells fargo for 25 years it doesn’t mean a thing okay you are assuming that when you hand off this loan to somebody to start processing it that you’re going to have your particular banker every step of the way sadly my first month that’s not what happens they’ll have a separate team for that they have a separate team for that so the first person who sells you that loan they’re out of the picture they get their commission and they go off and go sell another loan yeah and then your loan is sold you know it’s passed on to another team and it goes into underwriting well every underwriter they pass on to another person to another person so when you run into a glitch and you call your original person they’re like oh that’s not me anymore now it’s joe and kathy and susie so then you may be hunting down these people who they’ve passed it on to somebody else you never get the same person so consequently um when we have a closing date which by the way is a contractual obligation you’re obligated to close on that date and lenders don’t seem to understand that it’s a contractual obligation and so this is what i tell some of these lenders hello it wasn’t a suggested closing date it’s like underground it’s like under contract this is a legal thing yeah if we’re supposed to close march first you’re supposed to have it all done march first so we’ll get a call from the we’ll get a call from the lender oh good news we got the appraisal scheduled for the fifth like okay we gotta close on the first we’re closing on the first that doesn’t help me yeah so a lot of times you know that’s very frustrating so from the get-go i call these out of state lenders and i say order your appraisal today don’t order it two weeks from now because we’re never going to close on time because a lot this is another thing you should you should know out-of-state lenders have to contact an appraisal uh company of their own in-house and then they that in-house appraisal company says let me get you an appraiser i don’t know who i don’t know anybody in that area but i’ll get one from phoenix what a nightmare because the phoenix appraiser comes up here he looks at it he doesn’t know the press get back i don’t know the market they don’t understand i understand the market to do a decent appraisal that’s correct and i’m sure the same is true you can’t get prescott appraisers and go down right really i mean you gotta know you need to have somebody familiar with it yeah you need to have somebody local who really understands the market understands that that side street is really not a major highway which we’ve gotten that’s not a major highway um so you don’t have to you know detract you know at deduct a hundred thousand dollars that’s not a major yeah we’ve had one it was uh oh well the the comp was uh it’s a good comp but the comp has a view of the golf course and the subject property doesn’t okay the subject property overlooks granite mountain it’s a much better view so you know we try to advise of course we can’t tell you i mean that’s absolutely one hundred percent yeah he should pick the land and you’re right that’s your right to do that but when we gently try to guide you try to find a local lender there’s a reason for that we want you to close on time we don’t want you to arrive in prescott and your house has enclosed and your stuff is in transit in a truck and you have no place to move in yeah and it has happened it has it has happened and then suddenly you’re in a hotel for two weeks while you’re waiting for it to get out of underwriting because they didn’t go into underwriting until five days before your closing date yeah nobody’s going to get you out of underwriting in five days and get the appraisal done in five days it’s just not happening you’ve got sellers that are selling in the seller’s market that may or may not be that’s right uh they may not appreciate your situation yeah they want to close because they’re moving on to their next chapter so when we gently suggest please try a local lender preferably a mortgage banker not a bank like wells fargo or you know one of those uh yeah don’t go with a mortgage broker go with a mortgage lender a mortgage banker they will hold your hand all the way to the end because they don’t get their commission until you close so they are invested they are committed because they would like to get their commission and so keep that in mind it’s not to mind your business or tell you what to do and you know i appreciate you know every person i know who thought they had a great relationship finds out maybe not so much yeah and just to be clear most of the clients that we deal with um they are of retirement age yes and uh they’ve region reached a certain level of success most of them do have personal bankers yes so we’re not oh you know i have a personal banker your other clients probably didn’t know they all have a personal thing and it’s not the personal banker’s fault yeah they’re it’s just their process when you’re with the national bank they set you up they do the initial paperwork and then their process is to pass it on to the other parties and it’s not that they’re bad people yeah or you know well they’re dealing with their process it’s a very it’s a very tough situation at this at this particular moment uh some areas like the california banks are really struggling the northeast banks are really struggling uh we had a we had a broker in the midwest so we figured oh that’s okay she sourced it to a bank in california that was a disaster it’s it’s uh it’s a bad situation right now we try to ride shotgun with the lenders for our transactions for our buyers we don’t know all the ins and outs we’re not lenders we’re not right now we don’t do that for a living i mean we try uh the local people we use here they know how to run rough shot they know how to do it they know how to get it done and it’s best to absolutely let them do that you know your bank may or may not respond to a stupid realtor from prescott arizona yeah i can call my local lender and say hey we gotta is there hold up can you tell me what’s going on what can we help to facilitate so we can close on time and i can get that person right away we can communicate clearly effectively and get the job done whereas if it’s an out of state lender they don’t know me from a hole in the ground and they’re like oh i don’t do that anymore it’s passed on to this person and they can’t really we don’t have that kind of relationship so keep that in mind it’s not to mind your business it’s not to tell you what to do it’s just if you have a particular date in mind that you want to close you want to close and uh local lenders are the way to do it they really try hard and they try to make it happen they know the right and they know the ropes and they also know local appraisers that they can get in and get it done so i’d all share this recently we just had one and we were supposed to close on a friday and they called the day before and said can’t close on friday because that is actually lincoln’s birthday not president’s day the 21st lincoln’s real birthday was february 18th so in california we celebrate uh lincoln’s birthday so we can’t send out any wires yes evidently they only figured this out the the day before the day before on the 17th uh i don’t know if that was really the story or not that declared the holidays so it’s weird things like that weird things out of state lenders will have weird rules i don’t know california’s rule about lincoln’s birthday but apparently on february 18th they don’t send out wires in the state of california and they’re allowed to do that so yeah every day i learned something new and another good example is uh ordering out the appraisals it is a matter of course that uh lenders will order out the appraisal kind of when it’s clear that the home’s gonna inspect yep you know that it’s gonna get get past the inspection period that’s when they’ll do it too late you can’t do that now you can you got to order it right away and if you if that means the lender is going to have to eat the appraisal fee yeah that’s just the cost of it but here’s the thing they don’t eat the appraisal fee they passed on to you they said oh we can’t get the appraiser out so i hope you don’t mind instead of paying six or seven hundred dollars for your appraisal you now have to pay the expedited fee yeah twelve hundred dollars fifteen [Music] they can get it done overnight yeah but you’re gonna pay extra for that so try to go local we have everything local in-house we can get it done it’s nice and smooth and you know typically we close on time about 98 of the time uh out of state um it’s been i can’t promise you it’s been rough lately it’s been rough that’s all we can do is just tell you our experiences with this in the end the your lender choice that you that’s your choice 100 it’s your choice whoever you choose we will do our best to make sure that you close on time uh but we just wanted to share some of our experiences with you some other considerations you may want to yeah just be aware you may not necessarily close on time if you’re going out of state we can do as much as we can try may not happen for you we sure will try i love to nag it’s my favorite thing to do i call every day hey it’s the pickle lady again heard anything yeah heard anything heard anything remember the closing date is not a suggested date yeah we want to close on this day we’ve been struggling with this for the last several months so yeah so we want to share and you should know too because you know we don’t always buy houses every other year sometimes it’s been 20 years and you kind of forget so this is our knowledge we want to share with you absolutely take take away from it whatever you wish but we hope you listen to us [Laughter] more information you can check us out at pickle411.com that is our information site whether you are buy or seller somewhere in between information about lenders and all that kind of stuff about real estate i also got best restaurants to go to and press get things done i’ll love it i’ll live all of it’s there all of it we love to talk about a whole bunch of stuff yeah not all of it’s complaining about linda no that’s right very strong very small just a small percentage all right my friends you guys have a great evening and thanks for listening hope we taught you something new take care bye
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Prescott by the Numbers – March 2022
From the front lines of Prescott-area real estate. See our video summary of the latest market results.
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The Fast Cash Option
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.Video Transcript
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
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Coming Soon: Coming Soon
We've always been one tool short. All over the country, sellers have used a "coming soon" status to let buyers know their homes are going up for sale. But not in Prescott. The local Realtor association has always deemed it a big no-no; that's changing. In this episode, we talk about the policy change and what it will mean to buyers and sellers in the area.Video Transcript
hello hello hello hey peeps welcome back to the preschool pickle lady talk show yeah right we like to call it the wine gum or the wine down because you know we’re winding down we’re not drinking wine yeah [Music] just coffee it’s coffee strong coffee yeah but we are excited to be here today absolutely i am diane and this is randall bro she’s the prescott pickle lady we’re realtors here in prescott arizona that is correct and now we’re excited to be here today because something is changing with the prescott area real estate it’s changing now yep and we’re ver we are super excited something that needed to happen for a long time we are now allowed as realtors to start advertising a little bit ahead of time about coming soon coming soon homes that are about to come in the market yeah so i i don’t know why they’re changing now they were so anti coming soon for so long you can’t do it coming soon you can do coming soon we’ll beat you with a stick well i don’t think they were quite that dramatic but they work for me they knew i was gonna be the i was gonna be the one i don’t know i i i it was it was uh it was a strong position that they were taking uh in most areas of the country they do do come soon your house is about to go on the market in about a week you can start marketing and putting a sign out there that says coming soon and everything else but we were not allowed until march 1st march 1st 2022 march 1st we can start doing that so when you list a home it’s a process you know the seller says okay go and at that point things start happening so you’ve got to get a post in place you got to get your sign in place you got to get the mls uh form written up you got pictures taken before you do the pictures you got to stage the house or do any kind of cleanup and it’s a process and usually it takes a week sometimes two to kind you like to do a drone too yeah we do a drone yeah so we’ve got a lot of moving parts that need to come into play before it can actually hit mls and uh traditionally during that time we would be calling our buyers and telling them it’s coming but that’s really all we could do we couldn’t do any more than that that’s right but now we’re super exciting fast we do have a coming soon yeah we do we have a coming soon and it’s going to be a great house out in prescott valley valley yeah four bedrooms yeah two baths big yard no waitre all newly redone all new completely renovated completely renovated really really nice very conveniently located uh yeah you need to call us so uh we still can’t even do coming soon for this one because we don’t even have one picture uh no but we are in the process we may end up doing uh you know a week in advance coming soon or something like that uh the renovation still isn’t completely done uh but we’re excited about that that gives us an opportunity to have other agents uh beginning to think about the home before it actually hits the market people coming in town uh can plan around better you know that’s what i want to see uh so once we get the front of the home shot you know just the the basic exterior and uh you know we’ll we’ll put it coming soon up on that that’s right yeah and in the meantime you know don’t be afraid to just calm wah it’s a reference to uh when harry mentioned good job i was wondering if you would remember give me a call you know because it’s a great it’s a great family house for starting you know if you’re just starting out it’s going to be a great rental yeah um but i help a little bit with the very low inventories that we’ve been having for buyers uh you know they help out the buyers a little bit when they can kind of see some things that are coming so we’re excited about the new policy very excited aggressive about trying out some some new tactics using it so that’s right so we wanted to share that with you um some of my past clients and you know maybe future clients when we’re talking about a listing i would always be like i can’t put a sign up yet i just can’t yeah um and we never could understand it and we agree with you yeah um we didn’t understand either but now we can um effective march 1st and we are fully ready to take advantage oh yeah yeah absolutely very psyched so if you are interested in listing your home anytime in the near future and you’re excited about coming soon give us a call we’re happy to help you with your listing um we’re happy to get you started um look out for us in in this house in pv right oh yeah pv is what we call it here the locals from prescott valley um give us a call at 713-302-1964 we’ll give you more details yeah if you’re looking for good information a place to start is pickle411.com that is our informational site we call it the prescott relocation center in particular if you’re a buyer or seller lots of information for you if you’re buy or sellers somewhere in between lots of information about prescott what’s going on about real estate just life in general and life in general that’s what we’re gonna go for that’s what we’re all about life in general teaching you educating you specific things about life in general well sometimes yes sometimes it’s just malarkey yeah foolishness and malarkey yeah it just depends on how the mood hits us whatever i like we don’t like to be too serious no we want to do a good job for you but also at the same time keep it light easy and breezy breezy that’s right
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Matchy Matchy
Need to match a color... exactly? Maybe you need to touch up a section of your house that's faded, or you want to integrate a color in your favorite throw pillow into your overall room design. Well, we've found just the thing: our favorite new gadget from our favorite paint store in Prescott.Video Transcript
good morning good morning
this is diane bro i’m with my partner my
domestic partner randall bro yeah i’m
also her husband it’s a domestic part i
mean we sound like a dog yeah
you know it sounds cooler and hipper
like yeah the millennium domesticated
this is my domestic
partner yeah that’s right she’s a big
lady uh we’re realtors here in prescott
arizona correct bringing good jobs to
things that have to do with real estate
and life in general in the
thriving little town of prescott arizona
that’s right
our little lovely town so this is
something new we discovered and we had
so much fun we’re like oh my gosh where
was this technology we love love love
love this we were helping a client
uh they had a few little stucco repairs
that had to be done
and of course the stucco had been on
about five or six years so sometimes the
paint color outside will fade over time
and we were like how are we going to
match this paint now yeah you know
because it’s it’s faded
and uh
mr bro here found something really cool
at the paint store so you know the thing
about the house is the sun doesn’t hit
the house evenly yeah so not only
was the the color different than the
color that was in the can in the garage
because it had faded but it had faded
differently in different spots of the
home yes and so i had to match the color
and you know so you get the color
swatches
and i actually did really well i i
matched one part of the house very well
he did not so much on the other side
hard yeah i found this little uh this
little device you can get it at the
paint store which is the which one we
went to sherwood
shout out to sherlock mines yeah they
give great customer service they really
they really do they’ll help you to your
dying breath they’re like yeah they’ve
got a number of pain stores here in town
uh but i found that they are really very
they’re the best they’re very uh
proactive and really real estate agents
spend a lot of time
we’re not just showing you how much you
wouldn’t believe the other many caps
that we have yeah we wear a lot of caps
this is a color matcher so
yeah so there is a gadget they call it
uh smart scan
i’ll have to look up the name of it or
whatever but how much was it like ninety
dollars no well not even that i think i
paid maybe 60 70 bucks
for this little gadget that i connects
to your phone
uh through bluetooth i believe
and you you scan it and it will give you
the number of the closest
matching color that showroom williams um
sells it’s like a miracle really it
really is because we’re like i don’t
even know they don’t even have the
original paint to this house anymore
what are we supposed to do how can we
figure this out without having the house
look polka dotted yeah with the wrong
color paint and we discovered the guy
said you you should try this it’s this
little gadget and he was telling me
about the gadget and i’m thinking yeah
it’s going to be you know 500 or
something it’s not it’s not it’s amazing
it’s pretty easy to use if you’re not a
high-tech person you can hit us up we’ll
try to give you some guidance
but it’s not wasn’t that hard to figure
out yeah
you know not only is it good for man
that’s usually we’re matching pink
that’s usually what the issue is there’s
been a uh there’s been some sun
uh but let’s say you are decorating yep
and you have a pillow
that you love and you would like to
match
one of the colors in your floral pillow
and make a feature wall of that color
you know you can pick out one little
tiny spot on the pillow match that color
into a feature wall yeah so
from a design perspective is really
interesting uh what you can do in
matching colors so it’s an amazing
little gadget and not that expensive
and well worth it so for all of our
people moving here if you’re like you
know like what he said i want to change
the color of this wall and match it to
my new sofa or i want to do uh match the
existing color but i just need to touch
up a little area how do i find that this
is the gadget for you and sure williams
also has technology that allows you to
get sort of a
virtually paint a room to see what the
room would look like painted yeah that’s
cool too yeah i i played a little bit i
know less about that i have seen it
around
but yeah they’re doing some really cool
things with color so i’m sure
so if you’re moving here give us a call
and you want to do some painting and
you’re like tell me about that thing
again we’ll help you we’ll show you what
it looks like how it works
um it’s been very instrumental and
really saved a lot of expense and buying
gallons of paint that didn’t match and
then you got to go start over again
so uh something we learned and we wanted
to share this uh tip
i don’t know if it’s a design tip a
listing tip but i’m not gonna it’s all
of it but color matching can be a
powerful thing color matching can be a
beautiful powerful thing
there’s no denying it
having had to buy a 50 gallon of paint
and it didn’t match good match i wish i
had this little gadget it would have
been amazing
so anyway if you are looking to list or
buy a house give randall and i call we
are at pickle411.com
we have all kinds of information about
life here in prescott as well as our
contact information we would love to
help you and we’d love to help you get
one of these color matching doodads yeah
to get you started you might want to
check out pickle411.com
that is our free information center all
things prescott all things real estate
yep and uh
insightful and mildly entertaining
somewhat insightful yeah somewhat i
don’t know if it’s more entertaining or
more insightful i think it’s 50 50.
somewhere in between all those things
we try you’ll enjoy we try we can only
do the best we can people
all right nice to see you and we hope
you have a good day and we hope to hear
from you soon take care bye
this is diane bro i’m with my partner my
domestic partner randall bro yeah i’m
also her husband it’s a domestic part i
mean we sound like a dog yeah
you know it sounds cooler and hipper
like yeah the millennium domesticated
this is my domestic
partner yeah that’s right she’s a big
lady uh we’re realtors here in prescott
arizona correct bringing good jobs to
things that have to do with real estate
and life in general in the
thriving little town of prescott arizona
that’s right
our little lovely town so this is
something new we discovered and we had
so much fun we’re like oh my gosh where
was this technology we love love love
love this we were helping a client
uh they had a few little stucco repairs
that had to be done
and of course the stucco had been on
about five or six years so sometimes the
paint color outside will fade over time
and we were like how are we going to
match this paint now yeah you know
because it’s it’s faded
and uh
mr bro here found something really cool
at the paint store so you know the thing
about the house is the sun doesn’t hit
the house evenly yeah so not only
was the the color different than the
color that was in the can in the garage
because it had faded but it had faded
differently in different spots of the
home yes and so i had to match the color
and you know so you get the color
swatches
and i actually did really well i i
matched one part of the house very well
he did not so much on the other side
hard yeah i found this little uh this
little device you can get it at the
paint store which is the which one we
went to sherwood
shout out to sherlock mines yeah they
give great customer service they really
they really do they’ll help you to your
dying breath they’re like yeah they’ve
got a number of pain stores here in town
uh but i found that they are really very
they’re the best they’re very uh
proactive and really real estate agents
spend a lot of time
we’re not just showing you how much you
wouldn’t believe the other many caps
that we have yeah we wear a lot of caps
this is a color matcher so
yeah so there is a gadget they call it
uh smart scan
i’ll have to look up the name of it or
whatever but how much was it like ninety
dollars no well not even that i think i
paid maybe 60 70 bucks
for this little gadget that i connects
to your phone
uh through bluetooth i believe
and you you scan it and it will give you
the number of the closest
matching color that showroom williams um
sells it’s like a miracle really it
really is because we’re like i don’t
even know they don’t even have the
original paint to this house anymore
what are we supposed to do how can we
figure this out without having the house
look polka dotted yeah with the wrong
color paint and we discovered the guy
said you you should try this it’s this
little gadget and he was telling me
about the gadget and i’m thinking yeah
it’s going to be you know 500 or
something it’s not it’s not it’s amazing
it’s pretty easy to use if you’re not a
high-tech person you can hit us up we’ll
try to give you some guidance
but it’s not wasn’t that hard to figure
out yeah
you know not only is it good for man
that’s usually we’re matching pink
that’s usually what the issue is there’s
been a uh there’s been some sun
uh but let’s say you are decorating yep
and you have a pillow
that you love and you would like to
match
one of the colors in your floral pillow
and make a feature wall of that color
you know you can pick out one little
tiny spot on the pillow match that color
into a feature wall yeah so
from a design perspective is really
interesting uh what you can do in
matching colors so it’s an amazing
little gadget and not that expensive
and well worth it so for all of our
people moving here if you’re like you
know like what he said i want to change
the color of this wall and match it to
my new sofa or i want to do uh match the
existing color but i just need to touch
up a little area how do i find that this
is the gadget for you and sure williams
also has technology that allows you to
get sort of a
virtually paint a room to see what the
room would look like painted yeah that’s
cool too yeah i i played a little bit i
know less about that i have seen it
around
but yeah they’re doing some really cool
things with color so i’m sure
so if you’re moving here give us a call
and you want to do some painting and
you’re like tell me about that thing
again we’ll help you we’ll show you what
it looks like how it works
um it’s been very instrumental and
really saved a lot of expense and buying
gallons of paint that didn’t match and
then you got to go start over again
so uh something we learned and we wanted
to share this uh tip
i don’t know if it’s a design tip a
listing tip but i’m not gonna it’s all
of it but color matching can be a
powerful thing color matching can be a
beautiful powerful thing
there’s no denying it
having had to buy a 50 gallon of paint
and it didn’t match good match i wish i
had this little gadget it would have
been amazing
so anyway if you are looking to list or
buy a house give randall and i call we
are at pickle411.com
we have all kinds of information about
life here in prescott as well as our
contact information we would love to
help you and we’d love to help you get
one of these color matching doodads yeah
to get you started you might want to
check out pickle411.com
that is our free information center all
things prescott all things real estate
yep and uh
insightful and mildly entertaining
somewhat insightful yeah somewhat i
don’t know if it’s more entertaining or
more insightful i think it’s 50 50.
somewhere in between all those things
we try you’ll enjoy we try we can only
do the best we can people
all right nice to see you and we hope
you have a good day and we hope to hear
from you soon take care bye
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Big Personalities Beware
Charming, loving family homes are very personalized - and often very hard to sell. In our continuing series on home staging, we explain why that is and what you should do about it to capture top value for your home. Check it out!Video Transcript
yeah we gotta make sure we’re recording these sometimes that happens folks yeah we just we do uh some of our best episodes one of our best episodes we’re not recorded and then he comes upstairs oh my god by the way uh we weren’t recording yeah hello hello you’re seeing a little behind the scenes behind the scenes stuff she’s the pickle lady that’s right i am her partner in crime and uh we are here in prescott arizona real estate agents uh extraordinaire correct yeah i am diane this is randall grove we are happy to uh help you guys out when you come visit if you’re looking for a home happy to help you list if you’re ready to do that yeah so we’re doing we’re we’re doing seller tips we have a series of seller tips and we wanted to focus on staging yeah uh and staging tips when you’re trying to sell your home as i’ve said before uh professional staging is not that big a deal here in prescott there’s not a lot of that going on there’s some yeah not a lot of that for the most part the sellers themselves or their agents are responsible for staging the home but just because no one’s paying money to have it professionally done does not mean it is not important it is vitally so it is and it’s necessary absolutely so this little staging tip is all about depersonalization depersonalization yes when people come in they don’t want to see i have pictures i know uh pictures of your family your children your daughters your wedding you and your wedding dress this that and the other i am so guilty of this yes i consider my daughters my own works of art yes so i’ve got beautiful portraits of them when they were four beautiful portraits of them when they were 18 it goes on and on and on i am the biggest one guilty of this but when i go to sell it’s all coming down when we go over to someone’s house uh just you know socially and their house isn’t personalized it’s kind of creepy yeah i don’t like you go in you don’t see any pictures of them or i think that’s with their children it’s like this person must be in witness protection yeah something i’m a little suspicious a little suspicious so we like homes that are warm and personalized and that the personal touch with all the pictures there’s nothing to say there’s anything wrong with decorating decorating your home in a personalized way it’s just when it comes time to sell that can get involved some of that needs to come down not all of it you keep a cute little picture tucked here and there yeah that still gives the warmth of hey this is a nice family home yeah we’ve had a good time here we’ve got good memories it gives good juju yeah but if it’s too too much of it yeah then people can’t see past my family moving in here this is where i could hang my portraits yes this is where i could hang my grandchildren’s pictures yes so if you’re covered with all of your stuff and it’s too much of it they can’t see past it and they can’t see themselves we want them to get an emotional connection to your home i’ve got to live here my family would be so happy here so a couple of points there first of all uh the reason why you do this is that uh the reason why stage in general is that people do not make rational decisions in buying a home they make emotional decisions they do and buying a home and you may say oh they can look past all my stuff where they could you know they could go home and photoshop it all out you know or they could you know do it in their own minds but what we’re telling you is they don’t in practice they don’t that’s not how they make decisions uh most people unlike investors most people most buyers will make an emotional gut decision in connecting with a home and if your personalized stuff doesn’t connect with them it’s going to get in the way of that process and they’re not going to connect with your home and they’re not going to want to move forward that’s true the other thing to kind of de-personalize is besides you know family photos or you know is anything that of religious nature that’s if you are overtly you know if you’ve got a lot of religious or even i hate to say it patriotic yes um which i don’t agree with but um yeah i mean we have religious stuff in our home we have oh you know that’s how we personalize our home right some people it could be that they are not religious correct it could be that they have a religion that is different than yours right and it’s not like they say oh you know i would say i’m jewish and all these crosses are around or vice versa and they say well you know i don’t i don’t like all these crosses i don’t like this house they won’t even be able to articulate it correct they just won’t connect with the house they won’t even be able to explain why there was something about the house that just didn’t feel right right you know and that’s what we’re trying to avoid absolutely i mean i have all of that i love it all i have buddhas i have catholic things i have dude jewish thing yeah i like to cover my bases i have it all i i want to make sure i got i have crystals you name it yeah i have a very eclectic home yeah i will say it’s very clever but that may not connect with a lot of people and it won’t they may be like what does she have some weird stuff weird stuff that was a weird house and i’ll be the first one to open it it is so i agree you know so when i do go to sell i will remove some of those items just because again we want it to be a clean slate yeah that people can see you know their special things coming in their special photos right uh portraits and things like that a quick rule of thumb when it comes to family pictures so if you go to a place like say michael’s and you buy picture frames most of the picture frames will have pictures in them yep you know showing you you know this is where you would put your family but they’re kind of sort of generic looking family photos if you don’t have a lot of family photos and it just looks like a family there’s nothing particularly different like it it could be the picture that they put in the frames at michael’s and sell the to sell the frame if that’s the case then it’s probably not so personalized that you need to get rid of it but if it’s you know like uh halloween costumes or something just kind of strange that you wouldn’t see at michael’s then you probably need to yeah yeah that is just keep it light keep it simple keep it not too crazy like my house and you’ll do just fine but the most important thing out of all of this is when your agent is nicely suggesting hey you know you might want to remove this you might don’t not argue but don’t get defensive don’t be insulted it’s not meant in that way at all it’s just having done this thousands of times and helping people find their place and the feedback we get back we know what your house will be tagged about it’ll be like oh gosh did you see that that was terrible and so just listen to us ahead of time and save yourself a lot of heartache yeah and it may not be fun to hear and it may be i’m not really comfortable i understand i mean i get tagged myself so it’s a it’s a pain but we’re telling you it will put money in your pocket it will put money in your pocket and it will save you uh you know have the house sold pretty quickly so it’s all in your best interest too personal absolutely in your best interest so depersonalize depersonalize depersonalize and when someone suggested like we suggested to you just take it with a good heart and say okay thanks all right good points here if you look for more good points you might want to go to pickle411.com yep that is our information center everything there is free highly entertaining and insightful yep it’s one awards no it hasn’t won awards not yet we’re waiting for an award i feel like it’s coming yeah the pickle i just have a pickle or something it’s coming yeah we feel it i think it’s coming i feel it yeah all right and if you’re watching this we want to wish you a happy new year happy new year to you because uh 2022 i think it’s just going to be amazing for everybody we’re going to turn this around turn this ship around and everybody’s going to be the ship chip oh i thought you said something else no okay no you could turn that other thing around too well yeah i’m done with that yeah it has been pretty good yeah so i would agree but we’re going to turn that ship around 2022 is going to be amazing yep i just feel it it’s going to be a good start for all of us so here’s to a happy healthy and prosperous 2022 and give us a call to sell your home and we’ll give you some more tips in person that’s right all right take care bye
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Why Color Can Cost You Big Money
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!Video Transcript
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
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Simplifying to Sell
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!Video Transcript
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
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Escalating Things
In this episode we discuss an approach to making competitive bid situations more fair and effective for everyone. No, it's not an auction. It's simpler and getting more and more popular in the Prescott real estate market.Video Transcript
what’s up what’s going on folks randall and diane bro here uh we are so excited to have our next little episode of prescott pickle lady press completely [Music] yeah that’s what we like to do we have a lot of fun and sometimes i’m out in a store and somebody will come up to me and say are you the pickle lady yes i am and i’m like what did i do and they’re like oh my gosh i watch your windows i love them they make me laugh and i’ve learned a lot so some are interesting some are just fun some we try to educate you but we try to bring something to the table every time every time every time this time we’re talking about escalation escalation clause weren’t used too much uh two years ago didn’t have to yeah a contract with an escalation clause and a lot of times the agent would call me back and say what is this what does it mean but in this crazy moment everyone’s learned about escalation it’s heavily employed heavily employed so just say very important just so you know an escalation clause uh so so you you offer a certain price on a house and then you have an escalation clause so let’s say you offer you know five hundred thousand dollars on a home and you are in you expect that you’re going to be in a competitive situation you definitely want the house but you don’t want to pay more than let’s say 550. so you could do an escalation clause you know i will beat uh you know we will beat any offer uh by a thousand dollars up to and including 550 000. and so that way if there are other offers that are less than 550 you’ll get it and you only have to pay a thousand dollars over the best alternative offer right and so it kind of it takes a static situation and turns it into kind of an auction correct yeah and people will get you know multiple off what we at one point we’re getting you know tons and tons of offers on we might get 10 offers on one house and like three of them will have an escalation right and that kind of separates you out of the others and gives you a little bit more winning room like okay somebody came in at five 550 but you have an escalation clause to 555. so with a thousand over so you might be able to beat them out you know even by a thousand dollars which is really important yeah in this crazy market yeah in this crazy market you don’t want to pay any more than you have to right and it’s really it’s the most fair to do it as an auction uh obviously it’s better for buyers who really want the house but they don’t want to pay any more than they have to but it’s also in the best interest of sellers because a lot of people you know they don’t want to just stick their necks out and offer a whole lot of money but they are willing to participate in what would be an auction and if they feel oh yes it was very competitive and i do have to do my top dollar they feel uh they feel comfortable doing that right a lot of people like some some agents uh some listing agents will say no escalation clauses and i really believe that is a disservice to their sellers because you know our experience is a lot of buyers will say well in that case i’m not gonna i’m not gonna offer anything uh even even buyers who really have a lot of money to spend like they could be the top offer right but they’re not willing to just go 100 000 over asking price without knowing how competitive and that is one key thing to remember so don’t be alarmed if you do an escalation clause and you say okay um i’m going to put an offer in a 490. i’m willing to escalate a thousand over 500 000 and you you you put your offer and everything and then somebody else comes along that might beat it but they have to present that other contract yes so you’re not tied into i know i said i would go up to 500 000. if the other contract you know yeah they can’t just come back and say oh no well we’re gonna take your 550. well then you’re going to show me right you know another offer for 449 right because and then you otherwise we the escalation clause doesn’t kick in and and the clause does say that it says as demonstrated by uh so don’t feel like okay i’m putting an offer in but i’m doing this escalation but i’m really kind of hooked into this escalation and i’m just going to overpay anyway not so yeah they have to present the other offer and see where that one came in yeah so in other markets where uh there are a lot of buyers present in the market at any one time let’s say phoenix a lot of people living in phoenix and buying in phoenix all at the same time auctions work in cities like that you know because everyone’s kind of there they can follow the auction um prescott you know a lot of the people who might be participating in the offers they might not be in town uh right you know auctions have not really taken off here like they have in phoenix uh but we’re doing escalation clauses it’s kind of our alternative right and i think it’s smart i think it’s a good way to do it it kind of gives you a little extra advantage a little more uh you can be a little more competitive yeah so if you’re open to it and you have a final bottom line this is really truly how i want to go sometimes it works and it works in your favor yeah and it’s a very useful tool very useful tool okay so that is our little saga on escalation they work they can be good and help you separate yourself from the the rest of the crowd okay if you guys are looking to buy a home or you’d like to list your home please feel free to reach out to randall and i yep you can find her at 713-302-1964 i also bought you a 928 number but i don’t know it yet yeah yeah not too late or reach us at piccolo 44111.com lots of online information lots of information check it out check it out let’s go i’m checking you up yeah i’m checking you out right now i’m escalating yeah okay that is all for today’s lesson and we hope to see you next week absolutely
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Animals at Your Service
Exotic pets can be all fun and games... unless you run afoul of the latest real estate laws on what's allowed and what's required of buyers, sellers, and their agents. In this episode the Pickle Lady reveals all the latest updates, so you can be sure to not step in that.Video Transcript
what’s up hello peeps this is diane and
randall bro here she used pickle lady
we’re in prescott arizona yes the lovely
brisket arizona talking about life and
real estate life in real estate and with
our little pickle mugs
that’s right coffee mug waiting for it
looks like a little monsoon might be
coming in
again which would be so nice
great monsoon season this year
absolutely
so today we kind of went to talk about
something uh service animal
rules service animal rules yeah and this
is very interesting
there are service animals which you just
think would be a dog correct
um but you were wrong it’s dogs as well
as miniature that’s right miniature
horses miniature horses so when it’s
service
what constitutes a service animal does
it have to just give you emotional no no
no no those are two different things
okay there are service animals and those
are highly highly trained
um
animals uh it could be dogs or your
miniature pony if that’s what you have
uh which apparently they’re supposed to
be super super smart and they’re just as
trainable as a dog and they are house
broken
they are everything but anyway a service
animal really serves its owner these are
people that it will help guide them it
can sense if a seizure is coming on it
can sense if um you’re about to faint
whatever and they will if you do fall
they will go and seek help
um they guide you they lead you uh
they’re they’re totally there to serve
their owner who whatever in whatever
capacity they may need see i don’t need
one of those
i keep you just in case you know i need
any help i i am i am the servant she is
yeah
so uh when it comes to
looking for homes uh and you bring your
if you have a service animal your animal
or your miniature horse has to be
allowed it has to be allowed it has to
be allowed 100 when you’re going into a
home
um that is permissible the difference
what you were talking about emotional
support animals that’s a little
different
um they are those are more varied it can
even be a ferret it can be a little pot
belly pig it can be a cat
some people have snakes i can’t imagine
that being emotionally supportive but
hey i’m no offense to you people who
love snakes and lizards and all that
good stuff
um but uh
those critters
those uh you have to have a certificate
that it’s an emotional support animal
and if you wanted to rent or rent a
place they have to allow those animals
into your into the rental into the
rental that’s you you know you’re
allowed to do that
um but it’s not mandated so
it’s just kind of interesting that
you know
they can let you bring them in
um you have to be very careful as long
as they are not a threat okay as long as
they’re not uh danger a danger to other
you know other people surrounding
neighbors
like a snake
correct
so it’s just kind of interesting yeah
service animals really just do more
performing for their so if you are a
seller
and someone requests is showing yeah
your agent is obligated to let their
service animal through now can you ask
for
i assume you can ask for documentation
no uh service animals will have it on
there should have it on their collar and
everything emotional support no they’re
not gonna you don’t have to so you don’t
have to let an emotional support animal
in but you do have to let the service
out yes you have to you have to obey
so it’s just something kind of
interesting a little
differentiation um
but we all love our pets all of our pets
so uh just to be clear
if you are
a seller and your listing age you are
the listing agent
uh refuses to let the service
miniature pony
into your house um you could get sued
you could get in trouble for that
yeah get in trouble with license trouble
and stuff like that because it’s not an
option this is not an option that is
correct
it’s not an option um for people who
want to rent though you do have to
accept your emotional support animals as
well as long as they’re not aggressive
threatening or anything else and uh
you’re not even required if you’re
renting and you have an emotional
support animal you will not have to pay
the extra pet deposit
oh yeah
yeah
so just make sure that’s deposited from
yeah service animal
or the emotional support both
both yeah so just be sure that your
emotional support animal is is sweet and
taming yeah
and you’ll be good to go
and so yeah if you want to anybody out
there who has a service dog or a service
pony we would love to help you
we would love it i’d love to see you get
your service pony into your show
absolutely yeah i don’t know if i have a
place to put a service pony in the van
but uh we’ll try we’ll try to figure it
out absolutely
so new rules times are changing
just wanted to share that with all of
you guys
so lots of information if you’re looking
for yeah they look for more information
a great place to look including i guess
service animals and the rules and
everything pickle 411.com is our online
connection to you whether you’re a buyer
seller somewhere in between or you can
call the pickle lady hotline at
713-302-1964
you got it
give us a call we’ll be happy to help
you we take all pets that’s right all
service animals all emotional we’re here
for you the pickle lady also gives
emotional support during the buying and
selling process
yes that’s why she’s alive i could be
like your own personal sometimes
emotional support and i’m happy to do
that
absolutely i don’t even need a
certificate yeah i’m okay i’ll i’ll i’ll
try to fill that capacity in whatever
way i can
i’m getting one of those pigs oh
yeah i like a little pig too that’d be
cute
i always wonder what but then you gotta
be careful because sometimes they’re not
so miniature they end up tricking you
yeah and then they get to be 400 pounds
and you’re like what has happened
delicious
yeah you could have a couch on uh
yeah yeah which is
uh
suckling pig suckling pig
barbecued over a fire pit
it’s a louisiana thing folks
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Real Estate Twilight Zone
We've been getting lots of questions about homes in Prescott that are "Active with Contingency." It's a state of nature that can only be found within the confines of the Prescott-area MLS. In this episode, we explain this eerie twilight state and how it came to be.Video Transcript
good afternoon my little fellow pickle
peeps out there hello peeps cheers to
you
can you see my lady yeah we got our
green screen ready coffee mugs now yes
won’t bore holes into us anymore that’s
right although i’m wearing green stripes
i think you’ll be okay
we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see
today we wanted to talk about something
that we get a lot of phone calls about
and it is
i think this house is still available it
says active with contingency
with contingency it’s really kind of the
bane of our existence it really is all
right so so just to be clear there’s no
such thing
as active with a contingency that does
not exist that’s like saying
dead and breathing
that’s a contradiction of terms you
can’t have a contingency
unless there’s a contract right and if
there’s a contract it’s not active it’s
not active
um so in the olden days this used to
just be called plano pending
and everybody knew what that meant it’s
under contract and sometimes they put in
there uh we are taking backups but
essentially was a done deal yeah now
they’ve changed it you know we can still
use pending occasionally but it’s a cash
deal and they know it’s going forward
yeah so just to be clear what this is
about is a complete screw-up
uh on our uh a local association
they redesigned the menu pull down
i have been doing computer programming
since i was in eighth grade
and i have never seen menus so poorly
designed and create more confusion
than these it is confusing it’s um i
think they had the best of intentions
they did they did but it doesn’t
translate well yeah so let’s talk a
little bit about what the reality is
like what what are the different
statuses
of a contract in real estate so
it’s not complicated either it’s active
on the market right or for sale yeah for
sale
or it’s pending which means there’s
contract yeah that’s right it’s either
active or compended or pending right and
that’s kind of it
uh so it used to be you had active you
had pending and you had pending taking
backup
meaning we already have an offer but if
you want to put in a backup offer you
can do that yeah and everyone understood
that it was pretty simple it was pretty
simple
uh there is another another shade of
this and that is uh
pending but there’s a buyer contingency
so if there’s a buyer contingency and
you have
say a cash offer or an offer without a
contingency that’s right uh you can
knock out that’s right the offer that’s
there you you can approach the seller
and the seller has the option of uh
telling the current buyer with the
contingency look you either either have
to get rid of the contingency or you’re
out and you can take your owner’s money
that’s correct so i guess what par was
trying to do
was to let people see if if there was a
contingency if there was any opening
yeah that you might wiggle in yeah and
so really all they had to do was add
pending with contingency yeah uh and
instead they created active with
contingency which as i said is a
contradiction in terms
and instead of just putting it all on
one drop down menu they’re two drop down
yes uh so you have to check the other
one i it’s it’s oh my god it’s um it’s
pretty bad
so active with contingency essentially
means pending yeah
and and actually it means it needs a
little more than that right now very few
people are taking contingencies so if
you if you see active with contingency
essentially that means pending with a
backup
right you can’t you can’t take a backup
and you can’t set it in mls so if you
want to you’re the listing agent and you
want to accept backups you have to call
it active with contingency and there’s a
separate field i forgot what the
separate field is and it will say take
it back up so take them back up the only
way you can say pending and sometimes
thinking back up is using this crazy
active brand and sometimes it will
indicate uh buyer contingency which you
kind of gives you to go ahead like hey
if you guys have cash we might be able
to wiggle in here which is that’s kind
of nice to know yeah
so if you consider think about
active with contingency just translate
that in your mind it means
pending taking backup essentially and
you can check the other field to see if
there’s a contingency involved right now
they’re they’re basically they’re really
aren’t yeah
no one’s accepting contingencies
um especially buyers contingencies
absolutely not you know what i mean it’s
just it’s too hot of a market friends
there’s something something about
having something in print
on a website though
that people think it’s real yeah whether
it’s zillow or it’s this active with
with contingent well it says active with
contingency well let me explain with
that but it says i know so don’t get
confused although it is confusing it’s
very good um just take it to me it’s
pretty much pending and
that door is closed yeah
yeah well unless you want to put in a
backup offer yeah you can always do a
backup offer and of course if you are
cash and it has a uh it does have a
condition you know yeah then you might
be able to then you might be in there
but that happens very few and far
between yeah and when you see the you
know hundreds of
pending uh
contracts uh uh transactions
that all say active with contingency
what is going on in prescott yes what’s
going on is they have people in charge
of menu design that really just kind of
don’t know
and uh you know it’s everything here is
pretty much sold sold sold so yeah
so if you get in here and you want to
put an offer in make sure your house
number one is at the very least on the
market number two it’s even better if
you have a contract on it with a firm
close of escrow and number three the
best of the best would be if you’re
already sold and closed and you’re ready
to move forward then you get in here you
see something get that offer in toronto
yeah pronto because time is a wasting
something to be said for for backup
offers too although it’s gotten better
uh when the market really started
getting crazy we saw a lot of
transactions falling out
and the the number of transactions that
are falling out of uh out of escrow is
still higher than it normally was right
but it’s it’s it’s lowered quite a bit
but still you know backup offer might be
a good idea
so don’t let that throw you we will find
you one we will hunt down one that
doesn’t say active with contingency
that’s right that’s just plain old
active no active and ready to go and
we’ll make it happen for you as
hopefully as quick as we can
so uh anyway come on in come visit us
uh you can reach us at
at an 713-302-1964 we’ll spend a great
day going all around town looking at
some great properties and hopefully
we’ll write a contract for you on an
active property on an active property
you can also find information at
pickle411.com
that’s right our website whether you buy
or seller somewhere in between all kinds
of free information
very useful yeah check out pickle411.
411.com cheers to that
okay everyone out there have a great
rest of your day
and uh i hope to see you soon bye
peeps out there hello peeps cheers to
you
can you see my lady yeah we got our
green screen ready coffee mugs now yes
won’t bore holes into us anymore that’s
right although i’m wearing green stripes
i think you’ll be okay
we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see
today we wanted to talk about something
that we get a lot of phone calls about
and it is
i think this house is still available it
says active with contingency
with contingency it’s really kind of the
bane of our existence it really is all
right so so just to be clear there’s no
such thing
as active with a contingency that does
not exist that’s like saying
dead and breathing
that’s a contradiction of terms you
can’t have a contingency
unless there’s a contract right and if
there’s a contract it’s not active it’s
not active
um so in the olden days this used to
just be called plano pending
and everybody knew what that meant it’s
under contract and sometimes they put in
there uh we are taking backups but
essentially was a done deal yeah now
they’ve changed it you know we can still
use pending occasionally but it’s a cash
deal and they know it’s going forward
yeah so just to be clear what this is
about is a complete screw-up
uh on our uh a local association
they redesigned the menu pull down
i have been doing computer programming
since i was in eighth grade
and i have never seen menus so poorly
designed and create more confusion
than these it is confusing it’s um i
think they had the best of intentions
they did they did but it doesn’t
translate well yeah so let’s talk a
little bit about what the reality is
like what what are the different
statuses
of a contract in real estate so
it’s not complicated either it’s active
on the market right or for sale yeah for
sale
or it’s pending which means there’s
contract yeah that’s right it’s either
active or compended or pending right and
that’s kind of it
uh so it used to be you had active you
had pending and you had pending taking
backup
meaning we already have an offer but if
you want to put in a backup offer you
can do that yeah and everyone understood
that it was pretty simple it was pretty
simple
uh there is another another shade of
this and that is uh
pending but there’s a buyer contingency
so if there’s a buyer contingency and
you have
say a cash offer or an offer without a
contingency that’s right uh you can
knock out that’s right the offer that’s
there you you can approach the seller
and the seller has the option of uh
telling the current buyer with the
contingency look you either either have
to get rid of the contingency or you’re
out and you can take your owner’s money
that’s correct so i guess what par was
trying to do
was to let people see if if there was a
contingency if there was any opening
yeah that you might wiggle in yeah and
so really all they had to do was add
pending with contingency yeah uh and
instead they created active with
contingency which as i said is a
contradiction in terms
and instead of just putting it all on
one drop down menu they’re two drop down
yes uh so you have to check the other
one i it’s it’s oh my god it’s um it’s
pretty bad
so active with contingency essentially
means pending yeah
and and actually it means it needs a
little more than that right now very few
people are taking contingencies so if
you if you see active with contingency
essentially that means pending with a
backup
right you can’t you can’t take a backup
and you can’t set it in mls so if you
want to you’re the listing agent and you
want to accept backups you have to call
it active with contingency and there’s a
separate field i forgot what the
separate field is and it will say take
it back up so take them back up the only
way you can say pending and sometimes
thinking back up is using this crazy
active brand and sometimes it will
indicate uh buyer contingency which you
kind of gives you to go ahead like hey
if you guys have cash we might be able
to wiggle in here which is that’s kind
of nice to know yeah
so if you consider think about
active with contingency just translate
that in your mind it means
pending taking backup essentially and
you can check the other field to see if
there’s a contingency involved right now
they’re they’re basically they’re really
aren’t yeah
no one’s accepting contingencies
um especially buyers contingencies
absolutely not you know what i mean it’s
just it’s too hot of a market friends
there’s something something about
having something in print
on a website though
that people think it’s real yeah whether
it’s zillow or it’s this active with
with contingent well it says active with
contingency well let me explain with
that but it says i know so don’t get
confused although it is confusing it’s
very good um just take it to me it’s
pretty much pending and
that door is closed yeah
yeah well unless you want to put in a
backup offer yeah you can always do a
backup offer and of course if you are
cash and it has a uh it does have a
condition you know yeah then you might
be able to then you might be in there
but that happens very few and far
between yeah and when you see the you
know hundreds of
pending uh
contracts uh uh transactions
that all say active with contingency
what is going on in prescott yes what’s
going on is they have people in charge
of menu design that really just kind of
don’t know
and uh you know it’s everything here is
pretty much sold sold sold so yeah
so if you get in here and you want to
put an offer in make sure your house
number one is at the very least on the
market number two it’s even better if
you have a contract on it with a firm
close of escrow and number three the
best of the best would be if you’re
already sold and closed and you’re ready
to move forward then you get in here you
see something get that offer in toronto
yeah pronto because time is a wasting
something to be said for for backup
offers too although it’s gotten better
uh when the market really started
getting crazy we saw a lot of
transactions falling out
and the the number of transactions that
are falling out of uh out of escrow is
still higher than it normally was right
but it’s it’s it’s lowered quite a bit
but still you know backup offer might be
a good idea
so don’t let that throw you we will find
you one we will hunt down one that
doesn’t say active with contingency
that’s right that’s just plain old
active no active and ready to go and
we’ll make it happen for you as
hopefully as quick as we can
so uh anyway come on in come visit us
uh you can reach us at
at an 713-302-1964 we’ll spend a great
day going all around town looking at
some great properties and hopefully
we’ll write a contract for you on an
active property on an active property
you can also find information at
pickle411.com
that’s right our website whether you buy
or seller somewhere in between all kinds
of free information
very useful yeah check out pickle411.
411.com cheers to that
okay everyone out there have a great
rest of your day
and uh i hope to see you soon bye
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Love Letters
Buyers desperate for a home often like to send the sellers a "love letter," explaining who they are and why they love the home. If you've ever received one, then you know how touching these letters can be. Unfortunately, the powers that be have put the kibosh on them, so they're going away. In this episode, we explain why.Video Transcript
hello my little friends out there my little pickle friends pickle peeps randall and diane bro that’s right and we are here today to chat with you uh kind of a new development something that the arizona department of real estate has brought up and honestly never thought of i never thought about but it makes good sense and it’s what we call love letters so a lot of buyers are looking to do love letters now as you may know bitty wars yeah we’ve got a lot of bidding wars it’s been really hard to find uh properties across the country we are having historic lows in inventory uh which makes it hard as fire right not just us all over the united states all over everybody’s running across the same thing so everyone’s trying to yeah so everyone’s trying to differentiate themselves so obviously if you just give a lot of cash then you are likely to win cash is king but nobody wants to flush money down the toilet so they try to differentiate themselves in other ways that’s right so they’ll say you know what can i just write a letter from my heart about how much this home means to me and what this neighborhood means to me what this town means to me and in the olden days i would say sure i love that i think that’s very touching uh sellers like to receive that go for it however the arizona department of real estate and i think nationally as well now the national association of realtors has decided that love letters are a no-go anymore and uh they really would rather realtors not encourage that practice because it can go against fair housing yeah it’s a fair housing and explain mr brown why it can go against well a very obvious sort of thing uh might be that let’s say you have a buyer who’s jewish and they write a love letter to the seller that says oh i love the location of the house it’s right around they don’t mention they’re jewish but they mentioned oh you’re it’s wonderful your house is right around the corner from the synagogue well let what happens if that person’s offer isn’t accepted now it may not be accepted because the price isn’t right or you know it could be not accepted for any any number of things but it opens up the possibility that the buyer will say oh you know they didn’t take my offer because obviously they knew i was jewish and that becomes anti-semitic and obviously subject to fair housing right so it’s it’s primarily a liability thing a potential lifestyle and i think for some people too like if they say hey i have a family i’m so excited to move here um and maybe this neighborhood doesn’t want kids and the owner you know they may say well you didn’t choose me because you don’t want kids in this neighborhood which by the way is protected children and families are protected correct if you are a seller and somebody comes with children you can’t deny them the right to buy the home because they’re a family absolutely part of fair housing there are a number of things under fair housing yes the jewish thing excuse me the jewish thing was maybe more a lot more common is my kids love the house right you know and and that kind of thing and so anything with religion families and handicapped races if you even make the slightest uh connection uh and and you try to write about that in your letter and the seller chooses someone else it opens the door for the people who were not chosen to say well was it because i had a family yeah was it because i practice a certain religion that you don’t like was it because and it opens up the door to a lot of possible uh lawsuits yeah and so by the way we really don’t see all we don’t really see that no it really doesn’t happen people are very accepting here people are super accepting and super it’s it’s a liability thing the brokers don’t want to spend their days reading all these love letters uh and to be honest the sellers have gotten very jaded and a lot of sellers are like you know what i’ve actually had this uh some of the listings we’ve had the sellers are like i really i don’t want to be swayed i don’t want to hear any of the stories please don’t give me any of these letters i need to just make this decision almost like a business decision they don’t want to attach emotion to it yeah so we thought we’d talk about this with you so you would understand what’s kind of going on with the national association of realtors and where they’re coming from on this ruling yeah and also to let you know some of the sellers perspective they’re like look business is business i don’t want to be swayed i don’t want to hear any sob stories about a widow or you know or anything like that yeah and um well the pickle has kind of an inside track on that so i will tell you our secret so when we send in your offer on the home uh the pickle lady does a cover letter to the agent and in that cover letter she will mention things that may sway them towards you i try i mean well being a veteran is an obvious one well and without being overly we have to be careful yeah you can’t be too soppy because as you know the if the sellers are getting seven love letters after a while they kind of we’ll try to mention a few little tidbits nothing nothing extreme um but when we explain to you when you come in and you’re like i want to win this bid because as we know there’s tons of uh bidding wars going on and we say to you i’m so sorry we can’t do a love letter please understand it’s not us it’s new rulings it’s uh kind of a changing tide so to speak a turning of the tide and uh that’s where it’s coming from it’s not an us thing yeah it’s just um i remember things are changing we were selling our home uh in texas and uh that’s where we we raised our family and when we sold it we got a love letter from a young family it’s very touchy but it’s very nice i it’s very hard for me it’s very hard for me because i love love letters yeah yeah i think they’re cool i think they help the seller connect with the buyer there’s a lot of memories and emotion attached with all homes and love letters help you make that connection i’m personally i’m all for it yeah i don’t make of the rules though no and another one was wonderful things about the past that people people will reminisce about because so don’t shoot the messenger if it were up to me i’d have you be you know writing a beautiful love letter a long long missive whatever it would be it’s amazing i think it’s gorgeous and i think it’s a wonderful way to connect uh however we are precluded now from doing that so we just wanted to share that with you and um i mean i love love letters i have all of my love letters that this one wrote to me i have all the love letters my parents had we were all trying to buy a house from her at some point no my parents i mean i’m i’m a big fan of the written note it’s always lovely to have and you keep it from unfortunately a real estate transaction so just want to share that with you and give you a little bit more understanding of where that’s coming from so that is our little tidbit of the day we hope that you learned something a little bit from that if you’re looking for more information about real estate and all the trends market forces and restaurants and places to eat and things about press kit and i can’t even think all the stuff that we have it’s a lot your search begins at pickle411.com yes our source of information to buyers sellers and everyone in between and if you want after the deal is done you can write us a love letter we always appreciate those we have a lot of very nice letters yeah um i love those letters i love them all all right guys so i hope you understand and we hope to hear from you soon have a great rest of your day bye
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Utilities – How to Contact
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Close of Escrow Reminders
As you approach the close of escrow (COE), there are any number of things that you have to accomplish before the Big Day. Here are lists of reminders for buyers and sellers to help keep it all straight…
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Stained Glass
Whether it’s those three little square windows over your master bed or a particular spot that gets too much sun during part of the day, if your home has any of those “weirdo windows” and you’re not sure what to do with them, we may have the perfect solution: stained glass.
Turn full sun exposure into an asset with a gorgeous custom creation from our good friend, a local glass artist… or re-purpose an antique window from one of the local shops.
Check out some beautiful examples in this week’s episode.
Pete Churchill – (805) 205-3202
this is diane randall bro
diane is the pickle lady and i’m her
partner in crime partner in life we are
here to help you with
every aspect of your real estate
transaction whether it be buying or
selling we offer full service
full service full customer service seven
days a week very broadly defined
what our role is rain sleet or snow
sleet or snow even if we’re sick we try
hard
we sure try hard and we do so today we
want to talk about something that i love
and uh we it’s one of my favorite things
stained glass stained glass
so in excuse me that’s my voice wow
in a lot of the homes here you’ll find
three little windows
yeah over your master bedroom little
square
little square randall will show it to
you yeah and people are like
what do i do with that uh i don’t want
the sun to come through
i don’t like this i don’t like that well
we have a solution
a fellow neighbor and good friend pete
churchill who makes
beautiful stained glass gorgeous from
scratch
yeah this is not a kit yeah this is his
own design
um his wife janice selects all the
beautiful pieces of color
glass it is like a work of art yeah
and so a lot of times they will fill
those little squares with a piece of
stained glass
so instead of buying a great option a
shade or something excuse me having
something custom made
yeah i have custom made yeah uh shutters
yes and those little square wings get
custom-made stained glass
and it’s like a piece of art you can put
it in they’re removable if you ever
should
if you ever move yeah uh you can put it
in another piece of glass and
it’s easily removable yeah so you could
take it with you
buy another house with three squares
exactly so we have one over we have a
transom
over our front door that got a a lot of
direct sun a lot of heat
so he designed one we did it all with
butterflies and irises
beautiful beautiful so when you’re
looking at a house with kind of an
odd window particularly one with like a
particular
time of day or maybe all day it has
direct
sun oh that window’s got so much sun and
you turn the the liability into an asset
correct and think about a piece of
stained glass yeah instead of an ugly
old shade or because then when the sun
hits it it just gets
so bright and then then that the colors
come through
sometimes you get a pattern on the wall
it’s beautiful so
something we we kind of did in our own
home if you have a transom
if you have the three little square
windows some people have them in their
bathroom some people have in that master
bedroom
or just a window that you need a
showpiece a centerpiece
uh my favorite uh that peeks down
honestly it becomes a different
work of art throughout the day depending
on where the sun is in the sky
wow um you know the sun begins to settle
beauty very nice good for you you’re
enjoying the beauty
you gotta suck the marrow out of life
you know what i’m saying
carpe diem carpet carpe diem
but so different little ideas for
odd windows if you’re looking at
different houses and you’re like i don’t
even know what to do with this
stained glass and if you want stained
glass
we have the connection connection for
custom glass
also oh i should mention too that it’s
relatively easy to find antique uh
stained glass pieces that you can hang
right
um that’s what we have all throughout
our yeah we’ve got that windows
old windows from uh plantations down in
louisiana and you can find them
pretty cool uh antique shops here
yes uh from churches and whatnot and uh
really beautiful pieces very affordable
yeah
so it’s just kind of a little unusual
decorating tip
that we wanted to pass on to you so
we’ll show you some of our pictures
of our stained glass we have a window
from a church yeah i love it
i’ve got all kinds of windows it’s my
thing i love stained glass too
uh so if you were interested and you
want to reach out to us
you can find us at pickle411.com lots of
friends lots of free information and uh
we’ll give you pete’s information
if you want to have a customer i’ll put
a link on the i’ll put a link on there
as well yeah good idea i’m assuming he
has a
website if not then just contact
customers
we’ll get you in touch so enjoy our
pieces of stained glass
and i hope we gave you some good tips
for some of those weirdo windows
in your new house if you are looking to
buy or sell give us a call
we are here ready willing and able to
make that happen for you captain
right make it happen make it happen
captain even though it’s been crazy
crazy uh hard yeah we are still making
it happen we’re still kicking so we’re
excited
yeah absolutely and we welcome all of
you can’t wait for you to join us
here in prescott enjoy our town all
right
that is all and stay in glass sunglasses
you’ll love it
all right thanks for listening and have
a great rest of your day
bye
diane is the pickle lady and i’m her
partner in crime partner in life we are
here to help you with
every aspect of your real estate
transaction whether it be buying or
selling we offer full service
full service full customer service seven
days a week very broadly defined
what our role is rain sleet or snow
sleet or snow even if we’re sick we try
hard
we sure try hard and we do so today we
want to talk about something that i love
and uh we it’s one of my favorite things
stained glass stained glass
so in excuse me that’s my voice wow
in a lot of the homes here you’ll find
three little windows
yeah over your master bedroom little
square
little square randall will show it to
you yeah and people are like
what do i do with that uh i don’t want
the sun to come through
i don’t like this i don’t like that well
we have a solution
a fellow neighbor and good friend pete
churchill who makes
beautiful stained glass gorgeous from
scratch
yeah this is not a kit yeah this is his
own design
um his wife janice selects all the
beautiful pieces of color
glass it is like a work of art yeah
and so a lot of times they will fill
those little squares with a piece of
stained glass
so instead of buying a great option a
shade or something excuse me having
something custom made
yeah i have custom made yeah uh shutters
yes and those little square wings get
custom-made stained glass
and it’s like a piece of art you can put
it in they’re removable if you ever
should
if you ever move yeah uh you can put it
in another piece of glass and
it’s easily removable yeah so you could
take it with you
buy another house with three squares
exactly so we have one over we have a
transom
over our front door that got a a lot of
direct sun a lot of heat
so he designed one we did it all with
butterflies and irises
beautiful beautiful so when you’re
looking at a house with kind of an
odd window particularly one with like a
particular
time of day or maybe all day it has
direct
sun oh that window’s got so much sun and
you turn the the liability into an asset
correct and think about a piece of
stained glass yeah instead of an ugly
old shade or because then when the sun
hits it it just gets
so bright and then then that the colors
come through
sometimes you get a pattern on the wall
it’s beautiful so
something we we kind of did in our own
home if you have a transom
if you have the three little square
windows some people have them in their
bathroom some people have in that master
bedroom
or just a window that you need a
showpiece a centerpiece
uh my favorite uh that peeks down
honestly it becomes a different
work of art throughout the day depending
on where the sun is in the sky
wow um you know the sun begins to settle
beauty very nice good for you you’re
enjoying the beauty
you gotta suck the marrow out of life
you know what i’m saying
carpe diem carpet carpe diem
but so different little ideas for
odd windows if you’re looking at
different houses and you’re like i don’t
even know what to do with this
stained glass and if you want stained
glass
we have the connection connection for
custom glass
also oh i should mention too that it’s
relatively easy to find antique uh
stained glass pieces that you can hang
right
um that’s what we have all throughout
our yeah we’ve got that windows
old windows from uh plantations down in
louisiana and you can find them
pretty cool uh antique shops here
yes uh from churches and whatnot and uh
really beautiful pieces very affordable
yeah
so it’s just kind of a little unusual
decorating tip
that we wanted to pass on to you so
we’ll show you some of our pictures
of our stained glass we have a window
from a church yeah i love it
i’ve got all kinds of windows it’s my
thing i love stained glass too
uh so if you were interested and you
want to reach out to us
you can find us at pickle411.com lots of
friends lots of free information and uh
we’ll give you pete’s information
if you want to have a customer i’ll put
a link on the i’ll put a link on there
as well yeah good idea i’m assuming he
has a
website if not then just contact
customers
we’ll get you in touch so enjoy our
pieces of stained glass
and i hope we gave you some good tips
for some of those weirdo windows
in your new house if you are looking to
buy or sell give us a call
we are here ready willing and able to
make that happen for you captain
right make it happen make it happen
captain even though it’s been crazy
crazy uh hard yeah we are still making
it happen we’re still kicking so we’re
excited
yeah absolutely and we welcome all of
you can’t wait for you to join us
here in prescott enjoy our town all
right
that is all and stay in glass sunglasses
you’ll love it
all right thanks for listening and have
a great rest of your day
bye
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Toilets and Tushies
The latest rage in home decor is sure to take some of your most private moments up to a whole new level, plus a new game-changing technology that is just a blast… right where you need it most.
hello hello hello peeps
hello peeps our fellow pickle peepsters
dianne and i like peeps too diane and
randall bro
realtors in prescott arizona
something kind of crazy but funny we
want to talk about
um because well it’s something you gotta
do something new and something great
something new on the horizon everyone
has the courage to
jump in
something that really helps a little bit
on your resell of your house
is tall toilets tall toilets
and tall counters in your bathroom
that’s big people want tall counters
they don’t want those
low ones they’ve got to bend over while
you’re brushing your teeth yeah
love tall counters and love tall
toilets tall toilets yeah well i should
say
we do have clients that are
you know high challenged a little on the
short side
yeah they’re not a big fan but i will
tell you i’m not a big fan but
the world’s going against you my friends
my short friends look at your step stool
yeah we’ve got to get you a step stool
because the tall toilets more and more
but if you’re thinking about i’m gonna
upgrade my bathroom or whatever
what we’re hearing time and time and
time again is when we go look at new
construction when we go look at houses
oh they have a tall toilet i’m so
excited they have a tall toilet
this is how you know you’re actively in
middle age
also to all of our friends out there
yeah when you get
about the honey you’re excited about the
height of your toilet
and we’re we’re in that group yeah we
actually are in
we decided you know what let’s let’s
jump on this bandwagon
yeah let’s get a tall toilet yeah so we
did
we are ecstatic with our tall toilets
where it’s the same just higher
it just it just it’s much easier to get
up and down at night but you know when
your back is out your hips are out you
don’t feel good you’re
you know nobody hates that sudden and
abrupt
fall when you think you think you’re
going to land a little higher up and you
go boom
and then sometimes you get you know as
my dad used to call it a little splash
it’s called
the kiss of death guess death don’t want
the kiss of death
but tall toilets are very helpful a good
uh
resale value people love it i’m telling
you i can’t believe it i’ve actually had
people
i’m i want to just sit on this body and
just see if it’s uh
the right height configuration when we
go look at houses
i think it takes the pressure off of uh
men to
constantly put the toilet seat down too
because if we forget and the lady of the
home goes to use the toilet they don’t
fall into the bowl because well it’s a
tall toilet
the other thing people love people love
love love they’re talking about it
is tushies tushy.com
sushi.com tushy.com if you’re watching
this
you’ve feel free we’re giving you a free
shout out yeah like
it’s a bidet attachment easy to attach
to your tall
toilet yeah uh it’s the rage
all of our clients again are like oh i
like that bidet feature
i like that well the days were starting
all right we should you know
okay so you probably have to get in
first of all
a bidet like i used to think that a
bidet was essentially for women
no it’s for all parties not because it’s
the you know it’s the other side of
things
it’s for all areas it’s our all areas
but
one area in particular and it reduced
she always say it reduces the amount of
toilet paper that yeah
i assume so you kind of get the idea so
bidets were kind of starting to get
popular
they’re very popular in europe all over
europe all over korea
japan yeah all a lot of the asian
countries
um essentially think that we are the
dirtiest country
on earth we clean without water
so anyway yeah it’s a fun thing to jump
on that bandwagon
attach it to your tall toilet yeah
because the bidet like you get a real
bidet
that’s like having another toilet and so
you need and that can be expensive
yeah a little bit more expensive than
just buying the attachments yeah because
you need a place to put it
you know so you’re gonna have a toilet
end of the day and you need bigger
bathrooms
to take up more space so if you’re if
you are you know uh
redoing your bathroom yeah you know all
these things help
people love it when they go in your
house they’re looking for tall toilets
yeah tushy’s an extra bonus it’s going
to be the conversation
piece of of cocktail parties for some
time you know as my daughters say you
also have one yeah the whole family got
it
it’s life-changing life changing it’s
like it’s a game changer
game changer yeah it is
that’s i particularly like the tall
toilet yeah
only because after we have three tall
toys
[Music]
with the hot water attachment yes
so that’s we did we
it’s just funny every time we’re going
out this is something we keep hearing
a common theme a common theme tall
toilet
love it love it love it and tushy
whatever some of them are clea
clear clad up clean i forget clear rear
or something i don’t know
there’s a whole bunch of different
companies that like that’s oh clear yeah
clear rare yeah it’s hard to say the
names alone
make me laugh for hours and hours on end
i did see
in lowe’s uh when uh we were looking at
toilets
they have toilet seats now with a
day attachment now they were like 100
you know but that’s about what you pay
for tuition yeah um
so it’s all good it’s all it’s all good
possibility uh something we wanted to
share with you if you’re thinking about
remodeling go for the tall toilets
if you’re not quite up for the tushy
it’s okay it’s it’s a it’s something new
kind of you know but it is rapidly
becoming more and more popular here in
the
in the old good old u.s event so we
thought it was
important we thought it was
important that we share this with you
we are excited about our little upgrade
that we just did
and uh just wanted to pass that on to
you guys when you’re looking
at homes or looking at uh remodeling
something to think about yeah remodeling
information
if you’re interested in getting more of
that you can go to pickle
411.com which is our source
of information of all kinds all kinds
real estate
not just hotties sellers buyers
you know all kinds of stuff all kinds of
good stuff and not toilets
part of our offering to the world that’s
right and as you know i like a tall
toilet if i have a lot of wine
except don’t have too far to tonight to
fall as far
you don’t have to fall as far which is
important after
you know some wine a couple of
martinis doesn’t hurt it doesn’t hurt
hello peeps our fellow pickle peepsters
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something kind of crazy but funny we
want to talk about
um because well it’s something you gotta
do something new and something great
something new on the horizon everyone
has the courage to
jump in
something that really helps a little bit
on your resell of your house
is tall toilets tall toilets
and tall counters in your bathroom
that’s big people want tall counters
they don’t want those
low ones they’ve got to bend over while
you’re brushing your teeth yeah
love tall counters and love tall
toilets tall toilets yeah well i should
say
we do have clients that are
you know high challenged a little on the
short side
yeah they’re not a big fan but i will
tell you i’m not a big fan but
the world’s going against you my friends
my short friends look at your step stool
yeah we’ve got to get you a step stool
because the tall toilets more and more
but if you’re thinking about i’m gonna
upgrade my bathroom or whatever
what we’re hearing time and time and
time again is when we go look at new
construction when we go look at houses
oh they have a tall toilet i’m so
excited they have a tall toilet
this is how you know you’re actively in
middle age
also to all of our friends out there
yeah when you get
about the honey you’re excited about the
height of your toilet
and we’re we’re in that group yeah we
actually are in
we decided you know what let’s let’s
jump on this bandwagon
yeah let’s get a tall toilet yeah so we
did
we are ecstatic with our tall toilets
where it’s the same just higher
it just it just it’s much easier to get
up and down at night but you know when
your back is out your hips are out you
don’t feel good you’re
you know nobody hates that sudden and
abrupt
fall when you think you think you’re
going to land a little higher up and you
go boom
and then sometimes you get you know as
my dad used to call it a little splash
it’s called
the kiss of death guess death don’t want
the kiss of death
but tall toilets are very helpful a good
uh
resale value people love it i’m telling
you i can’t believe it i’ve actually had
people
i’m i want to just sit on this body and
just see if it’s uh
the right height configuration when we
go look at houses
i think it takes the pressure off of uh
men to
constantly put the toilet seat down too
because if we forget and the lady of the
home goes to use the toilet they don’t
fall into the bowl because well it’s a
tall toilet
the other thing people love people love
love love they’re talking about it
is tushies tushy.com
sushi.com tushy.com if you’re watching
this
you’ve feel free we’re giving you a free
shout out yeah like
it’s a bidet attachment easy to attach
to your tall
toilet yeah uh it’s the rage
all of our clients again are like oh i
like that bidet feature
i like that well the days were starting
all right we should you know
okay so you probably have to get in
first of all
a bidet like i used to think that a
bidet was essentially for women
no it’s for all parties not because it’s
the you know it’s the other side of
things
it’s for all areas it’s our all areas
but
one area in particular and it reduced
she always say it reduces the amount of
toilet paper that yeah
i assume so you kind of get the idea so
bidets were kind of starting to get
popular
they’re very popular in europe all over
europe all over korea
japan yeah all a lot of the asian
countries
um essentially think that we are the
dirtiest country
on earth we clean without water
so anyway yeah it’s a fun thing to jump
on that bandwagon
attach it to your tall toilet yeah
because the bidet like you get a real
bidet
that’s like having another toilet and so
you need and that can be expensive
yeah a little bit more expensive than
just buying the attachments yeah because
you need a place to put it
you know so you’re gonna have a toilet
end of the day and you need bigger
bathrooms
to take up more space so if you’re if
you are you know uh
redoing your bathroom yeah you know all
these things help
people love it when they go in your
house they’re looking for tall toilets
yeah tushy’s an extra bonus it’s going
to be the conversation
piece of of cocktail parties for some
time you know as my daughters say you
also have one yeah the whole family got
it
it’s life-changing life changing it’s
like it’s a game changer
game changer yeah it is
that’s i particularly like the tall
toilet yeah
only because after we have three tall
toys
[Music]
with the hot water attachment yes
so that’s we did we
it’s just funny every time we’re going
out this is something we keep hearing
a common theme a common theme tall
toilet
love it love it love it and tushy
whatever some of them are clea
clear clad up clean i forget clear rear
or something i don’t know
there’s a whole bunch of different
companies that like that’s oh clear yeah
clear rare yeah it’s hard to say the
names alone
make me laugh for hours and hours on end
i did see
in lowe’s uh when uh we were looking at
toilets
they have toilet seats now with a
day attachment now they were like 100
you know but that’s about what you pay
for tuition yeah um
so it’s all good it’s all it’s all good
possibility uh something we wanted to
share with you if you’re thinking about
remodeling go for the tall toilets
if you’re not quite up for the tushy
it’s okay it’s it’s a it’s something new
kind of you know but it is rapidly
becoming more and more popular here in
the
in the old good old u.s event so we
thought it was
important we thought it was
important that we share this with you
we are excited about our little upgrade
that we just did
and uh just wanted to pass that on to
you guys when you’re looking
at homes or looking at uh remodeling
something to think about yeah remodeling
information
if you’re interested in getting more of
that you can go to pickle
411.com which is our source
of information of all kinds all kinds
real estate
not just hotties sellers buyers
you know all kinds of stuff all kinds of
good stuff and not toilets
part of our offering to the world that’s
right and as you know i like a tall
toilet if i have a lot of wine
except don’t have too far to tonight to
fall as far
you don’t have to fall as far which is
important after
you know some wine a couple of
martinis doesn’t hurt it doesn’t hurt
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