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Flexible Mortgages

Want to understand flexible mortgages? Our video this week offers great advice about how they can help you, especially if you’re a first-time home buyer. Check it out even if you’ve bought a house or two; you still might learn something!

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Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello peeps. Right in my ear. Yikes. Her good ear. Yep. I am deaf in one ear. So, he’s got my good ear. So, I’m hearing it. That’s why I always sit on the side through every cell of my ear. My whole life is on my wife’s life. Anyway, sometimes my cells don’t want to hear it, but it’s it is what it is. Okay. (00:27) So, we’re here today and we’re happy to be here. Uh Randall and I are your friendly husband and wife pickle team, realtor team here in Prescuit and we love to come to you weekly with crazy little videos and thoughts and things that pop in our head as we’re driving along and we say let’s share that with our folks out there listening. This is a good one. (00:48) This is a good tip. Yep. This is a good one. This is a good tip. So this is about something they’re calling a I call it a flex mortgage. Mhm. Uh, you got to be careful with lending because there are all kinds of regulations. I don’t know if I’m allowed to call it a flex mortgage. (01:07) I know it’s okay to call it a lifestyle home loan because at least somebody who seems to be certified will do that. But I wanted to I wanted to mention this to uh to you guys because most people who are in our sort of sort of either retired or getting ready retired, you should know about this stuff. This will change your life and uh for the better. (01:32) And this is what I call a flex mortgage. So, a flex mortgage is a mortgage where if you don’t want to pay the note for a month, you can just skip it. That’s a flex mortgage. Pretty cool. Yeah. If you want uh let’s say you’ve you for whatever reason, let’s say there’s been a disease and all of a sudden real estate real estate prices are through the roof. (01:55) Now, you have more equity than you ever thought you want and you’re thinking, “If only I could tap into that equity.” You could do that with a flex mortgage. Okay. Uh or a a lifestyle home home loan, whatever they want to call them. The the short answer is this is what they used to call a reverse mortgage. Now stay with us. (02:15) Stay calm because I know as as soon as I say reverse mortgage, people are like, “Oh no, oh no, oh no, I can’t bear it. I can’t can’t bear it. Can’t think about it.” It is a It is a new and improved product. New improved product. It’s not like the old time. Not like the old time. The very first thing you need to understand about the new flex, whatever you want to call it, we call it flex mortgage. (02:39) Okay? Uh the the very first thing you need to understand is that there is no repossession if you run out. All right? So, let me let me back up for those of you who don’t know what a reverse mortgage is. So if you if if you have a mortgage, so you if you are paying your notes, you’re paying a bit of interest and you’re paying a bit of equity early on. (03:04) You’re paying mostly mostly interest. As time goes on, you’re paying equity and you’re paying some interest until finally you’re done. Uh at the end, you’re paying almost all equity until it’s gone. That is a traditional mortgage. With a reverse mortgage, if you don’t pay the let’s say you don’t pay the note on a particular a particular month, well, what they’ll do is they’ll take the money that they thought you were going to pay and they will uh the the equity doesn’t change. (03:36) The equity component doesn’t change because you didn’t pay the equity component, but the interest component they didn’t pay. They’ll take out of your equity. So your equity will start going down. It the longer you do that, the the more your equity will go down. So that’s a reverse mortgage. It used to be that when you ran out of equity, they would kick you out of your home. (03:59) The first thing to know is that doesn’t happen anymore. Not at all. No. The reverse mortgages are now done through FHA and the new rules are they can’t kick you out of your home if you go through all of your equity. all of your equity. Can they kick me out of my home? No, they can’t. Okay. So, you know, I I wasn’t born yesterday, so I raised my hand and I said, “Okay, what about the spouse?” Oh, no. (04:28) The spouse gets to stay there. So, if you pass away, your spouse can still stay in the not kicked out. I said, “Yeah, but you don’t know this spouse. You don’t know this spouse. this guy, he’s uh he’s about 85 and uh he his wife passed away a few years ago and um you know he was sad for a while and then he lost his mind and he remarried. (04:55) So he’s 85, she’s 25. And we’re not talking about what’s that what’s that football coach? Oh, I don’t No, that you know who I’m talking about is Belch or I don’t know sports. I’m totally teased on that, but this is we’re not this is not his story. This is completely hypothetical. So, I got a guy, he’s now 85. (05:17) He lost his mind the last few years after his wife died. He married a girl who’s 25 years old. Yep. Okay. So now, and they have one of these mortgages and he dies. How long can she stay in the home? Yep. The answer is until she dies or she wants to get out of the house, right? If she wants to sell the house, you know, well, okay, that’s a different thing. (05:42) She’s not going to get as much for the equity when she But if she wants to just stay in the house for as long as she may live, and chances are she’s going to outlive him, uh, I mean, she’s going to die at an age more than him. That might be 90 years. Yep. They are on the hook. That’s the way the FHA works. That’s right. (06:01) So, the first thing you need to know is they can’t kick you out of your home. So, yeah. So, if you run through all of your equity, say you have a house uh 800,000 and you have $700,000 worth of equity, 800, you know, or 600,000 and you keep on drawing on that, keep drawing on it and doing this new flex loan. Yeah. (06:19) And you run out of equity. Yep. You’re there. You’re there. You’re not kicked out. They cannot kick you out of your They cannot grab your house from you. Uh if you marry a young person, that’s right. They can’t kick her out or him out as the case where may be. They can’t kick the spouse out until the spouse either dies or wants to sell the house. Yeah. (06:42) It’s kind of kind of a cool product. Uh some people uh are afraid to go through their nest egg. They like to have that nest egg and they’re like, well, you know, so this could be another another avenue of not touching that nest egg and just using the equity in your home. Let me play out a typical scenario with a typical mortgage. (07:03) So, you have a couple, they buy a home with a standard mortgage, they’re in their 60s. Uh, you know, they have planned for their retirement and everything, but life happens. And so, now they’re in their 80s and uh they they have not really maintained the home well. They don’t have money to uh do the maintenance on the home. uh they struggle to make the mortgage payment every month, right? And we see this a lot because if they if they don’t, they know they’re evicted, right? Uh so they’re scrimping and they’re saving until finally it let their late (07:40) 80s let’s say uh they finally pass at which point the home goes to their children and their children immediately sell the home at you know 60 70 cents on the dollar at a big loss because of all the deferred maintenance because of all the deferred maintenance and everything else. Nobody wants to live there. (08:01) Nobody wants mom’s, you know, china cabinets and all that other kind of stuff. So, they immediately want to sell. It’s it’s sold at a discount anyway and then they take the proceeds and they divvy it up. Yep. Well, with a reverse mortgage, what would happen is the same sort of thing. They would they would, you know, inherit the home or at least the equity. (08:24) Uh they would sell the home and it would net out. They would not have scrimped and saved. They would have used some of the equity to maintain the home. Yep. So it would it would command a better price when they sell it. It would be in better shape and they wouldn’t have stressed. And in the end, their children may end up with maybe a few extra a few less dollars, but maybe not because they’ve maintained the home the way that it should. (08:54) It it kind of plays out a lot better in the fourth quarter than it does otherwise, right? And if you take away the risk of getting kicked out of the home because you run out of equity because of something unforld, um it doesn’t matter. You get to stay in the home. Yes. So, we it’s kind of an interesting product. We’ve shared it with sever several of our older clients who some of them, like I said, want to preserve their nest egg and they’re like, you know what, I don’t want to touch that. (09:23) I want to leave that for my children. I’ll just use the house equity and then they can kind of enjoy life and not be so stressed. So, it’s kind of a win-win. So, if this is something you’re interested in, um, give us a call. We can refer you. We don’t refer you. Obviously, we’re not lenders. No, you know, we don’t do it. (09:41) We can certainly hook you up. We do not do lending. We can hook you up with someone who can help you. Uh, another thing to consider too is if you kind of have that same that the flexibility that we’re talking about, you may want to buy a nicer home. You know, you don’t need to buy so smart or or so frugally. (10:03) You might want to buy a home that’s worth a little more and have you enjoy your your twilight years a little more, right? and and splurge a bit more knowing that you don’t have to maintain that that mortgage if you don’t if you don’t if you can’t or you decide you don’t want to. Yeah. So, that is our tip of the day for the new lifestyle home loans or as we like to call it a flex loan. Flex loan. (10:27) You should know things are changing for the better and better products are coming out there that can help people who are a little bit older and maybe want to enjoy life a little more and not feel that that heaviness of a monthly mortgage now that they’re retired. So, something to think about. Yeah, absolutely. (10:46) So, if you have any questions about that, um we could certainly, you know, be happy to share our referrals and you could see if it might work for you. Yeah, absolutely. All right, my friends, that is all for today. Hey, we hope you found this helpful and we hope to hear from you soon and uh make sure you come visit us. Love to see you. Bye bye.

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Out of Gas

Want great tips on how to drive in Prescott hill country? In this week’s Wine Down we share a few that will help you avoid winding up stranded on the side of the road…like we have several times.

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Hello, hello, hello. Hello peeps. We hope everyone is uh enjoying the start of their beautiful summer as we are. Yeah. Yeah, we’re getting into the summer mode. We’re having a good time meeting some great people coming in town. Thank you for coming in, spending some time with us. I am Diane Bro. This is my sidekick, my cohort. (00:23) My co-host Randall Bro. I go by a lot of different names. Yep. But anyway, uh we’re in it together. So, here we are filming yet again. Yeah. Here we go. Come up with a little tip. This was fun. Something we had. Well, it wasn’t fun for us, but not in the moment. Yeah. Not in the moment. It was. So, we are from flat country. (00:46) We originally uh hail from New Orleans, which is really flat. Uh we spent most of our lives either in Louisiana or Texas. Flat, flat, flat. Uh flat and straight. flat and straight straight road. You know, uh we’re not we don’t do the the third the third uh you know the Z the Z-axis. We don’t do a whole lot of altitude. No. (01:12) So, uh learning how to do things like drive and go around when you actually have to deal with hills was a little bit of a a little bit of a learning curve for us. Yep. I mean, it’s not rocket science, but one thing uh that it took us a while to catch on to uh that we thought we would share with you. And it’s happened to us twice. (01:31) It’s happened to us twice. The second time, relatively close. We were like, okay. I I think there’s something going on here. So, we’re a little bit dumb and dumber on this. Yeah, a little dumb and dumber. So, we like to get our gas at Costco. Shout out to Costco. Shout out to Costco. Everybody knows best gas prices. Best gas prices. (01:49) Oh, by the way, our gas prices here in Prescat at Costco are $259 a gallon. So, just want to share that all of you folks living out of state. Yeah. Yeah. Just maybe one of those states that has their own special formulation of gasoline formula. Yeah. Yeah. We don’t do that here. No $5 or $6 a gallon. Yeah. We’re sub sub twos. So, that’s that’s looking real pretty good. (02:16) So yeah, we find the best one of the cheapest places to get gas is at Costco. Unfortunately, Costco is over a big hill. So you got to go up this big hill. Probably the biggest hill that I can think of in Prescat. Yes. Is you’re going up. It’s a Prescat Lakes uh parkway and it goes over a hill to get to 69. And that’s a pretty steep hill. (02:40) Wow. That’s a very steep hill. I have learned I have I’ll let you know this. I have learned to put my car in standard and keep it in either fourth gear or third gear. I don’t do that. Uh going down so I don’t have to burn out my brakes. I don’t do all that. Yeah, she does. She She never drives though. I’m always But it’s highly annoying when he does that. I’ll just say that. (03:01) It is highly annoying. I don’t know if it really helps. She doesn’t like the noise that it makes. Yeah, the the we we moved here and within I don’t know like a month and a half I needed new brakes because I’m just riding the brake and riding the brake and riding the brake. So yeah, that’s one trick is to downshift or at least put yourself in standard so it doesn’t go up to the really high. (03:23) But anyway, back to the gas keeps you going. So we’re going in the opposite direction to go to Costco. We’re going uphill, right? We’re trying to valiantly get there. They were like, “We can do it.” A little I had about maybe an eighth of a tank. It was time to fill up. Yeah. And we’ll get a really good It’s not that far away. Yeah. (03:39) So, you go to Costco. So, we’re going up the hill. Well, we’d run out of gas. So, uh the first time it happened, I think it happened to you and I came and saved you. That’s right. And then it happened to me and then Skip saved me. So, shout out to Skip. Skip and Kathy who came to uh rescue us with Ranger and yeah brought us brought us some gas uh to get o completely over the hill. (04:05) Here’s the thing. When your when your car is sticking its nose up in the air, the gasoline inside your tank is doing the same thing. It’s rolling to one side of your tank. And if it gets too far away from the intake, then you’re going to run out of gas. Even though there’s gas in the tank, it’s not deep enough to get to that point. That’s right. (04:29) And so, yeah, after about two or three times, we finally realized, you know what? Now, you know, I sat there. I probably could have put the car in neutral and did like a a J turn and turned around uh going the wrong direction into uh oneway traffic to get the gas to the front of my car. But, uh I didn’t do that. (04:52) Yeah, we didn’t think that was a good thing. We didn’t think it’d be well received by the other driver. So, that’s the trick. So, so what we wanted to share with those of you like us who are uh altitude challenged, uh don’t drive an an almost empty gas can, never a gas tank up a hill or down a hill because you could run out of gas even though you’re not really out of gas. (05:15) My second tip is always have really good friends with gas uh gas cans who you can call and are like, “Sure, did y’all do it again?” Yeah. Yes. We’re so embarrassed. Yeah. And who lovely lovingly and graciously come to your rescue. Yeah. So, thank you Kathy and Skip. Kathy and Skip. Yeah. Kathy and Skip came and picked us up with Ranger, their dog. (05:38) And I sat in the back with Ranger was one of the dogs for a little while. We went to go get a a gas can so we could fill it with gas. It’s always good to have those kind of friends. Yeah. Yeah. Good tip for sure. Friends who will help you out in So, a little tip. Nick of time. Little tip. So, don’t drive up a hill on empty or near empty. (05:56) So-called mountain time uh mountain town uh uh pointers. Yes. So, something we learned the hard way and we don’t want you to learn it. Wanted to share with you. Yes. So, anyway, that’s just kind of our silly little adventures. There’s always an adventure with the bros. Something something’s always going cuckoo crazy. Always lots of drama. (06:17) I don’t want it, but it’s what it is. So, that’s your tip of the day. All right. So, thank you for listening and remember, don’t go too close. Don’t go 10 miles and try to go 10 miles till you’re empty and try to go up a hill or don’t go fill up at Costco and go over the hill. Just go to the the other gas station. Go to the closer one. (06:35) Go to the closer one in in in extreme times. Yeah. So anyway, so uh anyway, again, remember our our gas prices here are amazingly low. Yeah. So, uh it’s very a pleasant surprise to our folks who relocate here. They’re like, “Wow, I have such a I’m getting such a big break. More money in my pocket. (06:56) I needed all of $2 worth of gas to get over.” Yeah, it was pretty bad. But that’s all right. Embarrassing. Living and learning every day. So, all right, folks. We hope to see you here soon. We hope you don’t run out of gas. Uh but we’re happy to come help you if you do. That’s right. Uh we will. We now have our own gas can. (07:14) We’re proud to say. So u thank you for listening and we hope you find this little tip, you know, helpful so you don’t find yourself in trouble. So for more tips and information, check us out at Oh, pickle411.com. That’s our free information site. Whether you are a buyer, seller or somewhere in between, there will be something there waiting for you that will amaze, astound, educate, and inform you to the absolute extent of your existence. (07:44) And it’s only a hundred bucks. No, it’s free. Free people. Free. Absolutely free. Free. Shout out to us. You’re welcome, everyone. You’re welcome. The whole community. You’re welcome. You’re welcome. You’re welcome. You’re welcome. Okay. Have a great day and we hope to see and hear from you soon. Take care. Bye bye.

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Murphys 3rd Add (Prescott) Home Sold for $837,500

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Visiting Prescott

Ever wonder about the best time to visit Prescott if you’re looking to move? This week’s video gives you the optimal times as well as a tip that’ll change how you look for your new home. We also invite you to meet with us virtually! If you have any questions before visiting Prescott sign up for our next live webinar or reserve a virtual one-on-one.

Even if you’re not looking to move to Prescott, we still welcome you to come visit us! We can show you not only the great festivals and music, but also the hidden gems!

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Hello, hello, hello. Hello peeps. This is Diana Randall Bro, your friendly uh Prescat pickle team. In case you didn’t know, we are the pickle team because and I am the pickle lady because I make my famous Cajun pickle recipe. You haven’t had our pickles? You need to try them. Yeah. (00:21) When you come in town, which we hope you’re coming soon, uh we’d love to share our pickles with you and take you on a tour of our lovely town. Yeah. So this episode is about visiting Prescuit. So besides getting pickles, uh, is it is it a good idea to visit Prescuit? When should they come? What what are you telling people? They think about coming to Prescuit. (00:41) What do you think they should know? Absolutely. You should always come visit. We are transplants ourselves. Uh, we made two trips here to kind of get the lay of the land. Second trip we bought. So that’s right. That’s right. Always have to put uh boots on the How do you say it? Boots on boots on the ground. (00:57) Boots on the ground. That’s right. Um, always come in and visit. You also should walk through different homes so you can see Yeah. Uh, what the price points will buy you here. Yeah. Versus maybe where you are or other areas that you’re looking at. Well, well, first of all, first of all, if you come to Prescuit, right, you’re going to have a good time. (01:17) There are things to do here. It’s a great time. It’s a destination town. It’s a good idea to come just because it’s a good idea to come. Absolutely. Just for fun. Just for fun. You don’t even have to look at moving here. Yeah, we’ll hook you up with all kinds of ideas of things to do, places to eat, you know, events coming up and all that. (01:36) Just check out check out our website. We’re always telling people what’s going on here and just plug into what’s coming on. Uh always a good time. If you are in the the point in your home search where you’re ready to look at homes, uh we’ll be glad to help you with that. Definitely. Um, so I think the best time to visit myself is this is a good time early June, July. (02:01) It’s not it actually June is kind of our hottest month. Yeah. And then the monsoons start. So that’s kind of interesting to experience that. You hear about it. It’s good to kind of see it firsthand. Yeah. Really monsoons to me are just giant thunderstorms at them in New Orleans. Yeah. Um, fall is a beautiful time. Beautiful time. Yeah. (02:19) People ask, “When’s the best time? When’s the best time come? When’s the best time to come?” You know, honestly, there’s no bad time. Here, here’s the thing. If you have any concerns about a particular time of year, come then. So, if you are worried that our summers are hot, like Phoenix, our hottest month is June. Come in June. (02:45) If you are concerned because we have snow and you’re never going to be able to make it out of your house or whatever, then come during the winter and see what we’re talking about. Excellent point. Yeah. Cheers to that. Excellent point. In fact, we have had several clients do just that. They’ll come in the winter and they’re like, “Okay, we’ll see you again in the summer. (03:05) We are tracking the weather, but sometimes you need to experience it in person. You don’t believe it. You know, you want to see it. Some people are that way. If you’re that way, then come when you think you’re not going to like it. And uh chances are you’re going to like it. Yeah. As I’ve said repeatedly, I’m sure everybody’s tired of hearing me say it. (03:24) None of our four seasons are extreme. Yeah. So, uh Oh, very nice. I think you’ll find them all bearable, workable, livable. Um but it is important for you to come and see for yourself. Um what we may think is acceptable. You might be like this. People are out of their minds. Our very hottest month is our very hottest month is June. (03:43) So if you’re worried about heat, come in June and see see it for yourself. Our very coldest month is probably February. A little rainy then. Uh come then you’ll see just how bad it is. It’s not so bad. It’s not so bad. Uh but that’s typically when uh we and and our friends are are traveling, you know. So but anytime you come visit February, you will get to experience not only the weather, but you’ll get to experience all the fun that the town has to offer. (04:07) Absolutely. Great music, great restaurants, great theater, great shows. There’s always something going on. And and try to look ahead and go to the Chamber of Commerce and see what shows are coming uh uh art shows to the square. Yeah. Because that’s a good time, too. In the courthouse square, they’ll have great art shows. (04:27) Um sometimes they have Indian art, sometimes they have Navajo rugs. I mean, it’s it’s very interesting. Um, so maybe you can dovetail all of that, enjoy the music and see uh some of the art festival scenes around the square. I mean, if you’re interested in music, then get into the music scene, you know, depending on your we we can hook you up and get you going and get connect you with who you need to connect. (04:52) If you’re into the music scene, then spend time on the music scene in Prescuit. If you are a hiker, then go hiking. Oh, yeah. I mean, do what you want to do. If uh if you’re interested in finding out the different uh communities that are available, we could take you on community tours, show you the different subdivisions, or you could just drive around yourself. (05:14) If you want to get into homes, you will need us to get you into homes. That’s probably a good idea. You get an idea for of what you can get for your money and what homes look like on the inside. Oddly enough, they look like American homes here in in Prescuit. But we’d be glad to help you with that. If you’re not into doing a home tour, you just want to find out what the city’s about, we will more than willing to help you with that, too. (05:40) Yeah, we’ve had that recently. We’ve had a couple of meet and greets where we sat down and just drank some coffee and they just peppered us with questions that were on their mind. Happy to do that, too. they aren’t quite ready to go look at homes and they didn’t want to, you know, kick people out of their house for an appointment when they’re not quite ready to buy, which is very thoughtful. Yeah. (05:59) Uh but we’re happy to meet and just talk about the generalities of life here. Health, weather, health care, I should say, not your health. We don’t Yeah. Yeah. Uh all of it. Um we’re happy to do that. And we’ve done that and had a good time. Yeah. Absolutely. So, uh we can just meet on a one-on-one for a little half hour, talk about life here. (06:19) We can take you out, whatever you want. Yeah. Um, but if you plan on looking at homes, please uh call us ahead of time so we can get you on the calendar. Yeah. It’s really hard to make appointments the day of. Yeah. You you got to call in advance. These people actually live in these homes. They have to plan it out. Got to plan it all out. (06:38) So, but either way, we are delighted to even, you know, we hope that you’re even thinking about coming to visit. Yeah. Absolutely. And and listen, if you’re not ready for a visit, you have some virtual alternatives. We do bi-weekly webinars. Just all comers are welcome to come in. Just get on there and ask questions. Ask questions. That’s fine. (06:57) If you want something a little more one-on-one, we do one-on-one sessions with people. So, we we’ll find we’ll talk to you about your current situation, what your next steps ought to be, what you ought to be thinking about. Be glad to to meet with you on that, too. So, you don’t even have to come in for that. (07:14) Yeah, but if you want to put boots on the ground, we’re we’re excited about that. We’ll be glad to help you. We’re here. Let’s make it happen, Captain. All right. So, with that, uh we look forward to maybe hearing from you on one of our webinars. Uh we look forward to maybe a Zoom meeting or a one-on-one meeting here in town or just a complete home tour. (07:34) Yeah, we are versatile, people. We do it all. We do it all, people. We do. We do. We do. We do it all. Cheers to that. Cheers to that. All right. So, hope to hear from you soon. And uh that’s our little spiel about visiting Prescat. You’re visiting Prescuit. You’ll love it. See you. All right. Thank you for listening. (07:50) Have a wonderful day. Bye bye

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Granite Dells Estate (Prescott) Home Sold for $755,000

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Your Prescott Tribe

Looking for your tribe in Prescott? Whether you’re moving here solo or with others, the citizens of Prescottonians are ready to help you make new connections and find your people in our vibrant community. Check out today’s video to find out why you should join us!

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Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello peeps. Or as we say in New Orleans, bonjour. Bonjour. Bonjour. We say that New Orleans sometimes. Sometimes you got to say with a y accent. Bonjour. They go. Anyway. Yeah. Anyway, that’s that’s with a New Orleans accent. It’s not it’s not Parisian. I’ll say that. Okay. (00:24) So, this is Diana Randle Bro coming to you from the lovely mountain town of Prescat, Arizona. I’m Rand. She’s the presc. I am. Yeah. And uh anyway, welcome to this show. Our show. Our little baby show. Our little baby show. Our little baby show. We’re here today to talk to you about your Prescuit Tribe. Your Prescuit Tribe. (00:44) So Prescuit Tribe. Prescuit Tribe. So a lot of people we talked to one of the big reasons why they are hesitant about leaving where they are now. No matter how bad it is, no matter how bad the traffic is, how high the taxes are, how bad the crime is. Yep. You know, but my friends are the fires. Yeah. I’m catching on fire. Yeah. (01:07) I’m about to lose my home. But about to lose my home, but I don’t want to leave because my my friends live right next door and their house is also burning. Um here’s the thing. We are starting to hear more and more of people doing tribes, doing enclaves. They they come as a group. So it’s like, well, look, if you’re going to leave and you’re going to go someplace else, we should all go together because we’re all friends. (01:30) We would obviously we would encourage that kind of thing. We do see that kind of thing happening more and more. So we would encourage you if you are thinking, well, I probably need to move on. This isn’t the place for my retirement. Chances are you have lots of friends that feel the same way. Get them to be part of the conversation. (01:51) You know, have to come with you. Or better yet, I will tell you, uh, we came here cold. Did not know was sold. No family, no friends. Uh, we have another good friend, Bob, who also came here cold. Um, join join a country club. Yeah. Join golf. Yeah. Um, we have met probably some of the closest, dearest friends that we’ve ever had. Yes. In 40 years of marriage. (02:16) I mean, we are taking it day by day now. Marriage, not the friendships. Not the friendships, but we we aren’t almost 40. Well, almost 39. So, we take it day by day, but the friends are here forever. I will say that. I think I think most of them might come with me, but I don’t know. (02:37) But anyway, if we But the the point is is that don’t be afraid of leaving family and friends. There’s a whole big world out there. And honestly, if you open yourself up and you attend, you know, you join a club, you join uh golf, you join this, you join that, you would be amazed how friendly and welcoming people here are at. That’s right. (02:59) And you know, I I really didn’t understand what good friends were until I came here. And he got lost in the fields. Yeah, that’s right. I we did we did a we did a wind wind down on that where they they came and quote rescued me though I still say I was not lost but you know we were living in Baton Rouge uh we were a young couple with young kids and I was traveling a lot and our so-called friends so so Diane uh had a snake there was a snake in the house and the guy no no no no some there was a loud crash in the middle of the night he traveled all the the time. Yeah. So, I (03:37) had babies, uh, young children, I mean, babies, and we were all sleeping in the middle of the night. Glass crash and break and broke. And I was like, “Somebody’s breaking in my house.” So, I called my neighbor across the street. Said, “Oh my gosh, can you look out the window? Tell me what’s going on. I had this tremendous crash. (03:54) I’m here with the babies. Randall’s not here.” And he said, “I would recommend that you call 911.” Yeah. And I said, “You are now dead to me from here on out.” Yeah, but here in Prescuit that would never happen. That would never happen. Never. People would fly over. I mean, I’d have 15 people here saying, “We’re on our way. Don’t worry. Don’t open the door. (04:15) We’re here. Don’t worry. Call the police. We’re coming. We’re going to,” you know. And so, that is what life in Prescat is. Yeah. Yeah. It really is. 100%. So, we call it your Prescat tribe. These are people who are true blue. Uh, they even give you bone marrow. Oh, yeah. They give you blood. They give you whatever you need. (04:34) These people, nobody’s going to match me. I’m caging this. It’s going to match me and I’m not going to match anyone else. You’re screwed. But anyway, the rest of us are doing okay. We’ll Yeah, they’re going to do kidneys and all that. Not Somebody will save the rest of us. You’re on your own. But uh but no, it is true. (04:49) It is some of the the best people we’ve ever met. Um I’ve never traveled with folks. Um these these are people we travel with. We have a great time. They accept us for who we are in all of our crazy which is saying a lot which is saying a lot because we are crazy. Um and you know they just have your back. Yeah. (05:08) And it’s just not something we’ve experienced living elsewhere. But you know if you if you got a good group of friends and you don’t want to leave them behind, bring them with you. Bring them with you or at least begin to explore the possibility with them. Yeah. Uh, as we mentioned in an earlier windown that Diane and I are going to be doing some online things. Come to an online event. (05:32) Yeah. You don’t even have to come to Prescuit. Get a few people, all your friends, and jump in and see what it’s all about and we’ll chitchat. And we’ll chitchat. Yeah. And we’ll chitchat because if you are someplace that you don’t want to be, there’s no reason for you to stay there. That’s right. Find your own Prescribe here in Prescuit. (05:53) That’s exactly we sure did and a lot of our friends have as well and there’s no looking back. So anyway, you and the rest of your friends will be welcome here. Insummation. Yes. Just come here. That’s all. That’s all I’m saying. We’ll give you some good friends. And we’ll have a good time. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. (06:14) So, cheers to you. So, that’s your Prescuit tribe. Whether whether you need to bring your tribe or develop your tribe once you’re here, Prescat in Prescat, you can find a tribe. a tribe like you’ve never had before. So that’s right. It is the place to be. Yeah. So So that’s your tip of the day. Yep. (06:30) If you’re into tips, the place to go is pickle411.com. That is our free information site. Whether you are a buyer or seller or somewhere in between, there’ll be something there for you that will amaze, astound, educate, and entertain. Yeah. Like you’ve never seen. And it’s only $20. $20 a minute. 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People Who Care

Are you looking for a way to connect with people and something greater than yourself? We have the perfect volunteer opportunity for you that’ll not only give you a place to help others, but also find your community. On this week’s episode we’re joined by the one and only Bob Swelgin! Bob is on the board of directors of a very special volunteer organization called “People Who Care”. Join us as we discuss the amazing work “People Who Care” is doing for our Prescott neighbors and where you can sign up to join the cause!

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hello hello hello fellow pickle peeps this is Dian Bro but today I don’t have the better half i have an even better half Bob Swelgen cheers to you Bob well thanks Diane thank you for joining us he is uh one of our oldest and dearest friends when we moved to Prescuit uh we’ve been friends a long time we travel together and we’re still friends that’s amazing huh it is amazing so we are very very excited because uh Bob is on the board of uh directors he is the treasurer of a very very special organization here in Prescuit called (00:40) People Who Care and so Bob has been asking us hey can I come on and talk about it and we’re like of course because it’s a very valuable um community office uh service that uh his this nonprofit it’s a it’s a nonprofit organization that uh we well was put together about 35 years ago so it’s been around quite a long time we have a good number of people who provide the service of for those people who can’t uh maybe they’re not able to see so well or not ambulatory or or they just don’t like to drive or do things right we provide a (01:16) free of charge service that will take people to non-medical doctors or hospital non-medical things so just for for the for the visit not major surgery or something like that we’re not going to carry you in and out of in and out of the doctor’s office we’re not gonna sling you over and carry you and we take we’ll take pets to vets cool which is kind of cool we have some people who uh they can’t see very well and we’ll actually have volunteers who will uh go to their home and help them read their mail uh we’ll have one or two people who (01:48) actually go and help people with the personal finances and things like that and as you know this town has a very you know a large uh demographic of 65 and older so there are a lot of folks here who maybe are by themselves maybe family isn’t nearby and so they really rely on people who care to come in and help them with some of these day-to-day things that maybe become a little challenging as you get older maybe you don’t drive anymore so people who care can come over take you to the bank like he said take you to your appointments take you to the (02:20) vet but also like he was saying too if you have a new computer right exactly right if you have a have a new computer and you want to transition from one to the other we have people who will come over and help you with that if you got a new telephone you kind of figure out how to use it um would that work for me i think I’ll just say I think we’ll send we’ll send somebody over by you soon too and and get this again free service to come over so it’s uh it’s just a group of volunteers of which I think now we have (02:48) 267 active volunteers today really uh which is pretty good and we can go over budget you got a pretty good budget well we do about a $750,000 budget so we are always looking for two things one is for volunteers and also donations so it’s kind of like you know paying forward a couple ways you know we look at people who move here maybe they’re in their 60s or very active 70 or even the 50s and they want to keep busy want to do stuff so and they want to do something worthy that makes you feel good that you’re giving (03:21) to the community exactly right you want you want to contribute to people who who have a need because at some point in time as I’m I’m here nine years um yeah I look at this and say well you some point in time that may be me who has who has a need so uh I pay forward as do a lot of other people thinking that well at some point in time the community will return the favor absolutely and uh and we try to do that we have fact we have a a couple who made money for years going around the world on providing services (03:51) to do macular degeneration which is a very big problem it’s like seven to 10 7 to 10% of people over 65 have that issue absolutely unfortunately with a with an arrangement we have with the VA a VA hospital they provide some uh equipment that we utilize in our services and if people need some equipment we can actually get it to them whether it be free or if people can afford to pay we actually would like a little bit of that but if not that’s okay mhm um and we provide that services to a good number of people every year but it’s a it’s a (04:26) worthwhile organization we take care of people in a community um again it’s all free of charge now it’s unbelievable and it’s not based on financial need okay so it’s not like um you have to be a certain you know have a certain level of income or little you know no it’s open to anybody who needs help and these uh volunteers are vetted these are not people I just pull off the street hey you want to do something for us no they have a a criminal check we we do have to do a a fingerprinting and it gets cleared through the Yavapai Sheriff’s (05:00) Office uh we do personal vetting meaning if you want to come and volunteer we require a number of references that we have people who call and actually validate the fact that yeah you are a real person you are you you are what you say you are right and we do an online review as well mhm so we really make sure that we have quality people who are really here for the right reasons um and and we’ve had zero instances by the way zero instances of of any issues um in my tenure as well as all the past that I could find 35 years wow so it’s good (05:34) folks who are volunteering a good time so what is the time requirement if you are a volunteer do you have to do a certain amount of hours a week or No as a matter of fact there is no time requirement okay uh you volunteer to become available when you are available meaning uh we have a database that people who have a need can log in and say I have a need to go to the doctor’s office next Thursday or something or even this afternoon and we do have a group of people who actually assign themselves to certain volunt to certain (06:04) we call them neighbors not people in need we call neighbors right so so certain neighbors would input a need and certain volunteers would go back and fulfill that need i like that which is kind of cool if they if they can’t do it then your your response just has to be no today i can’t make it and that’s a complete sentence is just can you do it no right fine okay we’ll send it to you next time so nobody’s putting a gun to your head or nobody’s making you sign anything that says I got to do it it’s free freewheing if you would to the (06:33) point of if I can make the time to support it I’m going to go do that and if you can’t you can’t and nobody’s ever going to call you know that about the time requirement that’s great because a lot of folks are volunteering they’re they’re retired and they’re going to see grandchildren and so it’s kind of nice you have the freedom to offer when you’re here in town and if not that’s okay they’ll pass it on to someone else to come help their neighbor and we know it’s you know the times aren’t great economically so it’s you know you got (06:59) gas fee gas prices and everything else going up we do compensate the um uh the volunteers with the 67 and a half cents per mile that the government has um as their limit you can pay somebody allotted for um for this type of question but the volunteers do not get paid but they can get compensated for mileage correct correct yeah there’s Yeah volunteers are volunteers right and so they donate their time but we do compensate them for mileage because that’s more than their time right sure so it’s um I think that’s fair yeah yeah (07:33) we get Yeah we get a lot of people who um they some of them take the check some of them just sign the check back over and make a donation which we like i love that so it’s u so again it’s just a lot of good people who um make a lot of u space in their day to help others um and again it’s kind of a you know pay it forward it’ll come back in spades later I think so what so we have not only is Bob on the board but we also have a lot of friends who are not on the board but they just simply volunteer their time so (08:01) they have a set group of people that they love and they’re like you know what I would like to work with whatever Bill and I’d like to work with Shirley so put me on with but uh Bill and Shirley and they will take them out every week you know one gentleman is is uh blind so he goes to help him get his cash so he knows you know that he can be safe and protected and Yeah that’s right we have that the one gentleman you’re talking about buddy of our named Chuck know he knows which um which bank to go to which teller at the bank to go to (08:35) when this guy goes for some reason still gets checks that help Chuck helps him get out of his mail they go to this teller and she knows what to give him as far as the the currency issues and you know the $20 bills $10 bills and he makes payments but he has a jacket he always wears and he puts so much money in each pocket to know what it’s all for and then Chuck takes them home and make sure he puts those dollars in the allowed spot so his bills get paid so it’s it’s it’s kind of cool because people have a relationship together and (09:04) so they they know exactly where to go and who to go see which teller to go to it’s like friendships that people form and also you know they just become close and they help each other out which is what community should be about right so you were saying here your 2024 stats you have 267 volunteers and they work 22,000 hours you said that’s right so in um I’ll give you I’ll give you the 10ear stats because we only we go back 10 years because the data before 10 years is 10 years okay we’ve been around 35 but prior to 10 you know (09:40) we didn’t have computers and all that kind of stuff to keep track so I just look at 10 so last 10 okay the average tenure by the way of every volunteer is over five years oh wow so once they get involved with it they stay with it and so good retention good retention so they feel good about it and they’re happy with what they’re seeing volunteering they feel they’re performing a worthwhile service so we have 550 volunteers over 10 years uh 168,000 hours neighbor served again we call the person who needs our services a (10:10) neighbor right um 2240 wow we’ve driven over 1.4 million miles in that process wow and provided uh services 72,000 times um that’s a lot and if you take it $25 an hour being an hour per service that’s about 44 and a4 million worth of um services provided free of charge wow uh now right now we have like 267 um in in 2024 we’ve driven 22,000 miles uh 321 personal paperwork helps i need that and um and 330 just wellness calls oh wow so if people just would like to get a call to make sure they’re okay sure we do that oh I love that i know (10:57) that that’s nice and you did 204 help with tech devices so I would like someone to come help me with my personal paperwork and tech devices how about taxes yeah we’ll help you with taxes soon as I get somebody to help me with my Exactly you don’t do everything in other words you do a lot you do a lot we do a lot it makes you feel good when you do it and you see people who are very very happy to receive it and like I said I think it’s great as you look at people who may move to Prescuit this is something that they they may look at and (11:28) say you know what maybe I I want to keep busy here’s something I can keep busy with um you know when when they decide it’s time to make a donation at the end of the year maybe they’ll think of us also and I think it’s great too i mean it’s just you really do form close personal relationships with these folks and you can do as much or as little as you want um but you do get close and they’re very appreciative you you get something out of it you feel great and you you feel worthy i mean a lot of folks who you know retire are like “What (11:58) am I going to do with myself?” This is something that makes you feel good exactly right we’ll have people who just come by the office we have a very nice office um in in office it’s off of Gurley okay you get past the bowling alley and go almost to the woods yeah yeah a very nice office complex uh off to the side we had uh someone donate a good Well fact it was a legacy donation we didn’t even know what was going to happen till this woman passed and it wind up we had a large amount of money wow and we also had a person who uh was (12:32) in owned the building that we are now in who decided that you know he really likes people who care and his son was utilizing people who care as he was challenged and needed some help a so we got one heck of a deal on the office we got one heck of a deal on somebody helping us with the financing and now we have offices we rent out to other people as well because it’s a pretty pretty goodized place so you’d be impressed if you came by to see the office i would like to so the other the other good thing is is that um with people who care anyway the other good thing is it’s not just locals who are uh donating you know money towards this worthy cause but there’s al that the hospital is donating a ton of money to people who care we get (13:43) a lot of um donations through grants the hospital will give us a grant u some wealthy people in the area make a point of giving us a grant every year we do other things to raise money we have a golf tournament every year out at the club of Prescott Lakes yay which is a great a great fun event cheers to that absolutely and uh we’re going to have a gayla or had have had gaylas to support the organization um auctions and things like that that’s coming up so we try to keep ourselves um active as we can we try to give more people awareness (14:16) community awareness and that’s why I appreciate you letting letting me speak about this today well he’s a good friend and he’s a good friend good person and uh you know anybody who’s out there and who really wants to get involved this is a worthy worthy cause and uh it’s just great absolutely please uh people who care just go people who care. (14:38) org we’ll give you more information on the on the organization um and you look for more and more information as you get to Prescuit um if you need some help um Diane can get you in touch with me and we will and we will uh grab you and suck you into people who care because you’re going to have a great time and feel much value to yourself and to your soul and give back to the community absolutely so for and for those of you out there who are thinking I do need some help they can call uh people who care. (15:08) org or Absolutely they can look there you go to peoplecare.org and Well when you do that that’s easier to say than phone numbers you’ll see a number there you can call that number and get Meredith will be answering the phone to support you um or just peoplecare.org and send a message via that so any neighbors out there who are thinking gosh this is something I need i really I kind of need some help um I’m here by myself this is great we’re here they’re here to help you um and I know a lot of people on the board and just friends who are volunteers good (15:39) good folks and they just want to give back to the community so we can’t speak highly enough about it and we hope that you reach out to us if you need help or if you just want to be a good volunteer this is it that’s it we’re always looking for you know volunteers looking for donations yep i like donations absolutely donations are always good busy and you’re a crazy realtor like we are there’s no doubt about that it’s hard to even go on a vacation with you guys without you guys being on the phone i know it’s terrible but uh but you know (16:10) at least we could make donations which you know what i’m going to do that now because I think it’s a great great uh great thing and um yeah we run matching programs uh at the end of the year which is just getting over today with being tax day um well we’re just just getting over earlier and um you can do that as far as you know getting matching donations prior to the tax issues you can um put things into your into your will which we encourage people to do if you’re going to pass money on to someone um please do it for us (16:43) for an organization that can help so again if you’re real busy with time make a good donation if you are have a lot of time and you want to do something worthy donate you donate your time and your services we need it and we have a great community here of folks who’ve been here maybe 20 years and maybe now they need a little extra help so this is a worthy cause and we’re happy to help you and happy to do it and I know these people i can vouch personally for them all they’re good people well thank you for the help i appreciate it you’re welcome (17:13) so again what is that people who care.org people who care.org uh please check us out see what you think um Diane and Randall I’m sure will be um communicating with me as you give them a call and say “I want to volunteer my time i want to volunteer my money i want to volunteer or I need someone to help me out. (17:32) ” Yes whether it’s you know reading or vision or driving to the get your pet to the vet uh get me to the doctor’s office absolutely and remember it is not based on financial need it’s just to help anyone who maybe needs a little extra help does not matter on your finances or your situation we’re just here to help our our older community all right well thank you Bob we’re so glad you came i appreciate it all right cheers to that cheers to people who care and you better call us all right we look forward to hearing from you take care bye bye

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Pasties at the Fed

You read that right! If you’re looking for a night of acrobatic tricks, live music, and pasties, then get yourself on over to Prescott’s very own “The Federal” aka “The Fed.” Join us this week as we regale you with our experience of being elders in the crowd, as well as what to expect from this night of burlesque fun.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello peeps and welcome to the Randol and Dian bro show. No, not really. But anyway, we are your local friendly realtor couple here in Prescuit. She’s the Prescuit pickle lady. I am her sidekick or girkin or he is. And so we like to uh bring you guys, welcome you to Prescuit, take you around, find you a great house and show you what life is all about here. Yes. (00:26) So, something interesting we just discovered and we went to with former clients, now friends. Shout out to Cheryl and Mike. Thanks for being good sports and coming with us. It was an interesting night. Interesting night at the Fed. So, let’s start at the Fed. Yeah. So, the Fed is the Federal and uh it used to be a uh a post office. (00:50) Well, no, no. Upstairs was the courthouse. Courthouse. Well, I’ve never been above it was the courthouse. When we first moved here, it was a post office. So you there were people working there. Post office downstairs. This still operates as post office. Yes. Do they wear pasties at the post office? Well, I guess they could. It’s acceptable now. (01:08) It’s acceptable now. Okay. All right. You can express yourself. No body shame. I get it. Hey, everybody’s welcome. Hey, it’s okay. So, evidently it’s still a post office, but upstairs there is a event venue called the Federal. Yes. And it’s the old like there’s one room they call the jury room. (01:27) I assume at one point there were juries in there and there’s like a the stage area I think used to be a courtroom. Yes, that’s what I just said. It was like a that’s where the judge sat and preided. So that’s that’s on like the second or third floor. What’s what’s above that? Do you know? I don’t know. Nobody knows. (01:45) Nobody knows the Yeah. Nobody knows. But the fed is on I think it’s second floor. Third floor. I forget. Go. We walked up the stairs. It doesn’t matter. It’s on the second floor. On the second floor. It’s important. It’s a pretty pretty pretty venue. So, if you walk up the stairs and you get to the Fed, don’t keep climbing the stairs. Yeah. (02:02) Stop because you’ve hit the right place. So, it’s a cool venue. I had never been to it before. Uh, great for bands, kind of self-contained. Yeah. Uh, I’m sure you can rent the place out if you have your own event you want to do there. And just really kind of cool. It was a just a really cool space. (02:20) And what was going on there is um perhaps difficult to describe. Right. And I have heard about this, but I had never participated. And so our our friends Mike and Cheryl said, “Hey, have you heard there’s a burlesque show here in Prescuit?” I said, “You know, I’ve heard about it, but are you for real? Where? I’ve never I never knew that such a thing really happened. (02:40) I’d heard rumor.” She goes, “Oh, no. It’s a real show and it’s about once a year.” So I’m like, “You know what? For shits and giggles, we should go. Let’s go.” So we did. We went. So, we did. And I I mean, I should know better because I’m from New Orleans. I should totally have known the difference between burlesque and drag. I learned differently. Yeah. (02:59) Yeah. We were kind of thinking it was going to be a drag show. That’s what I thought. It was not. It The people wearing pasties were um actual young ladies. Real women. Real women. And not all of them were wearing pasties, but a fair number of them were. Yeah. Uh crazy show. (03:16) It was It was called The Forbidden Garden. Yeah. And it last the show lasted for so I should talk about the group first. So young people uh evidently there are some here in Prescuit and most of them performed in this burlesque show I think. Uh either that or they were in the audience. So it’s obviously a very young vibe but uh everyone was very friendly even though you know we we were older. (03:42) They were very accepting of very accepting of the old folks. Yeah. So you know thank you for that. Thank you for that pretending for making us feel welcome. Yeah, make us feel welcome. That’s always good. But it was a a fantastic show. It was completely created by themselves. They made a great It was almost two hours and they had a lot of acrobats. (04:01) Uh they had a lot of dancing. They had a lot of uh singing. They had musicians. So essentially it was a old like the old variety shows. So they had uh they had they had a rig set up where uh I don’t know what it’s called, but this woman sort of wraps herself in a net and then kind of climbs up and you guys know when you do yogurt yogurt yogurt. (04:24) When you do yogurt, you start to spiral. You do yoga. Yoga uh with all the silks and the the scarves and all. You know, kind of impressive. Yeah, very impressive. I just don’t know what they call it. And then they had a uh a couple that were on uh a trapeze and they they were quite wonderful, too. Very acrobatic. (04:45) Uh very interesting. They had uh guitar player. They had u some pole girls uh spinning around around very impressive. Tremendous upper arm strength. And then basically dancers. They had a number of dancers. That’s where the pasties came from. And uh dancing. Really hard for you. What? It was really hard for you and and Mike to watch the pasties. Yeah, I know. (05:11) I know. Pasties anger me. Not really. So anyway, that they uh all very talented people kind of strung together by a matraee. She kind of had an ongoing uh ongoing thing where she would do some readings and talk and kind of interact with the audience I guess while the next Zach was getting ready and then they would come on. (05:33) So basically a traditional it was kind of like a mini it was like a mini circus sole. Yeah. Yeah. And here in Prescuit you wouldn’t think there’d be such a thing. There was It was well done, professionally executed. Yeah, it was like a mini, like I said, cirus here in Prescuit. Definitely an avanguard uh absolutely feel. (05:56) Uh you know, they had projection, things were projected on the wall and and beautiful. Yeah, it was it was uh really interesting. Really different. It was a good show. Yeah. And so we had a great time. I think we were the oldest people there, but hey, that’s okay. You know, we’re hip and happening. We’ll we’ll check it out and let everybody know. (06:13) Yeah, we had a good time. So, if you were living here in Prescat, I highly recommend check out the Fed. Check out the different shows. There’s always really interesting, cool things coming. We’ve got a whole vibe here of very, very, you know, artsy, fartsy, very intelligent young people who are very creative putting out some really nice works. (06:34) Creative avanguard kind of thing. Yeah. You wouldn’t expect it in a little western town, but but we got They’re there and they they were great. They were. So anyway, hats off to them. Thank you for the show. We had a wonderful time. Thanks Mike and Cheryl for telling us about it and we had a good time. We had a great time. (06:50) And also they gave out free succulents. Remember that? Yeah. We got succulent. They had a chick with a instead of cocktails in her hoop, she had little baby succulents. Little baby succulents. There was a lady there just sort of randomly painting the whole time. I didn’t understand what that was, but okay. (07:08) Everyone was kind of going watching her work, you know. As I said, avant guard, you know, but we we enjoyed it. But we did it. So anyway, so if you’re coming here to Prescuit, keep your ears open and try some of this stuff. It’s actually pretty cool. Yeah, you’d be amazed at what’s here. Absolutely. (07:26) So now that’s our tip of the day. If you like tips, the place to go is our free information site. Whether you are a buyer, seller, or somewhere in between, the place to go is pickle 411. There you will find things that will amaze, astound, educate, and entertain you to no end. Yes. And on your you will find no pictures of us with pasties. (07:47) That is not not available. We thought about it and we had to we had to recall. We’re getting special requests. Maybe too many complaints. Maybe too many complaints. All right. Thank you for listening and we hope to see you at one of these cool shows one day. Take care and have a great rest of your day. Bye bye.

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Bridgeway (Prescott Lakes) Home Sold for $1,075,000

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Fuming Over FIVR

Looking for the safest water heater on the market? Our favorite home inspector Matt recommends getting one with FIVR – find out why in this video!

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Hello Hello peeps Diana Randall Bro here I am the pickle lady She is indeed Are your friendly husband and wife realtor team coming to you from Prescat Arizona. Um we wanted to talk to you about something interesting We learned about it a few years ago but have recently gotten re-educated and so we wanted to share it with you Something you may not know Um there are different types of hot water heaters that can be installed in a home Um one is your traditional open flame hot water heater Um that we all know and are used to from mom and dad’s house all the way to present homes There’s also something called a Fiverr. Yes FIVR FIVR And I lost my note but as I recall it stands for fully integrated variable resistance Resistance So backing up a little bit um I don’t know if any of you saw there was a a Mythbusters episode where they launched a hot water heater into uh it it they built a house around a hot water heater and got it to explode Yeah And it uh it launched like a rocket I mean it was unbelievable the power You’re talking about 50 gallons of water that are being overheated You’re talking about a very dangerous kind of thing Yes So hot water safety has always been important And this fiverr thing has uh is kind of the latest iteration of improvements of improvement Also you have your tankless hot water heater Yeah the tankless hot water heater There are three different types So it’s not very often that you see a fiverr Um but we kind of wanted to talk about it and explain why it is safer than most other units So the So one of the things about it that makes it well first of all it’s a lot more efficient Uh it doesn’t use as much uh energy and uh and all that but it’s the thing that we wanted to focus on is really safety issues right so uh it it does have a tank I mean it is a traditional water tank just like we’re used to seeing Just like you’re used to seeing So it’s not tankless but the uh combustion elements of it are fully contained Self-contained Self-contained So unlike the traditional hot water heater where you see that little flame blow and you see it sitting on a on a on a Yeah And the pilot Yeah And the pilot light and all of that sitting up above ground This is not Yeah this is not So most uh uh hot water heaters now are uh kept in the garage Uh they used to be kept in the roof and then when they leak they would destroy things So eventually they made their way into garages Most garage hot water heaters you’ll see are mounted a couple of feet off the ground Used to be 18 in 18 in That’s the That’s the minimum Say it’s 12 to 16 Yeah But it used to be 18 It had to be 18 in above the ground And the reason why Yeah. The reason why is you have fumes in a garage So you’ve got automobiles in there Uh there’s gasoline you know and any number of other things Well those those fumes from gasoline and the like they tend to hug the ground Yes So the idea was let’s let’s raise the height of the hot water heater and the combustion elements therein so that it does not ignite these fumes accidentally Correct Accidentally and and that’s why it’s Yeah And that’s why it’s off the ground Absolutely When it’s a traditional hot water heater Yeah It’s off the ground It should always be off the ground for that reason But now now we we ran into at least one hot water heater that’s mounted on the ground uh completely up the code Took us a while to to uh research it Uh when we first saw it it was I think a brand new technology or at least I had never even heard of it Yeah we had not Uh now we’re starting to see more in some of the newer homes Uh but uh the the the combustion unit is completely self-contained There’s no open flame So there is no way that it can ignite fumes In addition it has fume detection technology so that when it Yeah that’s pretty cool If it even even fumes that you can’t smell that might be flammable it will shut down the unit if that is the case Um so it it’s a first ran across this we have an uh an extraordinarily great and very thorough home inspector Matt Gormer Hats off to you Shout out to Matt National National Inspection National Inspection Yeah We just call him Matt We just call him Matt He’s great Yeah And so when we ran across this he’s like “Hm I want to investigate this further.” So he did And that’s when we learned all about the Fiverr unit He goes “Actually this is okay.” And it’s pretty cool Yeah It’s like Randall was saying it’s self-contained It has an automatic shut off if it does detect fumes Um pretty cool Yeah um it seems to be a little more advanced than your traditional hot water heater So he said it’s fine He checked city permits It was all okay It was permitted The city said okay So we felt really good about it But for some of you out there who were like “Why isn’t it off the ground why doesn’t it have this what it doesn’t have?” Yeah You’ll have plumbers even licensed plumbers who’ve been in the business for decades they’ll come in take one look at it and say “Oh that needs to be raised.”Uh so evidently they’re they’re not people don’t know that much about them. Maybe maybe in some areas of the country they’re more common right uh obviously they’re they’re going to be a lot more common in new construction than existing construction that’s like 20 years old So you won’t see it probably in a home that’s you know you know yeah 20 years old You’re not going to see it You’re not going to see it Now that being said if if you’re building a house you might want to might want to consider one a lot safer a lot more efficient and you don’t have this thing standing up you know that that 2 feet off the ground I think it’s pretty cool that even though it’s self-contained it can still sense bad fumes and shut the unit off Yeah that’s pretty cool That’s pretty amazing Now the only the only thing is if you uh if you have a hot water heater in your garage it’s 2 feet off the ground So if you if you don’t break in time and you hit you know you go forward too far you’re going to probably hit the two-foot uh uh platform Yeah Uh rather than the uh the hot water heater itself With a hot water heater on the ground you’re going to hit the hot water heater and that’s dangerous So if you do have a hot water heater that’s mounted on the ground you’re going to need a parking stop If you have a fiber also you will not be allowed a permit or a certificate of occupancy unless you have that bolster that ballard whatever to prevent a car you know car from going from going into it So it’s a safety thing Um you’re not going to get okay to move into the house until that’s in place That’s in place So no big deal but it’s there and it protects you It protects your car It protects you from running into it Um so yeah it’s pretty cool Yeah So uh just want to tell you when you’re looking at homes and there are three different types Your old traditional that’s off the ground Your more advanced Fiverr FIVR yeah that will be on the ground. That’s okay Don’t panic Don’t freak out It’s all good And then of course there’s your tankless Tankless Now we we do not have any experience with tankless personally Uh those are pretty common out there A lot of you probably do use tankless We’d be interested in hearing from you on what you think of your tankless hot water heater We’re thinking about getting one here just because somebody I know takes uh long hot baths and those baths tend to take all the hot water for a couple hours So we’ve been kind of talking about a tankless hot water heater but I know they’re a lot more expensive Yeah more expensive And uh I just I I just been interested in hearing people’s reaction to what they think want to hear the best Is the water piping hot or you know and that kind of thing Yeah Yeah So let us know Just wanted to kind of give you guys an education on the Fiverr Fiverr hot water heater Yeah Don’t panic if you’re going into a home that’s newer construction and you see that you think they did that wrong It’s not installed right It is Yes And I can guarantee you any city willnever give you a certificate ofoccupancy or pass a permit on a home that was not safe and did not allow a Fiverr unit New Orleans might I don’t know There might be some cities out there New Orleans maybe True But um if you get the inspector drunk he might give it to you I don’t know That’s But anyway most cities uh are not going to permit your home and allow you to even move in especially if you’re building the home Yeah Unless everything is checked off and confirmed with the city So if you see one on the ground don’t panic Don’t freak out Do some homework on it Uh contact Chad GPTShe’ll tell you all about it in a lovely. British accent Yes which is optional If you don’t like British accents you don’t have to have British It’s all good You can do whatever you want Yes All right my friends That is our little educational section about the Fiverr hot water heater Hope you guys are doing well and having a fabulous day And uh now you have another little tidbit to file away in that noggin All right take are Have a good day Bye bye

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Granite Shadows (Yavapai) Home Sold for $334,000

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Travel Study

Who loves to vacation? WE DO! Who likes to do intensive research and make a travel itinerary? NOT US. On this week’s episode we share a hot tip on how to create the perfect itinerary without any of the hard work.

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a little when now it’s recording hello hello peeps diane and Randall Bro here she’s the pickle lady coming to you our dog Molly is joining us that’s okay sweet pup Molly Lee yeah we’re practicing uh uh positive parenting today so she’s here she likes to be part of the the filming yeah absolutely so if we don’t let her be a part of it you’ll just hear a lot of barking and whining in the background so we decided hey let’s try this and see how this works so here she is so today we’re sharing something that has nothing to do with (00:35) real estate but it’s so cool I thought I would share it with all of you uh we’re going on a trip uh to Europe and uh long cruise and all this other kind of stuff and I just thought wouldn’t it be cool to spend the time between you know now and then uh just kind of boning up on the areas that we’re going the history the food uh the wine the culture you know the things that you you don’t want to miss you know that kind of stuff etc etc etc etc so I sat down with my best friend Chat GPT his favorite thing favorite thing all you nerds out there (01:16) oh my god chat GPT chat GPT lovely lovely so I asked her I said um you know we’re going on this trip and uh she looked up the itinerary for me and I said you know based on where we’re going what do you think we need to know you know what what kind of stuff should we bone up on so she gave me a list we worked on the list a little bit of course I put food and drink at the top of the list and then I said “Okay given that uh give me one YouTube video a week to watch so that by the time the the trip comes I’m you know I’m well (01:53) educated.” And she did so we’re sharing that with everyone’s going on the trip with us and uh this is this week is the first week that I have a video and uh I’m excited about it so I thought we’d share that pretty cool i mean she does a great job it’s pretty stressfree i I mean it’s easy yeah you just tell her what you want and this chick Yeah cranks it out now I made the mistake of asking her for books to read oh my god if I read all the books I would be you know that that wasn’t such a good idea but YouTube videos are perfect because you (02:26) don’t have to wait for the show to show on TV you just anytime you’re ready you load it up and you watch one of them you watch one a week and by that time you uh you will be a well-informed traveler so uh so I mean this can apply to any trip yeah any trip at all anything you know it’s pretty cool you just plug it in tell her what you want and Well I was going to say something else but I’m not going to say that word because it’s you know a naughty word but that will crank it up she will she will she did a great job (02:56) she will you know fine-tune it hone in on exactly what you want to look at and then you can just enjoy it until your trip comes up the same thing can apply if you’re coming to press kit yeah well you don’t have to i Well you could you don’t have to you could uh if you’re coming to Prescat and you want to bone up on all things Prescat uh we’ve already done that for you if you go to prescatrelocation center. (03:22) com uh that is our information site uh all things Prescuit things to do restaurants uh day tra day trips nail salons i mean it’s all there we have it all on our website for sure but it would be good for you if you wanted to add a little something else to it you know do the chat GPT she may teach you something we don’t even know about yeah and it could be really really cool for you so anyway we’re just excited any big trip you’re taking explore Chad GPT and kind of find some interesting things that you can learn about where you’re going and and (04:01) kind of bone up on everything before you even arrive yeah so you’re an expert and also don’t wear the white socks and tennis shoes that give you away as an American if you’re going overseas unless you’re going to Germany and in which case you would you would pass as a native yeah you can wear your Crocs your Birkenstocks with socks you’ll be just fine but other than that chat GPT you know I don’t know if she’ll give you that kind of helpful advice like we will but yeah well you probably could you could say you know I’m going to Croatia (04:31) in March what should I wear you know uh she’ll help you with things like that it is fascinating it is fascinating so we are so excited and we just thought let’s share this with everybody out there yeah absolutely and it’s kind of fun it is a lot of fun so anyway you can also apply to us or you can get a lot of information about Prescuit just off of our website prescater relocationcenter. (04:52) com there you go hope to hear from you soon and uh we’d love to tour you around our great town and uh free of charge yeah that’s right free of charge that’s right all right see you soon have a great day bye bye i think

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Ponderosa Park (Prescott) Home Sold for $479,000

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Prescott by the Numbers – March 2025

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Year Without Winter

WINTER IS COMING…next year…maybe. WINTER IS COMING…next year…maybe. We had a low snow winter this year, but who knows what the future holds! Join us this week as we discuss what to expect this spring in Prescott and what city has a similar climate to Prescott…you’ll be shocked by what the AI bot told us! We had a low snow winter this year, but who knows what the future holds! Join us this week as we discuss what to expect this spring in Prescott and what city has a similar climate to Prescott…you’ll be shocked by what the AI bot told us!

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hello hello hello hello peeps diane and Randall Bro here coming to you live from beautiful Prescuit she’s the Prescuit pickle lady i’m her sidekick yes i thought you were gonna say you’re my son i was like wait what i just heard a and I was like wait wait wait what no I’m not not the son no no I don’t that would be miraculous right so anyway we are here uh enjoying this beautiful spring day and we’re here to talk about our crazy year without winter yes so we are now in spring uh so spring is officially over uh people are running out to uh to (00:42) buy plants and everything still a little early for that uh the rule is the rule you never plant anything until Mother’s Day right that’s right until after Mother’s Day even though the the temperature is perfect it’s beautiful um you know your blood’s warming up you’re feeling good don’t fall into that trap because we always have one more little cold snap or one little light snow even beginning of May but it may not happen because this year was an exceptionally dry snowfree winter yes very bizarre so I think there were (01:19) maybe four or five snows maybe four snow not even that much i don’t think we missed two of them we were out of town in I guess it was late January early February and we had a little snow we missed it completely by the time we got back it was all completely gone and then we went out of town again when was that i don’t remember but we we missed two snowfalls two snowfalls and then uh we got back and I want to say a week or two later we had we had we had one more little dust they said they just had three snows three you know reasonable (01:54) snows yeah um where the snow actually stuck little bit i think we had like an inch or two nothing major yeah gone within hours you know it was kind of pretty yeah yeah just enough to be beautiful and then of course by 2:00 it was all gone yeah highly unusual though for us to go that you know have a winter and only have two or three snows very strange usually we have one um every 3 weeks so it’s kind of strange yeah yeah very little precipitation very little precipitation i think we’re starting to catch up for lost time we get most of (02:28) our precipitation in uh July August when the monsoons start right uh but we’re starting to get it now the same thing happened last year the the rains came a bit early uh so I don’t know i guess people are stirring the pot and the weather is changing but it was it was odd yeah i myself love a nice chilly willy cold winter i love snow days it reminds me of being back home in the south when we would have hurricane days hurricane days yeah i like a good little snowfall where everybody has to stay home no traveling love that drink coffee (03:01) drink coffee but unfortunately really didn’t happen too much this year so uh we’re a little low on water but hopefully we’ll have a pretty healthy monsoon season we shall see so when you’re thinking about our town and you’re like “Oh they get a lot of snow in the winter.” Really not so really not so um this year exceptionally not so we we really did not have hardly Yeah hardly any snow so it was it was just chilly so I asked artificial intelligence what major city could I compare Prescuit to so people get an idea of what (03:36) winter’s are like and she because the voice is female she says Denver’s a good uh good comparison only because it’s dry now Denver gets a lot more snow than we say yeah not nearly that cold that girl’s wrong yeah we we I think we get about a foot of snow a year and they get I don’t know like six 60 inch like was that five feet way more yeah a lot more snow than AI chick was wrong but she said “Well it’s it’s a lot of sun it’s not overcast. (04:08) ” And that’s true denver’s nice and sunny during the winter so is Prescuit and it’s dry it’s not damp and cold uh usually not so and Denver is nice and dry um so uh not that harsh i don’t think our winters are as windy as Denver but there you go if you’re familiar with kind of what it’s like in Denver during the summer I mean during the winter uh that’s similar to Prescuit so if you were thinking I wonder how Prescuit is like during this during the winter well you should know this was uh a strange one yeah um sometimes we even have a first snowfall Thanksgiving maybe (04:40) one at Christmas none of that i think we were well into maybe towards the end of January end of January if I recall before we got any snow so um it’s not crazy here it’s not blizzards it’s not you know you’re not snowbound it’s just enough and this year was exceptionally yep uh nice if you’re not a fan of snow yep uh you would have made it you would have loved it it was great yeah we went through the trouble of leaving town uh we went down to Mexico we went over to Florida and um not not well we did miss the the first the little snows that were (05:17) here but uh yeah not a not a winter you really had to do a whole lot of escaping so uh we’re hoping we get our precipitation up and we get some good monsoons fill up our reservoirs and uh life will be good again it’s been a little dry so we’re looking forward to a little moisture but just wanted to tell you it was kind of a year without winter year without winter what is it in Game of Thrones what do they call it uh I don’t know you know that saying the winter’s coming well yeah we didn’t have it so winter did not come here (05:49) there you go winter’s coming not not impressed not so much yeah maybe next year yeah no zombies either no zombies well that’s another that’s another show yeah that’s another show no zombies i mean there are some older people but yeah they could pass but technically they’re not the undead so they’re not really zombies true all right anyway uh we hope to see you this spring and summer so that you’ll be moved here so you can maybe enjoy a year with winter yes coming up yes we have a little time to go with that but anyway (06:26) hope to see you then and uh come visit us soon we’d love to show you around and show you what our town is all about absolutely all right i hope to hear from you and you can check us out at Oh that’s our free information site uh pickle411.com whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’ll be something there waiting for you that will amaze astound educate and entertain there you go there’s that fourth adjective i always look entertain well maybe and it’s It will only cost you 20 bucks no it won’t no it won’t it’s (06:59) absolutely free absolutely free all right friends hope to hear from you soon and hope you have a fantastic day bye bye

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