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no we’re very French to lot of guttural sounds trying to sound French I’m Randall this is Diane our last name is bro we’re sort of French mostly cajan mostly K she’s the pickle lady we’re here in Prescot Arizona we’re both real estate agents and we’re here bringing you Vital Information very vital yes VV very vital very vital VV yeah VV today we’re going to talk about lot lock boxes which doesn’t sound like an exciting thing and it isn’t and it isn’t I hate lock boxes I’m going to be honest I they are the bane of my existence um but as an agent and and so this is really directed towards our clients who are getting ready to sell yeah um we’re going to give you some advice because they always say I don’t want a lock box on my front door I don’t want my neighbors to see it I don’t want this I don’t want that and I get that but as an agent showing many buyers many homes in one day there’s nothing worse than arriving at a home and you cannot find the lock box yes where is it where have they put it I found it in a tree I found it uh on the gas meter which can be dangerous if you do that sometimes you can pop something off on that I found it I’ve had one agent who put it between the security door and the main door and when you closed the security door it got trapped and then you couldn’t open the door yes so uh it gets rather dicey and especially when it’s uh snowing or it’s broiling and you’re like where is the lock box unlike a lot of the unlike a lot of the listing agents in the preset area we do a lot of buyers too yes we do do both so we know the buying process really really well and we’re here to tell you that lock boxes and the way you do your lock boxes is very very important it’s kind of part of the selling process it is if you have an agent like me and I’m standing there and some people have much older lock boxes and I’ve actually had one agent you know because I see you had trouble with the lock box again well you know what at some point I’m just going to give up and not even show your house so it’s important um have your lock boxes you know working and functioning and it really sets a bad example or a bad Vibe when you show up with a buyer and it takes you 15 minutes to get in the house they lose it they’re like okay I don’t even want to see it now yes cuz your home might be like number seven that day you know yeah so uh for our future sellers if we say hey let’s put the lock box someplace convenient my other favorite thing is when they put it on the on the um railing of a porch and then you have to get on your hands and knees and bend over that’s great that’s a lot of fun too so try to make it easy convenient tell when we tell you we have a nice little cushion thing that we put on the back of the door so it doesn’t bang on your door and Mark it um you know just try to put it someplace convenient and uh so people can get to it easily do not do combo boxes H nobody wants to have to call the agent oh my God I’m standing out here what’s the code what’s the code always it’s l so the basic the basic process is you you you know you make the appointment you you the appointment’s confirmed you go up to the door you punch in the the the you know the connect to the door it opens you’re in the house that’s what you want don’t do a combo box because most agents that you know they don’t notice that there’s a combo box they lose the combination or they don’t know to ask for the combination now they’re calling the selling agent trying to get the combination box listen lock boxes are cheap you think they’re like $300 a piece they’re not they’re like 50 bucks or something you don’t have to secure them nobody’s going around stealing lock boxes you know sometimes you said they chain them to things I’m like oh my God you know so this is really uh dedicated and directed to our future sellers so if you’re calling us to help you sell um we’re going to advise you where to put your lock box and how to do it and just follow our lead um and let’s not do anything special now wor comes the wor just put it on the ground beside the front door but that’s silly too no nobody’s going to walk up what that’s better than the railing the railing I gotta bend over you know just if it’s on the ground I can pick it up I can deal with and put it right back down and so I think for a lot of our potential sellers out there too there’s a lot of fear like people will be able to get the key and get in my house they really can’t um it’s all designed through your phone uh they have special codes that they have to enter it communicates to the lock box and you have to punch it in and it’s a whole process and then you can release the but the key um and it’s all logged yes so you know which agent is doing it at what time what day and and how long were they in there looking at your house which is another thing we do have some clients who do not want to lock box at all it’s important to have it we want to be able to see who’s in your house and how long so if you’ve got a buyer who goes in there and they’re in there 45 minutes that’s a good buying signal so we know they’re interested if you got somebody who goes in and and they’re out in five minutes then we know that didn’t go well so it’s kind of also a psychological thing and kind of see how your home is being received by other buyers so and don’t do a CVS code oh my God defeats the purpose of the lock box don’t put a CBS code well you need a CBS code for contractors for contractors not for the Don’t Force the agents to do agents don’t want to have to like a combo box it defeats the purpose of the lock box that’s a lot of work it is a lot of work when you’re out there showing 7 to 10 homes it’s tiring so you want to be able to get up there and knock it out and and the vast majority of sellers do not require CVS code so you’re not looking for CVS code again your house number seven and yours has a CVS code yeah not a good idea yes so anyway for our future sellers give us a call we love to sell your home we’ve got a lot of different little um plans to help you sell and uh some of our advice about lock boxes and stuff like that and we want to make it as simple and painless as possible if you’re interviewing selling agents listing agents ask about the lock boxes they’re more important than you think absolutely and just you’re asking about the lock box will uh signal to the uh the listing agent you know what you’re talking about that’s right you’re Sav it’s important you’ve been schooled yeah okay friends um if you’re thinking about selling give us a call we you we got plenty of lock boxes we got plenty of lock boxes we know how to use them that’s right and we do it the right way all right nice to uh well I guess I haven’t seen you but anyway nice to have this little hear my voice maybe not but nice to visit with you and we hope to hear from you soon take care bye bye

good morning morning peeps good morning good morning good morning good you musical theater there we go she’s pickle lady her sidekick skunk Pig we uh realtor here in Prescot Arizona and we’re coming at you live that’s right well that’s recording but we’re recorded it live yeah yeah alive now we’re not dead so not yet I would not make a good video yeah that could be interesting could be on one of those crime shows the case of the Miss Missing realtor so this is this is they get rid of you right away there you go they’d take me but they’d leave him yeah I think they would this is uh this is a video primarily for sellers primarily for sellers so uh you put your home on the market you price it kind of where you think it should be maybe a little higher than what you think it ought to be uh give you a wiggle room I’ve heard the the wiggle room a lot wiggle wiggle and then you get your first offer and the offer is not what you think it ought to be right most people think um we’re back in covid times when things were booming and then you’d get 10 offers and you were coming in way over price that’s over okay so you have to adjust your expectation yes we’re kind of back to the old-fashioned days again where maybe you might get one or two offers um but people are really not coming in over uh and some aren’t even coming ask if the house is brand new on the market uh they might come in and ask because they know you’ve barely been on the market and they want to wrap it up if it’s been on the market much longer than that um they might want to nip a little bit and then you as the seller will say well I don’t want a nip I want I want what happened in Co Let It Go yes let it go let it go that’s a song any I know that I know that so one of the uh one of the old adages of real estate and maybe you’ve heard this is that usually your first offer is your best offer yep which sounds counterintuitive uh and people have heard it but most people don’t believe it so we thought we’d talk about why that is yeah why first is probably going to be your best especially if your first offer is Cash yeah honestly Take the Money and Run yes do not quibble and go back and forth um you irritate you know the especially if you’re the buyer if you keep trying to go back and forth and renegotiate after a while the seller shuts down and says never mind so go in with your best and final the best that you can and if you want to nip them a little bit that’s fine but if it’s cash and you’re the seller you really should grab that yes seller I mean if you get an offer that’s all cash and maybe it isn’t coming in at 500,000 that you wanted but it’s coming in at 480 you’re quibbling at that point grab it um particularly now that now that our price points are getting higher and higher you know it’s it’s if you’re selling a home for $250,000 $20,000 is a lot if you’re selling a home for one and a half million $20,000 in the scheme of things is not so much let that go let that go and just especially cash is King as we all know you’ll have a faster close it’s not subject to appraisal um it it it just is a much simpler faster process so if you pass on that and say no you know uh I wanted 20,000 more you may sit in the market another four or five weeks of Hell of showing your house and keeping it clean till that next buyer comes along so if it’s within reason I would never say if they come in 100,000 less oh yeah no absolutely not I mean what’s fair is fair yes but you know yeah well the thing is too you think okay well if I turn this offer down they’re going to think about it a few days and they’re going to come back to me no they’re going to go look at other homes they will because they’ll be irritated and they’re like I gave you a great offer and it was all cash really or you know we have a good loan and we’re just we’re putting down a huge down payment this is a good offer um it kind of turns people off very rarely will they come back and circle back so our deal is if we think it’s a really fair and decent price and within reason and reasonable yes just take it and and I I mean I’ve sold many houses of my own it’s torture you know that it’s torture when you’re out there trying to sell a house and keep it clean and leave and and people know that yeah and people know that and so if you get a really reasonable good offer I I you know we always say think about this hard don’t just shoot it down and and here’s the other thing this is the reason why your first offer is usually your best first first of all particularly in presc first of all in Prescot now that CO’s over it is very rare for us to have a bidding war buyers for the most part are coming in from out of town they’re not they’re not here if you’re in a place like Phoenix and all the buyers are already in Phoenix they’re there they can fight with one another generally you know you deal with one buyer at a time as they come in town so the the bidding war thing has gotten very over so you know swallow that and digest that that’s an important piece of information the other is uh there are people out there they refuse to pay list price they’re going to nip you either a little bit or a lot they’re not going to be this just against their religion okay so think about these people for a minute if you have been on the market for one day how much are they going to nip you not much CU you just went on the market it’s a new home it’s still got a lot of showings and you’re not tired of selling yet you’ve been on the home you’ve been on the market for 90 days now they’re going to nip you harder they are that’s why the because they know you’re tired they know you’re tired they know you’re worn out that’s why y That’s why because the the chances are the buyers are not looking at the home as a seller they’re looking at as a buyer they don’t want to pay list they want to pay something less and the longer you’ve been on the market the more they’re going to nip you yeah so look long and hard at that first offer because there’s a lot of information there that is somebody who’s nipping you but the people in the future are probably going to nip you more even more even more because they know you’re you’re desperate not that you’re desperate but you might be I’ve got to move my I’m trying to buy this other house this one has to sell yes and it just creates so much more anxiety and uh fear and Desperation you don’t need all that you don’t need all that so now we’re not talking about lowball offers absolutely not that’s a different animal don’t even do that we don’t deal a lot with investors but typically when we do they they have a tendency the lowball which is really frustrating for everyone um we’re not really talking about that we’re talking about people who are making what they think is a a fair offer for home pretty close to Market yeah that might be coming in 10 or 15,000 and less it’s a respectable off respectable off um I think lowball people who deliberately lowball it’s a lack of respect and and I kind of steer away from that because it’s you know let’s not insult people I mean unless the home’s been on for a year oh yeah you know and it’s obviously there’s some issues okay that’s a different story but uh yeah the investors are you want to create goodwi and Good Karma with this future business transaction and if you come in rude and you lowball and you this and you that and you keep going back and forth and Dickering it shuts people down yeah so for buyers uh I’ll share with you my my U my um negotiating secret as buyer you want to look for the O screw it price okay that’s that’s going to be the best price you can get a home is the O screw it price yes so here’s here’s the way that works so um if you price a home respectively but kind of on the low side chances are the seller is going to counter if they counter they’re going to count counter pretty close to list price okay the best first offer you can make is what I call the O screw it price you give the seller the price not really happy with the price but it’s close enough is it really worth countering I don’t know I screw it I’ll just take it I’ll just take it that’s the the best possible price you can get we love that that little psychological we find try to find that sweet spot that people are like go a little lower than that they’re going to counter you end up paying more yeah so the best possible first offer is the O grw price that’s right so yeah that’s our yeah that’s a good tip whole bunch of tips buch we gave a whole bunch yeah if you like tips the place to go is pickle 411.com that’s our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between there something waiting for you that will Amaze Astound inform entertain and just overwhelm you with our generosity because it’s all free well and sometimes anger you yeah I love those angry emails angry emails angry emails yeah we get some of those it really starts my day off great people we tell it like it is if you’re not happy with that don’t shoot the messenger don’t shoot the messenger we’re just telling it as best we are truthsayers yeah truthsayers soothsayers yeah although I can say sooth soothsayers sooth I can say it but I’m not a soothsayer I’m a truthsayer or truthsayers truth truth soothsayers TR all right I give up okay hope to see you soon come visit us uh give us a call we’ll take you around we’ll have a grand old time have a great rest of your day bye bye

hello hello hello hello peeps it’s your little local preset pickle lady team that’s us I’m part of the team he’s the other part of the team she’s pickle lady I’m part of the team that’s right yes randn Dian bro here and our little local Hamlet yes that’s a cute word Hamlet I like Hamlet it’s like a small ham I like that I know yeah today we’re going to talk about I love ham ham is good today we want to talk about a little tip for well buyers and sell I guess and that’s to do with lighting first of all if you are selling your home and you are a fan of blue hogen lights bright white you need to change that it’s too much too much well you know and people go in and it kind of feels a little sterile and it kind of feels industrial industrial and and you know I guess it’s all personal preference so hey we’re not here to tell you what to do but for us for instance our whole house had like 40 um canned lights throughout the entire house and we had the oldfashioned kind where you screw in the um flood lights so we had some that were bright white and we had some that were warm and some and it looked terrible none of it looked uniform yeah the thing about the the lights they don’t all burn out at the same time so you go to the store and you replace one and over time you end up with just a random combination of different kinds of and it looks terrible ter I was so excited this is my tip of the day if you’re in Costco they sell packs of four all inclusive one unit with the lens over it no light bulb anymore it’s really cool it’s all LED lights four in a pack for $20 and then we had our electrician come and he replaced all the old ones but here’s the cool thing that we were so excited about is I was like I just can’t have that bright blue I just I hate it he goes no no no no no look and in the lights you can now pick the the varying degrees of light you want do you want the Warm Glow do you want the bright white do you want in between so you can adjust all of this people yeah that’s right yeah in the future You’ be able to turn on your blue H hallogen light and then when you want to sell your house you can make it warmer yeah so if you like the bright white hey go for it for it have that bright white the whole time you live there when you go to sell put it on uh the warmer glow um people want to look in the mirror and say damn I look good yeah you know but if if it’s that bright white sometimes you look a little washed out so it just makes the house warmer and the paint looks nicer and this that and the other but it it’s nice now that you have an option so it’s a very cheap and reasonable thing to do to kind of update your house from those old yucky can lights and flood lights get these yeah and it looks so good and even in the front of your home we had a neighbor in our old neighbor neighborhood she had that hallogen thing oh my God it looked like she had she was running some kind of utility uh it was just horrible a beautiful home nice and quaint and then she puts this H blue H hallogen light in oh God I mean the whole neighborhood was lit up yeah so they I’ll tell you a secret they sold their home and they moved so the the movers moved they left and the uh the new owners weren’t in yet and I may have gone across the street and traded out the the light honestly it lit up our whole living area from across the street thank you new owners by the way no no charge no charge yeah yeah it’s that bad some people just are not sensitive to that but most people are that’s a big deal well especially people like this one people like me yeah yeah he’s I hate I hate that stuff yeah it’s a it’s fun it’s fun to live with him yeah I’m always right always right right about the light but you know if you do the LED thing you know you don’t have to make a choice you can have your cake and then eat it too that’s right so if you know you’re kind of looking to do something just a simple little reasonable cheap thing to kind of update your home that’s one thing to do replace those canned lights with these all-in-one units it’s amazing yes and well worth it at the very least use warm lights on the front porch and in the entryway the very least yes so you don’t have to good first impression that’s right as you pull up to a house with a hall it looks it looks industrial it does not look oh my gosh yeah okay there it is someone’s got a little It’s My Thing a little thing I’m in there about lights lights and pens that’s our tip of the day if you like tips the place to go is pickle 411.com that’s our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something there for you that will Amaze Astound delight and inform and largely entertained and The Price is Right is absolutely free absolutely free like we don’t ask you for anything like nothing that might not encourage them that might be like why is it free I don’t want free yeah where’s the value there’s plenty of value why are these people doing this for free our 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good afternoon peeps friends and family and assorted others sorted others you’re welcome enemies yeah y’all can all watch yeah we do get some interesting emails from we do this is just for fun people don’t don’t be so serious relax it’s just for fun I don’t need negative emails uh well speaking of negative this episode is about horrify home Styles horrifying home Styles horrifying scary we should have done this for we should have done this for Halloween Halloween oh we’re recording this just a few days but that’s okay but that’s okay Rand and Dian bro here your local lady presc Arizona your local presc realtor team that’s right here in presc happy to uh help you out as you as you journey into our little town and try to find your next place so if you are this is primarily for sellers because buyers will know horrifying home Styles when they see them you may be a seller you may have inherited a home that has horrifying Styles in it now when you put these horrifying Styles in you know I’m sure it was the cats meow sure but we thought we’d mention just a few things that have been singled out either by us or experts uh as things you just you just can’t do so things that also make us laugh out loud so one of the things that really so saw this article article horrifying home Styles we had one we had we had a we have a horrifying home style in our home yes and that is the horrifying home style is bench seating at a dining room table I don’t see anything wrong with it I love it but hey evidentally it was a very trendy thing when we bought our dining room table that’s right it’s on the way way out it is on the way out something you might want to think about replacing as a practical standpoint if you are the middle person on the on in the bench you’re kind of screwed like if you have to go to the bathroom you got to it’s like sitting in the middle seat in an airline you it’s like you got to you got to get everyone up to to get out I agree but our friends are fun and it’s even more fun after several cocktails to see him try to wiggle out of try wiggle out yeah so that’s kind of part of the fun but apparently that’s dated evidently that’s horrifying that was that I didn’t think that was that horrifying I don’t think it was that yeah I cuz I own it yeah you know I have that so that’s kind of py I wouldn’t even blink at that but the other good one that we love is and we’ve come across it now several times saloon doors saloon doors into the bathroom yeah why yeah yeah saloon doors in a bathroom not saloon doors in the potty room yeah for your potty it’s just saloon doors that’s Salon doors I don’t know people well that’s not very effective if you know what I mean who side Cowboy I’m coming in I don’t know what the idea is I don’t know I mean you swing those doors open there’s no privacy because they don’t really cover anything uh it doesn’t cover anything and then there saloon doors just into the bathroom in general and it’s like wow saloon doors yeah we don’t have saloon doors no we don’t at least we don’t tell anybody Our Salon doors I don’t when we play Cowboy and make her go to the oh God yeah Sal doors listen saloon doors are a joke if you want to put saloon doors on your bar or your man cave is kind of something fun uh that’s fun and that’s fine we have restaurants downtown you know our town kind of has a little Western theme and they do the saloon doors but uh into the master bathroom not so much that’s a not not a western experience the other thing in bathrooms is all white whes white white white walls white counters white it’s too much yes it’s too much Hospital aren’t even all white anymore people will say oh it’s all white it looks like a hospital when’s the last time you saw an all-white hospital they don’t do it anymore they don’t cuz no one likes it looks clinical no one it looks yeah it does that’s a good word clinical and God forbid the splattering alone of any anything any any major event shows everything you might be having yes could be bad you want she that you don’t want to share that you don’t want to have carpeting carpeting in the bathroom carpeting in the bathroom that is horrifying particularly around the toilet oh every time and I’ve been in some beautiful homes with that carpeting all the way up to the potty and I think all the way up to the pot Yakama gross disgusting uh same thing splatter splatter I don’t want to even know what has been splattered on that carpeting yeah you you don’t put carpeting on a toilet seat you don’t put a carpeting around the toilet seed you don’t want anything absorbent other than toilet paper near your toilet it’s just none of none of that is good that is horrifying none of that is good peach peach walls peach peach Mau mauve mauve walls yeah peach peach is uh you know I I if you’re if you like Peach go a little darker for apricot or terracotta or up a lot yeah mix it up a little bit more the peach it was just overdone it looks very country in a bad the worst possible way uh yeah Peach and it looks very Grandma it screens old person lives here old person has lived here and our old person has died here yeah yeah yeah that is true that um and Mau walls and seafoam green carpeting all of that Let It Go Let It Go obviously popcorn sealings we talked about popcorn sealings in our ASB bestus uh video popcorn sealings are a no no yep um what else uh some of these swag light fixtures yeah that just scream again grandma lived here grandma recently died here yeah be real careful with faux finishes oh yes we went into a beautiful beautiful million dooll home giant pillars which that was okay but then they did a faux finish that I don’t even think the Romans or or the the Greeks had painted cuz you know the Greeks did paint very garish yeah they did originally they did did you know that yes they did I did so but we don’t need to duplicate it now in the 2000s no no and so don’t do faux finishes everyone knows those everyone knows those columns are not real marble even though you tried to make it marble yeah it’s not you’re not fooling anybody they they do have some Modern faux finishes that don’t look dated but if your faux finish is more than a if you do a faux finish it’s going to age quickly yes you know you know you probably don’t want to keep your faux finished for more than about three or five years because they age very they’re very trendy and they age very quickly yes yes so you know things like that columns are kind of dated columns are dated are very dated so when you’re getting ready to sell maybe have someone come out and see you know how about if I put like a beautiful wooden column you know like more rustic or something anything but how about U fake crysanthemum oh yeah I have to take a deep breath all the silk flowers the silk it has to go by byebye horrifying uh plant shelves uh with covered with silk on top not good yeah so so not to be uh not to be insensitive but just to kind of state it for what it is chances are if you’re incet and you’re a seller you are of a certain age if you are a buyer you are of a certain age but not as old as the first uncertain age so your sellers you know they have faux finishes that have been around a while or whatever you need to understand that younger people come in even though they’re not really young anymore they’re younger than you are and they have a different sense of what style is and they will be horrified by the thing horrify is a good word because we’ve had people like they can’t see past it they can’t get P at all you’re right and not only that curtains no one uses curtains anymore yeah so you go in a house with the heavy drapes and the what do you call them the pleat at the top at the top it just screams or what do they call it pooling at the bottom what do they call pudd puddling pudd anything called puddling I like puddling though I have to say I’m not opposed to puddling I was okay with it until I heard it was called puddling and then I’m back to the I’m back to the carpet and the bathroom we could never do puddling because we have cats and dogs that would sleep on it and decide that’s a good spot to yeah take a Le yeah all of these things that we’re mentioning they’re things that are relatively easy and cheap to fix absolutely so then you know just by adjusting those few little things helps you get top dollar and sell quicker and S quicker um people look at something and you know especially if it’s in a higher price point and they think well gez I’m spending over a million dollars and I got to come in here and gut it I got to repaint it I got to scrape popcorn just do it now do it ahead of time people will put an offer in right away and you’ll get top dollar and and the sellers will say you know yeah but buyers can see past it they can’t no they can’t they just they can’t they can’t it is so horrifying they run screaming from your house even my people who say oh I can see past anything they they’re they can’t they’re in the middle of it and they’re like I just don’t When Buyers come in we show them a lot of homes and uh there are a lot of good homes here so you’re kind of you’re competing with other good homes and the one that they’re going to buy is the one that’s going to touch their heart yep and no one’s going to you’re not going to touch anyone’s heart with carpet in the bathroom it’s not going to touch anyone’s heart it’s it’s just not it’s not going to be it’s not going to touch their soul it’s not going to touch their soul yeah so fix that stuff fix it yeah but anyway so that’s uh some some of the horrifying home Styles we wanted to share with you so that’s our tip of the day if you like tips and place to goes pickle 411.com that is our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something waiting for you that will Amaze to stound inform and entertain you and it’s only $10 no it’s free it’s absolutely a subscription no subscription that’s a joke no subscription no subscription it’s all free people it’s all free it’s all the best deal you ever get in real estate you’re welcome is our information site pickle 411.com who else is telling you about these horrifying home Styles you’re not going to get anywhere else we going to give it to you stra lady brings it to you that’s right all right friends hope to see you soon give us a call happy to take you around and tour you of our lovely city and check out some good homes we’d love to work with you give us a call have a great day bye bye