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Traffic Control Test

Where do you find cutting-edge metro design experiments aimed at improving pedestrian and traffic flows, resource efficiencies, and the every-day life of citizens? Well, it’s the trail-blazing, pioneering world-class metropolises you would expect – like New York, Tokyo… and Prescott,AZ.

Check out the radical traffic control test Prescott is conducting right now just off of Whiskey Row, and find out what the Pickle Lady has to say about diagonal living.

Our Old Wine Down Mentioned: Traffic Calming

Video Transcript

good morning hello peeps this is randall and diane brooke prescott arizona arizona i put on my christmas attire and i brought my christmas cheer my holiday cheer uh so we are here to introduce to you our new traffic camera traffic control test you’re in question if you’re going to check out a traffic control test there’s always traffic so there’ll be traffic noise on this one so this is kind of a new little development here yeah since we have so many people who come to wisconro and the square and it’s a good tourist section of town right here they have actually put in what we call diagonal cross diagonal crossing at four-way stops at four-way stops it’s pretty cool so right now there’s a test going on at one corner one of our busiest corners right on whiskey row yep which is uh montezuma and gurley yes so i just did some walking across the diagonal yeah she’s good she she tries it out and she’s trying to be like a holiday elf holiday elf running across right yeah diagonal crosswalk yes and walking across the traditional so i i uh showed you how it’s done so when you come visit here don’t be afraid i like the way yes that’s right she’s blazing the trail all right what’d you think it felt a little different kind of like when you’re falling in love for the second time you know the first time it’s just amazing and you’re just like oh my gosh i i’ve never felt like this and the second time when you fall in love with somebody else maybe feels just as good but just a little different i didn’t see much difference i really thought i’m going to get killed is what i really want but it just goes to show you that here in this town we are progressive we have diagonal crossing which is only what you see in big big country yet japan tokyo so uh prescott is progressive here man we are up and coming so how much how much time do you think you save going diagonally versus i don’t think i see anything i’m gonna be honest yeah no because you you know you have to wait for it’s really not to help us it’s really not to help pedestrians can’t tell i think it’s to help traffic flow that’s what this is about yes because my track is slow because then people can’t take the right on red because pedestrians are crossing so really this is to keep traffic going so people aren’t backed up you know trying to make a right turn on red waiting yeah well that could that’s what this is about it’s really not about pedestrians well if you look at if you look at the basic geometry and mathematics you would think that it would be about 29 shorter 29 shorter in terms of the walk and it would be about two-thirds quicker in terms of the weight but yep you go up to the light you have to wait for the light you know i’ll tell you what i felt i felt annoyed because he was directing me press the button she kept going to the wrong corner the wrong that’s what i felt was just annoying because i’m also freezing and go to the that’s what i thought i didn’t feel any time saving or whatever but well we’ll see what happens we don’t know if the uh the how long the test is gonna last no i would think maybe through this year i don’t know it’s been going on for a few months now it’s kind of cool and uh you know we are keeping up with uh keeping up with the time yes moving forward into 2020 in the 2020s the traffic control tests and traffic calming if you haven’t seen our traffic calming video traffic we should check out our traffic into trash a lot of things a lot of things have been cool yeah where can they find you my life you can find me at prescottpicklelady.com 713-302-1964 you can check out our seller’s site we sell prescott.com you also find a link on our regular site prescott piccolo correct so we’re all there me randall we’re here to serve you help you find your perfect place here in prescott absolutely and happy holidays and save some time cut corners cut corners but in a safe and effective way i’ll cut corners where are you going to hurt yourself please corners on whiskey right absolutely all right next time have a wonderful day bye

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Musical Holiday

Prescott is Holiday Central these days – with plenty of lights, charm, special events… and wonderful music. In this episode, the Pickle Lady covers Prescott’s 30+ year tradition of Acker Night, our historic Elk’s Theater, the Rat Pack Christmas, and Prescott’s very own musical treasure: Esteban, the world-famous Spanish-style classical guitarist. Plus, we wear exceptionally ugly sweaters.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello hey peeps i don’t know if you can recognize us because right now we’re kind of christmas elves yeah but this is diane bro and my better half randall bro correct and part of the pickle lady brigade so cheers to that here’s that so we wanted you to see our new christmas sweater and all of its glory couldn’t be more thrilled he very happy you’re thrilled with this woman’s sweater that you bought you should wear it proudly say i even have pom-pom you have a pom-pom too i’m channeling my yeah but anyway or something so we are very excited we can take the hoods off because it’s getting a little hot but anyway we are very excited tonight or this evening to talk we’re in front of the old our own christmas tree fireplace and this is in the air yeah a little brown wine here he has brown wine i have real one but we are super excited to be here this evening to talk about what is it randall bro christmas and prescott christmas impressions particularly christmas music yes we should have someone in the background huh yeah but that’s all right just pretend that we’re humming something or snoopy’s charlie brown or something like that but anyway um as you know i think we’ve mentioned this before prescott is called arizona’s christmas city that’s right it is gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous guys come here plan a visit now the lights were just the whole town square lit up officially on december 7th that’s right all around the courthouse it’s like the first saturday of december yeah i do it i think and it’s over a hundred thousand likes i mean you’ll feel like you’re you know back and you know you’re in some hallmark movie yeah some christmas hallmark movie absolutely beautiful it’s beautiful absolutely but besides that christmas is a beautiful time to come here the elks theater um has a lot of special christmas shows yeah it’s a big time for music here in prescott what with the elks theater uh but before the else theater gets into christmas mode we have acronite so somebody had another first yeah so akronite was named after this guy james zacker he was a philanthropist had nothing to do with establishing acronym he was just such a nice guy they named it after him huge philanthropist yeah beautiful they’ve been doing action right now for over 30 years right and uh a lot of the businesses in the downtown area participate uh they will open shop at at night right and so they start like for instance this week it’ll be this friday they only do it one night and it’s a huge charitable fundraiser yeah and so actually it’s tonight because by the time they see this oh you’re right we’re gonna pretend yeah but pretend we’ll protect this uh tomorrow night though we will be there we’re very excited yeah we’re we’ll go and so all of the little shops around the immediate square and and the outskirts of it will stay open extra late normally they close a little earlier they stay open late they have some uh some of them have hors d’oeuvres and little you know some wine but they all have musicians local musicians that will come in and perform all kinds of stuff i mean any kind of music you can think of will be represented there and uh it’s it’s free but they do ask for donations right and the donations go to the musicians correct so i’m not sure what the it’s for the arts musicians need you know instruments and right music lessons and those sheets of paper with those squiggly symbols on them and those kinds of things so it’s a you know i do fundraiser for the owner for music yes and so it’s a great time to go enjoy the square and all of its beauty and all the lights and get to go to all these different little shops yep and um there’s a lot of art galleries along the square too and it’s all sort of like mint cider yeah all that kind of stuff it’s a big social event it’s a big event here in prescott and um it’s you this year it will be december 13th they hold it once a year it’s just a lot of fun it is it is and we enjoy it and it’s not trying to get up that’s the start of our weekend because after that we’re going to hit elk’s theater we are hitting hard this weekend we are partying partying pretty hard yes the holidays are started yeah first we had some lovely neighbors who had our little supper club and they had a little uh winter christmas dinner yeah yeah we just got fished a little christmas so that was fun that was the start of it so thank you to the churchill to the church yeah and then uh this friday night we’re going to akron as we said yeah and then uh saturday night we’re going to the elks to see the rat pack so it’s uh in person yeah yeah frank sinatra and dean martin and sammy davis and whoever the fourth guy is correct and they’re gonna be singing some of the oldie peter lawford you never get it right peter lawford no you said chris lawford and then i changed it and then i changed it as long as you got it right now i got it right it’s all that matters so now the the the impersonators do the right pack and then for christmas so it’d be kind of like a big they’re uh send off to uh their old vegas uh yeah christmas shows so we’re excited about that we’re going with some friends to that having a little bite to eat before yeah and going to the rat pack christmas at the outset yeah theater itself is gorgeous it’s a old historic landmark uh it’s really refurbished it’s just one of those old school small town theaters uh just just beautiful uh the iconic elk on top of it yeah gigantic very large gigantic elk on top of the yeah yeah it’s on top of the building what do you think that is what do you think it’s made out of something adorable it’s not made of elk no it’s not it’s not taxidermied yeah no yeah it’s like some kind of bronze bronze that’s what it is i think it’s one of those metals but yeah one of those hardcore that can survive for many years yeah who knows i don’t know it’s pretty cool yeah and then on sunday so this is what i’m saying the bros are having fun i’m telling you we’re out here we’re gonna wear our christmas sweaters we’re out here enjoying what this great city has to offer during during the christmas month during the holidays and it’s all about music this weekend yes music so sunday we’re going to see esteban classical guitarist spanish style classical guitarist he’s amazing uh studied under segovia and he is he is a treasure and we have him he lives here in president he lives here in prescott yeah it’s super super cool a treasure yeah so he did a great concert uh for mother’s day and now he’s doing a christmas concert so so we are super psyched about that we’re going to enjoy that yeah absolutely so we’re kicking off our holidays in good form we’ve been working hard super hard this week this year it’s been crazy lots of people are still coming in yeah hey we’ll work with you we’ll show you whatever you need to see yeah whatever you need to say we’ll bring you mult cider and we’ll sing a christmas tune correct take you to go see houses no problem we’re working whether it’s been nice and crisp really fun it’s been beautiful yeah if you haven’t it’s good oh real really cheers life is good life is good if you haven’t decided on prescott yet you’re still considering all those other god forsaken places that people retire to besides our little town that will never rate us we’re never going to rape but we’re partial come during the holiday season and this town will win your heart yes absolutely absolutely wonderful what’s sad what’s that right now we’re out of the spirit of christmases don’t grab your boobs wow i’m not sure which one of these is my group one of them is my navel i think i don’t know but yeah if this town at christmas doesn’t capture your heart and make you you’re a grinch yeah you’re a great you are officially a grinch no doubt about it you’re missing out on having a great life here in prescott just for the christmas season alone or the holiday season just the right pack that’s it’s not too late to come in for a little holiday visit not too late yes well cheers cheers and happy holidays to you happy holidays to you you look very handsome and you’re yeah this is me at my best this is okay if you guys need anything if you’re coming in town and you’re like hey you know we came in for your holiday visit on your suggestion but maybe we want to see a couple of houses hey give us a call we’ll be happy to take you out have a fun day um so call me at you’ll find 713-302-1964 links to our relocation center if you’re looking to relocate that’s a good place to go and get lots of good information correct we sell prescott we sell presskit which is our site for sellers so if you’re correct thinking about selling your home and need some help we’d be glad to help you you can find more information at we sell press kit.com yes or go to prescott picklelady.com you’ll find a link all of it all of it’s there it’s a huge wealth of information it’s a it’s all mixed in it’s all interconnected that we like part of the big plan correct that we like to share with you there you go there you go all right so that is all all right we’re here to help you all right thanks bye hey frankie you said you would do yours you sweet girl

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Renovation

Prescott is destined to be a big renovation town, and right now this movement is starting to kick into gear. The Pickle Lady explains how buyers and sellers might want to consider this option and how to minimize risk and hassle associated with it.

Video Transcript

hey guys hey peeps how’s it going today i think it’s going pretty well what about you good yeah very good this is the pickle lady my name is randy yeah i can introduce myself you don’t have to introduce me every time i feel like i should but that’s okay i like to demonstrate that i can do it from time to time we got a little uh construction noise behind us we are discussing renovations here in preston aaron prescott because like behind us they’re starting to renovate this old home this is a really cool area in prescott um and it’s the original prescott township yep yep and they’ve got some pretty cool homes here yeah so you kind of pan around a home next door here these are the old classic homes uh a lot of them are 100 years old and more historic register and all that and oddly enough some of them are a bit out of date and worn out so they need to be renovated so some people are snatching them up and restoring them to their former glory a little bit what we wanted to talk about was there are a lot of homes that are maybe built in the 80s and 90s that were great then um what we’re starting to see is this is a good time to buy those yeah and gut them and get them up to date and get some great buys some great buys that way yeah the the price points here in prescott are just now kind of getting to the point where you have enough room to do that you know you’ve got a home that’s uh you buy it for let’s say 600 000 there’s room to put in you know 100 200 000 and you still haven’t priced yourself right out of the market because homes in the neighborhood sell for seven so a lot of a lot of sections like the ranch and haciampa you can get a home maybe that was built in the 90s he’s our little he’s our buddy he’s our fan you can get in those areas for much cheaper prices and renovate and then still took quite a bit of appreciation yeah come out ahead of the what’s happening game getting a little landlocked uh prescott valley of course no yeah yeah a lot more land out that way but but prescott not so much there’s a lot of the uh the best locations already taken they already have homes there right and so renovation is uh kind of part of the game and some of the some of some homes have stunning gorgeous views the lots are already taken the homes were built maybe in the 80s and 90s and but you can’t beat those views right nor can you find those lots available hardly to bot to build yep so think about that think about buying one of these older homes and just gutting it and starting over it but you will be capturing an amazing view yes yeah the other thing about renovation particularly if you’re out of town is obviously you’re taking on a kind of a project management thing you gotta oversee the whole process and uh just to let you know we can help you with that and find you contractors to do that kind of thing um also too as a did your voice just yeah i’m going through the change i think uh also cold weather okay all right get it together also too you can also get some loans with uh construction yeah construction loans the renovations built included in your mortgage yeah it’s all one-stop shopping yes and you don’t want a dilly dally you want to plan the thing well uh there’s new technology now where you can do the renovation virtually to make sure you know exactly what you want what kind of finishes and everything else you can get uh very precise quotes to make sure you know exactly how much everything’s going to cost and and we can help you with that process if that’s something you’re interested in doing or if you are a seller and your home needs renovation we can help you market that and demonstrate to buyers different options for how they might go about remodeling your house and what it’ll look like afterwards without you spending any money uh uh betting that someone’s gonna like the finishes that you picked up i just think it’s super cool now that they actually have [Music] someone has a big truck trying to prove something through something but anyway what i think is really cool and i wish you know some of these products were not available just then but when we were buying right now they are yeah you can get a great renovation mortgage wrapped all up in one so you know because at first you’re like how will i find a hundred thousand dollars you know you can have it all wrapped up in one product yeah and make all the changes necessary that you need for your new dream house yep your new old dream house that’s right right that’s right so keep that in mind if you are looking at some of these houses and like oh geez i don’t know if i want to do all that maybe you do because you might capture some stunning views a great location um that kind of might not be available anymore lot wise yeah that’s right find it that’s right so you want to discuss it we’ll be glad to discuss it with you yes uh so you can find us at uh preschoolpicklelady.com we have contact information there or you can reach us at 713-302-1964 it is the prescott pickle lady hotline and we’ll be glad to talk to you about uh whether you’re interested in buying or selling a house that needs remodeling we would love to help you absolutely all right give us a call or you can go to we sell press kit we sell presskit.com if you are looking to sell your home that’s our site that’s dedicated to listers and uh we’ll be glad to help you there too yeah so it’s a great day and uh happy to talk to you absolutely to youtube randall nice to chat with you you make fun of my voice well besides that part that’s what you lose but that was just fun yeah all right i like to bring a little levity yeah to our discussions and a little anguish for randall it all works yeah i think it works yeah mostly for you it worked very well for me yeah all right everybody have a great day and give us a call if you want to talk about renault yep absolutely talk to you guys later

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The Raven

Check out one of our favorite Prescott haunts, with a great selection of wine, beer, specialty coffees – and a cool, young vibe… and lamb burgers. Don’t forget the lamb burgers.

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Downsizing Tips

Downsizing your life? Having seen the process time and time again, the Pickle Lady has some great tips for you – and a cool technology tool you should check out… and some wine.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello this is diana randall bro here coming at you from the the terrace out at the raven cafe one of our red places around town yes really cool vibe very nice but we’re not here to talk about the favorite cafe no we’re not what do you want to talk about my love we’re here to talk about downsizing downsizing we have a lot of people coming here from all over and they want to downsize so here’s my advice to you if you’re coming from a home three to five thousand square feet which we see a lot of yep and you think you know what i’m getting rid of everything and i’m starting over i only want 1500 feet i’m here to tell you that’s a mistake it’s not gonna work out it’s not gonna work out you really need if you’re truly downsizing start at two thousand yeah because it’s hard at least eighteen hundred yeah it’s hard to divest yourself of divest yourself of your belongings especially if you’ve lived in a house about 40 years or so which we see a lot of yeah it’s really hard to comb through that stuff and move into a new home and make it your place because you miss some of your familiar belongings yeah so i don’t know what it is about hutches in particular people want hutches i gotta take my my china hutch gotta do the hutch but here’s the thing measuring a lot of space for hutches that’s right if you go too small 14 or 1500 square feet you’re going to be miserable and especially for you married couples that are retired that is too much togetherness and too much under footness yeah you might end up separated and or divorced yeah because it’s a little too close for comfort so just keep in mind do about 2 000 square feet you’ll be fine you’ll make a wonderful adjustment you’ll be able to keep some of your favorite pieces and still have the comfort and feel of your old home but in a much more manageable livable space yep that being said there you go that being said that’s my two cents that’s your two cents my two cents is if you’re going to downsize a lot of times what we hear is we want to downsize we want to downsize one’s someplace small so we show them a place that’s small the first thing they say is well i’m not going to be able to fit all my stuff in here that’s right you may have to get rid of some things yeah well here’s the idea if you’re downsizing you’re not going to bring all your stuff you’re going to bring a subset of your stuff correct i like that the smaller the subset the better uh one thing we will do is if you’re looking at a particular home we’ll go through and do a video i’ll i’ll intersperse an example so you see what we’re talking about where we actually uh put the dimensions like the length of a wall in the video so you can see the house and see how much space you have to see if your height is going to fit we’ll be glad to do that for you we do that all the time uh but my advice is if you want to downsize if you’re serious about it be open to losing the hutch don’t make it all about the hutch or whatever piece of furniture uh we’ll try to find you a space for it but you don’t want the house that you bought being driven by your old touch correct because there’s some great houses you’re missing out on just trying to fit your dining room table your dining room table or your hutch your life is going to change you significantly make the change yeah you got to jump in with it with both feet uh you don’t want to come here buy something and then have to sell it buy something else because it doesn’t get what you want to do exactly just don’t go too small but don’t bring everything with you it’s you gotta strike the dude though if you’re gonna make the move make the move embrace the change get rid of the old crap that’s right here oh hutch get rid of the old hatch i think hutch is a french word for crap yeah eat that much you don’t need that it’s all good the bureau come here yeah it’ll all be good and they’ll be good embrace the change yep where can they find you you can find me at prescottpicklelady.com or 713-302-1964 she’s the one and only press could pick a lady and she’ll be there wrecked or we sell basket yeah we’re looking to sell a home check out we sell press get done so cheers cheers to downsizing make it happen have a whole new life get rid of that old stuff that old history you don’t need smaller you have smaller lives smaller is good smaller is good all right cheers to that cheers to that oh you gotta hand me your glasses bye see you later have a great day bye

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RV Garages

For RV owners, nothing sounds more cozy than having your baby tucked snug inside your very own RV garage for the night. In this episode, the Pickle Lady explores the implications of a home search that includes a nest for your home-away-from-home and some important factors you might want to consider.

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Halloween 2019

When it comes to fun and over-the-top charm, few places do Halloween like Prescott. In this episode the Pickle Lady explains how Halloween works in our little town and shares some of the decorations on Prescott’s signature street – which becomes Spook Central during the Halloween season.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello hey babes i am so psyched are you she’s also i’m psyched but i’m also you’re the pickle lady i i don’t know it’s nice to be you with the pic lady i know this is why we’re psyched i am diane bro this is randall bro we’re super psyched super excited because we are here out today on mount vernon a couple of days before this is spook central central prescott arizona halloweentown halloweentown prescott is amazing at halloween mainly because you come to this main drag on mount vernon which is filled with lovely lovely lovely um older homes some of the oldest homes uh since prescott was born yeah absolutely gorgeous a lot of them on the historic district um right this ghost is coming again oh my gosh but anyway um so what’s lovely here a great tradition the town has is all of the kids in prescott will collect here on mount vernon the police lock down the street they have it all lit up and they have all kinds of everyone who participates on the street will have great halloween decorations and about two thousand three thousand kids will just walk up and down both sides yeah it’s a lot of kids most of the uh most most of the neighborhoods don’t have enough kids to really do a real trick or treat right uh so they close down this old old-timey street and this is where all the kids come so the demographics are not do not bode well for a lot of little children so we collect them all that’s right and then maybe at the end some of the older people sacrifice them no we don’t i don’t remember children ever being sacrificed that’s a very dark chapter yeah a very dark turn i just made yeah forget i just said that that was for the old days i don’t think they do that anymore they don’t do that anymore they have gotten more current yeah with the time so we no longer sacrifice the young children to turn along you know the older generation’s life that’s a joke that’s totally a gym halloween joke no but because we do have a smaller demographic of kids they do come here it’s so lovely it’s so charming the street is just gorgeous filled with old trees i mean honestly it’s like mayberry it is it is it’s so nice and so a lot of the homes here will have big parties and all their friends will come and they have live music playing and yeah it’s just um something really nice it’s a pretty cool tradition it is and most of the uh the homeowners here go through a lot of trouble to decorate their homes uh for halloween and i’ll intersperse some of the so you’ll be seeing some of the scenes yeah what they do it’s so it’s just incredible it’s really really last night we came and we walked it and we filmed it at nighttime too so today you can see all the beautiful homes in the daytime and see how pretty there they are decorated and then you’ll see some nighttime shows yeah some night time shots too so something to keep in mind if you come here uh have the grandkids come for halloween especially if it’s on the weekend yeah and then you can take your grandkids or just come by yourself you don’t have to be a particular age no age requirement it’s just for anybody who thoroughly loves fall and loves the gorgeous halloween here that mount vernon has to offer it’s from here and you get some candy and sometimes some alcoholic fruits yeah sometimes sometimes those are the cool houses that’s right but anyway it’s a great time and it’s something you should experience it just reminds me of old times small town that’s right absolutely so anyway uh reach us if you need anything or if you want to know where mount vernon is it’s off of germany and uh maybe we’ll see you here but maybe so so if you need to reach me you can call me at 713-302-1964 you’ll see a link there to our prescient relocation center lots of great information about the community things you need to know if you’re thinking about or have already decided to come and join or if you’re interested in listing your home we sell prescott dot com or prescottpickleny.com you’ll see a link there to our seller uh our listing site so whether you’re buying or selling uh you can reach out to us please do that’s what we’re all about absolutely right yeah are you scared a little don’t be scared if i’m mostly scared of you protect you i will protect you all right calm yourself

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Get Gumption

A Red-Hot Pickle Lady Tip: When it comes to real estate, time is of the essence, and having the gumption to take charge is the best way to secure the Prescott home you want at the very best possible price. In this episode, we cover what gumption means, why there is virtually no risk in having it, and what it might cost you if you are without it.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello good afternoon wow good morning whenever you’re watching this yeah that’s true it could be a totally different time of day for you wherever you are got all our halloween decorations outside our house here including the haunted bunny there he is yeah yeah we’re into halloween yeah a little bit it’s our favorite thing yeah we like that we really miss it yes there’s our dog bark there’s our dog park she doesn’t like her when we film no she likes to be part of the action i think i just don’t know but anyway uh so we are here today to talk about something that is actually something we’re taught uh when you become a realtor yep and they drill it in your head time and time and time again and what is that mister bro what is the time time time is that the essence time is of the essence time is money so and money is of the essence so time is of the essence that’s right yes and so actually part of the contract so if you if you put an offer yeah it’s actually you have to agree time is of the essence but even still a lot of times people don’t think it is but it is it is of the essence it’s very important and we kind of want to talk about this because we run across this periodically and it’s always kind of a heartbreaker for us when it does happen we’ve had many many clients and they come in and they either aren’t quite ready like they don’t have their paperwork in place they forgot to get their prequal they forgot to bring their um bank statement that shows they have the cash to pay for this house etc so they come in they’re all excited they see a house they want and sometimes they’re just not decisive yeah now everything’s ready to go but well let us think about it a little bit let me think about it a day or two and what we see happen all the time and it just it kills us is because we know it’s the right house for you and we we can hustle and get that contract out as fast as we can you will not wait for us you won’t wait for us we we are ready willing we’ve done them at eleven o’clock at night yeah we’ve had people call you can we put the offer in now hell yes yeah absolutely we’re going to make it happen for you but here’s the thing if you don’t have the correct paperwork or you don’t have your ducks in a row that’s a delay um if you say well i want to be cautious about this and think about it a day or two suddenly somebody else comes along and puts an offer in uh you can’t time this is not a hard sell we’re not trying to pressure you we’re not trying to create time pressure that that’s not there no what we’re trying to do is to tell you we have seen it time and time again time is of the essence a house can be on the market for months for months it is this is very true this is a very strange phenomenon it’s like some real estate weirdo stuff that goes on a house can sit there for five months all of a sudden you’ll have one person who’s like i think i’m going to put an offer in and then it’s like some pheromone goes out into the universe like vibrations yes yeah and then everybody’s like suddenly i think i want that house too and so then very rarely but occasionally we’ll get into two or three offers coming in at one time it just happened to us and it just happened the house was on the market for five months and uh within the course of a couple of days suddenly everyone wanted that same house and suddenly we had three offers on the table the woman who bought the house ended up paying way above she went over asking to get it not that much we don’t do the california stuff yeah nothing like california nothing like that but still but even still like a day or two earlier she would have walked away less than list and uh you know they just waited a couple of days and a couple of days were enough that uh whatever it is howdy neighbor here there comes our neighbor but yeah so just just enough for the vibrations to get out there and suddenly everyone wants that same house it’s just actually it’s crazy it’s crazy so well part of it is that if there’s a good listing agent a good listing agent will uh um try to do that you know they will call people who’ve expressed interest in the past and say well looks like we’re going to have an offer and then suddenly the that person is two right uh so it’s not all uh woo woo you know spirits or everything there are some mechanics at work here but uh even when the listing agent doesn’t i i gotta say i’m not a real you know creepy pee-pee person but uh i don’t know if it’s because we’re close to sedona i don’t know but we have seen it time again and again when when someone uh shows interest in a house even it’s if it’s all of a sudden it’s like the hot girl on campus and every guy’s trying to throw his cap in and uh and win the house so here’s our advice to you sit forward there you go i’m losing you you’re not losing me i haven’t moved at all okay all right anyway here’s the deal now i have sunshine on my face so now i’m gonna back up there you go all right so here’s the deal if you see a house okay now you’re annoying me yeah i know here’s the deal if you see a house you really like make sure you have all your paperwork your everything’s ready to go we’re going to get that offering quickly don’t sit and talk about it for a day or two because sometimes that’s all it takes for somebody else to grab your house or if you if you’re gonna need to do that then we need to keep our cards really close to the vest like don’t go back for a second viewing you know until you’ve had time to think about it because when you go back for a second viewing the lister knows that you’re interested suddenly the vibrations are out that’s right the other thing to keep in mind in mind too is as soon as you go under agreement guess what happens inspection you got 10 days you got 10 days to think about it some more and all of that so if you can get it under contract and do your head scratching during the inspection period uh then you you’re not at risk for having other offers come in and for the most part if during the inspection period you change your mind or you know you find something you don’t like or whatever that’s what the inspection period is for and you will walk and you will take your earnest money so so use that nothing hurts our heart more than when we see somebody who’s absolutely in love with a house and it’s happened to us about four or five times yeah and they lose out the four fights in the last either because they just weren’t quite ready they didn’t have their paperwork ready they they or they waited too long let me think about it a couple of days those couple of days can be you not getting the house of your dreams or paying a lot more than you otherwise won’t absolutely so keep that in mind when you’re ready be committed be don’t overthink sometimes you can overthink overthink overthink you need to trust us as your agents if we tell you um this house will definitely appraise don’t worry you’re not overpaying or you’re under trust us we know the market here and we are here to guide you we’re not going to steer you wrong use your inspection period yes use it to your advantage absolutely so keep that in mind be ready we’re ready for you we’ll get the offering as fast as we can and get you on to the next chapter here in prescott that’s what we’re here for that’s what we’re here for and we promise you you will appraise we promise you it will go smoothly yeah you just have to uh it doesn’t appraise guess what you walk that’s that’s very true appraisal contingency is if you’re afraid that it won’t appraise well if it doesn’t appraise you’ll be able to take your earnest money and leave that’s exactly right that’s a very good point that is a very good point too so anyway just some little tidbits for you because we want to make everybody happy we want to close the deal we want to start you on the next chapter of living here in prescott which is an awesome awesome place to live so don’t hesitate don’t hesitate take care you’ve got a haunted rabbit right behind you that’s right whispering in my ear there we’re here to help you and we’re here to help you close quickly and effectively without all these other people messing up your your your good vibes on your house your mojo that’s right we’re going to make it happen absolutely call us anytime or find us at uh prescottpicklelady.com that’s right she’s the pickle lady and she’s in prescott so you can find her at the prescott at prescottpicklady.com correct or we sell presskit.com or you can reach me at 7133 all right we hope this helps you and helps you get the gumption and get out there and get that house you want have a good day bye

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Witchy-Poo

Fall is in the air in Prescott already, as the Pickle Lady gets into the Holiday spirit- starting with Halloween. A great time to visit our town, but – as we reveal – maybe not so good if you are heading off to other destinations.

Get the low-down and watch the ventriloquism.

Catchy Song in Background: Señorita by Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
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Whiskey Row

When you are ready to raise some hell, Prescott has just the thing for you: It’s own mini Bourbon Street. Great music, great bars, and a great time. The Pickle Lady tells you all about it.

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which shaken my fellow friendly pickle peeps what happened to hello hello four hello hello hello yeah that’s what gets me going hello hello that’s a little disturbing [Laughter] and very very sad yeah i know all right she’s the preschool pickle lady my name is randall bro we are real estate agents here in prescott arizona and uh we are at the plaza bandstand on the square that’s right underneath this beautiful bandstand yeah you can kind of see up with the yeah there you go it’s really coming at you and right behind us is whiskey row so we thought we’d say a few words about the infamous whiskey row that’s right yes press gets answered to bourbon street well yeah a little bit not quite but uh one block of it anyway one half block right yeah so yeah if you come here we have a lot of friends who like to honky tonk as we call it that’s their favorite thing to do they come down here and uh enjoy all the music that whiskey row has to offer have a couple of drinks dance honky tonk and then head home and sleep it up go home at nine no i’m kidding no actually uh uh whiskey road is open kind of late so uh one of the few places that is openly and there’s not a whole lot around so they can make lots of noise yeah and nobody complains and so this is a good time to kind of come and have some fun some of our favorite places here there’s uh the bistros over there there’s a whole bunch of honky tonk bars down here just a lot of fun and really really good music i mean you would be surprised i mean it’s for people think we’re such a small town we’ve got some really good musicians yeah we do we do they have uh sort of alternative jazz they have traditional plastic rock and country western and the whole thing it’s just a lot of fun a lot of dancing a lot of you know you can kind of let your hair down here absolutely and have a good time so if you’re looking at honky tonk and you love music and you want to have a nice time this is the place to come place to come man safe yeah absolutely safe totally safe yeah totally fun yeah get a bunch of friends have a couple of beers do some line dancing yeah i don’t know i like these i like blind bags yeah it can well especially they have a lot of beers the more drinks i have the better the line dancing i can never remember the routine well i don’t i don’t care if i don’t care i just want to have fun i’m just like oh we turning right i turn left that’s cool that’s cool everybody embraces you accepts you yeah i guess so but anyway just wanted to tell you if you’re big into music and and you think is that small town is that going to have some culture some things for me to do yes yeah well amazing amazing music here and you’ve been known from time to time you head out that’s right caused a little trouble possibly trouble i wouldn’t i wouldn’t say that cause a little trouble fall asleep at the table and they get mad at me that’s more like it yeah but anyway i hope that you come and visit prescott and enjoy all the fun that uh whiskey row has yeah absolutely waiting for you fun is just waiting for you absolutely all right have a good evening and we hope to see you here in prescott yeah except you got to tell them where to find oh yes i forgot that’s very important you can reach me at 713 3 or mr oddly enough you can find the preschool pickle lady at prescopiclady.com relocation center that’s pretty cool stuff check it out get some good information yeah we’d love to meet you come on bye yeah take care have a good night bye

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Early to Bed

Who would ever have thought that these crazy night owls would change their ways? The Pickle Lady explains how to become one of those “early to bed, early to rise” types without even trying.

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hello hello hello we’re heaps this is randall and diambra that’s uh your local hopefully favorite realtors yeah we should be by now i hope yeah we sure try hard we’re working we’re working this is your uh we’re your preschool pickled peeps yeah this is the preschool lady with me here that’s right along with our other our other pickled lady part of our pickle lady brigade janice erickson that’s right not drinking this uh for this episode it’s too early in the morning it’s too early in the morning yeah too early in the morning so we thought what a beautiful day let’s go down to the square so here we are here we are uh we’re actually kind of by the platform i wanted you to see they come here sometimes to play summer pops so this whole square the symphony will come and play and everybody brings their lawn chairs yeah yeah evidently we’re sitting on kind of like like a stage or something here i don’t know there’s some statues behind us and the statue back there oh cowboy got a good shot of that horse’s butt it’s awesome awesome bud anyway so it’s just one of the many little fun time summer activities they have here a lot of people like to come to the square and see that yeah but we’re really here to talk to you about kind of early to bed early it’s bad early to rise right so a little known fact about randall and i we used to be major major night owls night owls yeah we’re both from new orleans i used to pick when we were dating i used to pick her up at like 9 30. yeah you know that would be out till three in the morning not anymore not anymore and i think it has something to do you’ll find a lot of people here it’s like let’s meet for dinner sounds great let’s go what time are we going i’ll meet you at 4 30 or 5. centers early at first i was like i’m too young for this because i’ll tell you what i think it’s because we’re in the mile high city i don’t know i don’t know if it’s the altitude or i don’t know but people like to go to bed early here and get up early in the morning and i we were never that way our total body chemistry has totally changed so now i embrace i’m like oh hell yeah 4 30 for dinner sounds perfect and in bed at eight even better yeah right absolutely it’s kind of whack-a-doodle yeah but i don’t know if it’s the clean crisp air that i’m breathing or that it’s the higher altitude um i don’t know but i’m okay with it yeah you just i’m now a morning person i don’t know what happened to me today i woke up it’s like 3 30 in the morning yeah and i’m like i think i’ll get some work done because i’m up i if you had told me that i would be that way there would be some place on the earth that would make me that way i would have laughed at you because i used this when i was a kid i’d sleep until three in the afternoon i know who would have ever thought yeah so people who know us way back in the day are like we didn’t want to call too early and i’m like it’s perfectly fine i’m up i’m up with i’m up with the roosters yeah guys not necessarily a function of getting older i think in part it’s just a function to come in a preschool i think it’s just so if you want to stay a night out well you might want to reconsider because your body clock will totally change when you yeah you won’t have a try i mean i didn’t do it by choice it just kind of happened i mean if you while you’re in the process of transition there there are places that do stay open uh and they’re all over here it’s uh whiskey road you see over there and that’s where all the the late night stuff is going on they’re usually open to two or three in the morning so if you want to do that you can uh but we would suggest to you that you probably won’t yeah over time you probably start getting up early in the morning with us so exactly we’ll see you for breakfast just exactly great breakfast here all over great great brunches that you can go have so just when you pass on that little tidbit your body clock might change yeah with the higher altitude yeah but you’ll still love it here they’ll still love it and you’ll still enjoy the pops here in the summer when they come play in the square so anyway where can they find your first plastic pickle reach me at 713-302-1964 yes it is a texas number yeah i’m not soliciting yeah in any shape or form um i just didn’t change mine i’m too lazy i’ve had it too long i can’t change now yeah i’m not changing it or you can find us online at prescottpicklady.com where you can find information about relocating the preschool uh you’ll see the link there to our preschool relocation center lots of good information there you’re looking to sell yeah how home are you looking to sell in prescott check out our listing site we sell prescott.com absolutely and we’d like to any of you buyers coming in give us a call give us a call we want to show you what it’s all about absolutely here in our newly adopted you got to have a good breakfast yeah to go on a house home with us because we really we hit it hard yes all right thank you so much have a good day bye you

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Hot Wheels

The Pickle Lady explores one of the most interesting hobbies around town and encourages aficion – the passionate expression of your inner nerd.

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good afternoon all my friends out there fellow people people pizza pickle that’s correct i am diane and this is randy i’m randall yes and we’re in prescott arizona where your realtors hate you that’s right we picked the ladies that’s right we are here this afternoon in the square of downtown preston and find this pretty fountain isn’t it nice yeah i love it it kind of reminds me back home of new orleans yeah new orleans absolutely um but anyway we thought we would show you uh an area that’s really popular here uh a lot of um people who retire here love to restore old cars and this is where they like to show up and this is where they’re on the square it’s really cool so you’ll drive around and you’ll see all kinds of beautifully restored yeah yeah parked all around yeah those shut down like you see the traffic behind us here they’ll they’ll shut down a block or two and uh park all the cars just the other uh other day i was passing through here and they had a uh mg show yeah uh something girl murphy garage i forget what mg stands for but uh i couldn’t even type yeah but i mean it’s all so they had uh cars from the 20s the 30s all the way up to uh pretty recent cars a lot of cars from the 50s just gorgeous and so uh all the all the car nerds were uh talking about you know pistons and i don’t know suspension what are you talking about i don’t know we don’t know we don’t know we don’t know much about cars no we don’t but it is cool to see some fully restored model t yeah um yeah beautiful just beautiful and uh yeah you’ll see people drive just driving around town oh yeah with old vintage cars uh and then from time to time they’ll do a show here around the square and uh typically they’re they devote it to one particular kind of car so like that they have a corvette one and you know some hot rods and they’ll do moderates and yeah so if you are a car aficionado i did that i said that really well yeah you have a fisheye your cards or an affinity there you go there you go for restoring old cars and that’s your hobby you have found the town to come and retire too why are you just thinking about getting into it man it’s a good place to start so you can meet other people you guys can talk your nerd talk about restoring cars i don’t know but it’s really cool huge community of car restorers i’m sure they have a fancier name for themselves but i don’t know but it’s a great place to do it i guess because of the weather the the weather’s not hard on cars right so you restore it it kind of stays restored so you know our zone is big a lot of a lot of people are storing cars here but if that’s your hobby and you’re like well where can i wash up this is a good place to watch it you’ll meet some cool people you guys can share ideas show off your hot rods show off your beautifully restored cars right here in the square and just be able to lock it together it’s okay embrace it and breathe through it it’s cool it’s cool you deserve the right to do that you’ve retired yep you can do whatever you want now absolutely that’s what i that’s what i think i’m waiting for that point in my life it hasn’t come yet but i’m hoping yeah i’m hoping maybe it will and then i can do what i want last much you can find me at 713-302-1964 have a relocation center there lots of information and uh we got comps on houses all kinds of cool stuff absolutely check it out check it out come to the square see this beautiful fountain come check out the old cars if you’re lucky enough to drive by they might be all parked out there and you can check it out can you get some free pictures oh yes get some free tickets i’ll have some pickles ready for you absolutely all right have a great day talk to you soon bye

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Inappropriate Attire

The Pickle Lady dons some very inappropriate attire to demonstrate a very important point.

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hello hello hello hey pete hello randall bro how are you i am good how are you governor i’m doing okay governor hat on yeah that’s right well good morning good morning i am diane breaux and this is my better half randall grove here in the beautiful square of downtown prescott yeah uh we are in august but we’re wearing our winter garb drinking coffee here yeah because we wanted to explain to some of you who think i can’t move to arizona it’s too hot yeah it’s desert yeah it’s broiling you are wrong you are wrong there are some sections as in phoenix and tempe that yeah has that terrible 120 115 yeah crazy weather but we’ve done the summer challenge man we’re dressing up for winter weather that’s right in our summer challenge in august summer challenge here in the square of recipe rescue the downtown square right by the courthouse so you can’t you can’t do this in phoenix no if you did this in phoenix or las vegas in august you’d burst into flames you’re right yeah so we decided let’s put our coats on so people who who just think arizona is too hot to move to we want to show you it’s not especially here in prescott we have four true seasons so here we are august 29th uh it’s 8 o’clock in the morning we are in full winter gear not even breaking the sweat not even breaking news it’s a lovely split 70 degrees right now yeah i made 75 sometimes early in the morning it’s about 8 a.m but it will get a little hotter later on today but it’s that much hotter yeah no it’s not yeah so here we are in in arizona and crossfit as well yeah yeah and it’s just not what you think when you think of arizona we have just the perfect perfect weather even our summers aren’t that hot nope right our winters are great our fall is even better yeah absolutely and spring is just lovely yeah so when you’re thinking i don’t want to move to arizona too hot too arid to this to that look at all the greenery around us just not we’re not not here in prescott no not at all it’s the perfect four seasons absolutely so we’ll do a winter challenge too yeah i don’t know how much how many clothes we can take off oh yeah nobody wants to see that but yeah i won’t be in a bathing suit yeah like you said nobody would want yeah yeah i work in the region my love you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or find us online at prescottpicklelady.com you’ll find a link there to our prescott relocation center lots of good information about prescott and moving here and making a new life for yourself so come to prescott don’t think about vegas and phoenix and and florida and all that too hot yeah you can’t bundle up in august there like we are absolutely come to prescott and enjoy beautiful living and great great weather all right have a good day bye

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Friends in Strange Places

In this episode we explore the importance of having good friends in strange places – and reveal the first place you should look to find them.

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hello hello hello hello hello peeps it always makes randall feel more comfortable if i start off yeah i don’t know what to do if you don’t start with yeah he doesn’t like it otherwise but anyway yeah welcome this is the prescott pickle lady yes it’s our weekly wine down weekly wine and we drink some wine and share some thoughts and some information about life in general real estate in general and prescott in general i’m impressed in general yeah and uh so i am diane bro and this is my partner randall brown yeah i’m the pickle ladies data troll or something that is correct kind of what we wanted to talk to i talked to you about today is uh people’s fear about moving in general not just in prescott but just moving to a brand new place that they don’t know because they don’t know anyone right and i’m going to go there i don’t know a soul i don’t know anyone and uh what this what this wine down is about is if you come to prescott and you work with us you will know us that’s right and that’s worth a lot more than you would think just knowing uh a real estate agent so uh we thought we sort of talked to you about that so many good friends yeah that i’m like wow i just love these people we’re still friends we still i’d like to see people a whole lot more and go out to eat a whole lot more but we’re always we’re always busy yeah but but when we do have availability i love to get together with former clients and now they’re just good friends yeah um and when you’re when you are brand new in a town uh just knowing one person or one couple i guess or three of us i get three of us in the pickle brigade just knowing three people well uh is of amazing value it is as you move in you can feel comfortable calling us yeah you know after you move in uh there are a lot of agents who are like done the deal’s done papers are signed see ya and you’re never here going to the next thing yeah we don’t like to be that way no no it’s kind of like everybody becomes my little peeps yeah the pickle peeps the pickle teeth they kind of come into the family and then i feel like i want to check in hey how are things going are you okay do you have any questions um you know besides our relocation guide yeah but you know sometimes you still just need to have that personal touch you need to be able to reach out and uh we like for me at least that’s my favorite part of the job yeah is i like still being in touch i like still being of assistance and helping you for us it’s not just give me that commission check when you’re moving moving is one of those things it’s uh do you want to get that turn that off somebody’s coming after the pickle lady tallahassee florida sorry i can’t talk right now sorry about that right now so uh when you are moving somewhere new that’s one of the phases of your life where a lot of things can go wrong you know if you’re starting a new job you just had a new baby god help us if that yeah you know what that you don’t go to there again no i would be shocked but you know when you go through these these points in your life where you’re sort of vulnerable yes and moving to a brand new house moving to a brand new city is one of those so having just a few people that you can call on and you know you make a call and you say uh can you get over here right now with every towel you own yes this was a recent event this is for you genie yeah who i consider a good friend yeah a really good friend uh genie weenie just moved into her house poor little thing she called me and said oh my god my house is flooded i’m out of towels and i ran out of towels and so we raced over there luckily we were actually home we raised my wife has a lot of time i do have a lot of time a lot of exceptionally large numbers yeah but anyway we literally raced over there and helped her wipe it all up stop it up get somebody out there to help her fix the problem turn the water off at the bridge um you know and so that’s the kind of service we like to provide yeah don’t think oh my house is closed and now you guys yeah if you would call a friend if you would call a friend you know where you’re living now and there’s somebody you would call uh because you need help uh you can call us you know i don’t like to talk the deal is done once you get your official recordation of your home yeah we are making connections you know dealing with hoas we’re dealing with we’re dealing with an hoa right now on two things on a fence and paint colors and and having having negotiated this myself it’s something i’m happy to do yeah i know when you move in you’ve got a hundred and fifty thousand boxes to one pack and it’s like you know i really wanna put my fence up but i gotta get my house together i’ll kind of try to do that part for you maybe you know if you want me to yeah we’ll do what we can yeah and then that way that’s one less thing you have to worry about and the wheels are in motion with the hoa to get whatever task you need to have done yeah and you don’t have to lose three months waiting time while you’re unpacking you know we like to kind of fill that blanket if you’d like you know what gets you hooked into the social scene absolutely introduce you to people we think you might get along with and you know yeah so you come to a brand new town you come to a brand new city my voice is changing yeah [Laughter] yeah so uh you know you you are vulnerable when you’re moving here but uh if you you reach out to us and we help you out then you got at least three people who will have your back we have your back yeah we don’t just consider you a job check done see you later um we like to keep in touch with everybody um we celebrate our relationship with you and that’s the way we like to do it that’s the way we roll absolutely we like to keep it personal and keep in touch sometimes i’d like to keep in touch a little more than i can but yeah you know we all get busy and everybody but we’re here so if you have anything major like hey tell them what do you really think about your doctor i can give you the speech oh yeah we’ll give you the scanning who do you think really does a good job with hair i can give you this you’re going to get it on that too i’ll tell you who really proves good beer yeah yeah so the point is um uh-oh uh just uh one quick tip uh just in this particular case if your house is flooding for whatever reason you should know how to turn the water off uh so if you go through the buying process and uh you know you’re going to have an inspector the inspector will show you where your main water turn off is uh most most appliances like the refrigerator it it’ll have its own shut off so you don’t have to shut off water to the whole house you’ll be able to shut it off there so that’s your fridge leaking just turn it off turn it off at the source that’s what that’s was the you know that’s what we did we you know mopped up the water there but that’s just a quick tip just a quick tip i learned myself yeah i learned myself happy that i actually i was super impressed that daddy here knew that i was really surprised tell me how i know uh because we had a dishwasher that flooded and i learned the hard way yeah ruined the floor i was i was impressed with that good job yeah yeah you live long enough you learn a few things anyway in conclusion in conclusion let’s talk about how wonderful and sweet [Laughter] yes she does but uh ultimately the goal of our practice is we want to be there for you before during and after absolutely um we really want to make your life here in prescott just fantastic no regrets we want you to have a nice smooth transition and we enjoyed it and we did we really do and we really become friends with some lovely lovely people i love you all [Music] you guys are awesome and you make the business fun and uh and worthwhile to be in it makes me feel good to to work with some really nice people so anyway call us if you need anything we again will be there for you before during and after we absolutely love to help you find the right place here in prescott so how do they find you you can find me at three three zero two one nine six four or on the web prescottpicklady.com correct you can find our relocation guide there lots of good information if you are looking to sell your home you can find a link there to our listing site which is we sell prescott.com uh but you’ll find the link just go to frescopiclady.com all your dreams will come true that’s a big yes that’s a big thing to deliver [Laughter] it may be your nightmare but yeah it may be your nightmare but we’re going to try real hard for you yeah but we’ll keep those snakes away yeah we’ll be all right all right folks this is randall and diane bro thanks for joining us till next week when we do our next one yeah nice balloon all right take care have a good night bye

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Critters… and an Escape

Worried about the critters you might find in Prescott? The Pickle Lady gives you the low-down on all the creepy crawlies that might have you on edge… plus a fortuitous escape caught on camera.

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hello hello hey peeps randall and i am bro she’s a lady i am i get to hang out with her it’s one of the perks one of the perks of being a realtor he doesn’t know he doesn’t always think that but yeah don’t be fooled by that especially when i fail at technology which is a lot yeah is that so nice i didn’t marry her for her technical savvy is that a word savvy i think that is i don’t know i don’t know i don’t know okay we’re outside our office here i have a little balcony that overlook i’m gonna see if you can see the square behind us here yeah down that street it’s right to the square in the square yeah to the square in good times yeah we’re still having fun making it work absolutely all right so today what we wanted to talk about was uh a lot of times we get texts emails phone calls i hate snakes i’m scared of scorpions yeah what’s the story i hear uh i was about to say alaska not alaska i know what’s wrong with me i don’t know we have friends yeah we do no but they’ll call and ask about arizona i hear they’re just written with all the critters all the time oh yeah i’m here to tell you that’s that we first one’s the snakes right so let’s do the snakes correct so we have the diamondbacks i’m not a sports guy what are the diamond banks basketball i’m not even sure i don’t know we uh we’ve been here three years we’ve had a few snakes none of them rattle snakes just like snakes the ones that eat the the mice and the bad so yeah i’ve never had a you know a diamondback yeah no i’ve never had an escape from that or anything it’s all good of course you know we’re all god’s creatures yeah um we cannot say unequivocally 100 you’ll never find one here um but i myself have not run in across one i go hiking i’m on the i haven’t run across one on the path um but it’s not like we’re we’re tons of snakes no i mean there are snakes all over the world so we can’t give you a hundred percent guarantee separate except for ireland ireland is supposed to not have sleep i’m not sure what that has to do with it but well i want to work that in i don’t want to speak falsely that the whole world doesn’t have something oh you heard that yeah that is rude somebody live in the present all right yeah but anyway all right scorpions scorpions same thing uh i’ve lived here three years i’ve never seen one in or outside of my home no um it’s not like they’re crawling around here owning the place at all no no you won’t see them uh again are they here sure is it a chronic problem like cockroaches no which is another thing no roaches and no mosquitoes oh my god the mosquitoes here are so stupid like you have one you could just go and kill them yeah they are amazingly stupid coming from the south yeah i mean you’re just eating a lot eating a lot it’s very refreshing to sit out on your deck people here think they have here yeah they’re mosquito they think they have bugs here yeah so they’ll put like screens on the windows like why do you bother you have no bugs here it’s amazing delightful absolutely delightful which is your usual favorite one i love the word but i’m going to adapt adopt it not adapt it i’m going to adopt that word it is very uh delightful so tarantulas i have seen maybe once a year i see tarantulas in some areas they like to uh they like to get on asphalt they don’t see them on the road yeah uh i have seen two since i’ve been here so on average maybe about once a year you’ll see a tarantula in an area where there’s asphalt and there’s not a lot of traffic and on the road just sitting there it’s not like they’re hanging out in your house yeah we’re not in the home or anything yeah so you never fear coming to prescott arizona that’s a hot rod never fear coming to prescott arizona about really lethal fatal scary critters they’re not that common and just for good measure we don’t have earthquakes either yeah we get that too we have earthquakes we have water we don’t yes that’s another one yeah yeah we’ll do one on water yeah no lack of water no lack of water the water comes from the tap here you turn it on it comes out we do not have earthquakes not to say that we could hold on another another motorcycle yeah not to say that you couldn’t but uh we don’t get tremendous i mean we are not god we can’t predict at all we try hard but no hurricanes no hard things just nice weather yeah nice beautiful four seasons with no critters with no critters hardly any critters don’t worry about the craters yes all right well this is diane and randall bro signing off on our critter chapter yeah you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or on the web at prescottpicklady.com you’ll find a link there to our prescott relocation center with links to all kinds of wonderful stuff so if you have a listing where do we go if you want to sell oh yeah yeah go you can go to we sell prescott.com or preschoolpicklady.com you’ll see the link there that we sell we are all here to help you sell and buy both sides and we do both sides extremely well and protect you from critters and we will personally protect you from any any diamondbacks that not randall yeah she will i’ll be gone somebody else may yeah we’re looking at houses and there’s a snake on we will make sure that it doesn’t get we’ll run real fast we’ll run real fast we’ll set the pace for you time to run but anyway all right good to see you guys take care have a good day bye you

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Dog Heaven

Prescott is a great place to be if you are a dog… or dog owner. Check out this over-the-top dog park and meet the Pickle Lady’s pups.

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hello hello hello hey peeps this is randall and diane bro he’s the pickle lady and i’m the i don’t know pickle person he’s pickle pickle man pickle pickle man um we have our sunglasses on because we’re standing directly directly in the sun so uh but anyway we’re having a great time we’re here at the biggest dog park here in prescott yeah huge and we’re having kind of look pan around here there’s some dogs and some people and people with dogs and all kinds of huge yeah yeah we would love to come here with our dogs we have one dog that behaves yeah one dog that absolutely does not she does not get along well with others not play well i should say not to sound like one of those moms but i think the others just don’t get along with her she’s misunderstood she’s largely misunderstood she is misunderstood her name is stella and the good one we have is frankie lou beautiful dogs yeah but uh but sadly we can’t do the dog park no but i wanted to show this to you guys yeah um and like you have well-behaved dogs or if you move here and get a well-behaved dog you can come here what i wanted to tell you was uh how prescott it’s a huge huge huge dog community yes everybody loves dogs yes everybody has a dog here yes um you go to eat at any restaurant and you’re on an outdoor patio they’ll probably have their pockets a couple of pups you come here to the dog park they got a huge i mean a huge piece of land yeah for the big dogs and then a smaller area for the smaller pups yeah they do and kind of kind of an area i don’t know if you can see it over there but they have a place that uh it’s kind of cordoned off for the smaller dogs although most people have small dogs don’t bother yeah they don’t they don’t follow the blue i know and their little dogs are the ones that come those are the ones yeah no offense to anybody out there but you know it’s true it’s true you can’t deny it you can’t deny it you can’t deny you know it’s true but it’s also cool they got a lot of stuff that the dogs can run on and have fun and climb on and jump off of and water and it’s it’s just great it’s right it’s located at the end of willow creek across from finley toyota there you go so for those of you who are new you pass by the fry shopping center and come on why do i have some shade on me but i do strange i feel like i’m in solar eclipse interesting yeah i don’t know but anyway um nature’s nature is a phenomenon yeah it is but don’t feel bad for our dogs though because uh we take care of them we uh we walk them quite a bit and uh we also ride them around they love to go for a ride yeah go like go for a ride so we have a dog that is devoted to the dogs it’s our dog car and uh at least twice a day in the morning in the afternoon they’ll come by us and start jumping around because they know it’s time for their run time for a ride so we take them for a ride everybody knows our car because it’s a black car and we have two black dogs they stick their heads out their heads and everybody’s like they’re going to pickle people again so you see crazy people driving around with their dogs hanging out the side of a black car that you know that’s us that’s us but we wanted to tell you when you move here in case you didn’t know about this great dog park you can come here and meet people here as well they’ve got a lot of chairs and people sit around and chit chat and there’s kind of a little dog family uh friendly community yeah yeah so please make a make a trip out here with your pup if you’ve got a good one yeah people here are super friendly dogs are usually friendly and uh it’s just a good place to kind of come enjoy a beautiful day like today beautiful beautiful day so all right that is it for the dog parks and the dog-loving city of prescott so where can they find you my love you can find me at 713-30 or on the web at prescottpicklady.com where you find a link to our prescott relocation center all kinds of great information about the city and where to find things and stuff about buying houses and everything where to get your hair cut yeah yeah yeah anyway so good good good information there so check it out happy to be here today and spread the news about this great dog park you guys have a good day bye

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HOA Paint Colors

What could be more fun than coordinating paint colors with an HOA while you’re in a middle of a move? Well, at least you have the Pickle Lady to help run the traps… and there’s wine.

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all right i’m sitting harder than you that’s okay they give the important people the tall chairs oh give me i don’t think so give me a break give me a break hey how are you guys hello yeah okay we are now in fish capacity you want to introduce ourselves i was about to go ahead don’t jump that’s what i do i oh my god give me patience all right we’re here in our official capacity as realtors in our very nice beautiful new conference room here at our office i am diane and this is randall bro she’s pickle lady i am the pickle lady um and we are happy to be here this evening we wanted to kind of hang out at the office because it’s been a little hot yeah it’s nice and cool in here we’re waiting for the monsoons to come through they’re running late this year they are very much really weird weather patterns this year all over the country yeah we’re no exceptional hurry monsoons right absolutely yeah just one or two rain so far exactly so we’re here to talk about something that um well i’d like to help any of my clients when they’re moving in so just mr bro um and we kind of wanted to talk a little bit about customer service and some important things so recently we sold a lovely home in prescott lakes and my little lady wanted to have her whole home repainted so i do know you have your hoa so i went over and filled out the whole application and helped you pick out the paints and sadly they only meet every couple of weeks to decide yeah um because she was closing the next day they declined her colors yeah yeah it was kind of dumb but anyway kind of dumb so now we have to wait till august 6th so i wanted to talk to you about things like that when you need to do anything with your hoa be aware you can’t just go in fill the form send it in and say oh approve today no sometimes it takes two to three weeks and the board meets the board and then if you don’t get the answer you want then you got to do it all over again you know yeah so always check with your hoa if you want something done ready or fast you better you know expect it’s not going to quite happen that way yeah we try to get to get it all choreographed just so yeah uh obviously you know this is if you are moving from it in from out of town right so you’re trying to coordinate all this obviously get get the pickle lady uh involved right as your boots on the ground to try to get it all coordinated um so part of it is just so you know that we can help you do stuff like that and negotiate and administer that kind of thing and the other is just adjust your expectations adjust your expectations so we were declined on one color so now we have to wait till august 6 but that’s okay we’re going to resubmit and we’re going to start over but uh so i wanted you to be aware of that sometimes with hoas it takes a little time to get the final approval but you will always also we suspect that part of the reason why they didn’t just approve everything is that we had not closed yet mm-hmm and uh we suspect they wanted to make sure that we were closed before they do anything well that makes sense yeah i mean you can’t approve something on the house that someone doesn’t own yeah i totally get it yeah i was just my my point is yeah that’s how proactive we are as a team yeah i’m so proactive i’m like you know what this lady needs her house painted i’m on this i’m gonna make this happen i know where the hoa is i’m gonna go while she was still in california so we and our practice we very much like to help our people in any way we can we’ve had clients call and say i can’t get my ceiling fans to work okay so we come over and and then we call our other friend and our other agent and say hey uh how do we get this turned on we can’t get it oh did you get the remotes that’s another tip too so there are three of us working together to try to figure out some of these problems and get you the best help as fast as possible whether it be us or we have a whole list which is on our relocation center location center which lists painters handymen uh we have somebody who does stucco so our team we try super super hard to have as much information available so when you move and you need to have things done we are a source of information for you to help you get whatever you need to have handled and also on the on the social side too so not just it’s not just about your home uh a lot of times people want information about the local activity center or contact information for different clubs and stuff like that right uh so we’ll coordinate that we try to be super super available and i have to say not all agents are no nope they just say thank you so much goodbye have fun but if you come to us we’re all about customer service absolutely we really want to help you and give you some delicious pickles that’s right and sometimes i give you another bottle of pickles don’t underestimate the pickles some of you people love these pickles are a little to me can i have some more can i have some more don’t worry mama will give you some pickles yeah anytime she’s always making pickles call me i’m always in production i’m always in production so even after you move here don’t be shy give me a call give me a call if you need help with anything and if you need more pickles right absolutely all in one place to get the good pickles you’re right about that all right cheers for that so give us a call we’re here to help you non-stop 24 hours 713 302 1964. yeah it’s a houston number we know we moved here we didn’t change yes you don’t have to either no and the other thing is uh prescottpicklady.com you’ll find a link to our prescott relocation center which is a website full of all kinds of wonderful things right you need if you’re coming if you’re thinking about or you are already enroute coming in that’s it exactly all right bye guys have a good day good to see you bye cheers

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