Technological Reality
Computer technology can deliver astounding results, but at the same time, when it comes to home searches there is still a long way to go.
This video explores what you can expect, and what is still beyond our current systems’ ability.
Video Transcript hello hello hello my new friends my my my pickle friends out there peeps pickle peeps yes backlight randall bro here with prescott pickle lady yep diane bro yeah arizona there you go oh my gosh that’s a lot very fast if i can keep up with that i talk southern so i talk a little slower life’s moving on live is moving on all right anyway we are enjoying another lovely day here at mark’s beer garden here’s some of his specials he’s a dog he’s great he’s great yes so what are we here to talk about today randall bro we’re at uh alerts home alerts oh yeah people people so we set people up with home alerts like you don’t know what a home alert is you go to our website and you can register and when homes come on that match your criteria you will get an email says all right the following homes just came on and you know you may be interested i call it a home search home search they call it a home alert um that sounded funny i’m channeling some strange accent i’m not sure where it was rather alien alien-esque might be the beer yeah maybe i think it is one of the things we wanted to talk about is what your expectation should be with regard to the specificity of that what degree can you you know find what you’re looking for that’s a specificity you know at least i can say it yeah you’re right yeah okay so here’s the thing um we can set up home searches like you want a single story you want a two-car garage you want a three-car garage you want square footage certain amount of square footage price points one of the things you need to understand is that our searches are only as good as the data that the listing agents have entered so if you’re looking for a fireplace we can ask for a fireplace if the agent has indicated there is a fireplace in the house you’ll get that house but a lot of agents aren’t really that thorough in what they code for right and they are limited as to the number of things that they can list i just want to say something real quick you look really cute today thank you you’re welcome thank you i didn’t i was going to wear my scarf but yeah yeah only i can wear the scarf you’re cute all the time well thank you but i just want to say honestly this is the house that sells the face that sells right here the face that launches a thousand faces i don’t know i don’t know specificity anyway yeah but here’s the thing sometimes i will get um some notes from people and they’re like yeah this is what i would like dark maple wood floors in the mask and the master and then lighter floors another okay i can’t go there i wish i could you know or they’ll say and they’ll get angry at us they’re like i told you maple floors i can’t that’s light maple i want a dark maple you know we can’t control everything it’s it’s pretty specific but there’s certain things like uh i want to have rv parking that’s fine i can add that on yeah that is not a problem you can do it but a lot of the agents but here’s the other thing if you give a specific measurements like it must be 20 feet bite it’s not it it’s not that refined it’s not good so please you know we try our hardest to put everything in of your wants and desires but some things i can’t quite control you know and so if you are looking for a you know a newer home but maybe it’s five years old and maybe it doesn’t have it has carpet in the bathroom um don’t scream at me because it kind of kind of hurts my feelings well there is one way you can actually get exactly what you’re looking for for the first time yeah and that’s called building a new home a brand new home your wife yeah and we can hook you up with builders and we’re happy to do that too but if you’re looking for a home that exists we can’t poop out your home but we have to show you something that that exists in time and space so i mean we’re limited yeah so don’t think oh we’re not doing our job we really are we’re trying to the best of our ability but oddly enough some of these computer programs are don’t say maple floors only in the master and i like that i wanted i want two acres with mountain views in downtown prescott and i want it for 350 thousand dollars it’s not going to happen can i be honest no yeah it’s not going to happen so sometimes we have to go up in price to get you what you’re looking for or we give you the price you want and we have to take some of the features off correct that’s just the nature of reality okay just real quick technical problems here this is what happens when you use your cell phone as a camera somebody will call your camera that’s the problem so so we apologize thank you whoever called and didn’t leave me their caller id thank you thank you appreciate it thank you fellow solicitors yeah fellow solicitors one of the things that people get get freaked out about is the the even so that our system will require you to register that’s so it can have your email address it’s going to send you home alerts uh it will monitor what you seem to like and it will send you what it thinks that you like automatically that’s why it does that if you don’t like those emails you can unsubscribe if you’re getting them too often let the pickle lady know she’ll change how often they go yeah we can do daily we can do twice a week we can do weekly yeah so people will freak out oh my email my email my house is gonna fall down but you know it’s really not that we’re not invading your privacy yeah we’re just trying to help you find a home yeah we’re just trying to help you find out we’re happy to do that and so anyway we try real hard to hone it in especially when you’re getting ready to come in town so don’t get thrown like you sent me something it doesn’t quite fit i understand but when you come in town and we’re in person i’m really gonna hone that search down to really include what you want um and we show you we show you homes that we know personally whenever possible yes now if you’re here and you’re looking at homes in the 200s 300s sometimes the 400s those homes turn over very quickly and we can’t do that get out there um enough they’re already sold they’re sold yeah yeah um it’s being snatched up it’s a hot market so we try to send you to homes that we know are good in advance but we can’t always do that that’s right so anyway um be patient with us on the home searches we try our utmost uh you know hardest to get exactly what you want sadly the program isn’t written to include some of these requirements as hard as we you know look and we try so just be patient with us uh we’re trying super hard to find exactly what you want exactly so that’s all that’s all we wanted to say all right is that all you want to say that’s all i want to say and and so i’ll have another beer oh okay so sign up pick a lady okay thank you again for reaching out reaching out to us and uh being a part of this today and you can reach us at you can reach me at 713-302-1964 or online at prescottpicklelady.com thanks guys see you soon