Playing Rough

Hello, hello, hello, hello peeps. Diane and Randall Bro here. Uh, coming from the lovely town of Prescuit, Arizona up in the up in the air in the mountains. Yeah, she’s the Prescuit pickle lady. I’m her psychic and I just interrupted her, but that’s okay. That’s all right. We’re used to We’re mile high. Prescuit’s a mile high. (00:21) That’s what she We are a mile high. Yes. Uh, yeah. We’ve been married almost 40 years. So, um, we have gotten some feedback that we overtalk each other. True. Probably won’t change them. That’s just who we are and how we roll. So, sorry about that. We’ll try. We’ll try. But that’s just how how how it’s been from from day one. (00:46) Yeah. Usually we we’re finishing each other’s sentences. That’s right. Usually it’s pretty constructive. Today, I want to talk about plain rough. So, this was uh this came out of a experience. We had uh a client who was looking for a home uh kind of a lower-end home. Uh and you know, when you have a home in Prescuit that’s kind of on the cheaper side, there’s typically a lot of people interested. (01:12) Uh right, especially one that was in good shape, which this one was. It was darling. It was newly redone. It was quite charming. would be the perfect Airbnb, which is what they were looking for. And so, yeah, we were all excited. We went to see it. And then the agent started playing playing rough. Playing rough. So, the Not the good rough. (01:34) Not the good rough. Am I right? Yeah. That’s right. Oh, look. He’s embarrassed. Yeah. A little embarrassed. So, uh, the agent was not from Prescuit. I think the agent was uh down from in the valley. You know, down in the valley, that’s a different market. You can do different things there. Uh the down in the valley in Phoenix, um you have lowerend buyers. (02:00) It’s a different market. It’s a different market. Uh people who are new to the home market and buying for the first time, they will put up with a lot. you know, they’re happy to be able to buy homes and that they’re typically competing for homes with other buyers who are looking for lower-end homes. They will put up with a lot. (02:22) Retired people living in Prescuit, no, they don’t want to play the game. They don’t want to play the game. They’re like, “Here I am. I’m going to give you X, Y, and Z almost full ask cash quick close. Do we have a deal?” Yeah. And this particular agent was like calling everybody else and playing everybody’s offer against each other. (02:44) Yeah. Basically told us that we had a deal and then like two hours later called said we uh we’d like best and final from everyone. Right. And our and our our buyers did exactly kind of what we thought they would. It’s like you know we’re not playing these games. We don’t want to play this game. We don’t have to. (03:01) We’re not that interested. We’re not that invested. and if we have to get into uh working with an agent who’s trying to get a bidding war fired up, we’re we’re not interested. So, we withdrew their offer and uh we said, you know, you’ve lost a good buyer here. Yeah. And um ultimately, the home didn’t sell for much more than Yeah, it was. (03:21) So, it was kind of a silly game. Yeah, it was a silly game. Uh so he priced the home uh low on purpose to try to get as many people interested as possible and then do did all these shenanigans to try to get the price higher and higher. Tried to uh make a uh a bidding war, manufacture a bidding war. In the end, the home sold probably a little shy of if he had just asked a real price. (03:52) the real price would have gotten probably more uh than he did. Uh I don’t think really turned off a lot of buyers. It turned off a lot of other agents. We’re like, “Listen, we’re talking, you know, and now you’re changing the tactics here and moving the finishing line farther away.” And Prescuit doesn’t work that way. Yeah. (04:14) Prescuit these are seasoned buyers, seasoned people. These people seasoned agents and agents are like, “Yeah, we’re not doing that. We’re all old. We’ve seen it all. You know, we don’t we don’t like to play these games. Just be real. Be real. Make a real offer. Make a real counter. Yeah. If you’re if you’re a seller and uh you’re interested in maybe trying to do these kinds of things or you have an agent that’s telling you to do these kinds of things, we would advise you not to do that. At least in Prescuit. (04:43) Uh it’s not well received. Not well received by the buyers. The buyers are like, “Yeah, I’m not doing that. I don’t need to.” Yeah, I’ll just find another house that will take my money and not have to play this game. So, yeah, they’re pretty pretty tough on that. Yeah. Yeah. And if you’re a buyer and you’re interested in Prescuit, you should know that it’s very unlikely Yeah. (05:04) that you’re going to run into any shenanigans here. People just don’t do business like that. We’re just very straightforward. Here’s what it is. Go back and forth. Counter counter. That’s it. That’s it. We don’t We don’t say, “Oh, what about this? and we could do this and we could let’s call this one and try to bring it up more. (05:20) No, we don’t do that. So, yeah, we really don’t. Most and most other agents don’t either because it’s because the buyers just don’t they don’t put up with it. They don’t respond well. You know, buyers are it has been a buyer market in Prescuit for a while now. It’s often a strong buyer market. Uh these buyers, they’re people looking at retiring. They bought homes before. (05:42) They’re typically very successful people. Uh they’re very savvy. Don’t try to play rough games with these people. This doesn’t work. They’re they’re they’re not going to do it. So, we got beaten up a couple of times by that. I’m like, “Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. It’s not me. I don’t play this way.” Yeah. (05:59) Um we don’t like to play rough. We just want to play fair. Everybody be fair and above board and we’ll do just And when our buyers stepped out, we were happy. Like I’m glad you did. And that we think that’s the right thing to do. So anyway, just to let you know, if you’re coming in, don’t play games. We’re not going to play games. (06:17) We’re going to get you the best deal we can. Absolutely. And it’ll be easy and and and hopefully as painfree as possible. Y So don’t play rough, be nice, be cool, be cool. That’s our tip of the day. If you want more tips, check out pickle411.com. We have our free information site there, the Prescuit Relocation Center, where you can get pretty much any question you want answered. (06:42) If you’re interested in a buyer tour, you can schedule it there. We’ll give you our recommendations for hotels, things to do. If you’re looking for something easy, you’re not ready to fly or drive to Prescat yet, look at our private one-on-one sessions. You can book that at pickle411.com. We’ll meet with you online, answer any questions that you want, spend some time with you learning about your particular situation, and help you develop some next steps. (07:06) That’s right. We’d love to have private one-on- ones. Yes. That doesn’t sound right. But anyway, we promise we won’t play rough. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, we’d love to meet Oh, wow. Anyway, we’d love to meet you and chat and meet you in person and uh welcome you to Prescuit. All right, so enough of that foolishness. (07:32) Nice to see you and hope to hear from you soon. Take care. Bye bye.