Have you ever wondered why some Prescott, AZ homes sell for so much less than others? It could have something to do with Prescott’s airport. Watch this video to find out whether the home you’re thinking of buying (or selling) is one of them!
Video Transcript
Good morning. I hope everyone out there is having a fabulous, fabulous start of their day. Yeah, this is I am Diane. This is Randal. She’s the pickle lady. I am not. That is true. It always throws me off when he says that. But anyway, we are your local husband and wife real estate team here. Uh selling homes and starting new lives for everyone here in Prescott. Yes. And happy to do that. Here to talk about airports. Well, well, more specifically planes. Planes. So, the name of this episode is the plane boss. The plan. I don’t know if showing my age. You remember that little guy on Fantasy Fantasy Island. Fantasy Island. It’s the plan B. And that was that guy. He he also did the commercials for Rich. Yeah. Rich uh uh Corinthian Leather. Corinthian Leather. Everyone knows Montalbon. That’s right. Montalbon. Everybody who’s watching this is going to know what that is. Yeah. The little plane guy. He was in a a James Bond movie. Yeah, he was talented. It was uh Goldfinger, I believe. Yeah, he was talented guy. But anyway, okay. That’s not what we’re here to talk about. No, not at all. We’re here to talk about the plane. So So uh there’s an area Go right ahead. Yeah. Right around the airport uh called Deep Well Ranch. And some of the homes there are right I mean just right under where the plane under the flight path. Yeah. Uh we beautiful neighborhoods. Yeah. Beautiful neighborhood. Beautiful homes. Um You know, some people can live with that, some people can’t. Uh, one thing you should know about the airport or several things you should know about the airport. So, the approach to the airport and whatever the taxiing uh avenue, whatever is east to west. So, if you’re south of the airport, you’re north of the airport, not that bad. So, like Granite Dells is a neighborhood where you can you can see the planes, you’re near the airport, but you really don’t get that many flyovers. Uh, but you might get a few, but nothing a few, but not not you should know, first of all, this is also not LAX. Okay, this is a small regional airport. However, there are a number of flights that take off, especially because we have Embry Riddle here in the which is a university where a lot of pilots come to get educated. They get a four-year degree as well as become a pilot. Okay. And they’re f they’re flying prop planes. So they they take off. They what do they call them? Um prop planes. No, turns and Oh. Oh, touch and goes. Touch and goes. I couldn’t think of it. So yeah, they’ll do a lot of touch and goes because they are practicing and learning how to become a pilot. So you’re going to have a lot of prop planes in those particular areas that he was just uh talking about. Yeah. So, um, I mean, lots of takeoffs and landings, particularly like in the beginning of the school year, they seem to be there different times of the year. A lot of them, they go round and round, they go all the way around, they’ll practice at night, they’ll wake up in the morning, they’ll go, they’ll go late. Uh, so there’s a lot of that going on. We also have United. United uh flies out of our airport. Those airplanes are 50-seater jets. Mhm. Uh there are is it two trips to LA? I think so. Morning and evening. Morning and evening. Going and coming back. Going and coming back. And the same with Denver. Correct. Uh I think they’re extended like they might have two flights to two flights from. Right. Uh but that’s kind of where we are now. There’s like four, six, maybe eight takeoff landings of jets. 50 seaters. Not the big boys. Yeah. No big jumbos taking off to Europe or anything like that. Also, there are a lot of uh pilots here who’ve retired and they have their own private planes. So, they’ll be taking off, too. So, uh when we show you those areas, because the houses are especially in Prescat, you might be able to get brand new construction. It’s going to be at a discounted discount because of these airports. Yeah, you can get uh Well, well, we we this year we sold a a brand new home in that area. It was six. What is it like maybe six? I forget. It was in the sixes. I want to say that’s like a medium medium pricriced home in our market. But it had like a threecar garage. It had all the bells and whistles. Yeah. This was a brand new home with bells and whistles in the sixes. If you bought that anywhere else in Prescuit, it would have been more in the eights. Yeah. More in the eights. So, so something to think about. If if you don’t think that would bother you that much, you can use noise cancellation technology in your home. White noise and stuff like that. Make sure you get double pane windows. Well, they all will be built with that. Yeah, that’s true. They will always come. That always comes. But you should know if we and we will always tell you, you’re over these are planes. You’re going to hear plane noises. If this is something that’s going to make you crazy, this is not the neighborhood for you. I know it’s a great price. I know it’s brand new and it’s a great location because it is close to all the shopping and everything. I get it. But I can’t change that and that is not going to change. I can’t control the FAA. And one thing I cannot tell you is how many flights a day take off. That changes depending on demand. Like he said, depending on the school semester. Um, I can’t call the uh the local airport and say, “How many flights for this month will it be? Will it be 900 a day? Will it be 200 a day? Takeoffs? Will it be 600?” They don’t even know. Um, that’s unpredictable. So, I can’t give you that number, but you should know there will be a lot of touch and goes. There will be a lot of private pilots. You’re going to hear noise. Yeah. And a lot of this new construction, they will also tell you the same thing. They’ll give you the report and they’ll have it written in there. So, it’s something to think about. If that is going to drive you crazy or if you can’t handle that, you really should move on and look someplace else. Yeah, absolutely. So, so you really need to know your own mind. Yeah. You know, we have some really good friends. Uh shout out to uh Don and Don and Jan. They live in Analopee Hills. Uh and we go to their house. We have drinks and we like to watch the planes take off and they think it’s great and they think it’s great. They’re like the noise doesn’t bother we love to sit out and just watch the planes. We watch the sun, you know, go down and we we drink a cocktail and we watch the the planes. Yeah. I I personally I I really enjoy that. Yeah. Some people could care less. They don’t want to see a plane either way. Some people hate the noise. Yeah. So, you need to know your own mind. If you don’t know your own mind, then we’ll hang out with you at the house and let you experience it firsthand inside the house, outside the house. It’s worth knowing, right, what you’re going to feel like before you buy the home, right? Because then you’re committed. And I hate to see anybody so dreadfully unhappy after the fact. Yeah. And I want everyone to have a choice. And once you’re committed and you buy, it’s hard to, you know, turn it around. Yeah. And I want everybody to be happy uh where they land, you know, in their little nest, so to speak. So to speak. Yeah. Not the plane, but not the plane, but So, um, just something to keep in mind. If we tell you, if you’re really sensitive, I’m going to steer you away from that. If you insist, I’m going to say I’m going to keep warning you. You should know. You should know. Um, and then it’s going to be kind of on you, you know what I mean, if you decide because I will certainly advise. I just cannot tell you with great accuracy the number of flights. I can’t. It changes daily, you know what I mean? And, um, plus, I don’t think they would tell me anyway. Yeah, that’s an FAA thing. Yeah. So, uh, but anyway, so we just want to share that with you because we want you to be happy wherever you land. So, if that’s something you’re not, if you’re even iffy about, move on. I should mention, too, there is a free uh there’s a free app you can get for your phone. It’s called Flight Radar. Yeah. Uh I think it’s called Flight Radar. Uh it’s you can pay and get premium stuff, but you can get it for free as well and watch the traffic coming off that airport. You can go there and they’ll have a little uh little maps and you can see the planes taking off and you just kind of get an idea of just how much uh how much traffic there is, how many planes are coming and going and you know check it out at different times. It’s kind of cool, too. You get to see where these private jets are going. Yeah. It’s like, oh, somebody’s going to Vegas. Yeah. Oh, somebody’s going to the Bahamas. Pretty cool. Sometimes you’ll see planes going round and round Watson Lake when there’s a fireworks show. You’ll see the planes so they can see the fireworks. the fireworks. That’s pretty cool. It’s a cool app. Anyway, we need to find a friend with a plane. Yeah. So, we could do that. That’d be cool. Yeah, it would be cool. But anyway, so don’t shoot the messenger on the planes, my friend. We try to give it to you straight to the best of our ability. We’ll never tell you otherwise. We’ll let you know full full steam ahead. Yep. Take this, you know, seriously. Yes. So, that is our tip of the day. That’s our tip of the day. If you want more tips, the place to go is pickle411.com. That is our free information site. 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