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Prescott Restaurants – December 2021
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Event Calendar – December 2021
Triple Creek
As fall takes hold, we've got the perfect venue for you that boasts a fabulous outdoor space overlooking a lush green space. Add fabulous specialty drinks and a short walk to the all the new downtown action spots... it's a must-try. So check it out!
Crazy for Pickle Ball
As athletes grow older, they look for sports that are less demanding on the joints and more social. For Baby Boomers, more and more that's Pickle Ball. In the episode we discuss this new craze, the facilities available in Prescott, and how Prescottonians are getting out of the house and into the kitchen.Video Transcript
hello hello hello the beeps randall and diane bro here choose fickle lady in prescott arizona we’re your fellow helpful realtors eager to help you find a place here or eager we’re here to serve what can i say what can i say i like it yeah so we’re here to talk about something that is huge here and it may be huge where you are i’m not sure um but you know this is a big retirement town so a lot of folks come and now they can have the time of their lives no more work schedule no more commuting uh everybody’s worked hard and they’re like we are here to partay yeah so they’re looking for things to do and socialize and share time together and the thing that’s kind of taken off is pickleball pickleball well i i think pickleball has taken over the whole nation yeah it’s become very popular it’s a lot easier on the joints and and you know so um as we age you know it’s not quite so hard but you can still be active but without damaging yourself as we have done yeah and also too if you if you’re playing i have found that if you’re playing pickleball and the other players are much better than you you can still kind of have a game yes whereas if you’re playing tennis and the other person’s really good i mean it’s not going to be fun yeah it’s not fun so it’s it’s very social and very social and uh so a lot of people pick it up they have women’s pickleball they have men’s they have um men and women mixed doubles i knew there was a phrase for you i just was like yeah pickleball singles well i like it as as it’s also true in tennis uh when you play doubles it’s a lot easier yes you might have to cover half the court so we have the balls the same way i played singles once or twice a lot harder doubles is a lot more fun but we have a lot of friends who have picked up pickleball they love it they’ve like oh my gosh it’s become quite the social event for them and so in particular like we live in prescott lakes uh they have six or seven pickleball courts that’s how big it’s gotten and they keep adding more courts and so a lot of people here have joined the pickleball club and so they meet and they have all the way from the very beginners to advanced so don’t feel intimidated if you move here uh everybody’s super welcoming happy to teach you and you can as you grow you can bump up uh so it’s as competitive or as relaxed and fun as you want to make it absolutely so we tried a couple of times we’re just too busy and we’re not retired that and it’s hard for us not to curse it’s hard yeah i wasn’t gonna say it but they do have some nice rules everybody’s uh very uh gentlemanly and ladylike and i missed a couple of times and i said the s word you know and um so yeah that was very hard for me um but i would i would train myself if i had more time i would learn how to control that but so even if you don’t live in prescott lakes they have public pickleball courts uh off of willow uh creek and that off of that street they have public courts and lots of people join there so even if you’re not a resident of prescott lakes there’s plenty of other opportunity for you to play pickleball and those things are big too rumor is rumor is we had an old sears that closed in the shopping center and we have heard i think it’s pretty definite they are gonna they they’re working on converting the whole interior into indoor pickleball courts yeah which i think is pretty cool that’s like yeah that’s like yeah yeah the the [Music] shopping center thing is is in decline has been for at least you know they’re dying on the vine and it’s sad you know to see especially around christmas time you know shopping centers were such an important part of christmas and now they’re kind of dying on the vines so yeah i was wondering i wish someone would come up with a new use for these spaces and yeah a place where the community can come together and when i heard the pickleball i think it’s brilliant oh my god that’s brilliant because then if it’s too hot in the summer you can be inside if it gets chilly willy in the winter i mean i think that’s ideal yeah you do the food court thing and it’ll be open to the public and everything else so anyway if you are a huge pickleball player or you’re thinking about picking it up uh prescott is the town for pickleball it is huge and people just have so much fun meeting other couples other people and then you develop other friendships so it’s a great way to meet people so we highly recommend prescott for pickleball there you go yeah and even at prescott lakes they hire the national pickleball coach yeah there’s a national pickleball coach and he came to prescott lakes to give personalized instruction and uh classes yeah so it’s uh it’s a big deal here so anyway if you’re thinking about it or if you are already a devotee of pickleball this is the town for you yeah and the people could not be more fun oh yeah it’s nice it’s nice so that’s our tip of the day about pickleball if you want to learn more about pickleball more about prescott more about real estate there’s a place to go that is pickle 411.com that is our information center whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of free useful and highly entertaining information that you should check out because you should it’s all free you should it’s free get on that right now no charges to you yeah our wealth of information just flows just flows yeah and we like to share it with you okay you guys have a great day and we’ll see you next time take care bye
Coolest Music Venue
Honky tonkin' is something that's better when a) it doesn't end with a "g" and b) you share it with friends. If you find your group's grown pretty big now that you've rolled up more friends you've found along the way, here's a great spot to end the night.
Video Transcript
well good morning mr bro good morning
diana randall bro here she’s thick lady
we’re in prescott arizona i am a pickle
lady we are located in gorgeous gorgeous
prescott that’s good
enjoying what happy fall y’all happy
fall y’all fall is here
fell it fell it’s falling no it hasn’t
fallen but it has arrived
and it’s been beautiful a little nip in
the morning feels really good yeah we’re
kind of down to
like in the 40s and in the daytime we’re
hitting 70 or 72
beautiful blue skies i mean
you just can’t argue with it it’s nice
it’s been great it’s nice it’s great to
take our peeps out on tours yeah and uh
everyone’s just raving about the weather
so anyway we’re happy falls here yeah
absolutely and we’re really happy to
talk about
montezuma’s tavern montezuma’s tavern so
first uh yeah first a word about
montezuma so evidently the guy they
named prescott after and
why he pronounces that that way is a
whole other story we’ll tell that some
other time but anyway he was a historian
and he uh wrote about how the local
people in the prescott area
were all related to the aztecs which
would include montezuma
and historical figures like cortez
completely and utterly wrong just
totally wrong absolutely wrong no no
relation whatsoever he tried i guess he
tried he tried he thought he was making
the right connection yeah so montezuma’s
tavern is on montezuma amongst them
which is a big street here right right
close to cortez yeah right around the
the square yeah yeah so all around the
square you’ll find cortez martizuma
what’s the other streets no one knows we
don’t know but anyway yeah a lot of the
india uh uh aztec names you’ll find red
white square street’s uh named and
that’s why yeah we’re not stupid we’re
just historically that’s right so all
right dr bro yeah there you go with your
elections
uh
people will argue about whether it is
part of whiskey row or not
whiskey row is clearly it starts with st
michael’s bistro
uh it’s it’s one block long and it
fronts uh across the street from the
courthouse correct uh but for years
they’ve been trying to get people to
start thinking about this the next just
cross that little side street and
there’s a whole nother whole little
block yeah of really beautiful buildings
and uh
some good restaurants down there too
yeah of which one of these is
montezuma’s tavern
so uh we went there we had some good
friends don and jan shout out to you don
and jan yeah uh they’re in florida right
now
we hate when they go back to florida but
yeah we were out with a bunch of friends
uh doing music and we went in the
monsoons tavern and there and there they
were they were back in town back in
business they are they love whiskey row
and all the music and for all of you
people who are uh love live music and
your live music aficionados
whiskey row is the place to go yeah
montezuma’s tavern set we’ve got a
really nice venue
uh you go inside and there’s an internal
courtyard
so you’re actually sitting outside it’s
really quite pleasant very nice and uh
it have music there a really neat
looking bar cool yeah a good selection
of drinks and everything so we stumbled
in there with some other friends and we
found our old friends and we all joined
up at a big table and had a great
evening enjoying the the stars and uh
listening to some live music and a
little bit of dancing
and good drinks
so montezuma’s tavern is a great little
place to kind of duck in
and enjoy that live music yeah and you
know they have some crowds but it’s not
you know it’s all fun it’s not like the
crush of humanity yeah which we hate
yeah you know the older you get can’t
take that crush of humanity
this is just right yeah
this is called haunted kitchen or
something that chronicles the building
has several establishments in it there’s
another bar upstairs we’ll talk about
some other time yeah uh there’s a
restaurant you can order in food but
montezuma’s tavern is about drinking and
music and live music
under the stars
in a really cute courtyard that kind of
reminds me a little bit of a new orleans
of course yeah it has a has a pat
o’brien’s kind of feeling it does i
think that’s why we connected with yeah
yeah but anyway so if you’re a
honky-tonk kind of person and you just
kind of like to walk around the square
and uh hear some live music montezuma’s
tavern is the place for you you may see
us there with don and jan yeah when they
come back
we’ll have a good time we’ll give you
some pickles yeah we’ll give you some
pickles if if i have them usually
they’re in my car
i don’t necessarily carry them in my
purse everywhere i go
yeah i mean maybe i should because you
pickle slipper yeah
but uh anyway we’d love to see you there
maybe one day and say a quick hello and
we can all have fun absolutely so that
is our little spot on montezuma’s tavern
yeah always some good information
available on our website to find that
you go to
pickle411.com whether you’re a buyer
seller somewhere in between that’s right
lots of free and useful information
including restaurant reviews and uh
reviews of places like montezuma
montezuma we’d like to give all of our
little listeners out there a little
sliver
of what life is like here and our lovely
little town a lovely fall town our
lovely fall town it’s even better now
that fall is here you cannot beat fall
yeah in prescott i defy anybody too most
places fall is the best season i think
yeah but this is lovely here it’s really
lovely it’s especially lovely it is so
we have a good time yeah so hope to see
you hope you come visit soon we’d love
to take you around show you some new
homes
show you uh around our town and if you
have a home you’re thinking about
selling give us a call give us a call
Hauled Water
Moving to a mountain town may bring to mind images of rugged outdoor living in remote forests... eating wild nuts and berries with the other animals. Well, dreams of getting away and off the grid are possible, but you'll need water. Here's how that works.Video Transcript
well good afternoon hello peeps this is diane and randall bro yes i am the pickle lady here in prescott and this is my sidekick here he always makes sure the car is stocked with pickles that’s right because everywhere i go somebody’s like could i have some could i have something so uh he’s my little stock boy yeah and uh making sure he’s stuck in the van with pictures right he makes sure the inventory is up he’s like uh are we down on pickles time for you to get i’m gonna do production she that she’s i do all the production production i just stock the heat stocks and make sure hey i think you need to make some more yeah i’m like okay let me get right on that right on there but anyway pickle lady pickle lady that’s what that’s all about so if i see you or if you come visit you too because we’ll get some pickles but we’re here to talk about something interesting i had never heard of i’m from the deep south yeah it’s called hauled water yeah that’s how we call it that’s how we say h-a-u-l-e-d it’s like called gas except it’s water right exactly so halt water i’m like so i heard this term but it wasn’t i say hall they said hurled girls i can’t even say we’re not allowed to say that people in arizona have an accent because we’re not from here right yeah we’re the ones with i can’t do it it was like um anyway so somebody was saying i need to get um some hold the hold hold water and hold and hold hold on and i said i don’t don’t know what that they were like don’t you have the number and i’m like i don’t what is that could you say it again and they kept saying it the way they were hauled her and i said i’m so sorry i don’t know what that means and then i said could you spell it and then i said oh hold hard okay i got it i got it and so what that is is sometimes in some areas here because where we live we grew up in the suburbs and everybody was on city water and water whatever and things like that yeah it came from the tap um so here uh especially in some more remote areas up the mountains and everything you don’t you either have to have a private well or a shared well there’s no city you know they can’t get the the water to you i mean up a mountain so they’ll have uh wells and sometimes even that is not enough and the well may run low so in addition to that they will get hauled water ordered and that comes in giant what is it like two or five hundred gallons yeah i know more than that that yeah i think it tanks like two thousand gallons or something and so they’ll bring this giant plastic container that will sit on your property and that can be used for additional things or emptied into that well and that’s another way to get that water there yeah so it’s literally driven in a truck yeah and driven into the actual they literally call it yeah so if you have a well particularly if your well doesn’t produce that that much water quickly you know the the quantity is not good you’ll have a storage tank you get a storage tank so the well is constantly pumping water into the storage tank and you draw the water from the storage tank uh if you consume the water faster than your well as pumping into the storage tank well you’re going to have to top it off or eventually you’re going to run out and that’s hot water that’s what they do they’ll they’ll come out and they pour the water into your storage tank and uh i i it’s like i don’t know three or four hundred dollars to have the water hold out right and uh we looked at one house and particularly had two storage tanks so you’re looking at you know about 700 bucks to uh to fill up and uh the people who were selling the house there were just two people living there and i mean this part time yeah it was a weekend getaway yeah cabin but it so that was sufficient yeah for two people it worked fine the well produced enough that if there’s a shortfall there it’s not much so you might have to haul the water out once or twice a year yeah uh but our buyers wanted to use the property for an airbnb and that’s when four people come in like they will burn they would run through that water fast so a lot of times people will call us and they’re like i want a cabin in the woods and i want that these are things to think about um because it isn’t going to be on city water yeah and you will have to make sure your well doesn’t go dry and you need to consider if you want to use it as an airbnb that you have a very good producing well yeah that you won’t have to rely on halt water because that could get costly for you yeah well if you’re if the place that you’re again running with the with the uh scenario that you want to do in airbnb uh you don’t want to buy a big house because lots of people will go in there and use that water water yeah but if a small place that might work it might work you know if it’s just you you know you and your spouse and every now and then you have the kids in for a holiday you’re probably going to have to top up the tanks for the holiday uh but that might be doable you know it really depends on how much your wells producing how big your storage tanks are uh and how many people are going to be there so i put together like a little spreadsheet so yeah we as your agent if you’re interested in that we we’ve kind of learned some information yeah we now have a spreadsheet so when we look at how many gallons per minute is that well producing and we can tell you that’s going to be a problem or that’s great yeah you’re you’re done how many people yeah so it’s something as a realtor here in prescott you kind of have to be educated on um it’s kind of unusual we weren’t used to it coming from suburban areas and now we know what hauled water means even when they pronounce it a weird way now we get it so every day as i say living and learning or as my daughter sings that song all the time living and learning every day she says that every day yep she well it’s her song it’s her song it’s not not a not a popular one but not like a jay-z no no jay-z so yeah so that was something that we learned and are are now quite educated yeah so if you are coming here yeah and if you’re looking for some place remote particularly up the mountain uh you might be looking at hot water yep and uh and we can help you make a good decision there it’s it’s not necessarily a deal killer depends on um you know what you’re trying to do what you’re trying to accomplish so that is our little chapter on hold [Music] but i got it now so anyway i hope that this is a little tip for you if you’re thinking about living remotely things to keep in mind and to ponder upon yeah there are a lot of pieces and parts and if you want to learn more the place to go is pickle411.com our hub of free information whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of useful and highly entertaining information you need to know if you’re considering either buying or selling a home particularly here in prescott some people may argue with that about being entertaining but some people may not agree but hey we try hard i was entertained we entertain ourselves myself we entertain ourselves living and learning all day long living sometimes i’m learning lessons i don’t want to learn yeah there’s a lot of that yeah but that’s life yeah those are the ones we have to share that’s right i don’t know why that’s hilarious but it is it just makes more poor things more things more people yeah i heard water
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Golf Course Adventure
Golf has a lot going for it: beautiful grounds, the great outdoors, easy transportation... The golf itself can sometimes be the worst part of the whole experience. Well, as it turns out, you can enjoy all these things without actually swinging a club. Check out our recent golf course adventure.Video Transcript
that’s getting close getting close in he’s getting very close i’d like to get close to the leg as close as possible moving in sometimes it’s not well received moving in taking my opportunity to strike i need my space sometimes yeah it has been 35 years sometimes i’m like whoa and we haven’t filmed all of that no yeah there’s parts of it just parts of it yeah sometimes the girl needs her space trying to shake him it just won’t happen but anyway okay we forgot to introduce ourselves yeah you should do that this is diana randall bro she is the pickle lady you’re a brisket pickle lady here in prescott arizona you’re happy friendly helpful we are your happy friendly helpful realtors um we love nothing we love better than to bring people to our town and share with them the joy of what it is to live here it’s an amazing amazing town we’d love to show it off we’d like to talk about it we’d like to share we’ve been here five years we’d like to share our experiences and uh so that’s what we’re here well to some extent we can’t share experiences that you like to hear about now one in particular is golfing yeah i do not golf why why do you think they don’t want to hear that what why do you think they would not like to hear about golf they would oh they would but i can’t i can’t tell them much about the goal i mean i can tell them about the course we are not called but we’re not golfers not at all we thought we would we had an opportunity to participate in an event at the prescott lakes country club and uh and kind of get an inside view of what it’s like to be a golfer there is a golf cart parade there’s a golf cart parade and we’ve never been because we don’t golf we’ve never been able to see the whole you know all 18 holes so we thought hey let’s do this this would be fun so we decked out the the what do you call it golf cart thank you yeah we decked out the golf cart and of course green balloons and green streamers yeah because you know we’re sticking with the pickle thing yeah it’s very important to represent even on the golf golf course of course yeah yeah and it was uh it was a little windy so i think we lost super windy lots of balloon or two super windy but and a little chilly willy because that was fun but it was so we got on we hopped on our cart we drove around i mean we had the time of our lives we had a great time almost convinced us to become golfers yeah we just don’t have the time well about being on the golf course is everything except for the golf itself yeah you know it’s your outside gorgeous a beautiful day yeah we had great company we’re having fun with everyone around us and uh and it was obviously green because we’re on the greens and uh it was just a beautiful day to spend outside in nature and it was i tell you kudos to prescott lakes country club what a golf course what a golf course that’s quite expansive yeah i was like wow yeah it’s amazing to me yeah it took so long just to drive the cart around 18 holes 18 holes we had a good time without even stopping the putt or anything i mean we’re out there no no cutting simply driving simply driving but what was really cute was there a lot of homes that are built around the golf course and and they had their own parties and they were out on the deck and they were waving to the cards as they go you know and uh so it was quite the event yeah um and then we ended up back at the club and they had a lovely spread for us they absolutely did really get some kind of that bacon thing listen if anybody moves to prescott lakes yeah give us a call you gotta have their bacon and at their brunch yeah it’s like this thick cut oh my god it’s to die for and then they make um great um bloody mary’s yes and they stick that anyway stick the bacon in the blade we’re we’re heading off course here but it was good stuff it was awesome and so uh we had a lovely time and big tables and we all sat around with everybody who participated in the parade and it was just a nice way to to meet other people and chit-chat and have fun so i highly recommend it if you move to prescott lakes i’m not sure if uh capitol canyon does something similar which is another call of course yeah i don’t know if they do something yeah i don’t know maybe other clubs take their goals but prescott lakes can sure put on a good golf cart it was a lot of fun we had a lovely time so anyway if you move here and if you are a golfer you will be mightily impressed with the prescott lakes golf course that we don’t golf we thought it was beautiful and we do ride the cart we yeah we have a good time and we decorate the car we give you green balloons yeah prescott lakes country club gives a good golf cart parade we rate it a 10 out of 10. yeah that cart parade that was pretty cool and that was our first time traveling our first time doing that so we almost convinced us to maybe pick up the the old uh you know the golfing the golf the links the links is that what they call it yeah okay i know i don’t even know the words yeah but we have a lot of friends we have a lot of friends who golf here they love it and it’s a great social thing for for ladies and gentlemen which we are neither so that’s one thing about golf they do have really cool words they do have words like mulligan yeah and slicing yeah yeah approaching and yeah chipping on shipping off yeah what do you call it when somebody’s bumping into you ahead of time right chipping in chipping in yeah you’re chipping on randall has a lot of issues with chipping in yeah i get chipped on he gets chipped on a lot and uh that turns him off yeah so anyway i just like to ride the cart that’s not like normal no one was hitting into us that’s all i want to do it was it was cool so we wanted to share that with you we’ll have some pictures behind us as well that you can giggle about and uh we had a good time i wore green to represent right because i am the pickled lady but anyway uh so if you are thinking about moving here please give us a call if you’re thinking about listing give us a call the pickle lady and this guy we are ready to help you uh in your next steps uh you can find more information about us at pickle411.com right lots of free information lots of free buyers somewhere in between all free all useful just fascinating just faster goods just amazing prospecting mind blown mind-blowing the stuff that we offer you people is unbelievable unbelievable we try really hard we try hard to come up with some good stuff but i think it is important all joking aside it is important uh we try to give you a real taste of what it’s like here so i hope you enjoy we have fun making them and we have fun seeing people as we’re filming watching us and interrupting us it’s always a good time so that is all for today and we hope to hear from you soon cheers cheers bye
Dry Gulch Steakhouse
Once again we plug one of our favorite Prescott haunts. This one serves great steaks, good music, and... as it turns out, heart-felt patriotism. Join us as we share a very special moment we recently shared with some good friends there.Video Transcript
howdy folks hello peeps what’s happening with you today you like the way on your nuncian yes very good it’s like you went to elocution classrooms and abortion classes put stones in my mouth correct you’re like the guy in the king and the king’s speech yeah that’s me yeah yeah but you yeah yeah you’ve come forward i like that guy who’s the guy who plays the pirate too what’s his name jeremy something no the guy who plays his um oh yes i like him oh i’ll have to think about that anyway we digress we do digress she’s a pickle here to tell you what’s going on in prescott prescott real estate and just life in general what it’s all about yeah so we got an another restaurant we want to build yeah but i wanted to talk about it again in particularly today because every time i go i’m like oh this place is so much fun it’s so charming and so cute um it’s like a real western little restaurant um it’s the decor is very western it’s very kind of old-fashioned though a little hokey but it’s darling you know what i mean yeah just to be clear it’s dry gulch and it’s uh off of iron springs so it’s a little off the beaten path for tours so it’s mostly locals so you gotta look it up if you’re if you’re a tourist i highly recommend look it up dry gulch two words off of iron springs but it is cute as a button and you go in there and you they always have live music particularly on the weekend and there was a great singer he is amazing with his repertoire i mean he can play anything i’ll wait for the song yeah it’s amazing 200 songs and he’s by himself and he plays his guitar and he and he go i mean he can play anything from jim croche all the way to queen yeah i mean he covers the gamut of music so but good steaks really good steaks good cocktails um really good meal yeah and good times good atmosphere good value you know yeah uh without being too irritated but my favorite thing about it is but my favorite thing about it is it is um just every time you go in there it’s just everybody’s in there that’s i don’t know very patriotic i can’t explain it and you go in and everybody’s uh so in particular like the last time we were there yeah i was on 9 11 which was the 20th anniversary right i had to sit down because i was like i’m gonna cry i’m gonna have the ugly cry he’s saying proud to be an american and so he sings all kinds of songs but you know and so as he starts to sing it i think what really touched me was the entire restaurant stood up i’m getting chills right now and my tear up stood up and sang in unison yeah they did it was very tough the entire restaurant you talk about give you goosebumps and chills up your spine and they had people with their hands over their heart and they have an american flag and it was um just a beautiful moment just shared with local hometown folk and i thought this is why i love press kit yeah right yeah absolutely you know it’s a beautiful feeling such an antidote to all the infighting and everything we’ve seen yes it was very healing yeah very it was very healing it’s like are you getting teary eyed too the clint is that overclocked i mean it was it was one of those things that you had to be there oh yeah uh but when you were there we all felt uh just spirit of community spirit of community spirit of love of country spirit of yeah it was september 10th yeah it was like the day before it was um very nice starting to think about it again and i had not heard that song in quite some time right right back at the time when we were um you know together the country was united and it was a beautiful moment so when i think about prescott and when you’re thinking about prescott that’s something you need to keep in mind it’s uh it’s a cool town it is um and it was just a bonding moment and i’ve lived all over i’ve lived in texas i’m from new orleans i’ve lived in all kinds of baton rouge all kinds of towns um i only find that spirit here in prescott yeah more so than any other place yeah uh of just community and everybody’s you know has each other’s back yeah and uh we really enjoyed it so when i think of dry gulch now i think even highly even higher even more highly more highly um because of that shared experience absolutely so anyway we just wanted to oh and the food is really good yeah absolutely we got we always had a great time having a great time always good the staff is always fun super fun but this particular time just put it over the top over the top and we just wanted to share that over the top it was over the tire well i guess to go over the top you would have to go higher but yeah over the top i’m struggling with my words but anyway so we highly recommend it and we just wanted to share that special moment because i think it’s so representative of what preschool heart is about absolutely all right so try another another restaurant on our uh our many restaurants we review uh if you’re interested in more restaurants or just more information about prescott or real estate here go to pickle411.com that’s your information hotline whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between that’s where you go to get free useful and highly entertaining information that’s right and a shout out to dry gulch and to our good friends john and laurie yeah i know you’re watching who were with us that special night that was great and uh we all had a little boo hoo together but anyway hope to see you there one day absolutely cheers bye
Schedule Your Fun
Visiting Prescott is always a lot of fun, but it pays to plan in advance. HOT TIP: Even if you aren't ready to buy... even if you're not sure this is the place for you... schedule some time with the Pickle Lady. Here's why you'll be glad you did.
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here’s my new phrase i love to call everybody i call my daughters us chicken leg chicken leg chicken what’s up chicken legs what’s up chicken wing what’s up turkey leg and they’re like i don’t know i like that little draw you throw in there yeah yeah she’s the pickle lady diane bro i’m randall bro realtors and prescott and this is our informative video to help you buy sell or just have fun here in prescott arizona and in case you didn’t realize or you haven’t caught on yet um he’s the straight guy and i’m the he’s the wing man oh you think i’m yeah i’m the funny one i think you’re the one man you’re the chicken wing you’re the chicken wing man chicken leg i’m the leg i’m the chicken you’re the turkey leg anyway she’s trying to establish uh you know who’s who and his videos but anyway we are here to talk about something that actually makes me brings a tear to my eye makes me sad makes me cry and i really want to emphasize uh to those of you watching if you are planning a trip here and then you you arrive and you decide hey i think i want to see houses it’s very hard for any agent out there if you call five minutes before and say i’d like to go see i want to see this house and i’m right outside it right now x y and z and i listen most of the time i’ll throw my bra on i put my bra on my shoes i’m out that door and i’ll make it happen sometimes though i’m already booked with another client or we might have a plan we’re having a mammogram or something yeah you know i mean we do have lives unfortunately that’s a very weird thing yeah yesterday i was just thinking you you’re gonna call can you come show me well you know well not right now i’m being squished yeah and you ladies out there know what i’m talking about i’m being quick so we highly highly highly recommend if you are planning a trip give us a call i’ll put you on the calendar and then i’ll work around your schedule so your trip is not ruined and you can’t go see something or you have to wait a couple of days till we’re available yeah um nothing really bothers me more hurts my heart when it’s like i just i can’t i simply can’t i can’t make it um we appreciate that you are taking you know time uh uh money effort uh to get here right whether you’re flying or you’re driving and uh you know you’re spending money and you’re spending your time and want you to have a a good experience absolutely if you are not planning on buying anything that’s okay absolutely i mean we’re not expecting you to buy a house as soon as we see you we get the fact that you’re going to have to you’re going to want to see the town and make sure that this is where you’re going you’re going to want to settle right that’s fine as i always say what do i say i understand it’s a process it’s a process yeah we have absolutely no issue spending about five or six hours with you giving you a good tour of the town and previewing homes that fit your requirements and usually we end up with lunch somewhere yeah and we actually have a fun day yeah it’s a great time this isn’t oh i’m gonna take you to see three houses and i’m gonna kick you out of the car no we really go to great efforts and we want to give you that experience so if you kind of call within five minutes i can’t quite do that first of all also you need to know when we preview homes those are all scheduled appointments yes um you can’t just arrive and and the people will leave their house yeah it takes you know an hour or two to schedule all that up because in particular if the homes have uh sellers living in them right you know you gotta arrange all that that takes time to set that up and you gotta do all right this one’s gonna start at ten and end at eleven the next one’s gonna start geographically map it out know and we want to give you the of you ultimate experience we don’t want you to come in and well i can only show you this house because i can’t get you into any other homes right now so keep that in mind and the reason why i say this is some people say i just want to visit first and see what i think i can guarantee you’re going to love this time you’re going to love it yeah 100 and then you’re going to be here and you’re back damn i do kind of want to see more and some people say i’ll find the neighborhoods myself very difficult very hard to do when you’re not from this area and you don’t know the lay of the land and we know firsthand when we came to because we did it oh we’re online and we’re looking at homes and i thought we could do it you know when you find the ones that you think are nice and you drive over to see them and you find out oh i have no desire no i can’t live here yeah so we were you know we spent a day or so um looking around on our own before we were scheduled to meet with our real estate agents and uh what the next day they immediately took us to our neighborhoods like oh my god this is we didn’t even know this this is it this is what we’re looking for you’ve dialed in the frequency that i’m looking for exactly and we could do the same thing for you so and we want to do this for you and we want to have fun and of course you know i want to be prepared have my pickles ready everybody who goes out with us gets our famous pickles yeah and uh take a look at our date tours too we’ve got uh five or six different day tours lined up with an itineraries for you know if you’re a dog person these are the kinds of things that you can do with your dog if you’re a music person these are the music venues uh if you want to hit whiskey row you know there’s a day tour for that so we have a lot of preparation for you and we give you a huge binder that’s just loaded with all kinds of amazing information so i highly recommend book with us don’t just come in here cold we’ll be in advance we want to make it happen we want to give you a really really good taste of what it’s like to live here and present and have a good time and if you end up not moving here at least you’ll have a great little vacation and we’re fine with that if you’re not ready to buy how many people we have so many friends that came here three years ago and it took them three years to finally close yeah we don’t care it’s fine with us please don’t think and people will say i don’t want to waste your time it’s okay yeah that’s what we do that’s our job that’s our job we’re here to serve we’re here to take you and if it takes you three years it takes you four years it takes you whatever we’re okay with that so please don’t think you’re wasting our time we love doing it we enjoy doing it and it’s a lot of fun so when you’re thinking about visiting and you’re like maybe i don’t want to do that wrong answer just book the day and we’ll take you out for half a day and then you’re free to go do the rest of your visit however you want but we’ll really give you some good accurate and informative and uh info yeah informative information informative information action-packed action action-packed action and informative information and some chicken legs and some chicken chicken free free pickles no we don’t do free chicken but we do have our cars always always fully fully stocked with pickles and with snacks and with drinks for for you guys when we take this tour yeah it’s a good time it is a good time all right so that’s our little tidbit for the for the day if you’re thinking about visiting just book it with us in advance in advance and we’ll have a great day all right so cheers to you bye
Denver Adventure
It's easy to forget just how close places are to you when you've got local jet service right here in Prescott. Hear about how easy it was for us to get away for a quick weekend jaunt to Colorado and the wonderful adventures we found there.Video Transcript
hello hello hello hey happy fall y’all back of all y’all we’re here it is here we’re so excited and fallen fall has arrived it really hasn’t fallen it has arrived yes um this is raynal and diane bro she’s the pickle lady i am the pickle lady today i’m in green i didn’t think about that oh you can’t wear that no let’s start over oh my god it’s gonna go right through them what up hello peeps i like yours like the 80s dance what is that the safety pants i’m raising the roof i don’t know what she’s thick lady my name’s randall we’re in prescott arizona we’re real estate agents over here to share information with you about prescott prescott real estate and just life in general just life in general sometimes we just like to talk more about life in general because it’s just more fun it’s entertaining and it’s just um we just have giggles yeah and case in point uh today we’re going to talk about our denver adventure yes the real connection this as uh prescott is that we flew out of the prescott airport yep and it was so easy oh my god it is so easy to have a denver adventure they got flights there every day and a little airport it’s so easy to just step on board it’s like having a private jet and it flies you there a couple hours later you’re in denver you’re in denver not even that really it’s like an hour and 40 minutes yeah yeah um so we had friends uh their daughter uh was married in uh colorado springs so a shout out to elizabeth and jim miller our friends from texas yes their daughter megan megan and who’s the husband was it nate nate yeah sorry megan i forgot we just sorry we met him for the first time and they just shook the hands with him but anyway um we were tickled to be invited and we went and oh my gosh i’m so excited this is one of the perks of living in prescott uh we are so amazingly like centrally located to all kinds of great places so for instance we discovered easy to hop on the jet get into denver so we could now we’ve discovered colorado springs we’re going back over like a three-day weekend yeah what was the name of the hotel uh the broadmoor house hotel stunning yeah absolutely one of the five-star hotels in the world oh it was so beautiful beautiful grounds yeah uh the wedding was gorgeous it was we’re gonna put some pictures up oh yeah so um have you and the mother of the bride oh yeah you and the bride right we had a great time she had a beautiful wedding shout out to megan good job um but anyway so i told randall my gosh this is so great we are so conveniently located to quick little jaunts yeah so if you need a quick getaway we have sedona we have tucson we have you know of course scottsdale uh vape it sounds like by the way oh yeah and jerome and jerome i mean quick flights to la and our flight to l.a uh go to denver and go to denver so we want to go we’re going to plan to go yeah we’re going back to denver and we’re going to go back to colorado springs and yeah see the cathedral of the gods there’s so much stuff easy peasy lemon squeezy uh trips to take yeah um that that you could just have some quick adventures oh and we found a partner in crime the pickle pickle shack oh we did we’re driving along a place called pickle shack well obviously we’ve got to stop it we must check out the pickle shark and we did yeah so if you find the pickle shack make sure you get the uh garlic that’s the the pickled garlic was amazing well for some people yeah for the rest of us that had it was good for me it was not so much for her not so much for me sometimes it was rough in that rental car yeah open up the windows yeah but so it was a lot of fun and so we wanted to share with you that yeah when you move to prescott you too can take some quick little fun weekend trips yeah and have a great time absolutely you know and not spend a lot of money no no and you know we are not used to anything in the midwest so for us we’re discovering all kinds of new things that we have no idea well where are we we’re in the west we’re in the west southwest we’re in the southwest midwest yeah the west whatever one of those those mountains and all that stuff you know it’s it’s it’s fun for us to discover it’s all brand new to us yeah so uh we’re having a good time learning all these new little places new places to yeah and people have lived out here for a while i mean to them it’s oh yeah you got to go here no big deal and we’re like how cool is it yeah but we’re discovering it’s just so easy just so easy so easy so easy though so want to share that with you guys and we want to say congratulations to megan and nate and happy happy future to you and jim and elizabeth thanks for an amazing wedding great set the bar super high for us you know for our daughters we’re a little scared now i don’t know if we can do that but it was a great time so we appreciate it all right guys see you soon
Prescott by the Numbers – September 2020
It’s been a wild party, and we all knew it wouldn’t last forever. Finally, things may be settling down… a bit. The good news is that it doesn’t look like the hangover will be too bad at all.
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Escalating Things
In this episode we discuss an approach to making competitive bid situations more fair and effective for everyone. No, it's not an auction. It's simpler and getting more and more popular in the Prescott real estate market.Video Transcript
what’s up what’s going on folks randall and diane bro here uh we are so excited to have our next little episode of prescott pickle lady press completely [Music] yeah that’s what we like to do we have a lot of fun and sometimes i’m out in a store and somebody will come up to me and say are you the pickle lady yes i am and i’m like what did i do and they’re like oh my gosh i watch your windows i love them they make me laugh and i’ve learned a lot so some are interesting some are just fun some we try to educate you but we try to bring something to the table every time every time every time this time we’re talking about escalation escalation clause weren’t used too much uh two years ago didn’t have to yeah a contract with an escalation clause and a lot of times the agent would call me back and say what is this what does it mean but in this crazy moment everyone’s learned about escalation it’s heavily employed heavily employed so just say very important just so you know an escalation clause uh so so you you offer a certain price on a house and then you have an escalation clause so let’s say you offer you know five hundred thousand dollars on a home and you are in you expect that you’re going to be in a competitive situation you definitely want the house but you don’t want to pay more than let’s say 550. so you could do an escalation clause you know i will beat uh you know we will beat any offer uh by a thousand dollars up to and including 550 000. and so that way if there are other offers that are less than 550 you’ll get it and you only have to pay a thousand dollars over the best alternative offer right and so it kind of it takes a static situation and turns it into kind of an auction correct yeah and people will get you know multiple off what we at one point we’re getting you know tons and tons of offers on we might get 10 offers on one house and like three of them will have an escalation right and that kind of separates you out of the others and gives you a little bit more winning room like okay somebody came in at five 550 but you have an escalation clause to 555. so with a thousand over so you might be able to beat them out you know even by a thousand dollars which is really important yeah in this crazy market yeah in this crazy market you don’t want to pay any more than you have to right and it’s really it’s the most fair to do it as an auction uh obviously it’s better for buyers who really want the house but they don’t want to pay any more than they have to but it’s also in the best interest of sellers because a lot of people you know they don’t want to just stick their necks out and offer a whole lot of money but they are willing to participate in what would be an auction and if they feel oh yes it was very competitive and i do have to do my top dollar they feel uh they feel comfortable doing that right a lot of people like some some agents uh some listing agents will say no escalation clauses and i really believe that is a disservice to their sellers because you know our experience is a lot of buyers will say well in that case i’m not gonna i’m not gonna offer anything uh even even buyers who really have a lot of money to spend like they could be the top offer right but they’re not willing to just go 100 000 over asking price without knowing how competitive and that is one key thing to remember so don’t be alarmed if you do an escalation clause and you say okay um i’m going to put an offer in a 490. i’m willing to escalate a thousand over 500 000 and you you you put your offer and everything and then somebody else comes along that might beat it but they have to present that other contract yes so you’re not tied into i know i said i would go up to 500 000. if the other contract you know yeah they can’t just come back and say oh no well we’re gonna take your 550. well then you’re going to show me right you know another offer for 449 right because and then you otherwise we the escalation clause doesn’t kick in and and the clause does say that it says as demonstrated by uh so don’t feel like okay i’m putting an offer in but i’m doing this escalation but i’m really kind of hooked into this escalation and i’m just going to overpay anyway not so yeah they have to present the other offer and see where that one came in yeah so in other markets where uh there are a lot of buyers present in the market at any one time let’s say phoenix a lot of people living in phoenix and buying in phoenix all at the same time auctions work in cities like that you know because everyone’s kind of there they can follow the auction um prescott you know a lot of the people who might be participating in the offers they might not be in town uh right you know auctions have not really taken off here like they have in phoenix uh but we’re doing escalation clauses it’s kind of our alternative right and i think it’s smart i think it’s a good way to do it it kind of gives you a little extra advantage a little more uh you can be a little more competitive yeah so if you’re open to it and you have a final bottom line this is really truly how i want to go sometimes it works and it works in your favor yeah and it’s a very useful tool very useful tool okay so that is our little saga on escalation they work they can be good and help you separate yourself from the the rest of the crowd okay if you guys are looking to buy a home or you’d like to list your home please feel free to reach out to randall and i yep you can find her at 713-302-1964 i also bought you a 928 number but i don’t know it yet yeah yeah not too late or reach us at piccolo 44111.com lots of online information lots of information check it out check it out let’s go i’m checking you up yeah i’m checking you out right now i’m escalating yeah okay that is all for today’s lesson and we hope to see you next week absolutely
Event Calendar – October 2021
WZ Asian Bistro
Here's a great new spot out in Prescott Valley you have to try. Although the exact name remains somewhat elusive, it's quickly becoming the new Prescott nexus for all things Asian and delicious. Check it out.Video Transcript
hello folks hello peeps this is diane and randall bro here you are the pick lady that’s right i am the pickle lady you are correct and uh we discovered thank you we discovered a great new place we’re so excited yes um sometimes in prescott it might be a little hard to find some good asian food correct lots of thai we need lots of people yeah we’re going to do an episode on thai food yeah uh smatterings of chinese yeah uh a couple of sushis but uh this is asian asian bistro and it it does all those it’s amazing it’s in prescott valley and it’s a combination of both so you can get amazing chinese food and amazing sushi sushi and it’s all contained under one roof you’ve got your your sake hot or cold whatever you want that’s right and it’s yummy it’s very yummy and it’s uh it’s not not just the asian bistro it’s like w z or ws or something whatever those letters are no one ever remembers that yeah that’s what everyone seems to be calling it oh the asian beast is red probably should have looked good lost before we started talking about it we’ll put it up we’ll we’ll uh we’ll have him edit in yeah you’ll see the official name of it it’s on 69. it can’t be beat though can’t be beat yeah the decor is really cool it’s super cool very charming yeah nice or not tiki but just sort of it’s kind of like authentic japanese yeah and they also have some japanese stuff in there too but you know you go in and it’s kind of set up like i don’t know what you call those houses and but anyway yeah a little yeah yeah with lots of plain wood right right it was super cool great experience great good time with jeannie weenie shout out to jean shout out to jeannie weeney our friend got the uh chinese and i think i got sushi you did yeah sushi was good times left over yeah tons left over but the chinese food was good very yeah it was very enjoyable so we wanted to pass that out to everybody out there if you’re looking for a new place to try asian bistro hit it it’s fantastic yeah good stuff lots of asian things happen yeah very good all right we hope maybe we’ll see you there one day absolutely if you need any help with any real estate needs listing or buying feel free to give us a call at 713-302-1964 or you can find us online at pickle411.com you’re buy or sell sellers somewhere in between lots of free and useful information absolutely we are here to help you on the next step absolutely all right friends have a wonderful day bye
Animals at Your Service
Exotic pets can be all fun and games... unless you run afoul of the latest real estate laws on what's allowed and what's required of buyers, sellers, and their agents. In this episode the Pickle Lady reveals all the latest updates, so you can be sure to not step in that.Video Transcript
what’s up hello peeps this is diane and
randall bro here she used pickle lady
we’re in prescott arizona yes the lovely
brisket arizona talking about life and
real estate life in real estate and with
our little pickle mugs
that’s right coffee mug waiting for it
looks like a little monsoon might be
coming in
again which would be so nice
great monsoon season this year
absolutely
so today we kind of went to talk about
something uh service animal
rules service animal rules yeah and this
is very interesting
there are service animals which you just
think would be a dog correct
um but you were wrong it’s dogs as well
as miniature that’s right miniature
horses miniature horses so when it’s
service
what constitutes a service animal does
it have to just give you emotional no no
no no those are two different things
okay there are service animals and those
are highly highly trained
um
animals uh it could be dogs or your
miniature pony if that’s what you have
uh which apparently they’re supposed to
be super super smart and they’re just as
trainable as a dog and they are house
broken
they are everything but anyway a service
animal really serves its owner these are
people that it will help guide them it
can sense if a seizure is coming on it
can sense if um you’re about to faint
whatever and they will if you do fall
they will go and seek help
um they guide you they lead you uh
they’re they’re totally there to serve
their owner who whatever in whatever
capacity they may need see i don’t need
one of those
i keep you just in case you know i need
any help i i am i am the servant she is
yeah
so uh when it comes to
looking for homes uh and you bring your
if you have a service animal your animal
or your miniature horse has to be
allowed it has to be allowed it has to
be allowed 100 when you’re going into a
home
um that is permissible the difference
what you were talking about emotional
support animals that’s a little
different
um they are those are more varied it can
even be a ferret it can be a little pot
belly pig it can be a cat
some people have snakes i can’t imagine
that being emotionally supportive but
hey i’m no offense to you people who
love snakes and lizards and all that
good stuff
um but uh
those critters
those uh you have to have a certificate
that it’s an emotional support animal
and if you wanted to rent or rent a
place they have to allow those animals
into your into the rental into the
rental that’s you you know you’re
allowed to do that
um but it’s not mandated so
it’s just kind of interesting that
you know
they can let you bring them in
um you have to be very careful as long
as they are not a threat okay as long as
they’re not uh danger a danger to other
you know other people surrounding
neighbors
like a snake
correct
so it’s just kind of interesting yeah
service animals really just do more
performing for their so if you are a
seller
and someone requests is showing yeah
your agent is obligated to let their
service animal through now can you ask
for
i assume you can ask for documentation
no uh service animals will have it on
there should have it on their collar and
everything emotional support no they’re
not gonna you don’t have to so you don’t
have to let an emotional support animal
in but you do have to let the service
out yes you have to you have to obey
so it’s just something kind of
interesting a little
differentiation um
but we all love our pets all of our pets
so uh just to be clear
if you are
a seller and your listing age you are
the listing agent
uh refuses to let the service
miniature pony
into your house um you could get sued
you could get in trouble for that
yeah get in trouble with license trouble
and stuff like that because it’s not an
option this is not an option that is
correct
it’s not an option um for people who
want to rent though you do have to
accept your emotional support animals as
well as long as they’re not aggressive
threatening or anything else and uh
you’re not even required if you’re
renting and you have an emotional
support animal you will not have to pay
the extra pet deposit
oh yeah
yeah
so just make sure that’s deposited from
yeah service animal
or the emotional support both
both yeah so just be sure that your
emotional support animal is is sweet and
taming yeah
and you’ll be good to go
and so yeah if you want to anybody out
there who has a service dog or a service
pony we would love to help you
we would love it i’d love to see you get
your service pony into your show
absolutely yeah i don’t know if i have a
place to put a service pony in the van
but uh we’ll try we’ll try to figure it
out absolutely
so new rules times are changing
just wanted to share that with all of
you guys
so lots of information if you’re looking
for yeah they look for more information
a great place to look including i guess
service animals and the rules and
everything pickle 411.com is our online
connection to you whether you’re a buyer
seller somewhere in between or you can
call the pickle lady hotline at
713-302-1964
you got it
give us a call we’ll be happy to help
you we take all pets that’s right all
service animals all emotional we’re here
for you the pickle lady also gives
emotional support during the buying and
selling process
yes that’s why she’s alive i could be
like your own personal sometimes
emotional support and i’m happy to do
that
absolutely i don’t even need a
certificate yeah i’m okay i’ll i’ll i’ll
try to fill that capacity in whatever
way i can
i’m getting one of those pigs oh
yeah i like a little pig too that’d be
cute
i always wonder what but then you gotta
be careful because sometimes they’re not
so miniature they end up tricking you
yeah and then they get to be 400 pounds
and you’re like what has happened
delicious
yeah you could have a couch on uh
yeah yeah which is
uh
suckling pig suckling pig
barbecued over a fire pit
it’s a louisiana thing folks
Event Calendar – September 2021
Prescott by the Numbers – August 2020
In this month’s Prescott Home Value Report Summary Video, we discuss how the Prescott market is beginning to moderate – even as prices continue to rise… Crazy!
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Real Estate Twilight Zone
We've been getting lots of questions about homes in Prescott that are "Active with Contingency." It's a state of nature that can only be found within the confines of the Prescott-area MLS. In this episode, we explain this eerie twilight state and how it came to be.Video Transcript
good afternoon my little fellow pickle
peeps out there hello peeps cheers to
you
can you see my lady yeah we got our
green screen ready coffee mugs now yes
won’t bore holes into us anymore that’s
right although i’m wearing green stripes
i think you’ll be okay
we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see
today we wanted to talk about something
that we get a lot of phone calls about
and it is
i think this house is still available it
says active with contingency
with contingency it’s really kind of the
bane of our existence it really is all
right so so just to be clear there’s no
such thing
as active with a contingency that does
not exist that’s like saying
dead and breathing
that’s a contradiction of terms you
can’t have a contingency
unless there’s a contract right and if
there’s a contract it’s not active it’s
not active
um so in the olden days this used to
just be called plano pending
and everybody knew what that meant it’s
under contract and sometimes they put in
there uh we are taking backups but
essentially was a done deal yeah now
they’ve changed it you know we can still
use pending occasionally but it’s a cash
deal and they know it’s going forward
yeah so just to be clear what this is
about is a complete screw-up
uh on our uh a local association
they redesigned the menu pull down
i have been doing computer programming
since i was in eighth grade
and i have never seen menus so poorly
designed and create more confusion
than these it is confusing it’s um i
think they had the best of intentions
they did they did but it doesn’t
translate well yeah so let’s talk a
little bit about what the reality is
like what what are the different
statuses
of a contract in real estate so
it’s not complicated either it’s active
on the market right or for sale yeah for
sale
or it’s pending which means there’s
contract yeah that’s right it’s either
active or compended or pending right and
that’s kind of it
uh so it used to be you had active you
had pending and you had pending taking
backup
meaning we already have an offer but if
you want to put in a backup offer you
can do that yeah and everyone understood
that it was pretty simple it was pretty
simple
uh there is another another shade of
this and that is uh
pending but there’s a buyer contingency
so if there’s a buyer contingency and
you have
say a cash offer or an offer without a
contingency that’s right uh you can
knock out that’s right the offer that’s
there you you can approach the seller
and the seller has the option of uh
telling the current buyer with the
contingency look you either either have
to get rid of the contingency or you’re
out and you can take your owner’s money
that’s correct so i guess what par was
trying to do
was to let people see if if there was a
contingency if there was any opening
yeah that you might wiggle in yeah and
so really all they had to do was add
pending with contingency yeah uh and
instead they created active with
contingency which as i said is a
contradiction in terms
and instead of just putting it all on
one drop down menu they’re two drop down
yes uh so you have to check the other
one i it’s it’s oh my god it’s um it’s
pretty bad
so active with contingency essentially
means pending yeah
and and actually it means it needs a
little more than that right now very few
people are taking contingencies so if
you if you see active with contingency
essentially that means pending with a
backup
right you can’t you can’t take a backup
and you can’t set it in mls so if you
want to you’re the listing agent and you
want to accept backups you have to call
it active with contingency and there’s a
separate field i forgot what the
separate field is and it will say take
it back up so take them back up the only
way you can say pending and sometimes
thinking back up is using this crazy
active brand and sometimes it will
indicate uh buyer contingency which you
kind of gives you to go ahead like hey
if you guys have cash we might be able
to wiggle in here which is that’s kind
of nice to know yeah
so if you consider think about
active with contingency just translate
that in your mind it means
pending taking backup essentially and
you can check the other field to see if
there’s a contingency involved right now
they’re they’re basically they’re really
aren’t yeah
no one’s accepting contingencies
um especially buyers contingencies
absolutely not you know what i mean it’s
just it’s too hot of a market friends
there’s something something about
having something in print
on a website though
that people think it’s real yeah whether
it’s zillow or it’s this active with
with contingent well it says active with
contingency well let me explain with
that but it says i know so don’t get
confused although it is confusing it’s
very good um just take it to me it’s
pretty much pending and
that door is closed yeah
yeah well unless you want to put in a
backup offer yeah you can always do a
backup offer and of course if you are
cash and it has a uh it does have a
condition you know yeah then you might
be able to then you might be in there
but that happens very few and far
between yeah and when you see the you
know hundreds of
pending uh
contracts uh uh transactions
that all say active with contingency
what is going on in prescott yes what’s
going on is they have people in charge
of menu design that really just kind of
don’t know
and uh you know it’s everything here is
pretty much sold sold sold so yeah
so if you get in here and you want to
put an offer in make sure your house
number one is at the very least on the
market number two it’s even better if
you have a contract on it with a firm
close of escrow and number three the
best of the best would be if you’re
already sold and closed and you’re ready
to move forward then you get in here you
see something get that offer in toronto
yeah pronto because time is a wasting
something to be said for for backup
offers too although it’s gotten better
uh when the market really started
getting crazy we saw a lot of
transactions falling out
and the the number of transactions that
are falling out of uh out of escrow is
still higher than it normally was right
but it’s it’s it’s lowered quite a bit
but still you know backup offer might be
a good idea
so don’t let that throw you we will find
you one we will hunt down one that
doesn’t say active with contingency
that’s right that’s just plain old
active no active and ready to go and
we’ll make it happen for you as
hopefully as quick as we can
so uh anyway come on in come visit us
uh you can reach us at
at an 713-302-1964 we’ll spend a great
day going all around town looking at
some great properties and hopefully
we’ll write a contract for you on an
active property on an active property
you can also find information at
pickle411.com
that’s right our website whether you buy
or seller somewhere in between all kinds
of free information
very useful yeah check out pickle411.
411.com cheers to that
okay everyone out there have a great
rest of your day
and uh i hope to see you soon bye
peeps out there hello peeps cheers to
you
can you see my lady yeah we got our
green screen ready coffee mugs now yes
won’t bore holes into us anymore that’s
right although i’m wearing green stripes
i think you’ll be okay
we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see
today we wanted to talk about something
that we get a lot of phone calls about
and it is
i think this house is still available it
says active with contingency
with contingency it’s really kind of the
bane of our existence it really is all
right so so just to be clear there’s no
such thing
as active with a contingency that does
not exist that’s like saying
dead and breathing
that’s a contradiction of terms you
can’t have a contingency
unless there’s a contract right and if
there’s a contract it’s not active it’s
not active
um so in the olden days this used to
just be called plano pending
and everybody knew what that meant it’s
under contract and sometimes they put in
there uh we are taking backups but
essentially was a done deal yeah now
they’ve changed it you know we can still
use pending occasionally but it’s a cash
deal and they know it’s going forward
yeah so just to be clear what this is
about is a complete screw-up
uh on our uh a local association
they redesigned the menu pull down
i have been doing computer programming
since i was in eighth grade
and i have never seen menus so poorly
designed and create more confusion
than these it is confusing it’s um i
think they had the best of intentions
they did they did but it doesn’t
translate well yeah so let’s talk a
little bit about what the reality is
like what what are the different
statuses
of a contract in real estate so
it’s not complicated either it’s active
on the market right or for sale yeah for
sale
or it’s pending which means there’s
contract yeah that’s right it’s either
active or compended or pending right and
that’s kind of it
uh so it used to be you had active you
had pending and you had pending taking
backup
meaning we already have an offer but if
you want to put in a backup offer you
can do that yeah and everyone understood
that it was pretty simple it was pretty
simple
uh there is another another shade of
this and that is uh
pending but there’s a buyer contingency
so if there’s a buyer contingency and
you have
say a cash offer or an offer without a
contingency that’s right uh you can
knock out that’s right the offer that’s
there you you can approach the seller
and the seller has the option of uh
telling the current buyer with the
contingency look you either either have
to get rid of the contingency or you’re
out and you can take your owner’s money
that’s correct so i guess what par was
trying to do
was to let people see if if there was a
contingency if there was any opening
yeah that you might wiggle in yeah and
so really all they had to do was add
pending with contingency yeah uh and
instead they created active with
contingency which as i said is a
contradiction in terms
and instead of just putting it all on
one drop down menu they’re two drop down
yes uh so you have to check the other
one i it’s it’s oh my god it’s um it’s
pretty bad
so active with contingency essentially
means pending yeah
and and actually it means it needs a
little more than that right now very few
people are taking contingencies so if
you if you see active with contingency
essentially that means pending with a
backup
right you can’t you can’t take a backup
and you can’t set it in mls so if you
want to you’re the listing agent and you
want to accept backups you have to call
it active with contingency and there’s a
separate field i forgot what the
separate field is and it will say take
it back up so take them back up the only
way you can say pending and sometimes
thinking back up is using this crazy
active brand and sometimes it will
indicate uh buyer contingency which you
kind of gives you to go ahead like hey
if you guys have cash we might be able
to wiggle in here which is that’s kind
of nice to know yeah
so if you consider think about
active with contingency just translate
that in your mind it means
pending taking backup essentially and
you can check the other field to see if
there’s a contingency involved right now
they’re they’re basically they’re really
aren’t yeah
no one’s accepting contingencies
um especially buyers contingencies
absolutely not you know what i mean it’s
just it’s too hot of a market friends
there’s something something about
having something in print
on a website though
that people think it’s real yeah whether
it’s zillow or it’s this active with
with contingent well it says active with
contingency well let me explain with
that but it says i know so don’t get
confused although it is confusing it’s
very good um just take it to me it’s
pretty much pending and
that door is closed yeah
yeah well unless you want to put in a
backup offer yeah you can always do a
backup offer and of course if you are
cash and it has a uh it does have a
condition you know yeah then you might
be able to then you might be in there
but that happens very few and far
between yeah and when you see the you
know hundreds of
pending uh
contracts uh uh transactions
that all say active with contingency
what is going on in prescott yes what’s
going on is they have people in charge
of menu design that really just kind of
don’t know
and uh you know it’s everything here is
pretty much sold sold sold so yeah
so if you get in here and you want to
put an offer in make sure your house
number one is at the very least on the
market number two it’s even better if
you have a contract on it with a firm
close of escrow and number three the
best of the best would be if you’re
already sold and closed and you’re ready
to move forward then you get in here you
see something get that offer in toronto
yeah pronto because time is a wasting
something to be said for for backup
offers too although it’s gotten better
uh when the market really started
getting crazy we saw a lot of
transactions falling out
and the the number of transactions that
are falling out of uh out of escrow is
still higher than it normally was right
but it’s it’s it’s lowered quite a bit
but still you know backup offer might be
a good idea
so don’t let that throw you we will find
you one we will hunt down one that
doesn’t say active with contingency
that’s right that’s just plain old
active no active and ready to go and
we’ll make it happen for you as
hopefully as quick as we can
so uh anyway come on in come visit us
uh you can reach us at
at an 713-302-1964 we’ll spend a great
day going all around town looking at
some great properties and hopefully
we’ll write a contract for you on an
active property on an active property
you can also find information at
pickle411.com
that’s right our website whether you buy
or seller somewhere in between all kinds
of free information
very useful yeah check out pickle411.
411.com cheers to that
okay everyone out there have a great
rest of your day
and uh i hope to see you soon bye
