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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
Egghead’s Delight
Prescott is smarter than your average small town, and true to form it boasts a most delightful bookstore right downtown. If you love books, you won't want to miss it. Hear all about it in this week's episode.Video Transcript
good morning my fellow little pickle peeps how are you today we hope very well uh this is randall and diane bro he’s randall i’m diane usually yes she’s president arizona lady of prescott arizona we sell real estate but we’re not here to talk about real estate today and today we’re so excited actually this was a tip sent to us from someone who is a regular follower and watcher of our wine dance and so we want to give a shout out to richard ardis um thank you sir thank you he gave us a brilliant idea actually a couple of a couple of football he’s like you should we’re gonna do one today and we’re gonna we’re gonna do another one some other time and we thought wow richard thanks for reaching out to us and telling us you know and he’s so right about this little tip that we want to talk about uh we want to talk about uh one of the bookstores here in prescott yeah it is a very very special bookstore it really is really really cool in fact i was just there this weekend with a friend of mine who is an english major shout out to bee yeah and a librarian and a librarian yeah so she’s super into that and so i said let’s go check it out she’s like yeah i would love to so as soon as we walked in she was like i am so impressed that your little town of prescott has such a progressive uh super cool uh up-to-date uh up to current events yeah uh bookstore as peregrine books on cortez it’s uh yeah that’s quartet yeah it’s amazing if you go in it’s beautifully set up it’s uh honestly you could almost feel like you’re in a bookstore in new york city it’s that cool but the thing that really sets it apart i mean they have a lot of people besides the name i’m not sure i think you need to back up on that yeah i’ll have to look up what a peregrine is it’s cool it’s a bird they have the latest and greatest they have a kid’s hour they have a podium in the back and that’s what my friend was most impressed about was that uh they will have current authors who come and speak and read from their works they’ve got a cute little podium back there and a seating area um it’s really really pretty cool but the coolest thing is the curating and you know that’s kind of hard to find in bookstores i mean you have go in they have lots of books oh it has lots of books but as soon as you start looking at what’s on the shelf particularly in the kind of the entry area uh their uh their staff goes through and they just pull the most fascinating books they all line up i mean you can lose yourself for three hours just right inside the door because it’s just one after the other it’s like that is really fast so they will carry the most pedestrian and the and you know the best sellers but they also have a wide variety for all those intellectuals i mean a wide variety of topics that they cover and they have it all categorized neatly on the shelves and it’s just a beautiful book shop as well yeah you kind of forget you know because i’m i’m a technology person i was an early adapter for uh adopter for kindle and all that stuff and i get that stuff it’s that’s kind of cool and audible i like to listen to vlogs but you know slowly but surely over the years traditional bookstores have been kind of dying out libraries have kind of been changing [Music] and you just forget how nice a good book story is like to go into a bookstore that’s really well done and just the smell of the books that feel that new spell book it’s just you know it just brings you back every time you go there it’s lovely it’s a great experience and for a town this size to be able to support a local bookstore like this yes it just speaks to this is not your chain bookstore yeah it’s not a change this is a very unique experience yeah so for all you eggheads out there yeah richard talks about egg heads and you know i think that’s a really good point press gets a pretty smart town it’s a very smart time uh people here are educated they are cosmopolitan uh this isn’t some podum town you’re going to go and you know it’s not a little wild wild west yeah and every now and then they’ll have movies mostly you know jaws and gone with the wind yeah they’ve got some good yeah yeah this is a very progressive very savvy town intellectual intellectual town yeah peregrines yeah yeah so the egg the egghead thing that uh richard point i think is really appropriate i think a town is smarter than your average town correct so richard we want to cheers to you uh that is a great tip and i don’t know why i didn’t think of it before because i absolutely love paragraphs i love it we go there all the time so anyway if you’re here in town or you move here make sure to check it out it’s lovely you can sit and while away your saturday with a cup of coffee and just sit and read some books and like it was in the olden days like it was no amazon here no amazon here you can actually put your hands on a book and actually read it’s really cool so we just thought we’d share that tip and we thank richard for passing that along to us yes great idea so if you are local and looking to list your home please give us a call we’d be happy to list your home for you if you’re a buyer coming in town also give us a call we’d love to hunt down the perfect house and uh welcome you here to prescott yeah the pickley hotline is 713-302-1964. if you’re more of an online person you can hit us up at pickle 411.com your source of information all of it’s free and it’s astounding how much stuff is on there so if you have questions about prescott about real estate and just life in general it’s a good place to look it is all right see you at the bookstore bye 9:38 NOW PLAYING
Love Letters
Buyers desperate for a home often like to send the sellers a "love letter," explaining who they are and why they love the home. If you've ever received one, then you know how touching these letters can be. Unfortunately, the powers that be have put the kibosh on them, so they're going away. In this episode, we explain why.Video Transcript
hello my little friends out there my little pickle friends pickle peeps randall and diane bro that’s right and we are here today to chat with you uh kind of a new development something that the arizona department of real estate has brought up and honestly never thought of i never thought about but it makes good sense and it’s what we call love letters so a lot of buyers are looking to do love letters now as you may know bitty wars yeah we’ve got a lot of bidding wars it’s been really hard to find uh properties across the country we are having historic lows in inventory uh which makes it hard as fire right not just us all over the united states all over everybody’s running across the same thing so everyone’s trying to yeah so everyone’s trying to differentiate themselves so obviously if you just give a lot of cash then you are likely to win cash is king but nobody wants to flush money down the toilet so they try to differentiate themselves in other ways that’s right so they’ll say you know what can i just write a letter from my heart about how much this home means to me and what this neighborhood means to me what this town means to me and in the olden days i would say sure i love that i think that’s very touching uh sellers like to receive that go for it however the arizona department of real estate and i think nationally as well now the national association of realtors has decided that love letters are a no-go anymore and uh they really would rather realtors not encourage that practice because it can go against fair housing yeah it’s a fair housing and explain mr brown why it can go against well a very obvious sort of thing uh might be that let’s say you have a buyer who’s jewish and they write a love letter to the seller that says oh i love the location of the house it’s right around they don’t mention they’re jewish but they mentioned oh you’re it’s wonderful your house is right around the corner from the synagogue well let what happens if that person’s offer isn’t accepted now it may not be accepted because the price isn’t right or you know it could be not accepted for any any number of things but it opens up the possibility that the buyer will say oh you know they didn’t take my offer because obviously they knew i was jewish and that becomes anti-semitic and obviously subject to fair housing right so it’s it’s primarily a liability thing a potential lifestyle and i think for some people too like if they say hey i have a family i’m so excited to move here um and maybe this neighborhood doesn’t want kids and the owner you know they may say well you didn’t choose me because you don’t want kids in this neighborhood which by the way is protected children and families are protected correct if you are a seller and somebody comes with children you can’t deny them the right to buy the home because they’re a family absolutely part of fair housing there are a number of things under fair housing yes the jewish thing excuse me the jewish thing was maybe more a lot more common is my kids love the house right you know and and that kind of thing and so anything with religion families and handicapped races if you even make the slightest uh connection uh and and you try to write about that in your letter and the seller chooses someone else it opens the door for the people who were not chosen to say well was it because i had a family yeah was it because i practice a certain religion that you don’t like was it because and it opens up the door to a lot of possible uh lawsuits yeah and so by the way we really don’t see all we don’t really see that no it really doesn’t happen people are very accepting here people are super accepting and super it’s it’s a liability thing the brokers don’t want to spend their days reading all these love letters uh and to be honest the sellers have gotten very jaded and a lot of sellers are like you know what i’ve actually had this uh some of the listings we’ve had the sellers are like i really i don’t want to be swayed i don’t want to hear any of the stories please don’t give me any of these letters i need to just make this decision almost like a business decision they don’t want to attach emotion to it yeah so we thought we’d talk about this with you so you would understand what’s kind of going on with the national association of realtors and where they’re coming from on this ruling yeah and also to let you know some of the sellers perspective they’re like look business is business i don’t want to be swayed i don’t want to hear any sob stories about a widow or you know or anything like that yeah and um well the pickle has kind of an inside track on that so i will tell you our secret so when we send in your offer on the home uh the pickle lady does a cover letter to the agent and in that cover letter she will mention things that may sway them towards you i try i mean well being a veteran is an obvious one well and without being overly we have to be careful yeah you can’t be too soppy because as you know the if the sellers are getting seven love letters after a while they kind of we’ll try to mention a few little tidbits nothing nothing extreme um but when we explain to you when you come in and you’re like i want to win this bid because as we know there’s tons of uh bidding wars going on and we say to you i’m so sorry we can’t do a love letter please understand it’s not us it’s new rulings it’s uh kind of a changing tide so to speak a turning of the tide and uh that’s where it’s coming from it’s not an us thing yeah it’s just um i remember things are changing we were selling our home uh in texas and uh that’s where we we raised our family and when we sold it we got a love letter from a young family it’s very touchy but it’s very nice i it’s very hard for me it’s very hard for me because i love love letters yeah yeah i think they’re cool i think they help the seller connect with the buyer there’s a lot of memories and emotion attached with all homes and love letters help you make that connection i’m personally i’m all for it yeah i don’t make of the rules though no and another one was wonderful things about the past that people people will reminisce about because so don’t shoot the messenger if it were up to me i’d have you be you know writing a beautiful love letter a long long missive whatever it would be it’s amazing i think it’s gorgeous and i think it’s a wonderful way to connect uh however we are precluded now from doing that so we just wanted to share that with you and um i mean i love love letters i have all of my love letters that this one wrote to me i have all the love letters my parents had we were all trying to buy a house from her at some point no my parents i mean i’m i’m a big fan of the written note it’s always lovely to have and you keep it from unfortunately a real estate transaction so just want to share that with you and give you a little bit more understanding of where that’s coming from so that is our little tidbit of the day we hope that you learned something a little bit from that if you’re looking for more information about real estate and all the trends market forces and restaurants and places to eat and things about press kit and i can’t even think all the stuff that we have it’s a lot your search begins at pickle411.com yes our source of information to buyers sellers and everyone in between and if you want after the deal is done you can write us a love letter we always appreciate those we have a lot of very nice letters yeah um i love those letters i love them all all right guys so i hope you understand and we hope to hear from you soon have a great rest of your day bye
Prescott Hats
When you get close to the sun or out in the cold, sometimes the most important thing is what's up top. In this episode, we discuss Prescott's affinity toward hats and demonstrate how they work for some but not so much for others.Video Transcript
well howdy howdy pardon hi hi hi hi this is dianna randall bro cheers she’s pickle lady we’re in prescott arizona that’s right and we’re here to talk to you about something i never thought i’d be doing um but it’s imperative if you move and live in prescott because we are a mile high we’re about fifty four hundred feet yeah we’re about the same elevator same elevation as denver yeah we’re closer to the sun closer to the site not used to that i come from the deep south where we’re actually below sea level um so when i moved here i was like gee whiz i get sunburned so fast like within 30 minutes it’s a thing well hello you’re close to the sun less less atmosphere did you know there are areas on the earth that are so far below sea level that you cannot get sunburned oh like the dead sea is one of those i would say well i would love that so when we moved to the opposite way we’re the opposite we’re nice and high closer to god closer to the sky to the sun and uh i didn’t realize until after i was here for a little while i’m like gee all these people are such nerds they’re all in hats they all look ridiculous i am not doing that um i feel stupid however after a couple of sunburns i was like i see the wisdom i understand so we would go walking with the dogs and she where did you buy these homes these panama jack but they’re uv protected they give you protection uh they cover the back of your neck there’s all these things you learn you gotta have coverage on the back of your neck the top of your little ears because if not you get skin damage and skin cancer yeah so when we take ourselves because yeah we were hats to give us some protection this was her first shot i didn’t know she was doing this she’s always after me about sun protection and sunscreen and all that stuff well uh she went out and she bought these hats she came home and i’m like oh my god i hate that hat she makes me wear them all the time i’ll tell them see you have this little strap so that when the wind won’t blow off your hat it’s a very practical this is a walking hat yeah this is what we call our walking hat exercise hat when we’re out and about in the sunshine and trying to get some good walking in we put this hat on it gives you all overall protection the problem i have is i just always look like an idiot wearing a hat yes she looks great she doesn’t have it i don’t know you have a terrible hat i will say all right so that’s awesome so i yeah so i i went out yes and i okay yeah i tried to spend a little more money get something a little nicer so i got this wait hold on if i i’m not marginally look a little better i don’t know so you look like it you look like this is sanctuary south of france look you look like uh princess uh kelly princess kelly who’s the one who died in her her uh convertible driving around that’s grace princess grace grace grace kelly grace keller is kel get your people straight but anyway this is my central pace it’s just our last name yeah i know you got her name that’s not it’s if her name’s grace kelly you got her penalty princess kelly well that’s her last name okay well she knows my princess grace grace keller but anyway this one i love it’s got a little bow in the back yeah this the one we lost and replaced this is the one i lost and replaced i was very lucky so i wear it with my big shades so i kind of have a european flare yeah i look like i’m clearing the buyers yes you do yes all right so this is my other summer hat which i like too this is just kind of a little short a little little boater a little boater hat isn’t i love it it’s a little short a little sassy there’s a great uh hat store right on whiskey road yes we think it’s called all about hats i think it’s called all about house it’s right right near the corner right by the bistro we took our kids there that our daughter and her boyfriend and everything they put on their heads looked great it did i must have found it we have the best time just just giggling at different hats at fascinators they have caps they have this is my multicolored look so it matches everything so yeah i’m gonna have to try again it’s still not working for me it isn’t where’s your let’s put it on our winter hat yeah so oh so that’s the other thing yeah besides you need to have the windscreen yes you also as you know you lose all your body heat through your head some people have less hair than others so you really lose it faster yeah if if you wear a hat you can be naked in the snow and you won’t even feel it look at this yeah i have this cute little this is my felt bowler boulder hat isn’t it cute this is the best i can do this is we call this my governor hat your governor got that here comes the governor you need some coal so he puts his governor hat on and he has to go shovel some snow over out in the chilly willy weather now when i first moved here was more of a thing because coming from louisiana texas i used to buzz my hair used to keep my hair really really short to try to stay cool and i realized that i don’t have to do that anymore so now i have more normal normal hair a little bit longer and it keeps my head uh warm unlike unlike a lot of my friends you know they don’t really have a whole lot of hair so they all have to wear hats but it’s kind of odd he’s holding on he’s holding options he’s got some yeah still there oh when i’m not wearing a hat and you know and i move my hit the steam just off my head because it’s holding so much heat so that is something we kind of just just for fun we just thought we’d have put on our hats when you move here you will you too will embrace the hat movement even if you never i never wore a hat in my entire life until i moved to prescott so i just saw a video on uh youtube it was about how men never wear hats anymore and one of the big reasons i never really put two and two together but one of the big reasons is automobiles as you’re not in the weather as much and also when you’re in you only a lot of a lot of cars don’t have enough clearance for you’re right that’s hot so so you would knock your hat knock your hat off it’s inconvenient but it’s very convenient here in preston yeah and uh we love that little hat shop right on the square i think it’s called all about hats right did we talk about that it’s a cool shop it’s right next to our donor restaurant it’s right next to the st michael’s uh bistro a couple of doors down if you go in the door and you don’t see a lot of hats you’re in the wrong place you’ll know it you’ll know and if you’re there it’s right there on the website something to keep under your hat when you come here be prepared you too will become a hat aficionado and you’ll be wearing those hats just like we do and you’ll embrace it and you’ll get over feeling silly but anyway more information you can hit us up at pickle411.com all things real estate all things prescott lots of things to eat lots of things to drink and lots of things to do all right there whether you’re buy or seller somewhere in between or you’re just looking for a nice hat that’s right we love our town love to help you find your next home or help you sell a home give us a call 713-302 that’s it folks i know i love this hat it’s cute it’s very comfortable too
The Big Picture
Part of starting a new life in Arizona is making space for pieces of it in your home, and if you have the wall space for it, we know just the thing. Come check out our own ginormous new addition of Arizona spirit that just couldn't be more beautiful.Video Transcript
hello hello hello hello peeps all of our fellow pickle piece and there we hope you guys are having an amazing summer we sure are yeah uh this is diana randall bro here in prescott he’s randall she’s dying i’m diane we’re realtors here in prescott arizona that’s right when you come in and you visit us to go look for a home uh you’ll find out why i’m the pickle lady bring me some of my famous cajun pickles happy to do that i give them to all my friends family yeah folk out there but anyway hit or announce our how many years we’ve been married it’s unbelievable 35 years 35 years 35 years in june yeah a couple of weeks ago we keep saying it because it’s shocking i know you’re gonna wrap your mind around the number that big so we’re very lucky right thanks to all the people at our wedding who took bets on how long it will last i don’t know if any of you are still in the pot you lost i’m thinking all of you need to pay us yeah you should pay us you should pay us yeah because we made it so number 35 35 is a special number for me i don’t know so much for you it’s a special that’s how much you make i was number 35 on my high school football team my nickname was bromine turns out the number 35 on the periodical chart of the the periodical chart of elements number 35 is bromine and as you know our last name is bro last name is bro i had 35 stitches on my face when i was 5 years old 35 followed him a lot yeah 35 we have my parents [Music] 35th anniversary is a lucky number for you lucky number so you know usually we like to joke and say we take it day by day but so far so good we’ve made it this far so we decided to double down and invest yes and a beautiful beautiful work of art uh it’s it’s fits us we’ve been meaning to collect more arizona stuff as you know we’re both from new orleans so we’ve gotta still have a lot of new orleans stuff we have some houston stuff so i’m gonna start collecting some arizona stuff so we did let’s get with the program let’s embrace the area that we’re in and where we’re living so we decided to go to a local gallery here in wrestle gallery gallery right on whiskey row correct and we thought you know what i think i mentioned this before prescott actually has a huge art scene oh yeah huge art scene lots of galleries um you can find all kinds of beautiful pieces and sculptures and whatnot yeah but we decided let’s get a beautiful beautiful picture for our 35th a beautiful work of art and um in a while yeah so the the artist’s name is theresa rose theresa rose she’s sometimes go by tree tree rose which was a nickname that her dad gave her this is such a cute story they tell it to you every time you go to the couch i know but we love it it works it worked all night yeah absolutely so we’ve been eyeing her stuff for a while a long time beautiful high resolution photography uh she doesn’t photoshop the life out of it you know she waits until just the right light and then she captures it she captures the majesty that prescott has to offer yeah so she’ll go out sometimes at four o’clock in the morning if she does a night shoot so you can see the sky just lit up with stars it’s unbelievable it is unbelievable it almost looks fake yeah it almost looks like but it’s not the beautiful thing is that is the nature that surrounds us here in where we live yeah where we actually live yeah you know real uh country cowboy western folks so a lot of the arizona art uh you know that captures all of that horses and cowboys and lovely little circles and some people do we don’t uh so we wanted to get a picture that that talked about arizona with just nature just just the natural form yeah wrong and she does and so it’s just gorgeous as everyone knows i love the rocks i love love i love the rocks so you’ll see yeah we captured sedona yeah the picture that she got is just all the beautiful rocks of sedona which is my absolute favorite and the beautiful skies there’s nothing like a sunrise or a sunset here in arizona uh the skies are filled with lavenders pinks and purples it’s gorgeous yeah and she captures it just as a wonderful artist gets out there and captures it at its finest so we are very proud owners of this beautiful piece of pork right behind us and it’s uh it’s on metal uh yes it’s done on metal so it’s pretty much i mean i guess you could destroy it if you really tried but i mean it’s not we don’t delicate like a lot of art is you know it’s robust and it does come all of her work comes in different sizes yes we we just we got the big cup we got the biggest because we’ve got a big giant wall we have a big giant wall and it fits perfectly and so when i have a bad day and i’m upset about whatever’s going on i just sit and look at that sky view and and the the rocks of sedona and i feel somewhat namaste now if you’ve got the wall you just you know you got the wall space you’ve got the wall space got to go check it out you’re only married 35 years once yes and uh we just decided to go for broke a little trouble hanging it had some issues hanging it little marks on the wall we got cleaned up and so now it just looks beautiful it was a little scary yeah uh the people had to hang up you know how you know just stand on a ladder i was like i don’t want to watch it but i want to watch the wall is right beside the the stairs going down that road it was tricky getting a ladder to yeah but we got yeah but here’s the thing if you get it yeah we knew better than there was no way we could do it uh we might be divorced before we even hit a pudgy dead husband yeah or divorced you know but anyway we’re divorced that’s true yeah arguing everybody make it at 36. that’s correct and i know it is a day by day i get it up it should say it’s crackhead it’s crooked so yeah we knew we need to get professionals so we just wanted to share that with you if you come here there are amazing galleries there are amazing art western art photography as we’re talking about of all the nature here it’s very very unique yeah and we are very proud to be an owner of tree rose from ian some work for me and russell gallagher a lot of other really great artists oh beautiful things ian russell’s gallery there it’s uh you can’t really and cool sculptures cool sculptures yeah javelina sculptures they look real yes yeah i like those too yeah i like the uh the the bar stuff they’ve got stuff that’s really it’s kind of neat to go over your bar this is some really cool there’s that one artist that did the beatles crossing yeah um uh sheldon not sheldon uh gurley as the main guy whatever trying to impose that so we encourage you when you move here expand your horizons get rid of the old stuff that you had in your former home get in here and embrace the new and try some new art here at one of the many galleries here in prescott and uh you’ll be amazed at some of the unique artwork here absolutely all right happy anniversary to you hope you enjoy our picture we sure do uh we love it and uh give us a call if you would like to list or if you need help buying a home that’s what we’re here for the best source of information is pickle411.com whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between it all starts at pickle411.com sometimes i forget he gets it he gets annoyed but anyway pickle411.com there it is check us out we’d love to hear from you and we’d love to help you make your way here to prescott and discover the beautiful artwork that prescott has to offer bye have a good day
Prescott by the Numbers – July 2020
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Doner Stand at St. Michael’s Bistro
From the people we love at St. Michael's Bistro on the corner of Whiskey Row, comes a little offshoot window you might be likely to miss... Don't! They serve an obscure Turkish treat out of that little window you do not want to miss. Find out all about it in this episode.Video Transcript
hello my fellow pickle peeps this is diana randall bro here in my lovely town of prescott uh we are so excited to share with you some of uh some new places that have opened up here in prescott after coven has lifted uh we are psyched oh yeah really psyched it’s really lifted the only bad thing is everything’s reopened everybody’s at the restaurant now we have a little weight and i’m a little yeah other than that a lot of people who should be serving me my food are home still collecting checks it’s kind of hard the restaurants are struggling to get staff and but everybody’s come out but everybody’s going out of out of their uh isolation and they’re like we’re ready to socialize we can get out now and be safe yeah so uh other than you know having a little weight at some of our favorite restaurants we are super excited that some new places have opened yeah and some old places we’re still waiting yes so uh the barley hound has won they’ve done renovations yeah i know they’re going to open just like they’re doing major renovations a lot of our places are like you know what we’re going to use this time to revamp and uh redecorate re do some renovations and so some of them but they’re coming back they’re just in the middle of yeah once they open that’s it i mean i know they’re going to be flat out so i guess they know that so one place that randall while he was driving by you know we take our dog for a ride at least twice a day and we go around the square she loves to go for a ride that’s her thing so as we’re driving brandon’s like oh i see something and i’m like what and he’s like donors i’m like that means absolutely nothing to me but it means a lot to him means a lot to me yeah so this is this is an offshoot of the st michael’s bistro one of our favorite restaurants right on the corner of whiskey row and they have been shut down for kovitz i mean for over a year now and they are renovating they will open much like barley hound they’re common say michael’s bistro’s coming back so give me something like a little taste they opened up this little a little sliver on the side of the hotel and it’s you have to look twice to understand that’s actually part of the bistro yeah but it’s their kitchen so they’re just serving right out the window and they brought this sandwich called a dirner like he says i say derner but it was a sandwich way back in the day uh a friend of some high school friends of mine uh joined together in germany for a little trip and we were in berlin and that’s when i first met the durner so at that time there were a whole bunch of turkish people immigrants or something yeah and they brought their cuisine with them and one of them was this sandwich so it’s a dirner turner a donor amazing yeah it’s a they make it with a rotisserie that’s vertical and they shave it off and they put it in this delicious sort of pita like bread but softer yeah just very spicy season beautifully and all kinds of extras so as we were driving by he’s like i see dirners donors whatever you want to call it i have no idea what that means that means nothing to you well it means a lot to me yeah it’s like i said this is like 15 years ago i have never seen 15 years ago 15 years ago i first when i was in germany it’s been longer than that i think so i’m about 15. i was in like early 40s that’s all right all right if you say okay it was first high school reunion but anyway uh that was not my high school room so the trip to germany yes it was for your 25th uh yeah 25th yeah there you go yeah i think you can graduate a little bit longer i don’t know have you no i don’t know we’ll do the math but anyway so that’s when he went and that’s when he had these sandwiches and all throughout germany yeah in some places like new york city or very big metropolitan areas they probably have i’m sure uh but i haven’t seen one yeah european cuisine right so i immediately bought like six of them oh yes oh my god oh that’s so good he felt compelled to share this with everyone out there when you come here you need to have a dinner whatever you want to call it and also know that saint michael’s bistro which is right next door will be reopening and they’re bringing back my favorite thing on the menu which is the uh uh reuben burger reuben burger corned beef reuben burger yeah it is a monstrosity it is really really big every time i ordered one the whole restaurant would go silent as i was being certain you would finish the whole thing here’s the thing do you notice we talk a lot about food a lot of us we’re foodies i think you can tell by our we’re more eaties yeah we’re more eating we are eating yeah so hey we enjoy everything yeah we love our little town we love all that our little town has to offer amazing all kinds of stuff i mean they even have turner’s donors whatever you want to call them d-o-n-e-r-s with the two dots over here what does that mean walnuts what is it walnuts i think it makes a diphthong of the vowel dorn i mean it’s like i don’t know what that is it kind of makes one vowel to about two i don’t care it’s good that’s all i know so if you’re headed here to town we’ll tell you where to go to get a dirner or a donor um yeah at this point they are uh they don’t have full service so i think it was like thursday friday saturday right in the afternoon hopefully it will catch on with all the other town folk and it will still be here because i checked the lady who uh serves it and she said they are on fire they’re going gangbusters this town has a sophisticated talent they know good stuff when they see it it’s sophisticated palette means you know turkish peasant food sure man anything unique we love it prescott loves it and prescott embraces it okay so if you are looking to visit and have a donor of your own or if you’re looking to come visit and try to find some homes here or if you want to list please feel free to call randall and i you can contact us at pickle411.com yeah lots of information or you can call us at that’s 713-302-1964 i will answer and uh anyway we hope to see you there soon he see you here i should say and share darner with us that is all bye
Event Calendar – August 2021
Voting With Your Feet
The power of voting can be a lot greater than you think, especially when you do it with your feet. In this episode, we discuss the latest trend sweeping the nation: the Great Reshuffling – and why you might consider hopping aboard.
Video Transcript good afternoon good afternoon folks in brisket arizona that’s right this is diane and randall grove and i’m the randall he’s the randall we are here in the lovely town of prescott arizona loving life loving our little business here and loving to reach uh to you guys and chat with you about uh different topics different topics so today we’re going to talk about a new phenomenon that’s sweeping the country called voting with your feet yes it’s more than one way to vote yeah if you can’t get the result that you want you can always vote with your feet so that was a quote that actually i think it was lenin uh people asked you know did the people uh want the czar or the did the people want to end the war this is world war one you know when did the people vote uh when did the soldiers vote that they should end the war and he said they voted with their feet meaning that they had all retreated from the front and you know right just gave up the fight and uh that’s a term that’s kind of bandied about quite a bit the idea of voting with you voting with your fee and we see it all the time as agents here uh we represent a lot of buyers uh they’re coming from california washington oregon even some new jersey folks yeah and um they are voting with their feet uh they are not happy with things that are occurring in their home states and they are retired and they’re like you know what we have a luxury now and the ability to vote with our feet uh we don’t have to put up with it anymore we don’t uh and we want to move on yeah and so a lot of them are coming here to prescott yeah a lot of them are a lot of them are it’s you know it’s the last resort uh you know it’s in communist countries like cuba and east germany you know they’ll build a wall to keep people from voting with their feet because they know their people are unhappy and uh so far there’s no place in the united states that i know of that forces you to stay where you are although california tried they were trying to tax people who are leaving you know and i can’t imagine that that’s gonna stick but uh but at this point in time you can still vote with your feet and the thing about it about voting with your fee is you get instant results if you elect your candidate it’s gonna take a while before your candidates able to bring you the changes that you want but when you vote for your feet you go to some place where things are happening the way that you want them to it’s right instantaneously you get immediate satisfaction you get immediate results um depending on where you go of course yeah um and so we get a lot of people who are like i’m moving on i can’t change what’s occurring in my state i sure have tried i’ve tried to hang in there as long as i can and hoping that there might be a change and now that they’re retired they have the freedom and the wherewithal they’re not tied to a job or career or kids in school yeah and so we are seeing it more and more that people are voting with their feet and they’re going where they feel uh with like-minded people yeah and um so it’s been an interesting thing to watch uh unfold and develop yeah and so we say it a lot a lot uh and it’s a phenomenon that’s happening really all over the country uh there’s a lot of new flux uh people call it the the the great reselection the great reset i forget that i don’t know yeah but it’s like the covet thing and it’s like everyone is sort of rethinking what they want to do with their lives where they want to spend their lives covered has changed a lot of things yeah it’s changed the path for a lot of people reshuffling i’m sorry the great reshuffling i knew it would come to you yes it always does but it is interesting to see a lot of people um have the effects of cobit and they realize hey you know i was gonna retire in five years um but now i actually can live and work wherever i want yeah because people started working remotely yes so it’s enabled them to move up their plans to move to a different state yeah hopefully prescott and it’s changed their life plan and that’s all because of covet they were like we have to work at home we’re going to figure this out and once it was figured out people realized well hell i can keep doing this nothing nothing to stop why do i need to stay here i can move where i want to move ahead of retirement i don’t have to wait until i retire right which is kind of cool yeah and for those who are kind of on the other side of the the the work period you know their work careers and looking at retirement you know you reach a certain age you realize that the situation is not going to be fixed on your watch you’re just not going to live that long you know you don’t have 40 years ago that’s great yeah i mean when you’re in your 20s it’s easier to be optimistic you want to be part of the solution you want to affect change you make the world a better place you get to be an old man it’s like ah you know i just i’m tired of fighting yeah all i’m looking for is peace i want peace happiness peace and i want my money to last until i die [Laughter] that’s all you’re looking for when you retire like hey i’m done i just want to chill out and have some fun yeah definitely so anyway if you were thinking about voting with your feet particularly if you’re a vote for prescott yeah and you’re going to want to contact the people of you absolutely we would love to find you a great place here in town help you develop a new life help you develop a new life and make it happen for you so if you are thinking about coming in give us a call or look at us at uh four one one dot com there it is your information source your search begins your search begins 411.com all of it free all of it free it it astounds me somehow sometimes it’s amazing work just how much you’ve done great job on that so much well you know someone asks you a question yep and you just put it on the site and after a while pretty much all the questions are answered it starts to accumulate and we’ve got a good little source of information for you yeah yeah so anyway we hope to see you if you’re voting for your with your feet give us a call at 713-302-1964 we’ll do that as well we’ll do that too okay bye good to see you and have a great evening
County Seat
In the episode we explore yet another great Prescott restaurant located atop one of the town's historic buildings. Great views, great atmosphere, and good eats. Come check it out.Video Transcript
good afternoon good afternoon folks this is diane and randall bro here in the heart of prescott arizona randall in the pickle lady all right back at you coming right back at you we’re ready to help you we’re still on the hunt for all of you people coming in looking for a great place and a new start we are the team to help you do that yeah one of the things we’d love to do is let you know all the great places to visit here in the city and so we have another one it’s it’s been open now i think for maybe a year or so maybe a year maybe a little less than a year yeah and it’s called the county seat county seat it’s really cool it’s right at the square it’s upstairs so you go up it’s a giant almost looks like a warehouse giant space upstairs very open um yeah so straight across from the courthouse the square there’s a kind of a i hate to call it a strip mall because it’s like 100 years old but it’s called bashford court yes and it is actually three or four stories high uh in this particular entrance there are a number of them on the block but there’s one in the there’s in the basement is superstition metering which i love which we’ve talked about before we were just love it just had a flight of mead which was delicious the flight of the flight and uh on the ground level is a gift store just really huge all kinds of cool kitchen and cooking yeah and then the loft there is is a kind of an art gallery and then finally i guess i don’t know if you’d call it the third floor the fourth floor you have an elevator there’s an elevator uh you go up to county seats county seat yeah it’s cool it’s all open space wide open it’s great place to go have organic they have a lot of organics yes organic sandwiches salads all natural plant-based yeah there is some meat if you want yeah no the carnivores have a selection of beers but uh good ones a slight number of good ones uh cocktails are are really good yes um and some some of their own home-grown kind of and it’s a great place to sit up there it’s a wall of windows so you can look out over the square beautiful view it’s really cool beautiful beautiful yeah we like to go there and just kind of sit and watch people and have some good lunch or a good dinner and so we highly recommend it yeah a lot of it is um sort of i don’t know lady food it’s a good holiday but i got a reuben and the reuben you know it’s always a manly meal and uh some of it as i said is plant-based yeah that’s really bread that women like it’s not like wildflower no no no it’s not that weird right panera bread it is it is all natural it is it is what is you go to the tree [Music] you know there’s no such thing as natural bread but anyway it is more or less yes so he goes right for the group and everybody else gets something healthy and kale related yeah which is a big hit right now as we know the whole kill the whole kale famous i’m kind of over the kill thing i’m like i don’t know but anyway lovely place uh to grab a bite to have lunch dinner and the architecture is really nice really high all the big open windows it’s light and airy very lightweight good for a large group if you have a group of like we went there we had like a dozen people yeah and no problem you know we’re able to sit down no problem so we thought we would mention it so if you are planning a visit soon make sure you check out county seat so if you are looking to list your home give us a call we would so be happy to list your home and make that happen for you if you were coming in town to look give us a call that’s our favorite we love to bring out buyers and connect you with the right place yep so you can check us out at pickle411.com yeah lots of information lots of information real estate about press kit all kinds of restaurants and things to do in town and events so much stuff um we love it it’s an all-inclusive oh all inclusive so if you come in we may end up taking you to luncheon county i don’t know it depends on how the day goes so we hope to hear from you soon and we hope to see you and if you’re here visiting check out county seat all right have a great rest of your day take care bye
LA is Alive Again
LA is finally back open, and taking advantage of the direct flight out of Prescott makes for an easy and fun trip. In this episode we share our adventures among the recently unmasked and give high praise to Prescott's brand new airport terminal.
hello hello peeps that was very sharp very sharp that was a very crisp hello that’s a crisp pick it’s a crisp pick one of those crunchy pickles all right this is randall and diambro i am the pickle lady i’m happy to be here i’m always in production so when you come visit i’ll bring you some of my famous cajun pickles happy to do that happy to share with friends and family that’s right back from l.a back from l.a well wonderful trip yeah so beginning i’m sorry the middle of uh with june we were celebrating our uh wedding anniversary and also father’s day yes and both of our kids are in l.a so we arrived in l.a so they arranged an airbnb we had the time of our lives we went in and visited and wow california is now open yep it was crazy a lot of people by force of habit were still wearing masks yes and you’d walk in and they’d look at you kind of funny of course you know we don’t we’re kind of past the masses here and it happened for a while in uh yeah so we walk in like it’s nothing and they were like oh my god but the governor mayor dictator whatever had just declared that uh the masks were optional for people who had been vaccinated or i don’t know what the proclamation was but it was essential they were open for business uh everything was open again you could go to restaurants movies everything everything was open and it was very very exciting very busy very crowded lots of traffic it was a little insane yeah it was lots of bad service to all the restaurants were just getting started they were completely inundated with people who’ve been in quarantine now for a year yeah and they’re struggling to get staff and their systems aren’t completely up to speed yet so uh the restaurant situation was kind of wrong but uh food was good so it was good yeah the hour wait to get our receipt yeah get our ticket check to get our check i was a little over that i was like okay i want to go back home to prescott where all this is over and we’ve already worked out the kinks and we’re smooth sailing and we’ve moved forward um la is still a few steps behind great to see the kids the kids are up and about uh today is uh our youngest adeline she uh she’s been working remotely yeah this is our first day back in the back in the office back up so a lot of exciting things a lot of exciting things yeah we uh we flew out of prescott yes it’s like having your own private jet it is so sweet without all the expense yes so you know as you know they’ve uh prescott has added some more longer um runways and they just built a whole new terminal beautiful it’s gorgeous it’s gorgeous but here’s the beauty you come in you live in here in prescott you go park your car for free you walk right into the prescott regional airport they take you through security you hop on a security secure like you’re the only you know we’re making conversation with all the dsm oh yeah it’s really like socializing it’s a beautiful thing and so we sit down and we just walk out onto the tarmac and get on the little 50-seater jet by united and then zip zip right into lax yeah hour later you’re in lax you fly into terminal 7 which is i don’t know if there’s seven or eight terminals but it’s kind of on the end of the ring so you’re able to bypass a lot of the congestion with the uh the other airport so it’s easy which is really nice easy to get in and out your people can pick you up easily uh you park for free at prescott’s you know as i said so you don’t have to pay for that yeah your family or you know get on the uber right there not a lot of traffic and off you go to have fun in la or whatever if you want to call it yes and we did uh airbnb which was the first time we really did an airbnb it was cool and uh full kitchen we spent too much time but next time we’ll cook more and order in more we ordered more thai food than we could we could swallow i do love me thai and it was wonderful we had all the kids and their friends you know the place that we rented had a beautiful front yard yeah it will have kind of like a picnic so it’s great since the world is opening up again uh it’s not like la that’s alive denver’s alive so we have daily flights to denver word is they’re going to start having daily flights they’re going to try to maybe add a couple of other cities you can also fly down to phoenix and catch a flight there to your connecting flight so the word is out uh the world is alive again yeah the cities are opening up yeah so we’re planning a trip down to costa rica with some really great friends of ours in december yep out of preston are we oh yeah oh rested flying so you don’t even have to take the shuttle you can just take a quick little puddle jumper into phoenix no no we’re going over to l.a nevermind nevermind cool yeah yeah it’s just so nice uh if if possible if you’re living in prescott try to start your flight your trip trying to start it from prescott absolutely it may cost a little more a little more but boy is it worth this it’s so stress-free it’s delightful and then when you land you just hop right in your car and go home and your luggage is just waiting for you it’s already there so that is our little tip to you uh cities are opening up la is alive really all the big cities are alive again live and well you can fly to him right out of prescott right now and don’t have the time of your life maybe any help with your real estate you can contact us at 713-302-1964 that is the pickle lady hotline there it is if you’re more of an online person go to pickle411.com yep as our source of information for buyers sellers everyone in between lots of information about prescott living in prescott what it’s like to live in prescott where to eat what to do we cover it up we cover it all we love it here all free yeah pickle for warm duck okay hope to hear from you soon take care happy flying
Prescott by the Numbers – June 2020
SPECIAL REPORT:
Why Prescott’s Real Estate is So CRAZY Right Now
Record low inventories, bidding wars, waived appraisals… Why is all this happening, and will it last?
In this month’s Prescott Home Value Report Summary Video, we continue our special report that shows exactly what the issues are, what’s likely to happen in the months ahead, and an early sign that things are going the way we expected.
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Buyer Advisory
Buyers are often unaware that there are many things that sellers and their agents do not have to divulge to you… and questions you may have that even your own agent is not allowed to answer.
In this episode we reveal what these things are and where you can find the answers you need.
Download the Buyer’s Advisory at…
https://prescottpicklelady.com/buyers-advisory/
good morning
good morning good morning
pickle peeps
diane and randall bro here um we are
here to really give you um
what do you call it dianne’s rendition
of mr rogers
well um that’s that that’s not mr rogers
it’s kind of like mr rogers
it’s just i sing a lot in the morning
she does she’s a morning singer
yeah easily identified
you don’t need one of those apps to tell
you you know what bird is that
no you’re pretty easy that’s right it’s
me don’t have a good
to sing it to the pugs don’t have a good
voice but i sure try
yeah she does i like to sing with a
happy heart happy heart
not always happy at least she’s that way
in the morning
i i try to start off in a position to
start off on a positive and positive
thing
um today though we are talking about
something pretty important pretty
serious
um that you should know when
you are coming in town every time we
meet people for the first time
we always have them uh sign off that
they have received
a buyer’s advisory guide because we
actually because we have to
yeah correct it’s a state thing and it
is put it’s a document that’s made by
the state
right and we have to give you a copy of
that
and we have to be able to demonstrate or
prove
that all of our buyers have had it and
you received it
you know they’ll come inside we could be
on it mr and mrs jones show me where
they’ve signed up so one of your papers
when we meet is you
sign off saying yes thank you i did
receive the buyer’s advisory guide
and you may ask what is the buyer’s
advisory guide we give it to you you put
it in your folder
don’t ever lose that it is so important
it is a huge
wealth of information something you may
not know about realtors and people just
kind of take it for granted that you
should be able to tell us that
we are not necessary we are not allowed
to discuss uh politics or what the
politics of the town are
religion family whether this is a family
everything they got a lot of a lot of
things
you really kind of have to do your due
diligence
on your own because there are things
that
we can’t talk about right there are
regulations that you know keep us from
doing that
and we got to be really careful about
things like that because there are
people out there that will try to sue
you
purposely trap you and then turn around
and sue you
so it’s not all about just achieving
fair housing it’s about avoiding
litigation
right for people who are out there to
get you so it’s
well that’s a little heavy yeah it’s a
little bit i don’t think it’s that so
you know
no it’s not that prevalent but it does
happen we’re under obligation
uh we have to follow fair it is you have
no idea
fair housing practices yeah and we are
very very strict about that
so there are a lot of things too that uh
sellers are not
obligated to tell tell us tell you
either right
and one of these and you guys may not
believe it changes state by state that’s
another thing you should realize
real estate laws change state by state
in the state of arizona
we as agents and the seller we do not
have to disclose
if a murder happened in a home yeah or
someone died
if there was a suicide if um
you know someone was sick with hiv or
aids
we do not have to nor does the seller
have to disclose that our state does not
make that a mandatory
disclosure sex offenders sex offenders
that’s up to you
right it’s very important for you as the
buyer
to take advantage of that buyer’s guide
and do your due diligence
yeah that is your time to do your
homework your 10
or 15 day inspection period is not about
just getting the home inspected it’s not
about just getting a termite inspection
it is very much about those things but
also
doing this extra homework looking up
crime rates
looking up if there’s a sex offender
looking up if you’re being
if your neighborhood is next door to a
super fund
site uh looking up all those important
things that’s also part of your due
diligence
and you have to do that during your
inspection period and you have the lace
inside the buyer
advisory that will send you to online
places where you can look those
absolutely it’s filled all kinds of
websites
super easy you know you can find
whatever you need and look it up
and it will answer all of those
questions that you may be having
but that we sometimes are precluded from
discussing you know what i mean as as
licensed
agents so it’s very important uh
do your due diligence especially during
your
inspection period that’s what that time
is to be spent doing
right talking about your neighborhood
your neighborhood i’ve been meaning to
upload
the latest copy of the buyer advisory to
the website so you can just download it
there
and i’ll do a link on this one as well
absolutely
it has so much information there uh
anything that you have a question about
you can find it answered through that
buyer advisory guide
so anyway i want to share with you how
important that is don’t throw it away
it may come in handy one day and
a lot of that is part of your homework
during your due diligence period so take
advantage of it
so that is our tip for the day check out
your buyer’s advisory guide i actually
just checked mine out the other day i
had to look up something like hmm
it’s fascinating and i was like wow it’s
a surprise ending
and i could find it who done it who done
it
you name it if you have it’ll tell you
all kinds of info
info all kinds of info all kinds of
crazy crazy stuff
yes all right yeah and you can also find
lots of crazy stuff
at pickle411.com which is
where your information source or
search should start uh whether you’re
buy or sellers somewhere in between
lots of free useful and fun information
absolutely including buyer including the
buyer’s advisor
for the more heavier questions you may
have and we may not be able to provide
those answers
we want to give you the answers so we
will forward you to the buyer’s advisory
guide
absolutely all right friends that’s our
tip for the day
pull out your buyer’s advisory guide
start your homework
all right have a good day bye
good morning good morning
pickle peeps
diane and randall bro here um we are
here to really give you um
what do you call it dianne’s rendition
of mr rogers
well um that’s that that’s not mr rogers
it’s kind of like mr rogers
it’s just i sing a lot in the morning
she does she’s a morning singer
yeah easily identified
you don’t need one of those apps to tell
you you know what bird is that
no you’re pretty easy that’s right it’s
me don’t have a good
to sing it to the pugs don’t have a good
voice but i sure try
yeah she does i like to sing with a
happy heart happy heart
not always happy at least she’s that way
in the morning
i i try to start off in a position to
start off on a positive and positive
thing
um today though we are talking about
something pretty important pretty
serious
um that you should know when
you are coming in town every time we
meet people for the first time
we always have them uh sign off that
they have received
a buyer’s advisory guide because we
actually because we have to
yeah correct it’s a state thing and it
is put it’s a document that’s made by
the state
right and we have to give you a copy of
that
and we have to be able to demonstrate or
prove
that all of our buyers have had it and
you received it
you know they’ll come inside we could be
on it mr and mrs jones show me where
they’ve signed up so one of your papers
when we meet is you
sign off saying yes thank you i did
receive the buyer’s advisory guide
and you may ask what is the buyer’s
advisory guide we give it to you you put
it in your folder
don’t ever lose that it is so important
it is a huge
wealth of information something you may
not know about realtors and people just
kind of take it for granted that you
should be able to tell us that
we are not necessary we are not allowed
to discuss uh politics or what the
politics of the town are
religion family whether this is a family
everything they got a lot of a lot of
things
you really kind of have to do your due
diligence
on your own because there are things
that
we can’t talk about right there are
regulations that you know keep us from
doing that
and we got to be really careful about
things like that because there are
people out there that will try to sue
you
purposely trap you and then turn around
and sue you
so it’s not all about just achieving
fair housing it’s about avoiding
litigation
right for people who are out there to
get you so it’s
well that’s a little heavy yeah it’s a
little bit i don’t think it’s that so
you know
no it’s not that prevalent but it does
happen we’re under obligation
uh we have to follow fair it is you have
no idea
fair housing practices yeah and we are
very very strict about that
so there are a lot of things too that uh
sellers are not
obligated to tell tell us tell you
either right
and one of these and you guys may not
believe it changes state by state that’s
another thing you should realize
real estate laws change state by state
in the state of arizona
we as agents and the seller we do not
have to disclose
if a murder happened in a home yeah or
someone died
if there was a suicide if um
you know someone was sick with hiv or
aids
we do not have to nor does the seller
have to disclose that our state does not
make that a mandatory
disclosure sex offenders sex offenders
that’s up to you
right it’s very important for you as the
buyer
to take advantage of that buyer’s guide
and do your due diligence
yeah that is your time to do your
homework your 10
or 15 day inspection period is not about
just getting the home inspected it’s not
about just getting a termite inspection
it is very much about those things but
also
doing this extra homework looking up
crime rates
looking up if there’s a sex offender
looking up if you’re being
if your neighborhood is next door to a
super fund
site uh looking up all those important
things that’s also part of your due
diligence
and you have to do that during your
inspection period and you have the lace
inside the buyer
advisory that will send you to online
places where you can look those
absolutely it’s filled all kinds of
websites
super easy you know you can find
whatever you need and look it up
and it will answer all of those
questions that you may be having
but that we sometimes are precluded from
discussing you know what i mean as as
licensed
agents so it’s very important uh
do your due diligence especially during
your
inspection period that’s what that time
is to be spent doing
right talking about your neighborhood
your neighborhood i’ve been meaning to
upload
the latest copy of the buyer advisory to
the website so you can just download it
there
and i’ll do a link on this one as well
absolutely
it has so much information there uh
anything that you have a question about
you can find it answered through that
buyer advisory guide
so anyway i want to share with you how
important that is don’t throw it away
it may come in handy one day and
a lot of that is part of your homework
during your due diligence period so take
advantage of it
so that is our tip for the day check out
your buyer’s advisory guide i actually
just checked mine out the other day i
had to look up something like hmm
it’s fascinating and i was like wow it’s
a surprise ending
and i could find it who done it who done
it
you name it if you have it’ll tell you
all kinds of info
info all kinds of info all kinds of
crazy crazy stuff
yes all right yeah and you can also find
lots of crazy stuff
at pickle411.com which is
where your information source or
search should start uh whether you’re
buy or sellers somewhere in between
lots of free useful and fun information
absolutely including buyer including the
buyer’s advisor
for the more heavier questions you may
have and we may not be able to provide
those answers
we want to give you the answers so we
will forward you to the buyer’s advisory
guide
absolutely all right friends that’s our
tip for the day
pull out your buyer’s advisory guide
start your homework
all right have a good day bye
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Fast Food
There’s nothing like a fast food fix. If you have a hankering, chances are that Prescott can deliver.
In this episode we cover the Top 5 “Gotta Have” fast food places available in Prescott.
BTW: There is a Wendy’s in Prescott Valley.
Hello fellow pickled peeps peep starts randall and diane bro here something we’re kind of excited to talk about well because we just found this out the other day and we almost flipped our lids yes and then we have our yes so excited so we thought let’s do something on facebook and i’ll tell you why uh lots of people come here and they think we’re just this little bitty old town and do you even have fast food i’ve had people ask do you have movie theaters do you have we have all of them we have all of that yes it’s nice small town living but we do have a lot of the infrastructure that you’re used to coming from a bigger city yeah so we’re here to talk about fast food fast food the ones that we think might be you know really important to you the ones that you just can’t live without hold on i’m so glad you got one of those people come here and they’re like so we did a top five we did our top five so just to let you know for only people coming in in town and like jeez do they have chipotle i love it chipotle yes number five there are two of them one from prescott valley yeah yeah and one in brisket yeah so not a problem if you’re a huge uh chipotle you like their rice bowl and yeah all that other stuff so we have tons of fast mexican food yes of course we have taco bell and taco bell is there and you know but nobody makes nobody makes a better honestly dr pepper than we’re talking about taco bell they’re found dr peppers to die she goes there for the doctor i do we also have uh filibertos there’s a lot of little local fast food mexican chains but yeah so that’s here so yeah chipotle we’ve got it we’ve got it people you gotta miss your chipotle you won’t have to because you’ve got one we got it the other thing we have papa john’s dominoes i also have a local restaurant bill’s pizza yeah bill’s pizza lots of pizza yeah we got a lot of great pizzas no worries i don’t know if you i mean if you want it delivered um you know i haven’t delivered all the time yeah so we it’s here people yeah papa john’s dominance i don’t want you to think oh what will i do without him little caesars we got a little caesar we do where’s little caesar it’s on iron springs it’s uh iron spring i’m positive not just you’re positive okay all right well we’ll have to take his word for it i’m not sure we haven’t we don’t order little seizures but if you do we got it we got it it’s across where the um uh the uh starbucks is on gail gardner it’s across the street in that area that little place with that okay yeah someone didn’t know that the other thing is burger joints burger joints everybody the two that people are very happy that we have [Music] i love that animal style animal style it’s really hard to be it’s good so all of our californians come in and they’re delighted they’re like oh my gosh i can still have a little taste of home yeah you can’t we have red robin we have panera [Music] yeah we’ve got all those little fast food yeah we’ve got you know the burger king and mcdonald’s oh yes there’s an orbeez all that’s outside oh that’s standard i don’t know i don’t know about wendy’s i don’t know but anyway yeah we haven’t done one these now yeah but you know that they’re fast food but the ones that are important we find are five guys although they’re not doing the peanut thing during cole bed well they might that might be coming back because that’s my favorite thing at five guys i like to crunch those peanuts the five guys in in and out is very very popular we got it we do the other thing we have which we were so excited coming from texas we were right around the corner from a chick-fil-a yeah oh my gosh so every morning you know when the kids are on the way to school if they have a big day going to some drama event we would go get chick-fil-a chick-fil-a breakfast we’re going to raise children without chickens oh my god it’s essential it is essential so we were absolutely delighted that presque valley brought a chick-fil-a into our town yes well worth a little trek from from prescott it’s not even that far maybe 15 minutes 10 minutes but um chick-fil-a’s here super long line super good food so if you’re a chick-fil-a fan we got it we got it not on sundays not on sundays i know and that’s what i always seem to crave at the moment i want to we call it a chisket isabel that’s a shout out to you and your family yeah they used to call their chicken biscuit so now we do but anyway and then our newest and latest greatest that we were so excited we found we just tried to drive by there last night because we were going to pick some up yeah but they’re not but they’re not open yet they’re still under construction very much under construction not even close but we’re coming from new orleans yeah popeye famous fried chicken is now coming here it’s also in prescott valley actually it’s across from chick-fil-a yeah very close uh we are super psyched uh i don’t know for all of those uh who who maybe don’t know but popeyes originated in new orleans al copeland developed all the spices that make it special and uh so popeyes started in new orleans the best part of uh popeye’s is not the chicken although the chicken’s good the chicken it’s the sides oh my god cajun rice and red beans and rice biscuits oh yeah the biscuits season fries the onion rings oh oh yeah it’s all good yeah good stuff good stuff we also have kentucky fried chicken you know your usuals but we are particularly being from new orleans excited to hear about love that chicken from papayas that’s how the song goes yeah i don’t know if it still goes that way but that was in the that was in the commercials what’s the other part of it i think that’s it spice geek delicious chicken they used to actually have pot pie on the couch yes they did it spicy yeah that’s i’m showing my age it’s been a while since how did he say spicy spicy delicious chicken or something i don’t know popeye accent popeyes came out when we were kids yeah right they’re teenagers yeah so it’s been a while we know all the old commercials that’s why you miss it you know you grow up with it it’s a it’s a little slice of home absolutely and i’m sure some of these other places are also kind of a slice of home for you yeah wherever you’re coming from so when you move to prescott or prescott valley you will still have that little sliver of home it’s here people we have it all we have it all right so anyway we were just so excited yesterday to see popeye’s tried to drive through the drive-through and realized that this man hadn’t been bored yet yeah it’s kind of already so it wasn’t going to happen of course but maybe in two months couple months yeah we’ll be uh hitting it hard some other good ones they have uh uh subway got lots of subway lots of subways um i don’t know i can’t think about anymore there’s a another sandwich shop i can’t mike subs oh no uh jersey mites jersey mike’s jersey mike’s not as good as scottish and the big chains as well yeah so if you’re looking to come here and you’re like wow is this going to be like living out in some rural you know little town no we have it here and you’ll be excited if you need that fix one night and you’re tired and you’re like you know i just want pizza i want popeyes chick-fil-a we have it it’s at your disposal absolutely all right so that is all we just want to share we’re so excited about popeye’s coming here yeah it it evolved into this whole wine down need more information the best place to find it is pickle411.com and whether you’re a buy seller somewhere in between lots of great information about real estate about restaurants about press kits life in general just lots of things we got useful information and we’re here so give us a call if you need any help finding finding a home or selling we’re happy to help you take care bye
Prescott by the Numbers – May 2020
SPECIAL REPORT:
Why Prescott’s Real Estate is So CRAZY Right Now
Record low inventories, bidding wars, waived appraisals… Why is all this happening, and will it last?
In this month’s Prescott Home Value Report Summary Video, we provide a special report that shows exactly what the issues are and what’s likely to happen in the months ahead.
Click Here –> Get Latest Pickle Reports
To get the Full Home Value Report,
the Latest Home Comps, and
Top 100 Subdivision Snapshots,
Click Here –> Get Latest Pickle Reports
Stupid Tax
A stupid tax is a tax you don’t have to pay if you’re smart enough to avoid it. Right now in real estate, across the country, people buying homes are pulling out their wallets to pay up – bidding up the price of homes well beyond what anyone thinks they’re really worth.
In this episode, we cover what we’re doing in the trenches to help our clients avoid paying the stupid tax.
hello to all of our pickle peeps out
there diane and randall bro here
arizona prescott arizona baby yeah we
are the pickle lady brigade
and uh today’s topic that we’d like to
talk about is called what randall
stupid tax that he calls it the stupid
tax well stupid tax
is any tax that if you’re smart you
don’t have to pay it
so lottery tickets you know that’s a
stupid tax
yeah yeah but spend a lot of money on
lottery tickets
that’s you’re essentially paying
attention yeah that you don’t have to
pay it’s a stupid tax
so we wanted to talk about right now um
it’s it’s occurring
all over the united states uh everyone
there’s hardly any inventory homes are
flying off the shelf
that’s true across the nation most areas
they are running on average it’s about
one-third
the level of inventory uh the
usual inventory is about what’s
available now
right and that’s about where we are we
usually pretty crazy
yeah we usually have about 1200 homes
right
that are fascinating to pick from at any
one time and now we have
about 400 about 400 and 400 homes
covering
all price points yeah all price points
so that’s
very very small yeah very few so it’s
making it hard
and so people have perhaps sold their
homes they’re desperate to get in
uh to a home and they’re willing to win
a bid at
any cost so what we’re seeing a lot of
is people are
waving appraisal contingencies uh people
are going in
way over ask which we never had before
yeah
areas like california right and that’s
new to us uh
crazy over list price uh probably
started happening uh you know maybe a
couple of months ago it just
sort of started we started
people started coming in uh at ask and
then it increased to five thousand over
ten thousand over twenty thousand
now we are seeing things going in over
fifty thousand yeah recently we lost a
bid
uh someone came in over a hundred
thousand
over ask it’s kind of scary people
yeah especially if you’re waving
appraisal contingencies
um a lot of our clients if we get into
that point it’s like you know what it’s
time to stop
we don’t need to keep throwing money
just to win
yeah you have to be careful what you
might win right
you might get in a position where you
have grossly overpaid just to win
and you don’t always want to be a winner
in that kind of situation
well the first thing you need to
understand when when you’re getting into
one of these bidding wars
is what is the property really worth
the list price is not always the fair
market value
uh some agents intentionally price high
others intentionally price low some
really
don’t have any idea what the home’s
worth and they just kind of price it
maybe where the seller wants to price it
so
the first thing you need to understand
is where where is the list price
in comparison to what the home’s really
kind of worth
and if you understand that
then you know we’ll tell you what that
number is we’ll show you why we think
that is
and it’ll be up to you i mean if if we
think that you know you need to go at
least fifty thousand dollars
uh over this price to get this home and
we’ll tell you
how far above the market you know the
market value that
is uh we’ll tell you yeah that says you
can safely go there
yeah and still yeah retail value you
know here’s the list price
here’s where we think the market is you
might be able to get it to appraise a
little higher than that
you know but i mean if you’re competing
with someone who’s willing to pay a
stupid tax if you don’t pay the stupid
tax which is money that
the home’s basically not worth that if
it’s your dream home and you
absolutely have to have it you
absolutely have to have it now
that’s the price and it’ll be up to you
whether you want to pay it or not
but we will give you sound advice yeah
we’ll we’ll tell you okay
where you should go probably flushing
about 50 grand
you know and if it’s worth it to you to
get that house now
then you can go ahead and pay that but
just know that it’ll be
at least a year before the uh home
appreciates enough
catches up catches up with what you pay
so
we here at the pickle lady brigade try
to keep it real
try to keep it honest um we really will
guide you
not to go too far um if that is where
you want to go
and you’re willing to take that risk and
yeah that’s up to you if that’s up to
you of course
uh but i wouldn’t call that a stupid tax
i mean if you know what you got what’s
stupid
is when somebody comes in the home’s
already overpriced
and they just oh 100 you know they have
no idea what they’re doing
and then usually what happens is they go
under contract with this crazy offer
and then during the inspection period it
falls off because either they come to
their senses
or they write some numbers or they just
get cold feet
so right so just something to keep in
mind
we don’t want to bid something up just
for you to win that you
may regret later like wow i could have
used that cash maybe to travel the world
yeah but now i’m kind of strapped in
this house
or buy a car or you know if that’s your
deal and you don’t care
we’re happy to do that too but we will
give you sound advice
and tell you where you should go and
where we think you should
land and uh if and if we don’t win
and we get outbid we’re going to keep
keep trying for you and uh we’ll make it
happen
yeah a lot of uh people are saying oh
you you can’t find me at home
here’s the thing this woman is
particularly good at finding great homes
that are available
and tight markets like this it just
takes her longer
uh we might have to make more offers
before we get one for you right
but you know usually we could get
someone in a beautiful home at a good
price within
a week now it might take three or four
weeks
right we keep searching we keep our ears
open
we all work together uh sometimes we’re
uh find a house we want to get the offer
in right away
uh one of our we’ll be back home hey
start writing it up so we can meet some
of the other people
we try hard yeah we try hard we move
fast
speed to lead or you know speed speed is
very important
uh to make sure that you get the best
possible deal absolutely
we’re like little commandos little
commander jumping on them
always ready to attack yeah yeah in a
nice way
yeah and win yeah we’re here to win the
war that’s right
we don’t want to lose the battle we will
win the war ultimately
it might take us a while but we’ll get
there especially in this market
so keep that in mind uh how much
victory yes we avoid the pirate i avoid
the pirate victory
yeah so cheers to that all right
have a wonderful day nice to see you
well i don’t see you but
nice for you to see us yeah well yeah
maybe
we hope it’s maybe i don’t know we hope
it’s nice it may be the bane of their
existence we don’t know they might be
like oh god
they are again skipped get them off
x out of that one yep i get it i
understand
no hard feelings no hard feelings no
hard feelings we’re just here to share
share our wealth of information
that’s up to you if you want to hear it
there diane and randall bro here
arizona prescott arizona baby yeah we
are the pickle lady brigade
and uh today’s topic that we’d like to
talk about is called what randall
stupid tax that he calls it the stupid
tax well stupid tax
is any tax that if you’re smart you
don’t have to pay it
so lottery tickets you know that’s a
stupid tax
yeah yeah but spend a lot of money on
lottery tickets
that’s you’re essentially paying
attention yeah that you don’t have to
pay it’s a stupid tax
so we wanted to talk about right now um
it’s it’s occurring
all over the united states uh everyone
there’s hardly any inventory homes are
flying off the shelf
that’s true across the nation most areas
they are running on average it’s about
one-third
the level of inventory uh the
usual inventory is about what’s
available now
right and that’s about where we are we
usually pretty crazy
yeah we usually have about 1200 homes
right
that are fascinating to pick from at any
one time and now we have
about 400 about 400 and 400 homes
covering
all price points yeah all price points
so that’s
very very small yeah very few so it’s
making it hard
and so people have perhaps sold their
homes they’re desperate to get in
uh to a home and they’re willing to win
a bid at
any cost so what we’re seeing a lot of
is people are
waving appraisal contingencies uh people
are going in
way over ask which we never had before
yeah
areas like california right and that’s
new to us uh
crazy over list price uh probably
started happening uh you know maybe a
couple of months ago it just
sort of started we started
people started coming in uh at ask and
then it increased to five thousand over
ten thousand over twenty thousand
now we are seeing things going in over
fifty thousand yeah recently we lost a
bid
uh someone came in over a hundred
thousand
over ask it’s kind of scary people
yeah especially if you’re waving
appraisal contingencies
um a lot of our clients if we get into
that point it’s like you know what it’s
time to stop
we don’t need to keep throwing money
just to win
yeah you have to be careful what you
might win right
you might get in a position where you
have grossly overpaid just to win
and you don’t always want to be a winner
in that kind of situation
well the first thing you need to
understand when when you’re getting into
one of these bidding wars
is what is the property really worth
the list price is not always the fair
market value
uh some agents intentionally price high
others intentionally price low some
really
don’t have any idea what the home’s
worth and they just kind of price it
maybe where the seller wants to price it
so
the first thing you need to understand
is where where is the list price
in comparison to what the home’s really
kind of worth
and if you understand that
then you know we’ll tell you what that
number is we’ll show you why we think
that is
and it’ll be up to you i mean if if we
think that you know you need to go at
least fifty thousand dollars
uh over this price to get this home and
we’ll tell you
how far above the market you know the
market value that
is uh we’ll tell you yeah that says you
can safely go there
yeah and still yeah retail value you
know here’s the list price
here’s where we think the market is you
might be able to get it to appraise a
little higher than that
you know but i mean if you’re competing
with someone who’s willing to pay a
stupid tax if you don’t pay the stupid
tax which is money that
the home’s basically not worth that if
it’s your dream home and you
absolutely have to have it you
absolutely have to have it now
that’s the price and it’ll be up to you
whether you want to pay it or not
but we will give you sound advice yeah
we’ll we’ll tell you okay
where you should go probably flushing
about 50 grand
you know and if it’s worth it to you to
get that house now
then you can go ahead and pay that but
just know that it’ll be
at least a year before the uh home
appreciates enough
catches up catches up with what you pay
so
we here at the pickle lady brigade try
to keep it real
try to keep it honest um we really will
guide you
not to go too far um if that is where
you want to go
and you’re willing to take that risk and
yeah that’s up to you if that’s up to
you of course
uh but i wouldn’t call that a stupid tax
i mean if you know what you got what’s
stupid
is when somebody comes in the home’s
already overpriced
and they just oh 100 you know they have
no idea what they’re doing
and then usually what happens is they go
under contract with this crazy offer
and then during the inspection period it
falls off because either they come to
their senses
or they write some numbers or they just
get cold feet
so right so just something to keep in
mind
we don’t want to bid something up just
for you to win that you
may regret later like wow i could have
used that cash maybe to travel the world
yeah but now i’m kind of strapped in
this house
or buy a car or you know if that’s your
deal and you don’t care
we’re happy to do that too but we will
give you sound advice
and tell you where you should go and
where we think you should
land and uh if and if we don’t win
and we get outbid we’re going to keep
keep trying for you and uh we’ll make it
happen
yeah a lot of uh people are saying oh
you you can’t find me at home
here’s the thing this woman is
particularly good at finding great homes
that are available
and tight markets like this it just
takes her longer
uh we might have to make more offers
before we get one for you right
but you know usually we could get
someone in a beautiful home at a good
price within
a week now it might take three or four
weeks
right we keep searching we keep our ears
open
we all work together uh sometimes we’re
uh find a house we want to get the offer
in right away
uh one of our we’ll be back home hey
start writing it up so we can meet some
of the other people
we try hard yeah we try hard we move
fast
speed to lead or you know speed speed is
very important
uh to make sure that you get the best
possible deal absolutely
we’re like little commandos little
commander jumping on them
always ready to attack yeah yeah in a
nice way
yeah and win yeah we’re here to win the
war that’s right
we don’t want to lose the battle we will
win the war ultimately
it might take us a while but we’ll get
there especially in this market
so keep that in mind uh how much
victory yes we avoid the pirate i avoid
the pirate victory
yeah so cheers to that all right
have a wonderful day nice to see you
well i don’t see you but
nice for you to see us yeah well yeah
maybe
we hope it’s maybe i don’t know we hope
it’s nice it may be the bane of their
existence we don’t know they might be
like oh god
they are again skipped get them off
x out of that one yep i get it i
understand
no hard feelings no hard feelings no
hard feelings we’re just here to share
share our wealth of information
that’s up to you if you want to hear it
Event Calendar – June 2021