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Corona & Prescott
Find out how the Coronavirus has affected real estate in Prescott… and enjoy the Spring weather with us as we emerge once again into the light of day.
Video Transcript three two one
good morning good morning this is
randall and diane bro here
in the beautiful square in downtown
prescott uh right side our little cowboy
outside the
uh we are enjoying this gorgeous
gorgeous spring morning yeah absolutely
flower here little flower yeah
enjoying spring enjoying spring spring
has sprung yeah getting out of the
quarantine for a few minutes
getting out of the quarantine for a few
minutes a lot of people here
easy to find a parking place easy to
find a bench
very pleasant yeah very pleasant we
wanted to
send out a lot of encouragement to all
of our friends out there who watch
uh we’re all in lockdown yep um
but we have a lot of encouraging news
yeah we do yeah we ran some stats to see
what’s going on with real estate
here in prescott and uh for the month of
march
year over year there were actually 13
more closings in prescott and prescott
valley than the year before
which we were surprised i was surprised
i guess a lot of people are trying to
close before the virus hit or whatever i
don’t know
considering everything that’s going on i
was very very encouraging
yeah and at this point we’re halfway
through april as we’re filming this
yes and we are in a dead heat with last
year exactly
just almost exactly the same number of
closings uh
as last year so you know we have
and a lot of uh activity over 900
homes are on the market about a third of
them are pending
yes uh which is a balanced market very
healthy
all the numbers look great so still
happening here
yeah it’s still happening despite all of
this
terrible kind of doom and gloom and it’s
kind of sad someone’s playing their
music yeah somebody’s playing music live
we love when they do that whenever we’re
filming yeah perfect perfect
we are super encouraged yeah we are
after we kind of ran the numbers and
looked at everything
and um now we are the people who bring
in
buyers from out of town which is a big
driver
in this market in prescott so
and a lot of our buyers come from
california california
uh has been shut down for the virus they
really clamp down
hard on on the people in california so
the governor has shut down
the governor however our governor here
in arizona has deemed real estate
essential business essentials so
so we’re still moving forward uh a lot
of our california buyers who were
scheduled
uh for march and april have uh have
postponed
uh which is understandable but they’re
gearing up to come back but they’re
gearing up to come back
they’re excited to come back they are
people who are evidently are not from
california are still
doing their thing that’s right they are
dedicated they are committed
to making the move yeah absolutely it’s
just been a little delayed
yeah it’s done but we are super excited
um
we are the pickle lady brigade is
practicing very very safe
safe health protocols yeah absolutely to
the
biggest degree yeah absolutely yeah so
when we go when
people come uh we are keeping
appropriate social distances
we have gloves we have our wipes we have
ourselves we go
wipe things down we wear our masks yeah
wipe when we’re done
that is correct although we’re really
not practicing social media
but that’s okay we’re yeah it’s hard to
get in the shot
yeah so you got to get within six feet
of her that is right i know that’s a
pain for her
but we that’s true yeah
so this quarantine is a little too much
together too much togetherness a little
too much
i need my six feet plus yeah you’re so
good
yeah thank you but anyway uh
so when things uh settle down
and the dust settles and and you guys
are ready to come back
come on in we are still practicing all
of our safe protocols
uh we’re happy to take you out uh we
are very strict on how we handle that
and how we approach it we also are happy
to virtually video
any home that you’re interested in that
you get in our home search yeah
absolutely
we’re happy to do that and at least you
can kind of daydream
and still get some education on what’s
going on here
and still look at beautiful homes
absolutely we’ve been using the time
well
uh reorganizing the website to make it
easier
to negotiate navigate uh so from now on
you guys
as you guys have been following us
around for a while know
we have tons of free information both
for buyers and sellers
and uh rather than send you to a
thousand different places we’ve
reorganized
there’s one place to go pickle411.com
there’s a link down at the bottom
and whether you’re a buyer so seller it
will walk you through
the process of finding what you’re
looking for so
take a moment and check out all the
resources we have
and uh if you like this wind down um
subscribe
you’ll see the subscribe button and make
sure that you don’t miss us every week
we’ve got
tons of topics that we love to cover
absolutely love to see you soon in the
weeks to come
we’re ready ready we’re gearing up
to make it happen for you in this next
new chapter absolutely don’t be
discouraged
friends all will turn around cheers
bye oh i didn’t click yeah
there we go it is bad luck sorry sorry
anyway i wore my
flower for spring flower spring flower
for spring but anyway
we look forward to seeing you in the
next month or so
and uh when things turn around we’re
here for you bye
Dream or Investment?
Buyers waffle between their desire for a “dream home” for retirement and their desire to make a good real estate investment. The Pickle Lady offers some words of wisdom for resolving this dilemma in making your real estate decisions.
well hello hey peeps at our open house here on our open house and we had a little break so we’re like you know what time to do a shoot time for some coffee time for some coffee so uh we are here at our lovely listing at 1262 pebble springs had a little lull in traffic so we decided let’s come sit out here and have some coffee in the courtyard and chit chat oh we’ll wait for somebody else to show we’ll wait for somebody else to show up bro randall bro prescottpicklady.com prescott piccolitti prescott arizona exactly realtors we’re living the good life enjoying this amazingly beautiful day it is so gorgeous it kind of feels like spring has sprung but it really hasn’t yeah just another february day just another great day here living the life in prescott so what are we here to talk about today mr brown well we want to talk about objectives so if you’re looking to buy a house in prescott one of the things that you need to be straight on and straight with us is your objectives like what are you looking for and you can break people into two camps those who are looking for a dream home and those that are looking for a great investment yes and a lot of times you know you start out in one and then they they they start talking about the other and they get themselves all discombobulated so we thought we’d talk a little bit about what that means and kind of how you you travel one path or the other correct i think a lot of people here are moving here for their final maybe retirement retirement yeah so are you looking for your retirement home slash dream home or you’re looking just to buy something for an investment and get some appreciation yeah i do want to say one thing um pretty much whatever you buy here whether it’s your final dream home you don’t care if you’re going to make money on it or not um you will still get some pretty good appreciation yeah you’ll get good appreciation but you know you buy well yes yes you know but if that’s what’s driving your decision then we’re gonna steer you toward certain things like for example if you are looking for the best investment you can possibly get we’re going to steer you away from new construction yes you pay a premium for new construction and having things just the way that you want customers the latest and greatest maybe your particular taste is not completely mainstream you want something a little off which might limit the market when you go to sell the home yep uh you know but if that’s what you want then buy that buy that absolutely if you want a great investment yeah kind of like buying a car a brand new car you drive it off the lot you kind of you know in the beginning in the beginning after you buy new construction you might get dinged a little bit in appreciation over the years though it will definitely appreciate yeah but you know you can’t expect huge jumps and appreciation you know within the first year of purchasing a new home because the rest of the developments going up and this that and the other yes so you know it’s something to kind of keep in mind um and also keep in mind that there are people out there who have come before you and they have built their dream homes yep knowing full well that when they go to sell they’re going to have to discount yep you buy those that’s a good investment that’s a good investment that’s kind of how this the circle of life things sort of works you know exactly i mean i constantly think about trading in randall and they said in the other i’m like well i mean if i get a newer model if you hadn’t married your dream guy well you would have been able to get a better deal if i were recycled through some other wife you’d get a much better deal it’s the same thing with houses you’re so bright i mean new construction some people are like you know what it’s my last house i don’t want to ever have to worry about putting on a roof or replacing anything new construction is the way to go for you yeah you will it’ll be worry free you can move here and not have anything on your plate that you have to worry about and look you may be thinking look whatever i investment or whatever that’s just going to be more money in the kitty when i die and my kids get all this yes they’re already getting more than they deserve you know or whatever you know i don’t know your kids but you know it’s like whatever’s left over that’s on them it’s not up to me to make that is maximize that i want to live my life and correct have a dream home that’s your choice absolutely you know that’s your choice but here’s the thing don’t mix your metaphors yeah yes if you’re in the mode i want to dream home then don’t get caught up with resale or buy what you want uh or maybe you’re somewhere in between right you know if a dream home is 10 and an investment home is zero you may be at a four you may be at a seven and we can kind of help you but you need to be clear on what your objectives are absolutely don’t don’t find the dream home and then and then in the 11th hour you’re thinking yeah but it’s not a good investment yes make up your mind what you want beforehand and we can help you find it absolutely and you know my saying is some people come in they’re like well i don’t know i mean i i love the views from this house but i don’t know i worry about resale here’s my here’s my kicker which is what my parents taught me if you’re of a certain age and this is your last house it really won’t be your problem now will it about resale that’s your kids part problem that’s your kid’s problem so if you see something that you absolutely fall in love and you’re like this is my last house but i’m a little concerned about maybe um an electric tower behind me or a power line yeah but everything else or hey i like to remodel old cars yes i need a lift in the garage right you know again that’s going to be your your kid’s problem that’s your kid’s problem you know my parents taught me well they did the same thing they were like you know that’s exactly what they did don’t worry about resale particularly if this is your retirement slash dream home you know honestly let’s let’s i mean i hate to say it but it’s really not going to be your problem is it that’s it it’s going to be you are your heirs it’s going to be your children’s problem um but in the meantime you will be enjoying the time of your life yeah and yeah that kind of thing just in general that this is your retirement home i would tell you that you should probably lean more toward the dream home mentality than you otherwise might correct because if you are like a lot of people who are in this in a position to buy a dream home you have a lifetime of habits and and actions that got you here yeah and so that’s that’s what you’re comfortable with with that’s what you’re you’re used to yeah that would be called earning it earning it you know you’ve earned it and now you can it’s well within the realm for you to spend a little of that uh rather than i’ll pass it on that don’t always worry about is this the sensible correct you know kind of you know what this is it this is your hurrah yeah enjoy it you worked hard i kind of like how this topic has kind of steered around to something else yeah you like that i do because you know what it is your it is your your hurrah that this is your retirement have fun don’t worry about oh investments we’re not going to sear you any place that’s going to be horrific no is that being said yes if you like no i want to i want to give my kids as much money as i possibly can it’s got to be we can help you we can do that for you and we cover it for you we can and we can we can go zero we can go 10 we can go anywhere in between but you need to be clear on what your objectives you do think about your objectives and we are here to to find whatever you need uh and to fulfill whatever objective you know your heart is calling you to that’s what we’re all about but just some food for thought this so we thought we’d chat about it yes absolutely food for thought where can i find you my love i’m at theprescottpicklelady.com or you can call me at 713-302-196 or where else mr brown yeah you can also find us at we sell prescott.com that’s for our listeners so if you have property here in prescott that you need some help selling we can help you anyway we’re all three here to serve you and help you make your dream come true whatever that may be whatever that may be all right cheers to that cheers to that all right have a great day folks catch you next time bye
The Shovel Test
Good Realtors solve problems, and it is surprising just how many you can solve with the business end of a shovel. In the episode, the Pickle Lady recollects some tricky situations that only digging could resolve – and why that should be important to you.
California Arbitrage
More and more Californians are cashing in on the arbitrage opportunity that awaits them in Prescott. The Pickle Lady explains how the “California Arbitrage” can turbo charge your retirement. Your financial planner will be glad you watched this video.
cheers cheers to you hello hello hello hey peeps i’m wearing my green and to commemorate saint patty’s day i have some green on my coffee mug i think that’s the only green i am the look of the irish a little in advance of uh st patrick’s day today so i i didn’t prepare i didn’t know you were gonna do the whole luck of the irish thing oh i’m just letting us know it’s you know march 17th it’s coming up it’s we’re going to have a good time and uh so we want to commemorate that official day so i put on my green yeah to match my green eyes there you go look at the irish she’s a prescott pickled lady diane brown my name is randall bro all disclosure is now done all disclosures are done i also want to just drinking coffee i also want to disclose that um i’m not as irish as i thought yeah um yeah i did that 23andme and uh i’m not so ironic yeah i’m not as irish my dad was very much a hundred percent irish yeah and i’m popping up what i don’t know something like twenty percent maybe there’s something else going on yeah postal worker or something but anyway a lot more spanish than i thought yeah anyway that’s cool that’s an aside in the business that’s an aside one of those decides it’s an aside but it’s on the side we did want to commemorate saint patrick’s day to all of our folks out there absolutely and uh we wanted to talk about california arbitrage yes california arbitrage a lot of people coming in from california and uh looking to retire and planning their retirement uh often what they miss is the opportunity for the california arbitrage which you can turbo charge your retirement correct so for a lot of people maybe you’re not thinking about this but you might be sitting on a million and a half or even a million nine hundred thousand dollar home in california maybe it was built in the 50s i don’t know i mean i don’t know your whole story where it’s located or your square footage or this that and the other but from our experience what we’re hearing from a lot of people coming in from california oh my gosh i can get a mansion here for like 600 000 and you don’t know where i’m coming from i’m like i don’t but they’re like i live in a 1200 square foot house uh built in the 50s and 60s it all needs to be updated i didn’t know i could live like a king and or a queen here oh yeah absolutely but the perk is not only can you live like a king or queen and get the latest and greatest and a beautiful home and the latest updates and this and that you’ll get beautiful views you’ll get a beautiful lifestyle but you sell that house over there in california for a million and a half you come here you can get a house in the fives maybe maybe even in the fours depending on what you’re looking for what your needs are and guess what mr brown what i just banked a million dollars you just not a million because you’re well you can bank most of that because you are buying a house yeah but still what a huge nest egg you could get from that your financial planner will thank you oh yeah they’ll be like wow this is awesome so if you’re looking at you’re looking at i did a video i’ll do a link on this so you can watch the video but you know if you are sitting on two million dollars you’re living in california um you know unless you’re like ready to pass on there’s a really good chance you know you’re gonna run out of money and uh if you if you come here not only is the cost of living a lot lower but you’ll be able to get a comparable home we estimate it’s about 40 about 40 of what your home is worth in california and depending on the area you know uh about 40 will will buy you a comparable home with that 60 percent that would go to your retirement yeah huge people yeah you try to save that while you’re living in california not gonna take and when you say comparable really it’s not even compromised not even conflict yeah i mean because what we’re hearing from our clients you know is much smaller square footage much older homes um tons of traffic tons of you know the neighborhood’s kind of going down that’s not the case here yeah you you’re gonna it’ll be safe not a lot of traffic correct bigger square footage um it’s almost like you’re you know moving into almost a brand new home yeah with the latest and greatest absolutely so we call that the california arbitrage california arbitrage arbitrage i like to say it like that oh it’s got to see it yeah so anyway something to keep in mind if you’re kind of on the fence and you’re like you know but i love my house it’s appreciated so much you’re sitting on that appreciation you’re not really able to access that appreciation it’s great it’s great to have but just imagine if you sold that and what you could do with that appreciation hell you could buy a house here live in the life of luxury and then travel the world i mean it opens a lot of women it does it is in your retirement it does as of now yes you know what we’re hearing is that in some areas of california the appreciation has slowed down uh appreciation here is robust so if the appreciation there is slowing down and the appreciation here is keeping moving forward then the arbitrage begins to lose steam so so keep that in mind don’t wait too long because you might miss the boat in california and you might miss the boat here in prescott yeah so anyway just something we’d like to talk about because we find it fascinating we find it interesting we wish we kind of were in that position yeah yeah but it didn’t happen we were coming from a different location so we couldn’t uh get that gigantic uh yeah but uh for some of you who can maybe you should think about that and take advantage of it california california arbitrage all right but anyway where can they find you below you can find me at the prescottpicklelady.com website or you can reach me at i do i answer all the 713-302-1964 yeah i i mean i get phone calls sometimes 11 o’clock at night we are full service so yeah we work hard yeah and uh we’re always available yeah you can also find us at we sell prescott.com that is for our listeners so you’re looking to sell a property here in prescott we can help you with that we all have the same um mission same mission statement customers come first we’re here for you absolutely we’re going to answer seven days a week plus you can get pickles plus you get pickles you’re not going to get that anywhere else folks particularly correct that’s what i’m talking about yeah absolutely mostly pickles pickle here i am all right anyway thanks for listening and we hope you have an awesome day and awesome st patrick’s day yes look at that look at the irish see you later bye
On the Brown Low
Prescott has tons of hiking trails, but this one has the funniest name. Silly puns and childish pranks await as we explore this excellent outdoor facility.
17 Degrees
When you see the temperature in Prescott is going to be 17 degrees, you may think “the weather outside is frightful.” In this episode the Pickle Lady explains why it may be a lot more delightful than you might realize, and why even folks from the Deep South often find Winter to be the best of Prescott’s four glorious seasons.
hello what’s happening out there today here with pickle lady cheers and our pickled brigade mugs that contain non-caffeinated coffee beverages for all of our 18 year old uh our home buyers home buyers that we’re setting ourselves we’re not trying to influence and we’re trying to influence not at all yeah but what we are here to talk about is a lot of people who move here we talk about how we have four beautiful seasons and none are too extreme then we have some clients and they move in and they’re like you said it wouldn’t be cold and tonight it’s going to be 17 17 degrees well here’s the thing does it get chilly willy at night time yeah it does it does but the difference is when it’s 17 degrees it’s usually three o’clock in the morning and you’re when you’re already snuggled under your coverage 17 degrees in your bed yeah yeah and it’s not 17 degrees in the daytime no for instance last night we had a pretty cold night now we’re standing outside it’s in the 50s yeah i want to say last night it was down to you know 27 yeah it’s getting up to close to 60. yeah um look at this weather it’s like spring here yeah so don’t let these low temperatures that you see like oh my gosh it’s 15 degrees hardly ever happens yeah when you see 17 degrees in a place like idaho for example it’s gonna be like 17 degrees all day long oh yeah you know it it doesn’t work that way here no yeah it gets very chilly sometimes at nighttime yeah so don’t worry about oh i looked on the weather channel and it says it’s 17 degrees there but they’re at yeah it’s a cold place it’s a cold place it’s not it’s not it’s not it’s not it’ll be fine you have your fireplace on and you’re sleeping yeah because it’s three o’clock in the morning no one’s like a few days in the winter where it’s in the 40s yeah yeah it it it’ll it’ll be cold at night and you know it might be drizzly so it’s really cold or whatever and you do something called stay home uh but like then you know the next day the day after would be up in the 60s that’s the thing the thing about prescott winters is that they’re not relentless they relent uh you know yeah that’s a good way yeah you you get inner space with days where you can run around in your shorts without a shirt i know you know the pickle lady likes to do that and so she’ll do that you know trying to keep the family safe we got to get to keep the family safe don’t forget so don’t let that throw you because yeah it can get pretty cold at nighttime when you’re sleeping but in the daytime look at your day yeah it’s gorgeous it’s in the 60s yesterday i was out taking some buyers i was like wow i’m getting a little hot actually i’m like i’m starting to sweat yeah so don’t let a lot of variety and you know i i i’m from the south so i’m not a cold weather guy but you know i enjoy having a few days where we’ll have a little snow or you know it’s a good day to have a a cup of coffee with the pickle lady right you know sit down on the back porch under a blanket and snuggle and you know all that kind of stuff and then when you get tired of being cold then you get 60 degrees you get 60 degrees yeah and spring has sprung again but the key to remember is do we have snow occasionally is it gone by the next day pretty much usually gone by the afternoon eighty-five percent of the time it’s like no big deal folks i mean you’ll see we had snow a few days ago you might see some snow in the background a little bit of white you know usually by the afternoon the the asphalt the the the roads get warm enough that all the snow’s off the roads and you’ll be on the grass and the bacon lunch you’ll see a little snow no now he’s getting scientific with your ass you know a little snow spice a little snow it’s kind of like having a little gray on the side of here well i don’t have that they tell me i’m distinguished now because mine is minus faith i don’t know any more than i used to i look like that so yeah what we’re saying is folks don’t let those teen temperatures freak you out it is a non-event event 100 non-event where can they find you you can find me at prescottpicklelady.com or we sell prescott.com for our listeners out there people looking to sell homes in the prescott area and there’s always the prescott lady hotline you know what 713-302-1964 introduced ourselves i am diane bro by the way this is randall bro it did that at the beginning yeah maybe i don’t think so it’s hard to edit these things people it’s hard to edit these things it is with the pickle lady she’s not always working on this i’m not i’ve got a lot going on a lot a lot up there houses i’m thinking about people coming in showing that house that’s what i’m thinking as we’re recording she does it never shuts off folks it never shuts off it’s always going to work that’s not very nice there it is that’s not nice all right cheers all right cheers have a great day and we’ll see you next time bye