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La Bruzza’s

We've said it before: Prescott does great Italian.  There are half a dozen wonderful Italian restaurants in town, but this is one of our very favorites.  If you see us there, make sure to hit us up for some wine.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello this is randall and diane bro here your local husband and wife realtor team she’s the president we’re in prescott arizona that is right i’m glad you remembered that that’s good yeah that’s good yeah it’s helpful yeah sometimes you get a little tired and you throw back to new orleans or texas i know where i am yeah it’s good today we know where we are we’re here in prescott arizona talking to you about one of our very favorite restaurants cannot wait i’m getting ready to take some clients there yeah we’re going yep we’re so excited it’s called la bruce does a great job with italian uh italian food uh we’ve done a wine down before about italian food in general uh labruza’s is one of the very best uh kind of less uh less formal than so many other places uh got a lot of white wicker and uh i love it they play dean martin frank sinatra yeah i mean you’re to feel like you’re in a little italian eatery somewhere in new york you know like a mom and pop mom and pop very much red and white check you know just like old italian style mama’s restaurant yeah they do not have a look license so you bring your own wine or liquor and there is no corkage no mortgage fee so uh just being the deep class a people that we are we usually bring a box of wine and when people snicker i go around and i i give people free glasses one and they change their money they change their mind if you get some good boxed wine you can’t just saying yeah so it’s lovely amazing salads they come to the table this giant salad for everybody and the dishes they have are just amazing i mean i always get the veal parmesan veal parmesan chicken parm they’ve got these great seafood yeah they just have some good italian seafood yeah uh ravioli some really good i mean of course your lasagna i mean you name it yeah i can’t think of one thing that isn’t good there yeah traditional italian fair traditional very well done by a family-owned restaurant listening to dean martin and drinking your boxed wine drinking your box spot right you know those of you with a more sophisticated palette yeah you can bring whatever kind you want to bring whatever you want the lady comes with the glasses she pops the cork she they don’t even charge you for it nope it’s lovely and it’s just a very charming little atmosphere and a lot of fun so if you go there for a birthday you’re gonna have a great time no reservations though so yeah no reservations although if you have a very big group you might want to call ahead make sure they know you’re coming and they will try to accommodate you we had uh one time we did a birthday party there and right before we showed up there was another big group who was kind enough to show up without calling in advance so we ended up sitting around and drinking wine with our group yeah we kind of did yeah well it’s been a little sloppy it got a little sloppy yeah but it was fun we had a great job we had a great time i don’t i don’t know if others around us thought we were we thought we were highly amusing highly amusing oh and desserts dessert try the oh yeah cannoli is yes outstanding so if you are new here to press kit or even if you’ve been here you’ve never heard of it you’ve got to got to try labruzas i can’t believe i still run across people who have been i know i can’t believe that i can’t it’s kind of an interscript it’s in kind of a little strip mall yep on iron springs yeah yeah so anyway no reservations just show up and keep it open at 4 30 get in there yeah uh if you go at seven you’ll walk right you walk right in all the way yeah we do have the early bird special here so lots of people get there early but i don’t know if they have a special because it’s not as special you’re right it’s just you know early birders yeah if you’re not into dinner at 4 30 you might want to show up a little bit later miss the crowd just part of prescott just part impressive very true that is part of prescott life it is but i got used to it i love it but anyway so please try it la bruces bring your finest wine or box find this box of wine you can find whatever you want to bring it’s all good yeah it’s all good in the hood at la brutus if you’re struggling with a box of wine i would recommend the bota box red volusion oh yeah that’s good stuff yeah it’s a box of wine for less than 20 bucks you’d be amazed at how good it is i like a red blend blends red blends my thing yeah all right so if you’re looking for the preschool pickle get picked the prescott pickle lady hotline is 713-302-1964 right if you’re just looking for information the place to go is pickle411.com that is our free information site whether you are a buyer seller or somewhere in between what you need to know is probably on that site including restaurants real estate information latest markets the latest latest events it’s all there and it is waiting for you waiting for you yeah all right so with that we will say arrivederci and we hope baby will see you at luck room sizes yeah right out of our box because we’re fancy people cheers to that have a great day bye

Buyers Are Back!

By now you've heard that real estate market is a crazy seller's market, with low inventory and houses flying off the shelves way above asking price.  

Well, guess what...  Buyers are back, baby!  

Things are changing quickly.  In this episode, we bring you the very latest from the front lines of Prescott-area real estate and what you can expect in the weeks and months ahead.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello my little fellow pickle peeps people pickle pickle peepers that’s right we’ve had some comments from some people and i you know so they said where’s the hello hello hello did she retire the hello i well i didn’t do it on purpose i didn’t even realize and they were like we kind of missed the hello hello bye popular demand so back by popular demand i’m here to say hello hello hello trademark hope everybody’s doing great out there today we are yeah we’re trying we’re doing our best we’re doing really good we’re excited cheers to you good day today um we kind of want to talk a little bit about our changing market changing market buyers are back my friends buyers are bad baby here you go so for that yeah for the for the longest time uh i guess kobet kind of kicked us off the middle of 2020 started a seller rampage show so a lot of people deciding they wanted to move you know change of change of life change of work time to retire i’m tired of this i’m checking out uh but a lot of sellers weren’t selling i guess they were afraid to put their home on the market for whatever reason we had very high demand but very low supply so now what we’re finding not so much anymore kind of like a stick of margarine starting to soften a little bit there you go when you start to yeah when you when you go to bake you bakers out there no you kind of want to soften them so anyway the market is softening up a little bit numbers indicate that we’re kind of close to a balanced market yeah uh in particular higher end homes uh we’re even seeing uh uh buyers markets even strong buyers markets at some of the higher end price points so buyers are back uh buyers are back baby yeah so instead of homes jumping off the market a little more time to consider uh if you’ve been waiting for the market to kind of soften a little bit before you’re really willing to jump in as a buyer now is a good time so you know what we’re finding it’s it’s actually a little refreshing because uh those of you who’ve been looking we’ve been in a frenzy like get your offer in and i don’t even know if you’re going to get it unless you’re at full ask or over and they’ll you’ll be up against 10 other offers very discouraging yeah uh very high pressure now it’s kind of nice uh prices are not dropping dramatically nothing like that prices are pretty stable pretty stable but yeah some some small adjustments uh the the market was the prices were appreciating so fast that when you first list a home we would uh appreciate we would price into the appreciation so if it’s going to be a month or two before you close you don’t want it to look like you understood the home correct so we were kind of pricing up and all the listing agents were starting to get that uh so when the market started uh kind of uh mellowing out a little bit uh we saw some price decreases but i think they were just basically taking off the the little extra added so folks don’t think we’re going to have to crash like that’s not going to happen first of all we still have a high demand people are looking for homes there’s high inventory back in the olden days when we had that terrible drop there was a glut of homes on the market plus a glut of people walking away from loans that they had no business having in the first place yeah so now you know that was the story of 2008 yeah correct so now the lenders are very strict so not so many people walking away yeah no go out of here no blood of homes new construction is still far out all those homes have been paid for there’s not going to be a huge bunch of homes are gonna be thrown on the market with no buyers right so we just kind of want to let you know instead of having this high pressure like we must get the offer in we’ll be one of 15. now you know give us a couple of days you can write the offer up it might be one of two or three offers so it’s a little bit more breathing room yeah uh which i like um and higher price points even even less so yeah yeah you will probably be the only mark particularly for existing homes have been around a little while uh yeah so we’re kind of excited and the main thing that we’re excited about is um our favorite favorite favorite thing to do is when we have a listing is to try to find one of our buyers that we can connect and uh you know introduce our buyer to our sellers listing it’s our favorite thing to do and um it just happened today so we’re super excited um nothing makes me happier than to see both sides of my clients uh reach a good decision reach a good um yeah you know the deal works so well for both of them yeah and you feel really good so today we had one of those just serendipitous days and everything fell into place yeah and uh so kudos to our listeners and kudos to our buyers uh lovely both sides great great people great people nothing makes our heart happier than to see two people come to uh you know a you know meeting of the minds the media of the body yeah yeah and everybody’s happy and that is my favorite thing we can really bring two parties together yeah we we were doing some of that i mean we always do uh but we were able to do less of it just because we tell our sellers look i mean you can wait for us to find you a buyer but the market is so crazy right now we really can’t recommend that you do that you really should go on mls you know and open up you’re going to have multiple offers and everything now buyers are a little more scarce yeah and uh you know we will always have buyers and so we’re able to make some more connections this is the i think the second we call this our secret agent deal by the way you will see that on our website um this is the second one in like a couple of months two weeks yeah two weeks yeah that’s right that’s right two weeks so yeah it just tickles us when we can connect two parties and make the deal happen and everybody’s thrilled and it’s easy peasy for our sellers and our buyers are just delighted um it’s kind of nice when you have the inside skinny and we’re like honestly i know the perfect house for you yeah and it’s just a beautiful thing yeah time to make those matches yeah time to take your buyer around and let them settle in on what they’re really looking for and uh this this transaction in particular really good pairing yes so you know we did our shopping we took them around and they kept circling back to uh our listing and so anyway it’s just a happy time when that happens and we thoroughly really that it’s a good fit so anyway we advertise a lot and so we bring a lot of buyers in from out of state and uh if i have a listing that i think might work for them we try to connect those two and it’s a beautiful thing beautiful thing a beautiful beautiful thing when it does happen so anyway uh we just wanted to share that i’m going to let you know if you’re feeling high pressure start to take a chill pill people it’s kind of getting things are getting back closer to more yeah more peace out more so yeah yeah so it’s uh it’s been nice yeah uh if you’re interested in market information i’ll put a link down below this video where you can check out our market analysis we do that every month and we update it for what’s going on so if you’re not uh up to speed on what’s going on in the prescott market that is a really good place to start it is so if you are looking uh to list your home or you’re looking to buy a home uh look up the pickle lady look up the pickle randall and diane bro here of prescott arizona we are your local husband and wife team we’d love to connect you with the perfect home for whatever you may need that’s right that’s right so give us a call 713-302-1964 or or you can go to pickle411.com there is our information site whether you are a buyer a seller or somewhere in between you can find what you’re looking for there always free always dynamic and personable and all the good things i can say about that uh but good stuff good stuff like that completely free lots of good information there whether you’re interested in real estate or the social scene or whatever market conditions we got a whole lot going on pick all four one put it out there to all the masses so those of you who said where’s hello hello hello i’m back baby hello hello hello now i’m going to say goodbye goodbye until our next one until our next one have a great day bye

Religious Groups

Religion in a city like Prescott is different from religion in Rug Rat communities focused primarily on raising children.  In this episode, we discuss the role of religious groups in the local community and the adult social scene.

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hi folks hello peeps randlyn diambro here here with pickle lady prescott arizona we’re so happy to be here this evening your real estate agents at large that’s right at large we’re talking about everything that is prescott whether it’s real estate whether it’s restaurants whether it’s javelina page so that we we will we cover it all so in this little topic we’d like to cover religion religion and religious groups religious groups i love prescott arizona um they are very open they have all kinds of groups here that welcome everyone from all walks of life we have the catholic church we have the jewish synagogues we have the non-denominational yeah non-denominational churches community groups of all kinds but what makes the religious groups in prescott a little different than in other cities is a lot of time religion is about raising children in that religion so i was you know i was surprised at how many questions we get about religious groups here at prescott yeah i still don’t know if anyone has ever asked us about schools here never we we get maybe a hand maybe twice a year with questions about schools yeah but mostly because we are a retirement town people are calling about you know tell me a little bit about the religious community yeah that’s very social a community connection thing it’s really not about church and the building per se it’s more about what is the community outreach through different groups and sometimes it’s just social activities with people common faith or close enough [Music] all very open and loving and welcoming and you can get involved in a lot of social outreach we have a few uh non-denominational uh christian churches that well in texas they call them mega churches because well they’re huge yes i don’t know if they’re as big as they are in the city of houston i know everything is bigger in texas yeah everything’s bigger in texas everything’s bigger even the religions even the that’s religions here that the communities may be smaller but they’re very active uh you know we see people that different churches will have different uh uh logos or decals or whatever and you’ll see the cars and everything and yeah it’s it’s a it’s a going thing but i mean i think the big thing for me is total acceptance yeah absolutely of all religions of all walks of life yeah um nobody’s really hardcore here we’re all pretty accepting and loving and happy to reach out to help others and that’s what it’s all about people right that’s right especially as we get older and we’re retirement age right we’re reaching the shooting it shut up we’re reaching we’re heading into the show so it’s all about service to others kindness to others uh love towards others and honestly i’ve never felt anything other than love and acceptance here in prescott absolutely no matter what persuasion you are religious persuasion um yeah absolutely now that the churches are active so you know if you’re used to the kind of church where people go and you know they kneel and pray and then they stand up and pray and they kneel and pray and then they do the sign of the cross and leave maybe not be for you because these people actually get in the community they do food drives and all kinds of service activities and social activities it’s more about the activity it’s feel good religion feel good feel good religion i think it’s a great reflection on the city absolutely 100 so we wanted to say to those of you thinking about prescott we have it all here we have all we cover all religious bases all religious backgrounds yeah and we are very welcoming and accepting of all those and there’s a place for you and there’s a place for you to provide service to others uh you’ll love it we love it so good to us so anyway we just thought we’d kind of share that with you in case you were having any questions yeah and i apologize that it took us this long to mention you know churches and synagogues and things like that we got it when i was just kind of thinking it was one of those school things we got a few calls we had a call about synagogues and yeah we had a call about churches not too long ago and so yeah we should just tell people yeah people pray here and you know they worship here and they we got you covered whatever you are probably you’ll find it if you’re into the god thing we got you covered if you look for information the place to get is pickle411.com that is our free information site whether you are a buyer of homes a seller of homes or you just want to go to church you can check it out at pickle411 you will find the information you need there to get yourself plugged in locked in locked loaded ready to fire and sending on your way that’s right and we are happy to help you and uh guide you on your path absolutely so anyway it’s uh something what are the neat attributes of preston we got some good stuff going here people so come on in join us come visit us give us a call take care have a good evening bye

Happy Hours Decoded

Prescott loves a good happy hour, but figuring out where to go when has not always been easy... until now!  In this episode, we release the first edition of our exclusive Prescott Happy Hour Schedule. 

Happy Hour Schedule PDF

Our episode on Superstition Meadery

Video Transcript

good morning folks good morning folks this is randall and diane bro she’s the prescott pitbully here in prescott arizona we’re realtors and we talk about a lot of other stuff we’re coming at you come on that’s right my red shoe i have a really cute red shoes coming at you uh we are the uh husband and wife duo here in prescott arizona we are uh local realtors here happy to represent you as a buyer and as a buy as a seller and as it turns out as a drinker too and it’s a drinker yeah one of the things that’s really big impressive we wanted to well you probably knew this already we wanted to share is happy hours are big here happy hours are huge happy hours are big so huge cheeseburger and press get like to go to dinner early so the idea of starting to drink at three that’s like right in line sure you know it’s like why not most cities they have a drink at five why’s seven this is a retirement town yeah so i feel like you need five if you’re retired you should go enjoy happy hour and then have a lovely dinner yeah that’s what it’s all about but there’s reason they call it happy hour because you get you know your voice your voice correct it’s always changing i’m i’m constantly evolving i’m trying to stay one one step ahead is that right yeah that’s what i’m doing well good luck with that good luck yeah but we’ll try so uh think about happy hours since you get the same uh great great cocktails uh appetizers whatever they have but it’s you know they get a special deal sometimes you get things that you can’t get any other time and there’s nothing wrong with that yeah and there are a lot of restaurants here that do it the problem with uh happy hours is you decide kind of spur the moment we tend to be spurring a moment right i feel happy i want to go someplace that has to happen true where can i go where can we go where can i go i don’t know mr bro well we have just just the thing for you i have completely this is so obnoxious the seventh grade great seven can you read it seventh grade happy hours and prescott i think we’ve already hit happy hour personally that’s why we can’t so there we go so i will appear not i’ll put it i’ll put a link down below so what we’ve done is we compiled seven of what we thought were really good happy holidays some of the better yeah they’re amazing prescott prescott is jumping yeah with happy hours why why did i pick seven why do you think that i don’t i could only fit seven on the chart oh okay yeah so the constraints of the chart itself all right okay well i appreciate your effort yeah we’ve got some great ones so uh uh superstition metering augments merchants trees uh plastic brewing cold grill yes and county seat was this tell me [Music] yeah so you have a little a little calendar here it’ll tell you any day of the week you know the the hour of the day what which of these quite deeply uh which of these is is experiencing happy hour so at the last minute you decide you know what i should be happier than i am check the chart see who’s doing happy hour and you can go happier than i just wanted to just a little project we wanted to let you know about it and we just thought about we’re like wow you know we have so many clients that come in and we’re like hey you are trying this happy or this one or this one or this one and we thought hey you gotta put them all together got to put them all together and do a wine down about it so that you guys i bet you uh the meadery also has a happy hour that’s that’s just right superstition they’re number one my favorite i would have mentioned them oh yeah i did oh yeah you did oh okay sarcasm will not help you here yeah that’s right just try it yeah they have a great one they have uh half off beans and ciders yeah their meats are amazing right that’s on the side yeah yeah yeah yeah we had a great time did a flight of maids yeah fantastic great great place i have a friend back in louisiana b calvert shout out to you who still talks about the metering here in preston how wonderful it was so anyway uh we thought you know what let’s sit down and talk about our top seven happy hours so uh lest you ever think that uh price gets you some sleepy old little retirement town not so yeah we just we’re kicking we just start at two o’clock in the afternoon we’re kicking we do start a little earlier um because dinner time is 4 30 here but we’re done and then you have a great night after that you get you’re in bed by eight but you’ve had a great time and that’s what it’s all about she gets more traction out of our happy hours so this is our way of communicating to the world what’s happening when so we can coordinate better correct there you go so we thought we would share this wealth of information with you our fellow preschootonians and those who were thinking about becoming oppressive preschool yeah so download our uh our seven great happy hours in prescott arizona calendar chart and uh who knows maybe we’ll see you at one of these great we would love to see you so give us a call at 713-302-1964 our website always waiting for you pickle411.com our free information site that’s pickle411.com whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between just looking for a happy hour or abelina or whatever you need you’ll find it there it’s free it’s wonderful it’s entertaining and vibrations yeah just making it worse that’s a good word that’s a good one i like it okay so we look forward to hearing from you and uh i hope you enjoy the happy hours here as we do okay have a great evening thank you for our morning what did i say was it morning we’ve been here for 12 hours it has been a long day but you know what i mean have a good day bye

Prescott by the Numbers – May 2022

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Event Calendar – June 2022

Kudos to Yavapai County

Do you get hives at the thought of dealing with local government agencies in your area?  Well, in Prescott you may find things are different... and better.  And if you get close enough, you may smell a skunk pig.

Video Transcript

what up what up what up what’s going on folks randall and diane brew here located in the heart of prescott lakes the very heart the very heart you are the heart that’s really but i am glad to be here uh this evening to talk to you about the county county kudos yavapai county so yamaha is one of those words that people don’t know how to pronounce true so we should probably start there i agree yeah so the word is pronoun my understanding of the word is the way that it’s pronounced is yavapai as in do you have a pie yes do you have a pie you have a pie you have a pie sure do and the answer is javelina you will see a lot of them here in prescott they are an interesting little critter yeah but uh yeah that’s his favorite joke he loves to tell him it never lands you know well i should say it lands with a phone yeah yeah i enjoy the thud that’s why i keep going there do you know what happened is a skunk fig oh is that well i mean it does yeah what do you does it you say about clothes i’ve never been close enough to smell well i’ve yeah they they are not a pretty critter i’ll say that they’re not yeah i could see where that would that’s an accurate description pungent pigs uh did we introduce ourselves i don’t know doing i don’t know she’s pickling i am diane and this is randall bro i am the pickle lady located here in prescott arizona we’re a real estate agent correct and we talk about real estate and prescott a whole bunch of other stuff lots of stuff lots of stuff foolishness foolishness mostly but today we’re here tonight a lot of fun yamapai county so prescott is in yeah those of you in louisiana that’s what other people call back a parish correct so uh we had a client who did a project and somewhere along the lines somebody lost uh the paper trail with permits yep yep so they finished out their their uh construction project it expanded the square footage with that which they’ve been enjoying for over 10 years and they would sell their home and the county has the very old square footage way back when so yeah we kind of had to kind of had to straighten that before so when that happens it’s easy peasy you call the county and you just say hey we need to revisit this um but what we were super impressed with was they were like the next day hey we’re coming out to re-measure and update the county records and we’re like really already yeah absolutely yes now if you’re from an area of the world like i am where the performance of the local government agencies are less than stellar then you know what i’m thinking so there there could be a permit issue which is a function of prescott valley city city of prescott valley and that affects the square footage square footage comes on under under the domain of yavapai county county city so now you’re dealing with government employees from two different entities uh it could get dicey yeah i’m like oh this could get crazy this could be a six-month event yeah but what we found was no oh my god it was so simple they were amazing i explained it once and they got it right away he came the next day the very next day i called and i said um i explained the situation about square footage and he’s and i i i think it was a lady she says um well you’re in luck uh we are in the process now of going through the valuation the assessment evaluation process and so if you fill out the following two forms yeah she did it better than i could so uh she said the deadline is tomorrow get the forms done and get them into us tomorrow don’t mail them drop them off and she explained where yeah uh we can get somebody out right away because we’re in the middle of that process and i’m thinking sure sure right right the next day the gentleman came uh he called the name before he showed up the next day he was super nice of course i gave him a jar of pickles yeah yeah that always helps it always helps smooth pickles even everybody out it really is a magical event when you stand out jiggles that’s your gift to the world it is amazing how many people really love people but anyway maybe that was the secret and you know the pv people that are prescribing people uh completely understanding too everyone immediately got that there are two entities involved and we’re going to have to kind of do this together no problem i was just astounded at how well and and how competent they were how easily they understood what was a pretty weird situation and uh uh very polite and efficient and i’m like oh my god it’s like a well-oiled machine something we’re not used to from where we came from so we thoroughly appreciated it so i appreciate it to the county hats off to you you have a pie you have a pie we thank you uh for your prompt response your professionalism um your whatever your effectiveness effectiveness how expedient i mean how many other words can we say i don’t know i don’t know i need a thesaurus we need a thesaurus my my thesaurus is terrible and it is also terrible also a very old i think we gave a very old joke yes i think we gave some good words yeah you did better than i did so if you were in a similar situation we have contacts now and uh we’ll make it happen for you and get everything cleared up uh for you to go in the market without any worries or any hassles as you get under contract and rest are sure that you are supported by government agencies that are on the ball true true truth true true true yes so anyway uh if you two are in a similar situation have no fears yeah we can always figure it out we can always figure it out and make it well at a time correct we’ll swallow it so it’s gonna work we’ll make it happen for you okay so uh anyway if you are looking to buy or to list your property have no fears the pickle lady and her sidekick javelina javelina yeah skunk pig right here i’m your skunk i’m your side that’s not big don’t say that yeah i smell better [Music] marginally marginally marginally better but anyway we are here to help you uh on every step of the way so please feel free to call us at 713-302-1964 [Music] or go to our information site pickle411.com lots of free information whether you’re a buy or seller somewhere in between the information you need is probably sitting there waiting for you it’s right there folks smelling much better than us true true so anyway we look forward to hearing from you and we hope this little bit of info helped you absolutely so please take care and have a lovely evening bye you

Cocky’s Chicken & Brew

Don't mean to brag, but when you are the first point of expansion for a restaurant with chicken fingers that are this good... well, you get a little cocky.  Add some Southern-style catfish and a cold Kilt Lifter, and life just gets better.

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you’re the pickle lady prescott arizona i am the pickle lady you’re not quite sitting here with piglets oh here i thought you said we are the pickle lady no we’re not the pickle nevermind i’ve been known to dress up as the pickle lady but not in public i have a pair of green pumps all right okay let’s stop no stop starting over let’s not do the visual of that we may lose followers here to talk about another restaurant maybe not as traditional as some of the other restaurants that we uh that we have talked about before but it was rapidly became one of our very favorites we’re so excited we’re so excited we as i say we are the number two franchise in the country it started in omaha nebraska number two prosecute arizona and it’s called cheese chicken actually it’s called cocky’s chicken and bruise chicken and brew okay so yeah this is um we’re always on the look up the bros are always looking out for the latest the best chicken fingers we can find love chicken fingers prescott really yeah the best chicken fingers i could find was the grocery stores yes but this my friends oh we’re so excited oh my god and as you know people who’ve worked with me that’s my my key phrase i’m so excited yeah that’s right i really do get excited yeah um so randall’s like he kept circling around uh i think there’s going to be a new place coming up right after 69 it’s up on the hill right in front of home depot and we had to every time we took a drive with our dogs can we drive by that restaurant i want to see what’s coming sure anyway they are open much to our delight it is a cocky’s chicken chicken and brewery and it is probably the best chicken fingers we’ve ever had fried catfish you can also get roasted chicken yeah you can they have what they call bone in chicken we just go right for them yeah i guess that’s just regular chicken we go right for the chicken tea the chicken tenders catfish the cat they have a southern style uh catfish which is the uh uh cornmeal yeah just like in the south and it is delicious it’s just absolutely delicious so coffees the chicken tenders you can get some great french fries you can get some onion rings with it but they oh fried okra but they also have a special sauce that is divine sauce is really good but they also have several other yeah the other one i really liked was uh mango habanero oh yeah that was good cheers to mango habanero that was good that was good stuff good stuff yeah so it’s for the salad chicken what they call uh onion petals onion kettles yeah onion petals they have okra uh mac and cheese the science are very good coleslaw yeah you name it and and they have it in there they in fact they have a bar you can go in and just drink if you want you can go through the drive-through as well um whatever we like to we’ve done both we’ve enjoyed both um the juiciest chicken tenders you ever want to have so they they have a chicken deluxe sandwich he is still talking about this yet to try but it sounds delicious so they put their chicken tenders on a hamburger bun with bacon and cheese on it yeah i can’t imagine that he cannot wait to try we just get the regular chicken tenders but this is how you know when you’re getting older excited wow it’s like our first date i can’t wait to meet her it’s more about wow those chickens are so nice well i just got to tell you before we moved to prescott we lived in an air there was a place called tailgaters and they had the most delicious chicken fingers at least but i think this beats them they do they absolutely do i agree so i have missed them for a while i’ve been waiting for a place to open and made decent uh chicken fingers and you know something again so i mean is he looking to fall in love again no now it’s all about a good chicken gender you know in the olden days it was all like my heart is pitter-pattering i can’t wait to see her i can’t wait to see him you know no not so much now it’s about a good chicken yeah you know she doesn’t complain when i bring home some chicken tenders for her she’s very excited about that very excited so there you go so you know this chicken tunas are really good yeah it’s good stuff it’s good stuff i have chicken chicken so as i i was wondering about the whole bar thing we were in the restaurant oh by the way it used to be a burger king the worst burger king i’ve ever been to in my life such a trader it is uh so don’t let that throw you yeah when you go it’s a great you know they have a window you can get your cocky’s chicken to go that’s fine but inside is it’s nice yeah it’s not bad at all so for all of you locals please make sure you hit cocky’s chicken yeah for those of you who are coming here we can refer you to some good uh we don’t oh i said it again yeah you did and so that’s the place to go we love it in fact it’s so good i’m like you know what i think once a week i wouldn’t have a cheat day and i’m going to cocky’s chicken cocky’s chicken yeah i was in the restaurant and i saw uh the local brew that’s really popular here is kilt lifter it’s a scottish ale mm-hmm and go get some cocky’s chicken and some dope lifter yeah yeah you know it’s weird to see a franchise like that you know with with a liquor license but they make it work and i appreciate that yeah absolutely i’m all for it okay all right my friends so if you need to reach randall and i please call me at or real estate or any number of things the place to go for that is uh prescott not the president is the pickle411.com pickle 401 he usually gets the down payment yeah information center somebody’s right on the ball or buying selling or somewhere in between that is your site for free information that will set your heart a flutter almost as much set you free my friends it will set you free there’s nothing a good chicken tender will write your world that’s all i’m saying i think it was just punchy because it’s cocky’s chicken we’re tired it’s been a long day um and we love our chicken tenders from cockies so cockneys i hope you hear us we’re here for you yeah yeah i need to get a i need to get a chicken tender that yogurt still makes me laugh okay

The Return of the Elks Theater

After two long years, the historic Elks Theater - a Prescott treasure - opens its "big" doors once again with a rockin' cover band. If you want to feel the earth... move... under your feet, this is the place.

Video Transcript

hello and good morning hello peeps this is randall and diambro your husband and wife team real estate team here in prescott arizona lovely prescott arizona i am also the pickle lady you can’t [Music] i know and you’re going to have a hole through oh okay i’m learning the green screen technology it’s very high tech you’d be surprised how high-tech green screen really is now i’m going to keep the yelling pickle myself it’s a lot of rules and regulations at any time it’s really hard for me because i’m more of a spontaneous performer oh you got that yodeling pickle nailed though yeah i do i’m a spontaneous performer and so it’s really hard for me to follow direction anyway speaking of performances is that a transition or what that’s a great transition yeah good job here to talk about the elks theater the alex is back baby we are having the time of our lives the elk theater is a lovely very old-fashioned theater historic historic beautiful right near the square of downtown prescott and for the past two years because of covet no shows nothing it’s been very very sad yeah um but recently they reopened to the mass crowd and we were so excited to be one of the first ones to attend uh cover band called tapestry uh that covers carol king and we had the time of our lives it was amazing and so the the old-fashioned theater opened up every city it was sold out folks sold out shows so that was so the elks theater has uh well i’ve been to two venues i think there might be others there’s a there’s what they call the crystal room which is on the third floor and that’s relatively small it’s like a small bank smaller more intimate more intimate yeah a more intimate music experience so they’ve they’ve been having uh performances there for a while uh it was completely shut down four times and they started doing the crystal room i guess you know there was a limit on the number of people like that i i don’t know uh but you know it became a regular thing the crystal room yeah um it wasn’t until tapestry yeah that they opened the big theater now the big theater is big it’s big uh they opened the whole thing and i think it was it was backed i mean people it was packed we were so excited to rejoin the the wonderful world that was oh yeah before covid and um what was really great was uh when you go to see a show at the elks they kind of have little mini dance floors so couples can get up and dance as the cover bands play and i don’t know who that couple was but you were amazing it just made my heart just so full um i was just so happy to see this couple i mean they were amazing they were good right they were part of the show i thought so too i mean i don’t know who they were but they were amazing they were just a regular couple here to see the show they’ve got to dance and be like moving dancing i mean who doesn’t love her okay i mean my kids grew up on listening to um yeah beautiful beautiful yeah cheers to that i listened to it it’s a great song by the way if anybody hasn’t heard that listen to beautiful if it’s been a while i know but it might be a while listen to it it’s a great pick me up and set your day on the right track but anyway yeah okay okay don’t you’re on the back don’t don’t sing i’m just yeah don’t think don’t sing i’m not gonna sing okay anyway um so they had a a a really lovely couple who got up and they sang i mean they didn’t sing they danced and it was lovely and it was like oh my gosh now i remember what it was like yeah several years ago pre-coveted how uh the music scene was when you go to see a concert at the elks so we are like blacked out with performances for everything we’re like okay we are uh out there we’re going we’re going to an eagles cover band yeah we go to jazz night where they have different it’s just been great it’s been wonderful and a lot to look forward to got a pile of tickets over there all the things it’s amazing so it’s it’s good to know that in prescott the music scene here is amazing yeah it’s amazing it’s amazing and the theater scene as well yeah um for such a small town they have an amazing art scene yeah they really do and so for those of you who are thinking about moving here and you’re like well what do they have here we have a lot i mean we’re from new orleans and we’re used to jazz music you know in the french quarter and i have to say we have not been disappointed here in our little channel that’s right that’s really exciting too about the elks is before they just did the big room or at least i had only been in in the big theater area but people got used to going to the smaller venues so now they book events that are more appropriate for the smaller room they’ll book there and performances that are made for a bigger space downstairs so that they put a jazz series in and it’s been very well entered attended and oh my god it’s been so amazing amazing uh it’s just astounding yeah so it’s a wonderful close-up venue uh so we’ve been doing the jazz series it’s perfect for jazz uh really looking forward to the one next month they’re going to do um the latin the latin style so i’m really looking forward to that so i mean it just it really opened things up a lot so good so if you’re thinking about prescott and wondering what are we all about is this just a little bitty town no you’d be surprised we have some sophisticated entertainment here folks that’s right it’s not all about yielding pickles we don’t have a real problem you know we could play that for you all day long upstairs um but we’ve got some good here can i say that i’ll believe you you’ve been believed i can’t take her anywhere well you know there’s some coffee and you never know what she’s gonna say that’s right anyway we hope to see you at the elks theater get your season passes of all the entertainment that’s coming and uh have a lovely time if you want more information about what’s going on in prescott performances restaurants real estate pickles whatever the place for you is pickle 411.com that is our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between that is the place for you lots of free information that will astound and entertain you and your family for generations okay that’s a big that’s a big order but big promise big delivery you know what i’m saying we’ll try you gotta go on that’s a big uh that’s a big hole but we’ll try yeah anyway we hope to hear from you soon if you need to buy or sell a home give us a call we’re here on call ready to help you cheers take care bye

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Fretting a Crash?

People worry that what goes up must come down, and nothing has gone up more than real estate in recent years.  Are we overdue a crash?

In this episode, we share our thoughts on the crash potential for Prescott-area real estate.

Video Transcript

hello hello hello hello peeps good afternoon and this is randall and diane bro here in the lovely town of prescott arizona prescott arizona with vic lady yes here’s my little pickle somebody uh suggested this to us of course i immediately went on and bought it i love it and also yodles i won’t hit that yodel this time yeah yeah i’ll just let you see my pickle yeah um but anyway uh we are here where we uh wanted to chat with you about fretting a crash yeah so we’ve been having a lot of people asking us about the ever increasing home prices not just here and prescript across the country and whether we are due some catastrophic crash as we had back in the late 2000s and the answer to that at least as far as prescott is concerned is we don’t see where that would come from so the the crash in 2008 depending on where you were maybe it was a different time a lot of that was driven by people who had financing that no one should have ever given them that’s right no money down for an eight hundred thousand dollars probably not a good idea yeah so people were buying extra homes on credit and flipping them there’s a lot of stuff that was going on the the short answer on that score is that is not happening it really you know a lot of our clients are retired yep and when you retire this market in particular yeah you know they have a lot of money but not necessarily a lot of income sometimes they struggle to qualify because of things like debt ratios or income ratios right you know the the the ratios and the finances are are not and you know what they don’t weigh that uh they gotta jump those hurdles uh clearly it’s a good loan but they follow the regulations getting financing even when the interest rates are really low you think they’re begging for business guess what if you can’t make the ratio you will not get a loan it ain’t gonna happen it ain’t gonna happen it ain’t gonna happen yeah so yeah we’re not worried about a crash per se and particularly in the press kit market yeah because most of our buyers are cash buyers yes they’re retired um they’re either paying cash or they’re putting substantial amounts down for a down payment and so you know the creeping interest rates it doesn’t bother them so much because they pretty much have a pretty low mortgage yes um so if we’re kind of a unique market here yeah you may have seen there was an article i believe it was in fortune one of those magazines they listed a number of cities around the country we were one of them prescott arizona makes it makes it into this magazine as as one of the towns that is destined uh destined for a price adjustment and the reason they give is that the i’m sorry sorry are you okay um can i help you out yeah give me a hundred real quick real quick let me get that given that uh the reason they give for that is the if you look at the price of homes and divide that by the average income in the town that number is extremely high which would indicate that people are not making enough money to afford the homes there and so that that affects a lot of towns here’s the thing in prescott a lot of people are retired correct they don’t show a lot of income they have a lot of money yes so when you look at that ratio it’s going to be yeah oh you know your your uh uh property value to income is off the chart yeah he’s got four million dollars in the bank right it’s not going anywhere so we say nay to that yeah because just because we are a very unique market yeah they they ran the numbers they picked the top 10 15 cities in the country that popped at the top and they wrote an article about it um obviously they’ve never been to prescott i can’t see why that’s an issue here i don’t know of anyone i can’t think of anyone offhand who’s even close to you know oh it’s going to be difficult for them to maintain the payment on their homes these guys came here to retire and they’re having a great time and they’re going to be here for a while they’re not worried about making their house note yeah because number one either they pay cash yeah or number two they’ve had such a huge down payment their house note is negligible yeah so for us i always keep in mind the prescott market is quite unique yeah um our median age here is 55 and older so these are people who are not moving here for the industry for the jobs to start a new career this is a career test yeah and all of our friends god bless you we hope we can join you one day everybody’s having the time of their lives that’s right uh they’re golfing they’re jeeping they’re you know uh hiking they’re having a fabulous time they’re not really worried about income so when you hear these stories um don’t fret so much about prescott in itself uh this is a huge retirement town i have people who call me and say i’m looking for a 55 plus neighborhood and i’m like can i be honest all of prescott is basically 55 plus yeah it’s it’s it’s essentially a retirement community yeah i mean you don’t need to be in a particular neighborhood um most of our neighbors are retired um we’re kind of one of the few that are not but um don’t fret the crash crash here in prescott yeah i feel like it’s gonna be okay yeah i you know i i struggled to see what would what would do it yeah uh what drives a lot of our home sales here and the home value prices are people coming from other states mostly along the west coast uh that relocate here because it’s more affordable uh it’s a nice place you don’t have to go someplace where it’s a skabillion degrees uh and in 157 humidity or you know mesquite we don’t have any of that right you know it’s a very nice place so people can come here um the cost of living is low we talk in some of our other videos we talk about the arbitrage where you can sell your home where you are now typically some place like california and you can buy a home equivalent and bank a fair amount of money if the prices in california go down they may go down here too as long as we have a a as long as we’re less than california it would still make sense uh to make that move and i i i just i don’t see how um i don’t see how we end up with a bubble i really don’t i i don’t think price prices can’t keep going up the way they have i understand that we all do i think things are going to flatten out i think things are going to moderate i just don’t see a bubble that there’s something artificial that’s been holding this up all along and it’s just gonna crash i think maybe we undervalued real estate after the crash in 2008 for too long and uh and we had a big you know upward correction and and kobe pushed to store that i don’t know i i was surprised to see the prices go up as fast as they did but uh i don’t see them i i don’t see what would is their bubble to pop i don’t know i don’t know at least you know prescott is a very unique market and um we’re kind of a special little bubble here so you can’t really compare us to the other national markets yeah you know that’s my opinion yeah um and we’re small too we’re not a big player it’s not like we need millions of people moving here to get this right i mean do we have a crystal ball no no but i do have a crystal ball but i but i can’t use it to predict the future i’ve tried i just can’t okay so anyway we just thought we’d share this little two-bit uh two cents of information and uh just our personal opinion of course it is an opinion it’s not fact that’s right it’s not scientific but we just thought we’d give our little two cents of info on how we think things are going we are a very special market here so anyway if you’re thinking about buying or selling give us a call or you can go to our information site that’s pickle411.com whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between there’s information that’s waiting for you absolutely we’re here toll free it’s all free it’s all free all free people you don’t have to pay anything it’s free no subscription yeah all right just a final note if you are on the verge of retirement and thinking of retirement don’t put off retirement too long don’t do that don’t do that don’t wait don’t wait until you’re too old we have met so many people here who were like wow i should have done this years ago i’m loving my life here and we love it through extension we’re not quite retired but we are having fun anyway so give us a call diane and randall bro with our famous pickle whatever it is [Music] oh [Music] a lot of people anyway

Prescott by the Numbers – April 2022

From the front lines of Prescott-area real estate. See our video summary of the latest market results.

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Fires & Fire Prevention

Been hearing about fires around Prescott?  In this episode, we cover current fires and firefighting in general... plus a yodeling pickle.  No kidding!

Here's a link to the Wine Down on Prescott's Various Terrains...

Video Transcript

hello folks this is diane randall bro she is the pickle lady i am prescott arizona someone informed us of this new little gift so of course we immediately went out and ordered it share it with you yes you know everyone loves to share pickle paraphernalia this one really tickled us yeah here you go [Music] because everyone everyone should have in their possession a yodel pickle it’s of the utmost importance this is why they hate capitalism i mean i don’t know why hey we were the first ones to buy it we were like oh hell yes let us order this i think i was one of the original investors so we wanted to share with you our yodeling pickles i am the pickle lady here in prescott arizona that is indeed she does not yodel neither i don’t yodel no but i do enjoy a good yodeling pickle as everyone up unfortunately the pickle is green which is the same color as chris there you go maybe you can see it now yeah but uh we cracked up laughing and immediately placed an order uh for the yodeling pickle that’s who we are here you go pickles hi today we’re here to talk about some fire yes i’m sure you’ve heard about it yeah we’ve been we’ve been getting calls people want to know so uh there is a fire yes uh i don’t know if technically it’s in prescott or not prescott is a big incorporated area it includes some areas kind of over the mountain that are really very remote and very woodsy have essentially mountain cabins out there it’s pretty remote yeah it’s pretty remote i i don’t i don’t know honestly if it’s it’s part of the incorporated area or not they say it’s in the area of prescott i don’t know it’s ian prescott but on the news it makes it sound like we’re like it’s just it’s it’s engulfing pressing it proper and we just wanted to share with you that’s not necessarily so yeah um there are some great summer and you know little cabins up in the bradfords yes yes and so those are we are feeling it for people there i don’t mean to minimize that absolutely and those particular areas are are typically where the fires you know because it is heavily wooded and so it’s very easy for a spark from lightning or etcetera to kind of create a fire situation um but for those of us in more of the city part of prescription not so much to worry about we’re not on the evacuation uh unfortunately those areas that are more in the wooded remote areas yeah they are asked to evacuate um but we don’t want you to think that if you for instance if you’re in prescott lakes um we’re not under evacuation order yeah we we have a uh we have a wind down video somewhere i’ll put a link to it where we talk about how uh prescott has a lot of very different terrain so the simple answer is the southwest section of our town is very wooded it’s very mountainous it’s what you typically think of when you think of a mountain town lots of pine trees that kind of thing beautiful yeah it is beautiful it’s a beautiful area as you go south east uh the terrain starts to flatten out the trees begin to thin out and so finally you get out to areas that are bordering on prescott valley that are really essentially prairie lake uh and so the fires there are a completely different animal a lot easier to deal with you don’t have to rain uh much of the city is kind of that way and like prescott lakes is kind of that way it would be hard to set prescott lakes on fire yes and and the great thing is is that our fire department here is is very much um they’re on top of it they’re ahead of the game um they go out and do a lot of preventative fire prevention tactics so we are never in tremendous threat our fire department is very proactive very proud about fire safety and um they’ll even have some prescribed burns so that things don’t get out of hand and don’t get too crazy um we’re on top of it yeah and the fire effort comes out of the city of prescott the uh the the firefighters themselves are based here uh in our regional airport uh is where all of the fire aircraft uh take off from uh so you know we’re hearing chinook helicopters and yeah and all these these fire planes and we salute them i mean we watch them from our deck and we watch them take off and we’re like god bless them god bless all the firefighters out there absolutely uh fighting to uh keep everything at bay yes and keep everything under control without a great loss of property or you know yeah yeah absolutely so the the firefighters are working actually two fires right now there’s one south of prescott and there’s another one in the vicinity of vicinity vicinity infinity flagstaff that’s right uh close to the peaks so uh which is about a hundred miles away i mean so yes i think these guys do anything in that blank in that radius comes out of prescott so you hear the word prescott in combination with fire in arizona all the time doesn’t mean we’re always burning right and i mean these guys are top-notch uh they are on it we are ready we are prepared uh we are prepared before the event even happens and that’s what i love about being prescott uh being in prescott how progressive it is how proactive they are they’re on it so we don’t ever want anyone to fear um loss of you know that you’ll lose property or et cetera yeah yeah there are very few areas where you can’t get fire insurance most areas of prescott um it’s not required no in fact you should know that when you buy a home here i i don’t think yet i’ve run across any contract that required fire insurance or flood insurance for that matter or earthquake correct yeah cheers yeah all of these so we’re pretty um although you may hear these events uh we’re pretty safe and secure um insurance companies if they think you need fire they’ll let you know i’ve yet to run across any that required insurance flood or earthquake yes so uh when you hear these things on the news it is um it sounds pretty scary it is pretty scary it is pretty intimidating um but for the most part the city proper we’re pretty secure yeah yeah so we don’t want you to worry that uh you’ll hear a fire alarm and have to head out in the middle of the night um it doesn’t happen too often unless you’re in more of the remote areas outside in the in the more forested areas yeah that’s exciting anyway we just want to share that and for our folks who are in those areas you know of course our thoughts are always with you and we know you’re in good hands so uh our fire department’s on it yeah so we wanted to share this uh topic with you about fires because as we’re entering into fire season i know this is a big concern for a lot of people especially those coming from california and uh we just want to give you our little two cents on that so if you were looking for any additional information from the pickle lady team yeah the place to go is pickle411.com that is our information center whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between that’s the place for you go there and get lots of information about fires and yielding pickles just a plethora whatever you may need we have pickled plethora we have a pickled plethora of information free information there you go all my nuts we don’t even charge no charge it’s all good call it free that’s right yeah that’s exactly right i just wanted to give you a little update and share our pickle okay oh my gosh it goes on a little long sorry about that that is a yelling it is a yodeling uh fool on this pickle so everyone should have a yodeling pickle that’s what i say yeah but uh anyway yeah we can’t it does make me laugh every day

Event Calendar – May 2022

New Paperwork Requirements

Real estate runs on paperwork, and if you've bought or sold any recently, you may have been struck by just how much there is.  Well, the Prescott real estate association (PAAR), keepers of the local MLS, have just come down with new rules that could lead to fines if some of that paperwork isn't completed quickly enough.  Find out about these latest gotchas and what we think about them in this episode.

Video Transcript

hello top of the morning to you good morning folks this is diana randall bro here prescott lady and sidekick respectively that’s right we are your husband and wife duo here in prescott arizona happy to bring you here show you around hopefully you’ll stay we’ve made so many great friends from clients it’s just been um that’s part of the happy part of our time it’s a great time guys yeah and there’s a reason why people come here it’s a great time so today we wanted to talk about some new things that are coming up in real estate yeah lots of rule changes lots of little changes yeah this is actually this is something that should have been done a while ago so i was glad to see this come down uh so the new rule from the local association is that you cannot go live so you’re selling a home your home cannot go live on mls until you have uh if you need disclosures for an hoa or lead-based pain so lead-based pain is anything before 1978. that’s right home was built before 1978 you’re going to need a lead-based pain disclosure so you’ll know that right away uh if you’re in an hoa you will need an hoa disclosure this is paperwork uh in particular the hoa it could be a pain yeah someone more complicated yes some can be complicated uh it has to be done and posted as part of the mls record before your home goes live in mls let me tell you why that makes sense from a buyer perspective so we have buyers that that come in they like a home we know there’s an hoa and we want to make an offer part of that offer is who pays the hoa the transfer fees basically um if we don’t have a disclosure then we can’t really make the offer yeah yeah so what that does is yeah so essentially that’s the listing agent making the buyer agent call the hoa to find out what’s going on and that’s not the buyer agent’s job that’s the listing agent’s job yeah so uh buyer agents have gotten smart and what they do is they send an offer that anything that’s undisclosed you have to pay and sellers didn’t like that sellers aren’t happy with that they’re like wait a minute i so we’ve been why am i paying that things have been getting sort of better we’ve been seeing more compliance there well now if you go live and you do not have an hoa disclosure or a lead based disclosure if you need that uh the listing agent will be fined like just straight up so uh that’s good because listing it that’s part of the listing agent’s job it’s a little bit of homework it’s a little bit of homework part of the negotiation uh in particular in hoa areas where those fees can be substantial um so it’s something that needs to be done and now now you have to do it yeah it’s fair and you should not expect a buyer or the buyer’s agent to have to figure that out and sometimes the seller you know maybe they’ve lived there 20 years like jeez i don’t even remember do i have to pay a transfer fee yeah i think there is a transfer fee like if you live in prescott lakes there is a transfer stream um all sellers have to pay a disclosure fee regardless period end of sentence yeah we all know that but there’s some transfer fees if you’re in an hoa some don’t have it some do and you should also disclose what your ho your quarterly hoa is is it monthly is it annual is it quarterly and there’s always something to know that yeah that’s an important part of their yeah decision they’re like you know i have so much of a budget for my house note how much is my uh hoa going to be because if it’s too much i might have to reconsider and go to a different area all important stuff if you were out there and you’re the buyer and so anyway we’re kind of excited that our local listing service is putting that into effect yes um because sometimes my buyers are here for a short time they want to write that offer up and the hoa is not open until monday yeah if they’re here in a weekend so we can’t give them the answer yes some of the the transfer fees involved are negotiated how are you going to negotiate if you don’t know what they are exactly so uh it this is the was the right thing to do we supported 100 yes and we’re excited yeah we’re excited in our listings we’ve always done this because it’s the it’s the way to do it right if you’re working with buyers you know that uh and and we work with both so uh we’ve kind of always done that we’re glad to see it one thing i will point out if you are a seller this is yet one more thing that has to be done before your home can go live uh generally it’s it from the time you sell a listing agreement until your home is hitting on all cylinders it’s on mls and agents out there are seeing it one or two weeks uh you know the more that the listing agent has to do the longer that takes yep so uh that’s true understand now that uh this is yet one more thing that has to happen and it’s important so we wanted to explain why it’s important and and why uh the rule makes sense so uh yeah good job we’ll be a little more a little more patient as a seller because there are a bunch of things that have to happen absolutely so that is our little tidbit of the day we hope that this helps explain some of the process yeah right absolutely right thank you for listening and give us a call at 713-302-1964 if you need any kind of help or have questions we’re happy to try to answer and help you out we also have uh information site you can find that at pickle411.com whether you are a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of information about prescott the prescott real estate market local restaurants things to do uh things to do with your dog i mean [Music] we just have a lot of fun sharing our wealth of information every time we come across a nugget we put it on that’s right we actually make a list people let’s lose and uh over a month we might have eight topics and we will sit down and film all eight topics one nugget at a time yeah pop in our little brains like that’s something to talk about let’s do it our website is where you need to pan for gold it’s where all the nuggets are all those maybe most of them are gold maybe you might find some other nuggets there that’s right

Picking the Right Lender

You may have heard that weirdness prevails in the real estate market these days, and nowhere is that more true than with lenders.  In short, lenders are struggling right now... big time.  In this episode, we discuss some of the major lender fumbles we've seen recently and how you can avoid the nightmare scenarios that have become all too commonplace in real estate transactions because of them.

Video Transcript

hello friends this is diana randall bro your local friendly husband and wife realtor team located in prescott arizona she’s depressed pickle lady that’s right i am her sidekick in arms that’s right sidekick have arms i’m not sure i’ll get some water i’ll get some more or at least some tools sidekick but yeah you probably do but tough topic too yeah a tough topic it’s something that um i try and try again some people listen and some people how shall i say i think they know better than mama and that is using an out of state lender so we’ve been having a lot of trouble with lenders um and that’s just i mean the lending process the lending process you know we’re going the whole covet thing and logistic problems and i i don’t know what but we’re finding it very hard to match our buyers with lenders who can close in a timely manner well yeah and this is my biggest pet peeve lately particularly if you use an out of state london oh i have a relationship with them i’ve been with wells fargo for 25 years it doesn’t mean a thing okay you are assuming that when you hand off this loan to somebody to start processing it that you’re going to have your particular banker every step of the way sadly my first month that’s not what happens they’ll have a separate team for that they have a separate team for that so the first person who sells you that loan they’re out of the picture they get their commission and they go off and go sell another loan yeah and then your loan is sold you know it’s passed on to another team and it goes into underwriting well every underwriter they pass on to another person to another person so when you run into a glitch and you call your original person they’re like oh that’s not me anymore now it’s joe and kathy and susie so then you may be hunting down these people who they’ve passed it on to somebody else you never get the same person so consequently um when we have a closing date which by the way is a contractual obligation you’re obligated to close on that date and lenders don’t seem to understand that it’s a contractual obligation and so this is what i tell some of these lenders hello it wasn’t a suggested closing date it’s like underground it’s like under contract this is a legal thing yeah if we’re supposed to close march first you’re supposed to have it all done march first so we’ll get a call from the we’ll get a call from the lender oh good news we got the appraisal scheduled for the fifth like okay we gotta close on the first we’re closing on the first that doesn’t help me yeah so a lot of times you know that’s very frustrating so from the get-go i call these out of state lenders and i say order your appraisal today don’t order it two weeks from now because we’re never going to close on time because a lot this is another thing you should you should know out-of-state lenders have to contact an appraisal uh company of their own in-house and then they that in-house appraisal company says let me get you an appraiser i don’t know who i don’t know anybody in that area but i’ll get one from phoenix what a nightmare because the phoenix appraiser comes up here he looks at it he doesn’t know the press get back i don’t know the market they don’t understand i understand the market to do a decent appraisal that’s correct and i’m sure the same is true you can’t get prescott appraisers and go down right really i mean you gotta know you need to have somebody familiar with it yeah you need to have somebody local who really understands the market understands that that side street is really not a major highway which we’ve gotten that’s not a major highway um so you don’t have to you know detract you know at deduct a hundred thousand dollars that’s not a major yeah we’ve had one it was uh oh well the the comp was uh it’s a good comp but the comp has a view of the golf course and the subject property doesn’t okay the subject property overlooks granite mountain it’s a much better view so you know we try to advise of course we can’t tell you i mean that’s absolutely one hundred percent yeah he should pick the land and you’re right that’s your right to do that but when we gently try to guide you try to find a local lender there’s a reason for that we want you to close on time we don’t want you to arrive in prescott and your house has enclosed and your stuff is in transit in a truck and you have no place to move in yeah and it has happened it has it has happened and then suddenly you’re in a hotel for two weeks while you’re waiting for it to get out of underwriting because they didn’t go into underwriting until five days before your closing date yeah nobody’s going to get you out of underwriting in five days and get the appraisal done in five days it’s just not happening you’ve got sellers that are selling in the seller’s market that may or may not be that’s right uh they may not appreciate your situation yeah they want to close because they’re moving on to their next chapter so when we gently suggest please try a local lender preferably a mortgage banker not a bank like wells fargo or you know one of those uh yeah don’t go with a mortgage broker go with a mortgage lender a mortgage banker they will hold your hand all the way to the end because they don’t get their commission until you close so they are invested they are committed because they would like to get their commission and so keep that in mind it’s not to mind your business or tell you what to do and you know i appreciate you know every person i know who thought they had a great relationship finds out maybe not so much yeah and just to be clear most of the clients that we deal with um they are of retirement age yes and uh they’ve region reached a certain level of success most of them do have personal bankers yes so we’re not oh you know i have a personal banker your other clients probably didn’t know they all have a personal thing and it’s not the personal banker’s fault yeah they’re it’s just their process when you’re with the national bank they set you up they do the initial paperwork and then their process is to pass it on to the other parties and it’s not that they’re bad people yeah or you know well they’re dealing with their process it’s a very it’s a very tough situation at this at this particular moment uh some areas like the california banks are really struggling the northeast banks are really struggling uh we had a we had a broker in the midwest so we figured oh that’s okay she sourced it to a bank in california that was a disaster it’s it’s uh it’s a bad situation right now we try to ride shotgun with the lenders for our transactions for our buyers we don’t know all the ins and outs we’re not lenders we’re not right now we don’t do that for a living i mean we try uh the local people we use here they know how to run rough shot they know how to do it they know how to get it done and it’s best to absolutely let them do that you know your bank may or may not respond to a stupid realtor from prescott arizona yeah i can call my local lender and say hey we gotta is there hold up can you tell me what’s going on what can we help to facilitate so we can close on time and i can get that person right away we can communicate clearly effectively and get the job done whereas if it’s an out of state lender they don’t know me from a hole in the ground and they’re like oh i don’t do that anymore it’s passed on to this person and they can’t really we don’t have that kind of relationship so keep that in mind it’s not to mind your business it’s not to tell you what to do it’s just if you have a particular date in mind that you want to close you want to close and uh local lenders are the way to do it they really try hard and they try to make it happen they know the right and they know the ropes and they also know local appraisers that they can get in and get it done so i’d all share this recently we just had one and we were supposed to close on a friday and they called the day before and said can’t close on friday because that is actually lincoln’s birthday not president’s day the 21st lincoln’s real birthday was february 18th so in california we celebrate uh lincoln’s birthday so we can’t send out any wires yes evidently they only figured this out the the day before the day before on the 17th uh i don’t know if that was really the story or not that declared the holidays so it’s weird things like that weird things out of state lenders will have weird rules i don’t know california’s rule about lincoln’s birthday but apparently on february 18th they don’t send out wires in the state of california and they’re allowed to do that so yeah every day i learned something new and another good example is uh ordering out the appraisals it is a matter of course that uh lenders will order out the appraisal kind of when it’s clear that the home’s gonna inspect yep you know that it’s gonna get get past the inspection period that’s when they’ll do it too late you can’t do that now you can you got to order it right away and if you if that means the lender is going to have to eat the appraisal fee yeah that’s just the cost of it but here’s the thing they don’t eat the appraisal fee they passed on to you they said oh we can’t get the appraiser out so i hope you don’t mind instead of paying six or seven hundred dollars for your appraisal you now have to pay the expedited fee yeah twelve hundred dollars fifteen [Music] they can get it done overnight yeah but you’re gonna pay extra for that so try to go local we have everything local in-house we can get it done it’s nice and smooth and you know typically we close on time about 98 of the time uh out of state um it’s been i can’t promise you it’s been rough lately it’s been rough that’s all we can do is just tell you our experiences with this in the end the your lender choice that you that’s your choice 100 it’s your choice whoever you choose we will do our best to make sure that you close on time uh but we just wanted to share some of our experiences with you some other considerations you may want to yeah just be aware you may not necessarily close on time if you’re going out of state we can do as much as we can try may not happen for you we sure will try i love to nag it’s my favorite thing to do i call every day hey it’s the pickle lady again heard anything yeah heard anything heard anything remember the closing date is not a suggested date yeah we want to close on this day we’ve been struggling with this for the last several months so yeah so we want to share and you should know too because you know we don’t always buy houses every other year sometimes it’s been 20 years and you kind of forget so this is our knowledge we want to share with you absolutely take take away from it whatever you wish but we hope you listen to us [Laughter] more information you can check us out at pickle411.com that is our information site whether you are buy or seller somewhere in between information about lenders and all that kind of stuff about real estate i also got best restaurants to go to and press get things done i’ll love it i’ll live all of it’s there all of it we love to talk about a whole bunch of stuff yeah not all of it’s complaining about linda no that’s right very strong very small just a small percentage all right my friends you guys have a great evening and thanks for listening hope we taught you something new take care bye

Non-Buying Trips

If you have never been to Prescott or haven't made up your mind yet where you want to end up, then scheduling a non-buying trip to tour the city and see representative homes in the area is a great idea - and we'd be glad to help you with that.  Just make sure we know what kind of trip you're on, because buying and non-buying trips are very different animals - which we discuss in this episode.

Video Transcript

i’m going to change this up and say good midday good midday good midday good news good okay [Laughter] it’s crazy i tell you but anyway it’s been a long day sometimes when i film with him um but i am diane bro this is my better half cheese pickle eddie that’s right randall brown sidekick we are a husband and wife team here in the heart of prescott arizona we love to help people come here find their dream home just like we did several years ago we love it here and we embrace all people who come you guys will love it it’s just a really unique tale this is our way of telling you kind of what life is like that’s right you can find here what people do here that’s right all the good stuff so sometimes when people will call and they’re like hey i want to come in and let’s set a date great please first step always call me first or enter your appointment on our calendar um don’t just show up in an hour before say hey we’re here could you meet with us a lot of times i’m booked yeah and so i hate nothing more that i hate than saying i can’t meet with you because i’m booked up for the next couple of days so call me first we’ll put you on the calendar and then i may call you back or email you and ask a number of questions it’s not to be intrusive or nosey or anything else but it really helps me hone down on the home search the most important question is is this a buying or a non-buying trip and some people like well i don’t want that kind of pressure it’s not really meant to pressure you it’s just to help me if it’s a non-buying trip i will maybe just include a few homes a few neighborhoods and maybe try to select those homes that are vacant or you know no one’s there so that you know we don’t interrupt the owner too much yeah it’s also a matter of focus so if you know we understand that this is a pro a process and we have no problem with non-buying trips absolutely we’re just trying to figure out what you’re trying to achieve if you’re trying to buy a house we need to show you specific houses because you’re going to buy one that’s right if you’re not going to buy one you’re kind of thinking prescott might be the place to go but you’re not sure it’s not just about homes it’s about the city and what goes on in the city and the different areas we’re going to focus more on trying to find the areas that make the most sense for you rather than the specific homes that won’t be available when you’re ready to buy exactly i mean so for my non-buying buyers i say hey you know what i want to give you a sampling of all that the city has to offer so if you’re a golfer if you want social amenities let me focus on those neighborhoods and show you a couple of homes in there and then i’d like to give you a i call it a potpourri sampling we’re going to kind of go around and mix it all up and see all areas all different neighborhoods so you can kind of decide you know what i really love i really love stone ridge or i really love prescott lakes or i really love talking rock and that’s fine so the next time when you come back and it is a buying trip that’s all we’re going to focus on yeah if it’s a buying trip and you know hey this is exactly what i want i’ve already been there i want this then guess what i’m going to exclusively concentrate on those areas and try to find the best home that exactly fits your requirements it’s a lot of fun for me i enjoy it especially when i have bigger inventory yeah yeah um but we try super hard to find one that you will connect with yeah yeah we give you a sale if it’s a non-buying trip we’ll get you in a few homes just to kind of give you a sense of what different price points will buy you correct what kind of features are available whether they’re views or not what kind of architecture you know what style of home you know that sort of thing we’ve given you more of a feel rather than trying to fit you into a specific home right and we also tour you as well as we go along so whether it’s in prescott valley or prescott we point out all the major places stores etc so you really get a good education on what prescott has to offer and then when you’re ready and you come in to buy we’re ready to do it let’s let’s let’s hone in on that and let’s find that perfect place and let’s do it yeah so uh uh you know sometimes people are a little taken aback when i ask that question i’m really not here to make you feel pressured i am the worst i am not a hard sell i am the softest cell i think probably on earth um first of all i don’t think i have to do a hard sell i think prescott sells itself it’s a it’s a lovely town it’s gorgeous i think a lot of the homes here sell themselves i don’t have to force you to do anything and i would never do that anyway right that’s not who i am and it you know i just don’t believe in that everybody has to be here 100 and then it works out beautifully so when i ask you is this a non-buying or a buying trip don’t be like i’m feeling pressure it’s truly not meant that i’m trying to serve you better by figuring out exactly that’s exactly it so anyway if you hear from me and start asking you some questions don’t get nervous don’t get don’t get uh wigged out it’s just for me to kind of either make it a an intense day of finding you the perfect home or just a nice tour sampling the areas and so when you do make that final decision you’re ready to to to go in the air you want to go to yep absolutely so that is all so i don’t want you to ever feel pressured i’m not all about that i’m all about the soft sell and um just finding what’s you know touches your heart because that’s what it’s all about for me it’s an emotional decision as well as an investment but the most thing is what attaches what connects to you i should say what connects to you absolutely that’s more important because that’s the only way you know you have to be some place you want to be and then you’re super happy with your decision absolutely okay so if you need to reach us to buy or sell or anything else any other questions believe me i get questions all day long and i’m so happy to answer and help and where’s this and where’s that what about this and what about that give us a call at or you can go to our information site you can start at pickle411.com whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere in between lots of free information about real estate about prescott about prescott valley and yep uh restaurants and things to do and all kinds of stuff all of it all of it yeah very informative there’s a search bar so you can look for whatever that’s right you can just type in where to get your nails done yeah that’s true on and on and on exactly so anyway we hope to hear from you and thank you for listening have a fantastic day bye bye

Prescott by the Numbers – March 2022

From the front lines of Prescott-area real estate. See our video summary of the latest market results.

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Solstice Ridge

What's the name of the town that has an ancient sacred gathering place with petroglyphs and precise alignments for the summer and winter solstices?  Well, if you said "Prescott, AZ," then go to the head of the class, my friend - because inside the subdivision of Prescott Lakes there is a spot called Solstice Ridge you just have to see.

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