 Guess what what? We're pulling up right now McKenna. It's the one on the left Welcome to my brand new home. It's such an exciting video to film in my infant center. Let me check. Okay Lighting is pretty good. Not gonna lie. I don't even know where to start with this video. This has been a video I've been dreaming of filming for years. One of my biggest goals in life is to purchase a home I have been wanting to own a home since I was young be able to do what I wanted with the space even before I got Into interior design purchasing a home was always my dream and I did it you guys like I purchased a home And the first thing I want to say in this video is thank you so much Thank all of you guys Thank you to every single person out there who watches my videos who comments on my videos who supports my content Because that's why I'm able to purchase a home Like I would have not been able to do that without your guys's help your support Of course, this is what I do as my job full-time and I absolutely love it waking up every day and posting on loan Fox or just interacting with you guys in the comments whatever it is It is my all-time favorite thing and this is just the next chapter of loan box I got the keys this morning as well, which just makes it that much more official I knew I wanted to film this on the morning of getting my keys I am just so excited by the way you guys Marie is still moving with me She is gonna be living here. We are inseparable, honestly Now I do just want to talk about this place how it came to be while I purchased a home at this point in time my search for a home Really everything and I actually have some other houses that I toured as well that I'm gonna share with you guys There's gonna be a bunch in this video Now I moved into my current apartment about two and a half years ago And if you've been a follower of loan box, you have seen me make over that space over the past two and a half years It has been the main premise of my channel and the content that I have been filming and that apartment Truly means so much to me. I genuinely feel like if one day that building goes for sale I would really want to purchase it. I even have a tattoo of the Window in my bedroom on my arm. That's how much I like the space My hunt for a home really started about I would say 16 months ago or so I ended up getting a realtor his name is Jonathan and I was recommended to him from quite a few people In the LA area that are also interior designers and he's a great great realtor I also love how he just gets aesthetic So he was able to really send me a lot of properties that was like, hey, this is an older home Or hey, this has a really cool vibe to it You might enjoy and that was something that I liked because he understood what I was looking for The first space that I absolutely fell in love with was a home on laurel canyon All right, so here's like the back of the house and there's this whole big like patio area And then this is the view off and the side of the back so that's like laurel canyon there So Such a cute place and here's a view to the court courtyard area And this little sun room which is so pretty too and it's quiet in here It's like it's a busy street, but it's like pretty quiet And this super cute bathroom which I'm obsessed with this freaking window ledge. This is a dining room This is a living room Which is so pretty And a little balcony, which is so cute. Look at it It felt like a fairy home you guys when I saw this space in person I was ready to max bet my offer like I was ready to go all in on this house I absolutely Loved it and as I went to pull out of the open house. It took me 23 minutes to make my way onto the main street That's how long it took for some car to let me in and I realized that laurel canyon was not for me That home was stunning and I actually found out how much it sold for a little bit later Which was only a little bit more than the asking price and I Cannot believe it only sold for a little bit more than asking because this home was dreamy you guys It just it wasn't perfect for me, but whoever owns this home I really hope they don't tear it down and turn it into something else because it had so much character It was beautiful It probably took me a solid month to want to go look at another home after seeing this one because I was just So sad that I couldn't live here like it just wasn't feasible for me It wasn't the right decision and I ended up finding another space and it was a condo and I was like drew Do you want a condo? Why are you gonna go look at a condo? You already know that it's 14 floors up. It was a penthouse condo in handcock park and again If you guys know los angeles area handcock park is absolutely gorgeous It is my favorite city in all of la or I guess my favorite place for the homes because a lot of them are older They're really large the facades on these houses are Unreal like just beautiful and there's so many different styles of homes So I was like, I'm gonna go tour this 14 story condo like I want to go look at this So I ended up going to look I saw that the ceilings were like 30 feet high It felt like college me would be so excited because in college all I wanted to do was live in like a penthouse in downtown LA and like have a great view that's what I wanted in my life And this just felt like oh my gosh like kind of that penthouse vibe, but I saw the photos and it was beautiful I had wood beams in the ceilings fire places. It looked really interesting So I ended up going in touring this space, but it was another space that just wouldn't work for what I do I realized that I didn't want to be lugging up and down the elevator furniture or supplies from the craft store DIY projects not being able to go outside to spray paint. It just wasn't the right choice again But I did go ahead and look at this place It ended up selling as well for just a tiny bit under asking like 20 000 under asking this next home When I stepped foot into the gates. I felt like I was in a different country. I felt completely transported and I was like This is my home. This is the home for me. I stepped foot in and I'm somebody that absolutely adores nature Like I love nature. I cannot tell you guys how much I love the exterior of this house The backyard had a big swimming pool. There was lemon trees There was little pathways on the sides of the homes that led like from bedroom to bedroom There was like a little secret entryways It was just a cute house and the interior was just as great There was like two different living room areas a humongous guest room with vaulted ceilings The primary bedroom had this step down bathroom that I loved as well It was really interesting and the bathroom was super pretty as well And there was like a little office space dining room and a humongous studio space Which would have been perfect for the lone fox like you know where I do all my videos and keep all my craft supplies Something that I noticed immediately upon walking into the home was there was 8,000 people there looking at it as well like this house everyone wanted it It was really pretty that did a beautiful job on the listing as well So I could definitely see why and this was the first space I actually did a physical written offer for I'm at a cafe with marco and marie And even melissa were here, but they ended up getting some food But we're putting an offer on the house today, which is really really exciting And we hope that we get it so I'll let you guys know We're going to submit it 15 minutes before so that no one can come in and Figure it out and I think we should hear back tomorrow So I'll probably be back tomorrow and let you guys know what happens and sadly it didn't get accepted Um, they did say that it was in the higher end But there was a couple people that outbid me and I just wasn't going to go higher than that I already was quite a bit over asking And I knew that they listed it lower just to kind of get people in the door So I didn't want to go too much higher and I kept it as is and the hunt was back on I was lying in bed one night and I saw that a duplex actually popped up just 0.3 miles from my current apartment And I was like, you know, I haven't really considered a duplex But let's take a look and I looked at the photos and started scrolling through and I just saw so much Architectural interest. I loved the fireplaces. I loved the wood beams. I loved the archways The original wood floors the tile in the kitchen there was just so much to love So I knew I wanted to go and look at this home and that's what I did I ended up going on a trip to Palm Springs and they gave me an hour when I got back to look at it And basically told me that they had three offers on the home And I had an hour when I got back to look at the space and see if I wanted to write an offer I sped home from Palm Springs, got to the house, unlocked the lockbox and spent an hour between both units And the next day I knew I wanted to write an offer Okay guys, so it is a new day and I put my offer in on the house the other day I think I mentioned that to you and we have been going back and forth this morning Negotiating which is kind of fun And I feel like I'm kind of in like the driver seat a little bit because I know that these owners want to sell the house Really badly. They're already moved out of it So I definitely want to get the house for as cheap as I can of course But I'm also not going to go in at a crazy Amount under we already submitted an offer. Um, we had a counter offer today Which is pretty close to the original asking price, which sorry that's not going to fly That is not going to fly because I offered quite a bit under asking We're gonna counter back and um, I guess I'll keep you guys kind of updated Okay, I have a little bit of news. I'm working on my bedroom makeover right now But it'll be out probably by the I mean it will be out by the time that this video goes up But um, we got a counter back and the counter is A lot lower. So they did lower their price. I'm glad to know that because the original counter the first one was so close I was like, are they even gonna budge on this? They dropped it quite a bit It's still not as close as I want it to be so I'm countering back. Um, and we're gonna see from here So I'm gonna counter one more time and I'm hoping that they're going to accept this offer because I'm gonna counter in their favor Kind of closer to their number, but still a little bit more reasonable for myself You guys my realtor is calling right now and he has not called me in this entire process of texting So this might be good news Hello What Harsh negotiation Yeah Oh, no, we're getting every dollar that we need. Yeah, we need all that money to put into the house Oh my gosh, this is crazy Hey, thank you so much. Oh my gosh. I don't even know. Um, okay, so what am I supposed to do next? Oh, I was just planning on starting I didn't want to do any of that Come on you Okay, okay, I love that first step nice long first step How long have we been looking for probably like a year? Yeah, I know. Oh my gosh. So exciting Hello, good morning guys It is a couple days since I last talked to you and I think well I know actually that the last time I talked to you was after my offer was accepted on the duplex Which is so exciting. Also, I don't even know if I mentioned that it was a duplex yet It is a duplex unit That I'm going to be combining into one Place and then if I want to like, you know, move out in the future or rent it out in the future Whatever it might be I can go ahead and connect them back up And I'm going to share that all with you guys throughout the process, of course So today is the first inspection. It's like the main inspection today, which is good But we do have four different inspections for this house because it's an older home And so we have a sewer a sewer inspection like sewer and plumbing a chimney inspection a termite inspection and then a general home inspection So there are four different ones today's a general home inspection Which kind of like encompasses all that lots of inspecting to be done But that is good because it's going to give us like, you know More of an understanding of what work needs to be done because I'm sure there's some on this home That's from 1929 my realtor Jonathan just texted me and said that they just finished up the general inspection over at the house And you guys I also don't know if I mentioned this the house that I'm buying or it's a duplex I'm just going to call it a house because it's a house to me The house that I'm buying is only 0.2 miles from my current apartment like it is around the corner It's like literally like run over if I wanted to But I'm going to quickly drive over there and he's going to kind of go over the rundown of the general inspection I have no idea what happened. So let's see This is your guys's first glimpse at the house This is actually the courtyard in the front of the home. So the front door is right around here Well, like I mentioned you can duplex. So there's kind of two front doors There's one on the left side of the building and there's one in this courtyard area and this is the courtyard It is arched and there's a huge fountain right here as well, which makes such a beautiful Water noise. Okay, let me go fight Jonathan. Hello. This is Jonathan you guys This is my realtor. He is the best. So if you're in Los Angeles, you need a realtor What areas do you just do like all about it? Yeah, I do Los Angeles like West Hollywood I also do Pasadena area where I grew up as well But okay, so I guess I'm here for the inspection. Yeah, so we just had the general inspection There are a couple of items that were discovered with it like one I'm standing in front of the chimney obviously because there is an issue with it It's been deteriorated. I mean it is an older chimney, right vintage chimney. Literally vintage. Oh, you guys Let me show you this too. I want to show you the chimney Because Jonathan you told me that this is a batch elder fireplace. This is like batch elder tile, which is a prolific tile maker of the early 20th century And he has a lot of like really beautiful Tower work, but when you have something like a batch elder, it's a really wonderful Statement piece you actually have two of them because yeah, there's a fireplace directly upstairs you guys as well because it's a duplex So it's in the units are actually pretty near You do basically just want a chimney company to come take a look at it and make sure that they can you know rework it You know put new mortar. It's made of a cement just basically make it so no flames can escape and catch the house Yeah, okay Because it actually is working you guys as well. It's like a real working fireplace So we basically found a plumbing issue. You have some leaks present in the house that's under the house and Under under the house and one of them is actually coming from this access panel The this actually goes into the bathtub. You guys look at this. I'm not going to share with you any more of that So that's oh that is beautiful And it goes all the way down underneath the house And that's where all the plumbing is located But basically what's happening is that the plumbing right now has been done in an incorrect way So it's pooling and the water pools enough where it does actually leak It's coming out of the pipes downstairs imagine going in there. It's down very Annabelle. Should I drop my camera? I guess we could like pull it back up The sellers also left all of their rugs here and asked if I wanted them But they're actually kind of cute like look this one's woven, but then the other side is Tough did A lot of what Jonathan's talking about is in the lower unit But in the upper unit there wasn't too much now it's a great condition the upper unit You guys has just recently been renovated So a lot of it has like new cabinetry and new Appliances a lot of newness up there, which is great So a lot of what had to be done is down here, but Jonathan also mentioned that we can't find the key to the basement We don't know where that is And the guy that came over to look at everything needs to get into the basement So he's gonna have to come back on sunday So we're hoping that we can find the key or get that in the next couple of days But once that happens, I'll update you guys and of course I still don't know how much Some of these fixes that we need made are gonna be so that'll also be We'll find that out shortly as well after he looks on sunday, then we'll get a report So I'll keep you guys updated good morning guys. I am I'm not doing anything actually. I'm pulling up to Starbucks right now one second Oh, they're probably wondering why I'm adjusting my camera. Hi. Thank you Got the coffee. I'm heading to pick up a special guest in a moment. So, uh, I'll see you when I get there I went hiking. Oh, that's literally fine. I'm that's what I am. Just how I am as a person I look a little crazy And literally I didn't even know she was coming back and I saw on your instagram story that you were in LA And I was like, oh my god, I bought a house. Do you want to go look? I said yes I said pick me up now Like I we texted like 10 minutes ago because we live around the corner. She's like, I'm just at Chipotle be home in five I was like, hey be there in 10 So we're heading over there. You know, okay, so I had a dream Three weeks ago that you bought a house I bought well you I put the offer in three weeks ago. I closed in one week I put the offer on july for on june 1st. Is it okay? What color is the house? Wait, do you know what? No, I don't know. I just had a dream that you bought a house and what it looked like Do you know what color in your dream? Yeah, it was like a beigey color Okay, I literally thought you were just gonna say a baby blue color because it's baby blue Yes, oh my gosh. I thought you're gonna be like, oh my god. Imagine just like literally in your dream what it was No, that would be insane But I did I had because I felt it like coming. You know, it was like it was time But I mean, okay, so here's the thing though in Los Angeles how expensive are homes That's why you think I bought one in Texas. That's why it took me forever I had to keep on saving you guys like and I think I'm mentioning that in the intro of this video too Is like the reason why it took me so long was because houses here are just like even just a small house is so expensive Like overly expensive. Um, it's actually duplex, but I'm turning it into my dream. It was a duplex. Oh, yay Let's just go over there because it was a great decision. Yes. It I'm so excited to show it to you. I'm We're pulling up right now. McKenna's the one on the left Okay guys, we're walking up to the second unit right now. I'm like I've been in the tally museum Yeah, you're in to loom like you're in like a little villa Yeah, uh-huh, there's enough rooms Information about the inspections that we were able to do okay, yeah, yeah, perfect Okay, so with the sewer and the plumbing Basically what's happening with the plumbing system is that it's grading incorrectly Which means that it's sloping in the wrong direction which allows the water to pool So they gave us a quote for 59 85 that basically will fix that work We're gonna um, we can add that to the credit or like the credit request. Yeah Of course. Yeah, what we'll do is that we will add all these figures up And you know submit it to the sellers and say that this is important to you I think systems are super important. Uh, these are very important things for you know safety issues Basically if you've never purchased a home before, uh, which I've never purchased a home before So a lot of this information is completely new to me as well When you purchase a home, there's inspection periods with the information that you find out on what needs to be fixed You can essentially ask for credit from the seller that is selling the home So we're gonna add up all of the figures at the end and basically be like this is how much the home How much money we need to put the home in like living order or where it should be and where it was like kind of listed as Uh, and we'll take it from there We successfully found the key for the basement and the inspection actually happened yesterday And I just met jonathan up. He's in the basement We're both in the basement and we're going to look at the errors or issues that need to be fixed down here So basically what we found out with your foundation is that you have a lot of spalling and spalling is essentially You know where there's the deterioration of this concrete. This concrete's original It's from the the late 20s and it's made of sediment and rocks and spalling is basically as you see It's turning into sand. So you have a lot of concrete in this foundation. It's in really good condition It's been bolted. So retrofit In an earthquake, you're good However, there are areas even on the perimeter that need to have some mortar applied to it So we can essentially glue this lock it all in exactly So if this were deteriorating more and if it were like deeper, then you know, that would be a much bigger issue But this is more cosmetic. Yeah, this is so crazy Oh, you almost just broke my house. I'm suing You guys literally look you can see under the entire Framework of the house, which is so crazy. This is like all of the electrical Um, I don't know what else is out there and if you look in the corner right there, you can see oh, those are the brackets Those are the bolts the silver braces over here like right there is those are the additional bolts Which are just like extra stability for earthquakes. So remember when we were upstairs and we saw like the back of the the The bathtub. Yes. Yeah. So that's actually the piping down there Okay, as you can see it's tilted to the wrong direction So the way that it's sloping right now water essentially has to pull there And the water has to get to a certain level before it flushes this out flushes it out You don't want that and it's actually starting to uh leak outside of that pipe Okay, I can see like the white areas around like the tips and whatnot and that was done incorrectly So I think it's really important that you get that fixed because if it was done, you know somewhat recently A plumbers shouldn't have done that We love that It has been about two weeks since I last talked to you guys and it's really just been a waiting period now with this home We did a 30 day escrow the owners were actually already moved out both owners in the top and bottom unit So they just wanted the house sold right away or the duplex sold and I I also would love it right away I love a good instant gratification I have so much going on right now that it honestly like I feel like I can't even like Enjoy it as much as I would love to I feel like I'm gonna actually enjoy it once I'm able to move into the home And like actually, you know get there But we have a notary coming over at the moment a traveling notary that way I could sign the last Paperworks the last loan docs from escrow and you guys the house is gonna be mine in three days Which is so so crazy. So we're just waiting for the I always say wait, but it's me like I'm all I'm waiting for The guy to come the notary and I'm gonna sign those loan docs Just finished signing all of the papers with the notary which I've never done anything like that before that felt really official Like an actual official document. I had to sign, but anyways, I have my copies here And now you guys we're really just waiting three days until the close of escrow Which isn't just a couple of days which is so exciting and then I get the keys and I can share with you guys the place It is officially July 1st I don't know if you could see that on the screen there, but it is officially July 1st Which means I have closed today and my realtor texted me this morning and said you closed and I said This is so exciting and see last and final day you guys Of this journey, which actually has been a lot shorter than I thought. Um, it went really really smooth There was quite a bit of just paperwork involved like that's all I can say is paperwork And yeah, so we're gonna get the keys in a couple minutes All right, here you go I'm officially homeowner Until next time Okay, I couldn't leave you guys hanging and just quickly wanted to give an outro to this video because it was such a Epic video honestly like I purchased a home and I closed today you guys I got the keys today I cannot wait to start making over the space every single room you guys And we're gonna be doing it all together and I want to also mention that if you are not following me on instagram I highly highly suggest that you do so because I'm really going to be asking you guys So so many design choices which tile to choose which paint to choose I want to have your guys's opinions on absolutely everything But it really is the easiest way for me to do that over instagram So we have so much content Just get prepared Click that subscribe button if you are not already and turn on your notifications If you do not have them on which is just a little bell icon next to the subscribe button But I'll catch you guys in at my next one. Thank you all so much This is exciting. Bye guys