 We're picking out our pens for a very exciting thing. He doesn't know about tool. You shouldn't, in this thing. This was the first job I had at a college and I love this pen. I spilled it wrong, guys. Very funny. Today's the day. Today's the day. Nervous about you? Nervous, but why would we feel nervous? I'm in debt. True. We bought a house and today's closing day. And we will catch you guys up on what our past month looks like because it was a little brutal. Yeah. Right now, we're going to go sign some papers and get the freaking key. Really have no idea what to expect for closing. Congratulations. I'm so excited for you. Best roller ever. Congratulations. Your signature. 10 to 10. We officially closed on the house and we honestly thought it was going to take way longer, like hours. But I don't even think it took like 20 minutes, which honestly, it was nice. I would much rather have it like that. But we didn't get the keys. I guess we thought after we signed all the papers, we would literally be handed the keys. And I think Keanu thought that too. But the notary girl, she's newer to the company, the title company. So she was kind of confused on how we even get the keys. So we're basically going to just drive to the house and see if the keys are in the lockbox. We're just waiting on the title company to basically answer our call to tell us how we can get these keys. Now the fun part starts with the remodel. Yes. Now I can just sit and look at everything. Imagine this, you said. The sellers gifted us these beautiful posters. Can't see. Oh. What is that? Just a box. Oh, that could be our memory box. They left us a box too. And some boxes. What are equipment? Nice. Just in time for the fall. It's box safety, forgot. Now we'll bring her later. Checking the water pressure, because this is important. Of course we do this after we buy the house, though. We have to wait for the headphones to get ready. Go sniff. See where we are. Oh, let's go put that in there. Here, you're on the road. All right, Sophie. You're not a city girl anymore. You are not a city girl anymore. You have so much grass to pee on. Why did you just do that, silly? Go, go, go. Go, go, go, Sophie. Do you want to see your backyard? What is this? We have a surprise for you. She ain't ready for this. Go sniff. So you can already sniff out that other dog. This is your house. Do you like it? Use the step. Good girl. You know, if it was up to her, this whole place would be concrete. First pee. That's your house right there. You get that whole thing. Go check out your room. It's going to be a bitch to get her up these stairs when she's sleepy. What's all this? What do you think? We brought some lawn chairs because we obviously have no furniture in here. And then we also brought like a mattress topper because we might watch a movie and carve pumpkins. Not only are we carving pumpkins tonight, but we're also having some home-sized pizza. So we're fussing, fussing, aren't we? Yes. And also, yes, that too. Also, I'm setting up our little projector so we can watch maybe a movie. And then I forgot to mention that we have some floor samples. Things are already happening, y'all. We have lots we want to do to this house. Not that it's not livable, but I obviously want to make it to my liking. And the floor samples are in here. So maybe we'll do this a little bit later because we want to eat the pizza while it's hot. We just had our pizza and it was so good. And now it is time for floor samples. I can't wait any longer. So let's open it up. We have lots to choose from. Let's put them down on the floor, maybe. I hope they're livable. Like, how do we even know? Is this French-French Victoria? OK. My gosh. This one. They know. I was like, that was the only one they didn't like. It's a vinyl, but they still would. I feel like this is too dark. You didn't know if we could just make our own floor. Yeah. They're $2.99 per sample. I don't know if these are the same thing. It has a style on them. They barely look different. OK, maybe on the camera this one's lighter. We have them all laid out. This one is a no-go. It's like too gray. So I go high and you put them in order from first to worst. OK. You mix them all up to have them in first to worst. OK. You need to look at the video and see. OK. Just mix them all up. OK. You want to go first? You want to go first. OK. This is my order. So this is the number one. Like what? They're cold. They're from the woman. This is my favorite. Going down to the least favorite. I think this was. Fine. I don't know. I was thinking that, but I don't know. It kind of pulls a little bit gray. So. That's a little bit of a texture. You felt more real. OK. I think I like less texture. I do really like this though. This was my number three or something. Yeah, I don't hate it. What do you think? Should we go for this? Or this? In the middle. I just don't like the knots. And then. You want to spray? This one does? This one. I think this one's a bit warmer. I feel like it's so hard to tell. So between these two, I think the French Oak Point logos and French Oak Dunes from Malibu, I think. I want to see what they look like online because one of them has more knots. And I don't think I like too many knots. So I want to see what it looks like. Sophie, we need your help. Of course, you would pick this one because you're gray like this one. Guys, I think we landed on this one, which I don't even know if this was in my top five. But this is the Malibu Wide Plank French Oak Victoria. It could have been. I think Ryan said it was on his top. I don't know. Watch it back to see. Yeah, I won't watch it back. But it looks good online. So I think we're going to go with this one. So we got our Samsung freestyle to set up. And we might be watching. I don't even know what it's on, honestly. But we don't even have internet here. So we just connected to Ryan's hotspot. So that was smart. And what do you think, Ryan? Netflix? Hulu? It's BMX. We're currently watching, what's it called? American Horror Story, but we don't have a new episode. I think that comes out on Thursday. Let's check Netflix, maybe. Let's check the last night. Yeah, we watched Check You Last Night. And that was on Netflix? That was on YouTube last night. Let's check Netflix's spooky movies. Sophie, can you move? Oh, yes, no, this is actually a gift from my aunt. It's also a gift for me and everyone else to see where it is. Other than gifts, you definitely have facial expressions and everything you just watch other people's faces. I'm Zach, by the way. Oh, yeah. You should see me when you do that. How about it? Is this a little brother or something? You do talk. This seems like mine, too, because everyone wants to see me. Yeah. Hey, we're just moving in. Just be my mom. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Let's sit up down. I'm sorry. Excuse me. Can we get up? Come on, look at this. Come on, look at this. Come on, look at this. Come on, look at this. Let's do a little overview of our house buying process. So I can't even remember what month it was, but we actually put an offer on a house in North Austin. Basically, it was such a good price that I really thought it was a joke. I saw it for the day, probably the hour that it came on the market, or at least apps. It was an application, probably. No, I didn't. I was just searching on the apps every hour, and so I saw this place and we went to tour it. I think that day or what was it the next day? Yeah, the next day. And basically, yeah, we were like, okay, this is great because we wanted to fix her upper. It was really close to a highway, so it was perfect. We put an offer on that one and it got nine offers in like five days, six days, so obviously we got outbid. So we were very crushed because we just already had so many plans in our head to renovate the space. We toured like a million places in our life, and I think one thing about some of our family of the houses have to face east. Yeah, so that limits us so much more. Nine or 10 in Austin, probably the face east. Yeah, there's really not that much. We toured this one first, we were touring a bunch of other that someday, and we liked this one, but I remember thinking it was like kind of far out at the time. And then it was also like, I remember you feeling like a lot of, like very overwhelmed with how big it was and like the things we probably wanted to do the space. So that's why we were like, okay, let's just maybe not do this one. But then we were starting to look at other houses like further out and then I was like. It was just a little bit less work. Yeah. And I was like, well. And then we were like, hi. You're like, hey, I'm gonna ditch my house. Exactly, and this was so much better. This is probably the biggest house. Probably we toured. Absolutely. Probably by like 500 square feet. Yeah, like a lot of the houses in Austin are like literally 1200 square feet. I feel like that's kind of average, maybe 1400. Our apartment is 1,100 square feet. So we obviously wanted to buy something bigger. Like if we're buying a home, like it has to be bigger than our freaking apartment. We were touring houses and I was like, if we're gonna drive 20 minutes away anyway, I'm gonna go to the one that's huge and is closer. Yeah. So like while we were touring, we just tried to cancel out the last tour and just come back to this one. And yeah, we were like. We were almost like touring and we were like. Yeah. It's not like it's gonna be a better house you have. And then so like at the start of us touring homes, we had a lot of options. I feel like every day things were popping up, but it started getting so slow and even being under contract and like seeing houses at the end of like closing on the market, it was like still the ones that I was seeing like at the beginning. So like houses were on the market for a while and this house was also kind of on the market for a while. They've countered. We countered again. I think they accepted that. We went into a contract. Went to one of our contract, we got an inspection. Right. And then we had the option and our install, that stuff paid in already. And basically during the inspection, a lot of things came up. So we were expecting like a roof and like just random stuff, you know? But the guy was like super thorough. Yeah. It still wasn't as bad, I thought it would be, to be honest. But it gave us more like negotiating power. But in the end, it really didn't like help that much cause like they were not budging on the price, even though like very costly things needed to be done. So at the end then. We were also the only person that had been on this house. Yeah. Which was annoying cause we were like, why aren't we fighting with the seller? Originally when we were going to put the offer on the house, the leasing agent of the, or the seller agent, the seller agent told my real estate agent, if there was no bids like in the next few days, they were gonna pull it out and just like make it a rental. And so we always kind of knew that they had that to like maybe fall back on, you know? So they didn't negotiate much with us? Yeah, because we felt like, okay, they could just like rent it out. After so many times of our option period and getting pushback on both of our sides, it had to be like seven times. Yeah, we were in that little under contract like a month and a half or six weeks. Yeah, and like our closing date, how to get pushback two weeks because of it. And so when we finally settled on what the price was gonna be and we were like fine, like if they're not budging anymore, like I want the house, like we'll just like accept it whatever it's still like pretty good price for an awesome market. We were on the phone with our real estate agent at $4.58, our deadline was at five to like confirm that we're good with price. And the appraisal came in that freaking second. The appraisal came in a lot lower than the original asking price. And so then you're like, well, at first I was like, what the frick does this mean? Cause like we didn't know we're for some home buyers. And then basically if we wanted the house and they weren't gonna budge, we would have to come up with that extra cash to cover at closing because the loan people were not gonna give us. More than the house with the price for them. Yeah. So we were like, okay, obviously we don't wanna do that. So we went back to the drawing board, tried to counter offer again and we decided to meet in the middle. So that was pretty much it all summed up. But let me tell you guys it was an emotional roller coaster because one day I thought we were good on the house and I thought it was in my house. And then the next day, I didn't know if it was gonna be our house. So, ee! But it's our house now. I was like this close to being like, just forget it. Literally so many times Ryan was like, it's probably just like a sign that we, like this isn't for us. And I like, if I want something, I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get this battery. Yes, but hopefully it's not. Hopefully we made the right decision and I was talking to my parents and they were saying like, you really cannot predict the future. So like, even if, you know, maybe something else goes wrong, like you wouldn't have known. And like that, you can't be yourself about that. First day we got our keys, like it did not feel real. It was like lunch one day we just closed and we didn't get the key at closed. Yeah, we did, but we like got it in the house. We're like, we're both the type of people, if it's not sunny that day, like the day doesn't feel real kind of. And like there was literally like four days where it wasn't sunny all of a sudden in Austin. And that was like the first four days of having our house. And we're like, this just feels like a fever dream. But it's not our house. We've been like eating pizza here and like hung out and we're like, it's just a little bit of a tomato house. Yeah, it feels like weird. So yeah, I think obviously as we make it our own and, you know, do renovations, like obviously it'll feel more like home and like when we get our furniture in too. It starts tomorrow on renovations. So get ready for, oh my God, yeah. Guys, there's too many decisions that we have to make. Lights and stuff. Yeah, I bought recessed lighting on prime day. I bought a ring doorbell. I bought an echo show. I don't know, I kind of wanted that from the kitchen. We're gonna get door locks, because we don't have one key or two keys now, but. Yeah. I don't know guys. There's like, obviously this house is beautiful and livable and it's great right now. But I would love to make it my own. And you guys saw that we picked out the wood floor. So that's very exciting. We got it all ordered and it was a little gut-wrenching, the price of it all, but I know it's gonna be worth it. And I cannot wait to see this house transformed. I'm gonna do a whole separate video on like an empty house tour. I feel like that would be fun, because I feel like we do it every time we have a new apartment. So we gotta do it for the house. I know Sophie's so excited. Were you playing ball today? Yes, we've run the ball over. Lots of house content to come. So click the link to subscribe and follow along for our journey. Honestly though. Okay, yay. Bye guys.