 Hi Doyle obviously wants to be in the video. What are you doing? It's a weird dog. Can I help you? Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. As you can tell by the title of this video, I am going to be talking about searching for a home. I figured I would do this vlog style because I'm actually going on my first showing today for looking at a home. I have been diligently looking for a home since the first of January and it is now the first part of February. I haven't found really anything that I really really like that I want to invest money in. So I think some of the challenges are that I'm looking for something that is in a certain price range and I'm looking for a specific kind of property and I know I've kind of alluded to this in a couple of videos and a lot of people have asked. I figured I have a little bit of time before my showing starts to talk about what I am looking for. I have to switch hands because my arm is already tired. Doyle. Life with a dog you guys. Life with a dog. I have a few stipulations that I'm looking for in a property. First one being it needs to be three bedrooms. The reason why is because I need a bedroom. My office for now my business needs a bedroom. So I'm going to do all my shooting in there. I'm going to keep all of my planner supplies in there. I'm going to keep all my video and audio equipment. Like everything's going to be in there. And then the third bedroom is for a possible renter. I have always wanted to do that to kind of help stimulate my income as well as pay off my mortgage early. So obviously I'm going to be getting a property that I can afford singularly by myself. However with that renter that will allow me to pay off my mortgage early or to have a really large emergency fund if something were to happen with the house if I need to do home improvements like things like that. So it's been a while since I've vlogged so my like arms are like they're hurting already. Those are kind of the main stipulations I'm looking for with like size wise and I'd like to have a house that's about like 1600 square feet or larger. So those are my like basic stipulations when we move into actually what I want versus what I need. Oh and by the way uh two car garage because I want to have a space for myself and a space for a renter or another person. Also I want a white kitchen. And when I mean white kitchen I just mean the cabinetry. I want an all white cabinetry kitchen as well as all white baseboards and trim and white doors. I know that sounds really crazy but I work for a home remodeler for like my main job so I'm kind of in the instruction. I'm in the construction field so I already kind of know how much that would be to change all that out. And what the realtor tells you is never the price of what it really is. So I've decided that that's a huge stipulation because I don't want to do work and I understand I work for a remodeler. I could do it my not myself but you know I could have it done. I don't want to do that. I just really don't want to live in a construction zone. That's just not what I want to do. If I found a great deal in a great neighborhood and I could take the rest of that money that I was going to spend anyways and put it towards a renovation that would renovate everything to my liking then yeah we could have a conversation but I haven't even found anything like that either. So as I said I have only found this one property so far that I've kind of liked. I did find one other. It was actually a townhome and I'm not usually like a huge fan of townhomes mainly because sorry the angle is funny. Mainly because I want to be able to fence in a yard. I have a dog. He's right there. Hey Doyle. Yep that guy. I've got that guy. And I want to make sure that I can have a fenced in yard. Well this townhome um I can't remember what city it was in had already like a fenced in backyard which was really cool so that was definitely one that was on my radar. Beyond that I really am not a fan of townhomes but I mean I don't want to rule anything out. That's the only other one that I saw but unfortunately it was already under contract by the time I saw it online so anyway I never actually went to go see that and the listing is still up even though it's like sold. It's so weird. Like things last on the internet for like way too long but this house I saw that's actually not too far away from where I'm currently living in Cambridge and I'm kind of looking in like a big radius. Like I'm not looking at a specific city or a specific county or a specific school district. Like I don't have to worry about those things because it's just me and I mean I care where I live but I don't have to deal with like kids in school staying in the same school or like dealing with you know work and things like that of like oh well I have to be this far away from work or whatever. Um I've lived all the way out here and I drive about I think it takes me about 40 to 55 minutes every day getting to work. I know it's gonna sound crazy but like I really don't mind the drive. It's really not that bad. I've come to realize you can obviously get a lot more bang for your buck a little bit further out so that is kind of where I'm looking. Obviously if I find a great deal closer to the city then that's great too but I'm really not ruling anything out at this point. So that's kind of what I'm looking for when I'm looking for homes is three bedrooms. Oh also by the way two bathrooms. I don't care if it's a one and three quarter baths at least if that second bathroom has to have a shower because I don't want to share a like I wouldn't want to ask a renter to share a bathroom with me unless we were like really good friends or something but I'd like to have them have their own space if possible. So those are kind of my stipulations. So three bedrooms two bathrooms and then one with obviously a shower or bathtub doesn't matter it could be two full baths. Obviously kitchen you know little kitchen area for eating like a dining nook whatever it doesn't have to be a dining room like those are a little bit dated nowadays I mean some larger homes have them but it's really hard to find them nowadays and I don't really even want one honestly. Obviously a living space and laundry room and things like that. I would love an attached garage but that's not a half two but then two car garage for sure. And actually the property I'm going to see today has a little kitchenette downstairs. In Minnesota pretty much every single home here has basements just because we have basements and it's like a full living area and a little kitchenette that could be possibly turned into like a renter's suite and it could maybe have their own entryway. I'm not sure like how it's all laid out but I'm gonna take you guys along for the journey. I'm actually waiting to hear back from my realtor right now. He is really ill I think he has the flu and actually we're pretty good friends so the guy that actually owns the property that I'm gonna go see today is also the real estate agent that is doing you know the other side of the selling of the property so it's totally vacant nobody lives there so he's totally fine if I come and take a look on my own but Chris my real estate agent is talking to the other owner slash real estate agent to see if it's okay if I post part of his property on the internet. I kind of told him what I do for part of my living and all of that and I just said really I'm just gonna give my opinions on what I like what I don't like and then what suits my needs and it's really just like from my you know viewpoint and you know I'm not gonna knock the property I'm not gonna you know divulge personal information I'm not gonna give out like the address or the lockbox code or anything like that so I think that's gonna be okay to share with you guys. So all right this video is already getting really long and I am going to close it out for right this second but I will see you guys in just a couple of minutes because I will be at the property. All right so I am in the front entry way of this home and you go up or you go down let me spin around really quick and this is the front entrance it's actually a really high ceiling turn the light on so let's go upstairs it's got nice new carpeting very like very thick let's check it out all right very open love the floor it's not real hardwood but that's okay I like the consistency and then the kitchen I don't know where the light is I'm here it is all right so here's the kitchen looks like pretty much all brand new appliances as well which is nice the cabinets were just painted like a white they're not like in enamel so there's like a little bit of like texture to them but all nice new frigid air appliances does this have oh yep there is a dishwasher sometimes there's not a dishwasher so that's nice and then just like basic laminate countertops but definitely enough cabinet space I think and there's a light up above here this is the view out just kind of cool it's got a really big deck I'll show you that in a second um backsplash is okay oh wow there's like dust all over the damn thing but yeah the backsplash is okay not my favorite but whatever and then the sink that's good it's got a little soap dispenser as well could work and then over here there's like a little I don't know like a little built-in thing over here you can plug things in which is kind of nice and just more cabinet space and then there's a two-tiered it's like almost an island but there's these kind of pillars in the way that don't really make it an island it must be like a load bearing wall or something but then you could put like little bar stools right here if you wanted but over here you could fit like your dining like like a small dining table over here pretty easily and then this would be way more than enough room for a sectional or something to that nature in here so it'll be a nice main living area all right so let's go outside I like that there's a really big window right here too which would be really nice so this is the deck needs to be like repainted but beyond that like some of the paint is kind of chipping up but that's all right but yeah this is a good size backyard I don't think it's too big and I don't think it's too small good for the dog over here is the detached garage so it's a two car garage but then you get in through here and then you have to go in this way or you can come up over here but I'd have to like fence in between the garage and the house for the dog over here as well as on the other side but it's all completely chain link fence over here and then it kind of stops like right there so I'd have to make like a little l right here for the dog there's the air conditioning unit and then there's stuff for out here as well this looks like it's a little like planter box or something down here but yeah this is a really big big tree freaking huge um but yeah this space is actually really really nice out here way big enough for like a patio table and like grill and stuff really nice it's got a little light out here too all right let's go back in so let's keep going on the main floor and this is the view from down so here's the hallway and then there is the air conditioning and then this I don't know what it is we'll see oh cool um oh I think this is taking the place of like your coat closet area for coat closets very deep like really really deep um that's kind of cool it could fit lots of good stuff in there and then all the doors and trim are the same where they're like just painted over they're not like the enameled okay oh there's a fan perfect all right this is the first bathroom and it's got some lighting a basic mirror basic vanity and then it's got the drawers which I love I love a good drawer nice a little toilet and that's in a weird place it should be up a whole lot higher but whatever and then wow this is like a really really shallow tub but that's all right and then just like a really basic um tile but it looks also like they just painted over this one too but this isn't actually like a shower enclosure they like just sealed it and painted it but and then um there's a window in here that overlooks into the backyard oh and they put a little fixture over here as well that's nice oh there's also a little door oh cool well this is a really generous linen closet um it goes back pretty far over there and over here too that's really cool and then over in the corner there's a couple more doors let's go into this one see what this is oh another little linen closet well there's lots of storage here lots and lots of storage I could like use this closet for all my all my planning she is yeah all right so I think this is the smaller of the two bedrooms yeah this looks like it's the smaller of the two bedrooms really nice paint color just like a really basic gray and then the closet is just like a regular bifold closet and then wow these like paint drips are like massive on this thing but whatever again a little bit bigger than it seems and this has got this funny little like bump out here like it's got a funny little bump out okay that's that bedroom all right this would probably be the master this seems a whole lot bigger than the other room and then um let's see this closet okay yeah this closet's a lot bigger as well um yeah this closet's really nice too this got like a partial over there so if you want to like hang long things and this overlooks the front so let's go downstairs now all right so let's take a walk downstairs and I'm actually really excited about the basement because oh I like that there's an extra door right here there's like a little kitchenette down here which is kind of cool all right so let's go to the right um oh this is a really generous bath or not bathroom this is a really generous sized bedroom wow it's almost I think it might be even bigger than the master actually um very cool this is really big this outlooks to the front of the home wow this is huge and then this is really really big two rails and then it's like super deep like I can fit my whole body in here like no problem wow this is really big this would be like really generous for a renter okay also that same kind of topi gray color which is kind of consistent through the home I really like that um okay so over here is all right so this would be where the washer and dryer would go and outlooks towards the back of the home and then you've got like your utility sink there's a couple little like cabinets and stuff which I'm not even gonna look in because that doesn't matter but I like that there's a door here so you can kind of keep it quiet if you need to and then all right so there's the front door just for remembering and you walk down and then there is actually the second bedroom bathroom I'm getting myself confused wow this bathroom is like way nicer than upstairs I might need to live down here instead hi guys so this is the bedroom wow so this is the bathroom downstairs this is all brand new looks like really nice light fixture just a basic mirror and then the vanity has like a little door and then two drawers which is nice and then just like a nice white top a little fixture here and then toilet a little rail and then also some storage it looks like yeah this is really nice this bathroom's a whole lot bigger than the one upstairs and then I like the um I like this a lot better like the exterior not exterior like the surround a whole lot better and then this is all brand new but yeah and the flooring is really consistent too which I like all right so we walk out of there and then underneath the stairs is just a little crawl space great for storage and then over here is what I'm really excited about this is like a whole another living area possibly for a renter and then over here is a kitchen look at that oh gosh it's not focusing there we go it's a kitchen um it's a smaller kitchen but it is a kitchen nonetheless so yeah but this is kind of cool I kind of like this um I don't like that there's carpet right here but beyond that that's not too bad and you can fit like a pretty generous sized dining table over here as well as a sectional and coffee table and all that so this actually would be really really cool um I'm not sure the area I need to do a little bit more research but beyond that I think I like this this is really cool well hello we meet again I actually just filmed a video actually I filmed two yeah two videos while sitting here but I went to my house thing um I'm not like vlogging anymore it's all up on the tripod right now and there's still a little battery left so we're gonna go with it so that was about a couple of hours ago I still haven't talked to my parents about it I mean I'm really trying to seek their counsel with some of these decisions because I don't really have anybody else in my life that's purchased a home that I really want to talk to this stuff like talk to them about I'm waiting for them to call me back they were in the middle of something when I called and I figured eh I'll just film some videos and then we'll talk later all in all my thoughts on the house um obviously you guys just saw portions of the house I think it's a wonderful wonderful setup I love the interior um I'm not so big on them just painting over trim and things like that but for the price of the house and the size of the house I kind of expected that for it to not be like brand brand new and that's okay however my issue isn't really with the house it's with the location of the home it's on a really busy road and it's actually farther away from Cambridge than where I'm looking even though it's really not it's just tucked really far back so like miles wise it's actually farther away from like my employer than where I'm currently living that's one little negative but I could get over that however it's like I said it's on a really busy road and I like the thing is I just couldn't imagine like walking a dog down that big road you know what I mean I feel like if I'm in the suburbs I want to be in the suburbs like I want to be in a neighborhood um it doesn't have to be a neighborhood that has like a sidewalk or anything it's just somewhere I can be comfortable like walking my dog or taking a walk or jog myself or something and I feel like I might get hit by a car when I'm walking my dog and I don't know if that's the best place for me like I said I absolutely adore the setup I think the setup is great especially for kind of what I'm looking for but I think I'm gonna pass on this house um it might be a while until I actually look at another house because like I said previously like I've been looking for quite a while and I just haven't found anything that I really really like so I will keep updating you guys kind of randomly um I might do like my regular dedicated video might be like me looking for houses or I might just pop them in as extra videos like this one is today so um but I just want to keep you guys updated as to like what my thoughts were kind of after the fact and everything I think it's a great value but unfortunately it's it's really all about the location and if it's not a good location I can't do anything about that but you know if like the paint drips and stuff like that were really bothering me like I could figure that out um because I kind of showed that in one of the little clips um if it came out I don't know if it did because I haven't actually watched the footage back yet um but I did kind of a sloppy job on some of the like painting of some doors and stuff but I could get over that because I could change that but unfortunately I can't change the location so just want to give you a little check in as to like what my thoughts were kind of afterwards and I'm going to keep looking and I will keep you guys updated but um I'm going to let you guys go for now so thanks for hanging out with me for a little part of your day if you like these kind of house hunting videos let me know this is my first one I've ever done so um if you like this process make sure to give it a thumbs up and um let me know in the comments down below too because um I don't know if this is like boring for you guys or if you guys are really interested in this process um also if you don't want to know more details about anything just post a little comment and maybe like the next house hunting video I do I will address some of the questions then just to make it a little bit more cohesive so I guess that is it for me today and I will see you all in my next video bye guys