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House Hunting AGAIN! Look at Homes With Me! - YouTube
Channel: RAVEN ELYSE
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hey guys what's up it's raven and
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welcome to episode one of a brand new
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series that i'm doing here on my channel
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all about investing in real estate i
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mentioned this in my last couple of
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videos but in case you missed it yes i
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am house hunting again you guys saw the
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whole house hunting process when i was
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looking for this house and i ended up
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building this house from the ground up
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and i showed you guys the whole entire
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process of that and i'm actually still
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currently doing a series about
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furnishing and remodeling this house
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that i live in but i'm starting a new
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series about my investment properties
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i'm not moving you know i'm not even
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done with this house but i want to get
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into investing real estate so i'm
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planning on buying a property very very
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soon and even beyond that i'm actually
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planning on buying several properties in
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the near future to build up my portfolio
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so in this video i'm going to show you
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the first six properties that i looked
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at and just kind of give you guys the
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rundown and my thoughts and my feedback
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as someone who is new to this okay i
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just want to put that disclaimer out
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there i am very new to this i'm hoping
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that this series will basically be a
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learning experience for the both of us
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i'm just taking you guys along for the
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journey of me just kind of freshly
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getting into this and learning as i go
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and i know you guys probably have a lot
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of questions about this whole process
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you know what exactly am i even doing
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why am i doing it what are kind of the
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more technical ins and outs of the whole
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entire thing and don't worry i am going
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to be doing a whole separate video that
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goes into a lot more detail that's
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actually going to be my next video right
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after this one so just stay tuned for
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that if you do have questions or you do
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kind of want to hear the whole
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background story and like i said just
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more details about this process and
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about investing in real estate in
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general but for now let's just get
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straight into the houses because that's
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the fun part so i'm working with a
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realtor and he started off by showing me
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a bunch of houses online sending me the
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online listings i looked through
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probably about 30 houses and i picked
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out 12 of them that i liked that i was
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interested in actually going to view in
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person and then by the end of it all
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only six of them were basically
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available to view because the other half
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of them were already spoken for if you
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don't know i do live in austin texas and
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i am house hunting in the austin area
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and the austin market is crazy right now
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things are moving fast so just in the 24
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hours that it took for me to send my
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favorites over to the realtor like half
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of them were like already gone so we
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started off with these first six houses
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and these six houses are within a
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certain budget that i want to stick to
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certain locations that i want to stick
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to and also i am specifically looking
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for houses that need to be updated need
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to be fixed up i specifically want a
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project like that
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so house number one this is the very
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first house that i have looked at and i
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also didn't really fully know what i
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wanted this house was cute you know it
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was definitely somewhat what i'm looking
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for but kind of the main thing about
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this house is that it really didn't need
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too too much work and i felt like i
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might want to take on a little bit of a
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bigger project possibly this house
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definitely did need some work like the
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kitchen needed to be updated i would say
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you know things like the backsplash tile
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could be switched out for something more
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modern even the countertops possibly the
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cabinets could be judged up maybe just
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painted i would also probably update the
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bathrooms because some aspects of the
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bathrooms were a little bit outdated but
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the floors throughout the whole entire
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home were already just freshly replaced
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it had a really nice carpet really nice
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flooring in the kitchen and you could
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see that all of the walls were just
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freshly repainted so overall there were
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a few cosmetic changes that i could do
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to this house but at the same time
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certain things were already updated so
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it just wouldn't be much of a project i
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do think that the outside of the house
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could use some extra curb appeal it had
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kind of a weird patio and just kind of
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you know updating the landscaping and
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making it look nicer from the outside
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could also be part of it but like i said
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in general this is just the first house
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that i'm looking at i'm not gonna jump
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on the first house that i'm looking at
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anyway i wanted to look at the other
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houses and kind of compare and contrast
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so then we went on to the second house
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and this house was an example of a house
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that had already just recently been
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flipped by somebody else you can see
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that someone clearly just went in there
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and renovated it except they kind of did
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a bad job when you first glanced at it
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it looks kind of nice and updated and oh
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they've added these modern finishes but
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when you really look deeper at it it
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just wasn't really done with quality
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work and attention to detail and not
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everything that needed to be updated was
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updated the kitchen looks nice and
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modern but the cabinets were installed
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all crooked when you look closely the
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knobs were all off center the walls and
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the ceilings throughout the home were
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clearly old and kind of like cracking or
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just needed to be refinished or patched
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they had done things like left the old
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broken cracking doors but just repainted
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over them white and switched out the
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door knobs fresh doorknobs but not fresh
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door and that type of rushed like
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lipstick on a pig work was done
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throughout the whole house there was
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also a sunken living room in this house
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which is just like an old outdated style
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and nobody likes that anymore so that
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would really need to be filled in you
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would pour concrete to fill in the floor
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to bring everything up to the same level
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but then you would also have to adjust
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all the doors and windows and everything
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else to accommodate for that so that's a
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pretty big renovation and then there was
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also this stone wall going around the
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living room which i didn't mind it i
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think there's a way that you can
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definitely still make that look updated
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and make it look nice but it had like
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this weird built-in outdated cabinet
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that was just kind of weirdly off center
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i would take that out and i would kind
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of adjust the stone in some kind of way
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to just make it look more modern overall
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the living room to me felt like it
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needed a good amount of work and that
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seemed like too big of a project
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especially for my first property and the
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idea of just kind of going back and
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redoing recent work that somebody just
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did badly just wasn't very enticing to
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me so then the third property was
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actually a town home in one of those
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like town home communities where they
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all look the same from the outside and
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probably in this specific one they
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probably all look the same on the inside
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as well i believe these were built in
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like
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2007 so the thing about this one because
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it is a town home because of the type of
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community that it's in it had like high
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hoa fees and just like high taxes and
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overall like the financial aspect of it
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like the math wasn't really mathing for
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what i was trying to do and also even
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though it was built in the 2000s and it
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definitely looked outdated it didn't
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look old and run down it didn't
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necessarily look like it needed to be
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updated things were not broken and
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cracking and falling down it just looked
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a little bit like out of style but still
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in good condition i think that someone
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could easily move into this townhome
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just as it is and be perfectly happy
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with it so it just didn't really feel
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like the right type of fixer-upper
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project and like i said with the
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financial aspect just not really making
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sense it just it just didn't seem like
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it would be worth it so we really didn't
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spend too much time looking at this
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townhome i just knew off the bat that
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this type of town home in this type of
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community just wasn't really the type of
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project that i was looking for so we
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moved on over to the fourth property and
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this one was a really cute little house
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i really love the neighborhood
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neighborhood was super cute and inviting
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and right off the bat first impressions
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walking in this really looked like the
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type of property and the type of project
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that i am wanting to take on overall the
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house looked like it was in good
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condition had good bones you know
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nothing you know terribly wrong with it
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but just needed to be cosmetically
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updated so like redoing the whole
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kitchen new cabinets new countertops new
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appliances new light fixtures just so
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that everything looks a lot more fresh
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and modern and updated little things
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like ripping out the little half divider
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wall but not big things like ripping out
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full walls and re-doing you know the
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layout of the whole house maybe things
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like updating flooring and trim and of
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course like repainting also the
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bathrooms were kind of outdated so i
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could update the cabinetry and the
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bathroom fixtures and light fixtures in
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there so i was really really liking this
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house it felt like the perfect balance
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of enough work but not too much work but
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there was one weird thing about this
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house it smelled like pee and i think it
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was cat pee i have a cat if y'all have
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cats y'all know that cat pee is
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notorious for having a certain smell and
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for lingering and the fact that like we
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couldn't tell where it was coming from
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and it was pretty strong in the area
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like by the staircase that was kind of
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alarming because if we can't get that
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smell out then that's going to be a
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problem so i don't know but i definitely
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kept that one on my list and just kind
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of kept it in mind as far as an example
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of like what i'm trying to look for
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moving on to the fifth house this one
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was more similar to the second house the
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badly flipped house because this house
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had also obviously just been flipped in
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a sense or updated in a sense except
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they did do a better job on this house
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that other one like it just was poor
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quality this one like the quality of the
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work that they did do was better there
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was just some areas like in the
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bathrooms where you could see that it
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was either rushed or unfinished or there
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was more that they should have done to
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kind of match the part that they updated
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to the part that they didn't update so
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there wasn't as many things in this
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house that would need to be re-re-done
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like the kitchen for example was already
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done really nicely i probably would
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leave that alone but the outside of this
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house definitely needed some work i felt
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like the paint choices were very strange
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like the color that they chose for the
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trim on the house and the color that
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they chose for the front door the front
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door itself which was like a new door
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but a old style and a really weird blue
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color so i would definitely like switch
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out that door switch out the colors
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repaint the outside of the house just to
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make it look more cohesive but one thing
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that my realtor noticed and pointed out
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about this house is that there might be
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some bigger underlying hidden issues
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like he noticed in the water heater
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water tank closet thing that there was
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like something weird going on with the
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tank sinking into the floor and just
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things like that that could end up being
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big issues and i definitely don't want
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to have to deal with stuff like that i
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just want to do the fun cosmetic work i
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know that i'm not gonna be able to
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completely avoid issues like that but i
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would like to try to if at all possible
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and then the sixth and last house that
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we looked at on this day which yes we
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did look at all these houses in a row on
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the same day so it was actually kind of
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nice to be able to compare them back to
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back but this last house was looking
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very promising again it looked like the
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type of project that i want to take on
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the only thing that stood out
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immediately about this house was the
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location because it was right next to a
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commercial like strip mall area and
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that's really not great the other side
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of it was like a nice quiet neighborhood
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but like right here was a strip mall and
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i know a lot of people don't like that
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so this house felt like it was in decent
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condition again no huge you know
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structural issues or things like that
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but it was just really really ugly like
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really ugly i walked this house and i
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was like i know i saw the pictures
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online but like dang like the tile and
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the colors and the paint colors and the
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wallpaper and just everything i was like
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oh lord i don't know who decorated this
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house but it definitely needs to be
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completely redone as far as the like i
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said cosmetic work the aesthetic just
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making it look cute doing that surface
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work of completely redoing the kitchens
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new cabinets new countertops possibly
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new appliances redoing the flooring and
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the paint and the light fixtures like in
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every single room bathrooms included
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switching out the fixtures you know just
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redesigning the whole aesthetic of this
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house even the outside of the house i
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wasn't a big fan of the overall like
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color scheme of the garage door and the
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front door maybe even possibly switching
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out the garage door entirely painting
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the front door a different color of
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course doing landscaping so yeah overall
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this whole entire house on the inside
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and outside was just very ugly and it
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needed a lot of work but that's perfect
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because that is what i am looking to do
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i was almost wanting to move forward
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with this house and like work towards
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making an offer and everything because
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it just really seemed like the right
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kind of project but my realtor stopped
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me because he was like hey this location
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with it being right here by the strip
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mall and the price and everything and
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the amount of money you would have to
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put into it to remodel it he started
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crunching the numbers he started
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comparing to you know the surrounding
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neighborhood and he just was like i just
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wouldn't recommend it the numbers like
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again the math is not matching and i
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think this location is going to be a
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problem and the realtor that i'm working
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with is very experienced he has done
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what i'm currently trying to do several
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times before so i definitely trust his
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advice so i was like you know what
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you're right let me you know slow my
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roll these are just the first six houses
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day one of looking at houses so let me
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just calm down i don't need to make an
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offer on anything today so i did not
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find the perfect house but like i just
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said that was just day one of looking i
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already actually have a whole list of
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houses that i need to go look at and i
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am going to be looking at who knows how
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many houses before i find my perfect one
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to start off with and luckily i have
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built up a whole team of people
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basically experts in this field who are
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going to be able to help me make the
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right decisions when it comes to
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choosing the right house and doing the
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remodeling and everything like that but
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i will go into more of those details in
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my next video like i said i'm going to
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be doing another video just breaking
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everything down going into a lot more
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detail about this actual process what it
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means to be investing in real estate how
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i'm personally going to be doing it what
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my plans and aspirations are so
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definitely stay tuned for that video in
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the meantime like i said i just wanted
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to show you the fun part of looking at
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my first few houses but stay tuned for a
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lot more videos like this because like i
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said i have a lot more houses to look at
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but yeah that's everything for now see
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you guys in episode two bye
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