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@karenthompson8038

Ай бұрын

Oh my God when he was going up the stairs and he were mad because you can’t have this house and you said “can somebody go fund me”and I’m so happy you repeated that because that is not what I heard! And I’m thinking “OK that’s pretty direct” but relieved you didn’t say that incase kids were watching! And that is a model home which means the development that they’re creating and they have a few different homes and a few different plans meaning it might be a little smaller or you might not have a mother-in-law room to cut down the price and they can make them with what features you want to cater to what amount you want to spend

@MoreAdamCouser

Ай бұрын

@@karenthompson8038 🤣🤣🤣

@karenthompson8038

Ай бұрын

Oh, and I forgot to mention the guy that had to leave for his kids birthday party is just the man who was showing the homes so he either is the contractor or just somebody that works for the company and he was the only one there! Have a great night

To the people complaining about the vaulted ceilings. Keep in mind the house is in Texas. Higher ceilings will keep the rooms cooler with less energy cost. Vaulted ceilings (and later ventillation systems) were the ancient form of air conditioning across the middle east. The inverse is true when it comes to heating but again, the house is in Texas and heating is only going to be a concern for 2, maybe 3 months out of the year.

@NatPat-yj2or

Ай бұрын

Yup having lived in northern Maine, then in central-south Texas, I've lived in both of the most extreme climates, and you are correct. This is basic thermal dynamics. In the north, we avoid high ceilings because the heat will collect in the high areas, and cold will settle to the bottom. The heat will escape through convection on the roof, and the floor areas will never get warm unless you have radiant heat floors, or you have your heat cranked up enough to overcome this, which can increase your heating costs by 40 to 60 percent. In the summer, the heat gets trapped and it becomes a lot hotter and the heat collects at night and it will never cool down unless you have a ton of ventilation and it usually takes 2-4 hours after sunset to finally cool down. In contrast, the high ceilings in Texas would allow the heat to stay at the top, and hold the cool air in the bottom 2/3, and the house will stay balanced like this until the air pressure in the room is changed by open windows, or the house is poorly insulated. In Maine it gets sweltering hot and humid in the summer sometimes. It was 101 yesterday and 97 the day before, and because of our low ceilings in Maine, it takes more energy to cool the house with AC. I did the math and it costs 45% more to cool the same sq footage in Maine. However, in my dad's house a few hours away in Maine, in part of the house, he has a 16 foot cathedral ceiling and it stays drastically cooler than in my house even with AC running. It was such a difference that he built a wall with French doors to separate the high ceiling room with a thermal break. Anyone building a house really really needs to know this stuff. Not only will you pay more in energy costs, it will be less comfortable.

@patriciab8876

Ай бұрын

​@@NatPat-yj2or All good info for those building or buying. I'm in KC & we get hot humid summers & freezing cold winters. Gotta love spring & fall - except for the spring storm season with possible tornadoes. Anyway, the one room I have with a vaulted ceiling also has a ceiling fan which has a directional control - can blow air upwards as well as down if needed to assist in the cooling or heating. It's nice to have.

@cyndinelson8700

Ай бұрын

Yeah didn’t Texas privatize the power grid,So it doesn’t hold heat?

I live in North Central Florida on 8 acres with a 5 acre pond loaded with bass and bluegill. 3 bedroom 2.5 bath that i bought 20 years ago for $290,000. Now worth over $750,000.

Any house built in the last 50 years is going to have at least a two-car garage, unless it's built on a *tiny* lot in, like, lower Manhattan or someplace like that. Bear in mind, a two-car garage is in practice just about the minimum size of garage that you can actually park a car in. If you only have a one-car garage, by the time you put all the other junk in there that has to be in the garage (lawn mower, bicycles, lawn chairs, snow shovels, leaf rakes, weed eater, hedge trimmer, tool boxes, gardening tools, old paint cans, garden hoses, lawn sprinkler, spare patio bricks, ...) there's no room for a car. So if you actually want to keep *two* cars in the garage, you need at least a three-car garage. Also, that is the smallest laundry room I have ever seen outside an efficiency apartment. The closets in the average master bedroom add up to more square footage, than that laundry room.

@george217

Ай бұрын

It is a model home in a new area built to showcase the homes that are being built. No one lives there yet. He was probably talking about someone who works for the builders...

@H2G2Stp

Ай бұрын

Very few homes in my neighborhood have a garage and they were built in the 1980s. It depends on area.

@patriciab8876

Ай бұрын

​@@H2G2Stp Wow! I'm really surprised. Where, may I ask, is this area you're speaking of?

@Laura-mi3nv

Ай бұрын

@@patriciab8876 - a garage is a luxury, a lot of neighborhoods that are more affordable would leave out the garages so the houses could be more affordable.

As I clicked on this video a 100mph severe thunderstorm warning is happening in Wyoming U.S.A with 4inch hail.

@MoreAdamCouser

Ай бұрын

damn, be careful!

@kalebbort9246

Ай бұрын

@@MoreAdamCouser It's not for me but Still.

@royconestoga7326

Ай бұрын

That’s just another day bud.

@scorpiouk5914

Ай бұрын

Dang, that is very out of the ordinary for Wyoming!

@SterlingHolmes1776

Ай бұрын

Send that here in Las Vegas we need that storm more lol

In-law suites are becoming important to the GenXers. Kids are leaving the house, but parents are moving in when they can't live alone anymore. Many new-builds have 2 "main" bedrooms with attached bath on the first/main floor so people with mobility issues can use it (no stairs).

@nolawright3932

Ай бұрын

These are what we use as guest rooms when folks come to visit.

@H2G2Stp

Ай бұрын

And lots of grown kids with their own kids move back in with parents/grandparents

@Magpiebard

Ай бұрын

That's why we bought our place with a little attached over the garage full apartment, so I could take care of his mom (thank you heaven's above the old abusive bat is dead and that is done) without her in our main space. (See abusive old bat as the reason for it needing to be separate- having a nasty woman who hit people while screaming, and it NOT being a result of mental issues was a thought that made me literally ill.) That apartment is a big reason we bought our place. AND a big reason we want to sell, too many family members vying for free room and board, all screaming it's not fair we don't let them move in because, and they will say it straight to your face, "why should they have to pay rent, utilities or food when you already have someplace to live. And it not be a money, location or health issue. All those would be fine, but they are so entitled a few tried to tell us to paint it in colors THEY wanted and bitched about the kitchen layout. Those suites can be a godsend... they can also be an utter utter nightmare to have. We don't have kids, I'm not taking care of anyone other than my husband or actual legit need. I'll clean up after myself and our pets, people who could get jobs but refuse? Nope... we're moving. And never again buying anything bigger than what is needed for 2 adults and some cats. And a office/guestroom for one offs once in awhile.

@loray2k

Ай бұрын

@@Magpiebard Amen sister! Lol. I don't blame you one bit.

This is near Greenville Texas so if it makes you feel any better, you'd melt there. 😃

@sherryjoiner396

Ай бұрын

I live 50 miles from there. It is a little warm! 😂 at least we haven't hit 100° yet.

@jezaeiri

Ай бұрын

My husband was born in Ireland and raised in Australia and his first summer in Texoma nearly broke him. Its been over a decade and he still freaks out when the tornado sirens go off. Or yesterday when one of the cattle dogs brought him a dead rattlesnake. He still has a deep mistrust of cows and we own a four hundred acre ranch I inerited. Its hilarious seeing a Sydney boy flounder.

@xDarkTrinityx

Ай бұрын

At least TX has AC in their homes though. lol

@brandispry576

Ай бұрын

@@sherryjoiner396 we hit a heat index of 110 in San Antonio last week 🥵

I live near this city, and the housing market has absolutely EXPLODED in the last 3-4 years. My brother and sister-in-law bought a similar new house a few years ago in the same city as the video. Their house is a similar square footage and has the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms. They paid HALF the price of the house in the video in 2018. The house in the video isn't "in the middle of nowhere" like others may suggest. The town has a population of about 34,000 (growing FAST) and is on a major highway leading straight to Dallas. It has a ton of shops and restaurants, and still has the small town "everybody knows everybody" feel. Yes, it gets very hot in the summer (regularly 110F in July/August), but everything is built to accommodate the heat, including the homes. New homes will have new air conditioning systems, which are very energy efficient, leading to lower electricity bills. Fun fact: it is actually a legal requirement in many cities for rental property to have a properly functioning air conditioner.

@PhysicstIsaac

Ай бұрын

Ya'll mfs lucky with houses like that, in the uk our houses come pretty garbage even the newer ones and at massive prices (like 300K - 400K USD), and lucky for me i'd be pissing off there

A over the range microwave includes a vent fan. They are very very common. I had to replace one in my house -- under $300. This place is a model home, no one owns it it will be the last home sold in the development. If this is $300K it's because it's out in the middle of nowhere; it's a thirty minute drive to the grocery store, a restaurant, etc. And yeah the price seems to be a come-on to get some sales started. My feet fit my body perfectly.

Nasty builder grade show home. You have pay for every "upgrade". And every thing is an upgrade. Soon there will 75 houses next to this one that looks exactly like it. I'm sure your home is much nicer and very homey (UK - homely). "Homely" has a negative connotation in U.S. English.

2-2.5 car garages are pretty standard. New home builds frequently have 3 car garages.

@H2G2Stp

Ай бұрын

Not in my area

@vtgvideos955

Ай бұрын

​@@H2G2Stp same bro 2 car garage are normal but not 5 bro property lives in LA or something 😅

@H2G2Stp

Ай бұрын

@@vtgvideos955 Hah yeah. All of this "normal" is kinda hilarious.

This is about an hour from downtown Dallas, TX. 2 hours from Downtown Ft. Worth. The metroplex is called DFW, and has gotten very, very expensive. A new house like this in DFW proper would run 500k. In more rural areas like where this house it, you'll find it for about 260-290k. The only downside with these "Cookie-cutter" homes is they typically cram as many as possible in the area, so your yard will be "small" for the United States as a whole. Still bigger than the UK proper though. That's Texas as a whole outside of major cities. Other states, like Oklahoma, or Kansas this would run about 210-240k. Property taxes in Texas are high, this would probably run about 5-6k per year in taxes. Something like this in Oklahoma or Kansas would run about 2-3k per year max. The most EXPENSIVE states to live in are California, Florida, Texas, New York, and Hawaii. The only downside with the US is you have to pay for health insurance to cover medical bills. For basic bare bones insurance it's about $400 a month. Great insurance is about $800-900 a month which would cover 80-90% of medical costs after you pay around a $500-$1000 deductible per year. Scripts(meds) would typically be free at that point, or like $5. You can also RENT a 3 bed, 2 bath home with a larger yard in a state like Oklahoma for about $800-1500 a month pending how close you are to major cities. Also, a solid mid-level trim on a mid-size SUV would run about $45k. A full-size pickup would be about 10k more. An economy car with fantastic gas mileage (read no horsepower, slow, practical) would run about 30-40k new. Gas is about $2.80 a gallon as of July of 2024. A car will have 12-14 gallon tank, SUV will have 14-18 gallon tanks, and trucks would have 23-36 gallon tanks. SUVs and trucks are about 85% of vehicles on the roads. Average grocery bill for 2-3 weeks of food for 2 adults and 1 child would run $250-$400 in the southern states I mentioned.

In different locations in the states you can spend $250,000 on a beautiful home or a piece of garbage... depending on location. California is over the top expensive and $250,000 gets you nothing... not worth the money. If you ever want to live in the U.S..... do your research on economic stability of the state/city and what your money will get you.

OK. I'm from north central Texas. Spent ten years wiring homes. Absolutely LOVE the foam insulation! Love this floor plan. I've wired everything from government housing to, multi-million-dollar mansions. The only thing that kills me in this video. are the windows? Why are there no blinds? Why do the shades not cover the entire length of the windows? North central Texas is "one" of the most "hottest\humid" climates in America. Probably, second to Luisiana? I'm just saying, this builder, "ain't to smart'! 🤪

Avoid HOA's like the plague

4:08 alot of microwaves get mounted over the stovetop, they have a built in vent/fan with a filter that you can turn on when your cooking on the stovetop below.

Nobody lives there. That's a model home so the man in charge of showing it to potential buyers would do this same walk-through.

In 1991, I was due with our 3rd child. We lived in a 2 bedroom trailer. We found a 4 bedroom, 2 bath, huge kitchen, dining room, living room and large family room. It was 5 houses from a bay. It needed work but I saw the potential. We bought it for $82,500. Big house! We worked on while we lived there. Bathroom plastic bathroom ceiling dell in. We had to do some wotk to get an fha mortgage. I loved that home. Lost it after my ahole let the mortgage double. I had to go on disability in 2011 due to EDS. I moved to FL and hate it here.

@patriciab8876

Ай бұрын

Sorry you've had to deal with an a**hole partner. It's tough to lose a home you love & have put so much into. If you hate Florida do you have to stay? Or are you not by yourself? Sorry but I read your comment and understand your feelings & frustration with how things have turned out for you. Hope you're able to find a way to improve your circumstances. Meanwhile I'll pray for you and hope you're able to shake off the bitterness (it can make life unbearable).

@Raittway

Ай бұрын

@@patriciab8876 controlling, abusive narcissist. He did much worse over 27 years. I miss my home and Eastern Long Island. My Mom left her home in FL to my sister and I. Thankfully, I have a home.

5:31 Remember, everything's bigger in Texas... including the tornadoes! 🤣🤣🤣

I just discovered your channel and decided to say hi...I just turned 50 and have an 8 year old daughter who loves watching foodvideos (she is watching this with me0. i recently watched your vid on trying American snacks. I have a unique perspective in that I am Canadian who lives within 2 hours of the American border. I am familiar with many of the snacks but had never heard of Liquid Death. You said you wanted to be near waterfalls and I have a suggestion....go to Niagara Falls and try some American food and enjoy their culture, then hop over the border into Canada and try their food/culture. You HAVE to try poutinr....fries, cheese curds and gravy. Just trust me, it is fantastic. I am a podcaster and get you need unique content. Here's your opportunity. Enjoy!

I occasionally see microwaves above ovens, but in my area, it doesn't seem to be very common. Around where I live, I've seen that be the case in maybe 10% of homes, tops. What I find much more commonly are little cubbies with either a whole in the side near the back, or an electrical outlet in the back, specifically sized for you to slide a microwave into. Even then, I see that in maybe 30%-ish of homes. Most just expect you to plop your microwave on the counter, if you want one. Beautiful home, though. If I had the money I'd but that place in a heartbeat. Looks like a great place for hosting family gatherings.

@jishani1

Ай бұрын

I had a microwave that was built into the extraction hood of my original stove that came with the house. That microwave wore out way before the stove did, have replaced both at this point.

@nragoobar

16 күн бұрын

I hate the idea of Microwave over stoves. If you cooking you have to reach over a hot stove to use the microwave. And at that height if you handling hot liquid, it could fall on children or shorter peoples face.

I think it is pretty common to have thr microwave above the stove, that how our house is.

The south of the US tends to have lower costs of living and therefore lower home prices. I live in the Pacific NW and a newly built home around that size is around $800,000 to over a million depending on the finishes and how close it is to the city.

Hello 👋 Adam from Pensacola Beach Florida USA 🇺🇸. Pensacola was the best kept secret in Florida but people are moving here fast. You have to pick a Region and check everything out. I choose the South but in Florida insurance is crazy

11:10 Yeah, this is the "model" house, basically an example of the house they could build for you in this development.

Come here.. you can definitely open the door and garage with your phone.. even look at the cameras outside your house.

The thing that's terrible about those open-floor-plan houses is that the cooking smells (or in my case, BURNING smells) always lingers throughout the rest of the house, whereas if you've got a more "enclosed" kitchen, the smells don't waft around the house as badly. That's just been my experience. Plus the sound is so echoey when people walk across the hard-surface floors or close any doors in the house. I don't want to hear all that noise.

I live in Oregon and it's hard for me to see prices this cheap. If Texas wasn't so dam hot in the summer I'd be moving last week.

My microwave is above my oven

@xDarkTrinityx

Ай бұрын

Ditto. Granted I live in an apartment though.

Interesting fact there is a Greenville in every state in the country of America. I’m from Greenville, SC the foodie town that is 30 minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway in the mountains and about 4 hours from the beach including Charleston, SC.

Growing up, houses like this were still like "rich kid" type places. Maybe we were just more poor than I thought😂

@MoreAdamCouser

Ай бұрын

i think houses are also getting better looking too

Great reaction vid! It’s location location location in real estate! Belfast area demands a premium, an hour from Dallas/Ft Worth does not. For instance, I live in a very high demand location near Kelowna BC and I live in a new 1550 sq ft modular home that cost $425,000 in Canadian dollars. Peace (you have a very nice home, by the way!)

I absolutely love your content. I just became a member and I'm following you on Twitch.

As I watched this video Texas is flooding with big storms!

@MoreAdamCouser

Ай бұрын

damn, i hope the damage isnt too bad!

@stischer47

Ай бұрын

@@MoreAdamCouser The Houston area, not Texas. That's like saying the UK is flooding because Glasgow is.

@Kenyon712

Ай бұрын

@@stischer47Houston is not flooding. The storm went into Mexico.

He didn't show the 2 car garage but they typically have storage space, too. So, it's more like a 2.5 car garage.

Oh! No way! This is like a 30 minute drive away from me. Loving these videos…. Binging them!

Hey Adam that was a Model home he was showing,no one lives there..nice house for the price, decent sq footage..love your channel,keep up the great work

That is a nice home for the price but better if it had a pool!!! Some homes have 2 air conditioning and 2 furnaces so you can switch what floor you want cooled or heated.

Remember...$250k is like £150k due to the USA higher median income ($75k vs £35k)...you just get a lot more house vs income in USA. You have a nice house, man. It is just different in America. This same house would be $250k-$1,250,000 depending on location across the USA. Location matters!

@PurpleBassThumb

Ай бұрын

Yes thank you! Location matters a lot! I saw the thumbnail and instantly thought there’s no way that house is under half a million. But that makes sense in Texas, where the price lacks, the property tax is higher, it’s the 7th highest in the US and it’s only going up, apparently supposed to double up to 3.2% in the next few years

@Average_Middle_Aged_American

Ай бұрын

@PurpleBassThumb - i have a hard time believing that property tax is 3% anywhere in Texas. I live in a very nice neighborhood in a very nice town and mine is less than 1%.

@jishani1

Ай бұрын

That's some mental gymnastics to arrive at that conclusion. Holy 🆂hit. Not knocking his house but saying 250k is like 150k pounds is just incorrect. Direct conversion would be closer to 190k pounds. Their average salary being less only matters if their items are on average priced less than ours, which surprise they aren't because housing prices in European countries are higher than they are in the states. So it's not like trying to purchase an item in Turkey or Brazil where items are cheaper to accommodate for the amount of money the locals make. Prices don't go down, in this case they go up while money earned also goes down. This isn't a math problem where two negatives equal a positive, TF?

@PurpleBassThumb

Ай бұрын

@@Average_Middle_Aged_American look it up, the average property tax in Texas is 1.6%. Although, in the last 3 years the property tax in Texas has been dropping a decent amount, because of this, the TexasTribune has predicted that the average property tax in Texas could double by 2028 making it 3.2%. The article was posted in 2023 BY JOSHUA FECHTER AND ANDREW PARK on the TexasTribune website.

@Average_Middle_Aged_American

Ай бұрын

@jishani1 - not sure what you are talking about. Pretty simple. Americans get twice the house for the money. The avg house in America is more than twice the size. The median income is almost double. So Americans get more for their money. Therefore, UK gets less. So again, the relative costs of a $300k home in America would have to cost $150k in the UK for it to be a similar income to expense ratio. Understand now?

1. another thing these videos usually fail to show is if your in an HOA you typically have a whole community center with a gym and pools etc. Here in florida i’ve got 2 pools (pretty much water parks) and gym with tennis, basketball, baseball and a giant park with a pond. 2. you want your mind blown… look at philippine new build homes and prices

It's all about the location. There are still places that are very cheap and places that are ungodly expensive...

This house isn't $300K. That's just the base price for the floorplan. Every "upgrade" that gets added will add to the price. This model house as displayed would probably end up close to double the price if you built it just like this.

It really matters where you live. My 5 bdr house in Iowa costs the same amount as my friend's 1 bdr condo in San Diego. Of course, whenever I tease her about the cost of living differences, she hits back with a weather report.

That house is in a somewhat rural area 100 miles from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. If it was in any large metropolitan area on the East or West Coast, it would be at least THREE TIMES as much. The house is actually a "Model Home". A property development company is selling lots and building new houses in that area. Prospective buyers are brought there to see what they could expect in a newly built home. In fact, the blogger mentions that he is being quiet because a sales person is doing business with a perspective buyer in the office.

Adam, there's a saying in America, "Everything's bigger in Texas!" 😂

That same sized house costs $600,000-700,000 over here in Maryland.

@garycamara9955

Ай бұрын

Still cheap

You missed in the beginning of the video, it doesn’t open by phone but it does have a keypad entry if you go back & look. No, nobody lives there… he was talking about the property manager earlier. This home is actually standard, if you were to have one built, you could add things, pick your own colors of things like walls, carpet, sometimes even the layout of the house, etc…. Not everything you choose to change will always cost extra either.

Microwaves above the stovetop are the norm. Oh, and it's supposed to be 101 degrees F today in Dallas, so that's the downside to a location with affordable housing.

I just moved into a new apartment and the thing that sold it for me is the kitchen island with the sink 😻 3:38

No basement in tornader country.

@MoreAdamCouser

Ай бұрын

is texas a tornado country?

@arrobrewer2730

Ай бұрын

@@MoreAdamCouser yes

@Chris-lc4bo

Ай бұрын

@@MoreAdamCouser I just visit some friends that live in Texas, I didn't enjoy sitting in the pantry while a tornado came through their area. Up rooted tree everywhere.😕

@nm0852

Ай бұрын

None of our homes in Texas have basements 🤷🏾‍♀️

@gryfinryder

29 күн бұрын

Just a note. The reason for no basements in Texas has nothing to do with “tornado country”. Excerpt- Texas Soil Is Not Basement-Friendly Some areas are hard limestone that's very difficult and expensive to cut through to dig out a basement. The remaining areas have an unstable type of clay that swells significantly when it rains and shrinks during the dry season…. the bedrock is too near the surface, making digging a basement difficult and costly. In still other areas, what's known as “expansive” soils-clay and/or shale that shifts around in excessively wet and excessively dry conditions, which is to say normal conditions in Texas-make a basement unworkable. --------- Any reason for lack of basements is almost always geological in nature, and if not, it has to do with water tables and/or flooding. Tornado is a really good reason to have a basement actually.

New subscriber here, I love your videos! Keep up the great work 👍

He wasn't talking about the owner; he was talking about the listing real estate agent. I wear a size 10 shoe (43 European size I think).

Adam is a certified Stud 💚💚💚💚

$240,000 got us: massive 2 story house with attached garage that has a full apartment above it (we originally bought the place so his mom could stay with us. Thank god THAT is over) double deck with covered gazebo, 2.5 acres, separate building that is a woodshop on the first floor and my studio on top and a greenhouse on the back, the whole place can be heated with either the pellet stove, the massive wood stove that is built to heat the whole place or the oil furnace (in other words, for the cost of about $50month to heat + some treks to our woodshed outbuilding) a second gazebo in the front, well water, it's out in the countryside but is only a 25min drive to three good sized colleges and more. Depending on where you go, you can get a hell of a lot for what you pay.

@neurotiknerd

Ай бұрын

Lucky. In colorado that amount would get you a shack 😂

We have adouble oven in our kitchen. I love it you can cook one thing ontop and 1 on bottom. We have a gas stove not electric. Nice fireplace. 🙂

I’m from about 2 hours west and that is right down the road from the Buc-ees in the area 😂

I love kitchen islands but I've never seen one with a sink. I wouldn't want high ceilings, though. I have vaulted ceilings, and they're a pain to clean.

@margaretwilliams7658

Ай бұрын

You really have "never seen a kitchen island with a sink?"

@Dandee268

Ай бұрын

@margaretwilliams7658 No, I haven't. The sinks were always placed in main counter tops by cabinets and stove.

You can not buy that $240,000 house for that same amount everywhere in the US. Prices for the exact same house vary widely across the US depending on the location.

Try to find that size house in any major city, NYC, San Francisco, LA, or Seattle, and you'll pay a $million+. Now they want a 65% down-payment! You need $650,000 just to qualify and make your monthly payments.

What size my feet are ?!!..lol...well I'm a little 71 yo and generally have to buy my shoes in the little girl's department..yep.. Now about you moving to the U.S. .. we'd love to have you...just be careful where you end up...not to get too political..some places have less problems than others...just like weather and geographical issues..too hot..too cold..to shaky (lol)..too many strange uninvited... So come on down Adam..bring the fam and enjoy bigger houses 😁... 🌿🌿🌿

@BrLoc

Ай бұрын

To be fair, you're really not immune or safe from any weird kind of weather anomalies, acts of God or otherwise anywhere in North America LOL. You want to complain and be terrified of the weather at the same time?....come on over, we got plenty for ya.

lol I live in a state where the home I am in is probably half the size of the one in this video and it cost just as a much. A house like this one in the video would probably be 600k or more USD in my state.

@gametri-eq6lj

Ай бұрын

I live in a city 30 mins from Dallas and the prices are 500k plus also nava shows houses with massive upgrades 150-200k worth of upgrades

A friend of mine bought the model home when his neighborhood was completed. He got a discount and it was loaded with every imaginable upgrade. Best of all it wasn't an HOA.

The house I grew up in was 250k and sold for appx 1m. It was 4000 sqft. With 3/4 acre. Included access to private tennis courts, pool and playground. 250 now buys a lot less. It blows.

welcome to America, Adam. our weather can get batshit crazy regardless of where you choose to call home, but for all the flaws America has, we're still the country that everyone wants to live in.

It depends on where you are. I live in Southern New Jersey, and paid about $60K for my mobile home. If my house was in rural Kentucky it would be $25-30K. If it was in Candler North Carolina; it would be almost $200.

I’m in No. California and we will see temperatures at 119 and 120 this next week.

I didn't see any access to a basement, which may NOT be standard in Texas. However, where I live in Wisconsin, they save lives in tornadoes

If you do decide to do this, please, please, please avoid an HOA at all costs. Everyone I’ve known has hated HOAs, they are evil.

@exstock

Ай бұрын

YES!! And they’re ridiculously hard to avoid in large portions of TX. We moved back here as telecommuters, and were in the wonderful position of being able to settle pretty much wherever we wanted, but even with that huge head start, our selection was less than 10% of what it would have been if we’d been willing to accept an HOA.

@rorimorgant.williams6647

Ай бұрын

@@exstock because of several of my cousins having nightmares with their HOAs when we were looking for our second larger house we had the same issue but I wanted an older house with more character and those are not unusual in HOAs. But developers in Illinois are very sneaky and have started building multiple styles of houses in developments so they suck.

@xDarkTrinityx

Ай бұрын

Lived in an HOA once for 1 year. (rented a town home) Never again.

@alaina5958

Ай бұрын

I agree HOAs are a big problem. I don’t understand how anyone would buy a house and then pay for the privilege of being told what you can and can’t do on your own property.

@exstock

Ай бұрын

@@alaina5958 I can only assume it's for people who miss having an overbearing landlord SO MUCH that they want to replace that single landlord with a whole committee of them!

Took your advice and went over on Twitch and followed you

Ok darlin, I'm gonna lay this out for you. This is in Greenville TX which is at least an hour with no traffic to Dallas proper (not suburbs like Plano, Garland or McKinney which is less time) if you take road construction into account and there is always construction. Now Greenville is a nice little town but is considered a rural area because outside city limits you will still find a fair share of farms and ranches. You can find dozens of homes in Greenville and other towns of comparable size and distance from Dallas for far less. Ones, that while not a brand new build and may take a little work, are much less overall price wise (tens of thousands less) and generally have much bigger yards and gardens and in some cases come with half an acre or more land. These type of homes in the video are constructed by companies who buy large swaths of land and then put as many homes on them as possible, often giving the buyers a choice between one of perhaps half a dozen options. The buyer then picks out what type of home they want (and different types cost different amounts which is why he said starting in the 200,000's but stating the floor plan he was showing was much more. The builder then offers options of upgrades like nicer flooring, cabinets, bathroom amenities, ect at additional costs. The homes are then built as quickly as possible (sometimes in just weeks) and are rarely homes that will stand the test of time. Most start shoing expensive issues within the first five years. However, you aren't taking into account other factors. One is the requirements to buy in America. Generally you need a credit score over seven hundred which means almost no debt of any kind and the fact that you are generally required to put twenty percent or more of the homes total cost down as the initial payment. That is not counting home inspection or closing costs. Another factor is income. You have to prove your income and in Texas the minimum wage is still the Federal 7.25 per hour which, when one works full time (not factoring in things like medical insurance deductions) is less than what is considered poverty level annually. Most are lucky enough to make over that due to various reasons I won't get into but the average for someone who is not college educated is still generally less than 60k per year. And that does not factor in othr costs of living such as utilities, what could possibly be a long and expensice communte if you work in the DFW area on top of purchasing and maintaining a vehicle. Yes, to someone in outside the US homes seem fairly reasonable but unless you have a dual income situation with a partner, make very good money or like myself, were lucky enough to inherit a truly staggering amount of land in northern Texas (several hundred acre ranch that my family has owned for over a century) then it can be very difficult to buy a home. Which is why I'm considering building a tiny home community on seventy or so acres of my property since DFW is only about an hour away.

@xDarkTrinityx

Ай бұрын

Shit, I live in MN. A home that size here an hour outside the twin cities is still easily $500k. Probably more since it's new. All I can find around here for less than $300k is lots and townhomes. Also road construction is one of our 4 seasons.

@jezaeiri

Ай бұрын

@@xDarkTrinityx I know all about that. My mom's side is from Texas/Oklahoma and where the ranch came from and where my immediate family all live now but my dad is from Michigan and we were Air Force kids. I watched my parents deal with housing in thee countries and then Colorado and Michigan before I moved to Australia for grad school. Real estate is a nightmare. Australia was hell. I only managed to buy a home in the Sydney suburbs because my roommate at the dorms father was a developer who sold to me at cost and then I rented out my three spare rooms for years to other college students. And I was lucky enough to do that in the early 2000s. My home was was 150k when I bought it. It's worth 3million now and I still rent it out to be able to cover property tax and just hold on to it so I can retire there someday or my Aussie hubby decides he's had enough of getting traumatized living in the country. And buying a house in the DFW proper and that includes the suburbs especially Plano and Frisco which are two of the most expensive cities in the country will run you at least 500k. My sister and her wife spent five years saving and hunting before finding a home at an auction that still needed over 100k in work.

That walk-in closet is bigger than some apartments in Manhattan. ;-)

Hey I've watched ur channel you are doing a great job at looking at our houses in the US I have a house like that but it's got 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and I have a projector in my basement. So keep up the good work

This house is kind of in the middle of nowhere, and TX is great, but their new home builders (especially in this range) aren’t known for high standards and enduring quality. Things to keep in mind when looking at the low prices.

@xDarkTrinityx

Ай бұрын

I thought it would've been way more in the middle of nowhere honestly for the price.. but I googled and it's only 48 min drive from Dallas.

This is the model.home....it was the company agent who has to leave

The house in the video is listed by Zillow as being worth $414,000 (120 Ozark street Greenville TX)

Adam, your kitchen is beautiful. You can't have kitchen envy HAHAHA

PLEASE put your second channel link somewhere!!! I’ve been looking for it for 2 days 😢.

Real estate prices vary widely, obviously. We're in Ohio, arguably the least popular state in the country. In a 4 bed 3 bath, 2666 sq.ft., with a 2 car detached garage and a huge yard, worth a grand total of about $90k.

This is the middle house so you chose a 3 or 4 bedroom one story of two story house etc

I used to live about 45 minutes from where he is. This is NOT in an affordable housing neighborhood. It's in Greenville - not far from Rockwall and Royse City, which are more wealthy areas.

@garycamara9955

Ай бұрын

Then why is it so cheap?

@RoniFromTN

Ай бұрын

@@garycamara9955 I suppose that would depend on what one's idea of "cheap" is.

You can get smart locks that you can open with your phone, or key tags. But you can get them anywhere.

Good idea I think you’d be a great interior decorator. You’re very smart. Have a great good luck.🎉

As they say, "Everything is bigger in Texas" and its true. People like big homes with alot of yard space, many have in ground swimming pools. Best to not buy in cities such as Huston Fort Worth and Dallas. Prices there are much higher and more crime.

Dallas Texas is expensive here in Texas you can get a 2 story 5 bedroom brick 2 car garage home on land for 270k in north Texas

I absolutely open my entry doors with my phone.

So what happens in the u s a builder We'll buy a large piece of land that he wants to develop into houses.He starts building them, but if the first one he builds is a model home which is what you see here, they put all their extras and other upgrades and a little bit of decorations in them.And then they Set a real estate agent in the house all day to help people as they come by and look

I went and subscribed to your new channel!

@dirkmcghee1604

13 күн бұрын

Sike, where the fuck is it?... No link to Adam Couser Again?

My microwave is above my oven. it has an exhaust fan built into the microwave.

Now... I'm from Callie and the stove top A.K.A the burners matter. Why you ask. Well to warm up tortillas real quick to slap butter in them to roll them for a quick snack and out the door you go. The burners on that stove SUCK. If you think that doesn't matter. Your wrong. Flat burners are horrible. The surface flat burners ruin faster. But they scorch. And you will need to replace the whole surface

Lol, did you say to let you know how big our feet are ? I must have heard that wrong. Funny, yet freaky in a good way, heehee

Oh sweetie, we can open our doors with our phones and lock them too. We can start our vehicles too.

2 car garage... It gets very hot here for 5 months in Texas.

If you don't mind the cold you might want to move to the Minnesota North Dakota area we got milk around $4 we got 20 lb thing a beef for like $30 Really Big houses for up to 500k and you can work at McDonald's and get about $20 an hour

Adam, Here in southwestern Virginia for $300k you get a house maybe a little bigger plus about two acres of land. Plus land that looks like places in Ireland.

@garycamara9955

Ай бұрын

Thats cheap

There is a certain door lock that you can open with your phone

@MoreAdamCouser

Ай бұрын

really???

Ай бұрын

@@MoreAdamCouser yes Adam I don't remember what the name of it is

@DaInfamous0ne

Ай бұрын

I have one.

Yeah, these houses you have reviewed are not the norm. For most homes that look like this is $400,000 US Dollars. In the previous video with the bannana in the garbage disposal is one to several million.

personally my experience with Texas isn’t good 107 degree heat, tornados my city has no transit and no metro houses that used to be 300k are now 500k

That's actually a small house on a small piece of land for Texas.

Ok why is this guy speaking like he's in a library tho 😂

@pampietro8980

Ай бұрын

He sounds creepy 😱

@MoreAdamCouser

Ай бұрын

🤣

@DaInfamous0ne

Ай бұрын

Because other people are in the house and they're trying to make a sale.

@mitchellgildea254

Ай бұрын

@@DaInfamous0ne ok that actually makes sense

@jishani1

Ай бұрын

It's a model home, that means it's open to the public. Realtor's that work for the building company that made the model home are constantly giving people tours of it trying to get them to commit to buying with that company to have them build a house as well.

In colorado where I live that house would easily be over a million dollars.