We Can’t Live Here Anymore…Forced to Sell Our 2 Million Dollar Home

So, this is our $2 million house that we bought. >> Did we make a $2 million mistake by buying this home? >> That's the question, y'all. When we bought this home six years ago, I was feeling kind of nervous when we signed on that line when it said $2 million. I was like, I don't know if this is the right decision. I kind of regretted it. I just know that right now it it ain't working out. Do you think it was a mistake, Joe? >> Oh, yeah, definitely. What? >> Yeah, I think it was a great mistake to make. Yeah. So, why did we even move to California in the first place? From Maryland, by the way, from the East Coast. >> Yeah. So, there's a couple reasons. One is because I felt like the East Coast was a little bit rigid, I would say, with a lot of like educators, doctors, lawyers. >> Mhm. And my babies are creative, y'all. >> Yeah. It just didn't vibe right with me. >> Yeah. And we just moved out here because we wanted to be outside more. I like I'm an outdoorsy person. You know that what they always say the weather in California is better. >> It's consistent. It's it's almost it's almost boring. >> We also just chose to live here in California so we could spend we for some reason we felt like we would be able to spend more time with the kids here. >> I think it's because of the outdoor activities and doing all the things that we like to do outside >> and just involving our kids with it. >> Yeah. And that's definitely happened. We spent a lot more time outdoors. When we first started our home search in California, our initial budget was $1 million. >> And there was actually a house that we almost signed on and we backed out last minute. >> And the house was, you know, it was a certain style that we really, really liked at the time, and we still do, >> but the home itself, the way that it's designed, they're all small. >> Yeah. And just think about it. A $1 million house that's small, that's like crazy. So, we bought this home right around the beginning of 2020. And at the time, we were actually debating between two houses. So, it was this house, which is a 3,300 ft² home near the beach, very California, very beach vibe. And the other house we were considering was like a 5,000 ft² home, a little bit further away from the beach, but it had a pool. It had a backyard. And we ultimately chose this house because of the walkability of the area, how close it is to the grocery stores, the library, the schools, we can bike to the beach, all of that really great stuff that we were looking for out of California. And even though this was the highest priced home on the market in this area we lived in, I still felt like it was totally undervalued because I I was looking at houses in Santa Monica and Venice and they were like double the price of this home. So I was like, "This home has got to be undervalued." Like it's less than 2 miles away from the beach. super familyfriendly and I have no idea why it only cost $2 million is what I was thinking to myself. And when we closed on it, it was the third highest priced home that I had ever sold in this area, right? And I remember I thought to myself like I could die in this home. Like >> Yeah. Like you had a dream, don't you remember? You had a dream that was like sunny skies and and green grass and >> kids playing the doors open and stuff like that. >> That was not this house. That that vision was not this house. And that's why I knew we weren't going to stay here for long cuz I was like that was not this house was not the No, this was not the the vision of my dreams house. >> Well, you should have said that in the first place. >> You thought this was it? >> No, I knew that this wasn't it, but I'm saying that like I thought it was a passage to something. >> Okay. Yeah. >> So, this house right here sold for about what 4.3 or so? 4 million. >> 4 million, I think. Yeah. >> So, we originally had plans to stay here for about like 2 to 3 years and then move on. >> Yeah. But then what happened? >> Then the pandmic hit. That put a pause onto all of our house looking and home shopping and looking at different areas. So, >> but it was actually really really nice, wasn't it? >> It was because it was like no people here, no traffic, no congestion and and actually we did get to travel a lot around Orange County and San Diego and >> so it really like made everything into like a skewed reality because there was like no traffic. There was no noise. Everything was just like sunny and bright and happy and it was strange. >> Yeah. And on top of that, my sisters were here. Our family was here during the pandemic. >> Yeah. >> So, we were just chilling. I mean, it was great. But now, we've been here for six years, you guys. And the stuff that we loved about it when we were first here, we still love about it now. So, that's the walkability. We can go on these beautiful walks, you know, beautiful homes. The bike ability, the outdoor weather, of course, the sunshine every single day most of the time. >> Um the access to the beach, the parks. There's like millions of parks around here that we can take our kids to play with. The hiking, the trails, the walking. I I do so much hiking and I absolutely love it. Like >> And there's no bugs either. >> Yeah. No bugs. >> Like I've seen what, like two mosquitoes since we've been out here. Yeah. So, I feel like everything that we loved at first in California when we were first looking here, like we still love it now. And that's why it's so hard to say goodbye. I don't want to say goodbye. >> Well, who said to say goodbye, though? >> I don't know. We can find a house in San Diego somewhere or something like that. >> I think it's more of like a see you later. >> So, those are all the reasons that we fell in love with this location, the neighborhood. I guess you could say our home, too. And this is why we regretted it. First off, of course, we bought too much house. We overbought on the price. Our initial price was $1 million and we ended up buying a $2 million house. >> It was the right mistake to make because at the same time, it was a great investment. >> It really was. Like, of course, our house value has gone up. Now, it has almost doubled. But that doesn't still take into account like if we can just generally afford it. And I feel like one of the things that we missed out on that I feel like a lot of people do is the maintenance on the house. So when we originally bought the house, I was thinking, hey, we're buying a brand new house. Everything works perfectly fine. There won't be a lot of maintenance that we need on this house in the first 5 years. And I really did not believe that we were going to have to do much to the house. Just like when we first bought our old house in Maryland, we almost had little to no maintenance in the first 5 years. Of course, like our dishwasher broke. we had to buy a like those type of things. But I didn't think we had to do anything major and that was not the case with this home. So the second thing is just the overall maintenance on such an expensive house, you guys. First of all, you know how they say if you have money, don't let people know you have money. Well, you know how they'll overcharge you like flowers if they know that they're for wedding flowers and stuff like that. So, when you have a contractor or someone who's going to do something to your house, an electrician or a plumber or anyone who's going to do something to your house, paint the walls come out and they see you live in this huge expensive house, they have a tendency to try to overcharge you. So, our maintenance has been through the roof of how much it costs just by people just stepping on, oh, you got real nice house. Ooh, yeah, that's going to be 1,000 to do to paint a room, 1,000 to put up wallpaper. Like, for example, like gardening. When we were first looking for a gardener, people were charging all the $400 to cut some Wilson some law. I was like, "No, bro. We good." You know, it took me a long time to find people who would charge something fair because they're they, you know, they assume like, "Okay, you have money. I ain't got money like that to be throwing out the window to be charging out." No, you ain't going to overcharge me. So, that was something we didn't take into consideration uh when we first bought this house. Another part of the maintenance is the cost of having so many bathrooms. So, our house has six bathrooms. Doesn't that sound great? Every bedroom comes with an on suite. Every one of your kids can have their own bathroom. They can have their own toilet and their own tub and their own knobs to break. Each each person can break a knob and clog a toilet every day. So, I'm not feeling like a bunch of bathrooms that are like four of the kids use. You know, in our previous house, we had four bathrooms, but there was two full baths and two half baths. And it was manageable because most of the kids just used one bath. Multiple people were accountable for their own for their own for one bathroom. Yeah. For multiple bathrooms. >> And it puts a lot of cleaning pressure on a person to be able to take care of their room being clean and their bathroom being clean. Definitely just way too many bathrooms and the maintenance on toilets and tub fixtures and all that. It's just too much. >> Yeah. So, they say on a home you should budget about 1% of the value of the home. um every year. >> Yeah. For maintenance, right? >> Yeah. So, for our home, that would be like $20,000. >> And that's $1600 a month, right? And we did not plan on that. We did not put that onto our mortgage payment or plan for that at all. That's not a good trade-off for me. Like, I don't want to have to live in an expensive house and then pay for expensive maintenance because I live in an expensive house. That's not a fair trade for me. Like, I don't care that much about the home price that much to want to pull out of my pockets for that. Yeah. Thank you kindly. >> So, it comes down to this. Was it a mistake to buy this $2 million house? >> Well, I think yes. And another reason is because we have saved less and less money by living here. We are not on the right path to retirement. >> I would argue that it was the best mistake that we've ever made. >> Why? Why? because the equity and the and the home value just keeps on going up in this specific place. >> Yes, the house is worth $2 million more, but do we have that $2 million more in our in our hand? No, >> we will. >> But we don't we don't have it right now, so we can't do anything with it. >> I mean, we have it right now. >> How are we How are we going to get it? How are we going to get it? You said we will. >> Yeah, we just have to go and sell the house, >> right? >> Mhm. So, no, it wasn't it wasn't a mistake, >> right? >> As long as we sell it, >> right? As long as we keep on moving forward, it's not a mistake, right? >> It I think it I think it could definitely be a mistake if we just choose to stay here as California is going crazy with all of the Californian things. >> Mhm. So >> instead of saving for our money in a bank, we essentially put money into this house, but we have to get it out in order for us to use that money to do and venture onto other things, whether it might be a new business that we want to start or new investments that we want to make. I mean, it's not good to have all of your money stored into your house and not diversify. So, I was thinking to myself, like, how are we going to get ourselves out of this situation without writing down our goals, you know, and really saying what it is that we want? Do we value having a really nice house over like really nice cars for example? So, do we want to drive beers and then put all of our money into our house or do we not really value a really nice house that much? Maybe we value our health or maybe we value having land. So, I just wanted to figure out like what our goals were and like for me and you to have the same goals. So, you have goals and I have goals, but we need to align those goals together into one. >> I think that they definitely need to acknowledge each other so that we can build together. >> Yeah. So Joe and I sat down and mapped out all of our goals using today's sponsor, Monarch, which is quickly becoming my favorite private personal finance platform that visualizes all of our accounts into one beautiful, clean dashboard. We securely connected all of our checking accounts, our saving accounts, credit cards, mortgages, retirement accounts, and investments. Monarch syncs with over 13,000 institutions, and there's no ads and no selling data. When we first connected our budget, we didn't have to worry about itemizing every single little transaction because Monarch did such a great job of automatically categorizing all of our transactions into the pre-made spinning categories. And then we went back in to customize our own categories and create some of our own rules. 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But don't forget to scan our QR code or click the link in the description to let them know that Maisley sent you and we can get credit to where credit is due. Thanks again to Monarch for sponsoring today's video. And so our biggest regret, I feel like my biggest regret is that our mortgage payment is entirely too high. And why I say that is because I feel like I'm working to pay a really high mortgage payment. And it's not that we can't afford it. It's almost like I don't want to afford it, you know? Like I don't want to put in so much effort and energy into buying an expensive house that you know in 30 years from now I might not even be in the right health to be able to enjoy it you know because I'm working so hard to be able to afford living in this home. >> Mhm. I think that honestly the house has not treated us with kindness when it comes to uh growing in age. I don't think all homes are built like this. I don't think all homes um fall apart like this. >> Yeah. >> You know, I think some of them fall apart a little bit more uh >> gracefully or you know, sometimes you want that, you know, patina on the ground. Sometimes you want the weathered wood and stuff like that. But this house in particular, I don't know what it is. >> They making a They making a million dollar house. It's cheap. >> Yeah. >> They they they truly are. Like back in the day, like I'm sure we can get a good $500,000 solid home with solid materials that we could use. Something that was already built in the 80s, working perfectly fine right now. The ground, everything. We look at houses that were in the '8s and I really like them. Personally, we're spending a really huge chunk of our income on our mortgage and not on our mortgage, but on our mortgages since we still have our house back in Maryland. And it means more time working. And obviously, I mean, even less time to spend with the family, the kids, and even less time for us to spend together cuz I always see you working on editing on that computer, Joe. >> Yeah. >> And I just want you to go out and take me somewhere. >> Yeah. And also like I've been skipping out on like our date nights. >> Yeah. And then also like our nighttime routines get mixed up. You know, these are the times >> you've expressed to me as well like these are the times where like the kids >> really see what we value and what they should value. >> So if if they always see us working or they always see us like doing something not with them >> then it's like okay they're going to grow up and run their house that way. >> Yeah, definitely. Also another mistake that we made cuz I mean we made some mistakes. You have to admit that we made some mistakes. >> I think that we were somewhat improvident. >> No, don't use my word. >> Why? >> I called him improvident last night. Now he's trying to use that back on me. >> What does it mean? >> It means that you don't plan wisely or think about the future. And I did think about Don't say me. Leave that for yourself. Go. >> I think that we we did think towards the future, but we didn't actually think about how the different directions our future would go. >> Well, we weren't planning to be here for 6 years. We're only planning to be here for 2 years. >> And for some reason, we didn't think about having two other kids. >> We should I don't know why think about that. >> We literally didn't think we were going to have any more kids. >> I don't think that we didn't think that we weren't going to have any more kids. I think what it was is that when we came into this house, just things just felt right. And so when things felt right, we just disregarded all of the other things. >> Like what? Condoms. Is that what you're saying? >> That wasn't in the budget. That wasn't in the budget. We got to cut We got to cut our our budget somewhere, right? >> Okay. Next next point. Next point. One of another mistake that we made is that not getting a 15-year mortgage. You agree? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Like there is no way we want to stay paying on a house for 30 years. I mean, we're 40, so we have like 24 years left on this house. No, I do not want to be having to pay a mortgage for till I'm 66 years old. >> Yeah. Actually, you know, >> 64. Sorry. >> There's something that you you helped me realize as you're as you're talking about this. Do you remember when the mortgage rates were like super super low >> like all time like in the history >> or something? Yeah. >> I I feel like that was a really great time that we should have um refinanced. >> Yeah. Yeah. We had a we had an offer to refinance. >> Yeah, we should have. But the problem is is that like we were so caught up with like working and doing stuff with work so that when opportunities came we we didn't even grab them because >> we sure didn't. >> Yeah. So I I don't want to be in that type of situation where like your mental and financial and just whatever compass is just completely like fogged over because you're just like okay no I got to work I got to do this you know and I think that happens a lot in our house itself when the kids want something we just sometimes like you know no we're we're doing something we're working >> and in their eyes that could be >> the story arc to how they become a villain in life or something like that you know like like my my mom ignored me today, so now I'm going to be the I don't know. >> I feel like it's worse when you work at home and you're like, "No, I'm working right now." You know, like the kids don't understand like >> Well, you're home though. >> Yeah. People don't realize because working at home. Yeah. Because like there's a there's a lot of benefits to it, a lot of um convenience to it, but at the same time like the kids also see how you are at work. One thing I will say is as we look to forward to buying a new home, let's just think about having a complete office space that only grown-ups can go into. >> Yeah. So, if we were to stay in this house once our baby gets 18, we will still have six more years to pay off this house. So, all of our kids will be gone and we will still be trying to buy the big old house that we wanted for them to live in. >> And we'll be what, 58? >> We'll be 58. >> Yeah. >> I don't want to work that hard at 58. I mean, I don't mind working hard, but I don't want to have to work that hard at 58, >> right? >> So, hopefully we're on the way to making a plan to buy a new home that we can pay off in 10 to 15 years. >> But do you regret it? >> I mean, I regretted it when I signed on the line. Yes. >> Right at that moment. >> Yeah. I was like, "This is too much money. We can't afford this payment." Like, I just know like in the long run, like, we're not going to want to pay this huge amount of money every single month like for for 30 years. But I don't regret living here. I've loved living here. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, no. Knowing Yes. Yes. No. No. No. No. No. I don't work. I don't work. >> Yeah. I don't I don't have any regrets. I think it's just it's just this house served us for its time. We just got to take what it's provided for us. >> Make our next moves, you know, make our next moves into whatever it might be. So, where do we go from here? >> Well, try to figure out if we can sell this house. That's what that's the first thing. Everybody else's house is selling for 4 million. Why can't we get 4 million? >> Cheers. >> Okay. Cheers. >> Oh, it's plastic. >> Thank you. >> Let me get you some. >> Okay. Thanks. This looks so good. >> Honey. >> H. Oh, that's butter. You made it first. >> Oh, it all. >> Yeah, I should have looked at whatever this was. >> Okay, that looks good. Where's our utensils? >> Thank you. Okay, you ready to eat? >> Yeah. >> This is one of the beauties about living in Cali. We got the food. Healthy potato soup. We We I got this to share for both of us. Oh, of course >> I didn't. No. Yeah. >> Lord God, thank you for this food that you provided for us. We pray that as we eat this food um we will just have good discernment over our future as we look towards what you have next for us and um just stepping into our new chapter. We just pray that we would just um be diligent in becoming uh more financially responsible and accountable and uh just having good um providence. >> In Jesus name I pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> So where do you think we go from here? Like do you see us in a new home? Do you see us staying in California? Do you see us moving out of the state? Like, >> wow, that's good. >> I see us um now that you brought retirement into the budget, it makes me think a lot more frugally cuz it's like, how long do we want to work? >> Mhm. >> There's an oranginess. Oh my god, look at that. Are you supposed to do this? >> It's a very orange orange. >> I feel like this year when I turned 40, for some reason on YouTube, all of a sudden I was getting recommended retirement things and so I really started like paying more attention to it and I'm like listening to people in their 60s, you know, say the wins and their losses. So, I'm like, "Okay, now is the perfect time for me to get for us to get really serious about what we're doing." And I don't mind living frugally. And I don't mind living in a what do they call a house? Like a um you know, modest modest. Yeah. A modest house. Like I desire to live in a modest house and desire to live frugally for long term. Cuz it's not just like me and you, it's our kids. >> It's our grandkids. Like, you know, >> what do you think modest looks like? Are you talking about modest as in like for us or modest in terms of like our family? Because modest for our family does not look modest to the normal eye. >> Yeah. And I understand that. I understand if I say modest is a million or if we say modest is $750,000, that's >> Yeah. >> more than what the average price, you know, normal price is, but that's just what it is for us. And >> Mhm. Just a modest five bedroomedroom home with three garages, an acre and a half. Just modest to fit our family. >> Well, it can have all Yeah, because I probably get that, but it's not going to be a brand new house. It's probably a house in the 1980s. And also modest in terms of design. I don't need a new brand new kitchen. I don't need farmhouse out. I'm a okay with the '90s. >> Yeah. I don't even like the current design of homes. >> I know you don't. >> Is it just me? Do you like the current design? >> I feel like I've seen it so much that it's just boring at this point to my eyes, but I mean, there's nothing wrong with boring. >> Hey, you're left-handed. You're getting in my way. >> I have to think about that. >> Like I I >> Is boring. Okay. >> Well, the the reason why I appreciate like a 1980s home or like a 1990s home is because of the build quality. Like like when we go shopping for a house in San Diego and you see all those homes that were remodeled and built in the 80s and '90s, like they're longlasting, you know, they're there and they're not broken. Let's just say that. >> Yeah. The houses from the ' 60s and '7s, I love their take on like modern, you know. >> Mhm. So, I feel like that's where we could be frugal on our money, like still buying enough house that we need or enough land, but we don't have to have the newest, greatest things inside of the house. >> Mhm. because in 20 years they're going to be old anyway. >> I think it's best to be frugal everywhere except for where we want. >> Yeah, I agree. >> We really need to identify what those things are. >> Yeah. And I feel like me and you I mean we've had lots of conversations already. I feel like we identify that a house is important to us, but it's not that important to us, right? I think like there's other things that we value above it in terms of what we want to spend our money on. So >> what? >> You could eat that orange. The whole thing. Oh, the outside is cooked. >> Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. You can I feel like having an outlook is not just when we turn old or when we die, but the generations after that. If we would be a fool not to think about our grandchildren, not just our grandchildren, but also our great-grandchildren. And I want to save up enough money that we don't use ever in our lives that we can leave to our great grandchildren because that's really how you build wealth. Like we only be alive for 85 years, you know? So if we invest a $100, let's say, now for 85 years, it's not going to be as much if we invest it for 160 years and give it to the great great grandchildren, you know, I think we did that on the calculator and it's like insane like if you just leave it to one more generation away, how big that grows. And it says it in the Bible like >> I think it's um a good man leaves an inheritance to their children's children or something like that. >> Unlike a unwise man something to the sinful or something. >> Yeah. I was actually looking at that verse yesterday. >> I want to find somewhere where we can leave our stuff to our children. So, like right now, California has this new law out where if you leave a house to your child and that house is worth more than a million dollars than the original purchase price that they'll reddo the property taxes. They'll reassess the property taxes. And our house is already worth like 1 to 2 million more than what we bought it for. So, if you were to redo our property taxes right now, like we pay $24,000 a year in property taxes right now, which is a lot of money. And if we were to reassess it to, let's say, what it would be worth even just to the four million right now, that doubles the property taxes already. That puts the property taxes at $4,000 a month. And that's after we pay the whole entire house off. >> Yeah. >> So after we pay the house off, there'll still be a $4,000 a month you have to pay on the house for our kids. It doesn't make any sense. >> For life. >> For life. >> Well, actually, no. >> It could be more. >> Well, it would be more because >> that's like if we sold it right now or if we die right now. So, it's likely to triple or quadruple. One of the other things that I want is to be able to convince my family members to move to where we move. And there's no convincing anyone to move to California cuz it cost too much money. Like it's definitely just looking for a place where homes are a lot cheaper. The land is a lot cheaper cuz I know we want to buy land. I know that we want to buy multiple properties. Like we can trade our house in for I don't know so many more properties. >> Maybe that's the way that we should go. I don't know. Maybe doing that kind of gives us a jump start by buying a a compound with multiple homes. I mean, I've talked about it multiple times, but having multiple homes just from the get- go, like why should we build towards that trying to get convince people when we can have that now? What more could we build? Not for the sake of like making money or or just doing stuff, but like what could we do if we just had just this central point where all of us were doing something and everyone was >> somehow supporting one another, whether it's just like monetary needs for homeay, for babysitting, for emotional support. >> I and I miss that. I miss being around my sisters all the time. Now I just talk to them on the phone. But to like live in one piece of land or really close to each other would be great. Well, I think we'll have that that vision will come true. >> There is a reason why I I have that like personally I'm not that close to my family and I never wanted that for my family. I mean like with my family, but for some reason like I >> what? >> Waiting for you to stay. >> But but no, but like since since being married with you, um for some reason it means a lot more to me than than I would ever really imagine. >> That's cute. Are you about to cry? No, >> but I'm kind of thinking about your mom though. Like she would have her own little house like just >> I look forward to what's to come. >> And um even if it's not our perfect dream spot. I mean I feel like dream spot is how you make your life, not necessarily about where you're at or what your house is, but I always think about it as well. I'm going to die and go to heaven and have my my mini mansions. I'm going to have a mansion in heaven. So the house that we get right now doesn't even matter because it's not our eternal home. It's literally going to be burnt up in fire and gone away and it's going to be like a a wis compared to our eternal heavenly father. And just to be good stewards of the money we have now and be frugal and help people with our money. That's another thing I want to do more of. >> I'm still stuck on the compound thing. >> I know you are. >> Cuz we can we can buy homes one at a time or we can buy land and just build Sesame Street. >> That's true. >> You know, I'm looking I'm looking around. Yeah, I got to be I got to be far away from people, Joe. >> Yeah, you can be on the other street >> for that. I want to be a drive away. We going to need 100 >> country. I've seen some um posts with like what 800 acres or something like that out in like North Carolina. >> Mhm. >> Oh, in Florida, too. >> Florida, they have like some crazy amount of acres. $10 million. >> We ain't got 10 million. >> Not yet. To sum it all up, we absolutely love our neighborhood, but I don't know how much I love that house, Joe. I I'm not in love with our house or anything like that. >> Yeah, I'm not in love with the house either. I think the situations when we bought it really just gave us the honey honeymoon phase and made everything feel so loving about it. >> Very nice. >> Yeah. Like I think we needed it. It was a nice introduction to California and the neighborhood and >> we made two babies in that house. >> Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Hey.

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