(cheerful music)
- [Terry] It’s like a rival turf war here with the ducks,
and the geese.
(Marci laughing)
- Yes, I never knew ducks could eat bananas.
Thank you internet.
Here you go guys.
- [Terry] It’s fun coming to North Georgia Mountains,
isn’t it?
- [Marci] I think that’s the thing I love about
the mountains is just being out in nature this is so fun.
- [Kaitlyn] Yeah.
- So it’ll be fun wherever we land
to be able to do stuff like this.
I’m Marci.
- I’m Terry.
- And we’re looking for our dream home
in the North Georgia Mountains.
- [Terry] We wanna get a property
that we can generate some revenue.
- Right.
- Right, maybe multiple properties,
or houses on one site maybe,
or something that we can fix up and make, or add on,
or build to, right?
- Right.
- Going on house stores, I feel like sounds very boring,
but for me, I really enjoy it because I get some sort of say
in the decision-making process
before I have to live in the house, which is nice.
- [Marci] There you go.
- [Terry] Throw one way out there so that, yeah.
I wanna see a fight.
- [Marci] You’re terrible.
- The North Georgia Mountains are well known
as a peaceful getaway from the hustle and bustle of Atlanta.
People from all over venture to the mountain towns
sprinkled along the Chattahoochee River,
and Blue Ridge Mountain range.
With an abundance of recreational activities,
this is an outdoor lover’s paradise.
Not to mention an easy way
to beat Georgia’s hot temperatures.
Do you need to cool off?
Why not head to the Bavarian themed town of Helen,
where you can tube down the river.
Afterwards, enjoy an ice cold beer
in the town’s beer garden.
Sounds like a perfect day if you ask me.
Homebuyer’s Terry and Marci have navigated
the highs and lows of big city living for years.
They’ve worked hard, taken big risks,
and invested in their future to escape the urban crowds.
And now is the time to make their country dreams a reality.
Their kids are getting older,
and they wanna spend as much time with them as possible.
Moving to the countryside,
and cutting out their two hour daily commute
would be life-changing for the whole family.
Now, in addition to freeing up time,
Marci and Terry have another big dream
they’re willing to take a risk on.
They hope to find a property that works for their family,
and doubles as a business for events and guests.
They envision this next chapter of their life
hosting large family gatherings, retreats,
and weddings on their future property.
Now, Terry has worked in real estate for 20 years.
He is a seasoned professional,
but even he knows he has his work cut out for him.
Properties in the North Georgia Mountains
are typically on the market for only 23 days.
And with properties selling quickly in the area,
Terry and Marci will need to be decisive
in their search and move quickly.
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- Where are we going?
- You told me to drive this way, so here we go.
- You’re driving really fast for not knowing where you’re going.
Don’t mean to criticize you’re driving, of course, but...
- Hmm.
Little bit of a windy road here.
- [Terry] Yeah
- [Marci] Definitely secluded, which is lovely.
I can’t wait to hear the quiet, that’s my favorite sound.
- [Terry] This place it’s four bedrooms,
five and a half baths.
- [Marci] What’s the list price?
- [Terry] The list price is 1.395 million.
So 1.4 million, basically, it’s eight acres.
- [Marci] Okay.
- So you got some land.
It has an airplane hanger, which is kind of fun.
- [Kaitlyn] Wow.
- That is amazing, that’s very cool.
- And there’s, like,
a private airfield, like, airstrip.
So if you’re gonna maybe turn it into something else
people could fly in park their plane.
There aren’t that many places that you can offer that.
- That is true.
- In terms of budget,
we’d like to stay between one and $3 million.
What I’m finding is it’s hard to find what you want to do
the things that we wanna do at a million.
We’re looking to have a place that we can relax and exhale,
and that it can also generate income
to help us offset the expenses.
- We’ve kind of joked that we want more of a spa lodge,
if that’s even a thing,
maybe small weddings, retreats for people.
We love spending time together as a family.
And we just wanna create a space
where other people have that same opportunity.
- [Terry] All right, this is it.
- [Marci] This is it.
- [Terry] Right here, let’s check it out.
Oh, look at the waterfall.
- [Kaitlyn] Oh, there’s a seating area too.
- [Terry] That’s nice.
- [Kaitlyn] That’s fun for friends. Yeah.
- [Marci] That is gorgeous.
- [Terry] Cool place.
- [Marci] I could hang there with coffee in the morning.
- [Kaitlyn] Oh, there’s a root cellar over there.
That’s really cool, I like that.
- Oh, yeah, bet it’s dark in there.
- [Kaitlyn] Yeah.
- That’s where your mom can stay when she comes to visit.
- Totally, she’ll be very happy about that.
- Yeah.
- [Kaitlyn] I like all the trees.
The green is really pretty.
- [Terry] Yeah, the green is awesome.
Oh man.
- [Marci] Oh, wow. - [Terry] Wow.
- This is gorgeous.
- [Kaitlyn] Yeah.
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- [Terry] The kitchen.
- Look at this view.
- [Kaitlyn] This is very nice.
- I would like bigger windows.
- [Kaitlyn] Yeah.
- But I could handle washing dishes here.
It would be way less painful.
- [Kaitlyn] Yeah.
- Oh.
- [Terry] It’s like a barn door.
- I have an idea.
What if I can close this and that way,
this is just all mine.
- [Terry] Hmm.
- It’s an idea.
- I think it should come to fruition though.
- I mean, we’ll workshop it.
- [Terry] But you could put a tree in here.
A nice Christmas tree or something.
- Yeah, how big of a tree do you think we could get in here?
- [Marci] I mean, growing up,
we had vaulted ceilings like this.
- [Kaitlyn] Huh?
- And so we would put 15 foot trees,
and if they were too big, we just tied them to the walls,
so that it didn’t fall over.
- Oh wow.
- It was amazing, in fact, I think one of the pictures I have
when dad and I first started dating
is in front of one of those trees, yes.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Terry] We actually were born in the same town,
but didn’t end up meeting
until many, many, many years later.
- He was my siblings middle school band director.
- In middle school band concerts
you’ve got a lot of 35 to 50-year-old moms coming,
and grandmas so when the cute girl showed up, I was like
who’s the cute girl coming to all the band concerts?
- We got married after dating for three years.
And now we have two kids, Colin and Kaitlyn.
- [Terry] Colin is 19 and Kaitlyn is 16.
Hey, they’ve got a grand piano over here.
- [Kaitlyn] That’s very cool.
- Check this out, baby grand.
Wanna hear a little tune there, Kay?
- [Kaitlyn] Sure.
- Do you remember we used to have a grand piano
in our house?
Yeah, so you were like a year old,
and you’d sit next to me and you’d play with me,
but we had to sell it, remember?
- [Marci] Oh yes.
- We sold it when the market crashed,
and it was the thing that allowed us to keep our house.
- That was tough times.
- Those were tough times, we got through it though.
- [Marci] We did, we did.
- Yep.
- Maybe this one can come with the house.
- Maybe, that’d be nice.
- That would be great.
When we first were married, we were both school teachers.
And when I got pregnant with our first child,
we decided that I would stay home.
And so he got into real estate to help fund that.
- Never sold less than 40 houses a year.
Most of the time we were selling 80 or 90.
It was a good life, and then the market crashed
in September of 2008 and everything changed.
- It was really hard.
So coming out of that we had a new mindset,
and worked really hard.
I supported Terry in everything that he was doing.
I was taking care of the kids at home.
- But we had to figure out how to keep our own house.
- Then as our kids grew older,
and business started picking up,
people were now ready to buy houses.
- The biggest problem was I had no time freedom at all.
And so it was nights and weekends,
working 60, 70 hours a week.
So that tension led me to show a house
on a Saturday morning.
Colin had a soccer game and I felt like,
I’ll just miss one soccer game, not a big deal.
A lot of dads do it, right?
They go, they sacrifice for their families.
And so Marci texted me,
and said that Colin just scored his first soccer goal.
I was devastated.
Yeah, it hit me.
And so I said, never again, I’m not doing that anymore.
And so we shifted and I said, there’s gotta be a better way.
And so I started the path to figure out
how to invest in real estate, how to flip houses,
how to provide for my family
in a different way in real estate and just jumped in.
- Oh, I think this is the master, look at that view.
Oh, look at this vanity.
- [Terry] Whoa, check it out.
- [Kaitlyn] This is nice.
- Okay, this is gorgeous, I have not -
Oh, and the shower.
- [Terry] Oh, beam me up, Scotty.
- [Marci] Yes.
- [Terry] Check it out.
This thing looks like it’s ready to lift off.
I’m kind of afraid where these jets might hit me
to be honest.
- [Marci] That’s incredible.
- [Terry] It is a cool shower.
Are you guys, good?
We’ve seen this place,
but I don’t know if that’s gonna accomplish the mission
of having extra spaces for people to come,
and have investment income and stuff like that,
but I’m really excited to see the hanger.
- Oh yes, let’s go.
- [Terry] Okay, let’s go.
- [Marci] For sure.
- [Terry] Oh my gosh, look at this place.
- [Marci] Wow.
- [Terry] Are you kidding me?
- [Kaitlyn] It’s so cool.
- [Marci] This is incredible, oh, my word.
- [Kaitlyn] Oh, wow.
- [Terry] Whoa.