Looking forward to new changes, for sure.
- This is the one that is, can be the last one.
- I'm Carolyn.
- And I'm Chris.
- And we are looking for our perfect dream home,
here in Kentucky.
(upbeat music)
- Louisville may be Kentucky's largest city,
but there's still plenty of country around
if you know where to look.
Locals here enjoy all the conveniences of city life,
while still living close to nature.
And world famous racetrack, Churchill Downs,
where the city shines for the annual Kentucky Derby.
And if you head even further south,
you'll find Jefferson Memorial Forest.
That's a 6,000 acre natural wonderland
where you can hike, fish and camp in perfect serenity.
So with all that at your fingertips,
you'd imagine that living in Louisville
would be wildly expensive.
But actually, it's affordable
compared to a lot of other places.
In fact, right now, homes here on average
are selling for just 137 per square foot.
And many of those are going for under asking.
- We've had the opportunity of a lifetime
to move to Louisville, Kentucky,
and that really turned us into the next chapter in our life.
- So it makes sense that smart home buyers,
like Chris and Carolyn, would pick Louisville
as the place to start their new life in their forever home.
(gentle music)
- You know, I think for the first time,
we don't have a lot of the shackles
that we've had in the past. - This is true.
- I was born and raised in Arkansas,
grew up, left for college, went to DC.
And that's where Carolyn and I met at Howard University.
- So I'm born and raised in California.
And I pretty basically started school in California
because I wasn't ready to leave home.
And then when I got to Howard, I met Chris.
So our very first date was March 29th of 1980,
and haven't been apart since.
- We got married shortly after college,
and I set my goals when I was like 12 or 13 years old,
and basically, went out about accomplishing those.
And that took us to New York
where I spent a lot of time on Wall Street
dealing with a lot of major financial firms,
and then we had a huge opportunity to step up,
and go to San Francisco.
We decided to have our children.
And for me, those were all just stepping stones
in getting to where it was I was trying to get to.
- There are five of us in total.
We'd like to have at least five bedrooms
and equal amount of bathrooms.
We wanna have like a family dormitory. (laughs)
That's what I'm thinkin', yeah.
- Price point is a million and a half.
(gentle music)
- Okay, look at that.
Is that a farm house right there or a barn?
- [Chris] All right, so where are we headed next?
- We are headed to the Lakehouse.
It has eight bedrooms, nine baths, 9,200 square feet.
- [Chris] This is a area we're interested in.
- They're asking 1.5 pretty much for this house.
It is on five acres.
Well, based on the fact that the picture,
there is the house.
- Oh, that's orange.
- [Carolyn] And look at that pond.
- Wow, nice.
We have a desire to move away from the city
just because of the fact that we want to be able
to enjoy our family without some of the restrictions.
We've lived in neighborhoods where either noise level wise,
we had to be concerned about things like that.
If we wanted to have a party,
we'd always have to be concerned.
Oh, hold the noise down, hold the music down.
So we wanted to have space
so that we could be as rowdy as we wanted to.
- 'Cause we're rowdy. - And just enjoy ourselves.
- [Carolyn] Oh wow, Chris.
I love the columns.
Definitely a looker.
- [Chris] Okay, we can work with us.
(lively music)
Wow. - [Carolyn] Oh, I love
the grand entrance.
- I don't think I was expecting this.
Gosh.
I mean, where do we go?
Like, what do you do next?
- Oh my gosh, oh.
- Oh god. - Oh my gosh.
We never had this size of a round table.
- I know, but is this like the lazy Susie
of all lazy Susies?
Wow.
- [Carolyn] And right outside to the pool.
Love it.
- We took a look around at what's going on.
We looked at interest rates
and all these other types of things,
and where our children are and things
and said we need to buy a place that gives us an opportunity
to be able, as our kids start to marry,
as they start to have children,
we wanted to have a place
where all of us could get together.
Wow.
Two islands, seriously?
Like, is this? - [Carolyn] Loving it.
Loving it. - This is
like entertainment city.
- [Carolyn] Now let's go check out the master bedroom.
- [Chris] Oh gosh.
Wow.
- [Carolyn] And the master bedroom.
- [Chris] Room, yeah. - [Carolyn] Wow, I love this.
I love it. - It's got
all the recess light. - Wow, oh my.
- Is this like.
- It's its own suite.
- This is crazy.
We'll never have a need to go to the rest of the house.
God. - [Carolyn] Oh my.
- [Chris] There is so much.
- Oh my God, I love this dark wood.
- Wow, and. - Okay,
and here's the bathtub.
- And it's heart-shaped.
- [Carolyn] Oh my gosh, it is.
- Yes.
(Carolyn laughs)
- It's heart. - Yeah, okay.
We hit this point of success
to where literally I did retire when I was 36
and over the next seven to probably 10 years,
I spent literally building and then losing everything
that I had built in that timeframe.
- They came for the house.
When they came for the house,
that was the straw that broke the camel's back right there.
That was the epitome of oh my God.
- I think the thing that helped us the most
was that the family always stayed together.
We never lost that piece of it.
And I just kept executing on looking for solutions.
So I went back to work.
I went back into the job field,
found a new career,
learned from that career and then utilized that
to actually go back to my entrepreneurial life.
That was on the path, and then I think in early 40s,
I ended up finding myself on a slab in a hospital,
basically with maybe a near death sort of a sentence.
- It was a dissected aortic aneurysm.
His aorta pretty basically was shredded from top to bottom.
We spent a month in that hospital with him,
not knowing what was gonna happen to him at all.
I recognize the blessing and miracle that it is
to have him here.
- We wouldn't be where we are today
if it hadn't have been for that experience
that we went through.
Things have come back much better
than they were even before.
- This is part of the American dream.
And we've done the frog,
now we're getting the prince pretty basically.
- Who was the frog?
(couple laugh)
- So do we go up or down?
- Oh, I said we go up first.
- Holy mackerel.
Okay. - [Chris] Wow.
- [Carolyn] I like the size of this room.
- This is, yeah, this is a really good sized room.
- [Carolyn] Nice little Jack and Jill.
- [Chris] Oh my gosh.
- Okay, look at this wallpaper.
- [Chris] Wow.
Oh, and they even got the sofa to go with it.
That is unbelievable.
- We could use it as a little nursery
for one of our grandchildren that hasn't come yet.
- Yeah, I know.
I really do like this wallpaper.
- [Carolyn] I do too.
- I guess we go downstairs now at this point.
Left or right, which way do you wanna go?
- [Carolyn] Ah, well.
- [Chris] I think we came up that way.
- We did.
We came out that way.
I don't know, what happens
if we go down there? - We dunno what's in there.
- Which way to go. - Let's go this way.
- You go this way, I go that way.
- [Chris] Okay, all right. (couple laugh)
- Okay, this is-. - Oh my gosh.
- [Carolyn] Wow, Chris.
Okay. - [Chris] Oh yes.
- [Carolyn] Okay. - [Chris] I love it.
This is so much bigger than what I thought it was.
- [Carolyn] And it's the basement,
but it doesn't feel like a basement.
- You think of every party that we've ever had.
All of the kids' friends.
This has the space for all of that.
- [Carolyn] All of it. - [Chris] This is great.
- [Carolyn] Sleepovers.
- [Chris] Yeah, you name it.
- [Carolyn] All of it.
- [Chris] All right, so it looks like there's more.
(upbeat music)
Oh my, oh wow.
This is it.