Never in my wildest dreams would I ever think I'd be paying this amount of money for just living in a house and having a
backyard.
Now that I finally have been here for quite some time and letting it settle in, it feels
surprisingly normal.
Alright guys, let's go. Let's check out this house.
Hi, I'm Carter Sharer.
I'm a professional YouTuber.
I'm twenty-seven years old.
I live in Los Angeles, California, and my rent is about $45,000 per month.
The Team RAR house is my house, so I pay for the rent.
I found it, I set it up.
I keep everything running.
It's kind of weird thinking that like I'm living in a house that I can't afford.
I mean, I know that I'm affording rent, but there's absolutely no way I'd be able to spend like $20 plus
million on a house.
A team house is something that I've wanted to do literally since I started YouTube.
And basically what it is is having a house which provides a place for people to film content together, to collaborate,
to hang out each and every day.
Team RAR stands for rare and ridiculous, and I feel like that's just like the perfect branding that just describes
who I am, what I love to do.
When I was working at UPenn.
I rented an $800 a month studio apartment on the first floor next to the dumpsters, so sometimes I would wake up to
like a stranger standing right in the alleyway next to the dumpsters, which was kind of scary.
When I finally decided to quit my job and pursue YouTube full-time, I left that apartment to then go live back at
my parent's house, where I literally was sleeping in the basement.
We got the black boat.
Yeah and I even mod-ed it, and I put a GoPro on it.
Every single day. We just worked.
I don't know, 18-20 hours a day for over like a year straight, and that really got the fire burning and got our
career started. I'm Stephen Sharer and I'm about to do my very first ever backflip.
We got to the backflip with a little bit of taste of success to realize, like, Hey, you know, like, we could just try
this. It was probably about one year after really committing to YouTube that I
decided to ball out and get a $2,000, two-bedroom apartment that was about 10 minutes away from
my parents house. I moved in there with four or five people in a two-bedroom.
We were all crammed in sleeping on couches, a couple in each room.
It was really tight and cramped and was amazing.
That's when I realized, You know what?
Like, YouTube is great here in Virginia, but I really want to try something new.
I want to go out to L.A..
We actually found a really great house that we loved, and it was really expensive, it was $18,500 a
month, which was just mind-blowing, going from the $2,000 apartment we were living in.
But the house was just perfect.
It had a backyard and a pool.
It had a rooftop, which was just so perfect for content.
We're taking huge risk.
We're going to fly everybody out.
We're going to move into that house and we're just going to like, hopefully make it work.
And we absolutely did.
It was such a logistical challenge, it distracted me from content, and I remember sitting here in this office once we
were fully moved in and it was the very first month that I spent more money than I was making.
And I remember that being really scary as I looked out into this expansive backyard thinking, like, "What am I going to
film here? How am I going to make this worth it?"
The rent for this house when we first moved in was $39,700.
And then now that we've been here for a little bit longer, the rent actually went up a little bit to
$43,700. I think the initial payment to secure this house was something like first month,
security or something like that.
I just remember it being well over $100,000, which was a big check that I had to sign right over.
So at the end of each month, I have to write a ton of checks.
Alright guys, let's go, let's check out this house.
This is the entrance of the house which brings you on to the main living room of the house.
We do lots of meetings, video review sessions here.
I actually got this one when I was living in the two-bedroom apartment all the way back before even moving to
L.A. and I haven't had another play button since because the gap from one million to the next one is
10 million. So the gap is so big.
We have a huge snack bar that we stock every single day.
Oh, could you imagine?
Oh, we were so close.
This is a cardboard cutout of like me and Liz.
Now let's go upstairs to my bedroom.
This is actually a secret closet in the closet.
We have my favorite, Sour Patch Kids.
This piece of art right here is a photo that I took.
This was really early on after moving to L.A.
We still have one more door to explore, and this takes you to my bathroom.
I do have one item that I like — Team RAR Chain, so Liz got this custom-made in Miami.
It's all iced out. It's our Team RAR logo and it just is so crazy.
It's kind of like the only piece of jewelry that I have.
Before I had a TV in my room or nightstands or anything, I was like, I need a logo in the pool because I love
swimming pools. I grew up swimming every day and I wanted to put the logo in there.
Oh, boy, one out of 10, baby, let's go to three in a row.
I think at the start of my YouTube journey, my dream was to just be a YouTuber.
Thinking back and kind of reflecting on like where I started from living next to the dumpster smelling that
cigarette smoke, getting paid $12 an hour and that was like in 2016 to 2021.
It doesn't make any sense. It's absolutely living the dream.
I'm so blessed to have this opportunity.
From a business perspective, I want to add a ton more manpower to be able to support all the different ventures
that we are getting into, which is super exciting.
I think for each of the creators, they are also going to continue to grow tremendously fast and all of their
different paths and journeys that they're pursuing, which is really exciting to see.
Whew. Alright, guys, well, thanks for coming over and checking out my place.
See you guys next time.