What's going on friends welcome back to the channel it's another beautiful winter day
here in the north island of New Zealand
and in today's video i'll be taking you along on our house hunting journey so right now
we're in central hawkes bay we've been staying with my family here and we've been looking around
the region but we're going to do something a little different we're going to be completely
switching areas and we're going to be looking in the outskirts of wellington the capital city of New Zealand.
There are a couple of places that are really catching our eye and we want to give
a proper look into we're gonna do our due diligence we've got a couple of open houses lined
up and we're feeling good about it so stick around as we go and explore the Wairarapa region let's go,
Well it's um the end of the day we drove for about three hours from the Hawkes Bay down to the Wairarapa.
We're staying in a little town called Carterton. This is so strange but so fascinating.
It's little moments like these that you really have to pay attention to in life.
When things align and the universe gives you signs and you have to listen check this out so this
little Airbnb that Carrie found. She's the queen of finding great Airbnb, is a little sleep out a
granny flat for a family here. We met the owner Stu, and his wife Lucia, from Italy.
so we get to talking
and explain like you know that we had put in an offer on this house in the Central Hawkes Bay and
that we didn't get it and we were in love with it and so heartbroken that we didn't get it maybe
it wasn't meant to be yeah and out of the blue he's like oh well where was it and we tell him
and then he goes, "Really, my parents grew up in that house" like the exact house that house!
I was like "This is so weird" I was like "That's the universe" and then he goes "Nah it's just New Zealand"
which is kind of true but also I personally believe that when moments like that happen
you have to pay attention because it's usually a message or there's a meaning behind it that even
even if it's just the message of you're on the right path you know even if it's just a message
saying okay well you're on the right path and that's what that felt like very much so.
Universe moments aside we've got a big day lined up of house hunting tomorrow.
Tonight we're gonna go into town and grab a bite to eat at a little local gastropub, which I'm always excited about.
Craft beer and good food, can't go wrong. I had a little bit of a late night, last night and I got up really
early today and ran up to the top of Temata Peak with Lanka and my cousin's dog.
This is always a great way to start the day but I'm pretty tired I think it was like a 10k up the mountain
and then sitting in a car afterward, so I'm like sore I just want to relax have a
a good meal and then get a good night's sleep and get to it tomorrow so cue food montage.
Pain de Chocolate. Oh yeah? Yeah. This is what happens when your Airbnb owner is from Italy. I'm not mad about it.
Flaky. Oh yeah oh yeah
Good morning everybody. How are we all doing?
Okay friends well it's all packed up it's time to get back on the road and we've got
a big day of house hunting ahead of us. As you can see this will be Lanka's home for the day.
He enjoys it back here he's very cozy and uh it's just as simple as going like
Okay. See you later. Bye.
It's been a nice little morning even though it's raining
you know it didn't really start to rain until maybe about 30 minutes ago and we've
had the chance to kind of pop into town and see what's happening there's a nice cafe had a good
dirty chai and some scrambled eggs with some bacon and toast
and popped into the local historic church very welcoming beautiful inside we didn't stick around
for service though because we have to see open homes and while the house the lord may be free
and always open the houses that we are looking for are not and they have very specific open house times.
We'll have to prioritize those for today. We also checked out the local farmers' market.
Some nice produce there is all grown locally here in the Wairarapa valley so let's get to it.
We've got a lot of open houses lined up for today but we've got some time to kill so
we're just kind of driving around and checking them out beforehand just getting a feel for the
neighborhoods and where the houses are located and just kind of doing a little bit more due
diligence before the open houses just to really see what they're like in person because sometimes
the photos either don't do it justice in real life or they may do it too much justice and that's just kind of part of this whole process.
I don't know about these bedrooms the slanted roofs
on the bedrooms like the angles are kind of strange in there i mean they
look spacious enough bathtub looks alright big back garage and some green space which is nice
immediately update the kitchen it's pretty dated this is very old-school New Zealand right here, sunroom.
All right well this is where it all begins. In today's line up we've got how many houses?
We just took one off the list because we did a little preview and we were like
so there's one two three four which is perfect. I've heard from many realtors you should not
see more than five houses in one day because then you can't even remember
which one was which how you felt so if you keep it below like at five or below five then you're in a
good place and i think four is really good for us some days we would have like seven or eight and
we just could not remember yeah and at the end of the day you're just like emotionally exhausted and
you're brain fried because you've seen too much there's too many little things
you start mixing up information between houses yeah and then at the end of the day you know
you're just kind of blah so yeah four is a good number. We're excited about this first one
it's in town but it's sort of right outside of the main hub of town so it feels a little bit more rural
but it has walkability into town and also bike-ability so you could just do a little bike
ride into town and be there in seven minutes. Definitely a pretty nice view from the grill
It's zoned as rural which means you know it's got a septic tank
and it's got a bore, water from a well but it is linked up to town power which is good.
It's an interesting one so I think that weighing out the pros and cons is what you have to do
because it's not a hard no and it's not a hard yes. It's a soft yes.
I think what you just said is really good and really just writing out a list of what your necessities are
you know when you're looking for a home like what do you absolutely need and what do you not want to
have and that's sort of like how many boxes does this house tick. Exactly the pros and the cons and then
you just look at it unemotionally. Just looking at how many boxes have been checked by this place.
This one ticks a lot of boxes and I think we're less emotionally attached to things
now because we've been more emotionally attached along this journey and because we've been heartbroken
because we've been in it for a while we're sort maybe if I would have seen this a month ago
I would have been emotionally attached to it but I think we're becoming stronger. Emotionally detached
No just stronger. Just like Alex said you kind of do have to let go of the
emotion sometimes and really look at it logically and say okay how many boxes does this tick and
to be honest that house does tick a lot of boxes. It does it's got a lot of work left to do though
All right well it's the last viewing of the day. We're about 10 minutes outside of the nearest town
and it's really nice kind of bucolic rural setting and this house has the most land
it's also kind of like a blank canvas. It's a home that's been relocated onto the land maybe two or
three years ago and from what we've gathered from the photos it's kind of just an empty slate.
I'm excited though it's really beautiful country around here. Flat but you can see the ranges
and when it's not raining and there's sheep and cattle and lots of green so we'll see how it goes.
The weather has cleared up and it's turned into a beautiful evening. I love getting outside right
after the rain stops. It's been raining pretty hard for the last couple hours and there's nothing
better than re-emerging back into the world right after a big rainstorm has come through you can see
the world and in a new light washed clean. We're going to take a little walk down this country road
and there is a pathway which will take us down to the river
and just feels good to be outside right now and getting a better feel for the area
It's not even summertime and I'm loving this. That's when you know it's good.
I love horses
So cool this is what it's all about you know?
It's beautiful just walking through this the land of
mist and cloud. Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud
and
you know I don't know if we found
a place that really called to us today in an individual home but I think
it's getting a lot clearer as to where we want to be based.
I don't know I think maybe we found it.
It's gorgeous we're surrounded by horses
sheep birds and we've got the ranges right there and river over here and rolling countryside and
even on a cold winter's day it's still absolutely gorgeous.
This whole journey though has really
it's been a lesson in patience and letting go of you know attempts to try to control everything
kind of feel like Carrie and I have just
I don't know eased into
being comfortable without knowing what's gonna happen where we're gonna end up how it's all
gonna come together just kind of having faith in the fact that it will and yeah believing
that everything's gonna work out the way that it's supposed to.
I think that you kind of have to cherish moments in life like that where you get the opportunity to
to kind of take your hand off the steering wheel a little bit and let life guide you exactly.
How do you feel? I feel really good right now I feel like as I said earlier I'm a believer
in paying attention to where life wants to take you and kind of like you're saying letting go
of the steering wheel and saying okay let's do our due diligence and in the search but also
not force anything and be willing to listen and read the signs in between and
we've been doing that I'm really proud of us first and foremost and I feel like it's leading us to
where we're supposed to be and right now at this moment I'm not thinking about anything but this
the moment right now and so that feels good. Definitely and as we move forward in the journey things will
unfold more and we'll be so sure by that time there will be no doubts because we have just
we've just taken the time to get there. The main question is when that time will be and
the answer is we don't know but it's okay like even the lady that owns the little Airbnb that
we're staying at said that this is her dream home and she said it took her a year to find
and it ended up looking completely different than what she had anticipated at the beginning so it
took her a year you know a lot of people say it takes them years we're just we just have to be
patient and well we're halfway there if it takes a year yep because we've been at this for six months
While it feels like we might not be any closer than we were six months ago I think
that we actually have made a ton of progress and that we're much farther along than we were
There's a lot of stuff happening in life and life is good yeah I guess you know if I've learned
anything from all these years of traveling it's that the memories come from the journey not
necessarily the destination. While destination is important it's not the most important thing so
We are just taking it day by day letting things unfold and do what they're supposed to do so I
hope you're all doing well out there I hope you and your loved ones are safe and happy and healthy
and we'll catch you all very very soon in another video okay we're gonna continue this walk
put the camera down and just be here catch you in the next one you