- I like all the woods over here.
- I bet there's lots of wildlife out here.
- Yeah.
- Oh, my gosh, look there's a squirrel.
(Chad laughs)
- I'm Chad Meredith.
And I'm Brielle Cotterman Meredith
and are searching for our dream home here in Kentucky.
- When you think of Kentucky, what do you picture?
Fried chicken?
Yeah, me, too.
But there's a lot more to this state than just
the great food.
40 minutes east of Louisville,
there is a town you probably haven't heard of
unless you love horses.
It is Shelbyville.
It's known as the saddle bred capital of the world
because it's home to more
than 80 competition horse breeding farms.
And that's why it is the perfect place
for a champion equestrian like Brielle
and her partner, Chad.
- It's so important to have the kids being able
to grow up in a place
where they can run and play
and have exposure to animals and nature
and all of that.
- Here, you're just minutes from fishing
at Guest Creek Lake, picking fresh fruit
at the Mulberry Orchard
or hiking the famous bourbon trail.
Speaking of bourbon, Shelbyville also has
two different distilleries
that you can visit.
And maybe the best part it's relatively affordable
to live here.
The average home sells for just $143
per square foot and it's a buyer's market right now.
Meaning Brielle and Chad have a great opportunity
to secure their American dream home
right here in Shelbyville.
(gentle music)
- So at this point, we have outgrown
our existing farm, our family has.
- And we're looking for a property
that our family can grow and we can grow
and have that privacy we're looking for.
- I'm really excited for you guys
to see this one.
There's a creek that runs the whole perimeter
of the property.
- Wow, that's pretty.
The farms that seem to come on the market,
they go very, very quickly,
so I think we're gonna have to be really diligent
in our search and work very closely with our realtor,
you know, my mother and I have all the faith
in the world in her and her ability
to be very tenacious when it comes
to finding us the right place.
- The house has a little over 5,000 square feet.
There's a barn with four stalls.
- [Brielle] That'll work.
- I'm Teresa Cotterman with Coldwell Banker Rogers.
I am a residential real estate agent
and I specialize in equestrian properties.
Brielle's my daughter and Chad's my son-in-law.
Brielle is very, I wouldn't say picky, she's particular.
- [Chad] Oh, there it is, baby.
- Oh, my gosh.
Kind of reminds me of like
an English country home, you know.
Really pretty.
- [Chad] It really is.
(doors close)
- [Brielle] Look.
- Oh, my gosh. - This is pretty, wow.
- [Chad] Love this entry, baby.
- [Brielle] I do, too.
- Kitchen and family room.
- [Brielle] I love that the kitchen's open.
- [Chad] Yeah, to everything.
- [Brielle] It could be bigger.
- [Chad] Yeah, I don't like
the kind of mismatched countertops.
- [Brielle] Yeah.
- The design choices of the kitchen,
we thought were kind of odd.
- I have a list of things, you know.
It's not really my taste.
For me, the kitchen is really the focal point
of how we live.
Definitely something that we would have to work on
if we ended up with this house.
- I do like how much space there is
for all the kids to run around.
- I played in the NFL in Detroit
and during that time, especially when I was training
to go play there, I met my lovely wife, Brielle.
She was doing media training for the NFL players.
- It was a very mutual attraction right out of the gate
and he walked right up to me
and introduced himself to me
and we just kept in touch
and it evolved and it's really been one
of the biggest blessings of my life.
- Brielle had, you know, her children and in 2018,
we got married and we moved into the farm Brielle had
and as our family grew, we kind of knew
it was time to look for something
that could be our forever home
and our home together.
- Is it a wood burning fireplace?
Can you tell?
- Yes, it is. - It is.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I love that. - Oh, my gosh.
- [Chad] I love all the natural light.
- Look, you can see straight back to the barn.
- Yeah.
- I love that.
- [Chad] Oh, look at this.
- [Brielle] Oh, I really like this.
- You can see all of the property
from this room and it goes on forever.
- [Brielle] I love that there's so many windows.
- Yeah.
So I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky
in the suburbs, but I've always had the aspirations
to live in the country.
I've always enjoyed the hunting
and fishing and outdoors.
- I was born into horses,
so I've been riding my whole life
and I'm a world's grand champion equestrian
and our daughter, Whitley,
is a reserve world's champion equestrian.
It's a part of our life.
It is a business.
We breed and raise and show American saddle breds.
So it's really important for us
to include our horses when we're thinking
of our search for our dream home.
It's really, really important to us.
- Oh, wow.
I love this plan. - It's pretty, yeah.
- [Chad] Very nice size.
It would be great for probably-
- For Bennet. - For Bennet to start off.
- Maybe. - Yeah.
- We have to paint.
I think we have to paint every room
in this entire house.
- Yeah, the whole house needs a fresh coat.
- [Teresa] This is nice.
It's a big Jack and Jill bathroom.
- [Brielle] Oh, the bathroom is super cute.
- It's great for the kids.
- Yeah.
This is nice, too.
- [Chad] This will be perfect for Boston.
- [Brielle] Yeah.
- [Chad] Give kind of Whitley her own space.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- [Teresa] This is the primary.
- [Brielle] Oh, wow.
- Oh, I love the fireplace.
Oh, my gosh, look at that bank of windows, love.
- That's so nice.
Oh, I love this.
- Just makes the room feel bigger, you know.
- [Brielle] Yeah, I feel like we would spend
all of our time outside.
- [Chad] Oh, my gosh, yeah.
- Many years ago, I survived attempted murder
and domestic violence.
As a result of that, my children and I,
we basically started over,
all the way back to nothing.
It's been a really long journey to get here,
especially with having Chad join our family.
It's been something that I've been able
to create and accomplish the things that
at that point I didn't think were possible.
My organization Brielle Cotterman Media,
we help women and men, but primarily women,
entrepreneurs and advocates to share their stories
and to make a difference.
So to be a the place where we have created something,
you know, built this beautiful business
that has given us the opportunity to be in a place
where we can go out and buy our dream home,
it's a very surreal moment.
This is just kind of a celebration
and a culmination of what has been building
for, you know, almost 10 years now.
So pretty.
Can you imagine like in the summer time
with flowers and plant all of this.
I like the pool. - Yeah.
- [Brielle] Oh, my gosh, I feel like we
would be out there so much.
- There's your barn, babe.
- I know.
But the show barn, I'd like to have something
a little nicer, a little bigger.
I mean, we can add a barn.
We got enough space to build that.
- Yeah, but this property, you know,
watching the kids run around here would be incredible.
- Be an awesome place to grow up.
- It would.
- Yeah, I love the fact that there's so much space
for our family to spend time outside
and hiking and swimming and fishing
and with the horses and doing all the things
that we love to do.
However...
- [Brielle] The kitchen's small,
the countertops were mismatched.
- It's not really my taste.
You know, there's different colors of cabinetry
and all of those sorts of things
and it kind of feels like maybe it was
a little bit of an afterthought.
But, I don't know, it just checks all the other boxes,
so I like it.
- Yeah, who knows what else we'll find
at these other places.
- [Brielle] Yeah, you're right.
Let's go see what the next one looks like.
- [Chad] Great.