Inside The Halloween 1978 Laurie Strode House In South Pasadena - Full Property Tour & Now For Sale
Inside Halloween 1978 Laurie Strode House
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here has
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the recording of the Saturday September
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16 2023. look over my shoulder over
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there an iconic house
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from the 1978 Halloween John Carpenter's
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Halloween I am standing here at the
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entrance to the flea market that is
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happening right here off of mission and
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Meridian South Pasadena
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I am going to look at the Lori Strode
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house a a structure that I have wanted
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to get inside of for a long time it is
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for sale and today they are having an
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opening house I'm inviting you
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to join me coffee over there too at
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Jones Coffee Roasters right next to the
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Myers house
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caffeinated
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in the Laurie Strode house join me
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shall you whoa classic car alert indeed
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parked in front of the 78 Myers house
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right there now the coffee stop that I
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got is called over here at the coffee
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stop by the tracks
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right over there so I got that
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and there's going to be a train coming
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by commuter train that runs right
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through South Pasadena this house used
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to be located over there it's hard to
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believe the movie is celebrating its
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45th anniversary
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this year but I'm going to walk a couple
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blocks away
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it's only about two block walk over to
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the Strode residence which has just gone
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on the market and I just happened to be
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in town and checked this morning and
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it's like holy cow they are doing an
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open house and I'm gonna get inside
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we end up moving or living in this neck
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of the woods you would have to see and
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pass this on a pretty semi-regular basis
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which keeps
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keep Michael up at night
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we don't want to see him unhappy yeah
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they have the Flyers here so they they
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have a couple of events every week
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through here they have like a Thursday
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night thing I was actually down here a
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couple days ago doing some Chucky
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locations and walk by here and then also
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looks like they have a food market
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Saturdays as well quite the community
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this thing has been
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the street and the surrounding areas
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have been using countless movies TV
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shows the neighborhood just a plethora
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of Productions have taken place South
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pass is one of my favorite SoCal areas I
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got to be honest now according to this
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clock it's five minutes after noon at 1
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pm they are doing the walk through or
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the open house you could call them but I
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always like these clocks and about a
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block away from the original Myers house
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and two or three blocks give or take
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from the 78 Strode house
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is the Myers house for Rob Zombie's
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version Rob Zombie's version
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up here on the left hand side
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last time
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I think I covered this area was when it
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was last Halloween October 31st I've
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been to this area twice on Halloween
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night and it really is a Vibe a lot of
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Myers walking around a lot of horror
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icons walking around they really do it
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up trick-or-treating yard haunts
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things like that and I was able to get
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inside of the original Myers house that
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night and get on the staircase they
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opened it up on Halloween last year
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which was pretty cool so I've kind of
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knocked that one off the bucket list
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today hopefully I can get inside Lori's
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House knock that one off the bucket list
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this one is still on that as well
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this was also used in my so-called life
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of Claire Danes show Jared Leto
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but I definitely
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see this as the Myers house
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from Rob Zombie's version and this is
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not even a private home this is
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specifically for filming they use this
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just for filming there was a stunt gone
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wrong up there
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where the stunt person fell off the top
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of that balcony and got hurt by hitting
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the concrete down there you watched the
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commentary on Rob's version again did
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reside in this neighborhood this is on
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the corner of El Centro and Glendon
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that's where the my so-called Lifehouse
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took place but you would have a lot of
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trains
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going through here this was on its way
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to Long Beach the metro rail
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and then of course down that way the
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weekend flea market
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they do something like that in
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celebration too every Sunday
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of course this is Saturday but yeah as a
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recording of this I've always loved this
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area and I've always wanted to live here
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there was like if I had like a pipe
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dream if I could just say where would
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you want to live in Southern California
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if you could just be be have a house if
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you somebody just said here's the house
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you could live in this particular house
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it would probably be in Pasadena
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California yeah imagine living right
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here next to the main library in South
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Pasadena I think if I had to pick if I
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had to choose it'd be on Bush now where
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Back to the Future Teen Wolf and Co stat
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and all that were filmed
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but this area is nice too
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definitely pretty nice look at this big
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old tree over here I'm gonna walk around
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this way
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I had thought about contacting the
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realtor just to see if I could get a
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personalized tour if I could go in and
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look at it and then as I was researching
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that I just noticed that today
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between one and four you know it's
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almost one now by the time I walk over
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there kind of curious to see how many
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people are going to be there that are
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just kind of like looky-loos that are
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just there to see things they don't have
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like a vested interest not that I'm even
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planning on buying it and I'm not even
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sure if it could be used as an
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investment opportunity if you could rent
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it out in this neighborhood I don't know
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how the HOA is and all that
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but there's got to be some people over
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there that are just here for the film to
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get inside
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so it kind of worked out kind of curious
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to see how that's going to be so it's
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right here across from the South
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Pasadena Public Library on Oxley Oxley
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is also the road that peewee's house is
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on and just off Oxley a couple blocks by
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a couple blocks from pb's house is the
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Hedge
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from the movie now Rob Zombie and his
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version also utilize the house even
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though he did not prominently display it
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they built a big like a box on a crane
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here like a big tower to make it look
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like they were the characters were in
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the second floor of a school and Michael
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was standing over there in front of the
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original Strode house kind of like a
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little Easter egg
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from the zombie version but this would
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be the neighborhood
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you got the library he got the book drop
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this would be the neighborhood in itself
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three hour parking obviously there is an
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attached garage the one that Jamie Lee
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Curtis walks out of
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is located right over here
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has the Strode Realty sign on the side
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of it which is interesting because now
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there is a realtor sign in front of it
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here
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and I believe there are a few different
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properties attached to this one so
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whoever buys it
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if someone buys it which I'm sure
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there's plenty of offers already put out
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there
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you would be able to have a couple
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different separated entities
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inside the house itself I think I'm
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going to inquire a little more about
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that you definitely know you're in
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Pasadena when you're over here
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also
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a little side note they put this down
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a few years ago in dedication to Mustafa
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who passed away
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The Godfather of the series your legacy
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lives on
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filmed in Pasadena 19.
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78.
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there's the schrode house I might I'm
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the only one standing out here exact
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corner of Fairview and Oxley
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and this too
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those who are familiar with the film and
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the franchise or anything
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of the horror genre knows the spot where
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Jamie Lee sat right there on the side
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she had the pumpkin now the previous
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owners who were here before lived here
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for a couple decades or more were very
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kind to those visiting sometimes
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homeowners are not very nice they were
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very very nice in fact they would put
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pumpkins they would invite people up on
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the porch
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and when I was here the other day I
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noticed that there is a pumpkin left on
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the porch for anyone to walk up
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get the pumpkin and take a photo so you
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could just pick that up and get the
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photo right over there as I am doing
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right now so I am sitting on the spot
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now whoever ends up moving in here
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whoever ends up purchasing this
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is going to have the entire time they
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live here
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countless people per day are going to be
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stopping and sitting right here some of
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them dressed as Lori a lot of them
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dressed as Michael Myers and probably a
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lot more as other
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you know horror icons filming location
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people will be stopping by it is such a
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massive
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part of the genre that this is such an
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iconic spot that constantly there are
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people just whoever ends up buying this
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is going to have to look out the window
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all the time and see someone sitting
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there with the pumpkin so it's kind of
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nice to embrace it now you don't have to
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embrace it a lot of people don't but
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hypothetically let's say let's say I
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moved here let's say let's say I lived
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here I would definitely embrace it I
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would still allow people to get a
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pumpkin and sit right here on the
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sidewalk well I guess technically
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anybody because this can walk down the
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sidewalk even though that would be the
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property people are still going to sit
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there so you kind of might as well just
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go with it and I feel like whoever ends
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up winning the bidding contest on this
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I hope that they they continue the
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tradition also this is 1.8 million
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dollars for this one million point eight
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dollars
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which sounds like a lot and it is
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nothing to sneeze at but for South
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Pasadena I thought it was going to be
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twice that at this location just my
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first thought I was like that's all
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it's a lot but for South pass you can
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look up to prices anything in La just
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like a basic house is like a million
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you know something smaller than this
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without the without the history and
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without the being in the one of the best
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places in La all right there you go this
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is for
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posterity as they say well as I say
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there you go got the pumpkin got myself
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in the in the frame got the iconic stoop
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over there the little angle
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right there you got the pumpkin
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put this up there we go it's a little
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better
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I'm honestly surprised they're even
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doing an opening house today this
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thing's been on the market a few days
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I'm surprised it's already not sold
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how is this not already sold all right
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just gotta wait a little bit of time got
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a few minutes until the realtor arrives
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and be able to go inside got the window
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unit up top I guess that would that mean
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it doesn't have central heat and air
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possibly
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that is very interesting at least the
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top floor has the window unit
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up top there this would be the
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neighbor's house
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as well there's a little sidewalk
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library right down there
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show a couple quick photos of Jamie Lee
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as Laurie walking in
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which would just be kind of like right
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there I mean there's obviously you see
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the photos of her always sitting on the
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corner there's also a few other ones
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when she's like walking through the yard
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she walks right past where that sign is
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then goes up to her room there's another
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one where she's looking this way and the
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car is kind of parked over there and you
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see the neighbor's house
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here in that corner
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and then this spot here where she walks
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out of that door and the car was parked
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in the driveway right there see that
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staircase behind her the one that the
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pumpkin is on
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also interesting that it's it is 1115 in
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the film because sometimes they change
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the number
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but it is 1115 I've gone to a bunch of
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filming locations a lot of times they'll
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change the number for the movie but it
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is 1115 on the side of the door at least
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from this side
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of the road and gotta show these are
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like the behind the scenes of her
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holding the pumpkin right there on the
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corner and then one of her and Carpenter
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giving her some instructions on how to
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act out the scene right there
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on that very corner
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this is the dialer rod
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South Pasadena
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Dial A Ride
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it looks like there was a little fender
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bender there
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all right it's just about one o'clock
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let's see maybe if the realtor's here
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now okay the sign is up this is kind of
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interesting though I always thought the
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technical address was on Oxley but
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evidently it's on Fairview so it's a
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corner of Oxley in Fairview
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1103 Fairview Ave but if you search it
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it's Oxley
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that's different
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huh right you type in the 1103 Fairview
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Ave it shows up
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as the shroed residents I would imagine
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the mortgage on a 1.8 million dollar
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house would be
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pretty intense
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I guess it depends on what your interest
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rate would be and how much you put down
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but yeah
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I like the old wooden floors evidently
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yeah just you got the AC Universe it
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must not be central air so these are the
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windows this looks out where she would
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have been walking up in the yard
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the air conditioner unit here this is
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one of the restrooms now as far as I can
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tell they didn't film anything and so I
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know Lori's room there's some
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discrepancy and I don't think I don't
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know if it's ever been confirmed my
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friend Sean Clark probably has gone into
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great detail on that not being in here I
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have to check with him to see if they
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filmed anything inside they were the
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only thing they would have filmed in
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here would have been Lori's room up on
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the top floor where she's looking out at
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the the laundry scene however
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yeah look at this this is a really cool
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old house
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it doesn't open
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the people that used to live here were
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so nice
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they were very accommodating to
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anybody that was a fan of the franchise
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foreign
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okay I just asked the realtor
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she was saying
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that you can in fact you cannot Airbnb I
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just it is completely against
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regulations in South Pasadena however
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you can rent out you can sublease two
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other properties that are here what if
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this is cool
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hello yeah we can have water so
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you could essentially live in the main
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house and rent the other two houses out
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to help pay the mortgage you just cannot
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do short term it has to be a long term
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like a year mortgage so hypothetically
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if you were to buy this let's say I was
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to buy it I could have someone else move
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into the two other homesteads that are
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attached to the property and help pay
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the mortgage and I'm just saying me as
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if anyone that's watching this that
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might be curious gotta do this keep
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Michael out of here I don't think these
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really work that well but yeah
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so there is no central heat and air none
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whatsoever at least at the moment but
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she said that they had all the
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inspections it's all in good shape as
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far as termites
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it is all in the on the up and up the
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house is in really decent shape and she
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was saying it seems to be pretty
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reasonable
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as far as
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price guys look at this so this kind of
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reminds me of that scene it's not it's
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not this wait is it is it is it is it
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look at this
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wait does that match up
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okay this is one of the units right here
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oh this is around the back of the other
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house all right this might is this the
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Interiors for when
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Lori was looking out these windows right
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I gotta go up there and check but it
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could be
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now obviously this I don't know
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I don't know
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interesting
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all right I could walk up there but I'm
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gonna go back inside and then uh
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go up it's like an ET moment right there
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because I've seen better days
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do not go down the basement will be
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shown upon accepted off or stairs not to
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be building code
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oh there's an ironing cord yes
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oh my goodness
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okay so yeah you could split the
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mortgage with three people three
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different homesteads all right so this
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is the other oh look at this this is the
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door
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Jamie Lee walks out of right here this
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is the door right there
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so this would be one of the
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subleased spots if you so choose you
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could sublease this doesn't it look
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pretty close to like the Myers house
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when she's in there with the stairwell I
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mean it's not but yeah
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so this could be one residence here oh
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there's a little balcony here
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okay that's locked
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I guess I can't get in there that might
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be the spot there oh here we go here we
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go
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this is big
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okay this is the window that I always
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kind of assumed
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that she's looking out of but the
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windows don't really match up and this
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doesn't match up either because there
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was two windows but then when you see
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this
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hmm
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probably remodel but it's
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because there was a window here and
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there was a wind
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and if this wall was added
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is that the window I don't think so
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I don't think so but there is a kitchen
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yeah yeah someone could live in here
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there's a fridge
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so there you go looking down
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um
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no because you don't see the foundation
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of that over there
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this is blowing my mind that I'm even in
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okay that was the other door that I
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couldn't open both these are locked but
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you can still get through through the
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Interiors
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so that would be the one residence there
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so the stairwell would go to the two
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separate residents where she could
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basically have as Apartments
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you fill up the main stair that Lori
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walks out of both have their own balcony
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so you have that there
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that guy's going out where Lori was he
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got this separate back here and then you
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also have the attic up top there
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then you have
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okay this is pretty big this is the
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upstairs
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closet with this kind of like
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a coat rack here
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lots of Windows though you could open a
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lot of the windows up and get
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a nice little flow through here
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oh man I just love these old houses
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okay
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and the third kitchen
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so when I go back downstairs I'm curious
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to see
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if how the rooms are downstairs
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so I guess hypothetically you could rent
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out the two apartments
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and then once your mortgage is paid off
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after a good amount of time
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then you could just have the whole place
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to yourself
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because you're renting and you would be
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the one owning it
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what's your
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hand on that
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if you had this whole place to yourself
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man you could have the compound okay so
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one separate entrance there if it were
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to be an apartment another one over
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there and then this would be going up
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and down here
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the people who lived here before were
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renting people did not they're very nice
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people who were always putting the
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pumpkins out they were renting and they
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moved out but they didn't even sublease
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they just had they had all this they
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didn't even have the three separate
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groups of people out here let me show
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this again
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so that's over there
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this is over here and this is how you
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would walk up
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right here
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I gotta see if there's bathrooms down
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everybody uh bedrooms down here all
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right down on the bottom level this
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would be the bathroom or the bottom
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level and then there would be a room
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here and a room here so kind of just
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like an extended kind of a weird double
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like master bedroom which is a little
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unusual like if this wall wasn't here
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and this was a lot bigger this would
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kind of make sense but this is
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definitely classified as two bedrooms
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even though it's one you do have the
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bathroom there you have a closet over
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there but yeah
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it'd be kind of hard to just have this
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as your only living quarters kind of
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unusual setup here but the living room
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is huge the living room is awesome yeah
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I love this big door this big big bait
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or a baitor that this big heavy duty
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so they're gonna let us in the garage so
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the garage is not attached to the house
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you actually go in the garage come out
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of the garage and then go into the door
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so this is around the back
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I mean I guess you could hypothetically
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I love you in a lot of hypotheticals but
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you could
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live in two of them and then just have
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this is also a separate entrance so you
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could if you don't want the people going
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inside who are living here or subleasing
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or they can if even if if you want to
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come around the side or if you want to
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go through the inside there are two
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separate ones so if you wanted to you
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didn't even have to have that other area
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open even though it makes sense to have
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it open
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plenty of space for tools and everything
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in here
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oh look there's even two separate two
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separate doorbells for the separate
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Apartments
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as well all right back upstairs now I'm
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looking at those windows and Lori's
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bedroom or what I thought was going to
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match up even with the restoration of
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possibly making it into a kitchen the
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windows really don't match up like I
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thought they would
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They Don't Really match up they are
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separated just a little too far
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from where that would be over in the
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corner even though
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pretty cool that there is a clothesline
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down there
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and no matter what happens at least I
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got to come in here look around
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Gotta Love an open house
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yeah I really really I just like the
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idea of just thinking about maybe it's
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just like uh you know in your head this
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like seems cooler than it really would
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be but
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pretty nice you could
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talk about there's two realtors in there
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I was talking to one of them and they
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said well you could just have the
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apartment upstairs and there's more
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rental value and renting out the bottom
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and then over time then you could just
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own the whole thing
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so there's that or you could live on the
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bottom floor around the top
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yeah so why whenever I travel I go
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anywhere and then something like this
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pops up I'll go to a small town There's
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not this is a small town but I'll go to
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an area and I'll think what if you
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always get the what ifs I never know
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when I'm actually going to finally
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purchase a home I've never owned a home
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always rented
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but wow what if
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what if
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I got the pumpkins out
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all the ties I've been by here I've
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never seen the garage open either I was
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able to go in the garage I was going to
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go to every single room
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three kitchens three bathrooms
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that is a separate apartment I always
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thought that was all part of the same
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main house I mean it is but evidently
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this house was built first and this was
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the extension that came after the fact
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many many years ago before the movie
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obviously
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all right all right getting ready to
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have a train coming through always
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people in front of the Myers house over
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man that's gonna do it for today from
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South Pasadena I appreciate you watching
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is
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the night
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for the day he
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came home
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hard to believe it's been 45 years
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go vlog
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still looking for Lori after all these
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years
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What if Michael moved into Laura
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destro's house that would be weird oh
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yeah I forgot to show this this is from
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the realtor 5285
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258 square feet is the lot the house
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itself 2640 square feet
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and they do mention Jamie Lee Curtis if
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you watch the film if of a stoop that
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Jamie Lee Curtis sat on holding a
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pumpkin
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unit one
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is a large one-bedroom Suite bath living
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room and dining kitchen pantry unit two
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has three beds in one bath and unit
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three has one bed and one bath living
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room and kitchen
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picturesque windows and lovely views
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surrounding trees and neighborhoods two
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car garage faces Oxley separate laundry
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room that's shared as well as a shared
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back patio perfect for BBQs
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there's a fruit bearing avocado tree
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that was plated by the seller's
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grandfather in the 40s
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there it is
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I am really just listed South Pasadena I
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am really glad that I was able to
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go in there scope it out and take a look
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and they were fine with me going around
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filming
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pretty dang neat
30:02
movie hit major movie history
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and I've walked past this thing hundreds
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of times
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I always wanted to know what it looked
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like inside or at least walk around
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personally walk around inside
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and now I did there is
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the corner right there
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that Lori Stroud sat on with the pumpkin