House Hunters International September 30, 2021 "Home is Where Haarlem Is"

renting in harlem dawan and jennifer are ready to make things permanent for their family thinking about owning here in the netherlands i was definitely the instigator hello people of harlem duane in general is more spontaneous and that usually causes problems down the road i don't see that dutch charm these houses were built 12 years ago i wish there was a zero next to that 12. this is the main bedroom it's just kind of like black jennifer has a very strong personality i want to spend 1.4 million us dollars you only live once just spend it he is speaking my language oh my gosh i'm in trouble with you too i think [Music] ready set go we're from cleveland ohio and we live there together as a couple for about 21 years 18 months ago we decided we were going to move to harlem netherlands for dewan's job we were planning staying here for a few years but from the moment we moved here it just felt like home this is home i work in technology sales and i was tasked with setting up our operations here well catch oh good try i grew up in istanbul turkey but i'm a huge admirer of the dutch architecture just the churches and the buildings and the stories behind it it's amazing i wanted kids to grow up with that kind of culture the reason why we chose harlem originally was the proximity to amsterdam not once we went to amsterdam because everything we wanted was here let's try and step back against daddy all right when we were thinking about staying here and owning in the netherlands i was definitely the instigator juan felt like the netherlands would be really good for the kids it's just a different lifestyle for them than in ohio plus prices just keep going up and up and up and so we got there is no better time to you know buy a property than now hi guys hi fellow ohio i know so you guys have been here 18 months like neither long nay ah a little bit yeah i love harlem because you've got all the cute streets and winding waterways you can be at the beach in 10 minutes i was love at first sight i would say once we set foot in harlem it's very pretty the smooth puts definitely a lot of pressure on me because i am the one that forced the family to make this move we're in a bit of a routine in cleveland we were very comfortable but duron in general is more spontaneous i thought of the worst case scenarios of the move and the market in harlem is so hot right now but jennifer is going to want you know space and comforts of life that came in the united states what i'd love for you to find us is a house with at least four bedrooms two bathrooms we definitely would like a nice kitchen it would be nice to have a good size living space also so are you guys wanting to stay in harlem or me yes i work for a company in harlem so i want to definitely be five to ten minute bike riding distance certainly for our kids there's advantages keeping them in the same school but i'm a little bit more open to being a bit outside of harlem if it's the right house not for me if my address doesn't say harlem in it not for me we're not the handiest of a couple so it would be nice if it is move-in ready for us i definitely want that historic dutch charm that's 100 years old or older i'd like some privacy ideally you know a single family home what let's talk about what you're planning on spending around 1.4 million us dollars okay you only live once just spend it he is speaking my language oh my gosh i'm in trouble with you too i think dejuan seems very impulsive and jennifer seems uber practical coming from somewhere like cleveland for a million dollars seems like a lot of money and it goes very quickly here you're paying for the land and there's just not very much of it and getting them to accept that it's gonna be tricky we're going to begin in haines data why would you want to do that i thought you were becoming a fan of this car i love drama how long is the drive going to be it's a 10 minute drive not too far from harlem in order to get you all the space you're looking for close to 1.4 million we have to come out this far okay the street looks nice but i don't see that dutch charm yeah these houses were built 12 years ago i wish there was a zero next to that 12. i think i would have enjoyed that more but yeah i see we're connected yes but it's over five levels it's four bedrooms two bathrooms and it's 1.4 million 1.4 that sounds good are you willing we're here as you can see it it's this nice big entryway right and then here is your kitchen dining kind of room i mean it definitely looks like it has everything you need yeah i'm not a big fan of the floors way too modern yeah is this the living room here or is there another each floor is its own thing it does feel separated like there's a kitchen in the yeah the basement shall we go outside yeah the garden is nice yeah it looks nice they are nice i feel like this could be like a fun little area for the kids i'm thinking i could probably put a projector here okay and watch my football games over the weekend i'm thinking of a kid's face he wants to make it a man cave for him i've spent 20 years with duan so i know when he gets his mind set on something it's very difficult to change so let's go into your living space okay and it feels bigger than downstairs right it feels warmer than downstairs higher ceilings it'll do the excitement is contagious let's go into the main bedroom it's a little bit small i know it's like it's kind of like black jennifer has a very strong personality and that usually causes problems down the road let's go out okay i'm not sure that anyone's going to want to go from the top floor to the bottom floor in this house right yeah okay i have a fun idea okay you guys go there and i'll go here and let's see if we can find each other okay let's see [Laughter] the kids can fight who's using the bathroom which room they're in do you think they would work okay like that i think one thing i like about the house is the price we can move in and it's a newer home it's great space i like the yard a lot but it does feel that it's really separated and it just doesn't feel like i'm in the netherlands you have this idea of a historical person having lived in this magical home i definitely think this house has completely missed the mark for dewan i need to take them into the city and i need to try to get them as many things as i can on that wish list get jen on board with the old feeling here's your toilet okay and i feel like i'm the mayor of the street you can wait morning everybody so they have coverages some of those that's the little pancakes how many portions maybe two okay we had a really nice life in cleveland but there's this opportunity especially for the kids to have them grow up in a different culture give it a try oh it makes a lot of mess huh yeah yeah with dewan's job already started in harlem he and jennifer hope the whole family can make the leap from part-time renters to permanent residence so have you noticed the difference in your kids they're very independent do you struggle with the kids having all the independence or do you like it dan struggled a bit at the beginning and i'm trying to just let them be kids ultimately i know that's good for them but you do want to protect them right it can be a bit challenging but i'm getting better we've been together for about 21 years now we met in istanbul when i was doing an internship during college so was it kind of love at first sight for you guys uh i think so she totally came on to me uh yeah turkish prince turkish royalty jen seems to be the very practical person he's very relaxed and kind of a dreamer i was hoping for 1.4 million you'd get us a an old dutch castle but i'm gonna show them a beautiful old historic home but i don't know if i can get jen on board with the old feeling so here we are in harlem we actually live really close by to the street yeah oh that's great so for us we've we've biked the street a couple of times the kid's school is maybe a two-minute bike ride from here so that's a big bonus for sure this is really where you want to be yeah duane look at all that it's six bedrooms yeah two and a half bathrooms okay it's creaky it's old but for you it could take a little bit of convincing it's 1.7 million dollars that's a lot over what we want to spend but it just means so much to him to step back in time jennifer yes yes yes well we have to also pay for current times i think i might have to use my charm a little bit together agree on the price so take in the grandness of this entry absolutely details lovely stairway okay so let's walk into this magical living room okay where's the magic is this what you were expecting yes do we know how old this house is these houses were built um around 1905. that's old enough so the other thing i'm noticing is that it looks a bit tilted this is something really common here in the netherlands in the cities because they were built on wooden stilts and because all of the ground underneath is immersed with water because the whole country is kind of like below sea level unless the houses have been redone with steel they're our furniture is just going to slide down the floor we'll make it work um you know i think for this price range i would have expected something a little bigger for a kitchen and i don't think it's necessarily what i would choose for a style you seem underwhelmed by the kitchen the kitchen is a bit for this price range but i always feel like i was born in the wrong area so it just really felt like i was in my element this is a big garden right for harlem this is a really large yes garden one i have a bit of magic for you okay this is an old well does it still function can we get water out of it of course not okay they boarded it up so it's not a danger to your children but maybe you guys should just go old-timey candles well water yeah that's what we'll need to pay for this house i love it of course okay so this is your first set of stairs yep and these are really big bedrooms i will say that this is a good size i love that you could see everything in the neighborhood and i feel like i'm the mayor of the street just do a little song for me hey trust me you don't want to just do a good morning you can wait morning everybody [Laughter] the bathroom is not on suite but here's your toilet okay so we're spending 1.7 million and we don't have a door that closes but i just like the amount of space in this room yeah he's seeing it all through rose-colored glasses i know so i love it yeah this bedroom has character out the wazoo yeah wow i love the fact that they actually kept it open it just seems kind of ridiculous that we would be going that far over budget some of the doors don't even close would you expect a little bit more luxury for that price i would think so but i uh yeah i love it i don't think dejuan cares at all about the money it's just a matter of this is the house that i like and this is the house that we're gonna get oh oh it's nice very nice this is my last chance to really hit the jackpot and i really think it's a great compromise for them just not a very kitty garden this is the only bathroom this is disappointing [Music] ready get in you got it yeah 18 months ago when we decided we were going to move to harlem i was a bit nervous i'm originally from cleveland we lived in the suburbs our kids had a lot of friends we had family nearby it was a very comfortable life yet it was a little bit mundane what's going on there's a lot of people here in the park huh if it was me i think we would still be in cleveland put your kick stand on you ready yeah give it a try but it's spontaneity brings that out of me we may never have this opportunity again so we should go for it come on bailey good job learn to stop learn to stop i want my wife and my kids to be happy because this is it we only live once do you want to live in that house isabel no daddy would like it i think it would be hard for jennifer to compromise and pay extra money to live in a historic home just to make dejuan have this magical feeling that he's looking for as you see we're still in harlem kind of you want to be in yeah it's a little bit more city center is there's a shopping street right there which is nice yeah and this is the home that we're seeing so we're seeing this whole corner house i think it's kind of a blend of the two of you looks nice it's four bedrooms it's got one bathroom at the moment one bathroom but two toilets on each floor okay and it's only a hundred thousand more than you want oh that's nothing right it's just a hundred grand let's go all right it's very grand it's very welcoming and it's a lot of charming details the grandness continues as we come in here oh my gosh this is so nice wow wow wow that's really beautiful yeah they've done this kind of like shabby bohemian chic type thing oh oh it's just so spacious i mean details are great again it's just really well designed so let's go into this kitchen i love this room this is a nice kitchen it does have a bit of like a masculine feel to it a bit industrial but it comes together they figured out how to get it together counter space wise for oh is that enough for you i think i got so caught up in the beauty of the design that i forgot about my functionality needs where's all the storage space here they've made this kind of kitchen part two so okay there's it's kind of like a pantry it is it's kind of like a pantry yeah before we go upstairs let's check out this garden okay i think it's a great entertaining garden but i don't know if that would work for us as a family and they haven't done any grass which makes it feel a little bit concrete and it's small um it's a bit choppy as well i mean it would be great for us but for the kids it seems like it's not a very child friendly garden i wouldn't say i just can't believe jennifer and myself are on the same page about the yard because we're not so much on the same page when it comes to the finances this would be our bedroom well you can choose there's another kind of similar room over there but i think you would want a bigger bed you could add a whole area of closet space i mean that's not crazy expensive there's so much spare money this time i spare money so this is the bathroom oh yeah this is not this is the only bathroom this is the only bathroom so no tub just the shower seems like this is disappointing but this is a wonderful feature of this home this is nice this is a great spot for my morning speeches i really feel like the mayor up here hello people of harlem i've never heard him make a speech in his entire life but i really think this idea that he's the mayor of harlem is starting to get to his head so for me i think the bottom floor is just amazing right modern but it has a lot of character for dwan i really like the open space all the bright light that's coming into the room the second floor the room situations aren't really the best there's definitely room for improvement which includes the yard as well really the thing about this house is it gets you in the neighborhood that you want and it's close to that 1.4 million mark that you wanted to be at it's kind of hard for me to tell who's going to win out he's just really like yeah let's just pay more where she's really like i don't want to spend that much is it worth it if we're eating like rice and beans to pay for this thing yeah if you have to eat rice and beans oh my goodness you know it's good for you this was stressful it was a long day i was thinking i mean we're spending a lot of money so it shouldn't be this hard i know but it is dejuan and jennifer have 1.4 million dollars to spend and it goes very quickly here he's kind of a dreamer and she's very practical thinking about their kids future as well but convincing dewan to get rid of that tower she'll have to work some magic it's disappointing let's start with the hampstead house i could definitely see the kids playing in that backyard and we wouldn't have to do anything to the house but it wasn't really that historical charm i was looking for i'm not a big fan of the floors way too modern so then let's talk about the tower house you know that was my absolute favorite and it was quite close to where the kids go to school are you forgetting the price of that house it's 1.7 million dollars the bohemian beauty home it's a lot over what we want to spend that living room was just unbelievable i'm just torn a little bit about some of the other aspects of the house it's not a very kitty garden this is the only bathroom this is disappointing [Music] i think that heim stated property we would all be in different floors i'll be one floor watching tv kids will be up in their rooms that's not why we moved here i do not want that so let's eliminate that one okay you know my feelings on the tower house yeah it's expensive yet the charm of that property it just is everything i've been looking for but to be spending 1.7 boggles my mind from the minute we walked in to that beauty property it just captured me yeah i mean i loved that first floor of that home i would love to have you know different areas for the kids well just one bathroom and that's a tiny bathroom wasn't really sold on the yard either i mean i know it's still over but it's not as much in the tower home i just don't think it's big enough and i think we could really use that space on the tower home it's 1.7 and the doors don't even close to the bathroom can get that taken care of just the door what's the door and the floors are crooked i do feel your nervousness but i just want you to trust me on this one i you know i asked you to trust me when we were making this move and you did and i want you to trust me one more time it's really really hard to even say that i trust making this decision but i trust it you know are you saying what i think you're saying yeah oh three versus ayden you think you're that good i'm better than you as a family we really enjoy being able to go outside and spending time as a family has been really good for us all right i'm coming in the kids are loving the space in this house it's everything i hoped for and i wished for and more i was at the house [Music] do you prefer this or peanut butter this we're giving the kids really cool experiences that they wouldn't have had if we stayed in ohio i still haven't made my annual speech yet out of the tower but i'm getting there but it certainly feels like a home that can be our forever home

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Length: 21min 28sec (1288 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 30 2021