Small House Tour & Our Scotland Home Buying Experience

Ep: 6 – Subscribers: 5,046

Thanks for joining! Today, we are outlining our house buying process in Scotland and comparing it to what we went through with our first home purchase in California. We’ll be including things such as the infamous blind bid system, offers over, solicitors, and so much more! We’ll also be giving a very “rough” house tour and sharing some of our BIG plans for this small family home (956sqft). Keep in mind the average family home size in the U.S. is ~2,000sqft. Get ready for plenty of future DIYs as we’ll be finding creative ways to increase our storage and to make our home function for us! We hope you enjoy this slightly slower pace video. If you’re interested in our moving to Scotland journey, please check out our previous 5 videos. We’re loving our new life so far and can’t wait to share an up to date house tour once we get settled! Thank you for all the support.

1:55 Home buying websites
3:56 "The House"
5:21 In-person viewings
6:16 Real estate agent vs. Solicitor
9:30 LBTT
10:38 Offer over/asking price
12:01 More real estate agent info
12:39 Blind bids
14:18 No chain
15:40 Mineral clause
18:15 Seeing our house 1st time
19:53 Initial pre-reno house tour
25:49 Updated home tour

[Chrissyhappy]

Respect for keeping the kids and their spaces private.😊

[colingoldthorpe]

I was always amazed at the size of everything when i moved to Canada from the UK 30 years ago. Houses/Kitchens and such were just monstrous in size. Life in North America is not that great to be honest, even though I have been very successful in life living in Canada. I just miss the closeness of small town UK, where you know everyone and see everyone at the local pub. Walking in the countryside with the dog, quick trips to the beach and such. Canada is such a vast place, with nothing to do. I am in Houston for work for 3 weeks and it is boring as heck. Hoping one day to move back to a more simple life of walking to the pub for lunch and rolling my groceries back home in my shopping trolley!!!! Enjoy yourselves over there, looks like a wonderful house and place to live a quiet life with less stress.

[MrBart]

Love to see a fellow USA citizen taking the plunge. My wife and I purchased a flat in Edinburgh during Covid, and yes, it took some getting used to the processes and procedures before the closing.
Unfortunately, we must wait til retirement before we can appreciate Scotland on a full-time basis. For now, we have to be satisfied with quarterly trips.
Much luck and Slainte Mhath!

[elizabethghent]

I love to hear your Scottish accent is coming back so quickly Zach. I Hope you both have a wonderful time settling in to your new home in Scotland with your family.

[weepair]

You will be cosy in the dark days of winter. Welcome from Fife.

[annahopp]

I could rewind that laughter over and over again. You two are awesome.

[ducatiman]

You are a lovely couple - I do hope you will be happy here - Scotland is beautiful and we do need folks like you X

[francesrice]

Your home looks like it will be a cozy, and warm space to raise your family! I love the sage green you have chosen for the wainscoting and wood trim, stair railings, etc...! The chevron terracotta tile is very pretty too! Every home with more than one person really needs a second toilet, and you will never regret making that decision. Congratulations on your new home!

[melissagotbook]

Him trying to remember the house y'all were looking at and you were talking about the one you bought.😂😂😂 that had me laughing so hard. Lol. Congrats guys!

[angieruthw]

Hearing her pop out a Scottish accent here and there because she spends so much time with her hubby is really cute

[lilacseason]

I just returned from a Scotland vacation, from Glasgow to Aberdeen to Edinburgh and fell in love with the rural countryside and small towns. Best wishes in your new home.

[lesjones]

Best is have a double drainer sink, wash in one then rinse in the other.

[avacadman]

I have Victorian style porcelain sinks that are large and deep in all my bathrooms, toilets and the kitchen. Over time with built on the back to create another room and a large bathroom, discovered a cellar many years ago that we made rooms in, the opened up the loft area also with roof windows. With more children we created more rooms. We have right children altogether. All, grown adults now. But the youngest and his wife, and their two children now live with us and our eldest son who has special needs. It just works well. Always there are children in our home. Children make a home, a home. 😀👍👍💗💗

[kumasenlac]

Welcome to Scotland - I hope you stay.

[janshands]

Loved the house tour. Just found your channel a short time ago and am now binge watching all your episodes to catch up. So enjoying them all and a great way to escape today’s world for a little bit. Thanks so much for sharing your life.
Also well done to protect your kiddies. From 🇨🇦

[sgriffith]

When I moved to the U.K. For a Fortune 500 company, we briefly lived in a rental home in the London suburb of Northwood. The owner decided to return from overseas so we had to find another house. Because of the laws regarding squatters rights in unfurnished houses at the time, there were very few houses for rent. The company’s U.K. Subsidiary purchased a number of houses for expats as a result. I was amazed that there was no equivalent of the Multiple Listing Service and that branches of the same estate agent firm did not know what other branches had available. I was also amazed at what was called “guzzumping”, the practice of people being able to take a higher offer after they had accepted an offer. It eventually worked out and we ended up living outside Beaconsfield, Bucks.

[saul]

Loving the content guys ! We are 1 month away from packing up our home in Hampshire down in England and moving to St Andrews . Much like you we just feel that Scotland offers one of the few peaceful and most beautiful places on earth to raise a young family . The nature, natural beauty and the people make Scotland so unique . Only 33 days to go 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[george]

Living in Liverpool, it's not to far to drive, seeing as my son got himself posted to RAF Lossiemouth it's a real treat driving through Scotland, it truly is an amazing place, might take the plunge ourselves as not too far from retirement, enjoy your lovely new home.

[Kevmacc]

Such a beautiful house. You have excellent taste in decor. Wishing you both health, wealth and happiness in your new and the old Scottish saying, "Lang may yer lum reek" 🙂😊

[garywilkins]

That's scary, buying a house without actually seeing it but it paid off. The house is lovely and what you have done so is great. Deffo going to be a cosy home for your family.cant wait to see the next video.