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Tropic Like It's Hot Season 1 Episode 10
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00:00I kind of can't believe we're down here a little bit.
00:02Oh, I believe it. It's a little scary, though.
00:04In New Jersey, we kind of fell into this pattern of work, work, work.
00:07So we are moving to St. Thomas to slow down.
00:11We have put our house for sale in New Jersey.
00:13We both accepted jobs down here.
00:16Yay!
00:17And now the only thing that's left is...
00:20Search for a new home.
00:20Search for a new home down here.
00:22And maybe only work eight hours a day instead of 24.
00:25See about that.
00:50It really is a beautiful, gorgeous, gorgeous.
00:53Well, hello! Michael and Jay!
00:56It is so great to see you!
00:58Oh, I am great.
00:59Nice to finally meet you.
01:00Yes, likewise.
01:01I'm Jay.
01:02Nice to meet you.
01:02Jay, yes. Oh, my God.
01:03It's a two-piece and it's cool.
01:05Yeah, this is just one.
01:07Oh!
01:08Get it going!
01:09Get out of here!
01:10Well, thank you for meeting me here at Drake's Seat.
01:13This is a perfect central location to be able to, like, just kind of point out where everything is.
01:18So we have beautiful Megan's Bay, which is one of the top ten beaches in the world.
01:23Looks amazing. I can see why.
01:24St. Thomas is a part of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
01:27We're 15 minutes away from Puerto Rico and about a three-hour plane trip to Florida.
01:32Coming to St. Thomas, you are truly getting paradise.
01:35But, because we're on a small island, land is not unlimited, so the prices are a little higher.
01:42Jay, you are an anesthesiologist.
01:44I'm a nurse anesthetist.
01:46Nurse anesthetist.
01:47Nurse anesthetist.
01:48Oh, that's a tongue twister.
01:49Okay.
01:50I'm a nurse who provides anesthesia.
01:51Okay.
01:52Wow. Okay.
01:53I'm a science teacher.
01:54I'm going to be teaching at the school on the East End.
01:56Is that Montessori?
01:57The Montessori school, yeah.
01:58Oh, awesome. My boys went over there. That's pretty cool.
02:00Oh, yeah? Oh, good.
02:01In New Jersey, you know, it's all about bills. Bills, bills, bills.
02:04I mean, we're really looking forward to slowing down, getting to know people, being a part of the community, and
02:09enjoying our new life and our hopefully new house.
02:11I've been working for 80 hours a week, so there's no life work balance there.
02:15You know, it takes a toll also on me because he's not home as much, and I miss him.
02:20And when I'm home, I'm just so cranky and tired, and I don't want to deal with anything.
02:24I would definitely like three beds, a pool.
02:28Furnished or unfurnished?
02:29We are looking for furnished.
02:31Absolutely, yeah.
02:31Like, we want it to be, like, almost turnkey.
02:33Yeah.
02:34We would like the house to be open, free-flowing.
02:36Every year back in New Jersey, we would host, like, Friendsgiving, and we'd have, like, 20 to 30 people at
02:41our house.
02:41So we would love to continue that tradition here in the islands, if we make enough friends, that is.
02:46Trust me.
02:47You're in St. Thomas.
02:48You're going to make friends.
02:50Okay, great.
02:50An important thing for me, Mike and I have discussed again, it's having a large enough property that I can
02:55have a chicken coop.
02:56I grew up in a farm, and I would love to have a chicken coop.
02:59So are you a gardener also?
02:59I love doing hard work.
03:01Yeah, he does.
03:01That's my piece.
03:02Let's talk about price.
03:03I would like to be somewhere around a million dollars.
03:06Okay.
03:06Please, Tanya.
03:07I don't want to feel like we have to work in order to pay our bills.
03:10You know what I mean?
03:11Got it. Understood.
03:11And I'm a little more lenient.
03:131.5, I'm comfortable.
03:14Important for us to be able to subsidize that 1.5 mil mortgage with a rental unit.
03:18Yes, an apartment.
03:19And that is something very common on island.
03:21I will say, though, Tanya, if we get it for a million, we don't need a renter.
03:25Do I want to be a landlord in St. Thomas?
03:27Oh, you do.
03:28Yeah.
03:29Are you planning to walk around naked outside or something?
03:32Yes, please.
03:33Maybe.
03:33I don't know.
03:34I don't know, Tanya, but if I want to, I want to be able to.
03:37I don't know.
03:37The ideal is they want a property where they don't have to do any work.
03:40That million dollars versus the 1.5 is going to be the difference in how much work they have to
03:45do
03:45versus just walking right in and start living and enjoying paradise.
03:55We are here in Peterborg, and this is considered like a really prestigious area of the island.
04:03There's both gated and non-gated communities within Peterborg.
04:07It's accessible to Megan's Bay, so if you just wanted to walk to the beach, you could take this road
04:13and walk down to the beach.
04:14This beautiful property that we are about to see, this is listed at 1.695.
04:20Tanya!
04:22That's not 1.5!
04:24I hope this is like turning key like we wanted.
04:27And that is one of the reasons why this made the cut.
04:30For example, the view is killer, and it does have a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment, and it's furnished.
04:37So you can get anywhere from $1800 to $2500 a month.
04:41You know what, if it like tickles your fancy.
04:44It better do more than just tickle, Tanya.
04:47It better, it better tickle, rod, massage.
04:49I can't wait to see this property.
04:55Go right ahead, and I will catch up with you in just a moment.
04:58See you shortly.
04:58Thanks, Tanya, I appreciate it.
05:03Are you my dear?
05:04Oh, thank you.
05:04Yeah.
05:05Oh, wow.
05:06Damn!
05:08This is what I'm talking about.
05:09Look at that view.
05:11Gorgeous.
05:12Wow.
05:14Tanya was right.
05:14This is a $1.7 million view.
05:18Breathtaking.
05:19Yeah.
05:19She's definitely nailed it.
05:20Yeah.
05:21There's the beach, and the best view is right here next to me.
05:24Is it me?
05:24Yeah.
05:25Oh, thank you.
05:26Let's go check out the rest of us.
05:27Let's do it.
05:31So...
05:34Why do you make your faces?
05:36Because it's a little small.
05:38I think it's perfect.
05:39It's one open room.
05:41Do you like the furniture?
05:42Is it like our style?
05:44No?
05:44Yeah, at this price level.
05:46It's not something that I would buy either.
05:48Kitchen.
05:48Imagine me washing dishes.
05:50I can definitely.
05:51And looking at that view.
05:51Wearing nothing but my Speedo.
05:54For the pool that this house has, correct?
05:56Or incorrect?
05:57I don't think there is a pool.
05:58Yeah, that's what I thought.
06:00Jay and I have a real fairytale love story.
06:03I can't wait to hear that.
06:04Yeah.
06:05I definitely saw him first in his little red Speedo.
06:09And he goes, oh, I'm from Brazil.
06:11And I went, yes.
06:13Because I learned Portuguese while I was in Brazil.
06:15So I'm like, I'm going to impress this guy.
06:17This is going to seal the deal.
06:18Well, I started speaking to him in Portuguese.
06:20And he looked at me and he went, I speak English.
06:24You can talk to me in English.
06:25I'm not going to talk to you in Portuguese.
06:27Two weeks later, we ended up meeting again.
06:30And this time I didn't speak Portuguese.
06:32And I asked him to go on a date with me.
06:34And he agreed, so.
06:35And here we are.
06:37Jay, this is kind of what I was afraid of.
06:40I really don't like that the primary bedroom is down here.
06:43I wish this was all upstairs.
06:46It's still a beautiful view.
06:47And I'm sure that over here on this balcony.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Wow, Jay.
06:52Wow.
06:54Gorgeous.
06:55This view, it's right off our bedroom.
06:58I want you to look behind you.
07:00It seems to be a possible tenant that I wanted to have.
07:03Yeah.
07:03That means that we are sharing a bedroom wall with the tenant.
07:08Yeah.
07:09Let's just go take a look on the possible rent to you.
07:12Keep your mind open to it.
07:13I do like that it's at least a separate entrance.
07:15It is.
07:18All right.
07:20And surprise, surprise.
07:22Dark furniture.
07:24Boring, bland, brown cabinets.
07:27It's a good space.
07:31Come on.
07:32I don't like it.
07:32What's it bringing for us?
07:33The view that we wanted?
07:35There's all three rooms, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a rental property.
07:38I mean, you just don't want to spend that 1.5 mil.
07:40I feel like you're just looking for what you want and not considering my wants.
07:43Well, first of all, it's not 1.5 million.
07:45It's 1.7 million.
07:46It is $200,000 above what you wanted to pay.
07:50You got an extra $200,000?
07:51No, what do we have?
07:52We have the rental unit.
07:53Just got to find a renter.
07:54This house offers a lot.
08:03What do you think overall?
08:06We love the view.
08:07It's like a painting.
08:08I mean, it's absolutely gorgeous.
08:09There's definitely a plus for me.
08:11It has the rental property that I wanted.
08:13Well-desired area of St. Thomas.
08:15Beautiful gated neighborhood.
08:16But there's no pool.
08:18Inside the house is kind of boring.
08:20You know what I mean?
08:20We're sitting on a half an acre.
08:21And it is somewhere where you can grow with it and you do have a rental.
08:25The only thing that makes me even possibly consider this house is the view.
08:31It was tough because I was thinking that given this beautiful property,
08:36we went a little higher on the price point to make sure that it had that stronger appeal.
08:40And it did not make the great.
08:42All right, let's go.
08:43Now I have to go back and reevaluate what we're going to see next,
08:46just to make sure that we find something that is a closer hit.
08:56This beach is perfect.
08:57Being in New Jersey, I mean, it's just like, it's just not like this.
09:01Where are the jetties?
09:03In New Jersey, we're definitely working more than we're enjoying.
09:07Jay and I have a shared calendar.
09:09And it kind of takes the sexy out of it, to be honest with you.
09:13Here we go.
09:15We come this way.
09:16I'm hoping once we move to St. Thomas that we can try to get some of that back.
09:21I just love being with him.
09:22And I want to do things with him.
09:23And I want to explore St. Thomas.
09:25That was good, honey.
09:26I like that.
09:30So we are on the south side of the island.
09:32We are in content.
09:34We are close to the airport.
09:35Everything is more lush.
09:37And you see, like, it's denser.
09:39I can see how dense it is.
09:40Yeah.
09:41The houses are, like, in the million dollar price point.
09:44I'm hoping to see a rental unit for me.
09:46There is a rental unit.
09:47The house, it is a nice layout.
09:49You can entertain and be happy.
09:51And it is 995.
09:54Which I love.
09:55Thank you very much.
09:56You are welcome.
09:57Now, you'll find throughout the island that there's some roads that are a little easier to traverse than others.
10:03This is not one of them.
10:03Nope.
10:04I feel like I'm riding a pole right now.
10:06It does not feel cozy.
10:06And this is the hill.
10:08Get this into a four-wheel drive.
10:10There you go.
10:10Come on.
10:11Thank you for the muscle.
10:15All right.
10:15I'm okay.
10:16All right.
10:17Let's go, guys.
10:18Oh, my goodness.
10:18This is a little scary.
10:20Wee!
10:21Careful, careful, careful.
10:22Oh, Tanya.
10:22Oh, my gosh.
10:23Okay.
10:24Oh, my goodness.
10:25Can I do that every day of my life, Tanya?
10:33Oh.
10:35This is interesting.
10:36Okay.
10:37All right.
10:38Oh, I can never practice my pole dance moves over here.
10:41Does it bring you back to your day, Stray?
10:43My working day, let's see.
10:45Ah!
10:46Yeah.
10:48Honey, be careful.
10:49That was a good one.
10:51I think we should keep the pole.
10:53No, no.
10:53But what would you use this room for?
10:54I mean, it's kind of useless.
10:55Nothing.
10:56But they're using it as a gym.
10:57Can I just say you see the pool?
10:58Oh, okay.
10:58Fake plants.
10:59I hate fake plants.
11:00I love fake plants.
11:02Surprising here.
11:03This is nice and bright and airy.
11:04This is actually very well designed in here, I will say.
11:07Yeah.
11:08Beautiful views from here.
11:08Of the mountains, nothing from the water, though.
11:10This would be like the dining area.
11:12Yes.
11:12This room works.
11:13This room is actually a useful room that I would be in for a long time.
11:17Okay.
11:18It's a pretty kitchen.
11:19Yeah, no.
11:20No?
11:21It does not work for me.
11:22Why?
11:23It's very...
11:23It's tight?
11:24Very tight.
11:25It's a galley kitchen, right?
11:26I want to be able to see the guests.
11:27I want to be able to talk to the guests.
11:28And this is, we're not able to do it.
11:30I understand.
11:30I agree with you.
11:31A electric stove, that's definitely no for me.
11:33Oh, I didn't even notice that.
11:34Yes.
11:35Because you don't cook.
11:36That's what you notice.
11:39I cook, I just don't cook well.
11:41Let's get out of the kitchen.
11:42How about that?
11:43Look at this bathroom.
11:44That's a little weird.
11:46It is super weird.
11:51Oh, look at this bathroom.
11:53That's a little weird.
11:54It is super weird.
11:55As you can see from the hallway, into the bathroom.
12:00So there's no privacy?
12:01No.
12:01Jay, I just...
12:02It's not even closed.
12:04But you can be having dinner, party, shower, and say hi to your guests.
12:07Hi.
12:08Do I like the double sinks?
12:09Double sinks are nice.
12:10Yeah, I definitely don't like to share.
12:11We don't want to share.
12:12Okay.
12:13Now, honey, it makes sense now why you have this bathroom right here.
12:15Because this seems to be the primary bedroom.
12:18I love the bed.
12:19The mirror is very well-picked.
12:21I like this.
12:22Very nice.
12:22And it's very open.
12:23Bright.
12:23Yeah.
12:24I like the sliding glass door.
12:25The view is a little disappointing.
12:27The view is very disappointing, to be honest with you.
12:29Let's see what's outside.
12:30All right, let's go to the rental unit.
12:33I'm excited to see the rental unit.
12:35Yeah.
12:35So, this is cute.
12:38Interesting.
12:39I actually do like this furniture in here.
12:42I don't want to feel like we have to rent out or have the pressure to rent out in order
12:46to make ends meet.
12:47We're able to afford.
12:48It's just a matter of making it more comfortable.
12:50Well, I want it to be comfortable without renting out a part of our house.
12:53Okay.
12:54I mean, I get it.
12:55We'll see what happens.
12:57That means we're going to do what he wants to do.
12:58That is not true.
12:59We're going to discuss it and meet halfway.
13:02Okay.
13:04Finally, we can see the pool.
13:07Here it is.
13:09Lots of privacy.
13:10A lot of privacy.
13:11Yeah.
13:12You can be free as a bird out here.
13:13Run naked.
13:14Run around.
13:15Do jumping jacks.
13:15But one of our wish lists for Tanya was my possible chicken coops.
13:20Exactly.
13:20And I don't see that yet.
13:21Yeah.
13:22So, I don't know.
13:25Well, hello.
13:26Hello.
13:27Hi, Tanya.
13:28It went well.
13:29I love the price.
13:31Okay.
13:31The price is excellent.
13:32Of course.
13:32Thank you for that.
13:33I appreciate it.
13:34Wish list that I want in the house would be the enough space to have a chicken coop.
13:38And I don't have that space that will allow me to do that.
13:40Also, the kitchen is a galley kitchen and it's completely shut off from the living room.
13:44He wants to knock down a wall, Tanya.
13:46He wants to knock down walls.
13:47I know it's challenging in St. Thomas.
13:49We don't have a large inventory.
13:51However, the property is 995.
13:54Tanya, let me just tell you about my husband just a little bit.
13:56He's not going to be able to be Zen until every single project is done.
14:01And if he's not able to be Zen, my life will not be Zen, Tanya.
14:05I think we need to see something a little bit more turnkey.
14:09No projects.
14:10And we're hitting more things on our wish list.
14:23Oh my goodness.
14:24Jay, look, chickens.
14:27Grab one.
14:28They're free range chickens.
14:30That's what we want to have.
14:31St. Thomas, for me, what's great about it, it reminds me of home.
14:34Come here.
14:36They're not going to come, honey.
14:37All right.
14:37They're free range from the meat, you know?
14:39No.
14:39They're ready to be slaughtered.
14:41No slaughtered.
14:42Jay, we're not going to eat the chickens, are we?
14:45You know, we'll see.
14:46We'll see what happens.
14:47We'll see, no.
14:48We're not going to eat the chickens.
14:49You can get eggs from the chickens.
14:51That's wonderful.
14:52I think that's not.
14:53Yeah.
14:55Now, the house that we are going to see today in St. Joseph and Rosendale, this is another
15:00very lush part of St. Thomas.
15:02And this is the north side of the island.
15:04The price range in this area, I would say about $800,000 and up.
15:08Okay.
15:08It's a three-bedroom, three-bath home.
15:10It has a studio apartment with a one-bath room.
15:15Nice.
15:15I like that.
15:16As far as budget, we're looking at about $920,000 with this property.
15:19Oh, okay.
15:21It's nice.
15:21It's so clean.
15:22Yes.
15:28Oh, my gosh.
15:29It's so rainy.
15:29Honey, my hair.
15:30Oh, my gosh.
15:33What is this?
15:34It's a car pong.
15:36Oh, how cute.
15:37Oh, my gosh.
15:37It has a gong above it.
15:38It has a what?
15:42This way?
15:43Let's go this way.
15:43This way.
15:44Oh.
15:45Shall we walk right into the kitchen?
15:48One thing that I liked as soon as I walked in was that it's open to the main area of
15:51the
15:51house.
15:51Yes.
15:52I know.
15:52And that's something that you were looking for.
15:54You really wanted the open flow.
15:56Although it's small, I mean, this tiny area, it fits.
16:01I mean, but this is not your style.
16:02I'm definitely going to have to change it as well eventually.
16:04It's not, but it's older.
16:05I like it.
16:06Just like you.
16:07I mean, what did you say?
16:09I'm old.
16:09You are old.
16:10And I like it.
16:11I love it.
16:12I have a lot of experience.
16:13What do you think about the living area?
16:14I do really, really like all of the French doors.
16:18Arches.
16:18You see these arches?
16:19They're super.
16:19So much light comes through.
16:21Yeah.
16:21I haven't seen that in another house before.
16:23Absolutely.
16:24You want to go check out the view?
16:26Oh.
16:27Wow.
16:28This is the view that I was looking for.
16:30Yeah.
16:31100%.
16:32A house without a pool.
16:34Tanya, what is she doing?
16:35I don't know.
16:36Let's just set a staircase over here in the back.
16:38I wonder if that goes to the unit that we're supposed to see.
16:40Let's go check it out.
16:41Let's go check out the rental unit that we're not going to be renting out
16:43because this house is cheap enough for us not to do it.
16:46Nice.
16:47All right.
16:48Here's the apartment that I didn't want.
16:52It's nice.
16:53If we decide not to rent, this can be for guests.
16:56So they are separate from us.
16:57Absolutely.
16:57I totally agree with you on that.
16:59Or they can just make money for us.
17:02I still don't know if I want to rent her though.
17:04I think we should check out upstairs.
17:06Yeah.
17:08I mean, this is definitely the primary, like, sweet floor.
17:12But with buying furniture for this room and also having to replace a couch and maybe a couple other pieces
17:18of furniture,
17:19it's not the price, but it's the project.
17:21Project, project, project.
17:22Yes.
17:22I know.
17:23I love the closet size.
17:24It's like side by side.
17:25His and his.
17:26Yeah.
17:27Cathedral ceilings.
17:28I love it.
17:28Is it a good closet?
17:30Yeah, it's his and his.
17:31What the heck is behind this?
17:33What is it?
17:34Why?
17:34Why would they do this?
17:46It's two doors.
17:50That leads out to the balcony that I guess they did not change.
17:54But you know what?
17:54We're just going to keep that locked.
17:56I don't think we need to touch that.
17:57That's not a project that we need to work on.
17:59A little curtain maybe?
18:00No.
18:00We're just going to cover that back up and we're just going to keep walking.
18:03No projects to see here, Jay.
18:05It's an older home so far and I haven't seen a pool yet.
18:08I can see a lot of projects that can be a turn off for me.
18:11So I have a little proposal for you here.
18:13What do you think if we put in an offer?
18:17I am very hesitant about that just because the pool was a must.
18:21But you know I love a great deal.
18:23The Southside home I think is a great contender as well.
18:25It had a good flow as we walked in.
18:28There was a nice foyer.
18:28I love the pool and I love the furniture.
18:31We really wouldn't have to do anything with that.
18:33House in Peterborough, again I love the views.
18:35It's beautiful.
18:36You said the turquoise waters.
18:38But I just feel like this house, we do have the space for your chicken coop.
18:42For me a big thing was having the pool.
18:44There's no pool, but with all that extra money, we can put in a pool.
18:49I knew it.
18:50You love projects.
18:51I know.
18:51But projects work for me, not for you.
18:53I know this whole time I've been saying no project, no project, no project.
18:56But I promise that if we put an offer on this house that I will look for a tenant for
19:03downstairs.
19:04This is just too good of a deal to pass up.
19:06I don't know.
19:14The house we chose is the house in the north side.
19:17Yes, we did.
19:18The price was right.
19:19We were able to work out a little deal.
19:21Because there's projects.
19:23So it was listed at $920 and we got it for a whopping $25,000.
19:27We got our three bedrooms, our three bathrooms.
19:29It has the room for me to have my chicken cooped.
19:32And I got my rental unit, which we plan to renovate it soon.
19:36We just did not get the pool, unfortunately.
19:38But we're building it now.
19:40How about if we got something to eat, babe?
19:42I can do that. Charcuterie?
19:43Yeah.
19:43You're in the mood?
19:44Absolutely.
19:44Yeah? Okay.
19:45I'm trying to get in the mood, but I love just sitting out on the balcony
19:49and looking out at the beautiful views of the blue water that we wanted.
19:52I know.
19:52Isn't that a nice feeling to just be relaxed?
19:55Not do a 24 hour or a 12 hour shift, right?
19:58You're correct.
19:58We're happy to be here.
19:59We're enjoying the house.
20:00It's just, I feel like I'm in peace.
20:02I found a new meaning to life.
20:05It's not all about work and money.
20:06It's about spending part of your time together.
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