So My House Burnt Down... (Not Clickbait)

My house burnt down. Well, actually, three of the homes that I've lived in are completely destroyed. Unfortunately, this video is not clickbait. It's something I wish I could say that it is, but just about every home that I've lived in is completely destroyed, devastated, and it's gone. Let's talk about it. This is definitely uh one of those tough videos that I'm trying to make, so just be patient with me. I don't really have the best script or organized thoughts in my head, but I want to take you through my story and my experiences with these different homes that I lived in that are destroyed. Um, I do want to kick this story off with a positive note, however, and I just have to look through my notes because I just can't think super clear right now, guys. But I want to kick this story off with one of the only positive notes. The only house that I've lived in that is still standing. The original team raar house. This is where it all started for me after the share the love days. This is where dream team was for a quick moment and it quickly evolved into team raar. This is the origin story of everything. This is where my career extremely popped off. This is probably where you guys started watching a lot of the videos in the backyard filling the house with trampolines and everyone starting their channels. Both Ryan and Stove started their YouTube channels in this house. This is the house that we met Bailey and his channel started popping off after we started filming together and it was an incredible time. But this is where the good news of this video is going to end. That house is fine. It's still standing there. It's looking amazing and whoever is living in it now is probably living the dream. Let's move on to team house number two. This was a bigger, grander house. You guys probably know this one even more than the first one. We had the craziest of videos between filling it with snow, underwater houses, giant trampoline towers, and of course, all the crazy things we've done on the tennis court. This video though isn't to really look back at all the positive memories. It's to look at where things are now. That house is no longer with us. It's completely destroyed, devastated. But it's actually not due to any of the LA fires. That house is destroyed by the current owners. That was the plan the whole time. They went and purchased the house as an investment. They wanted to tear it down after they got permits and build a huge mega mansion. I was the very last person to live there before it got torn down. And that just makes me sad to think that I'll never be able to go back to that house. And all the videos is the only memories that I have of it. So, it's just even just that alone is quite emotional, but not super new to you guys. I have a lot more to tell you in this story. A lot of you guys probably have heard on the news that huge fires came sweeping LA, Pacific Palisades in Malibu. I thought that these fires would never have affected me the way that they have. And I want to get into it. This is the untold story of a lot of my personal life outside of content. I didn't always live at the team houses and those houses weren't always true functional houses. A lot of them were kind of 50/50. We kind of half stayed there, half lived in them. but also we had our places nearby because getting out of the content and the craziness and going home and resting before the next crazy day of videos was often needed. I know for me being a YouTuber for years at this point, it was something that I needed too. So that is when I started looking for a place to live outside of the team house and that is what brought me to Malibu. This is the first time I've been in LA since the fires. We're in Malibu right now and man, everything is different. Stuff is burnt like those railings. There's traffic cones. Half the roads are shut down. This lane right here is completely closed. It looks crazy out here. And this has been a little while so they've cleaned it up. Oh, that building is completely torched. Oh, this is making me nervous for uh what we're about to see. Driving back to a home you know is no longer standing is a crazy feeling. This is about to be the first time that I get to see it. Okay, here we go. This is such a surreal experience like walking in. I mean, even just the road here is destroyed. Probably just from all the construction vehicles trying to do all the cleanup efforts. Wow. This is insane, guys. This used to be a towering condo. Multiple units, beautiful ocean view. It is literally just gone. I mean, it's cleaned out. All the rubble is gone. So, it's crazy because some of the neighbors look completely perfect. I mean, a little bit of ashy. They need like a power wash, but other than that, they are perfect. But, so why does some places burn down, but literally right next door are just fine. That's such a strange thing. Every single one of these garages is completely evacuated. Even the units that didn't burn down, like this one and this one, are still completely empty and they're just doing cleanup with all these machines. So, even if they didn't burn down, you were still dramatically affected cuz I don't think people are living here right now. Our neighbors used to live in these two units right here. They look completely untouched, but I think they're also evacuated. So, I don't know what kind of fire damage they did get. Maybe they burnt out on the inside. Oh, wow. That's not good. They have these signs posted out front with the US Army Corpse of Engineers. I guess they got to pull out the entire insides. I think they burnt on the inside but not the outside. No parking signs everywhere. Just a bunch of cleanup happening. Ever since I first moved to LA, I fell in love with Malibu and I made it my dream to eventually live here and ideally purchase real estate. So, for years I was shopping on and off, exploring Malibu until finally I posted enough videos, made enough money that I could actually start thinking about purchasing real estate. So, we started shopping and I came across this place. I was looking for something cozy and comfortable to get away from the crazy teamer house. I was looking for something with a beautiful ocean view and access to a beach. And I finally found this place. Some random girl I used to date, you know who, ended up purchasing this place and it became our home for the next couple of years. It was absolutely perfect. Every week I would walk down to the beach and jump in the ocean before filming videos at the team house. We invited friends over. We enjoyed the ocean view. And my dream of living in Malibu is finally happening. I couldn't have been happier. Of course, that was all before the unthinkable happened. The LA's fire broke out. The ashes went flying and the place got destroyed. This time by fire, which is putting my count of destroyed homes at two. The team house got destroyed by its owner. This one by fire. So, let's go and check this place out. These were the stairs that I used to climb every day. It was kind of a lot, but you get used to it, but it was super worth it because the view from up here is just amazing. And this is one of the most beautiful things that I loved about here is having the ocean view like this is just insane. Unit number 14. The front door was right here. We go into an amazing two-bedroom condo with the most beautiful ocean views and it's completely gone. I never thought it was just going to burn down and be completely disappeared like that. It was built in like the 70s and I figured if it lasted that long, nothing's going to stop it. But sure enough, one bad fire comes around and it changes everything. Taking a closer look at the foundation of this place. It's insane to see how it's built into the actual hillside going all the way up. But that is what gives you the incredible ocean view. I don't know what's going to come next. cuz I don't know if they're going to rebuild or it's going to stay like this for a long time. But either way, at this point, all I have is memories of this amazing place. It holds a very special place in my heart living here for many years. It's just kind of crazy to think that is actually gone literally forever. I just did not expect that. I can still remember the first day that I toured this place, opening the door, walking in, and seeing that ocean view for the very first time. I fell in love. This place was literally perfect. It was so special in so many ways. And now it's gone literally forever. And the craziest part is the story of destruction for me does not end here. We actually have a bigger one. So, let's go deeper into Malibu. And let me show you. All of this used to be oceanfront houses the whole way down. So much so, like corner like edge to edge that you couldn't even see the water. Every single one of them is burnt. Like literally every single one going up and down this drive every day when I was living here. I never saw the ocean because they had all of these homes edge to edge. I don't have any video to really show you what before looked like, but it looked very similar to this where the houses were just edge to edge all the way down PCH. So that's the before and the burnt is the after. Oh, and there's a G Wagon. Look at that. I mean, the destruction is literally mind-blowing. They've already cleaned up so much and there is still just so many things left over. The construction driving down PCH is a disaster even with traffic normally with all these road closures, all this construction, all these houses. I don't know how people are going to move forward and rebuild. It's just there's so much to do. There's so many houses to rebuild. I think it's going to take years. Oh man. Okay, thank you. Lane is closed. So, I actually wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make it up the road to go see this next house. Okay, we are rolling up to what was going to be my house. Oh my gosh, there is nothing left. I don't even know where I am right now, basically. Oh my goodness. Okay. I mean, I'm supposed to be looking at the house and there's nothing. It's just ocean view. Wow. There is literally nothing here. This one is literally more devastating than the last. I don't even recognize this piece of land. I mean, it just looks like a little bit of a hillside, but there was so much here. This was the garage door, the front door. We'd walk in. That was the backyard all the way down in that way. The trees are gone. This place was beautiful and lush and had rainbow eucalyptus trees everywhere. I mean, I literally do not recognize it at all. And it's completely cleaned out. Man, this was going to be my dream house. And just to think that a few years later it was going to be completely demolished, completely just removed is insane. I don't know if there's something that's following me around that just wants to destroy every single house that I've lived in, but this is another destruction that is hitting me super hard. This house was going to be my personal dream house. Something that I wasn't going to film any content. This is something where I was going to live and raise a family. I was going to have dogs running around in the backyard. This house was going to establish me here in LA myself as an adult, move into Malibu once and for all and own real estate with a beautiful ocean view. I have so many pictures and videos when I was touring this place. I saw it many times looking at the city lights which would be off this way at night. You can zoom in and see the coast. All that would be flickering at night. This property was absolutely stunning in every possible way. Okay. Built in the 70s, it had architecture, character to it, ocean views, of course, a backyard space for dogs to run, and plenty of space for me to settle and live and build a family. So, I decided to put an offer into this house, and it was super competitive at the time. I came in a little bit late, and I didn't think I was going to get accepted, but miraculously, they accepted my offer, and I went into escrow. I was so excited because this was going to be the first piece of real estate that I would purchase that would be truly mine. As the days went on, I got more and more excited. We did all the surveys, all the house checks and inspections and all of that stuff, and everything was checking out perfect. I was actually one day away from moving into this house, setting up my life, and getting the keys. And on that very last day, we found a little bit of an issue with the septic system. So, my realer says, "Hey, let's wait. Let's think about it. The seller said, "Hey, no way." And she cancelled me, giving the offer to the next buyer and the house sold quickly after. And I was devastated. I didn't even know what happened. I don't even know what septic systems are and what the issues were or how hard it was to fix. All I know is that my dream house got pulled out right from under me and I was one day away from getting the keys and moving in. And I thought it was the worst thing. I thought this house was it. It was perfect in every way for myself. And to look back at moments like that that you think are terrible, they're not always terrible. Maybe there was a force or a reason that was steering me away from this house. I can't even imagine the position I would be in if this worked out if my wishes came true. And sometimes the best thing that could ever happen to you is a wish not to come true. This story of destruction I feel like is following me. And I'm just praying this is the end. I'm hoping there is no more. I hope it doesn't follow me to my dream house, the team raw house that you guys know, the big mansion with the lake. The silver lining in all of this destruction, guys, is that all of my failures of trying to purchase a house here in Malibu and move in has led me to find the current team house, which is the most perfect house I could have ever have dreamed of. It doesn't have an ocean view, but it does have a private lake view where you can jet ski every day in the backyard. monster trucks. You guys know what I've been up to and I am so forever thankful that I found that property. And sometimes it takes a crazy failure and loss like this to find the next best thing. But my heart goes out to everyone that has been devastated here in the LA fires. This was one of the most surreal emotional videos that I've filmed and I hope my thoughts were organized. I hope you guys were able to watch through it and go down memory lane with me and kind of feel the impact of these structures. I mean, a home is a home. It's just brick and wood and all that stuff, but it's the memories that come attached with it. And to see just how much destruction has happened here in a place that I love and have called home for many years is absolutely devastating. My heart goes out to every single one of you guys that have been affected by the LA fires. It's really heavy. I really don't have a whole lot to say, guys. I'm just feeling kind of emotional at this point. So, I'm going to just go ahead and end the video here. I'd appreciate if you guys could give a like or subscribe so you don't miss the next videos. But as of now, I got to peace out. Bye, guys.