Hi! My name is Soomin Kim and welcome to my channel. I am a husband, father and a real estate agent. I relocated my family [with 2 small children], moving from a beach community in Southern California to North Austin, Texas! We moved to the City of Leander, an area central to Cedar Park, Round Rock, Liberty Hill, Georgetown and Pflugerville. What a journey it's been!
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Good home btw, especially in Austin 😊! 0:55 Can you just tell me what's the height of that ceiling of the living space!??🤔 Also at what lot sizes do they come?? THANKS YOU VERY MUCH SOOMIN FOR A NICE HOME TOUR ❤👍🏿☺!!
Thank you for keeping it friendly. My neighborhood is in transition many new Californians. I make it a point to wave violently when driving around the neighborhood to try to set the standard. Soon I hope to get back to the steering wheel finger wave and head nod.
Dear Soomin, I honestly appreciate your videos, your coverage is outstanding. You manage to capture everything from top to bottom, providing a comprehensive 360° view. Great work on the coverage. Good Luck.
This location makes the one in Carrollton (DFW) look ghetto. Ours looks like it’s been there since the 70s, and nothings changed since. Not a whole lot of room. Never eaten at their food court because of how tiny and small it is. You never know who’s going to be open, and to be honest, there’s like only one table per business, it feels like. So it doesn’t look like they expect to have many customers even though the store is always packed. But I guess if they’re opening several other locations, maybe that will help alleviate the crowd. The problem is that across the street is 99 Ranch, a Chinese grocery store that sells similar products, and then a few miles north is Zion Mart, another Korean grocery store, with more mini stores, and a bigger food court, though not as big as the one in the video.
Carrollton is rich with Asian / Korean cultural options for food , so we can give them a pass on the sub par HMart food court. It is similar to a location in Irvine, CA.... super small food court or I should say corner section.
@@SoominKimRElol, yes, it’s more of a “corner.” The Zion Mart is significantly closer to us due to how difficult it is to navigate around that one mile stretch of highway. My family refers to that place as “The Korean Sears.” It’s located in a dead mall, but I’ve seen that mall during its glory days, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen the original Sears that busy. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been inside that Sears as often as I do with it being Korean, and that’s including all the times my folks brought me there as a kid. I truly feel that having THAT as an anchor store is what’s keeping that mall alive. Its own food court is a joke, but the one inside Zion however is worth the trip alone. I wish other cultural groups would lease out the other department stores. People would travel to see an international mall. Plus, it’s just funny seeing where all the modern departments are. There’s a patisserie where they sold tires. There’s an expensive fancy shabu restaurant where you’d get your oil changed. I just think that’s funny.
@@SoominKimREthe foot court is where the home electronics and appliances used to be. What’s cool is that most of that downstairs was originally inaccessible to customers. I guess it was used as a stock room and offices for Sears. The grocery part of it took over much of that. I know that one of the bathrooms, the one near the patisserie, used to have a bunch of smaller offices around it. One of those offices was a classroom where they taught drivers ed. My 8th grade history teacher used to teach there. Sadly, the escalator hadn’t worked since Sears closed. They blocked it off with signs telling you what’s upstairs, but don’t tell you how to get there. You have to use the stores elevator, which still smells like 1989. The mall has really crappy hours, but when it’s open, the upstairs mall entrance is rarely open, so you can’t really go in that way. It’s just a bunch of much larger Korean businesses with odd hours. What’s cool though is that some of that has spilled into the mall. First floor, going out, has a few of Korean storefronts. But again, mall has crappy hours, like 11-7. 8 hour work day, but for customers, not fun. Zion stays open longer, and mall security will sometimes inform them that they need to close that door, harassing one of the restaurant owners to close it. Sometimes families get split up, and if they can’t get the restaurant owner to reopen it, they have to walk all the way around the mall, go outside, then walk back inside Zion.
thx for watching, I have been in H Marts in California as well, some in what is considered the quite safe areas, same.... so perhaps store policy or protocol. I dont mind !
thank you so much for sharing your experience! I was wondering what area of Austin you moved to? No worries at all of you don't feel comfortable sharing, or if you would prefer to respond via personal message I would really appreciate it, too! I am in CA and just dont know Texas at all :) Thank you!
As a long time Austin area resident, I discovered your RU-vid channel recently. This was a great one, with information we will surely use. All your videos are very well done. We will plan a visit to this area of Lakeline soon. Thank you so much.
Mr. Kim, Custom means to the preferences likes and dislikes of the individual person, the only thing custom is the furniture and home décor. but the houses themselves are pretty much all the same layout. I'm sorry but that is boring.
I'm grasping at what you are trying mean here....yes custom means selections, and in the case of a production build there are custom selections for individuals building this plan , from design (back splash, cabinets, flooring, elevation, roofing, railing, landscaping etc.) also there are selections of (4 bed or 5, bathroom count selection and Drees will vary walls of rooms etc.) So not sure what you are implying......if you are discussing a full custom from a custom builder with an architect the title would not likely give you a Builder floorplan name. Hope that helps and grateful that you watched..... even if it was 'boring' =)
THANKS price is not bad. My wife and I live in Dallas and is planning to move there our range would be no more than 3 million (Pool, Movie, 4 or more garage spaces, and a mountain view or water view)
They had the nerve to sell this home for almost 800k with no incentive. Now it’s worth 450k. I feel bad for everyone who bought this plan in April 2022. Most of if all that equity gone. I lived in pflugerville at the time and visited this model and was unimpressed.
I am not privvy to that home sale, but YES, model home sales are notoriously overpriced - i dont recommend unless it is quite a unique home, homesite and heavily upgraded outdoor space.
Thanks for posting the video. My wife and I have been here twice, and we love it. Question: Do you have a video of the C elevation? I've only seen it in the brochure.
Looking to customize our backyard in our new construction home. I will be contacting your consultant soon. Since you’re backing up to some greenery, have you had to deal with pests because of the pool?
Soomin, can you tell me what's the deal with the garage set up? I can not stand that tiny garage, why do builders not just make 3 individual doors. I enjoy symmetry, neatness and slight ocd. It just drives me nuts
A divider for the garage doors tends to be a variable and makes it quite tight to get in. The standard 2 door garage allows for percentage of space to be utilized properly. For example if one drives a large truck or a SUV and the other car being a compact vehicle, it is MUCH more difficult for the truck to easily get in a single bay door vs. having a 2 door bay with the compact car taking up only 40% of the 100%. Aesthetically it might look neater for every bay to have its own door (and some houses do) but the 2 car bay door is much more functional. Often that single door is used often for storage of golf cart.
Hi Richard, thank you for watching. I am familiar with Legacy Gardens, reach out I will align you with a top agent that specializes in new construction there. SoominSK@gmail. com
Yes, finally! Thanks for touring this model. Extravagant indeed. I’d say the new finishes are on par with custom homes like the Grand Endeavor model. Those cabinet and tile options look new.
