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[narrator] Tonight in Tampa Bay, Florida,
Mika and Brian Kleinschmidt,
from 100 Day Dream Home ,
need to find the perfect house for a couple
that can't even agree on
whether to build or buy.
You can get whatever you want.
My head wants to explode.
[lively music playing]
[Mika] I like kind of the hexagon vibe here.
[Brian] The hexagons make me think of stop signs, though.
It's like, when somebody walks into a house,
You don't wanna say stop, You wanna want to say,
like welcome, not stop.
Today, I am super excited.
We are in the Tampa Bay area, which is the community
that Brian and I absolutely love,
to help Skip and Randy
go from Florida vacationers
to full time Florida residents.
Randy and Skip raised their families in Indiana,
but now their kids are grown
and Skip got a full time job here in the Tampa Bay area.
We need a bigger place
[Randy] like yours.
A house that I can work on.
This is the kind of work I want to do is lifting this.
[everyone chuckling]
[narrator] Since, the Tampa Bay area
offers the ability to renovate
or build new,
they called Mika and Brian.
We've done renovation, we've done new construction.
[Brian] We can help them either way, they want to go.
-[Mika] What's going on? -[woman] Hi.
[Brian] Sean and Will's dream home
coming fresh out of the oven
hundred days from now.
Patty cake Patty cake, Baker Man.
-Make us a house as fast as you can. -[Mika] Yeah.
[woman] Oh, look at it. I love it.
-Beautiful. -[man] Yeah, it is.
With me being a real estate agent
and our background at building houses
in a hundred days,
there is no better team
to help Randy and Skip find their dream home.
I'll be so glad to have their input.
You and I just can't seem to agree on...
anything, as per usual.
[pop music playing]
-[Mika] Hello there, guys. -[Brian] There they are.
-[Randy] How are you? -[Mika] Welcome.
Step into our office.
[Mika] Yes. Come on in, guys.
So it's got that
open concept that you always wanted.
[Randy] It's definitely open concept.
Randy's looking all around with his notebook in hand...
[Skip] He's seeing dollar signs.
[Mika] Yeah, I don't see the notebook.
That's exactly what I'm seeing.
Mr. Emotional. Mr. Analytic.
I kind of like it.
Well, don't judge our office
because we've got a...
here a little area that you all can sit.
[Randy] A bench and bucket.
[Mika] And... yeah.
[Randy] I love it. Oh, my goodness.
-Comfortable, right? -[Randy] It is.
[Mika] Tell us a little bit about where you guys are at.
You're staying in your vacation, which...
in the vacation house?
Yes, just north of St. Petersburg.
It's about a 1200-square-foot house.
So, kind of tight.
[narrator] Since they're moving to the area permanently.
They're selling their vacation house
so they can find a bigger home
with enough room for their four kids
when they visit.
Now we just have to figure out
what that permanent home is going to be.
-It's gonna be new construction? -Oh, yeah.
Or renovation?
We have been under renovation since we've been together.
Every home we've lived in has been kitchens
bathrooms, flooring, everything.
So, I am really leaning toward
moving in with my toothbrush
and my suitcase
and maybe paint a wall.
Renovations don't bother me, because typically
you're gonna get a better bang for your buck with it, sister.
-Mmmh. -Okay, sometimes that's true.
A lot of people, you know, like renovations
'cause it's quicker
but that's because they haven't met us.
I mean, we can build a new construction house,
in about the same amount of time as the renovation.
[Mika] I think once you guys start seeing stuff,
you're gonna lean one way or the other.
-At least we're hoping. -Right.
I'd love to hear from you guys a little bit more about...
I guess the most important
aspects to you in this home.
We'd like to be close to...
St. Petersburg, downtown St. Petersburg.
We've been here now three years,
so we've kind of got accustomed
to going to the same places.
Definitely three to four bedrooms.
Ah, five would be amazing.
Just because we have a very large blended family.
What kind of style do you guys like?
Are you on the same page with that?
[both] Close, close.
[Randy] I like mid-century homes.
I like funky colors.
I think that's cool.
For me, it's simple colors, that plays better
when you've got a contemporary home.
So somewhere in the middle of that.
[Randy] Yeah, you could blend one with the other
You can save us and save our marriage.
[Brian] Just saying.
[everybody chuckling]
Other things that we don't necessarily agree on...
I would prefer to be all on one floor.
I think we'll get more space by going up two stories.
You have high cowboy boots and he's got flats.
[Randy laughing]
So, you you don't mind being elevated?
Not at all.
[Skip] I'm happy to go up there. [Randy] There you go.
[chuckling]
[Skip] Ultimately, a pool.
which may push us over seven hundred thousand.
No! Oh, my gosh, no.
I would prefer to be seven-hundred max.
He's more comfortable, seven-hundred-ish.
[Skip] Hmm, yeah so...
"Ish" can be expensive.
Ish is the variant that I'm not comfortable with,
So, I'd rather be seven-hundred all in.
So the Florida market, it might be a little bit different than Indiana.
We kind of live where everybody else vacations, right?
[Randy] Yeah, right.
So I do think it's gonna be competitive.
There might have o be a little bit of compromise.
I cannot wait to go on some field trips with you guys
and do an old scavenger hunt.
Help me sway him toward new construction.
Yeah, Big sway.
[chuckles] We'll get there.
-All right. -We'll get there.
[narrator] Mika and Brian are kicking off the search
with a newly constructed home
in the guys' preferred city of St. Petersburg.
We don't care how many houses we have to show you.
We will make sure we find the perfect one. So don't be worried.
I feel like work done in a timely manner. I mean,
we're always up for a challenge of building a house pretty quickly.
So, I think we can find a house pretty quickly.
We've been called a challenge before.
[laughing]
You are gonna love where we're going today,
'cause we are pretty close...
-to downtown St Pete. -Yes.
[Randy] Which is awesome.
[upbeat music playing]
[Randy] Wow, this is different.
[Brian chuckles]
-I like it. -All right, that's that's a good start.
[Randy] I like the big windows
and the fact that it's a one-story as opposed to two.
I like the grand entry.
I'm not crazy about the color.
What do you think about the color, Randy?
It doesn't bother me so much.
Finding a new-construction home
on a decent sized lot
[Brian] this close to downtown St. Pete is extremely rare.
I think the paint is actually still drying.
So, we wanted Skip and Randy to check it out
before this one is completely gone.
[Randy] Ohh, polished.
[Mika] It's listed at 699,000.
Three bedrooms. It's got two bathrooms
and an office.
[Randy] Is this porcelain tile?
[Mika] These look like porcelain.
They're very shiny.
It's really, really pretty.
[Brian] And I like how they angled them in the house.
-So, it's not just straight straight lines. -[Skip] Yeah.
[Randy] It's just a little bland.
I liked the feeling as soon as I walked in.
[Skip] I'm like, okay. I could see this.
I love the fact that it has curved windows
and a grand entrance,
almost like a two-story entrance
And the really tall doors.
[Randy] Nice, nice, nice, great space.
The white shaker cabinets I don't really care for.
It's pretty bland.
Love the counters.
Yeah, this is... this is marble.
[Brian] Do you like that backsplash?
[Skip] I'd rather be a little more neutral with the backsplash.
To me, it's too busy to get--
Oh, I don't... I don't agree.
-I think this was-- -Really, Randy?
The col-- yeah.
[Brain] He just doesn't want to spend money replacing them.
-Yeah. -That's it, okay. They work.
[Brian chuckles]
[Mika] So this could kind of be like your game day.
You're not far from everything.
You're close to the kitchen.
Maybe there's water out there, easily accessible,
for a wet bar.
-I know it doesn't come with the house. -[Randy] Yeah.
Yeah, Even though this is a new-construction house,
you can still make it your own
without having to knock down walls.
-[Brian] And he's making a note on something. -Yeah.
-Wet bar dollar sign. -Additional cost.
Mika and I went to high school together.
I used to sit behind her in class, and I did the same thing.
I would always be looking at her notes.
I hope you got good grade.
-[Randy] No cheating. -[everyone chuckling]
[Mika] Before we check out other rooms,
we need to make sure
this outdoor space is gonna work for you guys.
[Brian] Yep.
It's a wide lot, but not a very deep lot.
[Randy] Right. I love this tree.
[Brian] Ton of shade.
-Great for working in the yard. -[Randy] Yep.
[Mika] You could probably fit almost like a lap size pool.
Which is going to cost you around,
maybe seventy-five thousand.
-Wow. -[Mika] Oh, he keeps writing.
[Randy] Do you think that, that pool's
gonna be large enough for you?
[Skip] No, but for new construction, I'll settle.
[Mika] So the layout is a little bit separate, right?
You've got two of the rooms over here.
-[Randy] Okay. -[Skip] Nice.
Perfect size for a guest.
[Randy] Okay.
[Skip] So this services these two?
-[Mika] Yep. -[Randy] Yep, all right.
[Mika] This would be the other secondary room over here.
[Skip] Oh, nice.
[Brian] Let's go check out your primary suite.
I'm planting the seed that this is already your house.
-[Randy] This is nice. -[Mika] Nice try.
-[Skip] This is nice. -[Randy] This is a great space.
-I like what I see here. -Oh, yes.
[Skip] Now, this is a bathroom.
[Brian] There he goes.
[Skip] I hate showering, and I'm not even tall.
and my elbows hit.
[Brian] There's room for two.
[Skip] I love love, love that.
We need to pause this moment in time
because you're both agreeing.
You're both happy. You're both smiling.
-[Randy] Yeah. -[Skip] Yes, Love this.
-[Skip] New construction. -[Brian] Yes.
[Skip] Shiny and new.
Love the windows.
Love all the light.
-[Randy] The color outside I actually like. -[Brian] Okay.
It needs a little more oomph...
on the inside.
A little more zhuzh.
Although, I do love the floors.
I mean, we're pushing...
we're pushing the number.
And I understand
-it's because of the location. -[Mika] That's right.
[Skip] The price does not bother me at all.
-[Brian] Life is sure to-- -[Skip] Find a way to make it.
[Brian] Yeah.
Yeh, that tree, back there
I don't think it's a money tree.
[Brian laughing]
[narrator] So, Mika and Brian show them a home
that's a little different,
but still close to downtown.
Is this the front?
[Mika] How are you feeling
After kind of like the first,
you know, date?
I'm sure you all had some conversations after you left.
[Brian chuckles]
[Randy] Yeah.
Uh-oh, you guys are quiet.
[narrator] Mika and Brian have their hands full,
getting Skip and Randy to see eye to eye on a house.
Today, they've lined up another home in St Petersburg,
that has more of what Randy is looking for.
Skip. I don't know if today is gonna be your favorite day.
[Skip] Not new construction, then?
[Brian] Not new construction.
[upbeat music playing]
Is this the front?
[Mika] Well, not quite.
This is kind of the side,
cause it's a corner lot.
The good news is you're right across the street from the water.
You can probably smell...
the salt water from here, right?
You are ten minutes from downtown St. Petersburg.
-Okay, now you're talking to me. -[Mika] Uh-huh.
There's a method to our madness.
I mean, we want to make sure
that we give Skip and Randy
all the different options.
And today's all about that renovation option.
I mean, it's a pretty massive home.
Five bedrooms, three bathrooms,
645,000.
I think it's priced pretty fairly
considering the amount of work it needs.
[Skip] I hate the Colonial.
[Randy] I don't like the Colonial either.
[Skip] That can be corrected.
-Yeah. -[Mika] We're gonna call this...
mid-century Colonial
because this home was built in the mid-century,
1958.
All right, Skip and Randy.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
[Randy] Wow! Look at the terrazzo.
[Brian] Very mid-century.
-Wow. -Oh my God, he's all happy.
-[Randy] Yeah. -[Mika laughing]
Yes, it might be old, but you know what,
It has some really good
facial cream. 'cause it looks pretty great, right?
You have three bedrooms and two bathrooms
just in this wing of the house alone.
Wing! Did you hear that? 'wing.'
Wow.
[Randy] Oh my gosh! Look at the tile.
[Skip] Oh no, it's too much.
[Brain] You're right, that color is actually coming back.
Believe it or not. It is.
No, the bathtub's gotta go, at least.
[Randy] That's original.
[Skip] I know it is.
-Way original. -That is original.
-[Randy] That's awesome. -[Skip] At least, the toilet's white
-[Brian] Enough space for the whole family? -[Skip] Yes.
[Randy] That's a big room too.
[Brian] It keeps going, doesn't it?
Lots of space. Absolutely.
[Mika] We all know that a kitchen renovation
can be one of the costliest rooms in the house, right?
[Randy] Yeah, yeah.
So, this kitchen...
[Randy] Wow, this is a huge kitchen.
[Mika] Is ready to start cooking in.
[Skip] Oh, my God.
Slab cabinets they're...
Those are awesome.
Looks like they stopped.
I'm missing some backsplash.
There's no backsplash, but it's a good thing.
That means you can pick whatever backsplash you want.
[Skip] I don't know if I like the brick.
That's a little primitive.
We could drywall that, right?
Did you hear what he just said?
He wants to drywall over that.
He's nuts.
[laughing]
[Brian] I know one of you is dreading the stairs.
-Not excited. -[Skip] I'm dreading the carpet.
That's gotta go.
[Randy] Holy cannoli.
What!
[Skip] That's a big room.
Look at the size of that built-in.
that needs to go bye-bye.
And the carpet.
-The carpet is all throughout the upstairs. -Yeah.
Probably about $8000 to rip all that carpet out.
But that is the best money you will ever spend.
I think the carpet is original too, upstairs,
which is really gross and... no.
[Brian] This is your primary suite.
[Skip] Oh, my God. [Brian] Look at this right here.
[Randy] The size of this [Skip] Yeah, it's big.
[Brian] And for an older house that's very rare.
[Mika] It really is.
[Brian] Huge closet.
-[Skip] This is massive. -[Randy] My God.
Well, I I do like the color of it, but...
[Skip] No.
-[Randy] It's a little... -[Skip] Nope.
Tired, I'm done.
It's a little tight.
Double vanity, but it's still a little bit tight.
And it's got this door to the hallway.
[Brian] Since you have a huge walk-in closet,
-You don't really need these extra closets. -[Skip] No, right.
I think you convert this into extra bathroom space.
Oh, we go that way.
-[Randy] This way. -[Skip] Okay.
[Brian] This hallway, we could fill it in with bathroom.
[Mika] You could add a huge shower
with midcentury modern touches,
a soaking tub and a double-vanity
with flat modern cabinets.
Depending on how big you want to go with it.
it would be pretty expensive,
'cause it does involve moving some plumbing up here.
And I'm almost wanting to borrow this.
-It's mine. -Because that scares me.
It's an older house guys.
That's what you're gonna get on the renovation.
I don't wanna live through this again.
[Brian] We're gonna head downstairs before the budget keeps going up.
[Skip] There we go.
Let's go back down to reality
without this gross carpet.
[Mika] This could also be a living room,
and it has the access to the outdoor.
Nice sized yard too.
[Skip] It needs some love, but it could be brought up.
[Brian] I think the pool would almost start here
and kind of wrap around this corner.
-[Skip] Yeah, that's cool. -[Randy] Kind of free form.
[Brian] Probably be ninety to $100,000.
We're pushing the comfort zone again with the pool...
-[Brian] Has anybody seen Skip? -[Mika laughs]
He's right here.
The wall needs to go away, not me.
[Randy] I don't like the fact that it's two-storeys,
but it is mid-century.
You're not gonna find that
in a new construction home.
[Skip] It can be replicated.
The real estate agent that has this listing
is pricing it competitive,
because not everybody is going to be open...
No.
No, to putting in the work
and, you know, renovating it and making it their own.
[Brian] Give it to us, Randy.
Well, I'm hoping that we could get a pool
for closer to seventy-five thousand
and then maybe an additional fifty thousand in reno...
We're at 770 all in
for St. Pete proper.
I think you've got instant equity.
I'm frightened of...
how we're going to live...
-Yeah. -During the renovation.
My head wants to explode.
[narrator] So they're off to see another option.
There's just one small thing missing.
Where is the house?
[upbeat music playing]
Thank you so much for being candid,
keeping it real,
even when you don't always agree.
[Randy] We never agree.
We're getting closer.
[Randy] That's why you're here.
You agree
-on never agreeing. -[everyone laughs]
[narrator] Today, Mika and Brian are taking the guys
to see an option
in a new development in Palmetto,
thirty minutes from St. Petersburg.
You found a midcentury in this beautiful neighborhood?
[Brian laughs]
-Not quite yet. -We are here.
[Randy] Holy cannoli.
[Brian] Yeah.
Where's the house?
I don't think that we could have gone through this process
with Randy and Skip without showing them the opportunity
of building from the ground up a hundred-percent custom.
I mean, That's kind of what we do,
and I do think, they would be...
open to the idea
This is our stomping ground.
We love playing in the dirt
we love building from the ground up.
And here...
you have all the opportunities,
you can dream big and get exactly what you want.
I know it doesn't look like much now, but it will.
The list price for just the dirt is $75,000.
-Okay. -However, based on the size home
that you guys are interested in,
you can build a house,
brand new construction, three thousand square feet.
-Yes. -Plus the land.
675,000 total.
[Brian] And you still have a little bit of money left
to build that pool you want in the backyard.
A little bit of money left.
If you did do a grand pool,
you might be looking at
775,000...
all together for everything on that wish list.
-Mm-hmm. -And it can be a hundred days.
Absolutely.
Can you make decisions quickly?
-Yes, we can. -[Brian] Okay.
We will not hold that up.
I think that we can make it work.
We can build this
faster than most renovations take.
We've done some other projects
that really have a lot of that midcentury modern you want.
The beams, the shiplap...
-Oh, how pretty. -Nice, right?
The gloss ceiling. I've never seen that.
-We actually built this one in St. Pete. -Yeah.
-Wow, yes. -You can notice, I mean, what we built there,
the houses are a little smaller.
The lots are a little smaller.
If you build out here...
-You can go bigger. -A lot more lot.
[Mika] You can have that contemporary flair,
you can do the two-story asymmetrical roof line
that's gonna, you know, kind of tie
into the mid-century style
that you really love, Randy.
As long as the primary bedroom can be on the first floor...
That's the great thing about building new.
You can get whatever you want.
I can see where we can compromise
and come together on what he wants,
what I want
and the benefits of building new construction, which...
I have wanted all along.
I will say this is not as close to St. Pete
as you probably would like.
[Brian] Is location more important?
Or is the actual house more important?
-[Randy] Ultimately, maybe. -Come on, Randy.
Maybe, I've always
thought that I knew what I wanted,
and now I'm a little confused,
a little perplexed about which way to go with this?
[collective greetings]
-[Mika] Good to see you back. -Good to see you again.
-Have a seat. -The anticipation is killing us.
Oh, my goodness.
Mika and Brian did an awesome job
[Randy] opening our eyes to some new ideas.
[Skip] Hopefully, they can help us
come closer to a decision.
Oh, here comes the notebook again.
[Mika] Let's get our score card on all these options.
What about the red, newer home...
-[Brian] close to St. Petersburg. -[Mika] Mm-hmm.
[Randy] I love the color.
-I love to punch of the color on the outside. -[Skip] I don't, no.
We would have to paint it before I move there.
Paint is easy. Paint's an easy renovation.
[Skip] No.
[Brian] Skip, look at your shirt.
Come on.
Belongs on clothing, not the outside of your house.
[Randy] And then that primary bedroom and bath
- were pretty amazing. -[Skip] They were.
It did have some opportunity to add a pool,
maybe not a... Olympic sized pool,
[Mika] but you could do something.
[Brian] The good thing about a smaller pool, though
is a smaller price.
-[Brian] $75,000 for that pool. -[Mika] True.
[Brian] So, keep that in mind.
-[Mika] Mid-century... -[Brian] Colonial...
Colonial hybrid house.
Mid-century modern on the inside.
-[Mika] It had character, which I think, Randy... -[Randy] Absolutely.
[Mika] ...that's what you fell in love with.
[Randy] I loved the terrazzo floors,
the mid-century features.
Primary bath would need to be a gut.
-[Mika] Okay. -[Randy] I agree.
The list price is 645,
and a renovation budget
of $125,000.
-The house is several decades old. -[Brian] Yeah.
What will we uncover
when we're trying to just put in a vanity,
-as an example. -[Brian] Yeah.
The plot of land was $75,000.
We can build you the home of your dreams
for $600,000,
but then you also have the pool
that you want to do in the backyard.
So, probably around
$775,000 total for that option.
[Randy] And you're getting everything you want
And... a lot less headaches.
It wasn't, you know, ten minutes from downtown,
but I think it was at a reasonable distance.
-Mm-hmm. -I don't feel like you guys
can go wrong with any decision.
[Mika] It just comes down to what is the most important, right?
Do we want to be open to renovation?
Do we want to be in an ideal spot,
or do we want to be turnkey?
No maintenance move in and no work to do.
-Hi, guys. -[Brian] Hey.
Welcome.
Come in.
-[Mika] Oh... -[Randy] What do you think?
-[Mika exclaiming] -[Brian] Wow.
I just told Mika, is this what our homeowners
feel like during the reveals?
It must be.
We bought the midcentury modern
It was a great house that gave both of us
what we wanted.
I've never wanted to admit to him.
But the first time I walked in the door,
the house spoke to me more than any of the new construction.
I was leaning this way all along,
but I was trying to convince you and me...
that I did not want to live here.
But when we sat down and talked it through,
I had to be honest with myself.
-This is home. -[Randy] Absolutely in agreement.
One hundred percent.
And both of your personalities are in this space.
We can just feel it.
We're so thankful to you for showing us the place.
-We would not have been here. -Yeah.
The house was originally listed for $645,000.
We were able to negotiate a price of 600,000.
So that's going to help us quite a bit.
We've still got the pool to do.
In addition to new carpet,
new primary bath.
[Randy] new primary bath.
-There's plenty of room to spread out. -Yes.
This room invites everyone right out to the future pool.
-[Brian] Yep. -[Mika] I love it.
I'm most excited for Randy and Skip
to finally be able to have
all of their families in the same house
and just to host their grandkids and create new memories.
We want to introduce you to a new family member.
-I can't wait. -I love it.
Is that for us?
Just a little something for your garden.
[Mika] An orange tree is symbolic for
now being permanent Florida residents.
Yes.
That will bear fruit for years to come.
It's like the gift that keeps on giving.
Skip and Randy started out as clients.
Now they're friends and neighbors as well.
There we go.
-[Mika] Nice. -[Skip] That's awesome.
From our family to yours.
Thank you for everything.
-Absolutely. -Thank you guys. It's been a blast.