Golden Years Look Like This: Leisure World Driving Tour

Are you looking to make a move in the leisure World in SEAL Beach, California? Well, today I'm going to drive you around Leisure World to show you some of the sights and if you stick around to the end, you're going to get to see a good bit of what Leisure World is all about. So let's get into it right now. And then. All right. So we are approaching the front gate of Leisure World. I've got to show my pass, my huge leisure world real estate realtor pass. You have to go straight. You have to wait for their instruction because if you don't, it can get confusing up here. So manage it. So we're going down right now. We're on the Golden Rain, so we're leisure as part of the HK is called the Golden Rain Foundation. So a lot of things in here, like, you know, this street right here is Golden Rain. So on the on the right side, you have a little golf course. One of the things that people really love about Leisure World is there's so many things to do for seniors in here. Homes inside of Leisure World. You can buy aa1 bedroom unit for yeah I'm going to say starting about 275 and it goes up to probably about

675. And the real difference is, you know, 275, you're probably looking at a one bedroom, 675 you're looking at like a corner unit that's fully that you won't even know you're in leisure world. I mean, they are incredible. this is where the stock transfer office is, and you have one of their community centers here, and there's a few community centers in Leisure World. There's a pools back here. There's an amphitheater. Amphitheater back behind this building. There's a pharmacy and a little medical clinic over here, too. And this is all part of Leisure World. So, you know, when you when you move in here, you get access to a lot of these things. And by the way, Leisure World case that I mentioned earlier, which I don't think I did, is an all cash community, too, because you're you're basically buying into a stock cooperative or you're buying stock in the corporation is what you're doing. So because of that, the good thing is that Leisure World maintains all the units, you know, appliances. If you if if they are standard leisure appliances, some of the appliances are look like they're from the seventies. But they do I just went the wrong way. Let me turn this thing around, Farai. It's like I'm over here talking

and going the wrong way. But this is we're right now we're out front of the stock transfer office. So when you go to go to buy a unit in Leisure World, the process basically goes like this. You find a unit you want, you put in an offer, they want, you put in the offer. Escrow is going to ask you for your all your financials because they want to make sure that you qualify financially to pay the monthly fees, which are in the neighborhood of 40 or 50 bucks a month. And the taxes in it, depending on the price of your unit, you're looking at about a 1.1% tax. So if you buy a unit for 300,000, you're looking at an additional ,000. I'm sorry, 0 a month. So total every month you're looking at probably about on on a 0,000 unit, you're probably looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 bucks a month to live here. So they want to make sure that you, you know, can afford it and then once that happens, once you clear that they have a scoring system. So once you hit their minimum score, at least then they'll move on to the next phase, which is you'll actually go into escrow. Once you go into escrow, they will,

you know, set you up with interviews with the president and you kind of have a few steps. You know, once you hit the interview, you get you have to wait three weeks before you can actually close. So the process takes a little bit longer to move in and then, you know, normal escrow or something that you might be used to just because there's all these different steps you have to go through. Real quick, if this your first time on the channel, subscribe and tap the notification bill so you'll be the first to know about the real estate market in Southern California. My name is Steve Batiz and I'm the broker owner of Next Home West Realty. And we get calls, emails and text every single day from people just like you looking to make their move into Southern California. So if that you don't be shy, give me a call, send me a text, shoot me an email. I'd love to help you make a smooth transition into the area. So now on there on the right here, you can see what the parking looks like. So everyone has all the units have a parking space here and in the back of the parking space. Not sure if you can see it, but there's a

storage, a little storage cabinets in the back that you also have access to. So it kind of take a look at those directly ahead. You have the community church. There was another church back there as we were pulling out of the stock transfer office or out of that parking lot. We're across from a church. So, you know, there are churches in here, there's putting greens, there are clubs, you know, all kinds of different clubs, woodworking shops. I think there's two or three woodworking shops. I mean, maybe only two to the left here. You would if I were to go that way, I'd go out a side gate which goes into a parking lot with a little little shopping center. There's a golf store over there. So if you're into golfing, you know you're going to go play golf and leisure world. You need the the visor to go with it. Just shoot out the side gate and there you are. So, again, driving back here, you can kind of see some of the units to the to the right, they're pretty much the same floor plan. So if you have a want, there's, there's basically a one bedroom, one bath, there's two bedroom, one bath and there's two bedrooms, two baths. Okay. In most of

these down here, those, all those units, the price is going to depend on what the upgrades in the units are. Also, if they're an end unit, it's going to be more expensive. So some of these you know, the HRA will let you build out in some of these. There's there's 17 different mutuals in here or 17 different ways. Some ways are a little more strict than others as to what they will allow you to do. Some of them, you know, just you can build out to the sidewalk if you want. So it really depends on which HRA you live in and which mutual you live in as to what they allow you to do. So I'm going to go ahead and cut up through here so you can kind of see what it looks like. So on on our left side, we're going to have the parking spaces. You also have parking along the right. you know, if you don't if you have more than one car, you're obviously going to have to park over here. But you can kind of see over here how some of these units, you know, they'll come right up to the front here and they're all pretty much like I said, they're all pretty much the same. Some units

have a washer and dryer in the unit. Those that's an upgrade. It's pretty standard that those units are going to run you about. I'm sorry, those that upgrades are only about ,000. And what they what they do is if it's you know, if it's a two bedroom, they'll take one of the bathrooms. There's a closet like a storage closet, you know, for towels and stuff like that. And they'll take that out and push it all the way through and they'll put the washer and stackable washer dryer in there. If you don't want to do that, no worries. There's a washer and a laundry room on pretty much all of these buildings right here. So this is really close. You can and you might be able to see it on this one and at the end of the building. So there's little laundry rooms at the end of these buildings, too. You are in the center, pretty much easy access for, you know, a lot of the seniors that live in here. let's go ahead and go back around to the front because there's a couple of other buildings, a couple of other things I want to show you. This unit down here on the end has a huge front yard to it. Of course, you

know, Leisure World maintains all of the grounds. They maintain the roofs, the exteriors of the buildings. So once you move in, you're you're you're going to be really well taken care of, as you saw on the way in. There's a, you know, security that runs through Leisure world. You have to get through the gate. That's not to say that, you know, things don't happen inside of them. Probably about a year, year and a half ago, there was a guy, you know, stealing out of the he wasn't a resident. So somebody came in and was stealing out of the storage units. Pretty sure. So beach police caught him because, you know, the one thing about SEAL Beach and I have to say is the the police force in SEAL Beach is pretty awesome. They really, really do their job and they they do it well. So we're back on the golden rain again. You you can see the street right here. This is you know, it's a golden rain has, you know, this. We're going back towards the front gate and then, you know, the way we came in is on the other side of this, these hedges right here. It's not a busy street in comparison to a lot of places. But because these units

are along golden Rain, they're going to be less usually priced, less than, you know, say, some of the units that are like in further. And again, I you know, I've done I've done videos on a link one at the end this video on the buying process in leisure world so if you if you you know you want more information on that just take a look at that video. If you still want more information, you want to look at anything in here. You know I'm available. You just text me, call me, you know, send me an email, whatever you want to do. And I'd love to help you out over here. To the to the left, you can see the Aquatic Center. So, you know, nice pool over there. Then we're going to go back up and you can see, you know, some of these some of these this traffic light right here takes a good while. So it time for people to walk across. One of the other things I want to point out, and you'll see it in just a second, but once we pass this intersection on the other side of this light pole, the traffic light, you'll see those little orange flags. So those flags are there for a long time, I

didn't know what it was. I was like, What is that for? What they what they do is the the residents will, you know, pick up a flag and walk across the crosswalk waving the flag. And then when they get to the other side, there's another place to deposit the flag. So, yeah, it's kind of cool. All right, we're coming back up to the front gate and I'm going to I'm going to go to the right. So as you're coming in the front gate and if you're looking online, a lot of these 90% of the units in here are going to be cash only with the exception. There are three buildings and I'm going to go drive back there right now. You can kind of see one of them on the right here. So there are three story buildings on the right that are condominiums. So the difference being obviously there three stories and they're, you know, on top of stacked on top of each other in, you know, buildings, they you can actually get a loan, a mortgage on these. The rest of SEAL Beach. You can't do a mortgage. You can't you have to pay cash. But in here you can do a mortgage. And again, they'll they'll run you through the same qualifying

as if you're buying in the rest of the community. But these back here are all condominiums that you can actually get a loan on. And they're really nice. I mean, again, you know, a lot of these units are the same. The difference being, you know, how upgraded the unit is, Pretty much. Yeah. So if you find something and back there, those units there ranging from about 450 on up in Southern California in SEAL Beach, take it for me. That is a bargain. That's a steal. Okay. So if you if you want to live in this community and don't have, you know, three or 0,000 in cash to buy in here, that is definitely an option over there. So now we're going to go back up to the front gate here. I'm going to take a left arm to show you one more thing, a different type of unit. And again, we're approaching security. You got to get up here. You had to wait for them to signal you through. And, you know, it's it's basically because, you know, there's a lot of elderly people that are driving and maybe don't see you. So always keep an eye when you're in leisure world for that. So the what I wanted to show you over here is

we also have on our right here, it's going around here. We have some two story buildings back here. These are also stock cooperatives or you have you basically have to pay cash for these units or you can get up to 1200 square feet. And these so these are some of the bigger units in here. The downside is, you know, if you live upstairs or down below someone that's kind of loud, you know, you know how that can be. But I think for the most part, you know, this very quiet community. And then over here on this side, you know, this is these are some of the more expensive units, too, because they're like straight in front of us. They're, you know, single story. They're like a like have more greenery around them. They're a little bit bigger. They're a little bit more upgraded than the rest of Leisure World. So and again, we're back back up here on the right. You can also see again some of the two story buildings. They do have elevators and laundry rooms and the whole nine yards. And then as we're going back towards the front gate over and again, we I've only gone through probably about, I'm going to say a quarter of Leisure World during this tour.

This place is huge. So there's half of the population of SEAL Beach, almost half lives in this community. So, you know, these these units right up here by the front gate, again, you know, probably going to be less expensive when they hit the market just because, you know, they're by the front gate and a lot of traffic. All right. So as we leave the gate, if you guys need anything, if you have any questions, you want to take a look at some units in SEAL Beach. If you wanted me to do a video call with you, I'd be more than happy to do it. If you're not in the area, you're just thinking about moving out here. But send me an email. Shoot me a text. Better yet, give me a call. I would love to help you move into the area and you know, if you have any questions, you need anything, just reach out. Let me know.