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Originally Posted by OMGitsCheddar
Most of the mid/high guys prolly already know, but what's the story behind your sick house line-up? Basically how did you end up with a house with this much talent? - presumably no one in the house knew anyone else from the house prior to/outside of poker?
TLDR
Basically Seth, Pettey, and I had been throwing around the idea for awhile that it would be awesome to get a sick mansion since with the current real estate market you can rent a sick house for a very reasonable price. We talked to GrandMelon and Cow and they were very interested as well so we decided to try and make it happen.
I was kind of treading water in Royal Oak at the end of October when RogueAce, Ricky and I helped put together a weekend trip to Vegas for my 23rd birthday, which happened to land on a Friday. Cow, Seth, Kelisitaan, and Coordi also went and we met up with Whale and Nolan who were(are) living in Vegas. On Sunday of this weekend, Seth manages to talk me into going to check out LA for a few days instead of going back home to Michigan from Vegas since I had never been to Cali before. We met up with Secr23 and decided to check on some houses.
We take a look at Craig's List and take down the phone numbers so that we could just call them on the way there to check out the place (lol). The first number we call, the agent is real cool (just a bit older than we are) and he basically abandons his schedule and spends the next 2 days showing us around the whole city. We come across our current house in the Hollywood Hills on day 2 and pretty much instantly decide that we MUST HAVE.
Pettey wanted to stay in SD and Secr was not able to get out of his current lease downtown so we were sitting there committed to a big lease starting in less than a month with only 4 people signed on. Seth had the idea of making a post on 2p2 in the HSNL forum recruiting "candidates" for the 5th spot. We received a ton of response, some were qualified, many were not lol. We all agreed after talking to him that UCIPitcher would be the best fit for the 5th spot and it has worked out great so far!