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[MrTroubleMaker]

Just a neat series of short renovation videos. Basically he bought the house for 5k and everything else he is getting is free. Labor is done by his "neighbors".

Here is part one, its up to 40 currently, posts updates almost daily.

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[Plies]

A real house?

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

5k isn't even enough to buy a parking space near me.

 

[jshackles]

I'm always fascinated by these types of videos / stories, but also insanely jealous. It may be a 5000 euro house, but it's going to need a (few?) hundred thousand put into it to make it comfortable, more if you aren't planning on doing the repairs yourself. Where I live, the building would be condemned and you'd be required to fix it up before being able to occupy it legally.

Not sure how this guy is supposedly getting it fixed up for free, since materials cost money - is he going fully self-sustainable and felling / processing his own trees into lumber?

 

[Plies]

but it's going to need a (few?) hundred thousand put into it to make it comfortable

 

[Liljagare]

Mold, there is so much mold in that place.. :\

 

[jshackles]

After I bought my house five years ago, I found out that it had been unoccupied for 8 years prior to me moving in. Turns out, there was so much stuff that needed done, repaired, and replaced that in retrospect it might have been easier and cheaper for me to bulldoze my house and build a new one. This house looks like it's sat empty for significantly longer than that. Dude's got a long road ahead of him to make that into anything that's just a de-facto lean-to.

And that's the rub too - how much is your time worth? You're looking at a minimum of a few thousand hours of work to bring something like that up to code. If he could have bought a similar "ready-to-move-in" house in the area for, say, 155k, then he would have been better off buying the better house and working a $15/hr job to pay for it. (I mean, obviously this guy's probably doing okay just putting all this on Youtube and cashing in, since he has 400k subscribers) I guess if fixing things up is your hobby, then knock yourself out.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

A real house?

Yeah its a real house. It is small. It needs water and power, something that's going to be show in a few more episodes.

I'm always fascinated by these types of videos / stories, but also insanely jealous. It may be a 5000 euro house, but it's going to need a (few?) hundred thousand put into it to make it comfortable, more if you aren't planning on doing the repairs yourself. Where I live, the building would be condemned and you'd be required to fix it up before being able to occupy it legally.

Not sure how this guy is supposedly getting it fixed up for free, since materials cost money - is he going fully self-sustainable and felling / processing his own trees into lumber?

If you skip ahead to the later episodes he is getting everything sponsored. Its not intrusive, he just mentions it in the episode.

Mold, there is so much mold in that place.. :\

yeah that was hard to watch, but it does get cleaner.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I'd live there after it's fixed up. I could make do in a studio apartment.

I live in a 2Bd2Bth Ranch-style house, and it's more than enough space. Been thinking about renting it out and buying/moving to a smaller house, but not sure I want the headache of being a landlord for a few hundred bucks of monthly profit (assuming they pay and I don't need to make repairs).

 

[Trilobit]

And that's the rub too - how much is your time worth? You're looking at a minimum of a few thousand hours of work to bring something like that up to code. If he could have bought a similar "ready-to-move-in" house in the area for, say, 155k, then he would have been better off buying the better house and working a $15/hr job to pay for it. (I mean, obviously this guy's probably doing okay just putting all this on Youtube and cashing in, since he has 400k subscribers) I guess if fixing things up is your hobby, then knock yourself out.

Yeah, it's pretty clear he bought it to make content, so in that context it's a good purchase. I'm a sucker for restoration videos. The no water part is sucky though. If it's a cabin you'd want to build a sauna there and hauling that much water each time isn't worth it.