Buying a $27,000 Abandoned Mansion: The Cheapest Mansion on the Internet
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- Looking for a building to purchase and renovate; Dave and Sean take a tour one of the cheapest mansions currently listed for sale on the internet. Seriously contemplating if they should buy this abandoned mansion, and breath new life into this forgotten gem via what will surely be a full renovation. A quick ride out to this abandoned mansion in the shop truck (a 1966 Chevy C20), and the twins tour the home while Dave gives you an in depth guided video tour/explanation of what shape the house is in, and what repairs would be needed if the Brothers Workshop end up purchasing this abandoned mansion.
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What state was this in?
@@bevalee1533 GhostVille
@@ItsMercerBaby - LOL what? What kind of state is that? come on now, I was just curious as to what state.
Looked too clean to be Detroit, Michigan tome. But who knows?
@@bevalee1533 Thanks for watching and enjoying the video! We didn't reveal that information to protect the privacy of the seller.
@@TheBrothersWorkshop I can understand that. I was just curious as to what part of the country that was in. but none-the-less this looks like a great project.
Comes with free ghosts at no extra charge.
My thoughts exactly! Boo!!!
My thoughts, precisely. Most old homes have clandestine hauntings. Truthfully, I live in Gallows Hill, which has another placename so not to deter property buyers. Hauntings with friendly, compatible ghosts are ok, while hostile ghosts are not. There are some people who can live with ghosts and some who can't.
I have lived in few haunted houses, more good experiences than bad experiences. No matter how haunted my present home, it is one of the *SAFEST* places in the country.
I have one most regular spirit in my life. He is my guardian fiercely protective of me. He protects me from spiritual dangers. His presence is enough to silence all activities by poltergeists. He had multiple times saved my life from extreme dangers like stalkers, rapists, murderers, etc. Also, he had previously responded to my many emergencies like few heart attacks, brain haemorrhages, fires, choking, etc. Everywhere where I go, he always comes with me and thwarts all dangers on my path, my great gratitude to him. His presence always increases my sense of safety, though daunting to visitors including relations.
Pink Lady in Asia we believe some people are “gifted” with a guardian figure to guide and protect you. Some people learn to communicate with it and they become people like shaman and can help guide others on future endeavours.
no such thing
I wonder what drove a person to burn a mattress in the basement. Maybe it's haunted by all the the people who were left there to die by their relatives. I could see a classic horror movie theme developing from this house. The place gets fixed up beautifully, an unsuspecting family falls in love with the house until realizing that it was a long term care facility, where elderly people were abused and tortured. They thought that they owned the house, but really it's possessed by all the souls that passed away there, and the evil nurse who ran the facility.
This feels like the beginning to a found-footage horror movie
Ikr they’re even talking like it is
Edit: if I ever buy something like this place, I’m going to use it to make a horror movie
Factz
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Fr!
That's why it is examined in the day-light
This was posted 9 months ago but there doesn't seem to be any updates on it.
You're right, nothing to update about it yet! Thanks for watching!
They didnt get 100000 likes so they did not buy it
Looks like a headache. $27k is over priced for that dump
The neighborhood isnt very good, and there is hundreds of thousands of dollars of work to be done, the repair cost exceeds the price of several houses on that street COMBINED. It also is across the street from a ... funeral home. If I lived around there I would try and pool money from neighbors and demolish it, and the two neighboring houses pay like 50% of it, and increase their property sizes (just make it a large yard). I absolutely do not see anyone buying this and repairing it.
@@HN-db5cn Yeah, it looks like it needs to be bulldozed.
“There was a fire. Somebody lit a mattress on fire in the basement.”
Okie-dokie . . . 😳 . . . I’m OUT.
🔥 👀
Sounds like someone was trying to erase some evidence....
Should have let it burn to the ground. NOT worth what it would cost in $$ and your own labor to restore it.
maybe someone tried to get of rid of Myers there but he always comes back
Even the termites looked like they were getting ready to move out
You be funny as hell. "Run away! Run away!" Say the roaches and termites.
paul Bull the termites are permanent squatters. They would only leave once the entire house was consumed and leveled. Then they move to the next house. This is why houses this close are more prone to termites.
U are halarious 😂😂
😂🤣😂 Holding hands to hold the house up-I can hear the discussion: “On the count of 10,.....”
I only read the title and thought, "Yeah, the house is cheap, and the DEMONS ARE FREE!!!" lol
Lolzzz
I read it and thought Detroit
with demon freebies hahahaha
Lol, Demons!!
I would love to renovate something like this. It just scares me, because the few things I've had done at my house by contractors have been bad experiences. So I feel like I cannot trust anyone with something like this.
Get filipinos their reliable and friendly
Amen sister! That's what stops me. I'll have to go to school or shadow someone to learn how to do this stuff. LOL
That’s why humans must learn skills like this.
@@CountChilly lol really?
Start small. Like a tiny 700 sq foot house. Learn how to do stuff. And 1 story so you can safely get on the roof.
My dad and grandfather said "Fix the roof, first!!!" They renovated several severely run down big houses when I was younger.
That's exactly what needs to be done first!
I’ve been a builder for many, many years. This looks like one of those once in a lifetime projects that ends up a labor of pure love. Seldom are they profitable, but don’t let that stop you.
Puddin Tain. I am a Try Hard builder of much inexperience , and the way I would start on this place is a 20ton excavator an a dump truck.
Gorgeous house!
@@casadelshed9128 - and that is why you will always remain a try hard inexperienced diyer.
Casa del Shed and that’s why beautiful homes like this keep disappearing and sterile McMansions keep popping up in their place
Epik Be nice.
Once you tear out the roof, the walls, the doors, the windows, and dig out the old basement, this is going to be a super nice house.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dan Lokemoen I never really understood how such beautiful mansions could be left to deteriorate while in the big cities apartment complexes are the only things maintained. If I had the money I’d build me a house like that one. Make is nice and beautiful inside and out.
😹😹😹😹😹
Money pit
True (and saying this with no experience in housing or money management) but wouldn’t it just be more practical to reframe an entire new house and go from there?
At age 75, my mom bought a derelict mansion in Missouri for $30,000. She had to hire all the work done and paid $225,000 for improvements. If you can do the work yourself, I imagine the cost would be cut in half. She had a gorgeous home in the end with loads of interesting history.
I don't know, but "long term care facility" equals ghosts to me.
Absolutely, if it was a long term or insane asylum you can bet your ass its haunted let me in there
What the heck even is that?
@@nofurtherwest3474 A long term care facility is usually doubled a rehabilitation center for people who have had a medical occurrence that leaves them requiring more specialty care than the average family or visiting nurse can handle. Usually patients staying in a long term care facility need extensive physical, occupational, and speech therapy before any home healthcare can begin.
My dad is currently in a long term care facility after spending 3 months in the CVICU. Other patients there are in similar condition, but if they weren't on the upswing physically they wouldn't be in the rehabilitative stage of treatment.
Nursing homes are where people go when they need pain relief until they die.
@@rebekah9713 I see, thanks for explaning.
Best wishes to your dad
"A lot of work" is purely an understatement.
I grew up down the street from this house - they use to let the neighborhood kids come in for trick or treating and it was amazing in the late 90s! I hope you’re able to reno. It was transitioned to be student housing for Seton Hill for a while and ever since it’s been downhill for the poor place 🙁
Watching the drive to the place, I had the thought, “this aesthetically looks like Pa”. Turns out it’s not much more than an hour from me
Where exactly is this place?
Oh, is this East Orange, New Jersey if so after renovation the taxes will cost more than the house.
@@rodneya6371 Had the same thought, if it's not PA then OH or WV, somewhere around where those three meet.
Ed Towel jenette Pennsylvania
I LOVE OLD homes, & can see them completely redone the minute I see a room.
Have done 8 houses, but this one is a rare down.
Neighborhood doesn’t support the needed investment.
Thanks for this viewing. Just a quick comment regarding the chapel. You had mentioned that the building at some point was a long-term care facility which could explain the chapel. Please keep in mind that it was not uncommon for affluent Catholics at the time of that building being constructed they could have what was referred to as a private chapel for eucharistic adoration. In cities such as Saint Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Cleveland you can find mansions of this era with chapels of similar size.
This is not a " repair ' job, this is a total gut and rebuild from the bare walls and frame.
This is the definition of " Money pit ".
Yes! All that water damage and black mold, it would take some serious rehabbing to get this right
If you want proper insulation, wiring, plumbing..yes you have to expose the studs!
Lol i remember the movie with Tom Hank's. That was funny
Sure, but they’ve more than likely got free and/or discounted labor, contractor discounts on supplies, they likely already own a majority of the tools needed, and they’d still only end up paying maybe $250k for this incredible home. They could easily sell it for double that if not more. On top of that, they seem to really enjoy projects like this, so that combined with the CZcams revenue would make this very worth it for them.
@@BeautifulSilence1233 the other houses and area does not justify a 500k+ resell home price. No matter how nice it will be.
“This building was used as a long term care facility”
Get out. Get out now.
My thought exactly, but it’s a nice place to fix, just that I can imagine that people died there and that would be scary
Lol I work at a "long term care facility" really just a home for people with mental disabilities and it's like a whole campus with multiple houses on it. One of the houses is so full of asbestos that it's currently abandoned. Sometimes when you walk by though you'll see faces in the windows looking at you.
Yeah when he showed the chapel and said long term care I was like... This place is haunted as hell
Haunted yeah ?
Oh hell no. Too many ghosts
Oh, my goodness. I knew that house. I recognized the area. I was a visiting nurse in the area. When you walked up to the front it verified it was Trinity Haven! It was a place for people that were still mobile but needed assistance with their care. I can't wait to watch this and will subscribe to your site! Good Luck with your work and your videos.
I’m looking forward to watching the process of renovating this place! I can see that this place has a lot of potential and I can’t wait to see it fixed!
Even if it costs $300k to fix, you can have a perfect mansion, fully updated and essentially brand new. And for around $350k, sounds like a steal to me
True your average home in Austin TX is going for half a million. A mansion goes for 5+ million. By that comparison any Texan would buy this and pay all the renovation in a heartbeat.
What if it’s haunted?
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive LOL!
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive you pay extra
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive it looks haunted AF, huh?
It's so heartbreaking to see these beautiful buildings fall into disrepair. I bet it was something to see when it was first built!
I’d be interested in seeing that house renovated. It looks like a beautiful house!
This is a perfect house for my husband to buy and never finish. He would say “ Be grateful you have a bathroom now you want a kitchen too!!! “
"Be thankful you have a Bucket to Urinate and Defecate in." Sounds like me.
I don’t like how it has so many other houses close to it.. but if someone fixes it this house seems like it could be really beautiful
If you got 300k then sure. Being pretty sure it has wood rot, rusted pipes, need a new wiring, needs pest and termite control, etc. Granted he could fix it and flip it for like 750k to a mill but that's like 3 years of work at minimum.
@@mindyours752 who wants to buy a million dollar house in that trash neighborhood tho?? did you not see the houses in the area they are all broken and looks abandoned.
a big house and in the end it doesn't even have much property to go with it.
@@JosephDiveley it's interesting, right? It looks really cool on its own (well, if you imagine it without the damage), but so out of place. I wonder who built it there and whether that was before those other houses around it were built. It just looks like a house that was meant to sit in a big garden.
It's terrible that that place was allowed to disintegrate like that.
We couldn't agree more!
The Midwest is FULL of them. Looked at one like 2/3 this size, walked in, (it was winter) there was ice on the kitchen floor!!!! It dropped through 3 floors. Was obviously a beautiful house in its heyday,
Thank you for uploading this video. It warmed my heart because I didn't appreciate my house. Now I do.
Love how he give us a perfect and very detailed tour, thax
Holy cow, I cant believe i've finally seen the inside of this place! I live less than 10 minutes down the road, and I would see this huge house every sunday on my way to church. The folklore that i've heard is that the original owner of that house was the founder of the Victor Brewing Company. The brewery building is on the other side of town, and it has been abandoned much like this house is, i believe since the '70s. Just a neat little piece of history from my hometown.
Close! It's definitely the founder of the brewery's house, but it was in use until about 10 years ago. It had been remodeled several times to make it what it looks like now. Thanks for watching, and we're glad you enjoyed the video!
What city and state is this? It looks like a northern state from the look of the houses.
@@TheBrothersWorkshop So what is the upshot? Are you passing on this house? Please put in an update.
The Brothers Workshop waiting for the renovation video
Would love to know where that place is. Plain curious.
Underneath the mold and decay, I see historical beauty and transformation. No ghosts here, just memories that call to me. The cost of whom may pay, to turn this beast back in to a beauty, is priceless. For time and energy and dreams are made from the spaces between these brick walls, my friend. (Title should be, “ Cheapest Set of Dreams”, in the world of historical homes)
jan k did you not see the cars
It would be great to see it fully restored. Today's buildings, just like today's cookie cutter cars, just don't have the class and style of buildings from that era. What a magnificent piece of history if it can be saved!
What y’all are doing is something I’ve always wanted to do!
My husband and I restored four (1825-1897) Victorians in twelve years, and this mansion is worthy of renovation. In our marriage, we restored four Victorians, built a cabin from scratch, restored another cabin, updated a lakefront cabin, and are still working on weekends to renovate. We are nearing 70 years old, but between the two of us we have been doing this for 30 years. It is rewarding as a hobby for us to keep our marriage strong and this is our bond, the love of restoration. Yes, this is a recent photo of myself nearing 70 years old, hard work keeps you fit and young.
Thank you for that wonderful comment Gloria! Sounds like we have a shared passion in breathing new life into forgotten buildings. Dave worked as a preservation architect for quite a few years across the country, and that's what was the driving factor behind us seeing if buying this house would be worth it. Y'all should share your builds on your channel as well! We'd love to see the work you're doing too.
I agree. You look phenomenal! I want to see your projects also. You should get on the Old House channel. We love to see and share pics.
I would walk right by this one. I have remodeled three historic houses and from what I see there is too much structural damage and too much of the original woodwork, glass, doors are missing. You will spend $$$$$$$$$ and too much of your life trying to bring this back. IMHO, keep looking.
Go for it! Wonderful results!
Can't wait to see what you do
The fact that they let this house get so bad instead of renting it out is just so sad. Why not let people live in it until you can sell. So sad people don’t have places to live but you have mansions sitting in lots disintegrating!
jazzy meadetolove Sometimes it’s people who are just old as fuck and they don’t have kids to take care of it. Then they die and the asshole kids take possession of it and just let it sit at the market overpriced for years hoping someone will buy that hell hole until they practically give it away lol
@@David-dx5wz I've been saying that for years, There are a lot of newer mansions within the last 0-20 years in California and Florida...huge. People ran out of money. There are others that are older and have been abandoned and everything is left there. Someone else spoke about hauntings. I would definitely check out any home's history if everything is left behind. I'm rambling...but I agree.
@jazzy meadetolove - The problem with renting out an old mansion like this is that no regular people can really afford to rent it. The rich people that could afford to rent it don't want it, because it's in a run down neighborhood. And if you put the average person into a huge old home like that they could never afford to keep it up and it would get run down even more. So the only solution is to tear it down, or sell it cheap like this hoping that someone has enough money to fix it up again.
Because people do crap like light mattresses on fire in the basement.
Chris Payne
I rent a room in an old fraternity house that could probably be classified as a “mansion.” My landlord lives here as well and rents different parts of the house to different people. Right now there’s seven different renters who each rent a portion of the house. I think that’s probably a more realistic option for someone sitting on a massive rental property than trying to find one family to rent the entire home.
Jesus Christ those white doors are straight out of an insane asylum.
Did Nurse Rachet work there?
It was an ALF
That place was an insane asylum
At first glance I thought maybe it was a funeral home at some point.
There’s a really horrible vibe with this house.
What a superb project to take on
I really do hope you got this house. It’s so beautiful
Looks like house from AMERICAN HORROR stories. 🥴👀
I saw an agent do a walkthrough of that house. Its actually beautiful. Not at all as forbodeing as the sho. Now THIS one. Unh unh
It looks nothing like it....
Jack Nicholson, axe in hand, " Honey.. I'm home!
@@bedstuyrover 😂😂😂
Why do you think he got it for so little? It probaly still has a couple of bodies hidden somewhere
This gives me an american horror story vibe. One of these days there will be a person who would be applying for a maid position saying that she’s been a maid ever since the first family who had live in it. Then tries to seduce you, then there would also be a neighbour who would visit you everyday bringing cupcakes with a daughter who would always breaks in 😭🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i thought about ahs when i saw the stairs! it reminded me a lot of the first season 😂
That sounds like that Netflix horror movie with CM Punk 😄😄😄
FUCK YEAH..SCARY..LOOKS LIKE REMEMBER THAT SHOW
""A HAUNTING" " WHERE THE SON GETS CANCER THE HOUSE WAS USED AS A FUNERAL BUT ALSO A TORCHER HOME BY A DR WHO KILLED BABIES...OOOOF GIVES ME THE CHILLS!
Let’s not forget the poisoning and random attempt at a copy cat killing oh and the aborted fetuses in the basement 😂👀😂
Thanks for This. Love what you two do. Very interesting.
Hey Cindy! Thank you for watching the video. We appreciate your kind words.
Good luck guys! So brave! Not intimidated at all 😎just amazing! Love the truck! You guys love vintage!
With a name like Trinity Haven, you know there’s gotta be some holy ghosts
Trinity Haven? I dated her. And, yes, she had ghosts.
@@chaosordeal294 😂😂😂
@@chaosordeal294 no no sweeties, those are called demons lol
@@kathrynclayton6763 You sure? I thought they said 'crabs' lmao
That staircase is stunning
Yes
Most people would make this sort of thing into some creepy video, this guy really helped making this not so creepy and more inviting and not all negative
Thanks Josh!
That old Chevy 💓💓
I got a thing for old work trucks.
I'm sad that there are only 46k likes. This is the kind of long term reno/rebuild I love to watch: big old houses that get restored in a faithful way to their original build. I was hoping this would be a big CZcams series.
Don't worry Colby, we're still on the search for a building like this! We just haven't found one that Dave likes enough yet. In the meantime, we do have another renovation featured on the channel if you're up for watching a smaller rehab project. Thanks for watching!
It is so sad that properties like this are allowed to just go to waste from deterioration.
Personally, I think this one would just be too expensive to repair/rebuild. But I would buy it and gut it for all that beautiful millwork and everything else that could possibly be salvaged. Then I'd use all of it to build a modest, but absolutely beautiful home. That staircase alone has got to be worth a small fortune!
I completely concur.
He only spent $20,000 for it.
I would like to know what he will do or has done with it.
There's a house that has been empty for some time in Colorado Springs, CO. It is brick also, and has a huge backyard. The original mailbox is still there, too. I'll be back when I remember the address.
great find guys
I'd love to see this repaired
ME TOO
We would too! 🙂
@Google User where the hell do you get these figures? Lol
why did you attack her? she was asking where you got her figures.
@Google User You probably go to a dealer to get your car fixed. Capisco?
man this needs to be recommended to more people i wanna see this transformation so bad
I will never understand how people let homes deteriorate 😔
Then you need to go back to school. No one can afford to live like this anymore.
Oh those seat covers! I remember buying them at Ames for my F150 when I was just out of high school right after they converted all the hills stores to Ames.
Sad thing is this was probably a really beautiful house at some point. But time neglect left it in ruins.
It's crazy that less than a decade of neglect can leave a house looking like that. Obviously it wasn't being very well maintained before it was abandoned. Whoever was in charge was doing the bare minimum.
Good luck guys. #staysafe
This is giving me some ideas.
Is nobody going to mention how freaking terrifying that basement looked? This house looks like it’s haunted.
we were waiting for a snowflake like you to bring something stupid like that up.
Dave Wilco Glad I didn’t disappoint 🙌🏻
Ivan Valdivia 😃 I like your attitude
It wànt your soul...visit me...it
And they said was a care facility 😶 aka... asylum 😗
I spent most my life as a contractor. I have renovate homes as bad if not in worse shape then this place. Even if they give you this place to you for free. I don't think it would be worth time and money needed to fix it. At the same time there is part of me that would love the chance to restore it.
It's a money pit. Do this project as a labor of love, because it's totally ruined, neglected, and unloved.
@@jessicasmith7102 @ when you do those things for money then you no need involving love in there. What you need is just technical and social logic.
Awesome! It’s beautiful
Thank you! 😊
Imagine buying this then you walk in the front door and annabelle is sitting right in front of you.
damn i can imagine bruh 😂
It's not the dark you should fear. It's what's waiting in the dark.
The primary reason not to get involved in restoring this house is the profound lack of open room on all sides of the "house". With remediation and even if you can do 85% of the restoration work yourself, you'd still have to bring in some professional subcontractors. Bargaining with the bank/owners to buy the house and land for one dollar, it'd probably cost somewhere around $200K for ripping out virtually everything that's not supportive, remediation, subcontractors, and your time and money to replace everything. Looks like it had 3 lives. Too bad. It must have looked pretty nice at one time. I'm assuming whoever at once owned it sold off the land around it for the homes shoehorned in around it.
Crazy talk. Move this house to Australia and it'll cost you $2mil, in that condition AND with neighbours hemming you in.
@@aureliusmarcus1817 that sounds horrible... move some cheap home builders out to aussieland or better yet have that 3d printed home equipment shipped to their and build a 3d printed mansion that is resistant to fire, water, mold etc damage for a longer time. add some cosmetic brickwork and whatnot to make it pretty and done.
The perfect site for horror movie. Buy it, make a movie titles "The House" . Sell the movie. Renovate and then sell the house as a movie icon.
I loved the motor sound of your truck, in transit buses you will find turn signal and high beam on left leg side.
I would keep looking!
Do you want ghosts? Cause that's how you get ghosts.
lol
😂
exactly what i was thinking but great archer reference.
😄😃🥴
🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭 Scary movie....
Yes I love old historic homes too. They have some much character and charm. Historic homes are well made too. I do not like new homes. Even expensive new homes I don't like. As soon as I win a lottery jackpot. I will buy several abandon historic homes and restore them to their formal glory.
Thank you so much for doing a tour of a house I've driven by countless times and wondered what it looked like inside.
Ps: totally thought this was an old funeral home.
I live just a few minuets from this place. It's terrible to let something this incredible fall into this condition. It is located in a small town and the houses are very close together. Thanks for the tour.
Even if they restored this house to mint condition, who would buy it when the ugly neighbor’s house is literally overhanging the property.
If that house is over the property you would have legal process but could get it removed.
This is how most scary movies start.
Isaiah Gonzales - except that they’re a bit too well-adjusted for horror.
All it needs is a scientist who is ignored by the Building Dept.
Super cool
Just stunning. The staircase alone would cost more than the purchase price if you were to commission a replica today. Sure, it's a huge amount of work, but the end product will be better than any new build you could create for the money. If this property were here in London, you would be looking at anything from £2m to £25m depending on location.
The roof is the easiest part. It s great to see an old masnion at that price not in a neighborhood with every door and window covered with bars.
Even Casper the friendly ghost wouldn't live there. Sheesh.
Whoa, it's almost the house of my recurring dreams!
Very good.
Wow, I'm a builder/remodeler and I'm seeing a total gut job. Hopefully the roof and interior walls and floor framing are not compromised beyond mold, insect infestation, and wet/dry rot. If that were so, and you managed to restore this house to former glory, it is still in a pretty sad nieghborhood and way too close to abutters. And the comps would destroy any chance of monetary recuperation. Sorry to say that even the cleared lot wouldn't be worth much more than the $27K. As much as I love older homes, I'd say walk away. BTW if a bank owns this or it is a tax sale from the town/county they are holding a liability that grows more severe each year. Just think of the liabilities if this goes up in flames or becomes a flop house for homeless drug users. Whomever is holding the deed must know this and should be selling for $1 just to get out of any potential lawsuits downstream.
The location is an old suburb of Pittsburg. I'd think that there would be gentrification here, unless much of this town is in poor shape - lots of drug and property crimes, horrible schools etc - don't know, but there is a reason this suburb isn't more popular. There was once something happening here for the upper middle class, the kind of places that experience gentrification
If you played any other music besides this happy music, I would be peeing myself it would be like a vr haunted house
Music choice definitely made this friendly.
Great project.
Very Good!..
Only $27,000? = Haunted. Good luck.
More like "too big and too far gone for most buyers" I'd guess. And possibly in the wrong location too.
@@Ragnar8504 location looks decent actually, id go with "too far gone"
Haunted mean you can make money back with good marketing and and good history
@@JBZofficial812 I meant location in a broader sense, as in "depressed Midwest town with low property prices". The house next door they built right up to it doesn't improve things either.
no such thing
Worst layout I've ever seen, get the blueprints
Definitely some hidden dungeons behind false walls, HH Holmes style
Probably been remodeled and divided. A lot of those walls are probably just cheap partitions, not load-bearing.
@@brucealanwilson4121 if it used to be used for a nursing home then this makes perfect sense, didn't seem big enough to be 10 bed originally.
MAN, the possibilities!!!!
I would have been good to see the foundations in the basement.
Absolutely love the engraving and sculptures and all the little detail this truly is a work of art in discise
I feel like I got mesothelioma just watching this video
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I really enjoyed looking at the house..
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 😁
I read the title and realized that this was going to be an expensive project. This would be a perfect multi-home type project.
My fianceé just told me she used to party at that house in college 😂.
Sick! Fun little, "it's a small world" kind of coincidence that you ran into this video
Will Miller Lol
@Norm T it used to be off campus apartments and a party house in the late 00's.
Seems more realistic to just buy the land for 23k and completely demo and build a new house
@@Wyatt760 I guess you missed the part where he says he's an architect and preservationist?
That place is haunted for sure
YEP!
That was the first thing I thought too! The locals are not buying it because they already know!
No doubt, a lot of people died in that building.
I don't believe in ghosts, but if any place is haunted by angry spirits, this be the one!
no such thing
That will be lovely when done.
This building would have been 100K better off when rented out for free to some-one, ten years ago. In Holland we have anti squat. People can rent for about 30-50% of a normal market price, without rent protection. If the owner wants to sell they have 1-3 months to leave. The anti squat organisation rents out many properties so they often have the possibility to move to another building in the same area, if they have been good citizens. Abandoned buildings attract problems, fire, vandals, grafitty, they start to leak. it's bad for a neighborhood. This building is an example of stupid capital management.
Awesome find man, so much amazing architecture that you never see in the homes of today. I found one of these (6/4) in Kansas while I was stationed there and still have her today. Was built in 1902 by the second mayor of our town. My wife says there are three entities here, two women and a little boy, but I haven’t experienced anything.....and I walk through the house at night in the dark. 🤷♂️ We have done a ton of plaster and lattice removal, updated wiring, put up drywall, repaint but these old Craftsman homes in my opinion are priceless.....to include you can get on the historic homes list (state and federal) and apply for grants to rebuild. Good lunch and keep us posted on the rebuild! 👍🤙
I'd like to know the history of the house. Like what happened? Did the original owner go bankrupt, did they get addicted to drugs .... like who the original family was that lived there and how the transition from owner to owner finally led to its current condition. Maybe there is a story in that for you to share?
Wallace Rose the original family is still in the house, you just can’t see them during the day.
Purple' thanks. I just had to turn on the lights
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LOVE 💘 YOUR TRUCK I MISS MINE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE HOUSE
Thank you Laura! 🙃🙂
That truck is great! Know all about those high beams! Thanks!
Thanks Karen! If you liked the truck, check out some of the videos we've done about it. Thanks for watching!!