I agree... of course it’s everyone’s dream living in a house this big with rooms for everything you could want, but realistically it’s not a good idea unless you’re already rich and have money to spare on utility bills and maintenance, not to mention all the extra space that will be completely unnecessary like the entire third floor that’ll just be collecting dust. With 35 they could have bought something much nicer (smaller of course) that’s already livable and has all the things they wanted.
Yeah, this is gonna be so expensive to keep up. Even if she tries to sell it later on, she’s gonna have to price it well over the cost she bought it plus renovations to make it worth while, otherwise she’ll have spent millions of dollars and soo much time that she won’t be able to get back.
Imagine sitting in a classroom thinking:" One day I'll buy this building and turn it into my personal residence. I'll hire all the schoolmates and faculty I hate to clean it for me and mow the lawn. I'll show you...I'll show all of you."
When I was bored in class are used to redecorate my classrooms in my mind that made them all into bedrooms or some thing. It did not help that’s the third floor of my school building hardwood floors like a house. Lol
Not being a millionaire myself the only way I can see this working is to refurbish each room/s into a working apartment and then rent it. Then move to the next with the income the previous provides until the whole thing is done and what's cool is you'll be providing work for probably the next decade in that community as well as a nice place to live.
They can change the building into condos or apartments. This is what they did with the Crucible Pencil factory in Jersey City, NJ. It is called Dixon Mills look it up they did an awesome job.
I'm afraid they would have better luck making it into a personal dwelling then rentals, what with zoning, safety regulations, utility restrictions, permits, inspectors, access requirements, etc. I thought of that as well. oh, not to mention insurance.
Yeah, then all it takes is some piece of shit governor extending the eviction moratorium for a year and then you have freeloaders living under your roof. I have a friend that owns a couple of rental properties as a supplement to her retirement. Hasn't seen a dime in rental income since March 2020 and likely won't for 2021. She's on the verge of walking away. I've offered to torch the places for insurance ( half joking) but it was a hard pass for her.
Don’t feel bad she’s a a moron any project manager would tell you those figures have to be determined before the work starts. That’s way too much wiggle room. She’s a dumbass it’s not gonna work at all
Lol can you imagine living here as a kid? " Your grounded! Go to room D-34!" Edit: Holy crap did this comment gain likes. Thank you everyone! 2.2k is my most liked comment 😀
This would make the perfect sanctuary for families facing homelessness. UPDATE: I am in no way shape or form saying how she should spend her money. It’s none of anyone’s business what anyone purchases. So please understand my comment isn’t about her, it’s about the property. Think before you speak guys.
My thoughts exactly! They are doing this same dumb shit in my city instead of trying to make places for homeless people to stay and get on their feet. I don't understand it.
@@niasmith9197 I agree. I mean if I had 10k a month to blow, Id be helping some people have shelter. This chick can do as she pleases...but there is a time to shine...if you know what I mean.
I had a friend who lived in a school! It was a really nice, beautiful school, in a building hundreds of years old, with massive paintings and murals, and dark oak banisters. It was amazing. His dad was the chef at the school, and his family was the only family that lived there (all the teachers, principal, etc all lived elsewhere and commuted to work). It was a French Lysee, so maybe it’s a French thing for chefs to live at some schools. I don’t know, but it was amazing! We could hang out in all the classrooms and playground at night, and we used to climb up on the roof and look out over the city. It was really cool. (Edit to fix a couple errors 😊)
Dodge Apache Yeah, it was really cool! It’s in a really posh part of town, too, and is right across from a huge museum - when we climbed up on the roof at night, we could look out over the museum, and the whole city behind it, and it was so incredible! 😊
My husband and I met a couple who purchased a school in Northern MI and turned it into their cabin, so to speak. Kids loved it. Big gym. Ride your bikes in the hallways on rainy days. I don’t think they did a lot to it. Probably fixed a portion of it for living area and had fun in the rest of the building.
She's very clever ... There's a "LOT" of money to be made from grants if she remodels but DOESN'T TEAR DOWN THE EXTERIOR WALLS !!! Five to Ten years, she said, getting a $250,00 grant each year......She's one smart cookie
Google it. Government gives different types of grants based on your need for starting businesses, research, education, etc. Some are free and some have to be repaid.
That’s what I’m scared of I would do this but there are so many doors windows and people could easily get in. If I were to ever do this I probably would go for something a little smaller.!!!
Had a 6000 sq ft home, and hated it for this reason. I felt like someone else could be living it in with us, and I wouldn't know it. I like to keep it < 3000 sq ft.
@@jamesholt7340 provided she goes that route. From the way she talked it didn’t sound like it but you never know! There’s always the permits and inspections but it doesn’t seem like that would be too difficult after spending all that $$ on buying the place!
@M J Im going to let you in a secret widely known in the financial circles. The housing market is about to crash in the USA again, a combination of global warming, the virus and investors moving overseas has massively driven up housing prices and interest rates. Eventually the demand for housing will increase to a point where the government is forced to step in which means the banks will be dumping shares to lower everything back down to a point that is manageable. Your buying housing at the wrong time, wait till the market crashes then buy everything for pennies, this is how tens of thousands of people profited off the 2008 financial crisis. I've heard stories of investors literally buying up entire neighborhoods and doing nothing with them then dumping them 10 years later for a ten thousand to one profit just on land value alone.
I was able to walk through here as a tour for a work conference last year. She has some really good ideas for the bottom half if she rents out and uses the Space for public use, she can find grants to help. I know she had designed a room for her yoga.. she’s going to tear down the wall to have easier access to the roof so that she can practice. Not all grants are federal or for non profits. Her and her husband have money, I just forgot what they do. She was nice and humble. It can work out. It won’t be done fir a while.
They should've turned it into apartments. I actually grew up in an old school building that was turned into apartments in the 20's. It was pretty cool.
Well if marketed right that school/house/wedding venue/office/community center can be set up to pay for itself... I would suggest getting solar panels too 💡
A dream home , good woman getting the community together and hiring those from their local community that had the guts to come ask for work . I love this woman 😄 lol I would be there all the time helping out 👏🏼
This is awesome. There's a mall in High Point, NC that has recently shut down and I've dreamed since I was a kid of turning that massive mall into my own home lol
That’s one hell of an undertaking…. But I highly commend her/them for taking on the task. And especially for hiring their neighbors to do as much as possible. It’s not just _smart_ , it’s compassionate. Everyone makes out better in that situation. The area gets revitalized, she gets affordable help, the help gets work, etc. Everyone benefits from the community uplift. I just hope they have a new school that replaced that one, and it wasn’t just a closure.
Every keeps talking about how she should rent it out. Why? You buy something like this to turn into apartments to deal with a bunch of assholes with no respect for your home. No way. I love that she is making it a family space for her entire family to enjoy. Also love the idea of having special events for the public. However, rental apartments no way. She will be in hell within the year of having her first tenant on the property. Love what she is doing.😍
I have to agree. She’ll be fine if she rents the office space and the public venue space. One whole floor for her family is a good one. I see it being a whole lot better with businesses being there instead of people that I’m not gonna pay rent.
I want to see an update. Just imagine the electric and heating bill. Over a dozen bedrooms. They could have their own bed n breakfast or airbnb suites to help pay for that.
She also said the public is helping so it could be a community outreach center and easily get grants especially from universities or like a boys and girls club
@Tom they said the second floor was their home and you can separate the property that way if the city allows that thru zoning and fees. Its not an assumption more than a way to cover some of the costs that will be year to year expenses that will come up.
Very blessed to be able to transform the building into a home! Especially during this time! I'm about to purchase a home. Thanks for the recommendation, CZcams...
She needs to ensure the local government has authorised the use of the building for residential use, as that guy in Seattle found out to his cost when he bought an old fire station. Although he won, it cost him in legal fees.
I know someone that owns a school, two actually. The utilities and utility bills / monthly payments on those things are ginormous! Electricity, gas, heat, water, internet, etc. Then property taxes on top of that. The person I know that owns a school, also doubles it as a church, and they take church donations and hold fundraisers to cover those costs, but you’d always be chasing donations to sustain it.
I remember in 1965 that our landlady died and her family either wanted us out or buy outright where we lived. I dreamed of buying the church we had been attending as we had a family of 8 kids. I designated who would get the small classrooms, community room for a playroom and there was a big kitchen, the sanctuary as a living room etc. i wanted the choir loft. My grandparent's coughed up the loan for the house ($10,000) and my parents paid her $100/ mo for years. I slept in an unheated bedroom with either 3 or 4 sisters for most of my remaining years there. My husband and I would browse home plan books for years, even drawing our own dream house as our family grew.
I think it is awesome. The energy she has and the fact she employees people is very cool. You could roller skate in that building and never leave home.
I absolutely love this idea. If I had the money I would do something like this too, Not that big though. I think it's brilliant. I hope it becomes everything you all wish for and you have long Happy Times there.
It was sold to them by the city for residential occupancy, then years later they turned around and fined the crap out of them for using it as a residence. They went to court, city lost, buyers counter suing to recover defense costs and probably other related losses.
Not likely a problem. Right now, that property tax is probably around $1,200 per year. Ohio valuates property tax at 35% of market value, and the highest tax rate in Canton is $94.90 per $1000 in taxable value. If she gets it remodeled and business starts coming in the value will go up, but right now it's almost worthless.
This just popped up in my recommendations but I am loving the story you go girl she bought a whole school they got to turn it into a home and a business I like that
One of my cousins found a closed down factory building in Puerto Rico that was for sale. He bought it for $350K and got a loan for another $350K to convert it into apartments. He made 10 unit and most were 2/2’s but there were some 3/2 and he kept the penthouse (3rd floor) as a 4/2. Sold the 2/2’s for $135k, the 3/2’s for $150k, after expenses and everything, he netted about $550k. I would love to find a deal like that. Another cousin bought a repo in PR for $70k, and it’s an amazing condo in Palmas Del Mar beach resort community. I would’ve loved that one too, because it’s absolutely beautiful.
Should I buy my old elementary school if it closes permanently? (there’s high likelihood of that happening since enrollment there has been in decline since 2013 and a global pandemic will just make it worse)
Get it, turn it into an apartment complex and turn the gym into a event hall that people that live in the building can rest out when wanting to celebrate something, then if there’s a playground turn it into a pool and then if there’s a field turn that into like a park for kids and also a place where people can just go for a walk on( it’s up to you, I would love to see how it works out tho) 🤷🏾♀️
@@TrinandCo well, sadly my elementary doesn’t have a gym. But I was thinking of turning the auditorium into my personal car garage with a big turntable in middle with the most prized one in my collection. And I’m also thinking if turning the cafeteria into a pizza and chicken wing arcade that’s basically Chuck E Cheese, Dave & Buster’s, and Buffalo Wild Wings combined. I was also thinking of turning the preschool into my futures kids’ dream playroom and game room turning the preschool playground into their dream backyard. And I think I will put my dream pool where the elementary playground currently is. And the majority of the classrooms I’ll probably convert to bedrooms and of course renovate all the restrooms to fit people of all sizes and have tubs/showers
My Aunt tried to do this to a small 20 classroom school she once worked in,,,,she planned on reno several classrooms into bedrooms for her 3 children, and rent out the rest, she couldn't get it completed, had to sell and it was torned down, so I commend this couple able to do this large project
I remember when my son did community service at the location of this old school. He and a classmate cleaned up trash in the yard. At that time, it was no longer in use. It is a good feeling for me when I think about the building coming to life again.
So cool! I hope she does a lot with that and get the community involved in some fashion. I could see a beautiful thing coming from this. Lord bless them.
Saw an update from 2021, it looks a lot better than it did then, some rooms complete, looks beautiful, though some rooms like the auditorium look the exact same
walking threw this at night would be a whole horror movie
Fr
Not if you have lights and cameras
YES!!!!!😂
@Tom Tis ok he just threw the comment out there.
😂
I hope she's a multi millionaire, because upkeep on a old school building is costly.
I agree... of course it’s everyone’s dream living in a house this big with rooms for everything you could want, but realistically it’s not a good idea unless you’re already rich and have money to spare on utility bills and maintenance, not to mention all the extra space that will be completely unnecessary like the entire third floor that’ll just be collecting dust. With 35 they could have bought something much nicer (smaller of course) that’s already livable and has all the things they wanted.
Yeah, this is gonna be so expensive to keep up. Even if she tries to sell it later on, she’s gonna have to price it well over the cost she bought it plus renovations to make it worth while, otherwise she’ll have spent millions of dollars and soo much time that she won’t be able to get back.
@@_raqi4133 nah fam not everyone’s dream, a mansion would be nice but an old school like this is too big
@@_raqi4133 to me its different than owning a mansion
@@swtlikecndy4119 I want to have to use a golf cart to take a shit in a timely manner
Can't even begin to imagine what her utility bills will be like.
That's what I was thinking. It doesn't seem very energy efficient.
if her power box is anything like my high schools she can shut off power to different wings like gym, lunch room, theater, classrooms if not in use
Boilers are pretty efficient
@@blaming94 oh ok makes perfect sense
They couldn’t rent out rooms and to bring money in
Imagine sitting in a classroom thinking:" One day I'll buy this building and turn it into my personal residence. I'll hire all the schoolmates and faculty I hate to clean it for me and mow the lawn. I'll show you...I'll show all of you."
😂😂😂
Close but my dream is to operate a school. I have a huge dream .
@@nerdgeekcosplay909 a principle?
She isn’t showing anyone anything. I’d bet my life it’s never going to be finished.
When I was bored in class are used to redecorate my classrooms in my mind that made them all into bedrooms or some thing. It did not help that’s the third floor of my school building hardwood floors like a house. Lol
Not being a millionaire myself the only way I can see this working is to refurbish each room/s into a working apartment and then rent it. Then move to the next with the income the previous provides until the whole thing is done and what's cool is you'll be providing work for probably the next decade in that community as well as a nice place to live.
They can change the building into condos or apartments. This is what they did with the Crucible Pencil factory in Jersey City, NJ. It is called Dixon Mills look it up they did an awesome job.
I'm afraid they would have better luck making it into a personal dwelling then rentals, what with zoning, safety regulations, utility restrictions, permits, inspectors, access requirements, etc. I thought of that as well. oh, not to mention insurance.
Yeah, then all it takes is some piece of shit governor extending the eviction moratorium for a year and then you have freeloaders living under your roof. I have a friend that owns a couple of rental properties as a supplement to her retirement. Hasn't seen a dime in rental income since March 2020 and likely won't for 2021. She's on the verge of walking away. I've offered to torch the places for insurance ( half joking) but it was a hard pass for her.
Airbnb or long term residential rentals. Her coworking idea is good too. If she bought it for “family” that must be a really big family.
@@weirdshibainu "half joking" I could use a friend like you. I know some great lawyers too.
The way she casually said "I'm estimating 1 million, could be 3" just makes me feel poor
Over 5-10 years, so anywhere from $100,000-$600,000 a year
If I had a million dollars, I wouldn't spend it on that
Don’t feel bad she’s a a moron any project manager would tell you those figures have to be determined before the work starts. That’s way too much wiggle room. She’s a dumbass it’s not gonna work at all
I to 3 million, depending on how the chewing gum removal goes . . . 😉
Its play money for them
She found the deal on Facebook. What do you put into the marketplace search bar for that?
School for sucker!
@@ciaranobrien1745 LOL
maybe you hit the category called "real estate and housing" in markeplace lol
Trump campaign offices. KIDDING!!!!
Cheap property’s I think
I’d like to see where they are now
I was just thinking the same
Me too
Me four 🙋🏾♀️. Lol
The pandemic hit a few months later...
Me tooo😂
Same
Lol can you imagine living here as a kid? " Your grounded! Go to room D-34!"
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Mom tells u to go to school but ur at school already
Lol @ d-34 !
It certainly would be interesting living in an actual school
What the heck my home room class is D34
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I would love to see the finished product. This is actually brilliant.
I'm finding this 3 years later, would love to see how it turned out.
Same
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@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist9 Shove off.
4 years later and would love to see it.. anyone know where we can find updates? Or.finished product?
This would make the perfect sanctuary for families facing homelessness.
UPDATE: I am in no way shape or form saying how she should spend her money. It’s none of anyone’s business what anyone purchases. So please understand my comment isn’t about her, it’s about the property. Think before you speak guys.
My thoughts exactly! They are doing this same dumb shit in my city instead of trying to make places for homeless people to stay and get on their feet. I don't understand it.
@@niasmith9197 Yeah true, but she purchased it. she can do what she wants with it.
@@00700556 Be blessed
@@niasmith9197 I agree. I mean if I had 10k a month to blow, Id be helping some people have shelter. This chick can do as she pleases...but there is a time to shine...if you know what I mean.
That's a fantastic idea. But states don't get tax income from shelters. I'm wondering what school the students go to now.
Imagine going to your aunts new house and it’s a school, that would be the coolest thing ever
I had a friend whose grandparents lived in an old bank with the vault. It was cool.
I had a friend who lived in a school! It was a really nice, beautiful school, in a building hundreds of years old, with massive paintings and murals, and dark oak banisters. It was amazing. His dad was the chef at the school, and his family was the only family that lived there (all the teachers, principal, etc all lived elsewhere and commuted to work). It was a French Lysee, so maybe it’s a French thing for chefs to live at some schools. I don’t know, but it was amazing! We could hang out in all the classrooms and playground at night, and we used to climb up on the roof and look out over the city. It was really cool.
(Edit to fix a couple errors 😊)
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 wow!
Dodge Apache Yeah, it was really cool! It’s in a really posh part of town, too, and is right across from a huge museum - when we climbed up on the roof at night, we could look out over the museum, and the whole city behind it, and it was so incredible! 😊
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832
So nice!
Let's be honest, most of us are here because CZcams recommended it.
I was looking at firehouses turned into home and saw this lol
Isn’t that how it usually goes?
And why is my next question
I live here and saw it 😆
Yeah,
My husband and I met a couple who purchased a school in Northern MI and turned it into their cabin, so to speak. Kids loved it. Big gym. Ride your bikes in the hallways on rainy days. I don’t think they did a lot to it. Probably fixed a portion of it for living area and had fun in the rest of the building.
I’d love to see pictures or videos of that! Would that couple have social media?
I would have made apartments
Would have to check the zoning.
At the school I went to Jr high in they made it into apts/ school rooms for the disabled. I think it was a great idea!!
That’s smart and they could stop live there
EXACTLY!!!
She's very clever ... There's a "LOT" of money to be made from grants if she remodels but DOESN'T TEAR DOWN THE EXTERIOR WALLS !!! Five to Ten years, she said, getting a $250,00 grant each year......She's one smart cookie
How does one get a grant
@@digitaldrea 😃Right😃
Google it. Government gives different types of grants based on your need for starting businesses, research, education, etc. Some are free and some have to be repaid.
@@freckles3705 Thought he was joking around
@@GALLEN-vf7uy maybe.
I would love to see follow up on this as they progress.
It's on FB the Bezaleel Wells Project
I'm here from the sons tiktok, it looks good. There should be a follow up though.
they left. It was haunted
Imagine your friend waiting 10 years to get married. LOL
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Right 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
So many windows... how do you protect a home with that many points of entry?😳
That’s what I’m scared of I would do this but there are so many doors windows and people could easily get in. If I were to ever do this I probably would go for something a little smaller.!!!
They could actually fill some of them in tastefully.
Don’t worry it’s most likely in a “gun free” zone. 100% safe
Lots of Ring cameras for sure!
Had a 6000 sq ft home, and hated it for this reason. I felt like someone else could be living it in with us, and I wouldn't know it. I like to keep it < 3000 sq ft.
Girl what's your occupation she laughed like a mil not alot
It’s probably her husband’s or ex husband’s money 🤷🏽♀️
RIGHT
Its called a loan???
@@floridagirl9064 big ass loan don't ya think ?
@@none_yabitch9199 that’s pretty sexist to imply. Women are capable of making their own money or having inheritance.
I see regret in the making...it will cost $30K a year for heat alone.
I’m sure she considered that
True, but imagine how much she is writing off on taxes alone since its a home office, "wedding venue" etc
@@couki2300 yes wedding venues can make A LOT of money.
well, she did have that big smirk on her face when she said it could cost $1 to 3 million....so, she must be loaded?
if they use the old boiler system which many schools still do you will be surprised how little it will cost.
I could see fixing up several of the rooms to rent out. And the “public” area is a good idea but that looks like a money pit otherwise.
Cash cow more like it,she can fix it up and rent rooms out..Shell make that 35k back in no time..
@@jamesholt7340 provided she goes that route. From the way she talked it didn’t sound like it but you never know! There’s always the permits and inspections but it doesn’t seem like that would be too difficult after spending all that $$ on buying the place!
@@jamesholt7340 But the total cost to fix it up will be more that a million. She should turn it into apartments or condos.
My dream is something similar. To take an old building and make it into a home. Good luck to them.
My dream would be to turn a old abandoned church into a home.
Don't bother, you'll get thrown into a hellish landscape of building codes, hidden repair costs and city inspectors trying to ruin your day.
www.mcmenamins.com/ they do a LOT of this. doing well, by doing good.
@M J Holy hell you voluntarily moved to a warzone?
You've got balls of steel i'll give you that.
@M J Im going to let you in a secret widely known in the financial circles. The housing market is about to crash in the USA again, a combination of global warming, the virus and investors moving overseas has massively driven up housing prices and interest rates. Eventually the demand for housing will increase to a point where the government is forced to step in which means the banks will be dumping shares to lower everything back down to a point that is manageable. Your buying housing at the wrong time, wait till the market crashes then buy everything for pennies, this is how tens of thousands of people profited off the 2008 financial crisis. I've heard stories of investors literally buying up entire neighborhoods and doing nothing with them then dumping them 10 years later for a ten thousand to one profit just on land value alone.
I was able to walk through here as a tour for a work conference last year. She has some really good ideas for the bottom half if she rents out and uses the Space for public use, she can find grants to help. I know she had designed a room for her yoga.. she’s going to tear down the wall to have easier access to the roof so that she can practice. Not all grants are federal or for non profits. Her and her husband have money, I just forgot what they do. She was nice and humble. It can work out. It won’t be done fir a while.
This is cool. I would love to see the finished project
With the year we've all had, they could actually make one of the rooms be a proper homeschool classroom too.
They should've turned it into apartments. I actually grew up in an old school building that was turned into apartments in the 20's. It was pretty cool.
Well if marketed right that school/house/wedding venue/office/community center can be set up to pay for itself... I would suggest getting solar panels too 💡
A dream home , good woman getting the community together and hiring those from their local community that had the guts to come ask for work . I love this woman 😄 lol I would be there all the time helping out 👏🏼
She needs to refurbish each room into an apartment
May need security cameras being so large
And the furniture bill ALONE to furnish all those rooms would be astronomical lol!!
Some people are just more creative!! Unbelievable God bless her!!
This is awesome. There's a mall in High Point, NC that has recently shut down and I've dreamed since I was a kid of turning that massive mall into my own home lol
Huh. I've never imagined the words "school" and "dream" would be in the same sentence
I would like to see this when it’s all done and the family have moved in. Good luck now🙏🏽
That’s one hell of an undertaking…. But I highly commend her/them for taking on the task. And especially for hiring their neighbors to do as much as possible. It’s not just _smart_ , it’s compassionate. Everyone makes out better in that situation. The area gets revitalized, she gets affordable help, the help gets work, etc. Everyone benefits from the community uplift. I just hope they have a new school that replaced that one, and it wasn’t just a closure.
Every keeps talking about how she should rent it out. Why? You buy something like this to turn into apartments to deal with a bunch of assholes with no respect for your home. No way. I love that she is making it a family space for her entire family to enjoy. Also love the idea of having special events for the public. However, rental apartments no way. She will be in hell within the year of having her first tenant on the property. Love what she is doing.😍
I was thinking the EXACT same thing!
Agreed! I would not rent out where I live. Nope...
That's why you hire a management company, to handle everything.
No rentals that would be a nightmare
I have to agree. She’ll be fine if she rents the office space and the public venue space. One whole floor for her family is a good one. I see it being a whole lot better with businesses being there instead of people that I’m not gonna pay rent.
Are there any updates? They should have a CZcams channel and put out videos to document the journey.
Right.
This is what my siblings are doing. They are thinking about buying a school and turning into a apartment type home for their company.
I used to live by this building it was in such bad shape in 2007 I can’t imagine what it looks like now - hope she has millions to put into it
I want to see an update. Just imagine the electric and heating bill. Over a dozen bedrooms. They could have their own bed n breakfast or airbnb suites to help pay for that.
Solar panels and it will pay for it self
Well they’re renting the first floor to offices. Charge them and she’s good.
Wow when children need schooling and they turned into major investment
I really can't even be mad ...hell impressed even
She hopes to get grants for a home remodeling project, where do I sign up at for that?
Probably since it will be publicly accessible, such as the first floor hall, it might get public funding
small business grants.
She also said the public is helping so it could be a community outreach center and easily get grants especially from universities or like a boys and girls club
@Tom they said the second floor was their home and you can separate the property that way if the city allows that thru zoning and fees. Its not an assumption more than a way to cover some of the costs that will be year to year expenses that will come up.
This is actually a pretty cool idea and it’s great that it’ll involve members of the community both during and after its build.
i don’t know about you but i’d definitely convert that whole thing into an apartment complex
Very blessed to be able to transform the building into a home! Especially during this time! I'm about to purchase a home. Thanks for the recommendation, CZcams...
Wow can we get an update on how things are going. I love before and after remodels.
This takes “home school” to another level.
She needs to ensure the local government has authorised the use of the building for residential use, as that guy in Seattle found out to his cost when he bought an old fire station. Although he won, it cost him in legal fees.
I appreciate that she took on the locals for work. Talk about supporting your community
Looks like the tiny home trend is over
Why would it over because one person made a different choice? If one person buys a large boat, does everyone on the planet have to do the same thing?
I know someone that owns a school, two actually. The utilities and utility bills / monthly payments on those things are ginormous! Electricity, gas, heat, water, internet, etc. Then property taxes on top of that. The person I know that owns a school, also doubles it as a church, and they take church donations and hold fundraisers to cover those costs, but you’d always be chasing donations to sustain it.
In a sense, it's larger than most Hollywood celebrity homes...but for 1/100 of the price lol
Years ago i worked for a woman who made rennaisance clothing. She bought an old grange hall! The kitchen was fantastic!
She will easily spend more than a million, I wouldn't be surprised if she exceeds 10 million.
What a teaser. I need a whole series on this.
imagine hearing a window break in the middle of the night.. lmao good luck with that!
I would never be late for school ever again. Awesome community ideas. Best of luck.
When you're house is so big you need a ride on lawnmower to move around
I remember in 1965 that our landlady died and her family either wanted us out or buy outright where we lived. I dreamed of buying the church we had been attending as we had a family of 8 kids. I designated who would get the small classrooms, community room for a playroom and there was a big kitchen, the sanctuary as a living room etc. i wanted the choir loft. My grandparent's coughed up the loan for the house ($10,000) and my parents paid her $100/ mo for years. I slept in an unheated bedroom with either 3 or 4 sisters for most of my remaining years there. My husband and I would browse home plan books for years, even drawing our own dream house as our family grew.
We spend hours and HOURS waiting to get out of school as kids, I couldn’t move into one as an adult myself 😬
I think it is awesome. The energy she has and the fact she employees people is very cool.
You could roller skate in that building and never leave home.
Having a viable event venue will certainly help with the bills.
I absolutely love this idea. If I had the money I would do something like this too, Not that big though. I think it's brilliant. I hope it becomes everything you all wish for and you have long Happy Times there.
i just heard somebody bought a fire station as a home and got big fine from city，for misuse or something
It was sold to them by the city for residential occupancy, then years later they turned around and fined the crap out of them for using it as a residence. They went to court, city lost, buyers counter suing to recover defense costs and probably other related losses.
Same
all of us being hurdled into what CZcams recommends I see lol
When said and done, the upkeep maintenance and utilities will be high for this property. This is definitely for the super rich.
Of course it depends on how much they will keep heated/cooled. They certainly don't need to do the entire building.
this sounds like a nightmare to live in. All those rooms are giant, why not make them into apartments?
I love her for employing the community, now that is the America 🇺🇸 I love
i once saw a great deal , a former school house was on sale für 100k and it was sold off in 6 min, it was
mansion look alike so yeah, good sale
This is kind of my dream.
Whenever I see a video about someone doing it…they haven’t actually done it.
Looking forward to a finished product.
That borders on perverse
Why, you can’t get that smell of teenage angst out of the walls
This brings a whole new meaning to "home-school"
If I had the money, I'd turn the school into a real-life Tony Hawk's Pro Skater level
HELL fkn YEAHH!!
Like, even though your project is huge, you can pull it off if you're a class act all the way. You go, girl!
That property tax is going to be a lesson learned for them. But they can spend 10000 a month. Maybe it won't be that bad.
Not likely a problem. Right now, that property tax is probably around $1,200 per year. Ohio valuates property tax at 35% of market value, and the highest tax rate in Canton is $94.90 per $1000 in taxable value. If she gets it remodeled and business starts coming in the value will go up, but right now it's almost worthless.
This just popped up in my recommendations but I am loving the story you go girl she bought a whole school they got to turn it into a home and a business I like that
The kids must feel horrible. All day at a school... and these ugly corridors 🤮🤮
One of my cousins found a closed down factory building in Puerto Rico that was for sale. He bought it for $350K and got a loan for another $350K to convert it into apartments. He made 10 unit and most were 2/2’s but there were some 3/2 and he kept the penthouse (3rd floor) as a 4/2. Sold the 2/2’s for $135k, the 3/2’s for $150k, after expenses and everything, he netted about $550k. I would love to find a deal like that. Another cousin bought a repo in PR for $70k, and it’s an amazing condo in Palmas Del Mar beach resort community. I would’ve loved that one too, because it’s absolutely beautiful.
Should I buy my old elementary school if it closes permanently? (there’s high likelihood of that happening since enrollment there has been in decline since 2013 and a global pandemic will just make it worse)
Get it, turn it into an apartment complex and turn the gym into a event hall that people that live in the building can rest out when wanting to celebrate something, then if there’s a playground turn it into a pool and then if there’s a field turn that into like a park for kids and also a place where people can just go for a walk on( it’s up to you, I would love to see how it works out tho) 🤷🏾♀️
@@TrinandCo well, sadly my elementary doesn’t have a gym. But I was thinking of turning the auditorium into my personal car garage with a big turntable in middle with the most prized one in my collection. And I’m also thinking if turning the cafeteria into a pizza and chicken wing arcade that’s basically Chuck E Cheese, Dave & Buster’s, and Buffalo Wild Wings combined. I was also thinking of turning the preschool into my futures kids’ dream playroom and game room turning the preschool playground into their dream backyard. And I think I will put my dream pool where the elementary playground currently is. And the majority of the classrooms I’ll probably convert to bedrooms and of course renovate all the restrooms to fit people of all sizes and have tubs/showers
@@dylbeentheplotagonistandra2811 And what will you do with the Principal's office that holds such fond memories of getting sent to?
@@dylbeentheplotagonistandra2811 that awesome, I hope you did it!😊
@@TrinandCo Now that is a good idea, you could make bank if done correctly.
My Aunt tried to do this to a small 20 classroom school she once worked in,,,,she planned on reno several classrooms into bedrooms for her 3 children, and rent out the rest, she couldn't get it completed, had to sell and it was torned down, so I commend this couple able to do this large project
They have alot of time in their hands.
This is amazing!!!!! What a kind, warm hearted, compassionate and beautiful couple to offer their dream home to others in their time of need. ♥️♥️
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This was in my recommended: after watching several car enthusiast videos, “know your rights” police videos, and HOA scam videos.
Same here. And I'm obsessed
That’s awesome!! A lot of money to fix it up but that’s a huge property and lots of opportunity for cheap.
Can you imagine the property taxes
That’s crazy, but pretty freaking cool. Need to turn that gym into a home theater.
I'd keep it as a gym. Basketball court. Give me the gym, a bedroom, a bathroom and a garage and I'd be happy.
She dreamed of turning a school into a home, Schools dream of turning homes into schools...
Now a days i right
@@notapplicable4567 you right??? What?
Oh nice making a place of education where hundreds can learn into your home? Wow you guys are so humble way to go!!
She got a mansion
Buy your own mansion
With a great home theater.
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I remember when my son did community service at the location of this old school. He and a classmate cleaned up trash in the yard. At that time, it was no longer in use. It is a good feeling for me when I think about the building coming to life again.
Let me know when she's ready to sell the building for 20k.
Pretty sure she has the money to do what she says she's going to do.
@@chest1988
1. My comment should be viewed as
levity.
2. What makes you "pretty sure"?
3. 10 year time line to completion suggests limited resources.
@@adatshhc what makes you so sure it'll "sell for 20k?"
Heh, yeah, no shit! :)
So cool! I hope she does a lot with that and get the community involved in some fashion. I could see a beautiful thing coming from this. Lord bless them.
Anybody know of the progress? I have a feeling this didn't end up working.
Me neither they probably got shut down by the city or went bankrupt
Shortly after this aired, Covid hit.
@@Rhythmicons Thanks for enlightening me! Can you tell me more about this "covid" thing, I've never heard of it!
@@demilishing The cure for it is to go fuck yourself. Now go race for the cure. The rest of us will settle for the vaccine.
I can tell they’re already wealthy. When this project is completed, they’ll make even more money, with the events held there.
How does she have millions?
What is her source of income?
Generational wealth perhaps 🥱
Awesome! Employing local people that need work is great!
Please update
okay but like that’s gotta be so cool. imagine having a bedroom bigger than half my house. that’s gotta be so cool
Nah big houses are basically asking for the ghosts to come in and enjoy themselves.
Great idea! Wish I would have thought of that...thinking outside of the box...I like it.
something tells me this is a great idea that is not going to work out how she hopes.
Saw an update from 2021, it looks a lot better than it did then, some rooms complete, looks beautiful, though some rooms like the auditorium look the exact same