If you have interest in growing your own food, that clearing looks to get some great sun. Looks like you have room for a nice work shop, and maybe a hoop house for some crops, congrats man! Lucky purchase!
@@gregpickett8816 we just did some work in one just like this a few months ago it was really cool. Except instead of a shop they used it as an indoor pickleball court
Very good job, always impressed with how hard you work. You buck the trend of others from your generation. I hope that you didn't get to much rain from the remnants of Beryl.
This is a huge mistake. Things just kept getting worse and worse as the video went on. The amount of structural issues with this house is insane and the work you will need to put into it makes that $100k price completely outrageous. You just know the owners saw this poor young kid as the perfect schmuck to unload this dilapidated mess onto.
if you have it surveyed, go through the same company and have them build you a topo for a new driveway, you already got the boundary surveyed with that company
A 3 point hitch adaptor with a receiver hitch is NOT going to be better. You need a ball on the drawbar, sized for the drawbar hole and with enough threads to put a real nut completely on the threads.
Have the water tested and/or drill a new well, if it was wide open like that I'd almost guarantee something fell in it and died. There is a really good chance it is contaminated
In certain areas where it's too dangerous to get on the highway you can call the city to help work with you about setting up something so you can get on and off the highway safely...
I wouldn't worry too much right now about the porch railing and whether to extend it to the edge of the new driveway or not. Likely you will reconsider, rethink, come up with other options and ideas, change your mind, and then reconsider all over again about 84 times before you even need to start thinking about buying materials. One step at a time.
@@TractorWrangler01 since the axle is 2 pieces that slide in there’s some play in the tube they slide into so then once the weight is on it it they settle into a mild V shape inside the tubes
Speaking of a sceptic tank, my Mom lives in a Double Wide built in 2001 on a .5 acre lot. They had sceptic problems a couple years ago. Had to buy a new pump and get it installed. The sceptic systems were installed in 2000/2001. I wonder how many years the sceptic systems are good for before they should be dug out and completely replaced generally speaking. Her house also needs a lot of electrical work done, and flooring replaced, and a bathroom totally redone. Central AC unit died years ago, and we just installed window units. Heating system needs to be replaced. She been using space heaters last few years. So much money needed. She Had the roof replaced last year after damage from a storm. She has no drive way. I put in fresh gravel in her 65 foot long drive way in 2020, and it's already all sunk into the ground and grass growing everywhere :(
driveways dont have footers/ you would just need a layer of road base and then concrete on the top, you wouldn't have to rip out the old driveway, you could just dowell into it with rebar. That said I wouldn't have even wasted time on the driveway extension. Don't get me wrong it looks great and I think you did a good job, but I would focus on the house.
@@copernicusvanstruselclit9508 i couldn’t think of the word “form” and said footer instead. I didn’t have room to bring trailers for material and dumpsters for the demo in until i did this
Ya no excuses, do your homework first. Paper cuts, being busy and the sun being in your eyes are not valid reasons not to do your survey or anything else you need to do before you buy. Also be ten times more careful before you marry and lose half or more of your assets because the government and society are all set up against men, so protect yourself at all times young man. In addition, you should have had your boundaries marked with cement markers capped with metal. Congratulations on what I assume is your first house and best of luck to you.
@@marchingmoto Now that you have your own house, you are officially a 9 or higher out of 10. They will try to baby trap you, lie, cheat and steal to get you LMFAO! I'm 54 now, and every 3 or 4 months a 20-year-old will try to get with me because they think I'm rich. Keep on protecting yourself from the blood suckers.
I think you overpaid for it. The housing market will come down at some point. By the time you fix everything and you have invested $50k plus into materials, fuel, tools. Not counting your time. Then you have lets say $150k into it and the market has fallen and the house is only worth $100k still. Then you basically worked for free and lost $50k. That is not even counting the interest rate on your loan. It is a gamble that I would never have taken unless all the houses in that area are around $200k and I planned on living in it for a few years after I fixed it up. Time will tell how much money you lose or gain on it.
I'd recommend that you subscribe to the Essential Craftsman channel and especially watch his series on building a spec house in Oregon. Lots of great information from somebody with lots of experience.
Awesome video! I'm a harbor freight fanatic. I have always wondered about their trailers and that backhoe. Great content! I look forward to more of your videos.
I can see a shop/pole barn going there but to me that looks like a great spot for a garden, too. It's big enough that you could use a garden tractor to cultivate between the rows and space them at 36" or more. If you do home canning and preservation you could feed your family from that plot! With the price of groceries in the store it's at least worth thinking about. With that hill you could also make a root cellar/storm shelter dug into the embankment.
I very much enjoy your videos. You are exactly where I was years ago. I bought a small house that needed work. Eventually got married, had two kids, and sold that house for over double what I paid, because of the improvements I had done over time, little by little. You are on the right track. Keep at it big guy.
Pretty much all houses used to be built on stacked stone foundations. My 1880 house in inner city Baltimore, Md has one, with mortar probably added later on. It doesn’t necessarily seem like an amateur build because of that. I would guess your house was originally built in more like the 1930’s.
Good story. I'm in ohio, my brother is about to buy a big spread in the mountains of PA and this video gives me an idea what I might find there. Probably the biggest asset in taking a charging cougar is speed on your part, Other than that I wouldnt think youd need to biggest cannon in the world. A 9mm with a fmj, shotgun with a slug, I'd even bet ya could stop a cougar with a couple shots to the dome with a 22 rifle. I say because on another video a fairly large black bear that was trapped was dispatched with a well placed head shot from a 22 pistol. Little bullet killed it grave yard dead on the spot.
Plus side about your plot being larger. If you ever find yourself not content anymore with your house or at a point where it costs a lot of money to repair it, you can just build a new one on the upper part and demolish the old one. Switching they layout of your plot to have its garden in front. And that would also come in turn with a relaying the gas/water/electrics since the new house would need them too.
