Converting $230,000 Manor House Into A Hotel With NO Experience | Country House Rescue | Abode 

i would like to see updates on all of these clients she has helped just to see how accurate her advice was.

3 cheers for Ruth who helped another family mansion turn around a miserable predicament & make an astounding success out of what always seem like a lost cause hip hip hooray! 👍🏻👏🏻😁 i wish this sweet couple continued success! 😄

I seems that they did do well after Ruth's visit. The update that I read said that they sold because they wanted to retire they were almost 70 so they needed a more laid back life. I applaud them for realizing their dream and turning Gissing Hall around before they sold it. Kudo's to them - they are an inspiration!

William says: "I've never done much of anything in my life". That says it all.

Ruth is NOT rude, she is just direct, sincere and realistic. The owners certainly need a wake up rumble!

Wonderful news for this couple who listened to Ruth's very good advice, turned things around, made a success in the following 18 months and then SOLD it and moved on with their lives! Now new owners, apparently also inexperienced, after a number of disastrous events are trying to convert to apartments. Great show!

For once the couple listened, even Ruth was surprised & I did feel that they weren't hoteliers in any way just as Ruth. The young boy who worked there is absolutely positively beautiful. I always seem to think that these venues would be great filming locations even during the winter depending on the story line.

No love lost between Anne and William and Ruth Watson! Nor any hugs and kisses.

Buisness venues and events in the garden are a bonus too! I think a hotel is too demanding for private owners on this huge property ! Well done William and Ann !

Really nice to watch this episode where the owners take the advise and really show their commitment to change and have a better business.

I hope it all worked out for them. William was rather amusing.

As always Ruth to the recuse!! She's awesome and smart 👏 👌

The Gissing Hall Hotel is accepting bookings for October 2022 when I googled the site, so I guess the whole wedding venue idea js a thing of the past, and the same owners are still pictured.

It's a pleasure watching when owners actually get on board with Ruth's keen and helpful suggestions.

If the article I found online called "Ruth's rescue came too late for us... even though our TV country house now makes £100,000 profit a year" is to be believed, the couple sold the property. They decided they really wanted to retire. I don't blame them. Edited: another article seems to confirm this.

Ruth was wonderful with her suggestion as always!

It's sad that it wasn't kept as a hotel wedding venue. It's so beautifully peaceful.

Some hotels are in remote places, but this one is in a remote, remote, remote place.

And i love the British. We would just have to get on with it. And Crack On! It amazes me as an American that you people keep going no matter the odds. It's no wonder you rule 2/3 of the Earth at one time, or something like that. We may get on with it. We grit our teeth and trudge on too but we complain a lot about it first! 🤣🤣🤣

Heads up to the person at Abode who posts these videos. First, thank you for these! But also, this title misses the mark on the content. It is decidedly NOT converting into a hotel, but instead from a hotel. They are literally told to phase out the hotel aspect and focus on the wedding venue aspect.

I watch these to see Ruth's relentless honesty. She simply confronts what prevents people from succeeding. And she is right more often than not. Ruth! Let's be friends. I love you!

As artists you would have expected a more considered interior: strangely pedestrian and lifeless.

Interesting house and dilemma. 150,000 pounds is a good buy to have paid for that house. Should be divided into suites of rooms so that some could be used to let as is by the purchaser and some could be sold as freestanding mini apartments, independently owned. Those huge and old structures are so costly to update and usage is costly as well. But what a temptation to own.

What on earth ever made this couple originally think it would be their weekend cottage??

Kudos to them for giving this such a good go! Looks like the property was indeed sold not too long after this was filmed. The property now will most likely become apartments.

Very nice, intelligent, modest, open to advise people. Thank you Ruth...

I sincerely pray they are able to get things going and the manor working for them, imstead of against them. These homes were supportive of their surrounding communities and that's what made them work and even thrive. The people lived in houses near the properties that were also owned by the manor houses, then people farmed on their lands, so maybe inviting an agriculture college to use a portion of he estate for a hands on type college experience would be really cool, or a horticulture school with the gardens. That way the attending students could maintain the gardens and property as part of their education? A win win ! I was like with Frank Lloyd Wright did in America, where the students built his house as part of their education and formal training in architecture

Pay professionals to run the castle for you with experience.

Thanks to Ruth for great ideals, but the whole house seemed a little off and cold. I was not a fan of the large tent. The owners were nice people and agreeable to Ruth's recommendations. I hope they chose the right manager. He looked a little young and inexperienced.

Wonderful couple, wonderful Ruth. I wish them great success.

Well done, Ruth! Good luck, Anne and William! You, too, Tom! All the best! I love this series, Ruth! Love it! ❤️❤️❤️

I used to know Anne when she lived in London, worked as an art teacher, creating wonderful abstract paintings in yellow and rented out rooms to students. She used to be a very nice host! The idea of using the money from selling a small semi-detached house in London to buy a big mansion in the countryside surely was ambitious. Anybody who ever lived in a grand historic building knows these houses were built for people who can afford a lot of staff. Further more, these houses consume a lot of money to keep them up and renovation-works never end. Even 30 years ago you should have calculated at least 100.000 GBP from the start to get the building running, so the purchase price of around 150.000 GBP clearly turned out to be a chimera. Unfortunately, I have to agree with Ruth as far as the interior is concerned. The furniture and decorations were simply boring and lack any sense for creating a special atmosphere! Even when the budget is tight I would have expected Anne to be able to create pieces of art. Not the 18th or 19th century antiques would have been necessary, but at least special creations from an artist! Sadly the interior was only looking cheap and dull. Pls dont blame Ruth for being outspoken "rude", she just had to explain to the owners that the house in a far-away location does not have the spirits for many customers to make a detour and wanting to stay there. So I guess it was not only the upcoming retirement but the feeling of getting tired after decades of much work and little success to make the couple to finally sell their back then dream. Nevertheless, to finally get up to 10x the invested money back seems to be a fair reward for the work they did! Good luck to Anne and William!

How lovely these people are. Well done you 👍🌻🏆💕

Absolutely wonderful congratulations. Beautiful

Just lovely! 💐

Peregrine, as in Peregrine Falcon? Wow, that's unique.

Well, that last comment on the preview Was real chearie! on ment about the reaching crises point, and when to expect it!

Love Ruth’s necklaces

The British and their carpeting lol

I always enjoy these episodes but find the background music over-powering.

Did William get attacked by a lion? His neck and face was scratched badly.

Just thinking about the amount of work required to run this place has made me tired. It's time for a nap 😴!

230.000 ? Its a steal 😂

If this is a cold or coldest winter I would hate for them to have to live through one of our winters. There isn't any snow guys, or massive icicles hanging from the buildings. This isn't winter, it's Spring.

what did he shave with a steak knive

I think they should have got in Alex polizzzi.

PISSING HALL🤣

Amazing prices i purchased a regular two bedroom in California back in 1983 for 102,000. i believe the pound against the u.s. dollar is pretty even or not?

I had a better bridal suite at the Ramada Inn!!! I would just cry if i had tp spend any part of my honeymoon in that place.

Gabe up on your videos....Extreme amounts of advertising that disrupt the show far too often.

I don’t understand the dark wire string lights when white string lights are the same price and wood look much better!

"I have to use my brain"...yes! not kindergarden forever!

I dislike all the automatic door closers on an antique door. Very tacky

I know the show is 20 years old but cmon 230k? Thats a bit too little no?

“Physician, heal thyself”… She downplays THEIR design sense while maintaining her own never-changing massive-overcoats-with-massive bead necklaces and baggy pants. Maybe a redesign is in order there?

Ruth looks at a room filled with gorgeous antiques that would be a delight to look at but to her it's "well below par". Ruth has her mind made up that whatever is behind the door, it's not going to be good enough.

Sorry to say, way too many commercials! JIM 😮

stop with the dark blue or red carpets, UK! this house was built long ago..... refinish the hardwood floors underneath! and put lovely rugs down here and there! It's a country house for goodness sakes!

to many ads and every show is from 2009!

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Ya know, when you own a property like this that requires 24/7/325 maintenance, you can't hide every single bit of construction material. Get real. People understand this. If you want to have a magical experience on a beautiful property and are blind to this fact, it's best you go to Disneyland.

I'm done sitting tight for the award advance since i acquire$23,000 every 12 days of my investment.

Design is definitely a problem throughout the whole episode. Awful decor…the awfully dressed chap is only a wedding adviser, not a designer

Typical middle class Brits with upper class aspirations. They want a big house to play landed gentry but haven’t got enough cash for the upkeep so they take in paying guests. Then they realise paying guests are demanding, oh didums.

Horrible music

Your intro sounds like a sniffing dog.

THAT'S a designer???? Unbelievably unprofessional looking. Ugh.

Sorry Ruth but your incessant rudeness has caused me to sign off of your series. You can give good ideas but you don’t nerd to try to outdo your meanness. It is very unattractive and hurtful.

RUTH IS CRUEL.