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Some of our favorite memories as a couple were renovating our first home together (it even came with a goat 😂). We can’t wait to make more memories with this property! What should we do first? Thanks to MRCOOL for sponsoring this video: mrcooldiy.com

You either love your brother or you hate your brother haven’t decided on that😂😂

The "double pane window" to help in the winter. As a person that owned a '71 trailer, don't try to fix this. Tear this down, savage the copper wire & tubing. Make a plan to start over. If you want to fix it, start by digging along side the basement. The outside of those walls need to be sealed. Cinder blocks & concrete is permeable. New construction involves a vapor barrier between ground & concrete. While you're down there, dig a little deeper to install drain tile along the outside. Also, add 6" to 20" of Styrofoam to insulate.

knock it down and reuse the basement foundation to build a new place. You could then pour concrete into the brick and raise the basement ceiling height to make it usable.

Wasps are best sprayed at night when they are "dormant" for the night.

Tear it down. I'll watch that video

Uh, tear it down. Build an ICF house.

If you want a dry basement, probably need to put a new french drain inside with a sump pump and outside french drain too. Little bit of work but totally worth it.

If a wasp nest is made of mud rather than paper, depending on where it is, you may want to let them stay. Mud dauber wasps are generally chill, they eat massive amounts of mosquitos, and they're the primary predator of brown/black widow spiders. Other than leaving mud stains where they build nests, they're pretty good neighbors.

Reilly...Best "Dancing Ballon Man in Front of Car Dearerships" impression I have ever seen

Knock it down and start from scratch. DIY but do it right! You can't fix the basement with patches. If it were me, and I didn't have guests moving in, I would've opted for land.

Having lived in mobile homes there's not one I wouldn't burn to the ground. The place we're living in now is a manufactured home made in two pieces and it's just as hard to work on. As much as I'd like to be positive I'd take it down and do a container house with a nice garage. I know you'll do something interesting though, so let the projects begin.

Hey guys, thanks for the video. Try regular dish soap and water and spray entire deck, let dry. No more wasp problems. Ordinary liquid soap (10-20%) in a spray bottle works as well as anything I've ever tried when it comes to dropping and killing wasps around the house. Let it dry on surfaces and the wasps will not come back all year. Be sure to remove any old hives as well.

with ants, I use a 50-50 mix of Borax and sugar and add a little watter to dissolve and mix them, then put it next to there nest.

I would rip out all of the carpet personally. Put either hardwood or tile down.

We have power she says, after opening the oven with the clock flashing and the oven light turning on. 😂

*crosses fire ants off the list. the entire southeast falls out of their chair laughing at you. lol

Tear it down, it is plagued with mold everywhere. You will be sick living in that house. The mold remediation and repairs will cost more than tearing it down and starting over.

21:43 This girl is one of those girls who gets more beautiful as she gets older! Man, you are lucky.

This looks like a beautiful property and you have your work cut out for you. I’ve never known a Casey who was afraid of hard work. In fact you embrace it with enthusiasm. It’s a family trait. I look forward to what will be. This is a wonderful gesture for your brother, Courtney. 💕

You guys, this is a knock down! It will be way more effort and money to remodel the existing house!

Pro tip: for the fire ants, get some Termidore for termites, it kills ants too. Once you treat all the mounds you probably won't have a bad infestation again for several years. You can buy it off the internet, read and follow the label as its the law.

They obviously know what they are doing. Anybody else would bulldoze and start new. However this channel is about DIY and this project gives them a boatload of new YT projects to work on. I get it.

Dishwashing detergent (Dawn) mixed with water in high pressure sprayer 2 Tbsp to 1/2 gallon will knock down and kill those wasps almost instantly. They cannot fly once wet and soap breaks down exoskeleton rapidly. Cheap alternative to bee spray and nontoxic. Good luck with new property.

All I can say is RUN‼️ It's moldy. You do not want mold sickness! And you won't want to take the spores home with you. Even without the water... Any previous mold that has dried is still mold. Second, mobile homes depreciate. So they are not worth fixing and that one will require a lot of expensive fixes that aren't super great for return on investment. Sorry to be a downer... But we have learned from sad experience.

Bring in the D8 and level it...build a site build. You will be much better off in the future.

I have been a remoceling contractor and investor for 20 years. I would not even consider tearing this place down unless "I" was planning to live in it myself. I would fix it up with basic but nice ugrades, keeping in mind that it is a rental or a flip.

I for one would watch a full mobile home demolition video (hint hint).

A lot of people are saying to bulldoze and start from scratch, but I, for one, look forward to all the renovations and feel confident yall can do it! I'm so excited for the next step!!!!

It could have been worse. Just a correction: for those of us that live in 'manufactured homes' we do not refer to them as mobile homes. Hitch and wheels removed. As you discovered there are many good things about a 'manufactured home' starting with all that steel under the floor. A lot of TLC and it will be good. Great view.

Your property has a high water table. You're going to need a french drain and waterproofing on the concrete block if you want a dry basement. The presence of cottonwoods are the tell. On the bright side, you probably won't be low on water or power on this property.

The bad part about mobile homes is they are the cheapest built shelter around. I fixed my in-law's place. They spilled some water on the floor. It was 3/4" sawdust glued together. Anywhere the water went it compromised the floor. I had to get it up and replace it with 3/4" plywood. Everything in them is just good enough to get the job done. I don't think it's a knockdown. Just fix what is broken. Don't pour a whole lot of money into it because it'll never be worth much. Clean up around it, it could look like a nice place. If you take the walls down you'll find there isn't much there. Don't use drywall or it'll crack. So far I've never had to replace a wall in a mobile. I was able to make it look nice without replacing it.

My goodness… reading the early comments, there’s clearly a lot of folks that are bitter, envious folks that are subscribed to y’all just to post negative comments. Nice fixer-upper! Y’all are very enterprising and industrious, looking forward to seeing the progress on this project.

You’re going to have to dig a French drain alongside the foundation, clear to the base. Paint the outside of foundation with waterproofing. Put in some rock in the bottom of the ditch so it has a general slope. Then lay drain pipe in ditch (holes down) and finish filling ditch with drain rock. Cover the top of rock with non woven fabric and then grass or dirt or whatever.

Those are called storm windows, they were an upgrade option on all older mobile homes. Well worth the small extra cost at the time.

Finding studs in mobile homes: the faux wood-grain paneling is generally in 4-ft wide panels, so at the seam between two you will see a bunch of little nail heads…then just look in the other panel grooves every 16”

Lots of people are saying knock it down, But Courtney brother is due to arrive on the next day and needs somewhere to live, I guess till he gets sorted, then it can be tarted up and sold. The expense of a rebuild is far greater than the benefits of a quick flip

Moisture problem in Basement...remove Gyprock...inject Acrylic into the Masonry cracks...install a drain inside, cover with Cement..link to a Pit....improve Ventilation...Repaint with Zinc Paint first

mobile home suggestion to excavation around foundation and fench drain and seal blocks walls via water seal and install the dimple sheeting to prevent water penetration and direct water down to french drain

I got hooked on this channel because it was a "This is not a how to channel but a this is a what we do channel" NOT a renovation channel. Some really great content. I'll pass on these vids and come back when you're working on your off grid property.

Nice piece of property. GL with the revamp on the home. Lots of work there. I'd redo all the aluminum wiring and upgrade to copper. Its the major cause of fires in those old home. Thx for sharing.

Hi Courtney and Riley, I live three hours south of you and I have problems with wasps too. Nothing worse than using an aerosol can of wasps spray and the pressure runs out. I use WD-40 in a spray bottle or you can use it in a gallon sprayer. Buying a gallon of liquid WD-40 from your auto store goes a long ways. Waiting for the evening when they are all gathered together is great to get them. Have fun spraying and I love the area you have chosen.

Riley, I ran in to you today at the lake and I'm sorry I called you Ryan. I was just surprised and had a senior moment. Lol. Anyway we are building in the area and follow your show and can relate to what you have gone through while building in N Idaho. Have a great day and we enjoy watching Ambition Strikes.

I know it isn’t video friendly, but wasp control is best done when they settle in the nest in the evening or early morning. You get them all and they are dormant when the attack begins.

Had a mobile home once, happiest day was when I sold it !

Bulldozer bait! 😄

So the abandoned house is not getting bulldozed for the 500k subscriber video? I suppose the basement would make it difficult and more of an excavator job.

This project will keep you busy for some time, but I know you guys will make it look spectacular! Having power and water is certainly a big plus!

That home is almost the same layout, and interior colors as the mobile home I grew up in… the tour brought back some crazy memories…

How close is this to your place? Looks like you're in for some fun!! A new adventure!!

If you choose to keep the refrigerator in the mobile home, it is probably convertible. That is, it can be easily changed from a left-handed door to a right-handed door, making it more convenient for the cook in that kitchen. It's just a matter of removing the screws in the hinges and handles and putting them on the opposite side, which the factory has probably already allowed for.

That title had me worried- Sunday mornings would not be the same without you guys! But I calmed down when I realized who and what you were doing the project for! If anyone can pull off this make over, you guys are the ones!

You two always surprise us with what seems to be impossible made exceptional. GOOD LUCK on this one. A bulldozer seems to me your best choice. Leave the foundation fix that and remove the rest. Put a nice new doublewide up. If you really love your brother dont put him in that dump. Mold will make him sick.

I’m a contractor and I’ve built new homes and remodels. I would tear down the house. I would check the foundation and see if you have appropriate footings. I would build a small open beam house with 1/12 pitch, open loft and maybe shed dormers for more room upstairs. make it really charming with great curb appeal. Try to restrain from trying to take an old double wide and bring it up to livable standards. I’ve done a lot of remodels and it gets extremely expensive and at the end of the day, it’s still an old double wide. Just my two cents. You guys are awesome. Whatever you choose to do I Know it will turn out nice. PS if you need someone to do CAD Drawings, let me know.

That basement is something you'd see in an abduction movie.

A big problem with these old manufactured homes is the walls are made with 2x3 lumber so insulating them well is a problem. One thing that can be done is removing the metal siding then screwing 2x2's to the outside of every stud to make space for more insulation.

Some are saying knock it down. but do that second. Build something first, then knock it down. That way your bro has something to sleep in while building a replacement. He can also provide input and manual labor to the new build.

Awesome investment in your brother and a smart real estate move. Excited to see the progress!

Just spent 2 weeks with parents in their home, in their 80's... that Mini is looking better and better every time I see anything on them. Old home, old A/C unit etc. Heck, they look pretty darn neat for homes in Alaska as well.

Ooohhh. I lived in mobile homes for a few years when I was younger. I never want anything to do with them again. Now "manufactured homes" are a huge improvement.

Most people run screaming from even the thought of using a mobile home especially if you have lived in one. A used one. Ah no.

The land and site are valuable, however the structure has way to many problems. Save the foundation if possible, but remove appliances and reusable sinks, toilets etc. Disconnect the electric, water and whatever, THEN D-8 The Whole Place!!! Have Fun🤠👍🇺🇲

A smallish lot of land OK good on a slope (front of house is about ground level the rear has access to basement) that's a slope! A questionable trailer house/mobile home with a roof over the roof - your not done with the wasps! Soft floors and visible water damage - here we call it mold. I'm with most people fix the basement, get rid of the house build something better. You can re use much of the trailers plumbing and electric outlets and breaker box ect.

Rip it out and put in a brand new double wide for your brother. He will thank you. This screams of a total gut job. The sellers took advantage of you IMO. You would need to go through every inch of this place for critters, bugs, mold, other infestations/problems. The attic is probably disgusting and full of who knows what. The lot seems fine and has potential so start from scratch with the home. Perhaps a 1BR, 1BA with potential to add. Use your container build skills and perhaps do a double container to start with or even an L shaped trailer that could later become a U shape with a center courtyard or garden area (or covered patio/pergola. I would not live in that place for a minute given the mice and bug infestations. (you KNOW there are mice everywhere given the number of traps you found and once they are inside, it's very difficult to find out where they are coming in and stop them).

I'm so excited on what you guys plan for your new property. Goodluck!

Even fixed up, if you sell it nobody can get regular financing. Be prepared. It would be better money spent on a new house worthy of the lot. Beautiful lot.

By the looks of all the mold in the basement , you should probably dig around the outside of it and do some waterproofing first . After that you should probably start in the inside of the basement to disinfect and kill the Rodents and Bugs . Next tear down any bad looking walls . Then step back and look at how much it's going to cost for the rest of the repairs . Whoops , maybe we made a mistake ! ! ! Happy Trails from 🇨🇦 to the 🇺🇸 . ✌ out

The project money bucket will empty before the do-up can be repaired. I agree with most of your other feedback on it. Put him in the container house while building new. Perhaps build a kitset new home on foundations?

Next time you have WASP issues, consider waiting until after dark 😂😊

"Someone was burning documents..." Sweetie, this is going to be a mind blowing idea- if you own a woodstove, you don't need to buy a paper shredder. "The light is broken!" How many millennials does it take to change a lightbulb? A whole generation that doesn't know lightbulbs burn out. Kids, you invite the comedy. A 50+ year old mobile home is worth scrap metal. That foundation/basement might be salvageable, but your sponsor's AC unit is worth more than the mobile home. You are doing the equivalent of fixing body work and putting a radio into a car with a broken frame if you're not fixing the leaks, making sure the wiring isn't aluminum, fixing the floors...

You asked what you should do with the new property…. Run!

The 70's yellow glass in the front door and the green bath and basin are the absolute coolest. I love them. If you get rid of those I'm never watching your channel again. 😉

That was the quickest 26 minutes every… lol

A MONEY PIT THAT IS OLDER THAN ME 🤯🙈🙈🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Those larger trees look like hemlock. But the house either needs alot of love or a D7.

Nicely done. Probably should take it back to the bones and renovate it all the way.

Agree with most folks. Tear it down. Pull the wood stove and appliances. Cooper wire etc. any thing of value. Brother can stay at mini house unless he has family or mom is using until you make this place safe

Was not expecting this project. Looks like a nice neighborhood.

I was watching another RU-vid video the other day and he mixed dish soap with water and sprayed that on the wasp nest. Worked a treat and nice and safe as it's just soapy water.

For your ants... mix equal parts of sugar and baking soda, mix together with a blender until a fine powder. The sweet will attract the ants and the baking soda will keep them from digesting food. Safe solution around people and pets.

Signs of roof leak. Get some elastomeric coating. Ues some sort of membrain like glass cloth. Lay down some 'goop' and then the fabric and again more "goop". I used to fabrics. A thick cotton and fiber glass. The glass lasts longer. Hope this helps.

I would knock it down. I tried it before and watched many others try to remodel a mobile home. It always comes out looking like a mobile home and you spend twice as much remodeling and could never get back what you put into them. Use it as a temporary solution while you build new right next to it. Ground up build, cabin style on concrete piers would be sweet to watch.

Quadrafire is a local (Collville,wa)made wood stove. I had one and it was the best. I got 24hrs out of a single load of oak slabs. I kept it on low. The cool thing to do is to watch the rolling yellow/purple flames that look like clouds of rolling flame. I could watch it for hours

My wife and I recently made a similar purchase. It was originally just an investment property but we actaully saved the little 1974 single wide and now have a renter! I want to do another one!

I agree with some of the comments tear it down replace it with a prefab home or equivalent. The hidden mold and other problems may not be healthy for your bother.

It's gonna be long so a TLDR is: probably a 3-6 month project ONLY working on this property. Starting at the top: Cut back overhanging trees that are in contact or close to the building. Re-do the screws holding the metal roof in place, at least it isn't a steep pitch. If you CAN, lift a couple of panels over where the leaks are visible in the mobile to see if there is visible damage to the original roof. Rebuild that porch/deck before it collapses under someone! Interior: Gut it to the studs, walls and ceiling. This will make it easier to update/repair any wiring and plumbing issues as well as make sure the insulation is up to snuff. I'll be willing to bet most of the original wiring is only H-N with no grounds, that's the way it was in my dad's mobile and his was built late 80's. Get rid of the carpet, this will let you see any subfloor issues before you replace it with laminate (maybe carpet in the bedrooms). Of course the windows and doors need to be replaced. Exterior/basement: The siding for the most part didn't look horrible (in the video). For the following I would recommend getting a professional: Excavate around the basement, waterproof and PERHAPS insulate the basement walls with foamboard. Get a French drain system installed and those air/water gaps sealed. Since it has a (failed) septic system, that HOPEFULLY only needs to be pumped out, it probably also has a well so that needs to be checked out. You might consider putting the pressure tank, filter/softener and water heater in the basement.

The MRCOOL is worth more than that house.....Demo and rebuild on that lot. The lot deserves better.

You have your hands full on this one. Hope your brother likes a challenge too. I wish you the best.

Hopefully your brother likes his "new" DW, the ants for sure love their new couch.

What would I do with that property? Salvage the aluminum, copper and steel then completely remove everything mobile home related! You did such a great job with the shipping container tiny house, this should be a double or triple 40 foot container home!!!

Looks in pretty good shape for its age. Reroof is a good sign. FYI, brake cleaner will drop wasps and yellow jackets quick and costs less than that spray.

Take it apart and begin over. Do it yourself, but make sure it's done correctly! Patches won't work to restore the basement. If it had been just me and there were no visitors moving in, I would have gone with land.

Those are mud daubers, and they are pretty chill for wasps. Not like hornets or yellow jackets. When I went to Maui to open up my MIL's house, there were about 50 mud wasp nests inside. Not one of them bothered me when I walked around in there to set up some flea bombs to fumigate the place, and I was within a few feet under them. What you need is a drainage system around the perimeter below the level of the basement. If the topography doesn't allow that, just scrape it and buy a new manufactured home to be installed above grade. You've got enough property there you could build a solar array that would feed a huge amount of power into the grid during the summer. Net metering would pay for all the electricity year-round to heat and cool the place.

So glad you guys are starting another major project. Following the journey.

I am gonna love watching the transformation

Wow that looks like a nice property with lots of projects to come. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. 👍🏼

Sell it off and concentrate on the property we all love.

I thought this might be the Summer you work on the abandoned house on your property

Get rid of it and buy a new prefab home. Add lots of air exchangers everywhere, especially the basement. If u don't knock it down, add air exchanges upstairs too and atic also

I love seeing a good mobile home rebuild and no doubt you will do it right. Another channel, DIYfferent, has done a few and one that was also on a block foundation and the outcome was amazing. This is a great project!