Granted, I am 37 and I wish I got started a lot sooner. But, I was a dumb Xennial too busy going to local metal shows and drinking Miller High Life, smoking weed and spending the rest of my money on video games and fast food.
I bought pic related a few years back and have been rehabilitating it in pieces. I live in a somewhat rural area by Florida standards. But I have my choice of 3 different metro areas that are within an hours drive from my home. I bought the pic-related for $10K from a title company who purchased it from the county courthouse. It was a 1970's era single-wide that was converted into a proper home (concrete / 2x4 / 2x6 construction, 16" on center, ie legit) and the square footage was more than double. It came with a mother-in-law suite, tool shed, well /w pump and working septic system.
When I get finished, I will have a 2300 sqft home, stick-built but inland and reinforced for hurricane winds, for less than $25,000.
So I have a home, two cars, a 48v cart to putter the kids around with in my dirt neighborhood, surrounded by fellow white burgers and no debt. AND I'M A NEET.
Frankly, if you live in a place that costs too much to respectfully live, you got to move out of the city-limits. You should do yourself a favor and get on the REHAB LIFE bandwagon. Go get yourself some used tools, look up some Holmes on Homes and various Youtube videos, subscribe to Scotty Kilmer and fix yo self.
The place had been vandalized and abandoned for nearly 10 years. There were 3ft holes in the roof and bats were living inside. I replaced and reinforced at least half of the plywood and rafters (plywood not OSB), installed a tin roof all by myself, delivery and installation. Rinse and repeat to the mother-in-law suite and tool shed. Reconnected pump and ran new electrical wiring / breaker box. Since I live in a somewhat rural area, Code Enforcement was never a problem. I haven't had to pull a single permit. I'm currently building a room addition that will connect said 'mother-in-law' suite to the house and remodelling the back-half which incluces the original 1970's single-wide. All while performing said repairs with my 2nd Gen Dodge Ram that I've driven for the past decade and that remains to be very reliable. Magnum engines are bullet-proof. If I had to, for some reason, live in a car emissions inspection state, it would definitely pass.
BTW, that door is getting moved to the left about 3 feet. What I'm showing you is obviously a work in progress.
Jaxson Diaz
I did the same thing 20 years ago when my wife and I were in our early 20s and relatively poor. Bought a shitty 1890 house on 3/4 of an acre for 39k. Lots of rehab to it. Still live in it after raising 2 kids.
Jayden Walker
Yeah basically same deal. I got 2/3 an acre right now and hopefully buying the 1/3 acre right next door with my Trump Bux. It's never been addressed so I shouldn't have any problem merging the properties together.
Lincoln Howard
Nice brah, good deal.
James Taylor
(((property tax))) ?
William Barnes
why is your antenna so low
Nathan Richardson
It's less than $500 a year. I couldn't imagine spending a half-million on a home like some people do and also have a project ghetto within walking distance. I watched this tiny house hunting show on Amazon. Every single one was much more expensive than my place.
Colton Clark
Tax around here is about 100 dollars a month. If you aren't a homeowner, why are you still alive?
Logan Butler
Bump fellow central Florida X’er
Daniel Morales
you're lying fuck away
Juan Young
That's about to be fixed. I have a telescoping antenna I'm swapping out this one for once I get done building the room. Don't watch OTA much for it to be a priority atm.
Nice...hope ya get it. There are plenty of affordable homes out there, but most people young and old just just want to move in and hook up the TV to watch sportsball and drink beer.
Luke Reyes
nice. id get a scanner and put a discone up there to listen to you local police coms, so you know whats going on around you
Cooper Bennett
That's the goal but i'm not sure how long it'll take to make it >city liver >make OK money but most of it goes to rent >student loans/cc loans (i know) 25 and plan on making more as I age and getting rid of debt but not sure if I can own a home before 35
Aiden Hill
How do you make your money?
Landon Hall
Rent, op is a landlord.
Connor Peterson
Thanks, man. Takes time when you have to do it all yourself, help raise your kids and make room during the day to fuck your wife.
The Chapo's really are trying to turn this into Bizarro communist Yas Forums.
Don't listen to them. It's too easy to live comfy.
>here were 3ft holes in the roof did you get it inspected? sounds like the frame would probably be rotten
Christopher Sullivan
Are you trying to pour water into your house with that deck level?
Jonathan Kelly
I own at 32. There's no reason not to.
People are just stupid and lazy an incapable of saving for a loan because they need the next hottest thing and 40 starbucks drinks a month.
Luke Bell
You're lying a piece of shit. You're not a neet there's so many plot hole in your fucking story it's not even funny. Come on tell the part you don't tell. The way you got your money. Your story doesn add up bucko tell the truth. Also you're shit at repairing things visibly. You're not manual who the fuck do you think you're kidding.
Jaxon Russell
licensed for armed-guard work. But, 3 of my kids are non-verbal. (genetic link to autism /w a positive correlation to being on Yas Forums??). Taking break from full-time work to help raise them (they are still very young) and going to community college.
Bentley Peterson
It was rotten. I replaced the rafters. I inspected with my eyeballs.
Colton Perry
>The way you got your money you're making it seem like it's difficult to get a 10k loan or save 15k over several years
Austin Diaz
Okay, leaf. Maybe shit just sucks in Canada and Florida is way better.
because the person who did it is full blown retarded and it's probably not even the OP he didn post any proof too no timestamp nothing
John Thompson
The title-loan company was buy-to-own. They had a scheme where I had to pay them in full in 3 years or I forfeit what I've paid to that point. I paid them in-full in a year and a half. That's what wives, children and earned-income tax credits are for. Otherwise, if no wife or tax credit for you, don't eat fast food or have too many vices. Now that I'm married I know that all too well. Go get yourself a 10lb bag of chicken quarters from Walmart for $5 and a bag of rice. Work out. Rinse. Repeat.
Where I live (Bay Area) teardown single family homes in white or asian neighborhoods sell for a million bucks.
Xavier Lopez
The door is getting. I already said that up top.
Lincoln Adams
Getting moved to the left about 3 feet.
Alexander Gray
cause its DIY
Sebastian Thompson
Wife, man. Only had kids with my wife. Probably the single bets decision I've ever made. I know dudes that get fucked over /w child support. The money you need to do this.
Grayson Lopez
did you pay 10 for just the trailer or the land with trailer on it ?
Tyler Perez
there's not even 3 fucking feets to put a door you gonna have a fucking hobbit door bro?
Ethan Carter
Inflation will catch up anyway. Do you understand the concept of it?
Look, i know you simpletons dont mean bad and are just looking to cut corners. Im not even saying owning and renting a place out is evil perse. But when buying power is reduced to a certain point and a society degrades overall, when you cant buy land or a house with an average income(and by that i mean BUY on hand not mortgage) you are reduced to a wage-slave with no upward mobility or basic lebensraum. Then you cant be suprised if the populace becomes fatigued and you have been shamelessly fleecing them along with the brrrrr moneychangers. They leveredge human masses and when they go bust, people lime you are there to defend them.
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE WAGESLAVES WITH THE SAME PURCHASE POWER AS FEUDAL PLEBS.
dude whatever province you live in go look at how much trailers cost in rural areas, like 40k (28k USD) when they don't have holes in the roof
Juan Lee
who the actual fuck want to live in a trailer park? genuine question all my friends who ever had mobiles homes were looking fucking sad and even in bum fuck nowhere it's 40-60k you never gonna find a home at 10k 10k would necessitate like 30-40k in reparation to even think about living in it
Joseph Green
Dude. I'm moving the door to the left where It'll be level with this level slab of concrete which is ground-level. The door is a regular full-size door, It needs to be moved. The elevated 2x6 floor you see in front of it is the back of a closet that is being built. There will be no door there any more.
>plywood not OSB over the past six months I've learned the difference from Youtube videos once I got into woodworking (the idea of it, still haven't sawn a board) I just went down the rabbithole of general "tradesman" knowledge there's so much to learn but I feel like I crammed a few years worth of information into a few months because my teachers always had a new video for me If you want to learn practical skills, Youtube is the greatest. Too many people get bogged down in soft skills knowledge like "oh what is the best political system/philosophy/mode of thought" and they listen to 10,000 hours of rambling drivel and learn nothing. I also learn history through Youtube. Trying to get into podcasts too but I'm not familiar with how people find that crap.
Owen Stewart
How much of the neighborhoods got HOA? Can a neighborhood be nice(no crime or any neighbors disputes) with out HOA?
Isaiah Jackson
wait so the door will be lower than the deck? ..... I really have a hard time visualizing a door anywhere listen I know there's a part of the story you don't tell. Stop acting like life is easy when life is a fucking bitch who wait to knock you down at every fucking corner
Henry Harris
>ya or maybe you're a lying retard You're a fucking retarded faggot. Yes you can get run down shitboxes that got abandoned and taken by the government.
Ryder Peterson
Like what happen if one of them will not mow its grass or its driveway will have too many potholes?
Adrian Diaz
its true in canada you gotta clear your sidewalk and mow your lawn yeah whats wrong with that? i dont want to live in a neighborhood where i cant walk fdown the sidewalk and my allergies are constantly triggered by long grass
Easton Lee
Listen here Jack, I'm gonna set you straight. I'll only say this once so listen up, Fat. This door isn't going anywhere. Let me repeat myself, this door isn't going anywhere. Back in my day we didn't call it lower than the deck or whatever; we called it the "concrete floors". OK, here's the deal, Slick. I used to know a guy, went by the name Cornflake Jackson. Ol' Cornflake used to play guitar down at the pool hall. He built a split level addition one year for fun, because that's just the way things were back then, and let me tell you, if Cornflake Jackson says, "It ain't no thang" you can take that to the bank, Buckaroo. That's how I know you're full of shit. I'd punch your daughter straight in the mouth.
me and my wife did 13k down. old house built in the 40s. our mortgage is only ~$560. on the gulf coast but in the city. lots of blacks but the neighborhood is on the edge of gentrification. street is a dead end that connects to a huge public park. feel pretty lucky.
ya'll need to just filter the leaf flag, makes Yas Forums more enjoyable
Angel Turner
>Yes you can get run down shitboxes that got abandoned and taken by the government. That sound like a genuinely good plan. Everyone can do it even when neet. Easy. Just shit money bro. Just profit from government gibs and scam bro. Easy bro. At least your funny for a liar.
Jacob Anderson
Post more pictures, that looks amazing.
Justin Robinson
there's a place called reddit for that or jewbook
David Barnes
The sidewalk imo should be mowed by the city imo. And how come no houses in north America has fence just on the sidewalk line? What if I want to build fence for full privacy? (I'm speaking about mid class suburbs that all look the same)
North American housing too much like molds
Brandon Harris
>I'm a NEET >also I had a the competence, confidence, and ambition to seek out a cheap home and properly repair it without any outside assistance Bull-fucking-shit you're the same type of NEET idiot that browses this board. You probably worked all your life acquiring skills both social and hands on. No way some do-nothing loser goes from being too lazy and despondent to even get basic work to revamping an entire home from the rafters down. You're very obviously exaggerating some parts of your living situation to make it sound like any shit-for-brains who has 0 training, social skills, or real life experience could do.
Pavlov got some of these people trained REAL good. I'm over here telling them how to get their own place, a place they can rehabilitate away from the prying eyes of government.
And they are over here asking about if you get fined for potholes or not mowing your grass. How much property taxes you can fit in this bad boy.
I guess by simply living in a county that doesn't rape you in taxes or seem to give much of a shit or provide many services, you gain a much different perspective.
Yeah you have to go to the school of hard knocks. But I'd rather do what I'm doing than have the government provide me with a free 'apartment' next to all my enriched and culturally diverse neighbors. It's what separates the right from the left. We live in the information age. You can learn to do anything you would need to know to do this for free .
Nolan Rodriguez
Why are you upset? I saved up 12k in the last three months. Maybe stop supporting those failed stand ups on patreon and you can do the same.
