Abandon Comfort
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Saving 🇺🇸 Forgotten Historic Homes Pursuing Freedom over Comfort
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5 years ago I saw this abandoned Log Cabin for sale on Craigslist. I just finished my first full gut build of an 1862 Brick Rowhome and was overly confident I could save this cabin for $100,000 in rehab costs and 18 months of work. It took over $300,000 & 2 years. I worked over 200 days straight at one point of the build. Over $100,000 in credit card debt. No heat, two winters & no running water until the last 6 months. This humbled me more than my first build and I was starting from a much better standpoint as I had actual physical skills now. I was a Financial Advisor with zero real world skills when I bought my first build. The reality is doing a build in the city and doing one in the middle of the woods are very different scopes of work. I had a roofer come out the week I purchased the cabin to deal with the 2 visible holes in the roof. He spent most of the time on the roof with me looking up at the trees that had the cabin besieged. He didn’t even care about the roof. “You need to remove about 2 dozen of these trees ASAP.” Me being the greenhorn I was at the time asked how much does that cost? $25,000! Almost 25% of my rehab budget blown and I still had water consuming the cabin from the holes in the roof and the underground tributary in the basement. In the end I personally removed close to 200 trees. Tons of dead ash trees. One was so close to the house you couldn’t open a window because it hit the tree. Last week the cabin was featured in Architectural Digest for the 2nd time. Now I barely remember the countless nights I spent praying to God to please help me find a way to make it another week. Funny you forget all of this once it’s done.
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My 2nd log cabin build was invested with snakes. Not just any snakes. The most venomous snake in America, the Coral Snake. My 1st log cabin, American Chestnut, whooped me. It made me rediscover my faith. This Cypress cabin in FL was over 1000 miles away from my Chestnut cabin in PA with a totally different scope. I met the contractors one day & they told me they were going to just buck up and burn the logs. I told them I’d just take them off their hands so I can rebuild the cabin on my riverfront land in FL - they happily obliged. I took the easy route on this one and plucked the logs one by one with a tele-handler. I hauled the 50’ logs to our property and built an outdoor shower. These red cypress logs will be the base of our FL Cracker Cabin build. After almost a dozen builds, we are finally building our family a house that isn’t a rental on our dream property.
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