Buying a $27,000 Abandoned Mansion: The Cheapest Mansion on the Internet
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Can't find it? Grind it dude! Welcome back to the brothers workshop! My name is Dave, this is Sean, and today we are headed out to check out the cheapest
abandoned mansion on the internet.
I'm inthe market for a house.
I'm looking for some of the renovate.
As many of you maynot know I'm an architect, and I'm a preservation at heart.
I'm not.
And, he's not.
But, we like to build stuff on thischannel.
Since I'm in the market for a new houseI'm thinking why not buy something that's a fixer-upper? We could bring youguys a lot of content.
So, what we're doing is we're heading out to take alook at this thing today.
As an FYI; I know some of you are gonnabe wondering how much this thing cost.
It was listed for $50, 000 initially.
Tellthem what it's worth now David! Tell them what it's worth? Tell them what it'sworth! It's listed right now at $27, 000.
So, we're gonna go take a look at thisten bedroom mansion that's been abandoned it for the past couple of years, and we're gonna go see if it's something that the two of us can tackle.
If it's aproject worth it, and if it's.
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you know cool enough for us the feature on thechannel.
So, stay tuned we're taking you guys along for the ride.
We out here.
David, what you think? It's not bad.
What's this thing down here? This is lever downhere under the.
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What do you mean? That lever down there.
You don't know what the high beams are? No.
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That's the high beams fam.
Oh, no, no.
I'm sorry you were pointing.
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That's the emergency brake.
That's the high beams down there.
That's your high beams down there on the floor? Oh, I was going to ask about that one too.
This right here? check it.
This is high beams.
Where's your regular beams? Regular beams are right here.
this is the choke, and this is the windshieldwipers.
No cigarette lighter to plug in theGoPro? Whoops! Breaking necks already.
Breaking necks, and cash checks.
I guess old Johnny.
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Oh, hello.
This isn't what I was expecting.
I felt like it'd be a great idea to jumpin with you and give you a guided tour of this mansion.
Now, the listing photosthat you guys just saw; they don't do this justice.
They make it look like it'sa lot better than it is.
The building is actually in really terrible shape.
Iexpected something like that.
Sean expected something like that, butwe didn't quite expect this.
Now it's not like somebody came through andvandalized the space, but as you can see from the front porch it's a lot of time, neglect, and whether that really started to take this building and kind of put itinto the condition that it's in now.
You can see around the front door there's alot of separation between the woodwork and the stone, and even the front dooritself more industrial alludes to a use that was no longer a private residence.
Now opening this gigantic industrialdoor we enter the foyer.
On the right-hand side there is what seems tobe a smaller living room or maybe at some point was used as a bedroom, andthen just beyond that was definitely a space that was used as a bedroom.
Very interesting as you could see ceilings are coming down.
That is blackmold for sure right there in the center of the screen, and we're just going tostep out of there back into that living space.
Which could have been used as anoffice, or something like that.
Or, as kind of a more private space living space forthat bedroom.
Here you can see that the plaster is completely pulled away fromthat wall.
There is some water damage, and water getting into the wall thereexposing that brick.
That's not something that normally happens.
But thatis one main living room and then we're going into a secondary main living room; with a bathroom off and, what is a chapel.
Believe it or notthis building we did find an article that notes that this building was usedas a long-term care facility, so that is a chapel that was probably an additionor repurposed little nook that was utilized for that.
That space we justleft was this a first floor bathroom.
Now we're in what was a sun porch, andprobably used as a dining space when it was the long term care facility.
Againyou've got a lot of moisture problems with that roof hall, and ceiling pullingaway from it.
We've got a storage.
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storage room/facility kind of space.
Right off of that we're heading back into that mainhallway.
Looking out back into the backyard you can see all the way throughthat back porch roof.
That's, that's something that's gonna have to getpulled off right away.
Looking back down towards the front door there.
To the lefthere we go into what is the kitchen, and it doesn'tlook like it's been updated quite a while.
There's a lot of mildew and moldall over the place on that thing.
You can see the sprinkler line running throughthere, and it is in rough shape.
Headed back out into the hallway now.
We'regonna turn left, and look down into the basement.
We did peek our heads down inthere.
It was too dark to get any footage, and it was a lot of mildew and mold.
Asyou can see here that whole ceiling is pulled off, and there is water justpooling.
That's standing water; it's about an inch, an inch of water right there; halfinch of water.
Nice millwork on the right hand sidethere.
To the left here you can see the kitchen, and then to make another left upwhat was the servant's stare at one point up to the second floor.
Now, in thatsame article that noted this as a “long term care facility” it did say that atsome point someone lit a fire in the basement with a mattress, and thesprinkler systems went off.
I do not believe that standing water is thatsprinkler system water.
I believe that there's.
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that probably was cleaned up.
Now, you can see the main stair there, and then going into what is a third bedroom(or second bedroom) on that first floor.
with its own bathroom.
It was definitelya 90s or mid to early 2000s addition.
This room here is in terrible condition.
Plaster pulling away, mold, mildew; as you can see here right in the center of thescreen black mold right there, and it's in rough shape.
Going back out to themain hallway and then we're gonna head up the main staircase here.
Thisstaircase is in great condition.
Actually didn't see too much wrong with it.
Themillwork is amazing, and here you can see what was astained-glass window that somebody pulled and replaced with just sheets ofPlexiglas.
So, that is definitely an issue.
There's thermal transfer, as well as, just the ability of water to get into that because it was not actually sealed.
It's just tacked in.
Here we head into another bedroom (and it's a very largebedroom), and you can see on all the tarps on the floor.
Water just coming in fromthe ceiling there.
Looking out the window you can see that there is abalcony on that off that bedroom, but that all of that brickwork has beenblown out.
Assuming it's from freeze-thaw cycle and poor maintenance.
Back out inthe hallway we're headed into what is; I'm going to call the fourth bedroom.
Youcould see a ton of water damage going on up there.
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there was a little pipe in there, and you can see that is a showerdrain from the bathroom above.
Out this door here there's a balcony off on topof the porte-cochère.
So, leaving this bedroom we head out backinto a main hallway.
Making a left, and we're seeing what was a main bedro.
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We're seeing what was a main bathroom.
This noted on the door as the ladiesroom.
There's a lot of what seemed to be original fixtures in there; cast-iron tub, stuff like that, but as we continue down we're at the fifth bedroom.
With possiblesixth on the back side here.
Looking over there that could be in a sixth, and or, a living space for that bedroom.
Again more water damage on the ceiling.
Thatplaster just pulling away.
Headed back out into the main hall here.
We're gonnalook up the third floor stairs.
As you can see, all of that is covered blackmold.
All of the walls are; all of the ceilingsare.
There's ceilings, chunks of ceilings, missing.
Headed looking back down theservants stairs to the kitchen.
Coming back into that fifth bedroom with thepossible sixth off of it.
Turning left here you have a anotherbathtub/bathroom.
Bathtubs cast-iron, so that's another thing that's possiblyoriginal to the building.
Being on a plinth like that doesn't suggest that.
And, you have another smaller office, or single bedroom.
They're very small, probably not used as a bedroom, but it's good chance it was.
And, then we'relooking at the final bedroom on this floor.
A ton of water damage here, andthat's directly above the space on the first floor that had all of thatstanding water.
So, I've got a feeling that water's coming through here, sittingon the floor here, and then dump it back down to that first floor.
As you can seehere bathroom; that tub is filled with water, and there is no ceiling.
So, a lotof that is also probably coming down through and sitting on that first floor.
And, Kind of with that that's the all the extent we saw there.
We didn't bothergoing upstairs to the third floor.
There was a kitchen two baths, and Ibelieve three or four bedrooms up there as well, but that doesn't really matterto us because that would have to get completely gutted.
All right we're gonnatake one last look down the main hallway, up the main stair on the first floor, and we're gonna head outside to take a look at what's going on around thebuilding.
There's a lot worse condition than just that interior.
As you can seehere; it does have some really cool stone columns, and a fence around it whichis really unique and ties into the building.
Headed underneath the orte-cochère you can see there is a lot of damage on that right-hand side underthat little window here.
I've got a feeling that there's moisture that'sgetting onto that porte-cochère, or water from when it rains.
Then headed downsomehow on a crack between that overhang and the rest of the building.
And, sad tosay but on the backside of that is where you saw all that plaster pull away inthe living room, and that exposed brick.
So, there is a lot of water that'sactually getting into the wall here.
You could see vents for dryers.
The outsideof the sun porch which was probably really interesting atone point, and entering the secondary entrance to the basement.
There was two;that one going into what was labeled the boiler room.
And, the backyard is completely paved.
It was used as a parking lot.
So, interestingenough we did find an article that listed this building as having been along-term care facility.
Not too long ago I was able to find that article.
It alsolisted it as, somebody lit a fire in the basement with a mattress.
Set off thesprinkler systems, and this is like 2012.
So, that caused the sprinkler systems todump, and at one point I believe that was probably the last time I was occupied.
So, it's been sitting vacant for seven to eight years.
In my assumption, you cantell nobody's maintained it.
It takes a while, so that's almost a decade ofneglect.
Especially on this back side.
That porch has got to get pulled off, and rebuilt.
Headed up the stairs here you can see they have done an addition.
Alittle back, back room there, and you can see holes all the way throughthat porch roof.
Now this is not stuff that can't be done, can't be repaired; I thinkit's really kind of easy to fix.
It's gonna cost money, and it's gonna takesome time.
So, that's something to keep on keep on your mind when kind ofattempting a project like this.
Looking back over the rest of the buildingyou can see there's some stone work that needs, and brick work that needs repaired.
The sprinkler system letting out; I don't think that actually ever caused an issue.
I think that water is all from the roof that's sitting in the building.
Now youcan see that neighbor's fireplace actually sticks out in between thosecolumns of the porte-cochère.
I think that might be an issue.
If it's not aissue directly affecting this building it is definitely an issue affectingzoning of the plot.
There's an interesting situation there.
So, with that, I hope you guys enjoyed our guided tour.
Alright! So, that was tour of the mansion.
Not sure if you guys really got a good sense of what it was.
It was a little on the beat-up side.
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I don't know how was holding up.
I was.
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how the heck was that thing standing it? It should be condemned.
Its toothpicks! I want to say minimum, last time somebody was living there wasabout ten years ago.
It has a lot of work that's needed to do.
We're missing a roof an entire section of the roof.
Where you guys saw that bluetarp; that completely missing under the tarp.
So, water isn't pouring in.
And, the entire third floor we didn't get to show youguys that part of the building, but it is covered with black mold.
So, we're gonnaneed a remediation team in there.
I'm thinking it might be a little abovemy expertise, and a little higher $$, but if.
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How many likes we wanna say? If we get one hundred thousand “likes” on his video.
Let's say one hundred thousand “likes.
“I'll straight up by that thing.
I don't care you got a hundred thousand likes onthis video I'll buy that mansion.
That thing was being held up by termites holding hands.
Yeah, termites holding hands.
That was basically what we just saw.
Whatever, we'll leave it up to you guys.
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