Turned Abandoned 60 ACRE RANCH into A SUSTAINABLE Homestead / 4 MONTHS in 45 Minutes / OFF GRID

Watching this couple working together so well and getting so much accomplished sure brought back some fond memories for me. About 25 years ago my late wife (23 years since she passed away) and I purchased five acres of land out in the country to get away from the noise and frustrations of living with wall to wall neighbors. We had an old 27' Allegro motor home that we brought out to the land to stay in when we were clearing the property and to live in on weekends. It was a LOT of work but in a short time we had enough cleared that we could have a house that she found that was going to be demolished to make way for a new four-laned street moved out to the property. That being done, we worked like crazy to get the plumbing and electrical completed so we could move in. Sadly, my precious gift from God did not live to see the project completed, passing away from cancer just three weeks after being diagnosed, but enough that she could have the things she wanted built for it. The one thing I did learn from all of that working together was just how really close we grew every day. I had the best wife and partner any man could ever dream of having. Just seeing the happiness on her face each time we passed another milestone just made me work that much harder to get us into the house and having time to relax together and enjoy it. In the 23 years since she's been gone I have thought about selling the place and moving on but somehow I just can't seem to being myself to do it. There is just so much of her still here. Seeing this couple and how well they work together and the feelings that they have for each other really brought a lot of what we had back to me. I wish this young couple many decades of happiness and health as they work to build their dream together.

I think a housing crash will happen because all those people who bought homes over asking price, although it was at a low interest rate, they are over their heads. They have no equity if the housing prices continue to go down, and if for whatever reason they cannot afford the house anymore and it goes into foreclosure because even if they try to sell, they will not make any money. I think this will happen to a lot of people especially with the massive layoff predicted for the future and the cost of living rising at a high speed.

My wife and I did the same thing, bought a bare piece of land, built a homestead. Looking at this video is so inspiring for others who want to do this and aren't sure they can. Makes me wish we had filmed our journey. You guys did a great job showing how even something that already exists can be turned into a homestead quickly and on the cheap. Helping people leave the rat maze and move closer to nature is a noble aim.

This video is so Inspiring for all young people growing up in this day and age. I pray that as the world be turning that more young folks watch this and get off a cellphone and choose a life like these two. Dude your lady is awesome just as you are. I HOPE ANS PRAY Y'ALL DO THIS, MAKE A GREAT LIFE, AND STAY TOGETHER FOREVER.

I don't know where you live, but not having insulation inside the walls or at least damp proving it might bite you later on. Love the project, you rock guys!

Sheet rock goes on the horizontal, no insulation? Remember when you were cold outside? Good job guys- life is a journey!

2 things.... Wood stove on a wood shelf, and no insulation. Ive built houses for 30yrs, doesn't make scene.

No idea where you two are today, but I promise you won't find any more like you. Love hard, work hard, and fight like hell against anything that tries to tear you apart. Prayers and well wishes for both of you. 🙏

Great job. Critique: Could have forgon some paint or aesthetics in exchange for insulation, easier to add paint than insulation later. I'd rather be comfortable and look bad, than look absolutely awesome 😁 and be cold. Again great job!

Anyone can put up build something but doing it right is on a whole other level

Great video. Reminds me of the project I had about three years ago. My wife and I bought a house from hoarders in June 2019. If you've ever seen that show on TLC (Hoarders), this house could have been an episode. Raccoons had lived in the attic for years and raccoons don't care where they go to the bathroom which meant that there was about 10 years worth of racoon poop in the attic that had to be cleaned out and insulation replaced. Then they had cats living in the house for years. They cleaned out the litter box and put the old kitty litter in the empty kitty litter pails but then they never threw the full pails of old stinky kitty litter away. They stacked them in the basement. There were 22 pails of used kitty litter stored down there. 35 lbs each pail. (That's over 700 lbs of used kitty litter.) It took almost a year to get rid of all the different odors. Because we were on a tight budget and couldn't afford one of those big garbage bins we had to put all the trash in 33 gal trash bags and put them in three garbage cans and two recycle bins each week. All total I estimate that I threw away approx 300 bags of trash and approx 5,000 lbs of recycled paper. The roof had not been replaced until many years after water leak damage had already been done. I worked on the house a lot when the economy shut down for covid (approx 60-70 hours/wk) but had to quit once the economy opened back up. For one, because I was sick of working on the house and two, because I had run out of money and had to go back to working lots of O/T so I could afford the stuff for renovation. But besides being a real confidence builder being able to tackle something so big by myself it has also been a great investment. We bought the house for $5,000 and is now worth approx $235-250,000. I wish I would have taken the time to video all that I did to this house as you did. So many amazing stories about this house project; We took possession of the house on July 10th and the following day the A/C went out and had to replace the unit. One month later the house was struck by lightning. Thanks goodness we had already gotten the house insured because it was $15,000 for that repair. Then there was the ziplock freezer bag my wife found with $1,500 cash in it. And then there was the scanner we found and didn't realize what it was until a guy buying junk furniture from me recognized it, looked it up on ebay where it was selling for $1,900. It is definitely the biggest project I've ever undertaken. You did a great job on this video and on your project. Props to you and your wife for a great job.

It’s great to see a young couple working together so well

You two have no idea how much I envy you doing this. If I was 55 years younger, I'd jump on something like this in a minute. Good luck with this and I'll be dropping back in to see the progress.

I strongly recommend that you trench all the way around the your house and work building and put a French Drain all the way around so when it rains you don't have flooding in the house or work shed. It looks great but don't forget the foundation protections that must be done. The flashing isn't enought!!!

Man what a great woman you got, treasure her with your life man, because our country is not producing such wonderful women anymore, I am widow and she totally remembered me my wife and our journey, wonderful project, really rally wish you the best from the bottom of my heart

I love to watch couples who can do what needs to be done and enjoys it as they learn. Love your progress! What you've done is amazing! Keep it up!

Being a construction worker myself, you all did pretty good job for it being a cheap affordable build.. and gotta say it come out looking pretty nice..

Unbelievable how much you all accomplished in just 4 months! Can’t waIt to see the next few months!

Quick temporary solution for the ‘cold feet’ problem… As someone who has great difficulty in finding work boots in my size, I have had to wear steel-toed rubber boots with no insulation. I now carry two pairs of ‘hand warmer’ brand insoles. They stay warm for a few hours; long enough to get done what I need!

I love everything y’all did to this place. This is my dream property. Y’all work so well together, God bless y’all!