Came Home to a $20,000 Bill from the City

Are you in Canada?

Are we home?

>> That's right, Pack. We're back in Canada

on our 65 acre property. We bought this

land last year, complete with an

abandoned garage and a cordwood house

sitting on 65 acres. We started with

clearing and taking back the areas

around the house as [music] everything

was left behind. As we were going

through old belongings, we found clues

that led us to believe this property may

once have been a Russian survival camp.

Newspapers written in Russian,

memorabilia, [music] flight itineraries

to Russia, waivers if you came to the

camp, photographs of people holding guns

on our [music] land. Once we realized

what we might have found, our mission

changed. Instead of simply cleaning up

the property, we started clearing deeper

into the woods to uncover more of its

hidden history. [music] And every new

discovery raised even more questions.

Hidden deep in the forest, what appeared

to be a tactical training area, [music]

a shooting range, a creepy room with a

cage and some chairs, a ceremonial

place, and so much more swallowed

[music] by nature over the years. This

year, though, our focus is shifting.

It's finally time to start building our

life here [music] and turning these 65

acres into our forever home. Not long

after we got back, we were hit with an

unexpected $20,000 [music]

charge from the city. We're back in

Canada. We're home. Welcome home.

Just how we left it,

>> but not at all.

>> A semi clean mess.

>> Holy smokes. Everything's grown up

already, though.

>> Yeah, they love the grass here.

>> I love it, too. I kind of want some

areas to feel natural cuz we did so much

dozing and so much leveling last year

and it was kind of just dirt and

everything's green again.

>> Feel like I might have a new garden

area. Look how sunny that opening is.

>> While in Mexico, I might have been on

Facebook Marketplace. You're welcome,

dear. Thank you.

>> Garden beds for Crystal.

>> My dream garden needs to start quick.

Bronto, summer's here. We have so so

much to do here. I'm standing looking

around thinking, "This is the most

amount of work." And I remember last

year everyone was like, "What are you

girls doing? This is like the craziest

amount of work.

>> You're going to be cleaning for 3

years."

>> And you know what? Probably 10. We're

ready though. And I'm so excited to get

back into this project. We have so many

plans. Last year was kind of like a

discovery. We were walking around making

trails, roads, access to the property,

cleaning up. This year is a totally

different story.

>> We're making moves. We're building.

We're creating a home. This is going to

be a crazy year.

>> Crazy year.

>> Crazy year. Let's just walk around and

see what's even going on cuz I honestly

I know what this place looks like, but I

almost forget. Like, it's been so long

since we've been here. And the thing is

is last time we were here, we were

buried in 6 ft of snow, so you couldn't

even see anything anyways. So, I feel

like I haven't seen this since like

October.

>> The bin is still here. But guess what?

>> Want to see?

>> It's a new one. The scary shop. The

trailer we built.

>> Look. Like everything just comes right

back. This is milkweed. Last year we had

to clean up this entire property. There

was garbage and trash everywhere. And

the earth had literally swallowed all of

it. The plants and trees had just grown

over everything. And so we had to pull

all that back. And then when we pulled

it all back, there was just so much

stuff. Like we even found a dump truck

as you know.

>> And we got it running.

>> A dozer.

>> A dozer. I kind like wish we are going

to get started soon. I'm also I just

need to tell you I'm also just so

excited cuz we're going to be living

here soon and I can't wait to live here.

We've been talking about it every single

day. So, it's all dirt. All of it. And

now you can see all these beautiful

native plants coming back. The wild

fire. We can make fireweed jelly if we

wanted. Wow.

[music]

All our buckets. The dump truck back.

We certainly learned how to build a good

driveway thanks to Porter because this

driveway is hard as a freaking rock.

It's so solid. It's really honestly

concrete all over again. We did use

recycled concrete to make this and it

feels like concrete.

>> Oh yeah,

>> it's so solid. And we plowed it. It's

been through it. It's been through the

roughest winter of all time

>> and it's so hard. So this is the perfect

base later when we're ready and we want

to bring in that top layer. It's ready

for that now. Yay! We waited.

>> We waited.

>> Good job.

>> Yeah, it's readying. Like, it looks

incredible.

>> Our favorite sunny field.

I'm obsessed with that area.

>> Everything's looking like the tree of

life fully bloomed, ready to go.

Everything's looking so good. I'm going

through waves of like everything looks

amazing. And wow, I need a I have a lot

of work to do. [laughter]

Look how the forest floor has grown up.

It's covered in all of this.

>> That is gorgeous. It's like a blanket.

>> It's a blanket.

>> Oh my gosh. It looks magical in there.

This whole area was filled with those

big blue mats full of trash. I think I

was in a dozer for probably 14 hours

each day.

>> It's just a contrast to the last year to

come come here and see just trash and

>> some goodies.

>> Some goodies, but lots of

>> Looking at one right there.

>> Lots of garbage. And now it's just like

this. The nature's come back. It's taken

back over and it's

>> nature always wins.

>> As you know, we're still waiting on our

house permit. So, introducing our very

first project.

>> Sorry, we can't tell you yet.

>> No, we can't. It's too good.

>> It's too good. It's probably I think I'm

more excited to do this than the house.

[laughter]

>> Kind of same.

>> Okay, this area was a garden area. And

this is my area that I dozed like

perfectly. Like the grid was just

phenomenal. It's green again. Not sure

what we're going to do. Keep it green.

Maybe the garden area will go here.

Maybe it's going to go somewhere else

now that we have new visions. Part of me

after seeing the land wants to make this

where the beekeeping area is

like wild flowers already growing

perfect. Make a little path in. You

know,

>> it's also like just far far enough away

from the house, just far enough away

from the gardens. This is just magic.

>> The birds, you in the field, the big

trees, the flowers behind you.

>> So nice.

>> It's magic. Look how good the driveway

looks with the green growing up to it.

Oh yeah,

>> that looks

>> notice no weeds on it everyone cuz we

use geo textile. I know weeds can still

grow on top cuz things fly but don't

break my spirit. Okay, right now dove

truck. There she is in all her glory. We

found this. She'll be working overtime

soon.

>> Yep. And this is the very unique

Cordwood house if we all remember.

There's a lot of updates we need to say

about this cordwood house because

originally we had to tear it down. A lot

of it's not permitted, not up to code.

It's an alternative way to build

insurance, mortgages, all of that. They

don't like these. So, we always knew we

were going to be building another house

on this property. We thought we had to

build it on the existing footprint. So,

that means we'd have to tear this down.

To us, that felt very wasteful because

with some time and a little bit of love,

you can make this an additional

dwelling, we personally think. So, over

the last year, we've been fighting with

the city to keep this house as like an

additional dwelling. And not only have

we fought the city, we had to pay them

$20,000. And now we can keep this. We've

had to go through a lot of reszonings

and repering and all this stuff, but in

the end, just to demolish this building

and get rid of it is a hefty bill. So, I

think it makes sense. We've had to rent.

So now instead of paying for rent, we're

going to pay to get this house up and

running so it's safe and livable for us

and it's already started everyone. Okay.

So all of that back and forth and all of

that decision-m with this house has now

moved the house site. We were originally

going to put it on the footprint, but

now we are building it in an entirely

different location and keeping this

house. So, the house site has changed

entirely, which I'm very happy about

because this property, like I said a

million times already, has so much

potential. [laughter]

And I think that there is a better house

site. And this is so exciting for us

because we get to live here now.

>> And that means we get to live here

through construction and wake up every

day on site, which is the dream. This

property is also such a dream. So to be

able to call it home is going to mean so

much to us.

>> Exactly.

>> It's also so great because when we live

here, we will be able to wake up and

just roll to bed and work on the

property. And um you know, even just

work on it all night until we fall

asleep. It's like, you know, it kind of

reminds me of the cabin when we could

just tend to the gardens and do things

all day long. And that's the best part

is being here. And so

>> coming soon, but yeah, lots lots to do

first. But

>> yeah,

>> at least we now have a solid plan.

>> Yeah. One other thing I want to say is

if you know anything about new house

house builds, they take a long time. You

are ordering materials like 2 years in

advance. You're also waiting on permits

constantly.

>> Inspections,

>> inspections,

there's just there's a lot that go along

with it. Things go wrong. Like there's

just it's a whole other can of worms

that we have never done in Canada.

The regulations here are

>> tight,

>> put in place for a reason.

>> We're letting you into our thoughts.

We've been like sitting and thinking

about and talking about all of these

things so much. And I think it's really

important to now give you guys a full

update.

>> You're right by the kitchen. Hey, girl.

>> Our second road. And believe it or not,

this is going to be the driveway for the

main house. So, I have my trail tape in

hand because we did send the city where

we want the main house, but now we

actually need to like mark the main

house in real life. But let's just like

take a moment for this driveway cuz I

feel like we put the most time into this

driveway.

>> This is a massive road, too. So, it goes

from the actual main road back to the

pond, but then it's going to branch off

to the house site because the house will

now be on this side of the property,

meaning that way back over there is

where the Cordwood home will be.

>> Yeah,

>> it'll technically be like I'm probably

going to start calling it the Corwood

cabin or the Corwood cottage. cottage.

Yeah,

>> cuz it's like a cutie little cottage.

How far back do we really want the

house?

>> So, let's be realistic with this

decision.

>> Okay, this is what I'm thinking.

>> Wow, we're thinking the same.

>> I don't think it needs to be so far back

because then you're going to have to be

like clearing this massive thing or

you're going to be like totally in the

trees and you're not going to have a lot

of sun in your house.

>> And I do like the yard. Like I do love

this yard. So, I'm thinking like back

behind that tree there, this big

evergreen is the house. This is in your

front yard. the actual house plans

including the patio 92 by 40 is what I'd

say. I think what we need to do is we

need to just mark the general house and

then we're going to clear like etc feet

back

>> like 2 m more

>> maybe three.

>> One thing's for sure, there's only so

much you can do on the ground with your

feet and your eyes.

>> I really need an aerial view of this

because the trees are so tall. I just

feel like I can't visualize what this

looks like. So,

>> look how thick that is.

>> Drone time. Before we touch an

excavator, clear a trail, or start

building anything out here, the very

first thing we want to do is get to know

our land. And on 65 acres, that's a lot

of walking. The very first tool that

we've been reaching for lately isn't a

piece of equipment. It's not a machine.

It is the anti-gravity A1. We have flown

plenty of drones over the years. Well,

Jazzy has. I'm her co-pilot. I only fly

sometimes. But this feels completely

different. You're not staring at a

screen. You are wearing the vision

goggles and you're completely immersed

in a live 360 view. You turn your head

naturally and you can see everything. So

instead of operating the drone, you are

flying over the property. That's what it

feels like. And so for me as a newer

pilot, it's been easy and fun.

>> Hang on. I'm flying in the sky. Thank

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Part of the reason why it's so easy to

fly is it uses free motion. So, you can

just point the controller in the

direction you want to fly and press the

trigger.

>> Point.

>> That's not real. Am I going up?

>> Yeah. Can you not tell? No way.

>> And then if you spin spin. No. No. Keep

looking up. Keep looking up. Keep

looking up, please. And point. Keep

looking up. And point. Ready? And now

spin.

>> Cool. rather than having to learn the

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which way's down. It's much more

intuitive. There's no steep learning

curve. You can just hand it over to

someone who's never really flown before.

And guaranteed, they're going to have a

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on how to fly the drone, you get to just

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>> Okay, I still have the camera for going

that way. So, bye, guys.

>> 40.

>> You send me on all these ones, eh?

Oh,

my head. Okay.

Oh my goodness gracious.

Okay, cool. I like this. Yeah,

>> this is all super rough, but I do have

to say having an aerial is extremely

help helpful right now to see the

property lines, to see where the pond

is, to see where the corewood house is.

>> Yeah,

>> you just want to know where you are. And

when I'm standing around these big tall

trees, it's so hard to say where I am.

Building a house deep in the woods

sounds amazing, but every extra foot

from the road costs money. longer

driveway, more power lines, more to

snowplow, more maintenance, and the

further back we go, the more trees we'd

have to clear. We want the home to be

surrounded by the woods, but we also

want plenty of sunlight. So, let's meet

in the middle and find a spot that gives

us the best of both worlds. Privacy,

sunshine, lower costs, and fewer trees

to cut down. Perfect. This is definitely

the biggest house we've ever built.

>> I'm wrong.

>> You already can't read the plans

already.

>> It goes a lot more that way. Reading

plans, I heard, is one of the hardest

parts, but once you get it, you get it.

It actually looks a little bit like a

different language when I'm looking at

those plans sometimes. Anyways, now to

mark off the next rectangle.

Perfect. Yellow ties sure are hard to

see.

>> [music]

>> Hey, dozer. We'll be rescuing you very

soon.

PJ's bike.

I missed her. Clementine still has her

chains on the Bombie. It needs some

work. The clutch cable broke cuz it's

clutch was clutch was bad. So, there's

an update on the Bombie. Needs a new

clutch. Anyone know where I can find a

1970s clutch for a Bombader Bombi?

We're [music] wasting no time. It's time

to clear the house site.

>> One, I'm having so much fun. Two, I miss

my excavator so much. And three, really

back on topic. As you can see,

everything I'm clearing right here is

just mostly brush, some little trees.

So, it's actually not too bad.

[music]

>> [music]

>> All of these extra hands and PJ of

course are making some light work. It's

going so fast. House site is all mapped

out. Got the Xavier over there.

Neighbors are here. And now we're going

to go get the good old dump truck.

Heat. Heat.

might have left the battery inside, but

forgot to put it on. It'll charge. At

least I was halfway there.

>> Battery's dead.

>> Hi.

>> Hi.

>> I'll keep going back and forth. So, work

on your brush piles and then I'll work

on this area.

>> PJ back AT WORK. BACK AT WORK. JJ, back

at work. Back at work. JJ, PJ, back at

work. Back at work. Back at work.

This is a very large area that needs

cleared. Approximately 100 ft by 100 ft

and then probably another 30 or ft 40 ft

on the outskirts of that entire

perimeter. And that's because we don't

want any large trees too close to the

construction site or the house. And we

also have plans for around the house.

So, there is going to be a small

clearing on this 55 acres that will

eventually be our home.

Things are looking clear. Holy.

I think I'm just envisioning where we're

going here. At first, we were just

knocking trees and now I can see that

this is going to be our front yard and

the start of the house.

[music]

>> [music]

>> That is a very large load she's got. Oh

my gosh. She's taking out the forest

with her.

>> [music]

>> I cleaned up that area a lot faster than

I thought. That was quick. Obviously,

still got to grade it and whatnot and

push all the debris around. But the big

trees now, they my shalons are going to

I forget how to say it. Are going to cut

them all up in smaller pieces. That way

I can grab them and put them all over to

the field on the left side of us. Let me

tell you, it is super helpful having 65

acres because everything that we're

taking down, we can just keep on site

and burn when the winter comes or use it

for firewood and all that jazz. Jazzy

had the idea to trim up these trees, the

bottoms of them, so that way we can walk

underneath them and mow underneath them.

And just look at how gorgeous this tree

looks.

Can see the trunk.

>> Another tire. Another tire. Another

tire. You'll know why that tire is so

funny if you've been watching the

ex-Russian survival camp. We found about

5,000 tires here. Can you see how much

work we've done today?

It's really hard to capture it because

it's like just

shots of trees being cut and trees being

thrown and trees being dragged with the

excavator. But this behind me is the

proof of the work. It's flat. It's

cleared. Lunchtime. Two things. Wraps

tortillas. Simply not good in Canada

after being in Mexico for almost 5

months. Number two, we were on such a

good schedule in Mexico. We had a little

break at 10:00 and we had lunch at 1:00

every day and I loved that and I always

felt energized throughout the day

because of that and that was all because

of the crew. Can't say we've ever done

that in our lives. And so I'm going to

keep up the tradition. I told Jazz it's

lunchtime. We'll see if she joins me.

But I think what I've learned is last

year and every other year prior to that

I was just running myself dry. And why

was I doing that? Stop, sit down, take a

breath, have some water, hydrate, fuel

up.

Scary. Relax. Relax.

>> It's okay.

>> Shake it in my boots. Mom. Oh, no. It's

okay. Come. Come. Come. Come.

>> Poor girl. I'm so scared.

Well, I guess we'll take that as our

sign that we're done for the day cuz

there's a storm rolling in.

Wow. Large pieces of hail coming down in

the middle of summer. I'm freezing. The

weather just switched from hot to cold

and pouring ice. Ow. Ow. You can't even

probably tell how big these are. Look at

how big this hail is. Oh, such spooky

weather. Massive, massive balls going

down.

Today we're checking out the other half

of our trails. So, this trail leads to

that red cabin that we found in the

woods.

>> What was this?

>> Look, a place to sleep.

>> Yeah.

>> Survival camp.

Wow. Can you believe we got these wood?

>> I know.

>> It's just crazy.

Deer print. Another deer print. Anywhere

that the trails obviously see the sun,

you can see how much grass has grown up

on the trails. Last year, we had all the

trails looking like this. We used a

forestry muler to do it. And I think

we're going to have to do some trail

maintenance soon. Yeah. I actually want

to know what you all think. Do you think

for trail maintenance back here, a bush

hog [snorts] going right through or like

on the back of our tractor or ATV or

something? Or should we use more of like

the bucket on the tractor or a skiddy?

[snorts]

We don't need a forestry mulchure

anymore because well, there's not trees

growing on the trails anymore. It's just

regular maintenance that is easy to do.

Look at that. We're at the red cabin

now. We've officially had a Tyveck

building now.

>> Oh, there's a bird in here.

>> That's okay.

We're not in there.

>> How do we get to this? I have a long

list of projects. [laughter]

>> Okay, which way? This way or that way?

>> If we go that way, we're just going to

be stuck in the field. There's a lot of

maintenance to do on these trails. This

deck definitely got worse over the

winter. Like, this is really doing it.

Oh my gosh. Terrifying.

>> Terrifying. This is all

>> all wet. So, the water was running off

this roof towards the house down the

walls. You can see it. And it's all wet

along the foundation. I bet you can

guess what we'll be doing soon.

>> Yeah.

>> We're moving this deck finally.

>> Yeah.

>> And

fixing this area. Also, like every job,

it's not just take the deck down.

There's 10 more million steps before you

can even take the deck down. like the

sun room. We want to keep the sliding

doors for a greenhouse probably one day

or something. So, we got to deconstruct

that before we deconstruct the garage.

>> Our dump truck's been sitting for almost

6 months. It endured a very long cold

winter. Got some plants growing in the

back.

>> First things first, we need to plug in

the battery.

>> What the

was that? mosquito man.

I just ate it.

>> What?

>> All right, let's see how she looks

inside.

Looks pretty well just like we left it.

All right, got to get the key in. We are

push to start, but we bypass the

solenoid like this. We're in neutral.

Reverse is top left.

There you go. Okay, so we know how to do

this.

After a very long winter,

looks like our girl needs some ether

and maybe some diesel. Maybe some love.

>> Beauty. Anything living in there?

>> Not yet.

Just taking a little bit of air and

water out of there cuz it's been sitting

all winter. Jasmine's about to hop in

the dump truck. And I just need to

remind you all, we just learned how to

drive this thing for just a few minutes

last year. And if I'm going to be honest

with you, I hardly remember how to even

start it or drive it. So, I might stall

it a few times. We might stall it a few

times, but we'll get there. Can I still

drive it? Let's find out. I'm wondering.

She moved half a foot.

Rough start here, kids.

I got it.

Hey,

drove it. Hit a tree. Thought we could

start with this pile.

>> Cross it.

>> Last year we learned that the excavator

and the dump truck is the ultimate duo.

So, we're going to use both today to

clean up all the trunks and large trees

that we obviously can't move by hand and

we don't want to move piece by piece.

We're going to pile them in the back and

do what we do best and dump them. Get

your hands. I'm going to get you hooked.

All it takes, just a [music] simple

look. There's really

[music] some even better way. I got the

thing you're looking for and I got more.

Do you want some of this? Do you want

some of that? Yeah. Well, I got it. I

got it. Do you want some of this? Do you

want some of [music] that? Yeah. I got

it. I got it. Let me break it on down.

>> We're already stuck.

You went over a mountain.

I'll

second load.

[music]

Should we stop and grab those logs on

our way?

>> [music]

>> Heat. Heat.

[music]

>> [music]

>> It's going to sound like thunder. Maybe.

That pile's gone. And now we only have

brush. All the logs have been hauled

over to that field. I love machines.

I've taken so many photos of the

excavator that dump truck.

Oh, this would have taken forever or it

would have cost so much money for

someone to do. I just had to buy an

excavator.

Honestly, feel like the excavator's

already paid itself off. Yeah, it

definitely has. THE LAST log

Wow, it's so clear now. This is the

perfect location for the house.

Boss one and boss two. The yard's

cleaned up. Can I have my paycheck?

Excuse me. Can I have my paycheck? Oh,

wow. That's the best paycheck I could

ever have. Yeah. Yeah. You're so cute.

It's hard to do work with the machines

when it's raining cuz all you get is mud

and then everyone gets stuck and then

you make soup.

Not sure what kind of summer this is.

It's not my favorite. Big trees

or an umbrella for

the couple hours we put in this morning.

We got a lot done again.

It's good thing we're getting here early

because seems to be raining around the

afternoon every day. So,

I guess we'll hit pause for a little

while and see if the sky wants to pause

in a little while.

Some big divots and mud. Let's hope the

dump truck doesn't get stuck now.

Wish me luck, honestly, cuz I have

A whole dump truck full of roots.

Round two.

Just 30 minutes of rain. And honestly,

I'm slipping on these tracks. It's so

slippery. So, I can only imagine this

dump truck with all the weight in it,

too, trying to do it. So, I don't really

feel like playing the pull, get stuck,

pull out, get stuck, pull out, get stuck

game.

We'll go another day.

This is a big route.

Three swipes and she's out of there.

Wow.

The house site is nearly clear. We've

got a lot of cleaning up to do, but

we're going to wait on that because

we're currently in a muddy mess.

>> It hasn't stopped raining, everyone.

non-stop rain out here, but I'm so happy

with how much we've gotten done this

week.

>> It's looking very open and very

spacious. And I can kind of picture a

house on top of all this mud. So, a lot

of what we've been doing is just the

brush.

>> Kind of just working around what's here

on the land rather. We're building the

house around the trees rather than just

removing the trees. Does that make

sense?

>> Yeah.

>> Really happy with our decisions here.

>> Obviously, we had to remove some trees,

but that's what happens. And if you have

any questions about anything we're doing

this week or anything about the house,

>> we kind of dumped on them all, eh?

>> Yeah, this is a lot. We just got back

and we just threw a lot of information

at you. So, if you have any questions or

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>> Did you see this video?

>> I do think the biggest question is going

to be like, why don't you just live in

that house? Why do you need to build

another house?

>> Yeah, I can see that. And I think so

when we first got to this property, the

cordwood house from what we understood

right away would have to be taken back,

taken down. And that's because it is an

alternative way of building. And we knew

right away that the walls would have to

go, the roof would have to go, and it

would be nearly a demolition. So then we

moved on to thinking we were going to

demolish it and build another house. But

then we got permission to keep this

structure and also build another house.

So with that, we are going to keep this

structure, but it is not going to be the

main house. And there's a lot of reasons

for that. And one being that it is such

an alternative way of building. Keeping

heat in is going to be hard. There is

cracks all throughout the walls. And

same with keeping it cool in that case.

>> Yeah, we can obviously do it for 3

years, but if you had to live in that

for the rest of your life, you'd be it'd

be a big big job and a lot more money.

>> It's a going to be a lot. Yeah, exactly.

So, we're not going to put all of our

attention to that house and

>> we're doing it as cheap as possible.

>> Yeah. Super super budget friendly. It's

just going to be an extra

place to stay on the property. And with

65 acres out here where we live, it kind

of makes sense. Uh it's a very large

property and down the road this will be

kind of like the little guest house or

guest cottage that was just always on

the property. We want to honor that it

was like the first structure here and it

is really cool and really old. But it's

just simply it cannot be the forever

house and if it was to be we would have

to take it back to the foundation.

>> People might ask like why don't you just

cover the walls? Like cover the

cordwood, add insulation, put drywall

up.

>> But you can't do any of that because the

walls need to breathe because there's

wood logs. You can't just You're not

supposed to paint it. You're not

supposed to throw drywall on or siding

on because it needs to breathe. It's

very unique.

>> Then all your walls will rot.

>> Yes. and that would be even worse. So,

>> it's just not like a typical house.

>> It's not It's not And it's hard to get a

mortgage on a house like that. It's hard

to get it insured cuz it's so different.

It's not a stick frame. It's not a

concrete build.

>> Even log houses are easier.

>> Exactly. Yeah. This isn't even

considered a log house. Like there's

very few of these homes, which is

another reason why I do want to keep it

and I don't want to tear it down and I

don't want to change it because it is

such a unique

>> place. It's like this funky little

cottage that we can just be there. We

don't have to like do it up to the nines

and bring it up to code. we can just let

it be.

>> Another thing is is like the amount that

we'll put into that would be rent for a

year,

>> maybe even less.

>> So, it's kind of a no-brainer and then

we can live in that for 3 yearsish while

we build this house, which is,

>> trust me.

>> Yeah. By doing these simple changes, we

can live here, save tons of money by

living here, still keep it. It's like a

winwinwin.

>> It makes it's a no-brainer.

>> Our minds have been going through this

and we've been talking about this for

honestly so many months trying to figure

out all the details. And now that we

have got permission to keep it, we're

just going to keep it. We're going to

live in it, keep it simple, and continue

building the house here. Because

honestly, by the time we got this up to

where it needs to be to be able to live

in it for the rest of time, it would

have been like building a new house to

begin with. Everything we just told you,

hopefully you can see and understand why

it makes sense to continue with the new

construction here and keep this house

because I'm very happy we get to keep

it. And and I think a lot of properties

in Canada have these old little homes

that are still a part like when you've

got a property this big, it's likely

that there's

>> all their neighbors have like 10

different buildings on their land.

>> It's true. It's wild actually.

>> So this is our house site.

>> Yeah. It obviously needs a lot more

clearing up as you can see. But there's

honestly no point of doing that until we

get a dozer because we'll have to grade

it, take it back down. So we might as

well just do it all in one go, you know.

>> Yeah. And speaking of dozers,

>> we got one.

>> We might have one

>> in the back 40. Should we go get that

running

>> perhaps?

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