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I Told you I wanted to buy some property in Liverpool and rent it out. Somebody said I was capping. I'm like, okay Well, you see it happen Don't say nothing. No, you cannot get in there since I'm capping All right, let's get into this. This is by CNBC make it. This is just nobody asked me to do this. I'm just watching Yeah, I find it interesting. God damn it. So these were all one-pound houses boarded up a marked for demolition This whole area looked like this five years ago. We had that in Chicago, too We're like, oh, this is in Chicago and in Detroit where they had the one-dollar houses when they just had it I just they have a dollar in my name You know man, and I felt like I was too far away And I don't know what was gonna happen. But like for the Liverpool. I feel like that's home. We could do it I'm talking about Detroit. I was too far away Chicago, I don't know what was gonna happen to that thing if I would have needed I Remember when I was first allowed into the property and I had to sign a waiver to say that I was willing to enter at my own risk There was water in grass the brickwork was crumbling the windows were bricked up It was in very bad condition This is a dollar for real you had to put crazy amount of here, but the loans that are available for renovation. It's like It's alright As long as you go into a bank with a real plan. You're good. I love it It was my crumbling pile of bricks. Welcome to Liverpool UK. My name is Maxine and this is my home I bought for a pound trying to see if she had a gap back there, but now she's just My bear my name is Maxine Sharples I'm 36 and I bought a two-bedroomed house for one dollar in Liverpool UK in 2015 I heard about the home for a pound scheme through a neighbor I was a postgraduate student at the time with nominal savings and thought well I just crossed that bridge when I get to it and applied four years later I received a phone call telling me I was shortlisted for one of the homes for a pound I thought it was a scam so I agreed to give him a pound and be interviewed for a property It turns out it wasn't a scam and in 2020. I was given the keys to my one pound house And now look at you eating drinking tea Probably some biscuits somewhere close today Maxine pays around $337 a month towards utilities and council fees and council tax. It's not bad And 125 months toward her Ikea kitchen Mmm, Ikea came built the kitchen and she put it on like credit. That's tough Smart Is this still a thing? Let me just move because I'm not gonna be reading all day. You get Best edit on the platform. I got it. Don't even worry about it. I'm gonna get down here Maxine I will show you this street now, which you can see next side-by-side Go back. Maxine has a two bedroom Victorian tile house had been abandoned for 15 years. Wow, I Will show you this street now, which you can see next side-by-side What was a one pound house before renovation and what's a one pound house after renovation? One pound house after renovation one pound house before renovation There were several conditions. I had to satisfy. Okay. I had to be living or working in Liverpool not owned a property previously and I also had to have the funds to renovate the property myself This all had to also be done within a 12 month period of time So you couldn't just have it there sitting and on it. It had to be done at a reasonable pace And we had you had to prove that you could do it. Okay, that makes sense 61 49 49 shortlisted my financial situation had changed My father who had passed away had a property that I inherited which I sold Which gave me enough money to then fund the renovations. Is she reading off something or she like For me, I just like terrible I had to flip the living arrangement so that downstairs I have two bedrooms and a bathroom and upstairs is my living in kitchen room So I have my architect. That's how it is in America when you got like duplexes and stuff like that Through all my plans. I was tendering out to contractors. What contractors were available were way over my budget Not only were they Expensive, but they also weren't available to start for six to 12 months So one of the first jobs was to make the house watertight which meant I had to get a new roof Another big job was the structural changes. I was able to remove a lot of the internal walls and ceilings myself I'm impressed that she did this by herself and she was living van life Okay, I was saving about $1,300 a month by living in my camper van I kind of want to do the van Rock-bottom at this point funds were low. I Just gone through a breakup. I was unemployed and I couldn't find reliable trades people to do work So at one point I thought that the house was going to be taken off me and my money would be lost You know, it's crazy. Okay, that's not funny, but You know how there's a lot of immigrants in America and there's probably a lot there too But like you see movies like I used to watch movies and I used to see people like Go to a store and pick people up to come go to work for them for cheap labor Things of that nature. I didn't I thought that was fake. I didn't think that was real until I moved to Florida Like I'm not even lying. I'm so serious right now. There's a home depot like close to me Every morning or every afternoon. There's always a bunch of people standing there. I'm like What's going on here? They look like they was ready to for work, but they wouldn't get no no buses And I would see like one morning. I had seen I think after I dropped my daughter off from school I got off the bus the bus stop right in front of them depot I got out the bus and I seen a bunch of pickup trucks just loading people in I'm like, I Couldn't believe my eyes. This this was real and I don't knock either side of it You know people want people want to get paid You know people got to make a living and people want cheap labor. That's still good You know saying that's tough. I was like, this is real Do they have that in the UK like those scenarios? It's crazy to me though. Anyway down and I want seeing anyone as much I bumped into friends in the park and shared my woes with them and a few weeks later I had a group of friends Bring me back to life came round helped out with the project and really gave me renewed vigor to continue What's the best kind of home security customized I'm not gonna lead live Maxine So I was oh wait, wait, wait, the local council extended the deadline to complete the renovations for 24 months Because I hold a pandemic RIP to everybody who lost a life in the pandemic and things of that nature But the pandemic was your silver lining. That's crazy so I was due to complete in February February 2022 and I was signed off in May 2022 So I'd gone over what you I'd completed the upstairs So I was living in my kitchen for the first six months before I had enough money to complete the renovations downstairs 74,000 on But think about it like you bought this for a dollar you spent 74 dollars That's it's that cheaper. Is that is that cheap in the UK for a home for a whole home 74k Out here 74k is cheap and I'm pretty sure I could have got it for cheaper than that You know Sam before renovations the dining room doorway was here. I like her style Maxine You know, I'm saying I'm supposed to be walking the house, but you know if you still single Instagram's in the description hit me in a deal Bricked it up and moved the staircase to the back of the house In the original layout, this was the living room As you can see, it's just a storage room in order to make the new design work I had to fit a bathroom and a staircase into the existing kitchen floor space We bricked up the back door and I feel it has everything I need The space works pretty well So the old dining room is now my bedroom I feel that the bedroom for some reason I feel like her whole house is just mismatch This is just all mismatch Don't nothing match bathroom. Don't match the room. Don't match. You know, it's big enough It contains a king-sized bed. I renovated the bedroom and completed it with underfloor heating That's why you spent so much Underfloor heating like I removed the window and placed it with patio doors Which gives me direct access into the yard Not quite the what? Give me direct access into the yard. Did Maxine just make up a word? Hey Siri Yardin See she made that up Siri. Don't know what that is I'm pretty sure it's a garden mixed with a yard a yard, but that's that's What's going on? What's up, Jeremy? Not quite a garden more like a work in progress But I've bricked up the old back door as you can see there and repurposed Joyce I have into a seating area flower planters and a bike shed and now for the upstairs Typically in the UK. She's giving me real Mary poppin vibes Mary pop. I don't know what's going on Bedrooms and bathroom are upstairs, but I flipped it. This used to be the bathroom But I've managed to fit a stairway landing and a small utility in here now for my favorite part of the house In what used to be the two bedrooms. We now have this beautiful open-plan space By removing all internal walls of the bedrooms and the ceiling. I've managed to create this double height space Add in a few Velux roof lights And voila, the place is flooded with natural light. Okay, okay Okay, you can sell where she spent most money. She spent money here and these heated floors Being in here is uplifting. It's where I practice my yoga. It's where I read. It's where I chill Where's your couch at? You got a whole hammock in that joint. I feel it. It's your house But you be having company over it all and I'm always not very far from the fridge It's just a free spirit. I'm guessing she's a vegan I've my plants hanging the light in here is amazing and my plants loved being here I've taken advantage of the steel beams and used a i-beam clamp and a chain hoist to hang a chair This is my urban. It's so creative Tranquil paradise spend a lot of time up here Just one time in my life I want to date a girl like that though low-key because I feel like them the type of girls that that'd be correct like Freaky-freaky, you know, man All of these houses. I bet you she can bake really good All her baked goods is a one see around me were Originally in Markford demolition. So not only have they been brought back to life But they've been restored in such wonderful taste in keeping with the area and all the colors as well I like how they've decided to paint The Bay's a different color. So this is a community look like Baltimore It's a little like Baltimore, Maryland community regenerated through the homes for a pound scheme It's so difficult for anyone to get on the property ladder Unless you've got pennies from heaven like I had, you know, I don't take it for granted that without that windfall I would never be able to do this. So I'm overjoyed at being able to live in such a beautiful home that I some See what I be talking about though doors is overrated. She got a nice door, but the framing needs to be redone It should look terrible and me personally on my door. I've never had no glass Not doing it overjoyed at being able to live in such a beautiful home that I put so much blood sweat and tears into It is nice. And if I ever did parts of it leave it would only ever be rented out I don't think I'd ever want to sell this house. It means too much to me. I've invested too much into it to sell it It's priceless Well, Marilyn invest your time into me next You know, Sam take me out the club take me out the trap till I leave a like comment subscribe with God