- After a home flight, Patrick Hutchison traveled Craigslist, hoping to find some of the lost objects.
- Instead, he found a small cabin for $ 7,500 and spent six years and $ 30,000 to renovate it.
- This inspired him to get a full -time editor to a carpenter.
For many, having a house is a major life objective.
This for Patrick Hutchison too – although, for him, it was less a question of having his own place and more of feeling responsible for something, and the accession to the property seemed to be a natural step towards this path.
“But I couldn’t even offer myself a house,” said Hutchison, who worked as editor in Seattle at the time, in Business Insider.
While scouting for viable options, Hutchison tested different filters on the Redfin website, only to trip on the cabins in the woods.
“Then, I sort of forgotten the idea of doing something responsible and I became obsessed with this idea of buying a cabin,” he said.
But not all small cabins are delivered with tiny price labels, and affordability was always a challenge.
So Hutchison abandoned his idea – until his house was stolen. By looking for some of the articles he had lost on Craigslist, he ended up on the lists of cabin instead.
“This place appeared, and he just said” Tiny Cabin in index “and the price was $ 7,500,” said Hutchison. The list “has just shown this small semi-abandoned shell of a structure”, which intrigued it, he said.
A few days after seeing the list, he had a tiny cabin 10 feet on 12 feet in Washington, on the amazing bottom of the waterfall mountains.
What came then was even more unexpected. After renovating the cabin, he abandoned his editorial career, kissed full -time carpentry and wrote a brief on experience, “Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a distraught craftsman”, which was published the last year.
To make bad cuts to the accidentally construction of his dependence on the property of his neighbor, here is how Hutchison’s out -of -network adventures have changed his life – and some of the biggest errors and the biggest lessons he learned in progress of road.
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