One Of The Ways We Save A LOT Of Money Rehabbing Our Mobile Homes

Look at all this pipe over here, Donnie. >> Uhhuh. >> Dennis has been grabbing me pieces of pipe that he finds. >> And we have got quite a bit. Thank you, Dennis. We appreciate it. >> Mhm. >> We're going to put all this to use eventually. >> That septic pipe over there, too. >> Yep. Now, what why explain why this stuff's good for us, Donnie? >> Well, the whole deal is like if you go to put in a a water line. Okay. >> Like right here is 20 foot of water. >> So when you break off your branch to run over and put your sink in >> Uh-huh. >> right there you go. And it didn't cost hardly anything. >> Yeah. >> Um you're saving a ton of money every time you use one of them little pieces. >> So we're we're gonna talk about building materials a little bit today. Um now we we're buying these mobile homes and pulling them on the lot. They're already plumbed. Why do you need in plumbing? >> Well, 90% of them plumbing's bad in >> what >> the uh like we said before that that plastic of fittings in the pipe, it's no good. And it's a different diameter. Believe that. >> Yeah. >> So, you can't hook this newer stuff to the older stuff. So, a lot of times we just rip it all out and put all new in. So, in our in our mobile homes, a lot of them we get are from late 90s and 2000s. >> Early 2000s. >> The early 2000s. And that was just the time period where they were running that crappy Well, I don't know. I guess it went on past that, too. >> Yeah. It's still going on some >> They put that crappy PVC plumbing in and the stuff gets brittle once it gets a little old. If you move it the wrong way, that crap will snap. Dennis said that Dennis said he had to replace every bit of it in his house, too. >> CPVC and um they make a plastic. It was a PEX to begin with. Yeah. >> But the fittings was bad. >> So, this is PEX pipe. If you don't if you haven't messed with plumbing much, this is the new standard essentially. And it's good stuff. >> Well, now they're changing it again over to B. Is that right? There's an A and a B. >> PEX A and B. Yeah, I don't remember which one's which. >> Anyway, they're switching to the newer stuff and they're wanting you to expand all the fittings to put it in, but you can still use the old fittings in either one. So, we're using old fittings in either one. We're custom ordering the old fittings. >> We don't like new stuff. >> Yeah. So, we're we're doing PEX. So, anyway, we this whole about half of this stack is all PEX pipe. And then we have a bunch more somewhere, too. >> Some brand new rollers. >> Yeah. We had bought some and then Dennis started finding us some. So if you know if we're doing a repair or we're redoing the bathroom, you don't need a 100 foot roll, you you kind of just need a bunch of little pieces, right? So >> yeah, you cut it all up. Most of the stuff, you know, you turn and you turn up into the floor and you come up two foot and you turn out and you need a 3-in piece. >> Yeah. >> So this stuff's excellent. >> So we appreciate him doing all this. So, we're we're going to talk about building materials a little bit because um it ties in with the like the the remodeling that we do and and things like that. So, >> so Friday night I'm sitting on the couch getting ready to go to bed and >> I'm glad you were sitting on the couch. >> I was scrolling through uh Facebook. >> I thought you were going somewhere else with that. >> Scrolling through Facebook Marketplace and a guy pops up with 2x4. >> Mhm. It said just listed. >> Yeah, just listed. You know, sometimes though, if you click that just listed, it can be up to like nine hours ago. I don't like how they do that. >> I don't like But anyway, >> just listed two before. >> Mhm. >> $5. >> Damn, you can buy them in the store for three. So, I sent him a message. What do you want for 2x48s? He said, "Oh, eight footers. I'll take $2 a piece." I'm like, "Huh?" $3.49 at Home Depot. >> That's the old school prices there. $2 a piece. I mean, we're back 2015 there. I'm saving a dollar and a half. I'm almost, you know, 50%. Damn. Okay. So, I tell him I'll come over first thing in the morning. That's Saturday morning. He uh he says, "I won't be around 9:30." I said, "Okay, I'll be there at 9:30." So, I get there at 9:30. He ain't there. >> He's a liar. >> Wasn't he's one of these guys that says that he's got stuff for sale and then you show up and it's fraud. >> So, uhoh, this ain't going to be good. So, about 9:45 he shows up. I said, "Okay." So I got my other truck, my little truck with me and uh I said, "What kind of 2x4? I need some 8 foot 2x4s." So we go in there. He ain't got no 8ft 2x4. >> Yep. >> Talked to you last night about 8ft 2x4s and you now I'm out here 40 miles from the house and you ain't got me no damn 8ft before. He said I got 105 in. >> You were 40 mi from the house. What I like is how the distance got smaller once the deal got better. He was only 15 miles away once the deal got better. >> Well, I was 15 miles away from my warehous. >> See, you could have told him that though. You could have You could have went with the 15 miles. You could have said, "Buddy, I'm 15 miles out of bounds here." But he said 40 miles. >> See how that works. >> 40 miles. >> Okay. Go on. Go on with your story. >> So, we start pulling two before >> the 105s. >> Supposedly the 105s. I start pulling tape measure to the 93s. >> Mhm. >> They're stud. >> Mhm. Uhoh. This ain't good, buddy. These ain't no damn 105s. These are 93s. He said, "Don't worry about it. I got some 105s on the bottom." I ain't moving this whole stack to get to the bottom. I put them on the truck. >> Are they used? >> Nope. So, we started loading them on the truck. >> Oh, look how they got a little mark. That means that they're messed up, doesn't it? >> I did that. I did that. >> Oh, you did that. Okay. >> Right there. The pin. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, we start pulling load them on the truck. So I started loading them. I gotundred and uhund and this stack is 174 on the truck. So what I owe you? He's $300. >> He's one of them guys that can't do math. >> I said, "Uh-huh. Thank you, sir." So I hand him $300 off. So that was the first stack. >> Mhm. >> That's over there. >> Mhm. >> So it looks like this one, though. Yeah, it looks >> if I show them over there, it'll ruin the surprise. >> So then I go, >> it's like this stack right here, folks. >> I said, "Okay, I'll be back in a little bit." He said, "All right." So I come over here and unload. >> I'm going come buy your boat. >> Unload the truck. So I run back over there with my other pickup again. He says, "What you want this time?" I said, "I want them 105." He says, "Okay, let's put 105." So he loads the truck all the way 105. There's 165 105s over there. >> So he done told me $2. So what do you want for them? He said, "A give me 300." I said, "Okay." So now what didn't you about this time start thinking I got too many 2x4s? Now most people would not buy this many 2x4s. You're going to have to explain to some of our viewers. Some of you understand. You get it. But you're going to have to explain to some of the viewers why do you need 350 2x4s? You buy what you see. You don't buy what you want. >> So I say, I'll be back. So I come and offload them and I run back over there >> with the truck this time. >> No, with the other >> truck. >> Oh, no. With the other truck. Well, you was making some quick little runs for being 40 miles away. I was going quick. >> I'm only 15 from here. >> Yeah. >> So I >> Was he asking any questions about how the 40 mile thing was? >> He ain't asking nothing. >> Okay. >> So now I get back over. He says, "What you want this time?" I said, "I want some OSB." He said OSB $12 like45 a piece at home depot >> which is highway robbery I would just like to add. >> I said how much you going to charge me for the OSB? He said you've been a good customer. I said absolutely. >> Yep. >> He said uh >> telling me he's running a little low. >> He said will you will you give me $7? I said I think I will. >> So I go over there and I get 45 pieces. >> Yes. So, what I owe you? >> He said $300. >> 300. So, all of that is stacked over here. Um, we was looking at something else there. So, you see all the 2x4s down there. And there's another set of the 2x4s back there. And then there's B right there. Now, you'll notice that we have been pointing at the truck full of a bunch of the stuff that, you know, was already in the floor. So, I see. Okay, I'll be back. So, I'll run back over here and unload that. And he's by himself, by the way. So he's unloading all this himself. >> Yeah. And it ain't on flatbed. It's on regular pickup. I'm have to manually unload. So I get bright and I said, "Well, it's getting late. I'm going to take this truck." So I break this truck out. I run over there and I get another 17 uh four 2x4. >> Mhm. >> He says, "I give me 300." I said, "Okay." So I get another 45 sheets of OSB. He says, "Give me 300." I said, "All right." He says, "I got some 14 ft 2x4s." I said, "Yeah." He said, "They're in my way." I said, "Huh? What you want for them?" He said, "I'll make you a deal. Put them on the truck." I said, "All right." So, there's 35 of them there. I'll put them on the truck. Brand new 2x4s, right? Ain't nothing wrong with it. Brand new stuff. >> That is a nice two. Don't the Lord love a 2x4? >> So, I put 35 of them on there. They're $9.98 plus tax at Home Depot. I said, "What do I owe you?" There's 35 of them. He says, "How about 50 bucks?" I said, "Absolutely." So, that's how you save money buying stuff. You've got to buy them when you come about them. Yes. I don't need them all right now. Me and Ronnie are considering >> down the road down the road. building a little house or trying to build a little house and uh just see what it takes to build one. >> Yeah, >> we're pretty sure all these numbers everybody's throwing around is >> Yeah, I think so. >> So, uh >> so in our area, talk talk about the house prices in our area >> around here, thousand square foot house >> and we are in the country. We are not in a high I mean it's a this there's nothing wrong with this area. We love this area. It's the It's the best place to live in the world, but it's not an expensive area to buy land. It's not an expensive The taxes are low. Everything's low around here, right? It's not the cheapest I've seen cuz it's You can get lower than here if you go to an area that's like depressed and has crime and stuff like um I Well, I guess I'll call out some names. Over near Chester, for instance, you can get some land pretty cheap because people don't necessarily want to live in near Chester. Heat Springs. Yeah. And there's nothing necessarily wrong with those places, but it's just uh it's it's a little depressed, you know, that things have went downhill a little bit. It'll come back, you know, and good people will make it a good place to live, but we're not in that place. So, you can get land a little cheaper, but this is a cheap area to live. It's not It's not really expensive. But go ahead, D. >> You can buy an acre of land around here for $25,000. >> Yeah. Or or less if you look around. We've bought it for We've bought it for much better than that, but Yeah. 25 right now. It's >> 25. You can get it right now pretty pretty easy. >> Yeah. >> So, with that being said, you put a,000 foot house on it, people want $250,000 for it. >> Yeah. >> So, there's no way that house is worth $225,000. >> Yeah. >> There's no way that house can cost more than about maybe $40,000. What I personally think if I do the work myself. >> And I uh I think the mobile home prices give it away, too. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> a new mobile home is about 60 grand and a little maybe maybe 70 delivered, set up, the whole shebang. 70 grand. >> And we know that the lot price is about 25 grand. So they're in at less than 100red for a mobile home on an acre. They want about 200. >> Yeah. So, >> you know, so it's just >> We're going to try to build one. I think we can build one. Um, so I'm gathering materials and I'm trying to get materials at, you know, third off at least. >> Yeah. >> And a lot of the stuff's coming in at 50% off. >> Yeah. So, this this kind of stuff, we may not use it right now on um on some of our, you know, mobile homes, a lot of times you don't need a lot of 2x4s. We did need some in uh uh that one that we had to replace all the walls inside, >> the one that was convenience store. >> Yeah. And uh sometimes in some of our commercial buildings, but to be honest, in the commercial buildings, we don't like putting a lot of walls in them um because you just chop it up into pieces and people need their own thing, you know. So we like having pretty much one big room or two two big rooms. Um so we don't we don't do a lot of studing out in in a commercial building unless you're dividing it into two places or something. So we don't necessarily need all these 2x4s is the point. We do have one little project we're doing where we're going to build a couple small walls. Um, so we'll need some, >> but they ain't eating nothing. >> Yeah, >> they're not going to go bad. >> Yep. >> And uh I've got a warehouse >> and we got a good deal. I don't believe we're going to get a better deal than that. Um unless we find another guy selling them very inexpensively, but the the price at the store is not going to go back down to $2 a 2x4. I don't believe. >> Yeah, I don't believe it is neither. And OSB is $7. That's 10 years a 12 years ago when I bought this building. I was buying OSB for seven $7. >> Yeah, it was that for a while, you know. Um I I think I saw it get as low as five something. >> Yep. >> It's about the bottom I saw in the last 20 25 years. >> It's not going back to that, folks. Just just regular inflation is going to ensure that it it doesn't go back to that. >> I think it's never going to get back below about $10. Yeah. So, >> even and you know, a lot of the lumber prices, we're not experts on lumber prices or anything, but they're, you know, they're driven by market conditions and and uh the economy and things like that. So, it does fluctuate, but it's they're just if it gets too cheap, they just won't make it. You know, they'll just sit on it or they won't they won't uh produce it for a while. >> The thing I forgot to tell you about these these two before about half of them is 105. >> Yeah. >> Half of them is long, half of them short. Um the 93s are fine in most cases. So >> yeah, we're going to use them. You know, we're going to have some stud walls. And if we if we end up building that home, of course, we will film all of that for you. Uh it would be just a small starter home, inexpensive, so we could rent it inexpensively. >> Yeah. We're going to try to think about it like a twocar garage. >> Yeah. >> And then make a house out of it. >> Yeah. >> Basically what we're thinking >> it's going to be, you know, 800,000 square feet, something like that. something like that. So, we uh everybody thinks that we got all kinds of money and all that. No, we're just >> we're trying to do things smart and save money where we can. So, like our buddy Dennis helping us out here and there with stuff he picks up and uh us finding good deals on 2x4s and lumber and stuff. Um you know, >> and right right here, >> oh yeah, >> buy a whole can of fitting. Those look used, Donnie. >> They're not used. >> Yeah, but you got mud on your sewer, your waist pipes. >> It don't matter. It's just mud. >> It's Why is there dirt on your your pipes? >> Cuz it got dirty. >> I'm trying to be the devil's advocate. Is how people think, you know, >> the brand new pipe? No problem. >> When if if somebody has something like this, people look at it and go, "Oh, what's that? A bunch of used pipes?" No, folks. They don't keep used pipes. That's all brand new stuff that uh you know somebody had sitting outside somewhere and it got mud on it. >> That fitting there is like6 or $7 now. Yeah, >> that fitting's five or six bucks. I paid 50 bucks for the whole the whole bucket. So, you know, stuff like that >> tar paper >> I I bought them for $10 a roll or something. I think it was less than that. I think it's $30 for all of them. But they're $35 a roll now. So, you know, just >> you pick stuff up and hang on to it and whenever like we might end up doing a roof or something and we need tar paper and maybe that's not enough to do it, >> but if you saved a bunch of money on half of it. >> Well, also that's underllayment for hardwood flooring. So, you've got to put it under hardwood flooring. >> And we just we just did some hardwood floor stuff. >> We just did some hardwood flooring. you know, just craziness. Uh, where you can save money like crazy >> if you just look and >> be attentive to what's going on. You can save a ton of money. But most people don't have >> storage is one thing. >> Number one, they don't have storage and number two, they don't have time. I don't believe. Yeah. >> They don't look that far ahead. I think they're, "Oh, hell, I'm building a house this week." you know, >> it also another thing we should mention, I don't want to get too deep into it, but um I'm a firm believer that you don't want to borrow a bunch of money. I don't like debt at all. So, like all the stuff that we tinker around with, we're paying cash for. We're not borrowing money to go deep into, you know, we're going to try to build a house and rent it and all that. I don't like that kind of speculation stuff. So, we're more of the type, save up money, buy the land, save up money, pour the slab, save up money, build the wall, you know, um I just I like that a lot better. So, um I think a lot of people, too, they haven't gotten themselves in that mindset. So, if they're thinking of building a you know, a rental home or or an investment property or something, the way they're seeing it, okay, I'm going to I'm going to spend 120 on it or or, you know, 150 on it. I'm gonna borrow that from the bank and then I'm gonna sell it for 200 and I'm gonna make $50,000 profit. And that's how they see it. We don't think about it like that. We think about it like I've got a piece of property that I bought it inexpensively. I'm trying to invest in it and increase the value of the property. I'm going to build a home on it. So, we see it as like steps where you, you know, you're investing a little bit of money. So, if we do build a house, this is we would consider this money that we've invested in the in the uh in the property instead of going and borrowing money for it. >> Yeah. If you if you spread it out like we do, yeah, it it's probably going to cost 40 grand, 30 grand, 40 grand. >> But if you spread that over two years, >> now you're talking about $1,000 a month. So, you're not, you know, $1,500 a month. You're not talking that much money. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So you can baby steps you can get it. >> And when you're done, you've still got the money. It's invested in the property. So you could sell the property or you can rent the property or or whatever. You know, >> I'm not going to sell. >> Yeah. >> I don't like selling. >> One of these days we're going to have a hell of a sale. >> One of these days we're going to have one hell of >> Oh wow. We're going to be probably running an auction from our hospital beds. >> Uhhuh. >> Trying to get that money before Friday. >> Friday comes too quick, too. But hopefully that'll be a long time from now. >> But y'all, if you like what you see, give us a thumbs up, film, subscribe to the channel if you hadn't already. And uh we'll catch you on the next one. >> All right, folks. So, if you want to see some of the stuff that we've done, like for instance, that mobile home that we had to rebuild all the walls inside, check out this video. It was pretty crazy.