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73-year-old pays $370/month to live in a plane he bought for $100k
- gardenfelder 4y agoHe spent a helluva lot more than 100k. That's just the airplane, sitting at an airfield. It had to be moved to his property. Mucho dinero...
- postalrat 4y agoThe article says he paid $100k for the airplane and $120k total.
- tpmoney 4y agoI read that as $100k for the plane and $120k to decommission/dismantle and tow it to his property. So 220k total for a hair over 1k sqft. For reference a quick search says that would run you ~300k today in that town and the one property I could find listed with pricing back to the 90's indicates it probably would have been about $100k then.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoIt has its own wheels. Orange reflective triangle is $19.99…
- walrus01 4y agoWIDE LOAD
- clouddrover 4y agoProbably best to add up the numbers in the article. $100k to purchase, $20k to transport, and $15k to renovate.
- lolive 4y agoI stopped reading at "I’m a nerd. I don’t cook, so it’s a minimal kitchen area". [French nerd here. My most important room is obviously my kitchen]
- postalrat 4y agoOn google maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/Airplane+Home/@45.4080368,-123.0078489,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xa535d09ea27adbf2?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1_4XM4Jj8AhW4BzQIHeLvCekQ_BJ6BQiDARAI https://www.google.com/maps/place/Airplane+Home/@45.4080368,...
- desireco42 4y agoWhile I like his idea and I think airplane does offer some very interesting advantages over regular house... his looks like miserable place to live.
- walrus01 4y agoThere's a few YouTube video tours of the interior if you search for 727 airplane home Oregon.
- thdespou 4y agoWow. It still has the "Olympic Airlines" signage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Airlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Airlines This is history.