Agent Laughs At $1 Million Tiny Home, Looks Inside And Realizes It’s No Joke

Dream Come True

He was ready to turn his dream into reality, dipping into his saving and salary to renovate the house.

No one understood. His family and friends all laughed at him, even the agents mocked him when they were supposed to help him. But as the renovations were coming to an end, he realized one glaring truth.

Liam Presley

After the tragic passing of Liam Presley’s grandfather, the only thing he left him was a derelict house in Charlestown, Boston.

Liam couldn’t believe his eyes when he first saw the house. It was like nothing he had ever seen before. The first time he ever saw it, he had to choke back a cry. Not because of how beautiful the house was, but because he felt like his grandfather had betrayed him

A Burden

Liam was the youngest member of the Warren family in Boston. The thirty-year-old Liam was part of an influential family that had their roots in the country’s liberation more than four hundred years past.

Being part of the Warren family always felt like a burden to Liam. He couldn’t stand that his life was constantly under scrutiny from the public eye and his family. But he had no idea that this would soon change.

Life Changing

But despite his irritation, he never took for granted the gifts and privileges that came with being a Warren. He was able to go to a fantastic school and he got a great start in his career as an architect. But soon, something would happen that would change his life entirely.

One evening, Liam wasn’t home when he received a call from his mom. She had some news about his grandfather who had been ailing for quite some time now. Liam didn’t know what to expect as he answered her call. But what he was about to learn would shatter his entire world.

Horrible News

She informed him that his grandfather had sadly passed away. Liam stood frozen in place with his phone pressed against his ear. He wanted to say something, but no words came out. He had always been incredibly close with his grandfather. He idolized him for all of his accomplishments in life.

He decided to become an architect because his grandpa was one. He was the reason why Liam loved everything that came with designing houses. Liam never knew how much his passing would affect his life.

Reading His Will

A few days after his passing, his grandfather was laid to rest alongside his forefathers in a beautiful ceremony. Just after this, his lawyers read his will and told Liam what his grandfather had left him.

When he first heard the news, Liam was furious that he had left him a derelict house in Charlestown. He felt that the rest of his family had all gotten better ends of the deal. But he only realized what his grandpa’s motives were after he visited the place.

Visiting The House

When he went to look at the house, he found that it was a 1,165 square feet skinny house with chipped paint and broken windows. The lawn was a mess and overgrown, he could tell that no one had been there in years. The wood was slowly rotting away and there was no furniture inside.

Liam stepped inside, broken-hearted by what he had left him. Once he saw the inside, he turned around, ready to leave. But just then, he noticed something that made him stop in his tracks.

18th Century

The architecture of the house was unlike anything Liam was used to. That was when he realized that the house was a time capsule from the 18th-century.

His jaw dropped as he looked around himself, his eyes taking in every inch of the place. Everything changed just then and there. He suddenly saw the place in a whole new light. He mentally thanked his grandpa for leaving such a gem in his name. He then had an absurd idea that would turn everything around.

Proving Them Wrong

Liam told himself, “I’ll renovate it, make it a passion project to honor grandpa.” That night, he returned home and set everything in motion. He was going to spend the next two years renovating the place.

In order to accomplish this, he dipped into his savings and salary, putting everything he had into the renovations. His family and friends all laughed at him as realtors told him that he was wasting his time and money. He was going to prove them wrong.

Two Years Later

For months, Liam poured his heart and soul into renovating the house. For all that time, he kept his original motif, going as far as tracking down 18th-century furniture to boost the house’s style. When the renovations got to their final stage, people around him started taking notice.

For two straight years, they had laughed at him and ridiculed his efforts. But during this time, he had always kept his eyes on the ball. He was determined to honor his grandpa the best way he could.

It’s Done

Liam successfully finished the house, creating a time capsule to the 18-century with his design language. By then, he was the talk of Charlestown, a man who’d gone above and beyond to restore a house as an honor to his grandpa, who taught him everything he knew.

The buzz spread throughout Boston, and soon enough, respected realtors came asking to acquire the house from Liam. Would he give it up?

A Million Dollar Reality

The house Liam had renovated was ten feet wide. It fit perfectly with the neighborhood and had the best aesthetics in the entirety of Charlestown.

When he finally decided to sell it at auction, he had no idea how big the selling price would go. By the end of the auction, the highest bid was $1.25 million, a price that left Liam speechless. But there was more.

Celebrating Lost Times

The buyer informed Liam that they weren’t necessarily going to live in the house but turn it into a museum to showcase the town’s heritage. They would populate it with more 18th-century furniture, paintings, and sculptures and open it to the public eye as a landmark site.

Regardless of what they were to do with the home, they would keep its original name. Would he accept such a deal?

The Right Thing To Do

Liam consulted with his family about letting the house go, and they all agreed that he should follow his heart. He’d started this journey angry at his grandpa for leaving him a derelict house, and now it was about to sell for more than a million dollars.

Liam weighed everything and saw it would be best to sell the house. Although he’d grown attached to it over the years he’d spent renovating it, he knew it would be the best way forward. But was this the right thing to do?

Making The Decision

Liam was caught between wanting to keep the house for himself and letting the public have it to celebrate his family’s legacy. As he sat pondering the matter, he realized that he’d felt this same way when he heard his grandpa’s lawyer read the will.

He’d been selfish then, and that wouldn’t be the case here. He called the buyer and set everything in motion, knowing that wherever his grandpa was now, he was proud of all Liam had done. But how had an absurd 10-foot-wide house come to be in the first place?

An Impulse Purchase

Liam’s grandpa was a lover of oddities. When he’d seen the skinny house, he’d immediately fallen in love with it. He bought it on a whim, intending to fix it up and restore it to its former glory.

He loved the house’s strange history and story. But, unfortunately, his ailing health prevented him from carrying out the renovations he had dreamed of.

Unique History

The house was extremely unusual, and it had been built with a very particular purpose in mind: revenge. The man who had built it made sure that he made life very difficult for one particular group of people in his neighborhood.

Placement was very important to Lewis Sharp, so much so that the house was so unpractical that livability seemed like an afterthought.

Peace And Quiet

Lewis Sharp had lived in the 1830s, and was a hardworking man. He loved nothing more than to arrive home from a long day of work, pour himself a stiff drink, and relax for the evening.

But one thing always stopped him from enjoying his peace and quiet in the evenings, and soon he was at his wits’ end.

Spark Of Brillance

Sharp was plagued by the noise of people loitering in the adjacent alleyway, and the sounds of broken bottles and late night brawls would float straight up into his upper-story window at night.

More so, he was sick and tired of the loud clip-clop of the horse-drawn carriages as they clattered under his window. One day, he hatched a genius plan.

Revenge

Sharp began to cackle wildly to himself. He knew just what he would do to stop the infernal noise and get even. But was it legal?

He didn’t care about the logistics, he would do it anyway. He was going to stop the traffic if it was the last thing he ever did. They were all going to pay.

Making Them Pay

Sharp quickly put his plan in action and started to build. The alleyway was narrow, but he would make it work. No wagon would ever drive through here again, he thought gleefully.

He hated traffic, and never wanted to hear it from his window ever again. Then, he ran into a complication.

Historical Stunt

The alleyway was public property, and Sharp was not permitted to build on it. But, he absolutely had to go through with his masterful plan for revenge.

He used his position as a chairperson on the council board to get his way and pull off one of history’s biggest pranks — and leave his mark on the neighborhood forever.

Listing

More than 200 years later, Liam’s grandpa Charlie Warren saw the auction listing for Lewis Sharp’s house and knew he just had to buy it. It was an impractical and architectural oddity, but he had to have it.

He had passed the historic “Spite House” for years on his way to his office, but he was never prepared for what he saw inside.

Unprepared

Many house flippers would advise that redecorating and fixing old houses can become huge complicated projects and eat away at your savings.

Fully aware of this and the fact that he bought this tiny “Spite House” on a whim, Charlie was not prepared for what was to come. Knowing that he was also getting on in years, he just hoped he’d be able to finish what he’d taken on.

Unfulfilled Dream

At the age of 60, Charlie Warren had become so enamored with the “Spite House” that he made the impulse decision to spend all his savings on it. He kept it secret from his relatives and planned to do the renovations himself, but he’d been too optimistic about his health.

Within six months, his eyesight failed Soon after, he was forced to move into a care facility. The skinny house stood crumbling for another ten years – untouched until Charlie’s passing.

Saving Space

Liam had done an excellent job of highlighting the original elements of the house, leaving the brick walls and wooden floors intact.

He had made changes to make the home more space-efficient, such as moving the heating and cooling system to a tiny attic space, and installed space-saving cabinets to accommodate a water heater and even a stacked washer-dryer unit.

Holed Away

The house had a distinctive 18oos feel to it, and is also reminiscent of being in the cabin of a ship.

In fact, it is so similar that Liam considered renting the house out to people who are about to embark on ocean cruises so that they can get used to living in such a small space.

Breathtaking Achievement

Liam stunned everyone with what he was able to achieve. He had dedicated himself to redecorating his grandfather’s house and simultaneously make sure that it resembled the period it dated back to. The results of his achievement were breathtaking.

Not only had Liam honored his grandpa in the best way he knew how, he had made the town a little more magical.

A Monument

The residents of the town all love the house and the Liam enjoyed introducing new people to his humble abode before he sold it. Most people express amazement and the skinny house elicits an immediate reaction.

It’s become somewhat of a tourist attraction and there is even memorabilia like pictures on napkins and cards that show old scenes of the town on the walls.

The House That Spite Built

Lewis Sharp’s stunt to divert traffic was unprecedented. The house he built in the alleyway was only 10 feet wide — 1,165 square feet spread over two stories.

The house was built using the adjacent houses’ walls, and the gouges from the wheels of the carriages that Sharp had hated so much can still be seen on the living room wall today.