But fortune smiled upon richard one day when the missouri owner of a log cabin came to him looking to unload his vacation home.
Man bought old log cabin for dollar 100.
Sixty five year old self described hillbilly richard aiken is many things.
Weeks before aiken had posted an ad hoping to find a log cabin at a reasonable price.
With the need to live in the midst of the forests and streams richard aiken purchased the shell of a historical cabin in missouri s ozarks for only 100.
Kaufman also had a hand in the founding of general motors where he worked for 20 years.
Sixty five year old richard aiken can be described as a true renaissance man.
The house was built in 1923 by a man named louis g.
The price was right too 100.
A man bought an old log cabin for 100 and what he did with it made everyone jealous.
Martin s old off grid log cabin 74 early june bug defences duration.
Aiken insisted on paying 100 as a matter of principle.
The financier designed named and constructed it himself.
A man responded to the ad offering aiken a free rotting cabin that was at least 100 years old.
It wasn t much to look at.
There was just one problem hillbilly rich.
He s a husband a father the recipient of two phds and a medical degree an opera singer and an author of the new ancestral diet.
Most of the wood was rotting the roof had collapsed and a tree had fallen.
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When this man bought a cabin in the woods it had certainly seen better days.
When richard aiken visits to take a look he can barely tell where.
A 67 year old man named emil knodell recently bought an old dresser at a yard sale in bellville texas.
In the middle of the woods in rural missouri an old cabin slowly rots away.
Man bought a log cabin for 100 and what he did with it made everyone jealous facts verse.
When richard aiken bought a cabin in the middle of the missouri woods for just 100 it seemed like it would be an easy transformation but it would prove to be an adventure.
This man turned an old wooden cabin into a home.
He immediately noticed the chest for its beautiful marble top and wood finish.