hey everybody shane here and angela and welcome to our channel so today we want to have a very
down and dirty honest conversation about money what everybody loves to talk about as many of you
know who are regular followers of our channel we are working and saving to move our mobile
home from our property here in north carolina to the new property we bought in tennessee so
today's video is going to be about that we're going to give you kind of a status update where
are we on the line of to-do list it's like a mile long and then we're going to talk about
money which should be fun but i think it's kind of necessary and you'll understand why
so first up let's go ahead and give you guys the high level overview what are these steps that's
literally on our list as far as what we're doing between now and living in tennessee full-time
first thing we've got to do is build a workshop which if you've watched our other videos you
know we are going to repurpose this greenhouse back here and make it into a temporary workshop
yep and by temporary it will probably be longer than temporary but it'll be the workshop that i
use for my portion of stuff and tools and my my portion of our small business woodworking
until we can build what will be our dream shop which we're we have big dreams so we'll save those
dreams for later i guess next thing is is we're gonna have some camper stuff that we need to do
since this is going to be a move in the middle of winter it looks like it's going to be what are we
going to do to winterize the camper not a whole lot we're going to add some kind of underpinning
or skirting around the outside to basically stop the wind from blowing under the camper
that should help a lot other than that i want to put our large propane tank out there the
camper so it's a big hundred pound tank and that's probably all i've really got planned
yeah we also need to fix our solar power setup since we don't have power at our property yet we
are going to wait until we get the house moved and get the main power pole yep pretty much
we have to wait until the house is there unless we want to pay for a temporary pole and then pay for
the new permanent pole it's just gonna it'll be a couple of grand if we do that so we're trying to
save in the meantime and we have the capabilities with the solar panels and
stuff like that that we already have yep so there'll be some projects coming up as far as
building a solar panel array or a rack to put them on and also introducing you guys to our off-grid
power solutions how we're going to run the homestead off-grid we've got some
cool things in plan so we think you'll enjoy it whenever we get to share that with you guys
next on our to-do list and this kind of goes hand-in-hand with money is sign the contracts with
the people to move the house we have to have 50 of the total cost to give them to sign the contract
and then the rest is due whenever the house gets moved and the grading gets done
i don't want to sign those contracts until we have all of the money to pay for everything in
case something happens so the time or point when we actually will sign the contract we'll have all
the money by that point yeah yeah same wants to play it safe so we don't want to sign the contract
move the house and not have the money to finish it so we can move back into our home so as far as
when that's going to happen all it takes is money that's what this whole thing is about so we also
have i mean you can see stuff all around we have a lot of things to move a lot of our gardening stuff
things for our animals and just you know mowers and pots and all kinds of other stuff that
we are going to try and take some over every time we go yup that's why we put the trailer
so we can hook it up to the van and take it over and so we have a lot of stuff to move we have a
whole homestead to move we do plus your business my business our business together we have a lot
of stuff along with moving all of the stuff on our homestead it will include our animals
which we have four chickens they're already set up ready to go we've got them in a small little
chicken tractor and then we have our sheep so we've got to figure out what we're going
to do there we're still thinking that we will use a portable fence structure for our sheep
probably a solar powered electric fence we would like to check that out
so it's not a whole lot to move with that again it just takes money i guess
but that's our animal talk at least that's all the animals we have right now so so
while everything else is going on in the next couple of months we are going to be downsizing
as it is the easiest time when you're moving to be able to downsize and get rid of stuff so hopefully
it'll make it easier to move everything when there's not as much to move and i think between
the two of us it's very safe to say sam is going to have to downsize a whole lot more than angela
i hang on to stuff my workshop is large right now and i'm catching it's the new workshop is
going to be very small so yep tool sale but it is what it is so the moving company that's going to
be moving our home is also the company that will be doing our house site preparation of the grading
make sure that it's to proper grade they'll be doing our footers and all that stuff that'll be it
then they'll move the house and then we do the septic tank well we don't right we don't we
we're paying for the septic a lot of you guys have asked us are you gonna do your septic next
as in like real time next no because the tanks are going right beside the home and the whole house
site has to be graded and cut and we just can't install the tanks without the grating being done
we don't really want to mess up anything that was just done whether it be when they do grading and
hit the septic tank or vice versa that type thing so we're just going to wait until the house is
in place and then through the septic so in the meantime are we using an outhouse in the woods
are we doing illegal dumping no we actually have a dump take that we are bringing back to
our property here in north carolina and putting it in our septic tank so i am now smiling nice
because at this point that we're talking our house will be moved which will be awesome right
we'll be homeless living in a camper hey at least our home will be where we are true true
so at that point once the house is moved then we can put on the porches we need to get the septic
hooked up the electric hooked up the power run to us i guess first then the electric hooked up
all the bits and bobbins that i lumped under the phrase of co work your certificate of occupancy
that you receive from the county saying yep you're good you can live in your home that's all going to
be lumped together that'll be stuff that we do as much as possible i am 99 sure that with the state
of tennessee since it is a home we are going to live in we're allowed to hook up our plumbing our
drain system we're allowed to obviously build our decks and everything as long as they're to code
finish out the underpinning but we'll have to hire an electrician to connect the house we also will
have to hire a heating air company to re-hook up our mini splits that's a good point i forgot
about that we have mini splits here we will have to get them disconnected properly move everything
over and then pay to get them reconnected properly as well but it's okay is what it is
all right we're finally done talking about the to-do list and remember that is like seriously
high level there's so much more and we stress out it stress out about it so next thing big thing
when do we realistically think we'll move the home when are we going to move to tennessee
well we're hoping by spring which does put us probably in the middle of winter i'm hoping by
february 2020 february i want to be in tennessee by february so that's what i'm
working with in my head however a little bit of limiting factor which is a whole
money thing yeah we don't have a money tree do we no you're not buried out in the backyard either
no you're not loaded i'm not loaded so uh yeah now we get to talk about money
so that leads to the big question what kind of dollar figure are we talking about
let's actually be honest be truthful and let's talk about some dollars kind of painful it is
going to be 16 000 for moving and grading for our home and then it is going to be 8 000 for a septic
pause we are not able to get a traditional conventional septic due to the soil structure
we've already had our state engineers come out and do our septic permit so that's why
that number is higher than usual if you're a septic ologist continue so that is 24 thousand
dollars that we need to get together that figure is only for moving the house and installing the
septic it doesn't include the porches and steps that we need to build or moving these or whatever
it doesn't include underpinning the home hooking up our heating and ventilation system and hiring
the electrician to connect everything either or finishing out the workshop since all we
have with the greenhouse is the skeleton and we have to have siding and roofing and
we will try and piece together what we can because you know we're like that we try to upcycle and
recycle and whatever we can but that's the reason that we went with getting a camper so we can go to
the property and we can do stuff like the workshop and things do as much as we can now while we're
saving for the big ticket items that we can't do ourselves right so we have to have all that money
but how much do we have saved right now here we go more money talk we have about a third of it saved
we were able to sell okay as of this whole project of getting the property i sold my ford ranger sold
our honda element and i sold the dump truck well i guess we sold it's not all me so we sold three
vehicles to get not only you know down payment not to buy the land or to be privileged to be
indebted to the land but we also were able to put a big chunk or all of the dump truck sale directly
into our savings account waiting for septic but it's also a septic and house move as well yeah
in addition to that a handful of you extremely extremely generous people have helped to
increase that piggy bank a little bit as well so we are at about a third of the way right now
so what kind of income streams do we have we have several income streams because your husband
probably has add so he's got multiple things going on as far as income streams that i'll say
could fund the piggy bank fund the house move because i still work part-time and everything
but that's really living expenses we have this youtube channel does bring revenue from youtube
my woodworking channel does a little bit as well then we have our small business so anytime you
guys buy soap or buy woodworking items from us that right now we are lucky and blessed to be able
to put it into our savings account as well just trying to focus every penny we've got to our goal
so there is all of our normal i guess normal income streams the things we do the things
we've lived on or whatever we have some new things that we're going to start trying and i'll let you
introduce that so one thing with us being a larger channel well i consider us large
er yeah i'm tickled i'm we are very tickled um is that we get all these emails
from other companies asking us to do videos on their products and with this a lot of
times we get a product but they will also pay us for the video while we normally don't like
to do these things we are wanting a way to raise the funds we need without asking for
handouts because we don't like to do that right so this is a way that we can work for the money
and get some cool stuff in return yep now don't worry you're not going to see us trying to pedal
i don't know harry's shaving kit to you because obviously ain't no shaving happening here
or some kind of nail polish is one that i think he said you got or 10
cereal boxes or some kind of organic stuff i mean come on so what we choose to do and it will
definitely be a choice because most of it like we said is junk but it will try we'll try our best to
make it relevant we're not going to do a song and dance for something silly because we just can't
do that so you may see some behind the scenes just everyday stuff for us having fun and not a
project video that's i think that's what you're trying to say i guess it is we're gonna have
some videos come out where it's not 100 project working land stuff we can't do that all the time
i can't do that all the time i have to have a little bit of a break right right some r and r fr
food rest and relaxation
so there we uh we've talked about money and we've kind of given you guys a heads up about
we're gonna do some sponsored content uh i don't know i feel kind of icky talking about it now
but i would rather have had this opportunity to explain to people why we are going to do this
why we are doing this and also let you know that it's i mean it's going to be temporary
mm-hmm unless we get some awesome sponsors like craftsman i'll show craftsman tools all the time
we already kind of do right we have almost their whole lineup
so we just wanted to make this video i guess to give ourselves a clear conscience and to explain
so we don't just cold drop some stuff and you're kind of like where'd that come from yeah i thought
you're working on your tennessee property why are you xyz so plus it would be a place to point
any people who are extra critical i can point them to this video and they can choose whether or not
they want to watch it but we did our part well we have had a lot of questions about well when are
you planning on moving and you know when is this part going to get done and are you going to do a
septic now and so this is hopefully answering some of those questions and give you a better idea of
where we're heading yeah i think it's a good thing to do because we're very honest people we don't
we don't have a fake channel this isn't a stage where we just make videos at a place and uh this
is it i mean you are getting what you see as we are what we is yep there you go you homeschool our
children honey i do the math that's why i do math i have a mathematical mind i'm good on that part
okay i think i've rambled more than enough hopefully we were able to inform you guys you
got some updates answered your questions but if not leave us a question or comment below we will
love to read them we'll try and get to as many as we can thank you for coming along with our awkward
money talk yep sorry thanks and we'll see you guys next time on one of the homesteads see ya bye
see ya what the heck
seriously now i'm gonna have a complex i found a cool little like cadence of an outro well
it was just it was different than your normal ceo see ya
bye
that's it i'm going to fill the blooper reel with all of your mess ups today
i won't have this no my my mess-ups are what was i saying i i don't remember where i was
going with that i did the same thing i'm like grab it where did it go what was that
you