73-year-old pays $370/month to live in a plane he bought for $100k
cnbc.comHe 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...
It has its own wheels. Orange reflective triangle is $19.99…
WIDE LOAD
Probably best to add up the numbers in the article. $100k to purchase, $20k to transport, and $15k to renovate.
I 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]
The article says he paid $100k for the airplane and $120k total.
I 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.
While I like his idea and I think airplane does offer some very interesting advantages over regular house... his looks like miserable place to live.
Wow. It still has the "Olympic Airlines" signage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Airlines
This is history.
There's a few YouTube video tours of the interior if you search for 727 airplane home Oregon.