• irkli@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bought a derelict lot of land in echo park, 5 dilapidated buildings, pigeons in everything, the kind of place you hung out as a kid to break bottles and smoke cigarettes. It has been vacant and falling in for 30 years. Everyone thought we were crazy (1999).

    tl;dr pulled up 10,000 sq ft of asphalt by hand, turned one building into a house legally, later outfitted s garage into a sprawling oddball house we rentcto friends.

    Now it’s all grown in, our biggest problem rn is a tree fell over from soaking up winter rain.

    I can’t complain but sometimes I still do.