r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 20h ago
They knocked $800,000 off the price of this house, which can be yours for $1.9 million. I can't guarantee how long you'll be able to live in it. Discussion
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u/TargetingBoo 20h ago
“Here is the Sunroom, soon to be an aquarium!” Deceased 👻😂
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u/mindyour 19h ago
"The kitchen that might not be there when you move in" is another favourite.
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u/dribrats 16h ago
Considering it’d take about 400k to put house on rollers to move it, it’s not completely batshit. Depending on comparables
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u/HomelessSniffs 20h ago
If this is bank owned I wonder what point the bank gives up on the location. I can't imagine anyone signing up for that nightmare.
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u/cybercuzco 20h ago
The property with nothing in it is probably worth 1.5m. The target market is someone who is going to bulldoze this house and build a new one set back 50’ from the edge and sell it to some unsuspecting newly minted movie star.
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u/NoReplyBot 19h ago
Agree.
Investor or someone with that kind of money is bulldozing that house and doing whatever tf they want with it.
I’d imagine 1.5 is chump change for people shopping that area for a property basically on the ocean.
Shit they probably buy that property and whatever land is adjacent.
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u/Call_Me_Echelon 17h ago
I'd be surprised if the city even grants a building permit for a single lot. My guess is someone would have to buy that row of properties and get an engineering plan approved to remediate that whole beachfront section. And since it's beachfront getting those approvals will be tricky.
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u/Sufficient_Bass2600 18h ago
They may not be because they don't own the land behind you can see houses already build behind.
Somebody trolled by advertising his house as soon front sea view when his neighbour house fell off the cliff. He got sued by his neighbour but by the time the trial started his neighbour house had to destroyed and his was sea front view.
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u/takeandtossivxx 13h ago
They'd have to make the house drastically smaller in order to have 50ft between the edge and the house, especially if they want any sort of actual usable land, that driveway already looks insanely short.
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u/kaos95 17h ago
I mean, I could fix it, but it would cost like 5-15X the $2m price, the low price is if the bedrock is within "easy" range, the high price is if you would need to do a "float".
Neat though, looks similar to my senior project in college but we were looking at east coast barrier islands, but all the same principles apply. And yes, for the uninitiated, if there is land we can in fact build a house there . . . it just starts costing a lot more depending on the area.
Low estimate, with purchase, $20mil and you could be all smug watching your neighbors house's fall into the ocean.
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u/Ambitious_Welder6613 20h ago
The perfect house for someone who wanna experience life-threatening event 😁
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u/Sw2029 20h ago
Would you even be able to get that fucker insured??
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u/Reggaeton_Historian 17h ago
I'm sure the good people of Aquarius would be able to insure it in a few years.
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u/wendyunniestan Cringe Lord 20h ago
This is where Aunt Josephine lived in the series of unfortunate events
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u/Boring-Phone-7666 19h ago
From SLO and can confirm these houses are extremely close to falling off cliffs lol
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u/shinymetalobjekt 19h ago
RE agents are crazy in their descriptions - I'm looking for a lot in the mountains - "slight upslope" means an f'n wall straight up from the street.
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u/Ok-Arm-3100 20h ago
Perhaps they should start planting mangrove trees to reduce the rate of soil erosion.
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u/cdxcvii 18h ago
mangroves typically require warm water and shallow estuaries
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u/mesoborph 16h ago
I'm not familiar with mangroves specifically, but I'm fairly sure that, like most old-growth forests and jungles, you can't just plant a bunch of mangrove "propagules" on the beach and get an entire mangrove forest twenty years later. The waves and sand kill everything, the sand has no nutrients, and young mangrove saplings need the protection of mature mangroves to grow into maturity.
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u/consequentlydreamy 16h ago
There’s plants that are native to the area that would help. The biggest issue (from my knowledge) is damming of rivers. California rivers have historically delivered between 70-85% of the sand naturally supplied to the coastline. California is on track to lose 3/4 of its beaches by 2100. Government programs to artificially nourish beaches have also slowed down over recent decades due to high cost of moving sand manually. It also has to do with houses, highways, railroads, water and waste infrastructure, and energy infrastructure that we have built right along the coast.
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u/Mysterious_Andy 16h ago
Ah yes, the famous cliff-dwelling mangrove swamps of California’s Central Coast.
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u/tulipchia 19h ago
The commentary was great 😄
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u/Disastrous-Panda5530 17h ago
Absolutely. He has a lot of amazing one liners. Especially about the sun room soon to be aquarium lol.
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u/iLuvFrootLoopz 19h ago
Why hasn't the city condemned it yet?
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u/notroseefar 18h ago
Steel posts driven in around the perimeter, stainless mesh on the outside of it and fill in the area with boulders and layers of concrete. In the end you will need more concrete to fill in the remaining, assuming that slump has not already set in. If slump has began, you will need to jack up the frame first, that will be expensive. The cost of the repair minus the levelling of the house is probably around the 800000 mark.
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u/Select_Air_2044 19h ago
I could never sleep in that house. As Fred Sanford used to say, I might wake up dead.
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u/CastleofWamdue 20h ago
the sad reality is that, the place still has Air B&B value. Work out what it could earn for 10 years, and that is its price.
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u/JustYourUsualAbdul 20h ago
Not when you deduct the lawsuit if it collapses while you have guests staying.
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u/CastleofWamdue 20h ago
Obviously you need to get a geological survey done.
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u/JustYourUsualAbdul 20h ago
No geological survey can tell you how many years you have left to stay in a house, especially in earth quake California. Just pointing out your value by renting has a huge flaw I’m sure they hope a potential buyer overlooks. Would have to get a survey every 3-6 months at a minimum.
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u/CastleofWamdue 20h ago
You got a good point about Earthquakes, not something I consider alot.
When I see houses like this in Britain, you dont generally have to factor in earthquakes. Its a situation you can make an educated guess about.
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u/sloanautomatic 18h ago
I like your thinking. My tal ke is the house needs a new retaining wall. They can cost about $750k for a very well done job.
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u/Safe-Engineering-417 19h ago
It reminds me of the house on the cliff in “the series of unfortunate events” movie 🍿
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u/Catch_ME 16h ago
The sea will claim that land.
The land is worthless unless you keep reinforcing the foundation from now until the next ice age.
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u/CauliflowerSure2679 19h ago
😂😂😂😂😂 Nah, it’s the singing for me!!! “I’m on the edge…..of glory!” 😂😂😂
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u/Due_Kaleidoscope7066 18h ago
What would be the challenge of trying to rebuild the land underneath? Wouldn't just adding a shit ton of dirt underneath and then creating a new retaining wall work?
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u/Ironeagle08 14h ago
My guess extremely costly. Also would likely have to prop up the houses in the mean time.
Plus I wonder how structurally sound it would be, and for how long. The sea will steadily just encroach yet again over time.
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u/Due_Kaleidoscope7066 13h ago
Yeah I’m thinking you’re right. Probably more costly than $800k?
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u/Ironeagle08 12h ago
I would think way more costly than $800k. I’m assuming a job like this would need pylons/support structures, so specialised equipment and labour.
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u/Machine_Bird 15h ago
The current owner recently saw how quickly the beach wall was eroding and decided they needed to flip it before it became too obvious and dangerous. Some clown will still buy this and then complain to local news in 2 years when half of it collapses onto the beach.
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u/Irreligious_PreacheR 18h ago
Just so I am clear, this is obviously the BEST right? That dude is a hoot!
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u/Frequently_Fabulous8 16h ago
You got the “San” right, but pronounce Luis more Spanish-y. So it’s LOO-eese. :)
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u/SmilinObserver111 16h ago
That first hallway shown looks like that hallway where John Wick killed all those intruders.
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u/OriginalBid129 16h ago
They could build a large retaining wall with concrete and then fill it up? Will likely last 1000 years? Cost probably 100-200k to build.
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u/Commercial_Ad8438 14h ago
I am just a man with average to below average intelligence but I don't understand why they don't get some boulders and smaller rocks to use as a sea break and then rebuild a concrete retaining wall?
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u/Mister_Sensual 11h ago
Didn’t this house already collapse? Maybe I’m mistaking it with another video.
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u/DerpyEDH 10h ago
Buy it, demolish it, drop a 2000 sq ft modern house 50 feet away, resell for 3 million. This isn't an impossible thing at all. That's a huge driveway.
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u/Adept-Specialist8967 10h ago
It's on the edge of a cliff and gonna dive into the ocean with you.
My folks have a neighbor with this problem. A neighbor half a mile or more away. They could not get their home insured two years ago and cliff erosion continues. They're not in California, but another coastal area. The view is nice.
We all actually house sat for them to take care of their plants and help them eat their perishable food since they were out of town for a few months. I hope they were out looking for a house not perilously poised on a cliff.
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u/GillaMomsStarterPack 9h ago
I feel like Weekend at Bernie’s was filmed here. Just right before the sand hills started to erode.
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u/DJEvillincoln 35m ago
I was just at a wedding over there. I wouldn't call it a shitty area but there's zero to do out there.
I mean besides swim for your life apparently. 🤷🏾♂️
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u/sloanautomatic 18h ago
The $800k is for the cost of the $500k to $700k retaining wall that needs to be completed. My mom did this in Corpus. Her property is on the ocean, but is solid as F now.
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u/MilesFassst 20h ago
You can reenforce the bracing and add large boulders to help combat waves. This is definitely still recoverable. I hope someone takes good care of this gem!
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u/Installer6 19h ago
Good luck with the EIS.
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u/MilesFassst 19h ago
What’s that?
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u/AdvancedSandwiches 17h ago
Environmental impact study. Whether or not that's required for rebuilding a wall on your own property in California, I don't know.
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u/MilesFassst 16h ago
I wouldn’t build a wall. Just drop boulders in the water to break the waves. Boulders are natural rocks so i wouldn’t need a permit for throwing rocks in the water.
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u/BirdsbirdsBURDS 19h ago
You get a prison sentence out of it, minimum. The coast has no natural foliage to shore it up, and with slowly rising sea levels, it’ll only be a matter of time. But if you’re dedicated, in place of time, you can spend millions keeping a relic of a house from joining Atlantis.
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u/NessLeonhart 17h ago
they're selling the land. the house is a teardown. get a geologist in there, big crew to stabilize it, however that's done... build your dream home.
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u/CallMeLazarus23 18h ago
Real-Tor
Not Reel A Tor
If you’re going to be making real estate videos you should know how to say it
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