Family buy £8k abandoned home in Bulgaria to be mortgage free

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A UK family bought a Bulgarian house sight unseen for just £8,000 to escape a lifetime of mortgage debt.  Maxwell, 38, and Leah Jones, 29, from Wales, snapped up the abandoned three-bed in Popovo in January 2025.  Now mortgage-free, they plan to move there with their two kids by year’s end.  Monthly living costs could be as low as £300, compared to £1,300+ in the UK.  The couple, who homeschool and live sustainably, aim to grow food and keep animals.  “It’s a shell,” Maxwell admits, “but we’re up for the challenge.”

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00:00Come and take a look around what we've just bought in Bulgaria for £8,000.

00:05First bedroom.

00:10It's in good state.

00:12Seen a lot worse on the market in Bulgaria for the money.

00:17Some inside bedroom there.

00:23Lovely.

00:25Can walk through.

00:27Gorgeous floors again.

00:30Gonna bring them back to life.

00:34Someone's left a little air.

00:40So cool inside here as well.

00:44Very cool compared to outside where it's roasting.

00:47Back through. Broken tiled floor. Love it.

00:51And then this is the bathroom.

00:53Again, if you've been lucky to get this.

00:57And come down again.

00:58And then this is into the third bedroom.

01:03Get outside.

01:03And yeah.

01:07There's the barn and whatnot.

01:08Look at it. Mega.

01:15Love it.

01:17This bit here.

01:19Best storage in there.

01:20So all this is ours.

01:24Land.

01:26He's clawing back.

01:28Some beds putting in there.

01:30Look at our vegetables.

01:32Our fruit.

01:33Let's get back on to this bit a little bit.

01:39There's Leah getting prickled.

01:43There's the house.

01:44Well, the barn there.

01:46The massive fir tree again.

01:48Oh, I love it.

01:51I absolutely love it.

01:52I absolutely love it.

01:53Thank you for inviting me to be.

01:55So let's start.

01:59All right.

01:59Okay.

02:04Hey.

02:06May I go.

02:07Let's do that.

02:07我要.

02:08I'm going to go.

02:09Good.

02:10Bye.

02:11Bye.

02:12Bye.

02:13Bye.

02:14Bye.

02:15Bye.

02:16Bye.

02:21Bye.

02:22Bye.

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