It goes without saying for superfans to want a piece of film and television history – from the Walter White breaking Bad House To Aragorn’s sword in Lord of the rings. But two dusk Lovers achieved the ultimate price when they bought Bella Swans Haus from the massively popular vampire franchise.
“I had come and visited all the locations,” says Amber Neufeld, owner of the house with her husband Dean Assets. “When the house dipped on the market, I was like ‘Oh my god, I know this house.'”
With the kind permission of Amber and Dean Neufeld
The couple bought the house in St. Helen’s, Ore, in 2018 for 360,000 US dollars. It sold for 10,000 US dollars over the value of the requests at the end of a bidder mixture with two other potential buyers. After it had set up some worse wear areas of the house and the soft start at the beginning of 2019, it was around $ 400 at night. It took a year for things to be lifted. But now the property has fallen continuously Airbnb Website with bookings for one year in advance sold out on Neufelds’ personal website.
The legendary swan house from the 3 billion US dollars dusk Franchise, which started as a novel, now brings up to $ 140,000 a year one and amber one and amber manages the property as a full-time job. The view of renting a film -famous home could tempt some to load a pretty penny, but the Neufelds say that they are not interested in making a big prize. The most fulfilling part of the possession of the house is to go dusk Superfans appear in Bella’s world, if only for one night. In addition, she could not bear the thought that someone else bought the house and it was freed its character.
“What if someone changes it and we lose this shooting story?” Amber says. “I just wanted to save it.”
With the kind permission of Amber and Dean Neufeld
The Swan House for 360,000 US dollars from the Swan House Schlapp
When the Newfelds, both of whom are 43 years old, for the first time caught the wind of the Swan house with five bedrooms on the market, they used the opportunity-even if that only had the chance to look into the house. Amber admits that she caught during the tour.
“I try to keep it in chess so that my broker does not believe that I am only a crazy person,” she recalls.
The couple immediately made an offer with enough money with corporate shares to make a deposit at any time. There were two more offers on the table. But they finally completed the house for $ 360,000 by 10,000 US dusk Fans themselves who offer the largest down payment and submit a positive letter from your broker.
Next came renovations and did that dusk House as more precisely as possible. Fortunately, all original floor coverings, devices and outdoor areas were untouched by the shooting days. But the Swan-Haus still needed some TLC, so that Dean balanced his full-time job with the renovation of the house: hammering of throat panels, patches and leaky taps and repair of leaky water areas. In the meantime, Amber was looking for the Internet for the original film facilities or replicas of the set, such as a model ship in Bella’s house, and the dining table and the dining table and the chairs. The repairs and articles cost a total of around 20,000 US dollars.
With the kind permission of Amber and Dean Neufeld
“I would work my nine to five, and then I would go into the house and be there from five to bed, just to repair things,” says Dean. “We actually ran financially.
Cancel Airbnb and earn up to $ 140,000 a year
While the Newfelds ate a lot of costs at the beginning of the admission of the Swan house, they had to take care of the financing.
The entrepreneurial couple made a soft launch for the first time dusk House in January 2019, which opened the public to the public a month later. They had to fight to obtain a supporter on Facebook, with bookings ribbed irregular. But thanks to the Tikok virality, everything started about a year later. A creator made a video of her stay in the house and put a scene in Bella’s bedroom window. The 1.5 million viewers suddenly knew that they could rent the house.
“Life was never the same,” explains Dean. “Our bookings were filled at the moment they were open, and since then it has never been slowed down.”
The Neufelds rented the house to Airbnb – but the website could not cope with intensive online traffic. Since then, you have switched to bookings via your own website that are increasing quarterly and are sold out within three to 10 minutes in order to be reserved up to one year in advance.
The couple says that the massive success came with the perfect storm of A dusk Rescue; The series finally met streaming services and the book Midnight sun the series was added. That meant the young children of parents who went dusk Midnight premieres 17 years ago were now enthusiastic about the series and booked the house.
“All dusk The readers were now old enough to have a big money from Boy, “says Amber. dusk to.”
With the kind permission of Amber and Dean Neufeld
The Neufelds now generate a turnover of 140,000 US dollars from the Swan House in good years, with the majority flowing into overhead and improvements. They have refused to increase the prices in tandem with the high demand, and an advantage to keep prices lower is that they can alleviate their own tax burden. They also say that it does enough – profits of over 60,000 US dollars a year to cover the mortgages and fees, with money for themselves and new improvements.
“We don’t really want to charge anymore,” says Amber. “It is not just, ‘how can we make most of the money?’ It was always always: ‘How much can we calculate and still give money back and pay the mortgage?
