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Home-Shopping Network - The Cut
Home-Shopping Network - The Cut Home-Shopping Network - The Cut Posted: 24 May 2019 06:33 AM PDT The Victorian in Mount Pulaski, Illinois. Photo: cheapoldhouses/instagram In late February, Matt Hill was scrolling through Instagram when he saw the house. It was a massive old Victorian with two turrets, three porches, and a carriage house. And it was derelict. Plaster crumbled from the walls, the wood under the porch was rotted through, and there was no insulation. "Lotsa work. But WOW!!!," the caption read. Hill found the listing, contacted the agent, and purchased the thing for $15,000, sight unseen. Within two weeks, it was in escrow. Within four, he was on a plane from Riverside, California, where he'd spent all of his 34 years, to Mount Pulaski, Illinois, a snowy town with a population of 1,500 and a single bar, called the Lucky Lager. Such is the power of Cheap Old Houses , an Instagram account with over 400,000 fol...