Gilles Beaufils and his wife ditched Tokyo city life to renovate an abandoned house in rural Japan. Beaufils, 56, estimates they spent less than $10,000 buying the abandoned property, or akiya, on ...
Fixer-uppers are a common way to on the property ladder cheaper. Millennials who bought four run-down historic homes and renovated them share how they did it. One homeowner said it's "an excellent ...