Turning $0.01 Into a House in 1 Week: Days 7-28 By Ryan Trahan

this is a penny and I’m turning into this house in one week

sorry okay it’ll definitely be a different house six days ago I had a pending and traded it for this pain than this didn’t this this this this this this yatta yatta betrayed for a boat I got to get you a boat give me a boat so I gave him a call

I’m unable to take your call right now please leave a very detailed and I will get back with you as soon as possible when I needed him most my greatest Ally had ghosted me I’m feeling sick to my stomach because we only have about 14 hours left to trade up to a house the definition of a house by the way is a human habitation especially one that has lived in by a family or small group of people so our tiny home does not qualify to make matters worse about this 24-hour countdown clock thinking you would help me feel more excited but I really just feel awful so I can’t just sit around I’ve got to try to trade this thing but anyhow didn’t fit in my pocket so I had to print pictures of it to show potential trade Partners my first stop was our buddy Gerald and he wasn’t responding to me I thought he might have sold the boat and I went undercover to check the boat was still there

why’d you do it I didn’t want to bother Gerald anymore so I decided to bother homeowners

the only problem is that not a single person would answer their door except for one nice woman I’m trying to trade for a penny to a house I wondering if you guys have anything you want at Trader

oh no worries thanks have a great day

I feel like a weirdo right now we’re running out of time I don’t know what to do

I’m desperate but I wasn’t going to give up that easily so I went back online I have message to thousand people about this tiny house seems to be confused because I don’t actually I’m not actually at the house right now I don’t have access to it because it’s three hours away all that say I’m running out of time and we have no lease so I went to the one place with tons of leads on houses a realty company I was greeted by a man named Rory who had absolutely no idea what I was trying to ask him if I traded him my 1997 Suburban for it

okay a realtor meeting ended in confusion this is when I got desperate front of trade a tiny house

is a photo of it

okay my drive-thru strategy field immediately and I only have 4 hours remaining after a trip to the park with no luck I’m out of ideas out of confidence and out of time

all I can do is eat my favorite barbecue ribs really thought we could do this to be honest with me

one week is up in a few minutes and I have to show for it and poster boards of a tiny house I can’t even get into hazard countdown clock near-zero I took a walk past the house I initially wanted to trade for I wasn’t even close

so my wife Haley just told me to check my email and there’s a bunch of video files in it so I don’t know what’s

happening hey Ryan Jeff Smith smallest stuff in the world to send me an encouraging message thing they’re looking for trades and asking me not to give up nothing for you we just Jester anyone’s ever done for me just to let you know that we are searching for the house just in case I searching on the water for if there’s anything these new friends of mine have told me this past year it said if you get knocked down you got to get back up I might have failed my goal of turning a penny into a house in one week but the end is near we are going to get that house for Hannah and the world is going to see that nothing is impossible it was a pretty sure my wife would leave me if I did that

let’s go get that house

I made no progress for 10 days after that statement however on day 17 something crazy happened I was invited to be on my City’s local news station about my mission place right here in Austin known best for his Penny challenge his most recent episode over 5 million hits I mean is in 17 be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel cuz I’m trying to get dr. Phil to adopt as we go grandson

Ryan at 5.5 million subscribers and Dr Phil Wright at 6 million

have you kept up with the series you know that if I successfully traded up to a house I would give it to a lucky subscriber and that’s Hannah

a few days later Douglas got an email back and then put me in touch with a man named Mark who sells land for a living and wants to trade his smallest lot for a tiny house we’re about to FaceTime our friend Mark and maybe get some land hey Mark hello hello how you doing

how are you good good we spoke for another 10 minutes but ultimately

I’m hoping you guys you know

that man is a land Mogul we signed a digital contract and then I listed the land online without even seeing it the next morning I drove 3 hours to step foot on my new property I really feel like we could trade for a house at this land and after six days of a dozen people emailing homeowners Across America which is no luck and posting your land on almost every website known to man we finally got an email back from someone named Justin he’s an investor and loves our mission and house is beautiful and I’m day 27 I found myself in a small town somewhere in Texas ready to make a deal I got inside and sign some documents to say I owned the house now and I felt on top of the world and after making it official Justin did want to tell me something about the house he’s off work and we care to do to it for sure when I show up Justin’s manly hands the universe feel like it was accelerating I felt the energy of every person I traded with float

through my veins every single day for the last month the next trade up felt absolutely impossible day after day night after night it somehow all came together and now somewhere out in the world there’s a pen that has achieved The Impossible bass Justin I don’t think it’s really hit me that we just trade for house probably because the house is 7 hours away so it’s time to hit the airport and fly to his Penny house before I could do that I had to make one last stop Hannah’s apartment if you just now tuning in I have some explaining to do it was a small business and she thought it was getting supercharged by her sponsor Shopify however I essentially trapped her in this Air B&B for a week to keep her from finding out about my mission to get her house it was time to tell Hannah that I had been fooling her all along you don’t know this but for the past month I’ve been trying to trade from a tiny to a house where you guys and all that Shopify stuff was not real

I was dumbstruck my Planet failed and now they know that I was trying to get them a house they just don’t know if I actually pulled it off I couldn’t believe my ears open case also works from home and it’s so proud of her like she was shopping and bought herself something like for the outfit you know the other day with money that she made from Hannah lesicko I’m at the risk of dying because I’m so excited to tell them about the house we got three that you can do some amazing things in a short. Of time before I tell Hannah in case the good news is shopify’s made this entire series possible if you want to start chasing your dream and start your business like Hannah sign up at shopify.com Strahan and drop your store Link in the comments they’ve been waiting long enough it’s time to tell him in case that we got them a house we are trying to turn a penny into a house and it in one week and failed

let me try to turn a penny into a house in one month

and we did it

you have any reaction I showed them the house and we traded for a penny that I’m visiting tonight and told him how it’s not really livable yet but what they don’t know is that I talked with Shopify and they wanted to get Hannah and Casey move-in ready house here in Austin which means I can do something even cooler with our Penny house anyways it’s time to surprise that we have to leave

what you have to leave I’m not going to lie I was freaking out on our way to the house as we walked up to their new home I couldn’t help it feel like I was Oprah or something.

I probably take the most HGTV song possible for this moment but dang it it’s the perfect song Alright Cannon case explored their new home and Hannah was breaking in her new office You Go Hannah they finish their tour then we celebrated with milkshakes and just like that I was at the airport exhausted but our work isn’t finished yet the next morning I found myself a block away for my penny house when I step foot in the front yard and open my eyes

I died because that that the word to describe what I felt and now I’m going to give you a full house to her starting with the front porch so not to get too corny or anything and I probably am going to put a dramatic song in the background goodness one year ago I took the selfie I’d only look too different but took this picture because I remember vividly remember I was like it has the lowest I’ve ever been and I should document this I just had a tough year you know I mean pretty much everyone did I feel so tired and unhappy I had no idea how I was going to keep going in general I didn’t see myself as a creative person or hard-working or smart or attractive I’m looking rough in that photo let’s be honest I had no idea what would come out of this last year but now God has been so good to me I started meeting so many amazing people and the most absurd places and they become my friends and help me grow as a person life just started turning around and this music is dramatic but this is an emotional moment for me also his penny two a house thing has absolutely wrecked me in a good way

Douglas Rex Judy Gerald even though he ghosted me everyone I met is responsible for this this house that cost a penny and probably more with Renovations but I was talking to Douglas off-camera last week and you’re chatting about life stuff and he said something that blew my mind our dreams are like pennies are pretty worthless on the surface probably Dusty probably ugly and most people throw them away or tuck them in their back pocket or drop them in the street and every day you can probably walk outside and find dozens of dirty abandoned pennies do we have me the ones who can see their potential pick them up dust them off and take them as far as we can I’m donating This House of Charity and they’re here

translate donate at the house and some money for renovations I shook the hands of our friends at the local homeless shelter way too many times way too many and I feel so bad about this and I couldn’t help but think of Douglas is worth one last time