A TikToker bought a $26,000 foldable house on impulse — and has absolutely no regrets
- Full-time content creator Jeffrey Bryant bought a $26,000 factory-built home on impulse.
- He ordered the house on Amazon, and his videos detailing the process gained nearly 20 million views.
TikToker Jeffrey Bryant spent $26,000 on a single item on Amazon — and he has no regrets.
While most of us impulsively buy new skincare products or shoes, 23-year-old Bryant saw a TikTok about a mobile home for sale on Amazon and snagged one for himself right away.
"I didn't even let him finish unboxing the house," Bryant said. "I rushed to Amazon and purchased the house."
The 19-by-20 unit is an investment opportunity, and he had "an automatic vision for it," Bryant told Business Insider. Once he gets over the hurdles of California's laws around factory built homes, he has plans to turn it into an Airbnb rental.
It was delivered as a cube basically the size of its bathroom, Bryant told BI. It took about 20 minutes for five men to fully unfurl the house for him.
His tour of the expandable home has received over 8.5 million views in two days. The property has a living room area, kitchen, full bathroom, and hookups for plumbing and electric.
His video about buying the house went viral before he was even sure the delivery would actually happen. But, he worked with an Amazon specialist to receive it on Monday — right on schedule.
The specialist also upgraded him from the smaller unit he ordered — which was $24,000 before taxes — to the larger unit with a retail price of $39,999 on Amazon.
It's listed on Amazon, but the seller is Chery Industrial.
Buying the house was the easy part. Bryant said he's now tasked with obtaining the right permits to buy land and place the mobile unit on.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development oversees such procedures. It requires inspections and approvals of factory-built homes before they can be installed on land.
BI called and left a message for the department's division of codes and standards seeking clarification on the process.
Until then, Bryant found a place to store the unit for a weekly fee.