In 2015, Chris Broomfield, a 50-year-old carpenter contractor with decades of experience, and his wife bought a five-acre property in Remsen, New York for $27,000.
Broomfield grew up not too far away and the land was close to a property his brother owns nearby.
Shortly after closing on the property, Broomfield says he started commuting from his family’s home in Connecticut every weekend to work on an A-frame cabin he was building mostly by himself.
He hired outside help to drill a well, an electrician to wire the cabin and somebody to hang the sheetrock.
“I always knew it was going to be an Airbnb property. I knew I was going to put multiple cabins on it,” he says. “I chose this property because it was close to the lake. It was very wooded, and it had rolling hills. I saw its potential with multiple cabins.”
