Toggle Menu
  1. Home/
  2. Info/

VIDEO: 14-Years-Old Collects Money to Buy House, Ellen is Amazed by Its Looking!

Willow Tufano was living with her family in Florida. She began secretly saving money by selling used items from foreclosed homes, so in less than two years she saved $6000. One day she found a house that was too expensive but negotiated the price so she could buy it. After the deal was finally done she moved into her new house with her mom. That’s impressive!
And Ellen thought so as well so she invited the girl on her show to meet her and tell her just how incredible she is. When people are 14 they don’t really think of buying houses, even less actually buying them. Some people never own their own house and can’t get enough money to buy a house even if they work several jobs and save up for years.
But Willow Tufano is 14 and she owns her very own house. She lives with her mom and the house was $12,000, down from a value of roughly $100,000 at the peak of the boom. But this isn’t everything. Because once the girl got on Ellen she realized she could do more and now the girl has set her standards even higher and got busy.
Willow raised money to buy the house by selling stuff on Craigslist and now, according to npr.org, Willow is 15 and her life over the past few months was sort of surreal. She got caught up in two dramas: America’s housing market and America’s media circus.
The housing market drama is in some ways more straightforward. The people renting her house recently left in the middle of the night and skipped out on the rent. She’s trying to find new tenants.
And, more significantly, she just bought another house near her home in Port Charlotte, Fla. This one — two bedrooms, one bath — cost $17,500.
After going on Ellen Degeneres’ show on tv, Willow was invited to give a talk at a college in Alabama. She was nervous; hundreds of people would be staring at her.


So when she flew to Alabama with her mom, Willow wore her bright yellow Pikachu costume. It’s basically like Big Bird marching through a bunch of Southern airports. Everyone was staring — which was the whole point so she could get the courage to speak in front of people.
Willow’s mom says it was that weird stunt and then going on to nail the Alabama lecture that cemented a change in Willow. She was no longer an unassuming kid with a weird hobby. Everything around her was telling her she was interesting. And she was starting to believe it. She was star material.
Now Willow decided she would like her own reality TV show with her as a teenage real estate mogul. She even got upset with her mother when the mother lowered the rent on the first house to get new tenants quicker because she thought that it mattered whether or not she liked the people or that she was ok with less money.

Anyone can write on Evonews. Start writing!

loading...

hope

Loading...