We bought a 140-year-old house in New Jersey for $550,000

I think our first thought was this house needs a lot of work. — Our realtor was calling it a money pit, but I just saw the vision. I was like this house has so much potential. Whoa. All the things that we have found in the walls when we were renovating, you just can't get that from a newer built home. I found a vintage breast pump in the walls, the Stan Musial 1948 rookie baseball card, — and then all the handwritten letters are just so cool. They're from like the 1930s. We do really appreciate the history that this house holds. It just needs a little bit of TLC. And maybe a lot of bit of TLC. Welcome to our home in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. My name is Amanda Drees, and I'm 32 years old. My name is Vinny Drees, and I'm 34 years old. We bought a 140-year-old Victorian home for 550K. And we've been renovating it ever since. We knew that this house was the one. Location was huge. So, we're two blocks off from the water. I still walk to the ferry every morning to get to work. So, this house is a five-bedroom, two-bath. It was originally six bedrooms, but we tore down one wall for one of the bedrooms. I have always been like enamored by old homes and Victorian houses. Growing up with a dollhouse and everything like that, I always thought that would be so cool to own a house like that one day. I never thought that was a possibility just because you see all these grand, beautiful Victorian homes, and you're like, those must be so expensive. And I don't think Vinny thought about buying a house that was going to require all of this work.