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Dream It, Build It, Ride It: The ‘Free Ride House’

Watch pro mountain biker Reece Wallace take a wild property in Vancouver from ‘fixer-upper’ to send city.
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Fire up the bulldozers and cue the huge drops. When Reece Wallace bought a delinquent property in British Columbia, it was covered with a dozen junked cars, a handful of ramshackle sheds, fall-down barns, and other detritus that Wallace described as “trash.”

But he could only see one thing: a massive slope and perfect dirt.

Rehabilitating a real estate property is a labor of love, and this mini-documentary makes that clear. Demolition hounds will love the rip-it-up-and-tear-it-out texture of the first minute. Remodel aficionados can appreciate Wallace’s updates to the house or at least the fact that there’s now siding on all of it — not just bits and pieces.

And obviously, the rest of us can just revel in the shredding.

Hard work can pay off. And if the payoff I was angling for was anything like Wallace’s, I bet I’d work a lot harder.

Runtime: 4 minutes

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