YES 👏 I CONCUR! Anyone with skills for details and facts! 🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️

Kim Glass you can Google it. You can Google ANYTHING at all. Its all there !!!😆

@@itsmyparty4637 yes, I'm aware of Google. BUT....I think a follow up type channel would be very interesting/enjoyable.

Yes!!!!!! Great suggestion

Yes I agree.!!!

But she's a bad one

And @Free ForLife, Ruth should have seen this was not going to work. It was clear Adrian’s heart was not in it, the wife wanted it. This was never going to work with such a shaky marriage.

😢😢😢 That's very sad.

Thank you. How sad. No one should buy those crumbling monstrosities unless they have a foundation behind them

Sounds like they already spent 100,000 pounds, but thus place probably needed 500,000 pounds to fix up.

I think basically most people don't realize they have that big fancy dream in their head their eyes go bonkers and they don't realize the cost

Some people like challenges, whether they go right or wrong! I bet your life is boring, and always will be!

@@gorillaglue7232 I bet you can't go a week without writing a comment that has no insults in it

I often wonder that on these programs. It’s different if you inherit a decaying pile which has been in the family for 300 years, but to actually buy a millstone for your neck is unfathomable.

Thank you for writing what I thought. She is not geared for Hospitality ...to be in service to others is not her thing. Especially being out in the boonies...the photographers had driven a distance to get there...she knew they were getting up very early...now send Them round trip in search of a pub to eat dinner ? Not a great Impression. The ball room was nice , but in this age , few people Are Into balls etc. The entire property was too much for them.

They admitted right at the outset that they weren't prepared or suited to hospitality. Apparently they were right. They took it on but those skills - and the right attitudes and bearing for it - don't magically develop just because you're in over your head with a country estate.

True but if they want this for the future they need to get out of their comfort zone and at least provide dinner and possibly brunch. You could have coffee, tea, juice and self serve pastries and fruit for breakfast on the run

How could you have guests in your home and not provide them with something for breakfast. She should have at least gotten up and put out pastries, fruit, juice and coffee.

@@Eli-ts3ph the wife did get up and made them a hot breakfast.

You're so right! Why isn't the wife and the son not bringing in more income! Not only that, start writing grant proposals to get the money to make renovations!

She's doing her bit! He's farming. She's maintaining a website, taking bookings, cleaning, putting up signage. He's farming. He isn't trusting the son to take on the farming because he's a control freak. So he's "managing" the son instead of letting the son farm and actually doing his bit on the house.

@@bluereenie2 I understand where you're coming from! You're right when it comes down to trusting the son to run the 🚜 🌾 plowing business. Not using the family's labor resources is a prime reason why many family businesses go out of business. He needs to give the son the easiests jobs, allow the son to start his own venture in the business OR send him to work and bring in outside income!

This is a lovely place...inside and out. It has that old world charm about it. I hope that they can make it all work out so that they can keep this wonderful place.

Ruth did tell them it was best to sell but at a profit preferably

Poor fella,has to do everything,what can she do?

People want completely done up, almost show homes. No work involved.

In its hey-day it probably had a dozen or more servants running the house so the owners could entertain. I lived for 20 years in a rural area thinking we would live there the rest of our days. We had 5-acres, a blacksmith shop, a pool, 2 1/2 acres of organic gardens, a separate 750 sq. ft. papermaking studio and art gallery business and a big pole barn/garage. I had a seasonal business there and we upgraded the kitchen and baths and added continuous Amtico custom flooring throughout the entire home (that alone was 18,000). Then it was one problem after another; 1) The septic system and drain field died (a $37,000 cost to meet county codes) 2) We needed a new roof ($11,000) the pool pump and cover died, and then we had four consecutive years of high ground water flooding -and it became the proverbial money pit!. As we aged, and my husband was diagnosed with cognitive decline we found we could do the 24/7 maintenance anymore. We prepared the property to sell. and put it up for sale in 2018. It sold twice and came back to us twice and finally a local developer who bought old homes and turned them in to VBO rentals. It turned out there was no jobs in our area so no young person or middle-aged person would want it unless they were willing to drive and hour to an hour and a half to and from each day. A young couple could not afford it, even at the selling price of just $230,000 (fireplace, three bedrooms/two bath, large sunporch with river rock flooring etc.) We had to sell it for a low-ball price after 7 months on the market for only $198,000 at a loss to us. So, there are LOTS of reasons a rural home cannot be easily sold.

@@donnaallgaier-lamberti3933 The narrator (Hugh Bonneville, Lord Grantham!!) said that in its heyday, the house & grounds had a staff of 40.

But she has no taste and seemed to do very little!! I have restored three large old properties myself and was astounded at her laziness...

I know right? Crying in his castle about his lack of vacations. 🙄

@Helge Ron How sad, but thank you for the update

Who is Miss Alcanter? The wife? It seems remote enough to offer "semester long" lodgings for graduate students & professors, etc. Too bad it didn't go forward. It wld have been ideal if lower cost housing cld hve been offered in finished outbuildings for a groundskeeper, handyman, contractors- at least 4 contractors.

That's a great shame.

And in what year was this?

@@thyslop1737 Wikipedia says 2009

True. And they really only had one person, her, as he had to be out all day + into the night doing farm work to get some income for the renos.

Agree. I think he is a great bread winner and feels ALL the pressure. Whatever the son did to lose his dad's trust, there's probably a very good reason Adrian feels all the weight with the farming income. I don't know why the son can't clean the holiday cottages with mom, get daily do it list each morning. When Ruth talks about the need for structured focus, every one of them needs that. I suspect that's Adrian's real burden, feeling he is the lone do-er, rather than being a control freak, but only they know. Lovely place, gorgeous setting, and some of the most beautiful Craftsman details I've ever seen

@@stringofpearls4551 He was the ONLY worker in that place!

Wow

The wife's name is Caroline

Who is Yvonne?

It’s not a shame. It’s sensible at last!

Totally unfair - it was his dream and she helped him to follow it, then he ran away from the responsibility of making it a viable business

I totally agree. How the other people that commented, could have thought otherwise.

Not really the same. Those €1 houses also require the buyer to put a specific sum into the house to save it and make it liveable. It's all in a signed contract. In other words, you know what you are in for.

@@davidlynch9049 Yeah, I read that as well. I imagine that of the thousands of people that enquired, maybe a handful agreed to go ahead with it?

Galloway Forest Park is now a Dark Sky Park too, with an observatory, I think it was designated after this was filmed, so loads of astronomers would be eager to stay as well.

well she did say up front early in the vid that they're not hoteliers...

Somebody else commented and said they sold it at a huge loss and they are pretty sure they also ended up divorced.

@@kimberlyearly8918 not really surprised. Adrian wanted to be single imo.

Ruth was normalizing his horrible behavior.

Are you blind and deaf? He's tormenting her. He's vile.

I wish Ruth spoke to my mom and dad before they split and sold our house

Wtf. He's a narc.

It always amazes me how people can have different perspectives on the same thing. For me, it was the other way around, his wife wanted to help but he was full of resentment, not really trying to solve the situation but to put blame on everyone around him. As you can see our perceptions were completely different.

Adrian was the only one bringing in money to float all of the costs and feed the family

@@solutions4tenants141 Exactly

They weren't from London.

They sold it at a huge loss in 2014. It seems their marriage ended too. She is back in Yorkshire, and he isn’t.

@@gramateur5776 Sad

@@gramateur5776 sadly neither the loss of the house or the marriage surprises me.

lol.... maybe its too cold up there?

It was cheaper to buy European goods than make your own. Brexit should help with that though.

I think his wife has a brain injury. The husband was just trying to bring money in that they were losing. Lazy wife and stepson. 😢

Did you watch the video?

@@horsie371 😂

@@horsie371 It’s a fair question as this episode aired in 2009. Much happened since then to Adrian, Caroline, and the property

It’s called Black Clauchrie House. This show aired in 2009. According to sales records, they bought it in 2006 for £680K and sold it in 2014 for only £355K.

@@gramateur5776 How is it a fair question to ask what's the name of the house? It's said in the video and named in the info section.

Old photography...black and white photos , never showed colors, richness etc. CAN YOU imagine if we could see the colors and detail on gowns and outfits of the gilded age? The photos all look drab.

It was designed to evoke the olden days, and has been decorated and otherwise modified in a way that doesn't maintain the vibe.

@@nineteenfortyeight6762 Even when they do a sympathetic addition to an otherwise old stone and/or thatched cottage it still retains a fresh new look...I'm not buying that explanation. I've seen other photos that say built in 1880 but does not have that 'newly built' look at all with weathering demarcation

I think it might be due to the discoloration on the surface of the old photo.

@@tiileeves6422 Maybe...but lately it's not uncommon to be told a building was built just before a picture was taken yet it looks much, much older...which makes me question it since I studied architecture

They were not clear on that. Reading between the politeness I think the father + son had a bit of a falling out. The husband was stressed about everything + might of taken it out on the son, which we didn't see. It was the husband + wife's dream, not the son's dream.

How is that a bad thing exactly?

But not with a hoteliere!

I was just thinking the same.

Then why are 80% of divorces initiated by the woman? And more recent studies show that women are more likely to cheat than men since it is far easier for them to do so.

Yes.

100% agreed - he doesn't even seem to like the wife

Good luck

Who's Missy?

He said to get away from her nagging all day.

You have no idea. That part of Scotland is beautiful. I love Scotland as a foreigner. I would have stayed in Scotland had I not got a chance to move Canada which has more funky wildlife’s.

The wife IS nice on camera but as a woman we know things could be quite different behind the scenes. He is at the end of his rope, getting blamed for all and it’s not unexpected he would eventually lash out.

A petulant narc

Pretty sure he had some sort of imposter syndrome, not worthy of this magnificent property.

As an audience we really know nothing about these people, or any people depicted in these shows, beyond the edited depictions here.

I think he was so emotionally invested in the property and was overly stressed.

@@dittohead7044 I do too. The man’s heart is with FARMING. The wife the WIFE wants to have businesses with the home. She had quite a lot to learn HERSELF as she had to be pushed to FEED HER GUESTS. Sheesh.