Check out their channel, Ghost Town Living. Recently, they lost the American Hotel, but have plans to rebuild. Brent lives there full time. The channel is fairly new but the content is great.

Who else knew it was Cerro Gordo from the the thumbnail? I love GhostTownLiving!

Brent is a special man, and his focus and his vision for that place, is a passion few ever touch in their lifetimes. He's not in it to flip it and make a few bucks, he cares to preserve an important part of history, he deserves a lot of praise and recognition for that. Keep going buddy, the New American Hotel is next!

His KZfaq channel is phenomenal.

That was heartbreaking loosing the American hotel everything was gone that hotel was priceless .

Ghost town living is one of my absolute favorite KZfaq channels the production quality is very impressive for what he has and his experience

I actually came to this video from Brent's channel Ghost Town Living! His videos are so cool and I love seeing how much he has done even since this video came out!

6:45 family-friendly shootouts is the most american thing i've heard

I find it absurd how many arm chair arson investigators think the hotel was torched intentionally, considering its extremely lucky the whole town didn't go up in flames. I commend these folks for trying to preserve a bit of California history. So what if it's a business venture, everyone gotta make a living.

BRENT, SUCH A AN AMAZING PERSON, GHOSTTOWNLIVING

This is one of the best interviews I’ve seen put together on the Brent and Cerro Gordo. It’s interesting to go back and see how it all began

Goddamn tragedy about that saloon. It was the centerpiece of the town, and the only building that doesn't look condemned inside.

You're hero. I admire your courage in do the amazing job to preserve history. God bless you in your mission..

I love that he was on the news!!!! Woohoo!!! Love ya Brent!!! Keep at it! It is certainly going to be worth it! Ugh! Crying happy tears for you again! Sorry, I'm behind. Lol!

It's going to take a huge investment to make it livable, much less profitable. It's in the middle of nowhere. The road going up the mountain to reach it is no easy trip. The loss of the hotel, which was the jewel of the buildings with real charm, will be difficult to recover from. But, I wish them luck.

Brent, I would be looking for meteorites and Dinosaur bones. I’m not joking. Love watching your adventures.

Waiting for the next Ghost Town Living episode is comparable to what it was like with Breaking Bad, adjusted for inflation 😂

I like how some people who are caught up on the journey are SO SURE he’s a fraud or at the very least taking advantage of turning this town into a tourist trap. The American Hotel fire was both tragic and suspicious, but I prefer to be optimistic. I don’t mind “gentrifying” or creating another tourist destination in the desert. All the adventurers out there would appreciate new places to visit and Cerro Gordo does genuinely have interesting history. I’ll continue to watch this guy breathe life back into this ghost town until one of these naysayers actually show up with evidence that it’s actually BS.

Let me guess the one UFC fighter to invest was Donald “cowboy” cerrone

Im so sad the American Hotel burned down

Love your content

This is called living the dream folks !!!

would love to go there i have been watching tfil and the town looks amazing

this makes me so sad that the hotel burnt down

You can donate towards the re-build of the Hotel. They have the original plans which is amazing !

Keep going Brent one day I'll make it

OH man, my old stomping grounds. MISS IT.

Thank you

Brent is the absolute best

This man knows what he is doing

I can't wait to stay at that American Hotel, playing some tunes on the piano and having a cold one at the bar. I'd pay like . . . . . . a million dollars for the experience!

Saying stereotypes and showing a mannequin that looks exactly like Brent Underwood at 6:36. 😂

Could they have chosen a worse narrator? Jesus Christ, falling asleep from his droning voice.

I heard you were interested in content. There is a couple of things I thought of. The water situation. There is probably water at the bottom of the main mineshaft. You will have to pump it up of course. Alas, you will need a place to put it. A small reservoir. Perhaps setup in one of the unused buildings so as not to change the look of the place too much. Using your "well" for storage has lots of drawbacks. Better to take your time pumping it up and store it for use later. You had a fire. Sorry to hear that. You know, you can buy an old fire truck for a couple of thousand dollars. Most of them never wear out. It goes well with the idea of storing water too. I am curious about that old truck parked in the middle of the compound. Is there any story about it? Is it a viable candidate for resurrection?

Calico at one time was owned by Walter Knott of Knott's Berry Farm fame. He used a few of the original buildings from Calico at Knott's, but rebuilt them and others at Calico. He deeded the property to San Bernardino County as a park.

So sad how pandemic is affecting places like this....

Great...

why didn't the interviewer fix his ear in the interview shot lol

So how we doing Brent I hope everything's going good with you God bless you and keep up the great work man you're lucky I'm going to be up there and help you out with that hotel I am not finish your bike ride

How are things out there with the COVID restrictions? Love ghost towns, Rhyolite is nice to visit as well. Sorry to read about the saloon. :-(

This will be good with hotel, museum, guided cave tour, shooting range

just seen his youtube channel he got i dk 6 or so episodes up of buying it and to current. But i didnt understand what or how he done or bought it and why. i asssumed was for tourists in time. but didnt know. this helped fill in many of the gaps. i kinda feel if he gonna do a youtube channel he should be more direct lols.

0:30 damn rip, not anymore

The property is fascinating. I've explored the area over the years, especially when I had a cabin in Apple Valley. However, turning this into a tourist attraction would cost mega bucks. So many things they don't seem to pay attention to old dynamite storage - that stuff has to be unstable by now and should be professionally removed and destroyed. Electric in the buildings, condition of the buildings, etc are all leading to another potential fire and loss of contents. Should have been approached as an archeological project, mapped, inventoried, and made safe before opening to the public. All the electric wiring should be removed and redone before being used. I helped my brother-in-law with restoration of an old ranch house in Colorado. Crumpled newspaper for insulation in the walls, bare wires with ceramic insulators for lighting, so many hazards. Do they have an actual business plan? How about insurance? Seems to be poorly managed and the videos, while entertaining, are about one man's struggle, rather than a team effort. Safety? Responsible management? Seems more like an underfunded and fly by night fantasy. Rebuilding the hotel is silly, it isn't the same building, plus loss of all the original furniture and accessories, and the rest of the town is still a fire trap. Seems to be going about it like a game rather than a real attempt as a business. Liability insurance with workers and guests on the property> The list is endless and seems very "California dreamin" I wish them luck, but I wouldn't invest in it.

wow this showcase is so much better than that crappy 3 minute today show one

If the group of investors, who bought Cerro Gordo site which contained The American Hotel, knew how to restore turn of the century buildings The American Hotel would not have burned. Any turn of the century structure you are going to remodel, restore, add-to, the first thing you do is shut the existing power supply off, you establish a power pole from the closest power supply and use extension cords or cordless tools to prevent exactly what happened here. Fire investigation officials reported they were using existing electrical power that was not up-to code and in fact was poorly wired and they did not have building permits or state building inspections.

Hotel is no more!!🔥💥🔥😱

5:28 " such a low price" - More than a life salary

If only I could own a 300 acre ghost town.

Hey Brent!

if this man would let me explore that town for ghost i would so do so in a heart beat.

so much potential. make it different. no theme parks.

interesting.

Follow his youtube channel its awesome! He makes content all the time showing his exploration of mines.

All-in-all, I see these folks as totally unprepared for this undertaking. The monetary investment to bring the town into an operational enterprise looks to me like around 5 million, not counting the original purchase price. The current state of repair, given the condition of the dwellings along with the electrical and water services just don’t warrant $500.00 per person for a two night stay all inclusive. The time to get there, cost to get there for what you will see when you finally do get there, just doesn’t warrant to end expenditures. Nice idea, and perhaps worth the right amount of work and subsequent money input, could be a cool destination.

Sad the hotel burned down. :(

1st ya gotta get the ghosts under control. And 2nd ya cant be that alone with a camera crew

Sad that all I can focus in this video is the American Hotel still being there

Rip hotel

Say there's a ghost and do paranormal stuff see how people flock there

#Ghosttownliving

RIP American Motel

Olancha, home of Crystal Geyser (CG Roxane).

74% of Americans say they value experiences over products/things? Lol! That's the biggest lie I've heard. All I see Americans is shopping for clothing 'products and things' like their lives depend on it.

Sad to say but that guy will be bankrupt by 2022. It would take millions of dollars to get that place up and running as tourist attraction. This reminds me of that other youtuber that spent a million dollars on a dilapidated race track in florida.

and its haunted

RIP American Hotel :( 🇺🇸 🏨

RIP American Hotel

I do not understand it anymore , Brent say in his first video on his channel ( which I love ) this : " My name is Brent and with my friend Jon, I purchased the former mining town of “Cerro Gordo” this past July 13th (Friday the 13th). Since the Coronavirus outbreak, I've moved from Austin, Texas up to the town and I'm living alone in this abandoned ghost town trying to make it into a place for more people to enjoy. " And in this video they tell he bought it in 2018 ( this video is from 2019 ), it does not fit together ...... I was very surprised to see this video and all about it........

brent its a crazy guy in a good way.... check this youtube channel .... Ghost Town Living

Low price? Way to much unless they discover more silver.

And now the hotel burned down.

Red headed step child.

LOL the water pump will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace!!! Just watched a video where they fixed it with 500ft of new pipe and a new pump that’s small enough for one guy to carry, probably closes to hundreds of dollars to fix

Only reason I watched this was brent

I just saw a video of the American Hotel burnt down, in Cerro Gordo. Now I can't even find the video anymore. He was asking for donations, and I donated. Now I wonder if it;s for real?

Look at all the naysayers and doubters projecting their own inability to diverge from a cookie-cutter life. Sad and cynical existence it must be to assume the worst intentions in another human.

im wondering why he hasnt admitted that it was his own doing and stupidity that cuaused the loss of the 100+ year old hotel. the crown jewel

RIP american hotel... :(

the hotel :(

500 dollars a month for WIFI ? OUCH !

the hotel burnt down

RIP cuz the ice store and hotel burnt down

How can he buy something that costs 1.4 m with only 31 years old?

I've been watching Ghost Town Living for a few weeks. It's a little disappointing to see that this is really just a high-end business, more than a love of history. I mean, Brent loves history, but they are clearly going to price this out of reach of the common man/woman and are looking to cater to the rich. That's too bad.

Who's here from This is Why I'm Broke

Aw no, I’ve watched every one of his videos in the last 7 days and am completely obsessed with his way of living. I thought he used every penny he ever made saving for his dream of off grid living, to raise a family and generations to come and refurbish the town. To find out it’s an investment property, probably being pushed by the KZfaq algorithm. Kinda feel robbed, the whole cave diving through mines for denim now kinda seems like a bit of an act.. 😔

Omgg

cera goro has the only real western theme the other ones are fake

RIP CERRO GORDO!

Amazing project, unfortunately destined to fail...

Follow him on KZfaq

Charles Manson tried this business model -_-

so guys like this helped gentrify austin and now quaint little desert towns.... sigh

interesting but nobody is going up there and paying $500 per person that is just a joke

he is probably earning more from youtube than airbnb.

he totally burnt that hotel down

He is way in over his head. He already accidentally burned down the hotel

no one will travel there

Thats disgusting that CNBC put this vid on I'm very disappointed however that got on CNBC please know who you have doing your vids and choose moral and honest entity.