A mom renovated a cheap cottage for Airbnb and quit her job to run it

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A mom renovated a cheap cottage for Airbnb and quit her job to run it
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A mom spent $41,000 on a rundown cottage and transformed it into an Airbnb rental. Now she's quit her job to run it.

Ebonn Twilley inside the 85-year-old South Carolina cottage she spent two years renovating into an Airbnb.Ebonn Twilley purchased an 85-year-old cottage in Columbia, South Carolina for $41,000.

Twilley got thrifty, finding used doors on Craigslist and turning a $75 dresser into kitchen cabinets.The cottage before renovations.Ebonn Twilley had helped her mom run an Airbnb, but wanted to set out on her own. When her broker spotted a one-bedroom cottage being sold as part of an estate sale, Twilley thought it would be the perfect-sized project to begin with.She learned the 600-square-foot home was built in 1938 by a veteran of a military base near her home of Columbia, South Carolina. He never married and lived in the house until 1985.Twilley bought the cottage for $41,000 in July 2021. At the time, she said, it was infested with fleas and a family of raccoons was living in the crawl space.

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