Urban Roots Properties LLC

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Boots-on-the-ground redevelopment and stabilization focused on distressed properties, neighborhood coordination, project execution, management, and community-centered redevelopment initiatives throughout Decatur, Illinois.

08/10/2026

Video 3 of 3.

Now we're in the basement, and this is where you really start seeing what we're working with.

There's already completely new ductwork and new plumbing installed throughout this portion of the property. Does it need cleaned out? Absolutely. The whole damn house needs cleaned out. That's the easy part.

There are a few issues that need addressed, but honestly, not many considering the overall condition of the property.

Structurally, the load path looks correct and the foundation is solid. Those are two things I care a hell of a lot more about than dirty floors and ugly walls.

The mechanical side will need some investment. We're looking at a furnace, water heater, and a complete electrical replacement. The electrical will probably be one of the largest and most extensive expenses involved in bringing this property back.

One thing you don't see in these videos is the exterior, but the house does have a new roof. And if you watched Video 2, you saw the unfinished upstairs firsthand. There's no evidence up there suggesting that new roof has been leaking.

So after three videos, that's the evaluation.

Is it finished? Not even close.

Does it need work? Absolutely.

But underneath everything that needs cleaned, finished, replaced, and updated, we're looking at a solid structure with a tremendous amount of usable square footage and the potential to become a four- to five-bedroom home.

If Urban Roots moves forward with the acquisition, the intent is to rehabilitate this property and make it available through the URHS Home Ownership Success Program™ — our structured homeownership system designed to protect the investor, empower the homeowner, strengthen neighborhoods, and create a better path to homeownership.

The program is structured to transfer record title to the buyer while maintaining investor security through a recorded security instrument, allowing the homeowner to build actual ownership and equity.

Now you've seen all three floors.

The next question is simple:

Does the property make sense to acquire?

That's what the evaluation is for.

08/10/2026

Video 2 of 3.

Now we're upstairs.

This part of the house is interesting because it's unfinished, but clearly has been utilized as living space before. The rooms are there. The square footage is there. What's missing is the finishing.

And honestly, it wouldn't take a tremendous amount of finishing work to turn this space into something completely different.

Based on what we're seeing during the evaluation, there's enough usable square footage here to reasonably bring this home to four or potentially five bedrooms, depending on the final layout and what makes the most sense during rehabilitation.

That's exactly why we evaluate a property before making decisions about it. Sometimes what looks rough initially isn't necessarily a major problem — it's unfinished potential.

If Urban Roots moves forward with the acquisition, the plan is to rehabilitate the property and make it available through the URHS Home Ownership Success Program™ — a structured homeownership system designed to protect the investor, empower the homeowner, strengthen neighborhoods, and create a better path to homeownership.

The program is structured to transfer record title to the buyer while maintaining investor security through a recorded security instrument, allowing the homeowner to actually build ownership and equity.

Watch Video 2 and take a look upstairs for yourself.

Then stand by for Video 3 of 3.

That's where we'll start putting everything we've seen together.

08/10/2026

Video 1 of 3.

Come walk this one with me.

I call it an inspection in the video, but what you're actually seeing is an evaluation for the potential purchase of this property in its original condition.

And there's a lot to look at.

The house still has its original woodwork, and the woodwork itself is in remarkably good condition. The house? Well... that's what we're evaluating.

In this first video, we're walking through the downstairs — kitchen, living room, parlor, two bedrooms and what appears to be a bathroom? We'll go with a question mark on that one for now.

If Urban Roots moves forward with the acquisition, the property is intended to be rehabilitated and made available through the URHS Home Ownership Success Program™ — our standardized homeownership system designed to protect the investor, empower the homeowner, strengthen neighborhoods, and create a better path to homeownership.

The program is structured to transfer record title to the buyer while preserving investor security through a recorded security instrument, allowing the homeowner to actually build ownership and equity.

But first, we have to determine exactly what we're working with.

Watch Video 1.

Then stand by for Video 2, because we're heading upstairs.

08/09/2026

Here it is — the new Jasper house entering the URHS Home Ownership Success Program™.

This video series isn't just about watching Urban Roots renovate a house. The goal is to show you the entire process from both sides.

You'll watch Urban Roots Properties take this property from where it is today through the renovation process, with the work and systems we install backed by our one-year transferable warranty to the buyer.

And when the future homeowner enters the process, with their permission, we want you to meet them too.

Maybe they get involved while renovations are underway. Maybe you'll see them walk through the house and begin imagining what it looks like as their home. Ultimately, the goal is to follow both sides of this process until the keys exchange hands.

That's where the URHS Home Ownership Success Program™ is different.

It's a standardized homeownership system designed to protect the investor, empower the homeowner, strengthen neighborhoods, and create a better path to homeownership.

The structure is designed to transfer record title to the buyer while maintaining investor security through a recorded security instrument. That means the buyer is actually building ownership and equity—not simply waiting years for a deed. It can also create access to owner-occupied repair, rehabilitation, and assistance programs when individual program requirements are met.

And with monthly payment reporting, homeowners can have the opportunity to build their credit while they're building their future.

Homeownership should create opportunity—not barriers. That's why URHS takes an education-first approach built around guidance, coordination, documentation, and connections to trusted professionals throughout the process.

If you've been looking for a different path to homeownership, start now. Don't wait until this house is finished.

Go to URHomeSolutions.com, read about the program, and complete the contact form to get started. You can also request information through my-urbanroots.com.

Follow this one from renovation to homeowner.

Protect the Investor.
Empower the Homeowner.
Strengthen Neighborhoods.
Create a Better Path to Homeownership.

08/09/2026

Second video of the day.

Springfield is done, and now I'm headed back to Decatur and over to the new Jasper house entering the Urban Roots Home Solutions HomePath™ program.

Yes. THAT house.

The one I've been saying I'm going to show you.

At this point, I've decided it's easier to give you three minutes, let you actually see what we're working with, and start showing you what we're building instead of continuing to tell you it's coming.

HomePath™ by Urban Roots Home Solutions is about creating another path to homeownership for people who don't necessarily fit inside the traditional lending box. It's not about putting someone into a house they can't afford. It's about creating a responsible structure, protecting the homeowner, protecting the investor, and putting properties back into productive use in our neighborhoods.

Want to know more? Visit URHomeSolutions.com and take a look at what we're building.

And, apparently, I have another idea.

Yeah. Go figure.

What if we could make home repairs affordable?

What if someone who can't afford a $5,000 or $10,000 repair all at once could break that project into manageable pieces?

What if we could create a structure where the elderly, people living on fixed incomes, CFD homeowners, working families who make $2 too much to qualify for assistance, and everybody else who seems to fall directly into the gap between "you don't qualify" and "you can't afford it" actually had another option?

I'm working on it.

And here's something that wasn't in the previous video.

That gas line I showed you earlier? I bought the materials. I went to the house. I installed the line.

I knew the situation.

And when it came time to talk about money, I told them to keep what they have right now. They need it to live.

We'll figure it out.

I'm not telling you that because I need a pat on the back. I'm telling you because I'm getting increasingly tired of watching people talk about "community revitalization" from behind a keyboard.

You want stronger neighborhoods?

You want abandoned houses brought back?

You want families to succeed?

You want investors held accountable?

You want homeowners protected?

You want Decatur to get better?

Then DO SOMETHING.

Stop being a fu***ng keyboard warrior telling everybody else what they should be doing for their community.

Put your boots on.

Give your time. Share your knowledge. Pick up a hammer. Help somebody solve a problem. Build something. Fix something. Teach somebody. Invest in something. Hell, just show up when somebody actually needs you.

Action creates change. Comments don't.

If you're really about community revitalization, get out from behind the damn keyboard and show me.

Otherwise, sit down and quit typing.

I'm headed to Jasper.

Boots on the ground.

08/08/2026

Brittany was supposed to join me on video today, but plans changed. The reason why isn't important, and her personal business is her personal business.

The important part is this: the gas line is fixed.

I went to Lowe's this morning and picked up everything needed to rebuild the line correctly. Last night, before I ever bought a fitting, I created a complete diagram of the assembly—every piece numbered, every fitting identified, and exactly how everything goes together.

I do that for a reason.

I don't just fix something and walk away. I create the blueprint.

If something happens five years from now and somebody else needs to work on what Urban Roots installed, there's a record showing exactly how it was assembled. That's intentional. Documentation matters. Accountability matters. Doing something correctly matters.

With the repair completed, Ameren should be able to restore Brittany's gas service before the end of the day.

And now?

Springfield bound.

I'm headed to T-Mobile to find out what's going on with a commercial bathroom because Urban Roots Properties doesn't just work residential. We service commercial properties too.

We're not your typical service provider. We're not your typical real estate consultant. And we're not a real estate company.

Urban Roots was built differently, intentionally.

We evaluate properties. We solve problems. We perform residential and commercial work. We work with homeowners, investors, property owners, and businesses. And when we see a problem that doesn't have a good solution, we start figuring out how to build one.

One of those problems is affordable home repair.

There are people who desperately need repairs but can't afford an entire project upfront. Some don't qualify for grants because of how they purchased their home. Some make just slightly more than an income cutoff. Others are elderly, living on Social Security or a fixed income, or simply caught in that gap where they make "too much" for assistance but nowhere near enough to absorb a major repair.

I've watched people fall through those cracks.

So I'm working on a structure that could allow necessary repairs to be broken into manageable project milestones instead of forcing someone to figure out how to pay for everything at once.

Because everything we do at Urban Roots comes back to the same question:

There's a problem. What can we build that actually helps solve it?

Brittany's gas is fixed.

Now it's on to Springfield.

08/07/2026

Well, I told you earlier I had something to show you.

That got pushed to the side.

Plans changed, the day got rerouted, and I ended up at Lowe's getting some things taken care of and picking up materials for another project Urban Roots is performing for an investor.

But there's a point in that too.

Never get so big that you forget where you came from.

Never get so high up in your own company that you suddenly believe the jobs and responsibilities that helped build your dream are beneath you.

A lot of people start out with the right intentions. They have a vision. They work their ass off. They answer the phone, pick up the materials, meet the clients, walk the properties, solve the problems, and do whatever needs to be done.

Then somewhere along the way, the vision gets clouded.

The business gets bigger. Maybe one business becomes two, then three. The titles get better. The responsibilities get delegated. And eventually, some people forget the foundational principles that made any of it possible in the first place.

I don't ever want to be that person.

I don't care how big Urban Roots gets. If something needs picked up, I'll pick it up. If a property needs walked, I'll walk it. If there's a problem that needs solved, I'll figure it out.

Leadership isn't standing above the work.

Sometimes leadership is still putting your boots on, getting in the truck, heading to Lowe's, and handling what needs handled.

Never forget where you came from.

More importantly, never forget why you started.

08/07/2026

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Sometimes a phone call turns into something bigger than just a repair.

Brittany reached out to Urban Roots Properties after discovering a major issue at the home she recently purchased on a Contract for Deed. She had just moved in this past weekend when it was discovered that multiple gas fittings inside the home were leaking. Ameren was called out, and they also discovered a leak at the exterior gas meter. Ameren made the necessary repairs to their equipment, but Brittany still needed help addressing the issues inside the home.

And the timing couldn't have been worse.

Brittany is a mom of five. One of her children recently underwent brain surgery, and in the same weekend she brought her son home from the hospital, she was also trying to move her family into their new home.

So when she called, we went out.

We evaluated the situation, talked for a while, looked at what needed to happen, and decided we're going to document this one.

EDIT; Because of matters of personal nature, we mutually decided the day of repair that no video would be made. Chad.

You'll get to meet Brittany. You'll see the repair process. And along the way, we're going to talk about Contract for Deed purchases—what you should know, what you should look for, what questions you should ask, and why having someone put boots on the ground BEFORE you sign that contract can matter more than you realize.

This isn't about criticizing homeownership through a CFD. A Contract for Deed can provide a path to homeownership for people who may not fit inside the traditional lending box.

It's about making sure you understand exactly what you're buying before you sign.

Follow along. We're going to fix the immediate problem, but we're also going to use Brittany's experience to hopefully help the next person make a more informed decision.

That's what Urban Roots is supposed to do.

08/07/2026

It’s 4:30 in the fu***ng morning, there are files everywhere, and this is pretty much what the entire week has felt like.

But the work keeps moving.

Urban Roots Properties LLC is now hiring subcontractors. If you’re dependable, take pride in your work, and want to be part of what we’re building, message us to learn more.

Homes are also entering the URHS HomePath™ program now. Visit URHomeSolutions.com to learn about the program and fill out the contact form.

We also have Urban Roots Approved™ homes available now through Urban Roots Marketing. These are move-in-ready homes offered on Sound Foundation CFD™ terms through vetted, verified owners. Some may need light cosmetic work, but these are not the neglected, overpriced contract-for-deed properties people have come to expect.

When people hear Urban Roots Properties LLC, integrity already comes to mind.

Integrity isn’t just a word. It is the standard behind our name, the owners we work with, the homes we approve, and every path we put in front of the community.

And finally, Dory—with her boot in her mouth.

Boots on the ground. Always.

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