Courtesy Brent Underwood The seller accepted the offer, and Underwood wired over a non-refundable $50,000 deposit. Then he and his partner, Jon Bier, called everyone in their networks to raise money.

(Courtesy Brent Underwood) When the town was put on the ... Within the month, Brent, his business partner Jon Bier, and a handful of friends-turned-investors had purchased Cerro Gordo for $1.4 ...

Dying here is the exit plan,” Brent Underwood tells me from somewhere above the accidental tomb of 30 immigrant miners. Underwood and a partner bought Cerro Gordo two years ago, and despite the ...

The smell of scorched wood and melted wiring lingered in the air Thursday as Brent Underwood surveyed ... part of the myth and allure that Underwood and his partners are banking on, in part ...

Courtesy of Brent Underwood ] As a child growing ... Many had expressed interest in buying the town. Underwood, with business partner John Bier and a group of investors, pitched a plan to restore ...

Back in 2018, he and some business partners bought it to turn it into ... lived here and maintained the town before 34-year-old Brent Underwood bought it. Burbank asked, "How long do you think ...

A little over a month after a 19th century ghost town in California called Cerro Gordo went on sale, Brent Underwood ... so many lives.” Underwood said he and business partner Jon Bier had ...

Brent Underwood moved from Austin to the abandoned ... I've lost a relationship. I've lost business partners. I've lost most of my life savings. Many think I've lost my mind," he writes in the ...

Brent Underwood, a young entrepreneur, bought the abandoned California ghost town of Cerro Gordo in 2018 for $1.4 million. Cerro Gordo was once known for mining silver and lead, and between 1865 ...

When we last spoke with Brent Underwood in September 2020, he had just survived appendicitis, an earthquake, a hailstorm and a flash flood. A blizzard dumped 5 feet of snow, trapping the Florida ...

Brent Underwood was fed up with shady authors gaming the online publishing industry to attain "best-seller" status, so he put his foot down — literally. Last month, Underwood spent $2.97 and ...