By Kathy Hanrahan
MURPHY, North Carolina (WRAL) -- A 9-year-old North Carolina boy has put his tree house on Airbnb.
Eli Sylvester and his mom, Rachel, recently listed his tree house for rent on the popular travel website. It has since become a popular place for families looking to get away.
The tree house, located on his family's 5-acre property in Murphy, has one bedroom and one bathroom. There is one full bed that doubles as a couch and an upstairs loft with two twin beds.
Several years ago, Eli told his mom he wanted to build a tree house so he could climb up and "shoot Nerf guns from the trees and play spies."
"Little did I know, you can't just put plywood in the trees. You actually have to have, like, braces," Rachel Sylvester said. "It's quite a structure that needs to be in there to support people walking around."
Rachel saw it as a teaching moment, encouraging Eli to find ways to fund the project.
Eli borrowed $200 from his mother to start his own small store selling crafts like small, hollowed-out chicken eggs filled with bird seed and picture frames.
After the first $200 profit, Eli repaid his debt and began investing his profits into the construction of his dream tree house.
Eli raised about $1,500 to pay for the floor of the tree house.
"We need to protect this floor. That's very expensive, which means we need a roof. And if you have a roof, that means you need walls," Rachel Sylvester said.
One item led to another and a year-and-a-half later, the family had...
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