this is the las vegas the world knows, the casinos, the hotels, the clubs. but step off the strip and you ll find another world that couldn t be more different. a world where lost people hide in plain sight. this is crazy. in the middle of the desert. oh my gosh. in boarded up buildings. wow, look at this place. even underground. it is pitch black in here. it s a world that can be dark, unpredictable. step out! and sometimes very dangerous. oh, someone s just coming out. could be a drug deal. it could be anything. police. you re unlawfully occupying this residence. tonight, las vegas natives introduce us to a side of sin city that few get to see. come out. come out. someone s in there. come out. and it s shocking. oh my god . realtor scott beaudry believes in vegas. vegas is like the phoenix. vegas will always survive. it s always been a mecca for individuals to make a new beginning. scott grew up here and has seen the city s
seen it through big ups and downs, huh? plenty. i remember driving through las vegas. even as a young boy, there was next to nothing out there. desert on either side of the road. now it s house after house after house. americans keep snapping up real estate at a record pace. fortune magazine is calling it the real estate gold rush. vegas went through what much of the country did in the early 2000s the housing boom. you could buy a house for 130 and by the time you closed, it could have been worth 200 or more. did you make pretty good money during that time? we all did. then it all went bust. the bank owned signs are all over town. look at the valley behind me. it is ground zero for the housing crisis. a decade later, the city s foreclosure rates are off the charts. and nearly 14,000 houses are vacant. and scott s properties have become prime real estate for more than just buyers. illegal occupants called
ainsley: on behalf of the american heart association. can you go on their website it is go red for women.org because number one killer of women. they are trying to eradicate heart disease and strokes. go on there and donate some money. the goal for today is $3 million. brian: hopefully we will reach that we also would like men to survive, too. so if you have a heart problem. pulling for you, too. steve: i just showed ainsley on my apple watch. i just did my ekg. ainsley: how is it looking? steve: it s steady. that s good. ainsley: that s a good thing. brian: like the stock market. big ups and big downs. steve: big down yesterday. thank you very much, facebook. which is blaming tiktok. brian: ted, you have paddles just in case. yep. brian: ted is mad add me i asked him if i left my phone up in office. turns out i didn t. i didn t have his cell because we are not that close. i emailed him to come back down. steve: i found my ipad.
it s always been a mecca for individuals to make a new beginning. scott grew up here and has seen the city s population explode. as a vegas native, you ve see it through big ups and downs, huh? plenty. i remember driving through las vegas. even as a young boy, there was next to nothing out there. desert on either side of the road. now it s house after house after house. americans keep snapping up real estate at a record pace. fortune magazine is calling it the real estate gold rush. vegas went through what much of the country did in the early 2000s. the housing boom. you could buy a house for 130, and by the time you closed, it could have been worth 200 or more. you make pretty good money during that time? we all did. then it all went bust. the bank-owned signs are all
schools in the area. scalby is doing well at the moment but there have been struggles. this was a great school when i was here but it s had big ups and downs, hasn t it over the years, what went wrong? i think schools have struggled in the area for recruitment. there s a real problem about getting working age professional people to come to scarborough then. definitely. the journey down the a64. yeah. and it s a fantastic place. did anyone say to you, what are you doing going to scarborough? they did. but we ve got the north york moors on our doorstep, we ve got dalby forest up the road and an hour that way takes you to the yorkshire dales. you couldn t really want for more, actually. absolutely no regret. maybe this is a moment of change. kane cunningham, a local artist, is certainly seeing something. i ve always believed in scarborough and i think.