- Samuel Leeds and his wife Amanda got his in-laws the house for Mother’s Day
- The 33-year-old property investor shared the heartwarming reaction on YouTube
- Bornwell and Ellen Machekanyanga had planned to move closer to their family
A British property investor brought his in-laws to tears with a £600,000 ‘forever home’ Mother’s Day present.
Samuel Leeds snapped up the Buckinghamshire property after viewing it with his wife Amanda and her parents Bornwell and Ellen Machekanyanga before wrapping it in a giant red ribbon for the big day.
The 33-year-old has amassed a multi-million pound business on the back of being raised on a Walsall council estate and leaving school at 16, but is grateful to be able to share his fortune with the ones he loves.
Samuel told MailOnline: ‘I was champing at the bit to tell them, it was quite emotional – the whole process.
‘We had to rush it through to complete before Mother’s Day but we thought it would be nice to do it by then.’
The video, uploaded to Samuel’s YouTube channel, shows the heartwarming reaction.
Both parents were gobsmacked as they walked onto the road and saw the house that they had been so fond of on viewing days earlier wrapped up like a giant present.
Once inside, Bornwell and Ellen were greeted by a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of champagne, a box of chocolates and a letter.
Reading the letter, Bornwell said: ‘Mum and Dad, never a day goes by when we don’t appreciate you. We hope you are happy in your new home.’
It was then revealed that the house was not the entire present. They were even gifted a cheque for £30,000 to help with refurbishments and decorating the home.
With that, as well as stamp duty, the present come to just short of £600,000.
As the gift started to sink in, Bornwell revealed his wife ‘never stopped talking about this house’.
But it was far from a straightforward process for Samuel to secure it, even with his experience buying and selling property.
Before putting the offer in for his in-laws’ dream home, Samuel had already planned to purchase a different property for the couple who wanted to move closer to their daughter.
Being in property, and with Mother’s Day coming up, Samuel decided to take matters into his own hands and hatch a plan.
He and Amanda took Bornwell and Ellen round a bungalow, which the parents said looked ‘great’.
Satisfied, Samuel put an offer on the place after checking it was a good idea with his wife.
However, shortly after the four were having dinner together when Bornwell and Ellen revealed that they had found somewhere they liked even more.
‘My heart dropped,’ Samuel recalled. ‘They were even laughing about it saying, “it’s like the Little House on the Prarie, we wouldn’t move into that little bungalow. We’re not that old!”
‘So I then immediately slipped out and rang the agent and withdrew the offer, and the house that had made them not like the bungalow was the house that we ended up buying.’
The property millionaire also revealed that he has come on quite the journey with his in-laws.
Samuel and Amanda – who comes from a traditional Zimbabwean family – met a decade ago at a wedding, when Samuel plucked up the courage to ask for Amanda’s number.
Things moved quickly and the two soon decided they wanted to commit the rest of their lives to each other.
However, Amanda’s father was skeptical about their daughter marrying someone from a different background.
Samuel wrote a desperate letter to Bornwell in Zimbabwe ‘pleading with him to at least meet me and poured my heart out’.
‘He then rang me,’ Samuel continued, ‘flew over and gave me his blessing. I proposed to Amanda the next day and then we married the next month.’
Now, the 33-year-old and his father-in-law could hardly be closer, and embrace countless times in the recent clip.
‘When we met in person,’ he said, ‘we absolutely hit it off and became very, very close.’
And it is not the first time Samuel and Amanda have moved some of the latter’s family over.
Announcing the happy news on Instagram, Samuel said: ‘Success is supposed to be shared.
‘We’ve now brought 51 people over to our village in Buckinghamshire, including children.’
William Turner is a seasoned U.K. correspondent with a deep understanding of domestic affairs. With a passion for British politics and culture, he provides insightful analysis and comprehensive coverage of events within the United Kingdom.
