AMERICAN PICKERS star Mike Wolfe has used his show money to build a $3.4 million empire that includes four residences and 11 commercial buildings.
Mike Wolfe is a $7 million net worth American reality television star and antique hunter. He is best known as the co-host of the History Channel show “American Pickers,” which premiered in 2010. Wolfe and co-host Frank Fritz travel around the country looking for antiques in old businesses, sheds, barns, and garage sales. “American Pickers” is one of The History Channel’s most popular shows, having aired more than 300 episodes over 22 seasons as of this writing. Mike created the show and works as an executive producer in addition to appearing in it. In 2012, he acquired an endorsement contract with Indian Motorcycles and wrote a sitcom that was picked up by CBS, and in 2018, he appeared as himself on “NCIS.” Wolfe has also written two books, “American Pickers Guide to Picking” (2011) and “Kid Pickers”: How to Turn Junk into Treasure (2012). (2013). The Sun reports Mike’s real estate net worth is approximately $3,467,300.
Mike Wolfe was born in Joliet, Illinois, on June 11, 1964. Rita, Mike’s single mother, raised him and his two siblings, Beth and Robbie. After his family relocated to Bettendorf, Iowa, he began picking at a young age, collecting old bikes from a neighbor’s trash. Wolfe later began seeking for goods to sell in alleyways and abandoned houses. Mike graduated from Bettendorf High School in 1982 after attending Sudlow Intermediate School, where he met future “American Pickers” co-host Frank Fritz.
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Before starting primary school, Wolfe began exploring for antiques and other hidden treasures. He was first drawn to vintage motorcycles, which led to a career in professional racing and the establishment of his own bike shop, The Village Bike Shop. Mike then began actively looking out vintage bikes and other vintage items, and he still remembers his favorite find of all time as a warehouse filled with Indian Motorcycles. In 2000, he founded Antique Archeology in Le Claire, Iowa, and in 2011, he opened a second facility in Nashville, Tennessee. Wolfe started selling his own lighting collection, ‘Rustorations’, at the Nashville store in 2012.
Mike’s reputation for discovering hidden treasures drew The History Channel’s attention, and “American Pickers” premiered on January 18, 2010, attracting over three million viewers; it was the network’s highest-rated debut since the premiere of “Ice Road Truckers” in 2007. Wolfe “looks for objects with a narrative; items that fill in some of the voids in America’s everyday history,” according to the show’s official website. Besides his work on “American Pickers,” Mike also launched Two Lanes, a line of American-made apparel and accessories, and he owns Two Lanes Guesthouse, a rental property in Columbia, Tennessee, that allows guests to “see picks from the show that Mike has pulled out of barns and sheds across America presented as decor.” Two Lanes Guesthouse is located above Trek Bicycle Shop, which is also owned by Wolfe.
Mike and Jodi Faeth had a daughter, Charlie, on January 30, 2012, and married Jodi on September 8, 2012, after 18 years of dating. Charlie was born with a cleft palate and had undergone two surgeries to repair the problem by the time she turned one. Wolfe and Faeth were inspired by their experience to become Operation Smile ambassadors. Jodi was diagnosed with stage 2 non-lymphoma Hodgkin’s in December 2013, and Mike announced on Instagram in May 2020 that Faeth had been cancer-free for six years.
Wolfe bought a 5,100-square-foot home in Franklin, Tennessee’s Leiper’s Fork neighborhood in 2012. The 32-acre estate has a library, four patios, a phone booth, and a fenced-in dog run. Mike and Jodi renovated the house, adding marble countertops and new light fixtures in the kitchen, and Wolfe said he knew he had to buy the property when he saw the basement with barn doors (the perfect place to keep his 40 motorcycles).
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LIVING IN A MANSION
Mike, 57, and his now ex-wife Jodi, 50, paid $182,200 for a property in Franklin, Tennessee in May 2016.
The magnificent 5,062 square-foot property is situated on 28 acres of land.
There is even a brook that flows through the property and may be crossed by a bridge.
Mike was ordered in their divorce to sign over the marital house to Jodi within 30 days of the breakup on December 6.
The house is still in their names today.
Mike and Jodi purchased a $375,000 home on the same block in January 2018 through a company LLC.
The two-story, 1,834-square-foot house sits on 2.1 acres of property.
Mike was given the house in their divorce.
Mike and Jodi also paid $450,000 for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom property in North Carolina in October 2019.
The 1,422 square-foot vacation home in Maggie Valley lies on one lot and features amazing views of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
In their divorce, Jodi was also given this house.
Mike purchased a property in Franklin, Tennessee for $1,050,000 through one of their LLCs in June 2020, the same month he separated from Jodi.
Mike appears to reside in a 3,153-square-foot estate with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, as well as an attached garage for storing his antiques.
In their divorce, Mike was awarded the bachelor pad.