We mostly finished up rehab on The Probate House over the weekend, including staging and decorating…
I never did get around to posting the BEFORE pics (maybe before we sell it), but here are the final pictures of the house…
The house is deceptively big. Not shown in the pictures is two extra rooms that could be bedrooms or work areas, a storage room in the garage, an “office” in the garage, a mud-room, and another interior storage room. The house is about 2300 square feet, but because part of it was an addition that was laid out very poorly, it’s easy to miss a good part of the house if you’re not searching for it.
After all was said and done, we spent about $20K on rehab — we removed three dumpsters worth of trash, replaced a good bit of siding and trim, reglazed the windows, repaired the roof, replaced the gutters, removed a problematic tree and its root system, remediated all the interior mold and replaced the damaged drywall, treated for and repaired some termite damage to the framing, replaced most of the light fixtures, replaced a couple exterior doors, painted inside and out, and replaced the carpet. We still need to fix a couple minor electrical and HVAC issues, and the house will be ready to go.
Ultimately, this was more a remediation rehab than a structural or cosmetic rehab. In other words, we focused on fixing the mold issue and the root causes of the water penetrating the house; while we also did a bit of structural work (repaired some termite-damaged framing) and a good bit of cosmetic work, the remediation was our key concern and the most important piece of the renovation.
The house is going on the MLS today, and hopefully we’ll get some good feedback from potential buyers…
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