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House #36 – SOLD

House #36: Video Tour

October 31, 2012

My partner Marty and I were in Milwaukee last week tending to The WI-1 House rehab, and I put together a (really amateur) video of the house. I wasn’t expecting to actually post these, so ignore the low quality and the boring narration… 🙂 But, here’s how things are going:

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House #36: On To Sheetrock

October 16, 2012

I mentioned last week that we were in the midst of rough inspections on The WI-1 House. I’m happy to report that, as of today, we’ve passed all rough inspections (including insulation) and are on to sheetrocking! Sheetrock will likely take about a week, at which point we’ll start trim out, paint, flooring and cabinetry, […]

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House #36: Rough Inspections

October 8, 2012

Last week was a pretty frustrating week for me, especially on The WI-1 House. I asked my electrician, plumber, HVAC guy and carpenters to have their rough inspections completed by Wednesday, in hopes that it would actually get completed by end-of-week, so we could start insulating today (Monday)… Well, electrical and plumbing got completed before […]

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House #36: Exterior / Framing Pics

September 21, 2012

I spent the beginning of this week up in Milwaukee working on The WI-1 House… We ran into a bunch of logistical issues last week, and I decided it would be more efficient to just spend a few days up there sorting things out rather than trying to get everything done from 1000 miles away. […]

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House #36: Budget/Rehab Update

September 14, 2012

We’ve been working on The WI-1 House for about 3 weeks now, and it’s been a mix of good and bad… On the bright side, most of the contractors that we’ve brought in have been fantastic — they have been reliable, hard-working and high-quality. Unfortunately, we’ve run into a few issues with the house that […]

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House #36: Demo Pics

August 29, 2012

We finally got our permits for The WI-1 House, and demo is underway… We were supposed to have permits about a week ago, but the permit office dropped the ball and didn’t start working on the plan review until about 10 days after we submitted the application, at which point they said it could be […]

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House #36: Foundation/Rear Yard

August 15, 2012

We’re still waiting for full building permits for The WI-1 House, but in the meantime, our foundation company was able to pull permits for the foundation portion of the job and get that work done… As a reminder, we had an exterior wall that was bowing/deflecting quite a bit, so the foundation company came in, […]

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House #36: Open Floorplan

August 9, 2012

My partner Marty, my wife, our designer/architect and I have spent the past couple weeks trying to figure out how to reconfigure The WI-1 House to make it more open and updated. We’ve basically decided to do three major changes the the floorplan of the house: 1. We’ll open up the kitchen, living room, dining […]

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House #36: Almost Started

August 2, 2012

My partner on The WI-1 House and I spent much of last week up in Milwaukee trying to get our ducks in a row on that project (see schedule below)… We’ve made a lot of revisions in our scope of work and budget — the project has gotten a lot bigger over the past two […]

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House #36: Lessons Learned (So Far)

July 26, 2012

We closed on the purchase of The WI-1 House a couple weeks ago, and I’m up in Milwaukee again this week to continue building the team and preparing for the rehab. Since this is the first time we’ve tried rehabbing a house long-distance (and this is the first time we’ve had to build a team […]

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