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House #13: Dead Deal

January 4, 2010

If you’ve been following the saga of The Poor House, here’s the next chapter… After telling his agent that he would meet with her to discuss getting the purchase back on track, the buyer again stopped returning her phone calls. As somewhat of a friend to the buyer, she even went to his house to […]

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House #16: The Probate House

January 3, 2010

I’m not going to go so far as to say that we have our next house under contract, but I’m hopeful. I mentioned a couple months back that we were talking to a woman whose mother passed away and who had inherited a house… After not hearing back from the woman for a couple months […]

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Update for 12/31/2009

December 31, 2009

Just a quick update after my post from the other day, where I complained about all the issues with our closings this week (thanks for all the feedback, btw!)… As for the two houses we’re scheduled to buy — The Pine House and The Neighbor House — there is no new information. Neither closing has […]

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Disappointing Week

December 30, 2009

It’s been one of those weeks where I really wish I wasn’t in this business… We were scheduled to have four closings this week — the sale of The Poor House and The Mini House and the purchase of The Pine House and The Neighbor House — but it looks like we’re not going to […]

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House #14 / #15: Before Pics

December 23, 2009

As promised, here are some BEFORE pictures of the two houses we put under contract in the past two weeks… The Pine House (see BEFORE pics) is in need of a full renovation, including some major mold remediation and a full cosmetic rehab on both the interior and exterior. The Neighbor House (see BEFORE pics) […]

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Update for 12/21/2009

December 21, 2009

I haven’t had a chance to post in a couple days because I’ve been out of town, so I thought I’d give a quick update on everything we have going on these days… House #1: The Corn House Nothing much new with The Corn House. The lease-purchase tenants are consistently paying their rent, and their […]

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House #15: The Neighbor House

December 17, 2009

We got our fifteenth house under contract yesterday…another bank-owned foreclosure… This house is completely generic, and we couldn’t come up with a very descriptive name for it; but it’s practically next door to The Pine House, so we’re just going to call it The Neighbor House for the time being. This was the second house […]

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House #14: Getting Bids

December 14, 2009

My project manager had a number of contractors out to The Pine House today to get bids on the work. I had to take a last minute trip up to NY today, so I didn’t have a chance to be there, but he gave me the run down… On every project, I generally start by […]

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House #14: The Pine House

December 11, 2009

It’s been a long time since we’ve purchased a new house, but not for lack of trying. We’ve put in probably 25 offers over the past three to four weeks, and each was either rejected, countered too high, or outbid by another buyer. That said, over the past week or so, things have been softening […]

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House #13: First Contract

December 8, 2009

We put The Poor House on the market about two weeks ago, and given the slowness around the holiday season, I wasn’t surprised that we just got our first showing just this past weekend. The great news is that this first showing resulted in a full-price contract… Not only a full-price offer, but the buyer […]

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