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House #12: Mystery Solved

December 7, 2009

In my last post about The Mini House, I mentioned that there was some confusion over whether the appraisal had ever been carried out by the buyer’s lender. The buyer’s agent told us it was completed, but considering the appraiser never called us to get access to the house, we didn’t believe it. So, we […]

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House #12: Selling Weirdness

December 3, 2009

Just an update on the sale of The Mini House, which is scheduled for later this month (it’s actually a pretty weird story)… As I mentioned a couple weeks back, we received our fourth offer on this house. The buyer had three contingencies (milestones where she had to finish different parts of due diligence before […]

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House #13: Rehab Complete

November 21, 2009

After about seven weeks, we’ve completed rehab on The Poor House… In terms of sheer transformation, this house may be our best work yet. The entire exterior was renovated (new roof, new siding, new trim, new front deck, new back deck, trees cut down, etc), and the interior went through some major work as well […]

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House #12: Third Contract

November 15, 2009

As I mentioned last week, we received the fourth offer on The Mini House. After some back and forth on the negotiations, we now have binding contract (meaning all the contracts have been finalized and officially signed by both parties), and are hopeful this deal will close by the end of the year…of the four […]

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House #12: Fourth Offer

November 11, 2009

We received another offer on The Mini House yesterday… The offer was lower than we were looking for, but given that we’re going into the slow season, the deadline for the tax credit has essentially passed, and the fact that with the recent flooding in Atlanta a lot of houses in that neighborhood have gotten […]

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House #13: More Rehab Pics

November 8, 2009

It’s time for some more rehab pictures of The Poor House… The project is about 90% complete after 6 weeks. While the goal was to have it done right around now, we’ve gotten a lot of rain over the past few weeks, so the exterior renovations have been held up a bit. Basically, on the […]

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House #12: No Contract

November 1, 2009

A quick follow-up to my post last week about the second offer on The Mini House… Unfortunately, after not hearing back from the agent for another 24 hours, my wife called her (from my phone, as she wasn’t picking up calls from my wife’s phone), and finally got her on the other line. The woman […]

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House #12: Second Offer

October 27, 2009

Our marketing blitz from last week on The Mini House was successful in getting about a dozen buyers through the house within a couple days, which was good. And while I would have liked to have gotten more, I’m still happy that we ended up with a single offer coming from that group. The offer […]

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House #13: Rehab Continues

October 23, 2009

Below are some more pictures of the rehab on The Poor House… Things are moving along very quickly on this one (most things, at least). We’ve made two big decisions on this one to really appeal to buyers: We’ve decided to build a large beck deck (about 225 sq ft) to highlight the large, level […]

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House #12: Major Marketing

October 20, 2009

We’ve certainly learned the value of good marketing over the past year, and when we need to, we really put it to use. The first contract on The Mini House fell through a couple weeks ago after the appraisal came in low, and we were disappointed to find that we weren’t getting much activity through […]

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