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House #11: Financing Issues

September 17, 2009

As I’ve mentioned on a number of occasions, our project manager for Lish Properties (who is also my brother) is in the process of buying The Sunglasses House. And to be more specific, his fiancee was buying the house with a loan in her own name, and both of them are to be on the […]

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House #6: Fifth Offer

September 16, 2009

After my small rant yesterday about The Red Garage House being “the bane of my existence,” we just received our 5th offer this morning! But, unlike the previous four offers, I’m actually confident that we’ll be able to get this one closed. The buyer submitted the offer this morning, and gave us a deadline of […]

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Update for 9/15/2009

September 15, 2009

Let me first mention today that my wife and I are expecting our first baby any day now (he was due this past weekend), so if you notice a few days where the blog is not getting updated, you’ll know why… 🙂 Anyway, I think it’s been about a month since I’ve done a general […]

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House #8: First Contract

September 14, 2009

After several showings of The 16-Bid House over the weekend, we received two written offers, and several other interested buyers… So as not to extend this deal too long (baby is coming any day now), we decided to try to negotiate the best offer to where we wanted it, and get the paperwork signed as […]

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House #8: On The Market

September 13, 2009

After closing on The 16-Bid House about a week ago, we did a quick partial rehab and have put it back on the market to resell to another investor. Here are the pictures of our partial rehab… Given the rehab we’ve already done — siding repair, drywall repair, new front door, and paint inside-and-out — […]

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House #12: Final Staging

September 9, 2009

I just realized over the weekend that I never posted any final pictures of the The Mini House after it’s been staged… Here you go! And to make up for my slacking on this, I even did a quick little walk-through video (not great, but it will do):

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House #8: Officially Ours

September 3, 2009

Well, it took over 6 months, 6 contract extensions, and lots of headaches, but we now finally own The 16-Bid House… Rehab will likely start on Saturday, and will hopefully be completed by Monday. We’ll start looking for investor buyers next week, and hopefully we’ll be able to sell it relatively quickly… It’s been a […]

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House #13: Some Details

September 2, 2009

We put The Poor House under contract after looking at it for only 5 minutes (it was priced right), so I decided to head back there today to look at it a little bit more closely and to start putting together a scope of work… Here are some additional details about the house: First, some […]

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House #8: Closing Scheduled

September 1, 2009

We finally have the closing scheduled for The 16-Bid House! After literally 6 months (185 days) of having this house under contract, the bank finally has clear title, the closing attorney finally has all the paperwork, and the closing is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. Of course, I’ll believe it when I actually get to the […]

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House #11: First Appraisal

August 31, 2009

For the first time in this business, we’ve actually been caught by surprise at someone else’s competence… As I mentioned previously, my brother/project manager is buying The Sunglasses House. Normally, we’d be waiting until the 90-day FHA seasoning was completed before we submitted a contract and got the mortgage paperwork started, but we’ve found a […]

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