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Houses

House #37: Final Analysis

February 10, 2013

We closed on the sale of The WTF House on Friday… The most interesting part of this project was the purchase (which I’ve already detailed here) and the sale closing. The buyer was scheduled to close on the sale of her current residence on February 14 (was hoping to close sooner) and we were scheduled […]

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House #36: Moving Forward

February 7, 2013

We’re through inspections and appraisal on the The WI-1 House, and we’re scheduled to close by the end of the month… The inspections went well, though the inspector found two relatively big issues. The first was the chimney — the previous owners had “modified” it to support a gas stove and had to cut through […]

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Water Water Nowhere

February 5, 2013

Just a follow-up to my post from last week about the water issues we’ve been having at several houses… I thought the The WI-1 House was fixed, but then during the buyer’s inspection last week, the inspector saw water in the corner of the basement again. It turns out that my roofer only did half […]

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House #44: The Retail House

February 1, 2013

We just completed the purchase of House #44…here are some pictures… This house is two doors down from The Rot House, which we just sold last week. We originally found this property several months ago when we started working on The Rot House. My wife was walking the neighborhood trying to meet a few of […]

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Water Water Everywhere

January 30, 2013

We’ve had several issues with water at our properties in the past week or so… First, The WI-1 House was seeing some water intrusion into one of the corners of the basement. Since we had just excavated and braced that wall — along with completely finishing the space — we were a bit worried. Ultimately, […]

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House #43: Preliminary Budget

January 27, 2013

The Tear-Down House is certainly going to be a learning experience for my partner and myself. While we’ve both done some major rehabs (and he has his General Contractors license), this will be the first time for either of us that we’ll basically be building new construction. Pretty much the only things that won’t be […]

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House #36: Contract/Lesson

January 23, 2013

We received two offers on The WI-1 House this week, and have accepted one of them. It’s near full-price, reasonable inspection period, minimal closing costs and everything else about the offer is clean. The buyers have 12 days for inspections and we’re scheduled to close at the end of next month. I also learned an […]

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House #39: Budget / Pictures

January 21, 2013

We purchased The Rent-Back House about two months ago, and because there was a 4-month restriction on us reselling it, we agreed to allow the sellers to rent the house back for two months. They just left last week, and I just saw the house for the very first time… While there’s nothing major wrong […]

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House #38: Final Analysis

January 19, 2013

We closed on the sale of The Rot House earlier this week for a great profit and ROI (see details below)… The project went relatively smoothly, and except for a few things that were missed during the rehab (that we had to take care of after the buyer’s inspection), there were no major surprises and […]

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