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House #37: Budget Recap

November 30, 2012

The WTF House house been on the market for a couple weeks now and while it’s not under contract yet, we’ve gotten some great feedback and one offer (which likely won’t work out). This house is in a higher-priced neighborhood for the small city it’s in, so it’s getting less traffic than most of our […]

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House #41: Officially Ours / Pics

November 24, 2012

We closed on the purchase of The Rent-Back House last week… While we could easily rehab this one and resell it for a nice profit, we’ve decided to try wholesaling it first. There isn’t a lot of inventory in this area and investors are pretty desperate to find houses. So, we figured that if we […]

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House #38: Staging Pictures

November 20, 2012

We are almost finished rehabbing The Rot House… We’ve completed all the major exterior repairs and all the interior remodeling, and we’ve passed all our county inspections. We may want to do some modifications to the front deck and repair a retaining wall on the side of the house, but decided that we would move […]

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House #40: Ready for Rent

November 17, 2012

The Power House is rehabbed — which was basically replacing the hot water heater, putting in a stove, carpet cleaning, house cleaning, getting pest control, interior paint and some minor exterior repairs — and we’re now looking for a renter. Here are some pictures we used in the rental listing: THE POWER HOUSE: PRE-RENTAL PICTURES […]

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Houses #39 / #41: Craziness

November 13, 2012

After all the drama on The Rent-Back House, I think things are finally resolved… The 2nd lien holder today agree to accept the $2800 payoff (instead of $4300), and the sellers want to close in 48 hours! So, we’re trying to get this one closed on Thursday of this week… So, I’ve decided to revert […]

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House #41: The Next-Door House

November 12, 2012

EDIT (11/13/2012): The Rent-Back House debacle that I discuss below finally got sorted out, so *IT* will be House #39 and The Next-Door House will be House #41. I’ve mentioned The Rent-Back House a couple times over the past two months, and was hopeful that it was going to be House #38 and then House […]

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House #36: On To Finishes (Pics!)

November 9, 2012

First things first — for more pics, tips and videos of our rehab progress on all our houses, follow us on Facebook! The The WI-1 House has come a LONG way over the past couple months. My wife and I are up in Milwaukee for a couple days and are amazed at the transformation. While […]

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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 #37: Marketing Video

October 29, 2012

The WTF House is on the market, and my wife put together the following marketing video to include in the listing…feel free to take a look if you’re interested in getting a better idea of what our final product looks like: Enjoy! And if you want more pics and videos that I don’t necessarily post […]

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House #40: The Power House

October 24, 2012

We haven’t yet closed on the purchase of House #38 (The Rent-Back House), but we just got House #40 approved for purchase and we’ll be closing on it this week: This is a short sale that we originally offered on back in March of this year. We’ve been waiting over 7 months for the bank […]

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