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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) will just [...]

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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 exterior, [...]

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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 backyard, [...]

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House #13: Rehab Pictures

October 5, 2009

We’re about a week and a half into the rehab on The Poor House, and while things are going a bit slower than I had expected, I’m very pleased with the work.
We brought in our GC from The Sunglasses House to do the bulk of the exterior and basement work, and so far, [...]

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House #11: Final Pictures

October 4, 2009

The rehab on The Sunglasses House finished a few weeks ago, and we finally had our house cleaner in there this week to get it ready for the new buyers. The rehab was a tremendous success; after spending over $65K on renovations, we completely remodeled both the interior and the exterior of the house.
On [...]

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House #13: Day 1 Rehab

September 29, 2009

As I mentioned earlier, The Poor House just started renovations. On the first day of rehab, we had a few trees removed, the roof came off, all the moldy drywall was removed from the basement, and the waterproofing company came in to tear up the concrete around the entire house and install a gravity [...]

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House #8: Final Analysis

September 18, 2009

We closed on the sale of The 16-Bid House today. It was a partial rehab and quick resale to another investor. Below is a final analysis of the deal, including financial results and statistics…
Timelines
Despite the fact that it took over six months to get the purchase of this property closed, the rehab and [...]

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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 — all an [...]

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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 #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 pictures…

The house [...]

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