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House #17: Final Pictures

April 23, 2010

With a couple exceptions, we have finally finished The Escher House rehab, including the staging and listing it on the MLS…
We did a full cosmetic rehab, plus some structural repairs and major landscaping in about 30 days, which is pretty amazing given the bad weather we had for the first half of the project, and [...]

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House #17: Almost Done (+Pics)

April 19, 2010

I realize that all my recent posts have been about The Escher House, but that’s because it’s the only house we have left under renovation, and because it’s been an absolutely crazy project the past couple weeks.
As many of you probably know, the home-buyer tax credit is scheduled to end on April 30, [...]

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House #17: Landscaping Update

April 18, 2010

Quick update on the landscaping issues over at The Escher House (with pics below)…
After several days of digging with a bobcat and an excavator, our landscaping guys were able to get through enough slate and rock to level part of the yard and put up the retaining wall a reasonable distance from the house. [...]

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House #17: Landscaping Woes

April 13, 2010

We’re nearing completion on The Escher House, and part of our last minute efforts is to do some very serious landscaping… (see pics below)
I mentioned previously the water we had sitting in the front yard, as well as the water that was seeping up from our driveway. Our landscaping expert verified that it’s [...]

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House #17: Exterior Rehab

April 9, 2010

In my last post about The Escher House rehab, I promised pictures…
While I don’t have a whole lot of pictures just yet, I wanted to post a BEFORE and (Almost) AFTER picture of the front exterior of the house.
We decided early on to remove all the cedar siding from the front of the [...]

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House #14: Staging Pictures

March 31, 2010

It turns out the potential buyer for The Pine House wasn’t qualified for a mortgage, so as of today, the house is officially on the market…
This was an incredibly long and tedious project relatively to some of our others — it took over 9 nines to complete, we were over budget by about 10%, and [...]

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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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