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House #19: Week 3 Pictures

November 10, 2010

We are at the end of week three for The Flood House rehab, and I’m happy to report that we’re still on-schedule and still ahead of budget…
This week we completed the drywall installation, hung the doors, installed the baseboards, replaced a bunch of windows, painted the interior and made some repairs to the exterior trim. [...]

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House #19: Week 2 Pictures

November 3, 2010

We are at the end of week two for The Flood House rehab, and so far, we’re pretty much on-schedule and a bit ahead of budget…
After completing all the demo, rough plumbing, rough electrical and inspections during week one, we’ve spent week two doing mold remediation, installing insulation, and hanging/finishing drywall. The mold remediation [...]

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House #18: Rehab Complete

September 17, 2010

We finished the rehab on The Haggle House earlier this week (total of three days), got some appliances installed yesterday, and are finishing up the cleaning today. We’re planning to start looking for renters this weekend…
This was our smallest and quickest rehab yet (as it’s our first rental property and the goal wasn’t to [...]

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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 weeks 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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