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House #11: First Offer

July 8, 2009

We officially got our first offer on The Sunglasses House today, despite the fact that we’re still a month away from finishing the rehab… The offer came from our project manager (my brother) and his fiancee, who have been looking for a new home for themselves for several months now. In fact, they’ve put in […]

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House #7: Some Pictures

May 27, 2009

They say better late than never, so… We actually sold The Roach Duplex a couple weeks ago, and I never had the opportunity to post pictures of it before selling it (it was pretty much a wholesale deal, so the Before and After pictures are exactly the same). But, now that we are buying the […]

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House #11: Some Details

May 25, 2009

We now officially have The Sunglasses House under contract, and I wanted to share some details (including pictures) of the property. Here’s the quick rundown: Purchase Price: $33,000 Year Built: 1991 House Type: Split Level, 3/2 with Basement Room, 2-Car Garage Rehab Scope: This is likely to be our biggest rehab to date. Pretty much […]

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Rehab Analysis Spreadsheet

May 5, 2009

After putting my Business Plans up-for-sale yesterday, I decided to get back to my general ideal of giving away information on this site as opposed to selling it (though don’t get me wrong, the business plans are still for sale, are tremendously inexpensive and are tremendously useful :-)… Today, I want to give something away…here […]

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Update for 4/10/2009

April 10, 2009

Wow, so much going on, and not enough time to write…looks like this is going to be another overall update to bring everyone up to speed: House #1: The Corn House The Lease Purchase tenants at The Corn House moved in last week, and sent us a very nice email just the other day. They […]

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House #6: Final Pictures

April 3, 2009

As promised, here are the final pictures from The Red Garage House (minus a final garage picture, unfortunately)… I’m thrilled with how well this house turned out, and the staging makes it look 10x better. We’ve listed the property about $10K above what we had planned, in hopes that we can get a better-than-expected offer […]

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House #5: Rehab Complete

March 15, 2009

It’s been a couple days since I last posted; with lots of visitors in town since the baby news, lots of work going on, and lots of college basketball to watch, it’s been difficult to find time to write… Anyway, we completed rehab on The DIY House on Friday, and it’s now officially on the […]

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Update for 2/17/2009

February 17, 2009

Lots going on, and at one blog post per day, I’ll probably start getting behind…so here’s a general update on everything… House #1: The Corn House The Corn House is still under contract, and scheduled to close on March 4. The buyer is being somewhat of a flake…between fake phone calls to my listing agent […]

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House #5: Rehab Underway

February 10, 2009

It’s been just over a week since we closed on The DIY House, and already it’s undergone a nice transformation… We completed demo the first day (including removal of all fixtures, all flooring, all cabinets, countertops, etc). By the end of the second day we had finished scraping all the popcorn texture from the ceiling […]

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House #5: Some Details

January 3, 2009

As I mentioned before the holiday, we have another house that we’re ready to pick up. The DIY House is (finally!) officially under contract, and we’re hoping to close the middle of this month. Here are some pictures… The house is a 3/2 split-level with a large eat-in kitchen, separate dining room and large open […]

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