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House #17: First Contract

April 26, 2010

Well, as I mentioned, it was a crazy couple weeks trying to get The Escher House on the market before the tax credit expired, but our hard work paid off — two days after it was listed we received our first offer. And within 24 hours after that, we had negotiated a full-price contract, and […]

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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, […]

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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, which […]

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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 a […]

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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 #17: Rehab Update

April 7, 2010

We’ve been working on the rehab of The Escher House for about two weeks now, and progress is tremendous (despite one surprise that I’ll mention below)… The exterior is nearly complete, with a new roof, mostly new siding, new gutters, a new front deck, new windows, new garage doors and a fresh coat of paint. […]

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House #16: Final Analysis

April 5, 2010

We closed on the sale of The Probate House today… Not only was this was quite an interesting project all-around, but it was the most profit we’ve made on any rehab to date (see financial breakdown below). While we originally found this property back in October (actually, we didn’t find it, our awesome closing attorneys […]

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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%, […]

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House #14: First Contract

March 29, 2010

I was going to post today about how we just put The Pine House (sorry, post-rehab pictures coming soon!) on the market, but I’m more excited about the fact that we received our first offer (and contract) even before it hit the MLS… We spent the weekend finishing up last minute details of the rehab, […]

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