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House #1 – SOLD

Update for 12/12/2008

December 12, 2008

A quick update before the weekend… House #1: The Corn House The Corn House is still on the market — 50 days and counting. While I’m not too terribly surprised (like I’ve mentioned before, it was my first purchase and I’ve learned a lot since then), it’s a little disappointing to have such a nice […]

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House #1: No Buyer

November 26, 2008

We had our first offer on The Corn House this past weekend, but unfortunately, it didn’t work out. The potential buyer called my wife on Saturday to take a look at the house, and mentioned up-front that she wasn’t yet pre-qualified for a loan. Of course, we walked her through the house anyway, and she […]

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House #1: Open House

October 27, 2008

The Corn House went on the market last week, and I’m very annoyed that in the first 7 days, my agent brought exactly 0 people through the house. It’s a fantastic house for a fantastic price, and I’m convinced that if we can get just a few buyers through, we’ll get an offer. In fact, […]

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Update for 10/22/2008

October 22, 2008

Now that I’m down to rehabbing a single house for the first time in over a month (The Bulge House sale just closed and The Corn House is now on the market), things feel very slow. I’ve decided to use much of the past two days to look at new houses on the market, focus […]

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House #1: Purchase/Rehab Costs

October 18, 2008

Now that The Corn House is officially on the market, I did my final accounting to determine how much I’ve spent to both purchase and rehab this property. My original budget for this project project was $30K, plus 10% for “surprises,” for a total budget of $33K. Additionally, my goal was to keep total costs […]

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House #1: Rehabbed!

October 17, 2008

We finally finished The Corn House rehab today! While the GC finished a couple days ago, we’ve spent the last couple days touching up, staging, landscaping, and doing some repainting of the front deck… When our agent stopped by to view the property the other day, she noted that the vinyl siding (which can’t easily […]

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House #1: After Pics

October 9, 2008

As promised, here are some pictures of the interior of The Corn House, taken during staging today… While the house isn’t yet fully staged, these should give a general idea of the work we did and the final outcome of the interior. I think I speak for the whole team (my wife, my brother, his […]

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Update for 10/8/2008

October 8, 2008

A general update on everything going on with the houses and the continued search for more properties: House #1: The Corn House We’re about a week behind schedule on this project (my very first project), but we’re getting down to the wire. Yesterday, we started staging the interior, and today we’ll be finishing staging and […]

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House #1: Financial Update

September 24, 2008

It’s been about 5 weeks since rehab began on my first house (The Corn House), and we’re starting to near the finish line. Appliances, hardwood floor installation, some back-splash tiling, and a bunch of exterior work are all that stands between present condition and completion, and for the first time in several weeks, the house […]

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Update for 9/22/2008

September 22, 2008

With so much going on these days, I thought I would just post another general update on everything going on… House #1: The Corn House The Corn House is coming along nicely, after 5 weeks of rehab work. While technically the rehab was scheduled to finish this past Friday, I had pulled the contractors off […]

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