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House #13 – SOLD

Update for 12/31/2009

December 31, 2009

Just a quick update after my post from the other day, where I complained about all the issues with our closings this week (thanks for all the feedback, btw!)… As for the two houses we’re scheduled to buy — The Pine House and The Neighbor House — there is no new information. Neither closing has […]

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Disappointing Week

December 30, 2009

It’s been one of those weeks where I really wish I wasn’t in this business… We were scheduled to have four closings this week — the sale of The Poor House and The Mini House and the purchase of The Pine House and The Neighbor House — but it looks like we’re not going to […]

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Update for 12/21/2009

December 21, 2009

I haven’t had a chance to post in a couple days because I’ve been out of town, so I thought I’d give a quick update on everything we have going on these days… House #1: The Corn House Nothing much new with The Corn House. The lease-purchase tenants are consistently paying their rent, and their […]

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House #13: First Contract

December 8, 2009

We put The Poor House on the market about two weeks ago, and given the slowness around the holiday season, I wasn’t surprised that we just got our first showing just this past weekend. The great news is that this first showing resulted in a full-price contract… Not only a full-price offer, but the buyer […]

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House #13: Rehab Complete

November 21, 2009

After about seven weeks, we’ve completed rehab on The Poor House… In terms of sheer transformation, this house may be our best work yet. The entire exterior was renovated (new roof, new siding, new trim, new front deck, new back deck, trees cut down, etc), and the interior went through some major work as well […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, things […]

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House #13: Day 1 Rehab

September 29, 2009

As I mentioned earlier, The Poor House just started renovations. On the first day of rehab, we had a few trees removed, the roof came off, all the moldy drywall was removed from the basement, and the waterproofing company came in to tear up the concrete around the entire house and install a gravity drain. […]

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House #13: Rehab Underway

September 27, 2009

We closed on The Poor House this past Thursday, and after some confusion at the closing table (my wife was still in the hospital and needed to sign some papers), the house is now officially ours. Which is good, because renovations were getting underway the day after closing, whether we officially owned it or not… […]

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