It took more than a month longer than expected, but we finally got The Full House closed (see all financial results below)…
A lot of things went wrong on the sale of this project — our private lender backed out the day before purchase closing, so we had to pay cash (resulting in lower ROI), the rehab took a little longer than expected (due to the holidays), the first contract fell through, it took awhile to get the second contract, the appraisal came in $10K too low and the buyers financing took a month longer than expected. But, ultimately, we got it closed and made a very decent profit.
Another good point of this project was that it was the first short sale we’ve picked up, and we’ve realized how lucrative short sales can be these days.
Here is the full final analysis for this one…
Timelines
Here are the key timeline milestones:
- Purchase Offer Date: 9/30/2011
- Purchase Closing Date: 12/5/2011
- Rehab Completion Date: 1/5/2012
- Sale Listing Date: 1/5/2012
- First Sale Contract Date: 1/19/2012
- Final Sale Contract Date: 2/22/2012
- Sale Closing Date: 4/20/2012
Financials
Here is the breakdown of financials for this project:
Our profit on this one was nearly $21,000, which is great for a simple cosmetic renovation like this. Our budget was $15,000, and we ended up about $500 over that, which was essentially the cost of the last minute repairs we needed to complete to satisfy the underwriter. If the appraisal had come in at the original purchase price ($110,000), we would have made an extra $6,000, but we knew that was going to be a stretch and were prepared for the low appraisal.
Final Statistics
Here are just some of the final statistics that I’ve been tracking for all my projects, and that summarize the success/failure of each project pretty well:
- From Offer to Purchase Time: 66 Days
- Rehab Time: 22 Days
- Selling Days on Market: 48 Days
- Selling Close Time: 58 Days
- Total Hold Time (Close to Close): 137 Days
- Total Profit: $20,886.21
- Return on Investment (ROI): 28.74%
- Annualized ROI: 76.56%
Good work J,
You certainly have a good system working, pumping out rehabs on a consistant basis. Don’t look back!
Mark (GM) Arlington
Hi J,
I see you “stage” the home, is that on your own, I do not see that cost built into the spreadsheets?
Great presentation with Marty at BP Summit, BTW!
Thanks,
Keith
Hey Keith,
Thanks!
We do all our own staging. My wife owns a staging company, and so all the furniture is owned outright. If you look at the “Budget Recap” posts that detail our cost breakdowns on our budgets for each project, you’ll see a line item for “Moving.” This is the cost of moving the staging furniture from house to house — but my wife does all the staging herself.
Hi J, you were kind enough to offer to send me your “chart of accounts” once your accountant was finished revamping it. Has he? Thanks
Hi Cheryl,
Actually, he hasn’t. He did about half the work (he “narrowed” the tags), but he hasn’t yet done the second half (flattening the accounts). I still have your email in my inbox and as soon as he finishes the work (hopefully in the next month), I’ll send that over to you.
How can I contact your wife about her Staging Company? We work primarily Cobb and Cherokee.
Hi Terri,
Shoot me an email to info@lishstaging.com. That will get to Carol, my wife…