What Buying A Hud Owned Home is REALLY Like
Below I recount my personal experience with buying a HUD owned home. The short story is this: Buying a HUD owned home was the worst buying experience of my life. My realtor had never seen it before,...
After purchasing our first flip, holding onto it for a year and finally making a good profit, we were able to purchase Main Street House. It will eventually be an investment rental property but in the short term we’ll be moving into the main house and renting out the one bedroom apartment above the garage.
How to Tear Down a Deck in 60 Seconds
On top of remodeling the apartment above our fixer upper’s garage… And on top of all the emergency issues we’ve fixed… And on top of our full time jobs… we still found time to do...
Master Suite Renovation Updates
Our second fixer upper, Main Street House, is currently a 3 bedroom 1 bathroom home, but not for long. Our house has a totally unfinished attic which we plan to turn into a new large...
Where to Spend Money on Renovations
Update 9/7/17: I love re-reading older posts. The apartment we remodeled rented in 3 days and we got our asking rent which was $250 more per month than we originally thought we’d ask! So this...
Lets Talk Apartment Bathroom :: “See, what happened was…”
I know I said in my last post that hopefully the next post would be titled “apartment update: it’s rented” but I decided to throw one more update in here for you. And it’s all...
Let’s Talk Apartment Renovation Update – First one in Five Months!?!
“I love the smell of fresh plumbing” was the first thing I said after we opened the garage door the day after the plumbers finished working on the plumbing for the apartment above the garage....
Roof. Ridge. Rain.
For some reason I don’t feel complete without publishing a post on my many DIY projects. Case in point, we finished the apartment/garage roof weeks ago and I still have yet to post anything about...
You Win Some, You Win Some – Hardwood Floor Wins
I usually don’t get to write about “wins” when it comes to renovating. It always seems like one small problem escalates into a bigger one, a much bigger one that winds up costing us time and...
Let’s Talk Apartment :: Before Pictures::
I don’t know how it slipped my mind… but someone informed me the other day that I never posted any before pictures of the one bedroom apartment above the garage of the most recent house...
It’s Raining Mice Poop
We purchased Main Street House as a long term investment property and a short term place to call home. The renovations we’ve done so far have revealed the fact that groundhogs, raccoons and skunks have taken...
