BiggerPockets

First flip done! Thanks everyone for your help throughout the process! It wasn't always easy, and I had to get my hands dirty on a couple things, but all and all, it was a success. We had multiple offers within the first 2 days of listing and had an accepted offer at full list on the 3rd day!

See the listing below for pictures :

http://www.weichert.com/44251864/

Congratulations!!! your renovation choices were fantantic.

Thanks everyone!

Manuel,

This Spring I was looking at houses for 3-4 months with no luck. I finally closed on this house in early July. 1 month later, I got another house which we are currently remodeling. I probably made 20+ offers before I got this house, but I don't think that is A-typical from what I have heard. Hang in there...

Nice new garage doors, different color shuttles,
front door entrance definitely makes a difference

Did you find there still a market for stainless steel
versus all black appliances?

Very nice backsplash, kitchen flooring, and basement renovations

Cabinets - new, re-facing, simply painted ?

What was your purchase price and renovation budget ?

Congrats

Jenkins,

The house needed quite a bit of work from top to bottom. Overall we spent $39,000 and had around $38,000 budgeted, so a little overbudget, but not too bad. Here's a list of repairs and approximate costs:

New 100AMP service w/ all new copper wiring throughout: $3,000
New roof $4500
7 new windows: $2500
Drwall patching/texturing $3000
New doors/trim throughout: $1800
Hardwood flooring material (I installed): $600
Carpet: $2800
Tile: $800
Bathrooms: $2500-3,000 a piece
Granite countertops: $1500
Paint Material (I painted): $1000
Garage Doors: $1200
Appliances: $2000
And a whole bunch of miscellaneous stuff (it's on a spreadsheet somewhere)=$39,000

Purchase price was $54,000 and have a pending offer at $120,000 which was our goal from the start. We should make around $17,000 on the project.

I'm glad you like the new shutters, the old shutters that were on the house had BATS living behind them! So that was interesting...

The kitchen cabinets were just painted white.

How did you pay for your rehab? Hard money, cash or conventional loan? Ive been having a hard time getting my first rehab because im using a conventional loan, while alot of people are making offers all cash in my area. At least that's all i can come up with..

@David Robertson Awesome job! Looks like you did everything right. A lot of guys will throw out perfectly good cabinets. Your coat of paint made them look new. Good luck on flip #2!

Might I ask where you got the house? HUD home? MLS?

Thanks for all the compliments.

To answer a couple of questions:

Scott, The rehab took about 9 weeks start to finish. This being our first remodel, it took us a while to get some contractors on board. I also did some of the work myself...I thought the interior painting and punchlist would never end! All-in-all, I think we could have completed the project a couple of weeks faster if we had our ducks in a row.

K, The flooring in the kitchen was a 3/8" solid bamboo flooring. The tile is all porcelain tile and glass mosaic tile that was bought from the Home Depot.

Scott/Corey, The house was a cash offer for a bank foreclosure that we purchased off the MLS.

Steve, I am not aware of a requirement to have egress windows in a finished basement, unless it is a bedroom in the basement. Also, this basement was originally finished when the house was first built back in 78. I believe this may have been grandfathered-in, but I'm not sure...Nothing was brought up at the inspection.

Amazing job David! This is getting me excited to start working on my property. Hopefully it will be a success like yours.