#15 rental was purchased today

#15 rental was purchased today

Property Manager · Livonia, MI · Member since 2011 · 4k+ posts · 1k+ votes

We have worked on this since the beginning of april. but it's worth the wait. i first talked about the condition of the house here. the court documents took a long time, then the purchase price was discussed again. 

at the beginning, i had offered $50k. My estimated repair would be around 60k, the ARV would be around 130k. Help with @Michael Quarles i realized that i would not be a "home run". I went back to the estate executor and negotiated 20k off the originally agreed upon price. 

the house is located in Livonia. 

We are restructuring the loans of 7-9 of our current homes to get a credit line that's around 200k to give us more purchasing power for future purchases and repairs.. Since the line is not up and running yet, I had to borrow some money from a family member that doesn't even want a dime in interest. 

I have found a GC that will be doing the work. I am tired of running to home depot at night (and before my full time day job) and dropping supplies before the contractors come in. I will do this one the right way - sign a contract, visit the site at night and let someone else worry about the HVAC guy being a day late. I will just write the check.

this makes it 6 houses this year. I will be talking to Michael about my yellow letter campaign very soon. 

Will post picture when i find my high speed CF card!

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Flipper/Rehabber · Greeley, CO · Member since 2013 · 2k+ posts · 1k+ votes
11y

nice work @George P.   Your killing me!

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  • Investor · Huntington, WV · Member since 2014 · 8 posts · 6 votes
    11y

    Congrats!!!

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    Investor · Boise, ID · Member since 2011 · 1k+ posts · 736 votes
    11y

    Way to go!   Congratulations...especially impressive with a full time job.  

  • Property Manager · Livonia, MI · Member since 2011 · 4k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    11y
    Originally posted by @Rob K.:

    Nice work @George P.

    Those original floors were hit! Did you tear out the hardwood and replace, or put laminate over? Hard to tell from the pic.

     i took out everything down to the joists. the plywood was 3/8 and it broke in lots of places white removing the hardwood. so we put down 3/4 - good stuff and glued it down before screwing it. then put 3/4 solid hardwood on top.

    i also had to plane down the area where the joist meet since it was buckling and pushing the subfloor by about 1 inch at the wall. i did that myself and it took 6 hrs on my knees to do the 20+ joists.. i am not afraid of sweat equity. i need to change that asap!!

  • Property Manager · Livonia, MI · Member since 2011 · 4k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    11y

    i dont think i have a pic of the basement. my account got locked out while trying since i uploaded so many pics..

    here are they..

  • Rental Property Investor · Douglas County, MO · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    11y

    It's a good thing that original kitchen was well stocked with paper towels!

    ;-)

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