This quad-level house is located in one of the better neighborhoods in Hammond, Indiana. Many of the homes in the surrounding area are 40 or more years old. However, there are also some newer homes around the corner from this one. This certainly helped the ARV (after repair value). This house has three bedrooms upstairs and an additional bedroom in the lower level. We left the layout alone upstairs with three bedrooms and one bathroom, but we changed the shower in the downstairs bathroom (off the family room) to custom glass shower walls with custom tile. We went with a warm color scheme. This house was only on the market for five days, and we had a full-price offer! ...
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7442 Idaho Avenue – Week Two – Kitchen We only made two layout modifications to this kitchen. First, we eliminated some upper cabinets to create more of an open concept and a “bar” feel. Second, we opened up the kitchen wall off the dining room to create a much more open concept between the dining room and the living room. It was a very rare thing for us to actually re-use the old kitchen cabinets, but they cleaned up beautifully! The gorgeous accent tile from Home Depot along with the custom-order granite really pulled all the colors together. From the flooring to the Martha Stewart paint on the cabinetry. Here are some of the SKU’s we used in the kitchen: Cabinets – Unfinished Oak Cabinets (387-246) Cabinets Color – Feather Duster (MSL 251) Cabinet Handles – Liberty Bronze with Copper Highlights Arched Pull (571-820) Backsplash – MS International Venetian Café (1000-012-776) Backsplash Grout – Polyblend #382 Bone 10-lb. Non-Sanded Grout (123-851) Stove – Frigidaire 30-inch, 5.0-cubic feet with Self-Cleaning Convection Oven in Stainless Steel (548-983) Dishwasher – Frigidaire Gallery 24-inch, Front-Control in Stainless Steel (169-416) Microwave – Frigidaire 30-inch, 1.7-cubic feet, Over-the-Range in Stainless Steel with Sensor Cooking (533-524) Refrigerator – Frigidaire Gallery, 26.6-cubic feet, French Door Refrigerator in Stainless Steel (405-432) Granite – Bainbrook (Custom Granite Company) ...
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It seems like every time I turn on the television, there’s discussions on cable news. Discussions about how flipping houses is a great way to make quick profits. It’d take me an hour to list all of those reality “flipping houses” shows! Well, they’re right, “flipping” houses is becoming more and more popular as the market improves. Flip deals are readily available which makes for an ideal environment for investors desiring to fix and flip houses. Therefore, this may have something to do with the current television frenzy. Flipping properties will never be easy. It takes a lot of hard work, on-going education and dedication to flip houses and turn a profit. Unlike many of those TV shows and news reports, house flipping, although seemingly simple and cliché, is not as simple as it seems! However, we’re going to do our best to simplify our processes and enable you to learn our secrets to flipping. We’re extremely excited to announce our newest project. The 8 Phases of Flipping! Over the course of the next several months, my team and I will be posting an on-going series that details our 8-phase process to flipping for 6 different Atlanta properties. Want to know the best part? It’s FREE! I am a strong believer in “teaching people to fish” rather than merely “giving them a fish”. Additionally, we are going to provide all cost numbers and even all of the Home Depot SKU’s that we used! This series will show you the 8 different phases to a flip for several of our Atlanta investment properties. You’ll have an opportunity to subscribe to our on-going blog series so that every time a new phase is completed for a specific flip, you’ll receive an email notification. This will allow you to witness the evolving transition from beginning to end. In order to illustrate the steps needed to flip houses, I’ve put together the following checklist for each of the eight phases – which simplifies what is in reality can become a very complicated process. I want to remove some of those complications! The 8 Phases of Flipping: 1. Project overview – basic info, size, location, numbers, how found property, budget, blue prints, permits, surveys 2. Demo – cost, number of dumpsters, time start to finish, crew size, landscape clean-up 3. Rough construction – framing, electrical, HVAC, plumbing 4. Exterior – window, siding, roof, decks/porches 5. Interior – drywall, trim, doors, flooring, paint 6. Kitchen– layout, cabinetry, countertops, backsplash, appliances 7. Bathroom – vanity, countertops, fixtures, tile, floor, shower, accent 8. Finished product – landscape, punch list, cleaning, branding, staging Are you as excited as I am?! To take part in this on-going educational series, please insert your email address on the right side of this page and click “subscribe” in order to subscribe to our blog! ...
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The warm color scheme really came through nicely in the remodeling of both bathrooms at this house. The upstairs bathroom is basically shared by the three bedrooms upstairs, and the downstairs bathroom with a custom-glass shower door is an optional bathroom for the downstairs bedroom or a great powder room off the family room and fireplace area. Rebecca’s tile choices really came through with a fresh look being we had the contractor’s mix up the designs a little to wrap around the glass block window upstairs, and we had them add diamond-shaped accents in the downstairs bathroom. Here are the SKU’s we used in the bathrooms: Upstairs Bathroom: Floor Tile – Sandy Beach (505-791) Floor Grout – Bone (123-852) Shower Tile – Montagna Cortina (102-294) Accent – Cosmos (366-928) Grout – Bone (123-851) Vanity – Home Decorators Collection (1000-019-073) Faucet – Moen Banbury 4” Bronze (502-654) Mirror – Headwest (406-293) Towel Bar Set – Delta Crestfield in Venetian Bronze (487-323) Bathtub – 5′ Aloha White RH (481-143) Tub/Shower Faucet – Moen Single Handle in Mediterranean Bronze (502-734) Toilet – Dual Flush by Glacier Bay (215-583) Downstairs Bathroom: Floor Tile – Broadmoor Topaz 13” x 20” (1000-012-494) Floor Grout – Bone (123-852) Shower Tile – Broadmoor Topaz 10” x 14” (1000-016-277) Accent – Café Noche (535-413) Grout – Bone (123-851) Vanity – Del Mar 36” (674-025) Faucet – Moen Banbury 4” Bronze (502-654) Mirror – Deco Brushed Platinum Rectangle (876-222) Towel Bar Set – Delta Crestfield in Venetian Bronze (487-323) Shower Faucet – Moen Single Handle in Mediterranean Bronze (502-734) Toilet – Dual Flush by Glacier Bay (215-583) ...
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