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Real Estate

Before-and-After Photos – Coker Renovation

May 10, 2011

  8 weeks later and…… we’re FINISHED!!!!  This home went much quicker and smoother since we had a little experience under our belt.  Check out the before-and-after photos: This is what the front of the home looked like before: Aftera a lot of cleaning, power-washing, bleaching, sanding, and painting, this is what it looks like [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 8

April 25, 2011

This week, we painted the exterior of the home!  It went from looking like this: To this: How do you like the green??

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 7

March 31, 2011

This week, the home’s interior was painted. We went with Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams for all the bedrooms, halls, living room, dining room, and kitchen.  We thought the gray would look very pretty with the hardwood floors and white trim. As you enter the home, the living room with the front bedroom to the [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 6

March 31, 2011

This week the kitchen and bathroom flooring was installed.  Since this house will be a rental and not a re-sale, we chose to put down vinyl flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms.  Vinyl will hold up wonderfully for a long time and is a very economical choice for rentals.  If a tenant scrapes up the [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 4

March 20, 2011

During Week 4 of the Coker house renovations, they finished hanging all the drywall, mudded, and sanded the walls. They also pulled up all the carpeting and sanded the original hardwoods. Here is what you see upon entering the home: And here is the view looking towards the front door: Here is the formal dining [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 3

March 14, 2011

In Week 3 of the Coker House Renovations, they started to hang drywall and began work on the bathrooms.  Here is the new hallway that was constructed to lead to the back bedroom (rather than walking through the middle bedroom to access it) and to the new bathroom: Here is the new kitchen layout with [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Video After Demo

February 28, 2011

Here is a video I took after Week 1, once the team had completed the demolition: Post-Demo Home Tour

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 2

February 28, 2011

During Week 2 of the renovations, the construction team demo’d the house!  They tore off some of the wallpaper from the living and dining areas: They tore out the old closet in the middle bedroom: They began to knock a hole in the hallway to construct the laundry room: In the kitchen, they ripped out [...]

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Flipping Out – All Done!!!

January 10, 2011

FINALLY!!!  Four full months later, we are ALL DONE with our first historic renovation!!!! Here are some before and after photos: Whew!!!  So it took us a little over 4 months from start to finish, but we are more than please with the outcome and ready to rent it!  If you know of anyone looking, [...]

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Economists Expect Real Estate Recovery in 2011

January 3, 2011

The nation is in for more than a year of stagnant job creation and tepid economic growth that will set the stage for marked improvement in 2011, according to two of academia’s respected authorities on the economy and commercial real estate. In separate forecasts presented this month, economists in Georgia and Texas expressed dour expectations [...]

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