Shorty the Flip House: Week 2

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Come back every Friday to see how this house, aka Shorty, progresses from week to week.  To catch up on the progress on Shorty, check out his previous posts here.  If you’re new here, (Hello!!!) you can find more about my 5 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!

It was a slow week out at Shorty, prepping for the next steps.  The most notable thing is that the yard got a trim and lots and lots of pieces of trash picked up from it with Handy Dad's help.

The other visible changes are both hanging out in the driveway: a dumpster and a porto-pot.  Now that the house is clean, demo of the kitchen and both bathrooms starts today!!!

Hubby and I did quite a bit of readying for the next steps this week: getting a quote for an exterior painter (so we can be first on the list for Spring), going through the house with both my contractor and electrician, and, what's most fun for me: starting on the kitchen layout!!

I'm having a couple different cabinet companies quote on it, but I did get one quote back with a 3d view which is getting me excited for it's potential!

Please disregard the color on the cabinets.  I would love Love LOVE to do a blue or green, but I don't think it's in the cards (aka budget) for this project.  While I'd like to veer away from a white kitchen and go with a moody gray for the cabinets, the $ is going to dictate which way I go.  Once I have a bit more direction on the cabinet color, I'll be making a decision about flooring too.  In a perfect world, I'd be extending the hardwood floors into the kitchen, but due to some level changes, it's looking like tile is going to be the only option.

While that's all I have to share with you this week, things should really start looking different next week.  As always, I'll be instagramming some behind the scenes pics, so be sure to follow me there!

Until next week, TTFN!

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Shorty the Flip House: Week 1

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Come back every Friday to see how this house, aka Shorty, progresses from week to week.    If you're new here, you can find more about my 5 previous flip houses here.  Did you miss last week's intro post?  Check it out first to see where we started from and how far we've come already!

Aside from some needed yard cleanup, there wasn't too much I could dig my hands into just yet.  Before any REAL work could get done, the house needed to be cleaned out and cleaned out it has been!  If you happened to catch my Facebook Live walk-though yesterday, you've already gotten more than a sneak peek!  After 4 overflowing dump trucks of stuff were removed, we can finally see all the bones of the house.  Thankfully there were no surprises!!

Most of the hardwood floors should be salvageable, some may need patching, but refinishing all these original floors will be STUNNING!

I can't wait to work out the details of my kitchen plan.  I'm going to break the rules of "flipping" and totally not play things safe in this house.  If I don't make potential buyers say "WOW" when they walk into this room, I'll be very disappointed in myself.

I'm kind of in love with the china cabinet.  It's in surprisingly good shape and just needs a little repair.  I don't even think I'd take a paint brush to it!

The master bedroom is shockingly large for a small house of this age.  Even though you need to go through the bedroom above to get to it, I think this space will be a selling feature.  The awkward, walk-through bedroom... well, it's not ideal for a 3rd bedroom, but this is where staging comes in.  I'll stage it either as an office or a nursery and show how functional the space is!

Now that you can see beyond the piles, are you seeing what I'm seeing in this house????  Shorty's going to be turning some heads when I'm done with it!

Hopefully next week, my contractor will be getting started on fixing up the exterior, I'll be getting my electrician and flooring guy in and we can start to hit the ground running!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Meet Shorty the Flip House

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Come back every Friday to see how this house progresses from week to week.  If you're new here, you can find more about my 5 previous flip houses here. Are you ready to get Shorty?  I mean meet Shorty?

Shorty is our 6th flip house and each one is a bit more fun than the last.  Let's talk details- Shorty gets his name from the fact that we purchased it from a short sale.  Basically with a short sale, the house is about to be foreclosed on but instead of foreclose, the bank agrees to let the owners sell the house and pay the bank off at a loss.  It's a long drawn out process with the bank that we've been waiting with baited breath on since July, but the waiting finally paid off!

The house is 1,200sf, built in 1920 with "3 bedrooms" and 1 1/2 bathrooms.  I use quotes on the bedrooms since you need to walk through one to get to the other, but town record has it as 3 and that's what we will go by.  It has a nice sized level lot, vintage charm, and a great commuter location, but needs a LOT of love.  First step: clean-out.  We put it in our deal that we would take it completely as-is and that's what has been done.  This is the first property that will need cleaning before we can really scope out the full extent of the project, but I'm optimistic.  I know there's a really cool house under there that just needs the years of neglect peeled away.

First for a quick tour around the yard.  I'll try and shut up and let the pics speak for themselves:

Welcome inside... (I'll post a more extensive interior "before" tour once it gets cleaned out)...

Now imagine those rooms emptied, repaired, and brought back to life.  Can't you just see it now??  I know I can and you'll just have to follow along to see where it ends up!  Our goal is to get this house listed by mid-March, weather permitting.  We'll most likely be painting the exterior first thing in spring, so I'm already crossing my fingers for cooperative weather..... in March..... in New England... Just call me an optimist!!

Have a great weekend!!

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