Nessie the Flip House: Week 11

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Check in each Friday to see weekly update of how this house progresses!  To catch up on the progress on Nessie, check out her previous posts here.  If you’re new here (Hello!!!),  or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 6 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

I'm finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!  While it may not look drastically different today than it did last week, it is leaps closer to drywall.  Plumbing and electrical are just steps away from their rough inspections.

The drywaller is available the last week of the month, so I'm setting that deadline and making sure that everyone else does their homework before then.  Once the drywaller is set, we can get to flooring and even painting, and THEN this house will look like something once again!

Framing is almost set.

The most visible change this week was actually outside, though.  We have a new patio and retaining wall!

Additionally, the brick on the front retaining wall was also repaired.  Now that the masonry is done, landscaping can start on Monday!

Even though I still have a lot of decisions to make for the house, I already have my sights set on staging.  I know I'll need to buy a few new pieces, but I'm thinking about repurposing a few of my existing staging pieces to really shine in this house.  I also have a few DIY ideas that could really be standout.  Now I just need to find time to do all the projects I want to!  Let me tell you- with a 6 month old, a full schedule of design clients, and project managing/designing this flip I'm pooped!  It's all good things, I just wish there were a few more hours each day! (I'm sure every working mom everywhere has thought this same thing)

In the words of Rihanna, cheers to the freakin weekend!

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Nessie the Flip House: Week 10

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Check in each Friday to see weekly update of how this house progresses!  To catch up on the progress on Nessie, check out her previous posts here.  If you’re new here (Hello!!!),  or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 6 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

First of all, did you happen to catch my rare Wednesday post?  I'm hoping to get back into posting twice a week, so you should be seeing those a lot more often!

So.... Nessie!  Yeah... I'm calling this house a tortoise because I'm really hoping that slow and steady will win the race.  The plus side is that we aren't rushing to list by a certain date to hit the hot spring market or anything like that, but as with any flip, the longer we hold onto it, the more we spend in holding costs.  Nessie chug chuggeded steadily along this week.  I think she can, I think she can, I think she can.

My electrician kept at his task of rewiring.  My plumber was supposed to be working on rough plumbing, but ended up hurting his back and was out of commission for the week.  At least the hardscaping (new patio and walkway repair) FINALLY started:

My contractor's guys were also on the job this week.  The dark cave of a bathroom now has a bit of natural light, subsequently making it feel more spacious and welcoming (even with no walls...).

The kitchen got 2 new bright and open windows:

And she got an AC unit that I'm jealous of.  Not that it's anything fancy, just it's existence since we don't have central air yet at our house.

Next week, the patio, walkway, and retaining wall repairs should be all set and I'm crossing my fingers that the landscaping could potentially get started.  The plumber should be back on his feet and working on getting some plumbing back in this house.  I hear that houses with running water and toilets sell much faster.  I'll be picking up flooring for the bowling alley and hopefully making decisions on floor tile for both bathrooms.  I've been making a list of projects for myself, but I can't dig in on any until we have walls.  Ah walls.  Won't that be glamorous?

Until next week!  Have a stellar weekend!!

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Nessie the Flip House: Week 9

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Check in each Friday to see weekly update of how this house progresses!  To catch up on the progress on Nessie, check out her previous posts here.  If you’re new here (Hello!!!),  or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 6 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

I feel like this house is a tortoise right now- slow and steady.  Steady progress is a good thing, so I can't complain too much.  This week, central air and all the ductwork was installed.

My electrician also got busy placing recessed lighting, locating outlets, switches, and working on rewiring essentially everything.

The most visible change, however is the framed out basement laundry/powder room!!  It's feeling like a room!  The pocket door still needs to be framed in, but it's pretty exciting to see this space.

At this phase, I'm racking my brain to make sure that I take every necessary item into consideration while the walls are open and things are still easy to tweak.  I'm eager for finishes, but there's lots of 'necessary evil' to take care of first behind the walls.

After a longer wait that I would like, I've been assured that the patio and exterior hardscaping repairs will be starting by Wednesday at the latest.

And on we chug, chug, along.

Happy autumn and have a great weekend!

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