Wow have we had a busy few weeks. I am writing this from inside one of our rentals as we do the tenant turnaround dance (read: cleaning, repairing, listing, itemizing deductions from deposits). Some of you keep up with my DIY renovations/building, but some of you join in on the real estate investment fun (or […]
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Checking In On the Rehab
I have been really invested in the One Room Challenge lately, and it has eaten up a lot of my time. In fact, this week was one of the hardest (they said it would be!) because of so many things, which I will get into for tomorrow’s post about moving into week four. However, I […]
7 Mistakes We Made as Newbie Real Estate Investors
We are deep into our fourth investment property at this point, which still qualifies us as newbies, but we have picked up on a few mistakes lessons that we have taken away from our first two years of doing this. Real estate can be very profitable, if you can recognize good deals (and bad ones). […]
Update on the Small Town Renovation
I won’t try to beat around the bush – we have had a lot of things going on these past few weeks. From closing on our own rehab project to starting up some more of our home renovations, our focus has been occupied with that excitement. So, the time spent on this project has not […]
The Deal So Far
We just barely scraped by closing yesterday due to some communication hiccups between the lender and the title company, but at 4:45 p.m., we did our part as the buyers and signed the documents. However, it was late in the work day, so the rest of the deal did not get completed until today. This […]
Back in Rehab
You guys. I am so excited!! I had to share with you all today our newest project, which will have us diving back into the rehab world. What rehab did you think I was talking about?? We took a huge leap and put in an offer on this one sight unseen. Yes. We didn’t even […]
Small Town Design and Renovation
One thing I really enjoyed doing when I was working on our first renovation project was helping to design the floor plan and choose the elements that would result in the most added value. I loved creating the lighting plan – where the recessed lighting would be placed, how the kitchen pendant lights would accent […]
What Happened with the Rehab?
It was around the end of October/early November when the project finally was wrapping up. We were able to start breathing again. We were able to enjoy our Halloween and Emily’s second birthday and actually have enough money to celebrate those special days again. Emily was slow to catch on to what Halloween meant, but […]
Meanwhile, Personally
While we were tackling this nightmare rehab that was our first, we also had a one year old baby girl at home and a marriage that had to endure the strain of the financial and emotional blows that come with such a steep learning curve. It was rough, let me tell you. I’ve heard often […]