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Week 4 and 5 Progress

Rather than be several weeks behind, I decided to update weeks 4 and 5 together. Lemme tell you the huge lesson of hire out the work. We saved a bunch of money removing wallpaper and painting the house ourselves. However, the cost of time was way to high. We have worked every night at the house till 9pm for several straight weeks. I have essentially shut down all my marketing and other real estate activities until we are done. Bad plan. Lesson learned for future rehabs. I will budget for ...

Week 3 Progress

I'm a bit slow to get week three updated (as were nearly done with week 4), but the current week has me very tired from removing wallpaper from every stinking room in the house. This is the week three progress.  They completed the deck for the mudroom and outside entry to the garage, tiled the half bath, master bath and part of the kitchen, and removed all the paint from the stairs. I'm pretty excited about the deck, it adds a very nice feature to the garage. I think it came out nice than...

Week 2 Progress

Week 2 has been progressing as well as week one. One big thing my wife and I have done is evaluate our budget each week to see where we are and what we have left to spend. So far we're a bit above where we want to be, but not horribly so. The mudroom was drywalled this week and the entry door from the garage installed. The master bath was framed and backer board installed. For the limited master bath usability and objects in the way, we have made excellent use of the space. We had to al...

Week 1 progress

Although this is week 2 of the work, I'll update the week 1 progress as of Friday. The contractors are go-getters. What the two of them have accomplished this week is pretty impressive. The kitchen and all 3 baths have been demolished. All the carpet in the house has been removed, including the tack strip. The mudroom paneling and drywall removed. The plumping in all three baths has been replaced, the new line to the mudroom has been installed. The new master bath has also been framed. ...