Live & Flip

Why Reserves part 1

Shae over at Good Faith Investing and Julie at at Life as Real Estate Investors recently wrote blogs on reserves here and here. This post is inspired by them and will hopefully emphasize what they are saying. Every landlord has a closet full of horror stories on problem tenant, property managers, houses, cities and anything else under the sun that may keep you up at night. This is my story. Around 6 months ago, my wife and I married and were off to our honeymoon in Napa. Shhhh, that's not ...

Week 6 and 7 Progress

Week 6 and 7 have been extraordinarily busy, hence no updates. My wife and I have been painting nonstop for the last two weeks. The walls had no texture, so we called in a texture guy. In order to prepare for him, we needed to prime the entire house. We used an oil base primer. If you ever prime with this stuff, make dead sure you have a respirator. Its pretty nasty. The texture guy came in on Black Friday and worked through the weekend. We decided on an orange peel texture. The house tr...