WOW! Its been awhile since I’ve posted. Okay so we have tons of progress at The Piano House–I got a video but the stupid camera I got it on couldn’t upload correctly. I WILL get a new video this weekend. The house is about 2 weeks from being complete. All the tile is installed the cabinets are going in tomorrow. We are moving our focus to the exterior. They just stripped all that ugly green paint and we’re re-painting the house a nice light yellow. We also decided to demo and rebuild the steps leading up to the house. We are doing a really nice design with limestone treads. After some searching I found someone who will do both stairs (front door and back door) for $6100! Which is a pretty good price for what he’s doing.
We decided to this the house a few weeks before it’s complete so we can get some exposure before the tax credit expires. We listed it at $599,900. We’ve had a lot of activity even though the house isn’t finished. We also had one lowball offer.
One more bit of news. I already put my next project under contract. I call it The Alaska House. The owner wanted to move the closing because he was supposedly taking a cruse to Alaska! Why would you want to take a cruse to Alaska! Anyway, we got in under contract for $352,000 but it needs a brand new septic system which is an added $20,000. So we effectively got it for $372,000. We still need to have our contractor make us a bid and get a perc test for the septic. So there are a few more hurdles to get over The house is in a nice slightly rural area–its on 2 acres of land! Here’s a picture of the exterior.
As you can see it need a lot of work–I’ll take of pics at the inspection tomorrow!
