Monthly Archives: December 2009

Our little project at 1809 North 145th sold in two days!!!   When all was said and done it came out very sophisticated.

My freind Dan came from Montana in 1984. He came into the Real Estate office where I was working and wanted to do carpentry repair jobs for Real Estate agents. Oh Boy! I took him out that day to a sale … Continue reading →

Erik hasn’t given me permission to write about him so the name Erik will have to do for today. Erik bought a house around the corner from my project at 1809 North 145th. The Real Estate market was slowing at … Continue reading →

My last post was slamming new construction. After that I went to look at a finished product by a colleague. Holy Cow, it was beautiful, but very wrong. The impact, or over all effect, was very good. Fantastic placement on the … Continue reading →

In a past post I stated there was no money in fixers or flipping property which is very true. There is however a strategy here that many people have over looked for many, many years. I’m working on a deal … Continue reading →

Yesterday, for the first time in months, I didn’t have a project to work on or hold open. It was a Sunday, nice weather, and there was a crop of open house signs everywhere. While visiting with Real Estate agents … Continue reading →

It just occured to me that I have a blog and can write about redfin without being on some one else’s blog. So here goes. The last comment I read about redfin was from a satisfied customer who was concerned that … Continue reading →

The term used to be rehabbing a property. Now we hear remodel or restore as the terms for fixing a property up. Remodeling and restore are as the terms imply, but take two different sets of skills. The remodeler is … Continue reading →

While writing the last post I noticed that a discount brokerage was the selling office. I work for a discount brokerage in the form of a cheap desk fee office. After seven years of losing my shirt working there that … Continue reading →

I stopped by a fixer house that sold about a month ago. We had looked at it breifly, but were on another project. The foundation was cinder block, which doesn’t have to be bad, but in this case it was. … Continue reading →