Y’all, the flip home subsequent door has offered! And the perfect half is that it was really offered to people who find themselves going to reside in the home. That signifies that they’ve a vested curiosity in that home past simply greenback indicators. They’ll really care about the home and the neighborhood.
And that additionally signifies that from this level on, the design selections they make for that home is none of my enterprise. So long as the home was within the palms of a home flipper (and one who appeared loopy and grasping, in my humble opinion), I felt free to precise my vital opinions. However similar to I might by no means inform y’all in regards to the tasks (or lack thereof) that any of my different neighbors are doing (or aren’t doing) on their houses, or give my public opinion about these tasks (or lack thereof), this will probably be my closing say on the flip home.
However I couldn’t depart y’all hanging. After sharing about that home in earlier posts (right here and right here), I needed to let you already know that it offered…lastly. I went over and met my new neighbors just a few days in the past, and so they seem to be very sort, pleasant, easy-going folks, so I’m very grateful for neighbors like that.
Clearly, I needed to ask them about that kitchen, although. And nearly in unison, they mentioned, “Oh, the kitchen is horrible!” 😀 So that they do have plans sooner or later to redo the kitchen. Till they’re able to sort out a kitchen rework, they’ll clearly simply reside with it as is.
I can completely relate to having to reside with a really inefficient kitchen. Do y’all bear in mind what our kitchen regarded like after we moved into our home 9 years in the past? When you’ve forgotten, let me refresh your reminiscence.
Yeah…our kitchen wasn’t simply inefficient. It was additionally very outdated and dingy. And thank goodness, it appears nothing like that immediately. (When you’re new right here, you possibly can see the newest whole-house, before-and-after tour right here, right here, and right here.)
And but, we had to make use of that kitchen for a number of months earlier than I began the kitchen rework. So I understand how it’s to have an inefficient kitchen that hasn’t fairly made it to the highest of the precedence checklist but. But when I bear in mind accurately, my new neighbors did say that they’ve already had plans drawn up for a brand new kitchen. So that they’ll have that to sit up for sooner or later.
I did wish to move on one factor that they informed me as a result of I really feel prefer it’s one thing that occurs usually, and residential consumers want to pay attention to this, particularly when shopping for from a home flipper who simply desires to do a fast turnaround and is in it for the money.
They mentioned that the best precedence for them (and the deal breaker for them shopping for the home) was that {the electrical} wiring needed to be redone in the entire home. This was non-negotiable for them.
What the flipper had executed was change out all the outdated two-prong shops for up to date three-prong shops, however the flipper did that with out really updating any of the wiring in the home. So the entire home nonetheless had all the outdated wiring (i.e., the sort that has solely two wires — sizzling and impartial — with no floor wire), whereas merely swapping out the shops, making it appear to be {the electrical} wiring had been up to date.
I feel that’s really rather more frequent than folks suppose, and if a flipper is just in it for a fast turnaround and as a lot money as they’ll pocket, electrical is certainly going to be one of many areas the place they’ll minimize corners. In spite of everything, electricians aren’t low-cost, and rewiring a complete home is a big job.
Thank goodness my new neighbors had the home inspected earlier than they purchased it and offered a duplicate of that inspection to the vendor (or vendor’s agent) in order that they may have the vendor repair it. And at that time, the vendor actually had no possibility however to repair it, as a result of if they’d refused to repair it, they’d be required to reveal that data to the following potential purchaser. So that they’d finally have to repair it anyway. There was no have to kick that may down the highway.
So this brings the entire flip home saga to and finish. That is the ultimate chapter. The home is lastly out of the palms of a loopy flipper who clearly wished to do a fast flip, minimize corners, and pocket a ridiculous amount of cash, and into the great palms of homeowners who really care about the home and the neighborhood (and fortunately, didn’t purchase it a yr in the past and pay the flipper’s unique insane value of $450,000). It’s a contented ending.
(And please by no means purchase a home with out having it inspected!! Even should you plan to fully intestine and rework the entire thing, get it inspected and know what you’re strolling into.)
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