Anyone ever do a home remodel?

SkiBum.Just bought me a home. Second one I have owned now. Right place, right price and I jumped on it and all worked out.

Home is in good shape structure wise, but causmeticly needs help. Wifey and I are currently living in basement where there is a bed/bath/living room. We plan to pick our battles with the rest while still living downstairs.

Anyone ever done similar and if so please share stories.

SkiBum.Just bought me a home. Second one I have owned now. Right place, right price and I jumped on it and all worked out.

Home is in good shape structure wise, but cosmeticly needs help. Wifey and I are currently living in basement where there is a bed/bath/living room. We plan to pick our battles with the rest while still living downstairs.

Anyone ever done similar and if so please share stories.

broccoliraabePpl lose a ton of money on that shit. It’s a huge gamble. A shitty house is a shitty house no matter what you do to it, especially if the neighborhood and houses around it are bad as well.

broccoliraabePpl lose a ton of money on that shit. It’s a huge gamble. A shitty house is a shitty house no matter what you do to it, especially if the neighborhood and houses around it are bad as well.

SkiBum.Just bought me a home. Second one I have owned now. Right place, right price and I jumped on it and all worked out.

Home is in good shape structure wise, but causmeticly needs help. Wifey and I are currently living in basement where there is a bed/bath/living room. We plan to pick our battles with the rest while still living downstairs.

Anyone ever done similar and if so please share stories.

mystery3He said ''right place'' which is very important in many markets.

People also make ''a ton of money on that shit''

I basically gutted my house while my wife was pregnant with our first child. Added a bedroom, remodeled the bath, kitchen, flooring, plumbing, electrical. What do you want to know?

Will you be doing the work yourself?

Did you budget properly on the purchase price and remodeling costs?

broccoliraabePpl lose a ton of money on that shit. It’s a huge gamble. A shitty house is a shitty house no matter what you do to it, especially if the neighborhood and houses around it are bad as well.

RusticlesI'm also in the middle of gutting my second home. Made decent $$$$ on the first one.

My advice is don't start anything without having your ducks in a row. ex. if you're doing a bathroom, try and buy everything in advance and have it set up and ready, pick the tile, pick the floor, the faucet, get the vanity. It'll go quickly if you're not running out to get shit or pick shit out.
my first house I bought the new kitchen cabinets and the same day ripped my old kitchen out, big mistake. I could have done a lot of plumbing and electrical before hand as well as decided on alot of stuff. Also would have gotten better deals if I wasn't time crunched. Second house I had everything set up and purchased most before hand. Was only out of a functional kitchen for a few days.

Also, some jobs you can do yourself, some don't even bother. I don't even consider mudding and taping anymore.

SkiBum.Yeah, I am going to try to buy everything for one room/area and then do that area. Seems like the best method. The wife is big on finding what she wants for the best price, which is awesome.

When you did yours, you stay on budget? And did it take as long as you thought? I'll be doing most of the work myself. Lucky I have a big garage/shop to keep stuff in and work out of, I have most the tools and skills. But I will sub few things out I'm sure.

CaseyMy wife and I bought a condo, which was great learning ground for stuff like this. We upgraded the electrical panel and rewired a bunch of stuff to improve capacity and make it legal/safe, recessed lighting everywhere with fancy dimmer switches and the whole works, gutted the old galley kitchen, replaced a load bearing wall with glulam post and beam to create open concept, 8' x 4' kitchen island with commercial under cabinet fridge and freezer. Pure white Corian countertops in the kitchen/island. Stainless everything, super clean. We did a resin overlay on the concrete subfloor that was like a finished concrete floor, fir trim everywhere, gutted the bathroom, upsized the hot water tank to accommodate huge soaker tub. Upgraded woodstove to Moreso. The place was small but it lived huge, nice outside patio, crazy modern when we got through with it.

The point is, we were willing to live there while some things went unfinished for a while, paid as we went and it took a few years to make it as baller at the end as it ended up being. I wish we could have kept that place forever, but condos can be kind of a nightmare if your HOA sucks.

CaseyMy wife and I bought a condo, which was great learning ground for stuff like this. We upgraded the electrical panel and rewired a bunch of stuff to improve capacity and make it legal/safe, recessed lighting everywhere with fancy dimmer switches and the whole works, gutted the old galley kitchen, replaced a load bearing wall with glulam post and beam to create open concept, 8' x 4' kitchen island with commercial under cabinet fridge and freezer. Pure white Corian countertops in the kitchen/island. Stainless everything, super clean. We did a resin overlay on the concrete subfloor that was like a finished concrete floor, fir trim everywhere, gutted the bathroom, upsized the hot water tank to accommodate huge soaker tub. Upgraded woodstove to Moreso. The place was small but it lived huge, nice outside patio, crazy modern when we got through with it.

The point is, we were willing to live there while some things went unfinished for a while, paid as we went and it took a few years to make it as baller at the end as it ended up being. I wish we could have kept that place forever, but condos can be kind of a nightmare if your HOA sucks.

CaseyHere if anyone is interested this is the video our real estate agent put together when it sold.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-6sABFqubuE

RusticlesAlso, some jobs you can do yourself, some don't even bother. I don't even consider mudding and taping anymore.

snowpocalypse

Not by choice.... Had a pipe burst in our upstairs bath while we were out of town for 10 days during -10 weather. Good fun. Had to gut 80% of the house. 65,000 worth of damage. Gota love good insurance. We lived in our 1978 motor home for the 3 months during the re-build with my wife and 3 year old. Super fun. We were able to do a ton of the stuff we had wanted to do but never had the time or motivation. After all said and done we added almost 80k in equity with the improvements we made. World works in mysterious ways.