Just completed Allen Park MI rental

[David McKelvie]

Hey all.  I purchased a sfr in Allen Park MI in November. For those familiar with the area it's right off of outer drive and southfield fwy.  It took me a month to update the house and I'm going to rent it for 1k a month.

17439 Cicotte Allen Park MI.  Bought it off an elderly gentleman for 55k.  He had bought it for 30k in 2010 and had it rented to one tenant the whole time for 700 a month.

I've had it listed for rent for a month with little interest from anyone who I'd qualify as a good prospective tenant, which seems unusual.  I'm hoping it has something to do with the time of the year - Dec/Jan.

This house is the most expensive home I've purchased, but it required the least amount of work done to it, so it was a good trade off!

What I did:

Painted walls and ceilings with sherwin williams superpaint dover white.

Trim and kitchen wainscoting was painted with super paint semi gloss white.

Ripped out plaster tub surround and replaced with cement board that was waterproofed and tiled.

Replaced some missing shingles on garage roof.

Replaced old shower valve with single handle valve.

Replaced garbage disposal.

Replaced old outlets/switches with new white outlets/switches/plate covers.

Jacked up sagging portion of house and sistered three of the joists and replaced the rotted sill plate.

Removed vinyl tile from laundry floor and painted the concrete with grey floor paint.

Before photos:  Apologies if they are sideways or upside down...

The after photos can be seen on my zillow ad, https://www.zillow.com/homes/17439-cicotte_rb/88664724_zpid/?view=public

Thanks for taking a look :)  Looking forward to possibly making some contacts through this site.  I'm a licensed agent/buillder who's life game plan is to continue acquiring rental properties and hope to someday build new construction homes.