Before & Afters — First Flip

[Michelle Hart]

My husband and I just finished our first flip (which we stumbled into quite by accident), and we're thrilled with the results. We've loved this process so much that we're already under contract on our next project (another 3/1 ranch) and are looking forward to doing several more in 2017.

This flip is a 1957 3/1 ranch in the highly-sought-after Bouldin Creek neighborhood of Austin, TX.

We took the bathroom down to the studs, reworked the kitchen and living spaces to make them more practical, updated the entire house & spruced up the exterior.

• Marble quartz countertops in kitchen & laundry
• New handscraped espresso birch floors throughout
• Wood-look ceramic tile in bath & laundry (and as backsplash behind the range)
• New stainless steel appliances
• Remote control LED lights under kitchen cabinets
• Nest thermostat
• New windows
• New roof with architectural shingles
• New horizontal cedar fence
• New cedar deck
• New custom exterior shutters
• Generous setback from main road
• Xeriscaping provides added privacy & noise reduction
• Carport & enlarged parking pad for easy turnaround
• Prewired for Google Fiber

Renovations took right at 100 days and cost approximately $60K (versus the 45 days and $40K the original GC promised us, but that's another story for another time). We bootstrapped the purchase & renovations and bought furnishings & decor to stage the property ourselves.

Even with the delays and serious overcharging by the original GC, if we get our asking price ($479,900) within 90 days of listing, we stand to net over $100K.

These are some quick iPhone photos of the finished product. My husband will be taking more professional photos with his fancy cameras after the Christmas frenzy. Thoughts on the before/after appreciated!

[Matt Gragg]

@Don Harris I was not trying to "hijack" (as you put it) someones post. 

Was trying to show how the staging turned out on one of our remodels. 

I thought this (Biggerpockets) is a place to share what we have done. I didn't know I couldn't share pictures on someones post. Thanks for the insight. 

I never have an issue when people post pictures of their work on my post.

Happy Holidays!