Rehab of Existing Rental

[Sacha LaCoss]

 We are working on one of our properties in Albuquerque that has a single family home and a “Casita” (guesthouse) which are very common to our area in the North Valley.

They are usually rented out separately and have their own electric/gas meters with just water/trash shared.

Our goal this trip (we live out of state) other than supervising repairs from a fire in the front house are to upgrade some parts of the property to increase rents and attract better quality tenants as well as taking care of some upgrades as the property has been rented for 9 years to a variety of tenants. 

I thought I’d share our projects and progress with you all over the next 3 weeks as I have learned from and appreciate reading about everyone else’s projects.

Day #1

First up is to further separate the two houses for more privacy with a new fence. This will create a private back yard for the front house and a private front yard for the casita.

Before the back yard was shared space and neither unit had privacy

The front part of the fence will also be removed to allow parking closer to the casita and to better define the two parking areas.

To keep costs down we will be dismantling a small covered area and part of an existing fence and re-use the materials to build it.

That along with other left over materials from past projects and properties should allow us to complete this project for very little cost.

That cover and fence is now disassembled and is fencing material. We also laid out where we want the fence to go for visualization purposes

After pic with the covered area and the fence removed. Hey it’s a Casita!

We even will repurpose the gate from the front of the house now it will be a back gate 

We also got in a dump run and worked on more sorting and organization of the storage and materials stored here.  

All in all it was a very productive day.