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Updated almost 4 years ago,

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Jonathan Duhon
  • Investor
  • Baton Rouge, LA
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First BIG Flip/House Hack

Jonathan Duhon
  • Investor
  • Baton Rouge, LA
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Last week we closed on our first BIG renovation project! We are buying a beautiful 80 year old home in a historic neighborhood of Baton Rouge, LA. The home is a 2700 sqft 3/3 with a semi-detached apartment in the back. The home has incredible cedar and cypress bones and sits on .72 acres right in the middle of the city.

Our plan is to renovate the back building first and move into it. It is the perfect little studio apartment. It shares roof with the home but is not connected by walls. We plan to renovate it completely. It will have a kitchen and a full bathroom with a custom shower. We will also section off a portion of the back yard just for the little apartment. When we renovate the rest of the home we will put up walls and a laundry/office between the house and the apartment which will

1. capture the square footage of the apartment as living square footage when we sell and 2. add a huge lifestyle upgrade to the home by creating a laundry room and an office in the space between the home and the apartment. Once we move into the apartment, we will begin the “big house” renovation.

Once we finish the big home we will move in and use the apartment as a short term rental with a solid core door between it and the main home.

The home was listed at $465,000, we got it for $430,000 and it appraised for $485,000. By the time we are done it will be a roughly 3400 sqft 4/4 and it will be worth around $750,000-$800,000+. We plan to pay for the renovations, which will total around $150,000, in cash as we go along. Then we will cash out refinance and look at buying our first cash flowing properties. We are so excited to have started demo.

Here we go!

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