All Forum Posts by: Chad Busby

Jean, here are some pics.  Needless to say the butterflies are going.  

The other side of the kitchen 

Funky mirrored wall must go!  Sorry for the orientation.  You can see the wood (cedar?) beams on the ceiling.  There is lots of this wood trim throughout the house.  We were thinking of maybe a handscraped hardwood to kind of coordinate with it...

Hey Patrick,

It is in the Winter Springs Country Club.  There are lots of 2 bedrooms in this particular neighborhood; they don't move as fast as the 3/2's, but as an opening price point to get into WSCC there is decent demand.  That being said, there are several on the market we will be competing with, so your comments about it getting lost in the competition has merit.

My wife and I are starting our first ever fix and flip!  This is a minor job (paint, drywall repair, removing mirrored wall and wallpaper and flooring).  The kitchen is very dated, but in excellent repair, so we though we would leave it. There is lots of wood in the house (kind of unusual for a Central Florida home) so we don't want to go overboard with the renovation, the new owner may want to do something more drastic and the house is in very good condition.  That being said, here is our flooring debate:

1. Install some really cheap carpet, so that the home is move in ready, but could be customized by the new owner if they so desired, and they wouldn't feel guilty about removing the flooring.

2.  Install some inexpensive Factory Seconds Engineered Hardwood. I found a place called Reallycheapfloors.com that has some great deals.  Has anyone ever used them specifically, or factory seconds engineered hardwood in general

3. Install laminate flooring

This is a 1500 sqft 2/2 in the Metro Orlando area, block home built in 1984.

Any advice or help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Hey Bryston, Mostly looking for buy and hold single family homes, townhomes or duplexes. I try to get about a 1.25-1.5% multiplier pruchase price to rent (i.e. $100,000 home would rent for between $1,250-$1,500. But also open to flips if they come along and can be bought right!

Hi All,

My name is Chad Busby. I've been binge listening to the BP podcast for the last 4 months (I think I've finished most of them by now) and just signed up to Bigger Pockets! I'm a buy and hold investor, small business owner (antique business) and Realtor. Looking forward to digging in deeper on BP and learning as much as my brain can handle, and sharing along the way! I'm most interested in ramping up marketing to get in front of more potential deals, and approaching my RE investing more like a full time business.

Thanks everyone!

Chad