All Forum Posts by: Rachel Stopka

God willing my husband and I will be there! Looking forward to it. 

Rachel and Johnny 

Mojo Properties and Design LLC

Hopefully this sparks up this thread again and people start posting pics again of their work. To be proud,motivate, and inspire others! 

I had to experiment with a reclaimed wood wall. I loved it and so did the new home owner's!

Sorry they didn't load in the correct order. 

Not exact same angle but it's close. We took wall down too from kitchen to the dining room. 

I have had luck on my last 4 flips in Northwest Indiana thru MLS listings to find homes with decent prices and good ARV to buy. But I'm wrapping up my 4th home and sold it a month into it cause the buyers seen my last flip and wanted to lock in on this one. Problem I'm having now is finding another property to flip. I put two offers in last week to banks but both got declined. I have never dealt with a wholesale broker or even know how to begin to find a great one. I have only bought in Northwest Indiana cause that's where my husband is from but we also reside in the South Loop in Chicago and want to start flipping in Illinois but don't have a great realtor in Illinois either. I finally got a good contractor I don't want to lose him due to not finding any more properties to flip. Since I know the BP family is always ready to jump in and make great recommendations and suggestions I figured to quit stressing about my next property and turn to the experts and people who have the answers I'm looking for. I'll wait to hopefully hear about what insights you might have on my next property search. So if anyone can recommend a great wholesaler or realtor I'm all ears! Thanks!

Thank you so much to all for the great advice and responses!! The work done was on Indiana. Where can I start to look for the correct information on mechanics lien in our state? He is not a licensed contractor in our state. He claims to be one in Illinois.I did pull permits for the work to be done but that was done thru my other contractor who is doing my roof, windows, and siding. But when he filed the permit he included the work to be done by this guy and also thought he was someone who could do the work. Many lessons learned here definitely and I will continue to learn thru this process especially with great people and all the support from this great forum. What is the best way to learn about mechanics liens in this state where the work was performed? I Google the topic and there are so many different articles and opinions it gets confusing. Any advice and what sort of attorney should I contact? I really wish this guy would just come to a real agreement on work done so I could pay him and have him out of my life but not going to happen as he continues with his threats even today thru text. Stating that I refused to write the contact?? Who is the contractor? Thanks again for all the time you have taken time to listen and respond.

@ Christopher No written contact was in place. He was very eager to begin so I trusted him since I didn't get a written contract on the previous house but scope of work was much less. That went smoothly so I just assumed and trusted. No references done before and he talked about all the houses he built, showed pictures of all work previously done. So many lessons learned here. Yes I will keep all emails and texts. I don't like things ending this way but he won't talk in person. Just expects me to hand over a bunch of money. I have called my lawyer and he said we have to wait until we receive something from him in writing. I have been documenting everything abbr taking pictures. Thanks for the replies.

I unfortunately hired a contractor for a house I just started rehabbing and he sounded really good! He came in with all sorts of experience ace telling me how great his work is. The project started and from day one he started to boss around my electrician Abe my roofing guy. That obviously upset them and had to talk to him about that. Long story short after a week I had to tell him to not come back to job site until we were ready for him. He started putting up drywall before my electrician was even close to being done as whole house needed to be brought up to code. He would state let your electrician cut my drywall where needed. So I told him to leave. He got very upset and took all his tools and has decided not to come back. Which was fine by me. He has since started sending emails and numerous texts that he wants 6K for work completed. The whole contract was for 14k and he has done maybe 1/5th of the job. He is now threatening me with mechanics lien on this current house and other property that is currently for sale because he did work there which was paid for in full but wants more money as well for a drill he claims was stolen from the property. I also had to pay electrician extra for all the work he had to do extra because he went around and cut wires that were not supposed to be cut. I have no problem paying him what work he has done but not almost half when he has done very little. I am just wondering the process of a mechanics lien? We unfortunately never got to the point of writing up a contract just exchanging e-mails for scope of work agreed upon ace verbal agreement on price. I don't know what to do from here? I have told him numerous times I don't communicate thru text or e-mails. When he wants to sit down with my husband and I to agree on the numbers we can do that. I receive no phone calls just daily threats of mechanics liens. Any one that can provide advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone I just signed up for Bigger Pockets even though I have been reading your awesome posts for about 7 months now. My husband and I just got done with our 2nd flip and wanted to post some before and after pics with you all. The listing just went up yesterday or last night. Let me know what you think and any areas of improvement you think I can take to my next flip. I am not sure how I attach pics?