All Forum Posts by: Nathan Grubb

@Account Closed that is a fantastic analogy. Thanks!

@Mitch Ferraro great to hear!

The offer stands open for you, too! Coffee, beer, cured meat? Let's meet up sometime.

Just a moment ago, a topic was posted about whether or not to buy with the "impending recession." And as a newby, it just makes me wonder: if recessions are pretty much counted on in a cycle, are they all as bad as 2008?

I was working construction at the time, and we went from 40 employees in September of 2008 to 0 employees in April of 2009. Of our four competitors in that town, only one made it through to 2010. Is that a normal level of decline? Or was that just a particularly brutal recession?

Hey! That's awesome!

His name is Mike, and he's not on the radar yet as he's really just started looking into it. He moved up to Kenosha recently from Waukegan.

On another note, I'd love to buy you out a coffee or beer sometime if you're game. I'm not in the flipping game yet, and don't plan to be for a while, but I'd love to get to know you a bit and here about what kind of stuff you're doing. Can offer coffee, beer, and cured meats in return.

@George W. the bucket trick is great. I actually didn't do that because I have a kitten who loves jumping in buckets, and I was worried about having to fish a purple cat out during the project. Apparently I didn't have enough preventative measures against my own stupid feet, though. I think I might have to try taping them together to at least get some more stability, like @Tim Johnson says. 

I think all in all, I need to just become a cleaner worker. About half of the mess seen in the picture is because I frantically through things away from the purple deluge, but only half. The other half was already there.

Does anyone have experience flipping homes in the Kenosha/Racine county area?

I am not personally flipping, but a contractor I used to work for is looking at the area. However, he has always done work in Chicago's north shore, where the homes were all multi-million dollar remodels. He is struggling to find anything in Wisconsin to meet his numbers, because his preliminary bid process is based on a $200/sq ft pricing that he used on the north shore (and which totally works down there). But just looking at the homes in my area, and seeing that people ARE making money flipping here, I can't believe that this is an accurate metric for Kenosha.

Do any of you have a range that you have found? Obviously it can range incredibly, so I realize my question might not really be able to be answered.

Whoops! I was just adding in some new PVC under the sink when I kicked over the can of primer. The floor may have not been pretty before, but it wasn't in bad shape. 

Looks like maybe we'll be replacing it sooner than planned!

Not to rag on Detroit at all, but watch out for "incoming companies" making the place valuable. Just from my more recent experience, Pfizer just moved in my area too and didn't really create the jobs we thought it would. Also, a big manufacturing plant was supposed to move in too and bring hundreds of jobs, and that just fell through at the last minute (they had already won all of the public domain suits to take properties for the building, and had broken ground). 

@Adam Craig would you have the water pressure to sustain it? I used to remodel high-end homes in the Chicagoland area that were all very, very old. The homeowners were always shocked to find out that installing a fancy shower head like that, or even a smaller one, would probably mean changing out all of the piping supplying the shower as well.

It's not always the case, but for us in this area we have lots of galvanized. Even if galvanized is leak free and flowing, it still can be so mineralized on the inside that it would never supply enough pressure.

Super sexy shower head though. I suppose it would really depend on what market you're flipping it into, as well as how much tear down you're doing.

@John Warren I wholeheartedly agree. My last place just vented the stove back into the kitchen and it was hell to clean up when we left, and never cleared the smoke. I fully intend to vent this one through the roof. Just waiting for a weekend without rain.

@Pat L. that's not a bad idea. Maybe I'll have to think that over to see if I can work out something similar.