All Forum Posts by: Peyman Ayoubi

Hi, at the stage of painting the exterior of the house. Does anyone have any opinion on this color? I'm thinking Sherwin Williams Alabaster (SW 7008) and white windows, and it's fairly common and well reserved in our region. My roof is not dark (it's metal, orange-like color) but it's not really visible given the higher elevation compared to the street.

I'd appreciate it if you could share your opinion

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Seattle, Washington

@Jaron Walling Sorry for late response. Yes, you're right. I'll open the kitchen a bit and add a counter top (not sure if an island would fit). Kitchen is not huge but decent size.

I plan to keep this thread as a diary for this project. Will keep you updated on the progress and what we decided to move forward with.

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Seattle, Washington

Hi @Muroo S. In the process.

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Seattle, Washington

Quote from @Bruce Woodruff:

Quote from @Peyman Ayoubi:

Thanks @Bruce Woodruff. I might have worded it bad. I'm not looking to steal a GC's subs. I meant to ask for GC referral OR subs referral if people have any.

I knew you wouldn't be stealing them, lol, I meant more like sharing them. But a lot of GCs can't even afford to do that, because they give their subs constant work.

Lol
I get your point but I wanted to shoot my shot anyway.

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Seattle, Washington

Quote from @Jaron Walling:

@Peyman Ayoubi The updated drawings look great. The wall between the kitchen and living should be as open as possible (could be load bearing) but the wider that door way the better. I did the same thing on our last property and it made big difference. Wiring and light switches are tough to relocate but opening things up never hurts.

What was your purchase price, what is the estimated rehab cost, and what is the ARV? I assume you're flipping this property based on the scope of work.

Do you have any opinion on the location of the powder room? Do you think it should not be close to the living area and kitchen so that I can open the kitchen up as much as possible?

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Seattle, Washington

Another idea is to expand one of the bedrooms (see the plan below). Making this particular bedroom bigger has three benefits: 1) bigger primary as I add ~100 sqft, 2) no need to change anything else except for face lift, 3) the garage is exactly below this bedroom and it's a single car garage, with this addition, it'll be two car tandem garage. The con is obviously the cost because in addition to waiting a long time for permit, it requires serious structural changes + roofing, etc.

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Seattle, Washington

Thanks @Jaron Walling.

That's a good suggestion. I'm not sure about it being load bearing or not (thought I think it is). In the second drawing, I had removed some portion of that wall. Do you think it needs to be more open than that?

For that particular scenario, I'm just not sure if having a powder room very close to the kitchen and living area is a good thing.

The purchase price for this is 760k (it's 1150 main floor + 800 basement + 0.25 lot) in Shoreline, WA. The ARV should be around 950k and I'm planning to spend 100k on this. I'm having contractors over the next two weeks to see the project and bid on it.

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Seattle, Washington

Thanks @Bruce Woodruff. I might have worded it bad. I'm not looking to steal a GC's subs. I meant to ask for GC referral OR subs referral if people have any.

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Seattle, Washington

Hi,

I purchased a property in Shoreline, WA, and would like to get bids on different part of the projects. I mentioned some ideas we have here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1200791-what... I looked in the forum and there were some old posts about contractor referrals but most of them were 5+ years old and I wasn't able to find half of the names mentioned by googling.

If you now a good contractor who's capable and honest, please refer them to me (here or DM). I know people usually don't share their contractors info but I'm sure there are kind people out there :D

Thanks in advance.

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Seattle, Washington

Quote from @Yanina Panfilenka:

Quote from @Peyman Ayoubi:

Hi,

I'm about to close on a property in Seattle area. The property is 3B1B and I plan to add an extra bathroom it 3B2B. However the layout is not very straightforward (like below). I should add that there's stairs to the basement which is finished and it has a big area. What I'm thinking about is to combine bedrooms 1 and 2 into a large primary and add a full path adjacent to the current full path.

This will make it something like this (the dimensions are not accurate, just for representation) plus there's going to be the 3rd bedrooms in the basement, making it 3B2B.

Should I make this change? What other think about it?

I'm not sure whether having a bedroom in the basement is good enough. I'm open to ideas if anyone would like to share their opinion.

3-2 will worth more that 2-2. What's the basement situation? You can share the address in messages - let's see.

Shared the property link in the message with you.

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Seattle, Washington

All Forum Posts by: Peyman Ayoubi

Peyman Ayoubi has started 2 posts and replied 12 times.

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Post: What's the best decision in my situation?

Post: What's the best decision in my situation?

Post: Is anyone willing to refer me to their contractor subs?

Post: Is anyone willing to refer me to their contractor subs?

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