All Forum Posts by: Todd Whiddon

Going Down..Down...Down...

Here's a few tricks we do on most of our basement's and ceilings these days, from open rail design to finishing "A" room, to mixing up the molding patterns to set our houses apart!

In The Board Room with Todd 7-6-15

This is my conference table.... Monday July 6th from 1-2pm YOU are welcome to JOIN ME and pick my brain "small as it may be" on ANYTHING...

- Have me Analyze your Deals

- Get help pricing or putting together a Scope of Work or Rehab Estimate

- Ask me about subcontractors, agents, wholesalers, hard money, you name it

- Get help putting together a business plan or strategy

- Ideas on raising money, partnering, JV agreements, forming llcs

- Having a hard time getting a permit? I can help!

- Networking and "Ideeting" with your fellow BP members

Seating is LIMITED to the number of chairs around my table, my office is just north of Atlanta GA in Marietta of Delk Rd and 75. There will be NO PITCHING and there is NO CATCH, just ME and a few of YOU helping each other out!

Interested? Hit me up before YOUR seat gets TAKEN by that wholesaler who is always STEALING your deals, marking them up 20k, and then pitching them back to YOU!!! I know you hate that guy.... And I know you would be REALLY mad if he got YOUR seat....  

PS...  My previous post about this got deleted...so re-reply if you posted on there.

@Cal C. It's really close to the house we're yappin about over at the Latest Project Photos - BP Partnership Thread I'll see what I can do about showing it off complete with numbers next week, but here is a SNEAK PEAK!

Yes.. THAT just happened!

Here's a quick walkthrough and special video request for @Brandon Turner and the AskBP podcast....   

How do I know when I'm droppin to much cash pimpin my properties? #ASKBP

BTW... Does anyone know if you get a free BP T-shirt or Koozie if they feature your question on the podcast? :)

 I used to stage ALL my houses... now I have a storage unit full of staging furniture!  

Here's why this one isn't staged-

1. I've gotten lazy in my old age

1.5 @J Scotts wife Carol who is the best house stager EVER, moved away ;''(

2. All my staging furniture is for lower end 100-200k houses

3. I'm waiting for someone to recommend a FANTASTIC staging company for higher end homes in Atlanta

4. Most everything has been selling pretty quickly lately without staging

5. Did I mention I'm lazy?

Here's some staging pics from our projects back in the day before I became a Real Estate Curmudgeon....kinda makes me want to stage things again!!  Curse you Heather.....    So anyone out there that stages houses or knows someone that stages houses hit me up, I need to get back in the staging game!

THE NO SO CREEPY CRAWL SPACE

Not only did we SPRAY FOAM the attic, we also SEALED the crawl space with spray foam and upgraded vapor barrier! It's not that much more to do this and it makes a HUGE difference in indoor air quality and comfort!

Since this house has a partial basement AND a crawl space, we decided it was worth the extra cost, since if we didn't do it, the partial basement would always be STANKIN' with that mildewy smell all to common in crawlspaces and other subterranean lairs! 

I HIGHLY recommend anyone building or rehabbing homes involving crawlspaces to check out the science and benefits of a SEALED CRAWL SPACE!

 I think you pretty much covered all the bases with this one other than nuclear fall out shelter and Breaking Bad cook kitchen, but all of them are possible and will be MUCH more comfortable because we installed.....

 We're gonna hold off publishing the exact numbers for EVERYTHING until it's sold, but we're gonna make about 1/2 what we originally thought due to all the problems and delays we encountered.  But even the 1/2 isn't so bad.... :)

@Rick Baggenstoss wins the prize for creativity!  I'm sure @J Scott will send you something autographed or perhaps a lock his hair.

@Sheryl Gurvey wins the Captain Obvious award, and reminds me that maybe I should come up with better titles for my videos!

Here's the NEXT riddle of the day..... Who can guess what lurks down here??? 

WHAT'S BEHIND THOSE WALLS?

Another good habit to start if you get into NEW CONSTRUCTION is taking pictures JUST before insulation and drywall are installed!  This helps GREATLY if you or the homeowner need to do a repair, hang a barn door, or narrow down where something is leaking from. 

Instead of using Spray Foam like we do in most of our intown builds, we used a Radiant Barrier roof decking, which helps to keep the attic cool by making it more difficult for heat to pass through it, kinda like the film on most of the new Low-E windows.

Pictures are also FANTASTIC for locating outlets and wires that sheetrockers ALWAYS occasionally seem to cover up!

And if your wondering what the framing looked like behind our AWESOME living room ceiling, Well Here you Go!

 And if your sense of wonder is even MORE wondering....like wondering what those little orange tubes in the exterior walls are.... and maybe that slightly bigger orange tube above the fireplace.....   Well the exterior walls have an In-Wall Pest Control System that saves US money on our termite control systems.... And the Orange Tube Above the Fireplace is so that the future homeowner can run their cables to their TV down to their cabinet with ease!