Two out of three bathrooms need new tile, the main bathroom just needs a good cleaning, other than that the plumbing and fixtures are great in all bathrooms. 

Straight out of high school I served in the military and then spent the past 10 years working in IT.I have finally reached a point where I’m tired of working for the corporate industry on a limited salary while doing nothing for my retirement.For the past year I’ve been watching house flipping shows and decided I wanted to give it a try.Six months ago I bought my first house with a 203k loan that I’m currently living in so I could get some experience.I paid $167,500 for the house and took out $35,000 with the 203k.The house was a probate that had been abandoned for 5 years.Half the house was on a concrete slab that had sunk about 4” in the middle and it was completely outdated.We removed 2 load bearing walls to open up the kitchen, knocked out the back wall, built a new subfloor, and put up a 4 panel sliding glass door to let in some sun light.We installed porcelain tile in the kitchen, stainless steel appliances, new cabinets and quartz counters as well as recessed lighting.We fixed the foundation problems by mudjacking to raise the floors and carpeted the back 3 rooms that sat on top of the slab.As you can imagine we ran through the $35,000 quickly.The 2 bathrooms are still outdated and the house needs new siding.After the renovation we had it reappraised (per the 203k loan agreement) and they said it was worth $215,000.About 3 months after the renovation I attended a 3 day Fortune Builders seminar and come to a realization I probably could have saved about $20,000 if I had systems and processes to follow before I purchased the house.After listening to BP podcasts and hear other people’s experiences I’m quite fortunate I didn’t lose money.This sums up my real estate investing experience.

I also trenched around the sides of the house, added drain tile. filled the trenches in with gravel and tied that in to the same gutter drain tile that goes away from the house.Lastly, I installed ceramic tile on the slab.

The finishes were simple, and the owners took many steps to keep the costs as low as possible: the owners found bath cabinets, doors, and sinks from Habitat for Humanity, bathroom floor tile in Mexico, kitchen cabinets  from IKEA, wood kitchen counter tops from Floor and Decor, and the wood floors were made of A-C Plywood sheets.  

I'm NYC contractor interested in to finding out new opportunity for investing, finding construction leads and new projects trends. We are most active in Manhattan midtown area with several school and private projects ...

We have been slowly converting from carpet flooring to sturdier stuff, tile and laminate in years past, and I think we are going with vinyl plank flooring on the next turnover.  

I highly recommend tile flooring.

We then invested around $6k to renovate both sides with all new tile and higher end vinyl planking that is completely waterproof.

Let us just assume that it looks good, not average, and the wow factor is the living room that has a tile/stone fireplace on it.

I have everything on 1 page but in different sections (plumbing, electrical, tile, etc).