tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80519723223159657242011-11-27T16:19:28.773-08:00This blog is a commentary on my projects... Enjoy, and respond if it catches your fancy. JeffJeff Kurtzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143630042893510727noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051972322315965724.post-88669896195601666452011-07-14T07:03:00.000-07:002011-07-14T07:03:53.418-07:00

This is the original album of my bath makeover at the house in Brandonville.   Much of my time here is spent gardening.

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My palmyra house pretty much ended my flipping project...  lost a fortune. Am working on my place in Brandonville and will post pics from time to time. Enjoy your renovations! Jeff

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Subject: Re: my blog George writes:Dear Jeff, The blog was very interesting - the question is, where do you come up with these places? Anyway, I don't have any money right now, but keep me posted on what you're doing - you can never tell when that'll change! Regards, GeorgeGood Morning, George! Where to come up with them?I think it was 1977 when I started looking at houses...

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I know that this blog needs more attention... to many things in life to focus on just one... whatever!Here's a link to an article that really sparked my interest. A Realtor who takes a contractor along to show houses. The home buyer can get an on the spot opinion of the complexity of making changes while touring the property, right up front.We actually did exactly this a few years ago in

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Last night I cut and pasted floor plans and I think I have something workable. Am going to treat the existing structure as an outline and move everything. Will end up with about 1700 sq ft, three decent bedrooms and all new paint and flooring. Dan is giving me price on repairing and enclosing the entire front and east side. I'll take on the interior. Want to have a 90 day plan and see if

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Buddy Mike emailed an address yesterday. A forclosure about 15 miles from here, in a quite rural area that I like! $19,900 and worth the trip to check it out.Of course, I mappointed the location but didn't read the directions so I was 1/2 mile away asking people where Park Street was... Everyone agreed that the old Park Street was now Manassas ( or something like that) so the #54 I was looking

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Last week I received an influx of $'s from an investor friend and can now finish 505, the Palmyra house! Met Larry the carpet guy yesterday to give him deposit money and review condition of floor and baseboards, in preparation for him to do install.Got the living room baseboards 90% done, patched gaps between rooms in the upstairs. ( seems like every time they did a room addition they did

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This looks like a loosing proposition. Slide ShowLocated on a busy 4-lane, north of Hazleton. The community is known for rising prices and high taxes. Budding office park is 1/2 mile north, and if the strip took off a retail there'd be some potential for long term gain... unfortunately, that's gonna be a while.This is the best looking image I have of the house, so open the slide show with

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About 5 or 6 years ago my buddy Mike introduced me to buying HUD foreclosures... most of these have done nicely,,, but there was this one little place I jumped on for $6,000 and it's still sitting. (or should I say 'sagging'?)Here's the slide show from yesterday's tour... I didn't even take photos of the worst of it. This is the left end of a row house. Everything sags foward the end wall.

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One Day, One Project, One Kitchen...Photos Didn't put in much time on this place this week, but did get the kitchen cabinets done. In the original photos you'll see the right end of the kitchen countertop was dropped about 5 inches to create a desk area. Lynn (Realtor) suggested I raise that countertop up and install a dishwasher. I just love it when a fresh mind gets their fingers into a

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OK, now Today I feel like things are coming back into alignment... Holidays, three day weeks,,, odd Mondays that wern't part of any week... ugh.UP early. Loaded the AUDI with business brochures for calls today and layouts for noon meeting with a networking group. Here's the plan.Head to Harrisburg to start business calls by 8:00 at east end of retail district. ( this is not house stuff,,,

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Wow it's cold!No fun to even feed the birds on days like this... much less think about oil prices over $3/gallon.I actually shut down my largest unit for the winter... Cut the losses and overhead for a few months and refigure how to proceed.The back building at Green St is a 4 unit that gets it's heat from the front building. Both buildings are on one deed and maybe that's something that can

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OK,,, so helpp me out here. PHOTOS: http://picasaweb.google.com/kurtzinpa/210NGilbertStShenandoah/photo#s5148996565951122498On a snow day I stayed home to work on paying bills and organizing stuff... did some prospecting for an alternate venture. 9 AM head to Redners for TP. (tissue) which seemed to have reached it's last leaf.Thru the store, not crowded due to snow. After checkout I roll

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Three day week and feels like it's been a month... ugggghhhhMerry Christmas! Daughter Mackenzie gave me an adjustable furniture clamd and an interntional cook book... will put both to use immediately!Made two trips to Palmyra (#505) (no photos this week). Lots of detail work that takes time but needs to get done. Measured remaining windows, interior doors, scrubbed kitchen countertop,

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Short week, but finished some good stuff. Painted the Kitchen two tone... almost matches vinyl. Sean came over to assist erecting the awning over the front door... fit remarkable well, after all the pre planning I did... thank God!I was back there yesterday but didn't do any photos. Lynn (Realtor) came up with $154,500 pricetag, and good reviews. Need to finish all the little stuff.

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All my places are documented internally by their house number... in 15 years haven't had two with same number yet! This place in in Mcadoo. Picked up from forclosure two years ago and Robert lived there till about a month ago. He pulled all the carpets and cleanedup pretty well.SlideshowRealtor is meeting me there Monday to review options. With the garage it should be $625 rental, and I

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Craig List DetailPicassa pics beforeTenant moved Thanksgiving weekend... was Section-8 which included all utilities... great tenant but marginal income for me. Bumped the rent to $595 and rented it right away... tenant pays all!! YeaaaLast week I spend one day organizing and hitting walls with plaster in several areas. Yesterday I cleaned up most of plaster and started painting. Two areas need

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AlbumGot quite a bit done this week... Having Nick around sure speeds the projects, adds opinions and suggestions... see what's crooked before glue sets. Lifted office floor 1"+ to eliminate slope. This room was originally the back porch. When they enclosed it they just built up floor without bringing to level.Nick finished both bathrooms. Had to fit the 1/2 bath toilet twice...

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