Open House Scheduled!

Open house on the Cherry St property is scheduled for Sunday.  Hoping to get some traffic through. I don't think it has been shown yet.  Realtor's generally don't like open houses, but maybe we'll get lucky!  This is probably a good time to give a shout-out to our realtor:  John Chernesky from Remax (http://www.johnchernesky.com/).  He definitely gets the job done for us.

Still taking electrical and HVAC bids on the 2nd Flipper (Village Lane).  That seems to be coming together really really well.   Hope to have it on the market by the first week in August.

Hubby starting looking for a third flipper today, but we really need to sell something before we can buy another.  Hubby claims we can buy a third one but won't have enough money to fix it up - LOL.  He is actually thinking about having a buddy of his invest in number 3 so we can continue moving forward.

Still haven't filled the empty apartment, and decided to at least report the $2100 we are owed from the eviction to the credit agencies.  Weirdly the court system seems unable to help us (even though $1800 of it is an official judgement from a case).  Hubby is going to look into it a bit more, but it doesn't look promising at all.  It really stinks because we know where they work, but apparently we can't put any kind of lien on their paychecks.  Hubby is sending a letter telling them to pay in 30 days, but they haven't paid in 6 months so I am obviously not very optimistic.

HVAC in Flipper 2

Hubby is going to meet with the HVAC guy tomorrow or Saturday to decide what to do about the heating and AC in the new place.  It currently has oil heat and a separate Air Conditioning unit.  He is thinking about converting to a heat pump for everything.  There are pros and cons, of course.  The Realtor says that gas heat is best, then a heat pump and last is oil heat.  The problem with removing the oil furnace is that the oil tank has to be removed too.  The tanks are often put in the basement after the basement is poured and then they build the house over top of it.  Getting it out will be tricky (plus there is oil in it!).

Carpet cleaning on Sat for the open rental unit.  The remaining stuff has to be stored for a few more weeks and then we'll trash it.  There is a bit of drywall damage, but that can be easily fixed. Tenant screening starting next week, hopefully!