It is officially....For Sale By Owner

Friday, I showed the house to not one...but TWO people.....Now the waiting game begins......This is the hard part.  I am so ready to have this house sold and move on to the next thing.  Probably, getting a job.
This was done all wrong...according to "How to Flip the right way".....We never thought one month after purchasing the house, the housing market would take a dive...I wouldn't trade this experience for anything in the world.  I have learned so very much that I will be able to take with me either in another flip, or just remodeling of our house.  I am not afraid to tackle anything now. 

So, this is my last post because I am taking down this site while the house is on the market.  So, for the last time, enjoy the pictures of the finished product......

Until my next adventure...Thanks for sharing this with me....See ya soon....never know where......

Lights~Camera~Action

Things are starting to rock-n-roll over at the ol' flip house.....

We got the ceiling fan installed in the kitchen last night so that........are you ready for this............

the tile guy can see to install the countertops in the kitchen......yes, you heard me right, someone else is going to install the tile....My sweet husband is so over worked he has decided to let someone else do it...Now, we ALL know he can and does a fabulous job, but he has NO time......I so excited...It's like Christmas this week....We went to Home Depot and purchased a kitchen sink, all the trim work, faucets, tile, and lights....I can't wait to get this house staged....That is actually what I have been waiting for all this time.....

Pictures will follow this week, because hopefully, keeping fingers crossed, it will be on the market in two weeks......yeepee...........

A Girl's Gotta Do What A Girl's Gotta Da

I sitting here in my bedroom with no clothes on, waiting on my husband to get home, thinking of a million things I REALLY need to be doing instead of this....Yes, I agree this is WAY MORE INFORMATION than anyone needs to be reading about!!! However, there is TRULY a method to my madness....No, I'm not trying to have any more children!!! I NEED my husband to say "yes" to something...And having been married 17+ years, I know what gets their attention...Cheap trick? You bet ya....I have heard what makes a good sales person is having the "right" tools....Well my tools might be rusty and worn, but he still likes them......

So, to get to my point.....I found someone that can help us finish this house....Not free, but I have SO learned, you get what you pay for....He can tile our entire counter-tops for a very reasonable price...Not only that, he can do just about anything we need him to do to finish this house by the end of September.....which is my NEW 10th deadline.....

So, sorry, no pictures of this one....just read this and throw this away in your mind....Hopefully I will come back with positive results....If not, I'll have to sharpen my tools......

Da Cabinets Da Cabinets

I can't help but think of Tee-Too on Fantasy Island when he got so excited when he saw the plane coming to the island with it's guest.....I feel like that today....We got the cabinets installed....Oh yeah!!!! I am truly starting to see we might actually get this house finished in my lifetime!!!

I finished painting the mud room...so, now I will move into the laundry room and get that textured...Not looking forward to that...I am sick and tired of texturing...

Also, discovered a big mistake made...we now have to tile the counter tops instead of Formica...because of the way the corner of the cabinets are, the seam would hit where the sink goes and you can't have that....just a learning process.....

I am getting excited to finish this....

It's the Room that NEVER ends....

Okay, I am making pretty good progress....I have almost finished putting the texture on the walls in the "mud~room"...In fact one of my dearest friends came to the house to see the progress and bring me a much welcomed strawberry shake showed me a new "texturing" technique that looked much better and was MUCH faster, so I finished the walls with that.......FINISHED!!!! Now I can paint....Oh wait, there is a wall going to the back yard I had not done...are you kidding me....I just finished cleaning up the texture.......Now, I got to get it all back out....I was so mad I got the paint out and painted the corners so I can roll the walls tomorrow....But I will have to finish that one wall....I swear I think those walls grow...This has taken FOREVER!!!!!

I'm really holding out hope to get the cabinets hung this weekend so we can move forward in the kitchen....But I have held out hope on a lot of things and was let down....so, I'm okay if it doesn't happen....I just REALLY REALLY REALLY want this house on the market by September and I am running out of August quickly!!!!

Update soon.........................

I'm So Excited~ I just can't hide it!!

Another productive day!!!!!! I finished painting the kitchen....Now all we need is to install the cabinets :/ and stage...My favorite part!!!!

Then I moved into the "mudroom" and almost finished texturing the walls...I just got tired and had to quit....It is beginning to look soooo good.....

My oldest came over and mowed, edged, and blew away the grass...Now it looks good again.....

At the end of the day, my husband put the cabinets in the kitchen so we could see how they are going to look....It was so exciting....It is beginning to look a lot like finishing!!!!

We are in panic mode right now...Well, I am....We need the money now to pay tuition for the boys private school....so, it needs to be sold...They start in ONE week!!! YIKES!!!

wind sail~gone

Right now I should be sanding walls and doing texture..However, I'm sitting at home having my pity party....ALL the work I did yesterday (putting down texture to hide all the mistakes) was for nothing....You can see every mistake....Now, I get to sand what I did and try to repair all the mistakes from the incompetent workers.....
I was so pumped yesterday...I got dressed and bought more stuff to stage with...Couldn't wait to get over there and set it out. Today, it sits at my house....I don't even have the strength today to face it and go over and stage...I really thought I would be painting by the weekend...Hopefully next weekend, if I work everyday next week. I still have done nothing with my kids...They have pretty much sat at this house doing nothing all summer. We have not gone on any road trips....Now we are sitting here with August on top of us...we are about to start back to school....
Tomorrow, I will get up, get dressed, and head back over there to start sanding. Today, I just want to sit and veg......