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Now I have the rehab itch...what will all this cost??
Broke my big repair cherry yesterday by dropping $1700 re-shingling 900
sq feet of roof. I was thinking of doing a rehab loan, with the following items included. I know some of these I may be able to handle myself, but I wanted to put them all in to get an idea of cost for all these items from some of the experts here. This is for a 100 year old single family two story colonial in MA. The home is about 1350 sq feet. 7 rooms, 3 beds, 1 bath. - add 1/2 bath on 1st floor - Scrape/Paint the house bright yellow (currently gray) - waterproof all fieldstone basement walls (650 sq ft basement) - add ground level 12 x 15 redwood deck, lighted w/ outside elec outlets - hot tub on the new deck - new asphalt driveway (single wide, about 12 x 40) - extend existing 12 x 30 garage by 20 feet back into yard. - hardwire electricity to garage - w/baseboard elec heat or wood stove. - replace bathroom floor w/ceramic time and install shower door enclosure (6 x 6 bathroom, small.) - re-seed and flatten/level lawn, remove razor tree (holley?), remove 4 ft chain link fence and giant bush in front of house. (Lawn is about 3000 sq feet. Fence is about 25 ft in length.) - Wall to wall carpet in living room (10 x 12). - baseboard heat w/thermo installed in unheated room. (10 x 12) - new gas dryer - new front and back storm doors - new gas stove - add garbage disposal - ceramic tile on kitchen floor (16 x 14) - reshingle roof of garage. I am figuring around $25,000. I would hope a GC could handle the whole mess, and get it all done in a month in the spring/summer/fall. Thoughts? Bluesman |
Just one other question - if the above house is valued curently @
300,000, how much of an icrease in value could I expect from the repairs listed? Thanks, Bluesman |
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More like 50000
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wrote: - - Scrape/Paint the house bright yellow (currently gray) One of my neighbors has a bright yellow house. It doesn't look so good. (And I'm glad it's not in my line of sight!) -- 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ ***Revelation 22:12*** ICQ: 349878998 http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ |
If you get a contractor to agree with you I Bet he will dissapear to
another state with your downpayment. Or you will forever be chasing him in court. Get real get qualified bids. 2 thoughts Yellows cover the worst and are usualy a 2 coat job. Waterproofing a foundation is done from the outside. Get quality bids |
- - Scrape/Paint the house bright yellow (currently gray) One of my neighbors has a bright yellow house. It doesn't look so good. (And I'm glad it's not in my line of sight!) No kidding. That alone might DEvalue the home for the amount of the rest of the improvements. Yellow. Yech. |
i doubt you could do all that for 25k even if you did most of the labor
yourself. but my real question, why would you dump all that money into such a small house? randy wrote in message oups.com... Broke my big repair cherry yesterday by dropping $1700 re-shingling 900 sq feet of roof. I was thinking of doing a rehab loan, with the following items included. I know some of these I may be able to handle myself, but I wanted to put them all in to get an idea of cost for all these items from some of the experts here. This is for a 100 year old single family two story colonial in MA. The home is about 1350 sq feet. 7 rooms, 3 beds, 1 bath. - add 1/2 bath on 1st floor - Scrape/Paint the house bright yellow (currently gray) - waterproof all fieldstone basement walls (650 sq ft basement) - add ground level 12 x 15 redwood deck, lighted w/ outside elec outlets - hot tub on the new deck - new asphalt driveway (single wide, about 12 x 40) - extend existing 12 x 30 garage by 20 feet back into yard. - hardwire electricity to garage - w/baseboard elec heat or wood stove. - replace bathroom floor w/ceramic time and install shower door enclosure (6 x 6 bathroom, small.) - re-seed and flatten/level lawn, remove razor tree (holley?), remove 4 ft chain link fence and giant bush in front of house. (Lawn is about 3000 sq feet. Fence is about 25 ft in length.) - Wall to wall carpet in living room (10 x 12). - baseboard heat w/thermo installed in unheated room. (10 x 12) - new gas dryer - new front and back storm doors - new gas stove - add garbage disposal - ceramic tile on kitchen floor (16 x 14) - reshingle roof of garage. I am figuring around $25,000. I would hope a GC could handle the whole mess, and get it all done in a month in the spring/summer/fall. Thoughts? Bluesman |
wrote in message oups.com... Broke my big repair cherry yesterday by dropping $1700 re-shingling 900 sq feet of roof. - add ground level 12 x 15 redwood deck, lighted w/ outside elec outlets - hot tub on the new deck I am figuring around $25,000. I would hope a GC could handle the whole mess, and get it all done in a month in the spring/summer/fall. Thoughts? Yes, he can get the deck done for that amount and time frame. Now, about the rest of your dreams . . . . . . . . . . |
"John Harlow" wrote in message ... - - Scrape/Paint the house bright yellow (currently gray) One of my neighbors has a bright yellow house. It doesn't look so good. (And I'm glad it's not in my line of sight!) No kidding. That alone might DEvalue the home for the amount of the rest of the improvements. Yellow. Yech. I would rather see a yellow house than another earth-tone. I have seen endless tracts of houses built with nothing but various shades of beige, tan and brown. That is boring. -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. |
I would rather see a yellow house than another earth-tone. I have seen endless tracts of houses built with nothing but various shades of beige, tan and brown. That is boring. I actually kind of like yellow. I particularly like what I've taken to calling "F-U" yellow, which is the shade of yellow the people near my work re-painted their house after the historic-district commission told them that they had to paint it either white, yellow, or (I think,) green. They chose a shade somewhere between road-stripe and international-safety yellow. Not timid. :-) It took a little more than a year for other houses nearby to start copying it. Once you get used to it, it looks really good. But not for people who are afraid of color. |
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:08:43 -0800, "Roger Shoaf"
wrote: | | "John Harlow" wrote in message | ... | | - - Scrape/Paint the house bright yellow (currently gray) | | One of my neighbors has a bright yellow house. It | doesn't look so good. (And I'm glad it's not in my | line of sight!) | | No kidding. That alone might DEvalue the home for the amount of the rest | of | the improvements. | | Yellow. Yech. | | | | I would rather see a yellow house than another earth-tone. I have seen | endless tracts of houses built with nothing but various shades of beige, tan | and brown. That is boring. | | The thing about yellow houses is that there are some yellows that look fine on some houses, but a slightly different shade or even slightly different color saturation can look god-awful. We have brown and yellow Craftsman-style houses in our neighborhood, and they look very nice. But there is a primo example of Craftsman style (it was actually written up and photographed in a renovator's magazine once) that the new owner painted bright yellow and it looks dreadful. So close ... yet so far! It looks exactly like someone got the wrong paint by mistake. Be careful. I'd suggest looking for another yellow house you like and being damned careful you get that exact shade of yellow. Knock on the door and ask. | -- | | Roger Shoaf | | About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then | they come up with this striped stuff. | | |
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