Changes made on the exterior of this Flip House

As many of you know my husband had lost his job over 2 years ago because the company he worked for outsourced the work to a company in Taiwan. We had started a couple of home based businesses, one of which was flipping homes. This is where you buy, fix up, and resell houses, hopefully for a profit.
This is the house we bought to flip last fall after we completed the things that we needed to upgrade in order to resell the house. This is the house before we did anything. It may not look that bad, but nobody had lived in the house for two years and there were a lot of things that needed to be done. Some of the things we did on the exterior of the house were to

add Malibu lighting, repaint the coach lights, repaint peeling paint, replaced the front door (It looked as if someone had tried to break in), sealed the driveway, repaired the roof where needed, took care of the weed infested lawn, fertilized a couple of times, added a lot of landscaping, mulched and added a brick patio.
Here is some of the peeling paint.
The yard was covered with weeds.
When we are done with the houses we stage them to sell. We even staged the porch.
This is the front done. Wait until you see the back!
This is what the back of the house looked like when we bought it. The weeds were at some points as tall as 7 feet.
If you look near the bottom right window you could see by boys young men waving their arms. We had to soak the ground and pull out all of the weeds.

See how happy they look! Really, they where good sports about it.

The people who owned the house before we did, had taken their brick patio with them. (Can you believe that?) The ground was very uneven and it was impossible to mow, as a result the weeds grew that tall.

Now you can see the house! Before you couldn’t even get to the back door.
We burned the weeds with a hose near by. This little guy is always wanting and ready to help.
Here is another before picture. After all the weeds were gone, we installed a new brick paver patio. That is another post in the making.
  See what a difference! One of our main objectives in flipping a home is to make it “Turn Key,” which means when the new owner turns the key they have to do nothing but move in.
Staging the patio with furniture allows the new owner to visualize the extra entertaining space and actually makes the patio appear larger. Although this patio is very large (18’x28’). We even added a walkway to the side load 3 car garage.

This was the way the side of the house looked. Ugh!
And now it is very welcoming.
This is the before and after view from the kitchen.

We also think the lighting should be updated.

I really liked this house. We thought about moving into it and selling our house, but ours needed to many repairs and updates to it before we could sell it. I always have a list of things to do. It is the never ending list! lol! It always seems to get longer,  even if I am doing the things on it.
Do you have an on going list?
Does it ever get done?
What have you done to sell your house?

Follow along to see more posts on the changes we made to this and other houses we flipped.
Below are a few post on things we did to this and other houses.Painting an Unfinished Basement
A Goodwill Table Redo
A Railing Makeover
Add Malibu lighting and Repaint Lighting
How to Epoxy Paint a Garage Floor
Great Estate Sale Find used to Stage
How to Frame a Bathroom Mirror
Exterior Staining
A Kitchen Makeover
A Laundry Room Makeover

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