The following photos perfectly describe my life over the past month as I have been rehabbing my condo.
As you can see it isn’t as glorious as they make it out to be in shows like, Flipping Out, Property Ladder, Flip This House, and Flip That House. There is a whole lot of dirty dishes, dinners [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing
Over the 4th of July weekend, I was the best man in my best friends wedding.
I already had my hands full, planning one drunken night of debauchery, and two days of fun in the sun back home. I didn’t want to have to deal with all the new responsibilities of purchasing a house on [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo
So my original offer of 80% ltv was countered with an offer $1,500 lower than the original asking price, on top of asking for an increase to $5,000 earnest money up front payable immediately, this was Monday the 30th. Kinda a slap in the face if you ask me.
So I mulled it over and Tuesday [...]
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Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo
Well They got back to us and its not what I was hoping for, but exactly as I expected.
The counter offer was a mere 1.5k less than the asking price, and to top it all off they want a full 5k in earnest money as apposed to the 1k which is traditional. So, a decision [...]
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Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo
Well its been 3 days now since we made the offer and still no word. Friday, I placed an offer on a foreclosed condo up in Rogers Park, a Chicagoland Neighborhood just north of the city along the lake. Its a two bedroom, two bath condo conversion that foreclosed a little over a [...]
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We finally made the offer Yay!
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo