Author Archives: Cyn

So I’m ready to close and waiting for Freddie Mac to make the day. I’m hoping we close by Friday morning because my guy Matt wants to dig into that house this weekend. The home has a 4 car garage which is amazing inside. I will post some pics later in the week if we […]

So I will switch to using my new iPad for this blog because it allows me to talk and text and it comes out much better than my iPhone. So the next part we are going talk about is the kitchen. I told you in a previous post and that I named some of the […]

The last home I did, I just winged it and went very far over budget and had a contractor steal from me so I vowed this time: I will stay in budget no matter what. I’m using the free Google Sheets which is a mini version of Excel and I crafted out a budget that […]

So today I was outside sanding and prepping those barn shelves for the master bedroom and there was this black hornet out there and he was hell-bent on stinging me. I had a can of wasp spray and used almost the entire can and he’s still alive right now as I type. I’ve never done […]

So today I called Freddie Mac because that’s me….I’ll just go over two realtors to find out my closing date because I have a lot of things to do and everyone is busy and I get that so I just called myself. They are going to try to push it through to this week so […]

I started calling this room the “Front Room” because there’s so much cool space in this home I labeled some of the rooms so I can separate which I’m talking about! The attic is “spider room”, the basement is “demo city”, the kitchen is 1960, etc etc. It’s the room you enter from the very […]

We are waiting to close and Freddie Mac will most likely set closing for this week. Matt, my friend that is helping me, is anxious to tear into the basement and other parts we are tearing out with his music, hammer (30 pound hammer that is) and his fast working technique. This basement, I feel, […]

I think realtors are a great resource in this field. They are knowledgeable and just because they might sell a home for $ 200,000 and we will often think, “wow she showed one home to that person and made a cool 6% profit which means she’s taking home $ 12,207.00 for one showing. Keep in […]