A Tale of Two Flippers!!

My daughter and I are a team at Home Team of America, in San Antonio.  What we do there is sell houses and show houses to buyers.  However, on the side we are a team in a family-type business of buying depressed homes, fixing them up, and then selling them.  I say it's a family-type business in that I am the buyer, my daughter helps with remodeling and acts as realtor when house goes on the market.  My son Jeff is the major carpenter on the remodel, but since he can't be here all the time as he lives in N. Texas and has a family and attends college for a new career in computer programming, I use licensed plumbers, electricians, and carpenters also.


When we are not working on a house, my daughter and I love to buy depressed furniture, pieces that we find at Goodwill, or a client wants to throw away and we take it, at garage sale buys, and also just on the curb throw-aways.  It's always fun to see something that someone no longer can use or a piece that's been so damaged, come to life again with a new purpose, use, or personality.  Yes, personality,  furniture has it!!  Furniture might say mid century modern until we remove a piece of trim and add some chrome and then its personality is industrial chic.  We might change the color and add a padded seat and it goes from classy to homey. 


Tera and I are both artists and crafters besides being handy with hammers, trowels, nail guns and paint rollers; but all these things go together.  We use a lot of our furniture redos as staging in our house flips.  Right now a zebra print hand-painted drink cart sits in the corner of the living room on newest flip, while my Diva Table painted with a little girl in mind, sits beside a twin bed in a bedroom staged for a little gal. 


I tell you all this to inform you that in the near future, possibly this afternoon, we will have a joint blog called A Tale of Two Flippers on BlogSpot.  We will show step by step how we take a piece and change it.  We are not always doing them together, so Tera may write one blog about something she's finished (she's great with filing cabinets and desks!) and I might write one about something I accomplished in a flip house or a piece of furniture I've refurbished.  I have two really recent ones, I took a wooden coffee table with glass insets, removed the glass and added chrome.  Painted the wood black, and it now sits in my den. 


I recently found a hat tree (painted yellow) at a garage sale for $10!!!  I painted it many coats of white, and am in the process of polyurethaning it for protection and shine, and making a upholstered bench.  Tera painted the bronze hooks to silver, and I can't wait to stage an entry with it once finished. 


So if you are interested in seeing old things come back to life, you might checkout ATaleofTwoFlippers.blogger.com   


 Here is a table that was brown when I found it and now sits in my dining room filled with grandkids books and blocks. (shown in two stages) None of finished table!  Just in progress.

CHANGES, CHANGES, AND MORE

                     




I have been so busy that I haven't written in over a year,


May. 2015, I bought a Fannie Mae repo in San Antonio where my daughter lives and works as a realtor, I spent all summer renovating it, and sold it the week I put it on the market.


This was so successful so I bought another larger one this year.  I lived in it in the converted garage for four months while renovating.  It has not sold yet.


I moved my license here, so if you need a house in San Antonio, my daughter and I are a team at Home Team of America,


If you have specific questions about flipping houses, ask and Ill address that in next post.