Fliperati

I knew that potentially unpleasant interactions with contractors, hired labor, zoning officials, etc, would be a regular part of flipping houses, so I wasn’t terribly surprised when the architect I was so excited about decided to completely disappear from the face of the earth.  Although, I am a little taken aback because I spent an hour at her office discussing the project on the day I closed on the property and she seemed pretty engaged.  The plan was that she was going to send me a formal proposal / contract for the garage the next day.  Well, after almost three weeks and many inquisitive phone calls with no word from her office, it’s pretty safe to say that she’s probably found bigger projects to work on and is dumping my little garage reconstruction. 

Fortunately, I had originally contacted multiple architects and one of them had given me his cell phone number and seemed pretty interested in the project.  I was able to reach him easily yesterday and set up an appointment for early next week to get things moving.  I’ll be done with my banking job then and I’m really looking forward to finally being able to focus on this project and successfully flip my first house.  I’m hoping to write more frequent / interesting blog posts as well…