Fliperati

I hosted a small “house wrecking party” this weekend at my flip property and was able to convince five very dear friends to come out and help me with some of the remaining demo work.  There was no compensation beyond the hamburgers we cooked on a small grill in the backyard and the cheap beer in the fridge, but you would have thought I was paying them big $$ based on the quality of the work they did.  The six of us accomplished more in an hour and a half than I could have done in an entire day.  Projects tackled included:

• Removing the wood paneling and trim from the front porch (an area of the house that had not been touched prior to this weekend)
• Tearing out all the tile in the tub/shower area
• Ripping up 85% of the old linoleum and sub-floor in the kitchen
• And, of course, a few more man-hours of staple removal

I took a lot of pictures to document the work of my free-labor crew, but it was a pretty hot day and nobody was looking very pretty after a few swings of the hammer, so I promised I would refrain from posting any images.  That’s the least I can do after everybody worked so hard and did such a great job. 

I highly recommend the house wrecking party as a way to jump-start a project when flipping property.