Best of Before and Afters: Yards

Erik Hitzelberger — Mon, 19 May 2014 01:39:41 +0000

We started this blog series last week as a look back at some of our most dramatic transformations. Again if you have been following our blog for any amount of time you know that we flip a lot of houses! As we continue our escapade of best of before and afters we thought it would be fun to look at some of our favorite flips that really turned out great.

We did kitchens last week and wow were some of the before pictures are real doosies! Next on our list is the yard. The front yard is the first impression that your potential buyers will see. How the landscaping is done, or not done can deter or lure them in as we wrote about in our Lost Art of Landscaping post recently. Additionally the back yard can be an oasis or just a bunch or dirt, as we saw at The Dirt House. Let’s look at some of our favorite before and after yards.

Back Yard Before

Back Yard After

Back Deck Before

Back Deck After

Front Yard After

Front of House Before

Front Yard After

Back Yard with Pool Before

Back Yard with Pool After

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Flipping House Series: The Junk House Part 2

Erik Hitzelberger — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:11:18 +0000

Last week we introduced you to The Junk House. We got looking at more of the before pictures and decided to show you some of the exterior ones. Since this was a foreclosure it was obvious that the owner stopped caring about the outside of the house a long time ago. Let’s take a look at some of the exterior issues with The Junk House.

Front Landscaping

As you can see the shrubs are completely over grown and have lacked maintenance for some time.

Back Patio

As you can see, yes there is more “junk” here at The Junk House back patio. We will need to get this cleaned up.

Paint- Exterior

From these pictures you can see the damage and wear on the soffit overhang that will need repair and repainting.

Back Yard

The back yard is spacious and can be a nice area for a homeowner. As you can see thought there is some over grown areas around the chain link fence.

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