A Juicy House! | Noob vs Pro Real Estate.

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to 2018 when we used to do a noob verse

Pro Series in real estate and so that's

what we're bringing back as we're

traveling to look for real estate for

our real estate startup house hack let's

go ahead and start with some new versus

Pro tips and we'll start with the

outside an easy way you can spruce up

this front is just paint the garage door

you could do it yourself in a single day

probably it's not going to cost you any

more than like a gallon of paint and you

can see you've got the mismatch of like

fingerprints and discoloration over here

even some screws sticking out somebody

screwed something through the other side

quick little bit of paint the pro knows

we can spruce up this curb appeal

quickly with 50 bucks and a little bit

of Labor the noob is looking around

going oh but it's warped what if I have

to replace the whole garage door it's

going to cost me one to two thousand

dollars forget it paint and you're good

here what do you think about that Jack

good idea he says good idea okay let's

see what we got inside

so inside the first thing you notice is

the way this house is laid out is

there's not a lot of overhead lighting

the only set of overhead lighting you

have here is this sort of lighting most

of the newer real estate buyers are

going to come and say we're going to add

canned lighting everywhere we're going

to add all this electrical and you end

up with an electrical invoice of five

grand just in wiring and circuits and

then they sell you a panel upgrade in my

opinion the easier thing to do here is

brighter paint these color schemes can

be a lot brighter without being white

you don't want to go hospital white but

look at this nearly mustardy orange that

you've got over here nice bull nose

you've got like a mat to semi-gloss over

here I prefer flat it looks a little

less rental grade but a brighter color

like an edge comb gray big pro move to

really brighten the space up obviously

it's Arizona it's a hundred and what

nine or something Jack what's the

temperature 100 something

98 fine it's almost 100. uh it's

supposed to be 109 later today and uh so

we keep the windows closed just to keep

things nice and cool so you come into a

kitchen like this a lot of the noobs and

many of you have been watching my

channel for a while you already know

this a lot of the noobs are coming in

here saying we need a whole new kitchen

rip it all out this is a 2000 early

2000s build this was a 90s style this

90s style really transitioned into the

early 2000s so pretty common to see this

a lot of people are looking to just

going ew I don't want these cabinets

especially when you look inside I hate

to say it but they're like they're kind

of gross on the inside these don't even

have the white boxes they're like a

mustard on the inside I I don't even

want to use this kitchen but the actual

box uh there's no wallpaper in here the

frame this is a wood frame with a thin

veneer in the middle it's actually good

quality stuff you just need to number

the doors and the pros gonna come in

take the hinges off number the doors

spray paint these all white just make

sure you use a good wood primer and then

a good Cabinetry paint don't use your

regular latex paint get a good Cabinetry

paint on this and uh which could end up

being the latex as well but like usually

you get like a urethane on here uh and

uh and uh watch some of my videos you

could type into YouTube meet Kevin uh

it's like I don't know 300 kitchen

remodel or something like that and I'll

show you exactly which products to use

but you could transition this kitchen uh

with a primer coat and maybe a couple

coats of color I'd go for the white so

you'll probably you'll need two white

coats if you go with the gray you might

do one coat but Gray's already starting

to transition out and white is just

Timeless you also have to consider the

top see a noob is going to come in here

and go but Kevin you know I want the

modern uh beige colored cabinets or or

the gray cabinet or whatever it's just

not going to work with this top this top

will work with white I don't think it'll

work really well with a gray or a blue

and now you're doing a new top but then

you get somebody who comes comes in and

they want to start rebuilding your

Island and and now you're spending 10

grand where you should have just spent

you know less than a thousand I would

call it a thousand bucks to repaint the

cabinets then add some nice Hardware add

your personalization like that don't

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thing with that overhead lighting but

again uh paint Scheme change will help

possibly even a floor because what we

have here is an older ceramic tile with

the darker grout lines it's giving you a

little bit more of that dated look you

can really transform this property with

just paint and flooring it's probably

the extent that I would go here so

looking at the same thing with all the

cabinets by the way bathrooms you come

in you've got some stains on the carpet

I'm actually a big fan of buying places

with stains in the carpet and kind of

some musty carpet smell you know the

noob comes in here and does the usual oh

the nasty carpet the kitchen's nasty and

there's you know their fingerprints on

the walls and the garage doors dirty and

you know you come over to the the

bathroom for example and you get the

typical sort of mildew around the edges

of the shower and so what happens is

people see this crusty stuff right they

see the crust around the shower door

they see the mildew along the inside of

the fiberglass frame and I look at it

you got so much mildew it's peeling off

right here it's not a big deal though

this is all easily cleanable uh either

cleanable you could glaze it

quite frankly somebody with bleach and a

good scrubber can really clean up the

shower a lot you've got hard water

stains on here the noobs coming in here

doing a new kitchen new bathrooms and

and they're spending 50 Grand the pros

coming in here going hey I got a 10

grand budget for uh paint and and maybe

some miscellaneous new light fixtures

and cleaning up the bathroom maybe call

it another eight for flooring and

baseboards and you're putting 18 in

where the noob's putting in uh something

like uh uh you know 50. uh and and

you're up you know you've got the same

potential value play so uh the other

thing to consider as well is a lot of uh

Sellers and homeowners they don't

realize this but they start putting in

these over improvements into properties

I'm going to show you a fantastic over

Improvement now that really you have to

be a noob to install in your house uh

but for some people it makes sense I'll

tell you whom it makes sense for if

you're making more than 250 000 a year

and your income taxes are so high and

you want to offset some of your high

electricity bill and you've got a three

four hundred dollar electricity bill or

more maybe this makes sense maybe what

I'm about to show you make sense but

beyond what I just said it doesn't make

sense for you to make this Improvement

certainly not for most people so what do

we have well of course it is a whole

Tesla solar system now I understand I'm

not showing you the solar panels those

are on the roof and it's really hot even

in here but this is delicious each of

these has a value of about 15 grand

maybe with about a 30 tax credit that's

about thirty thousand dollars that I'm

looking at here this is a Square D

backup load Center uh this was an extra

so you're at you know 15 15. this was

probably a couple thousand bucks Square

D is an expensive brand you've got the

arc fault breakers you got three Arc

faults over here this is a 100 amp sub

panel you're going to probably have an

upgraded main as well hey Jack

Jack

hey can you open the garage for me

and we'll see if they also updated the

electrical panel out here usually they

do that top button there right above

your hand there yeah push it cool thanks

man so uh usually you know you're

putting in another five to ten Grand of

electrical work it's not just the cost

of these batteries but then it's also

the cost of the panels some homeowner

here spent fifty sixty thousand dollars

probably on the solar panel system that

they threw in I mean look at this look

at all these disconnects I don't even

know why I have these two electrical

meters maybe that's something they do

out here in Arizona I've got like three

electrical meters my goodness uh that's

almost like one per battery and uh and

then your main house here I don't know

I'll figure I'll get the answer to that

when I talk to the agents here but you

know this panel is actually original

which is fine uh so you've got your

original panel here and it looks like

what they did is they basically

abandoned everything and took your 200

amp panel sized it down to 100 amp a

main that is now in the garage so the

entire house is battery backed up with a

massive solar panel system up there uh

I mean this is amazing uh this is really

good so I like the problem for the

seller and this is the new part the

seller may have spent 50 Grand the comps

in the neighborhood for this house are

four hundred eighty thousand dollars

this house is listed for 5.25 so what

they're probably doing is they're going

okay 480 plus my solar panel system

they're not going to get it maybe

they'll get an extra five grand so

whoever buys this house is probably

getting a 90 discount on that solar

panel system assuming it's fully paid

for that is a fantastic deal for a home

buyer so if I were ever a home buyer the

type of home that I would want to buy is

one that has all these crazy upgrades

that they're not going to get comp value

for and then has the uh you know old

kitchen cabinets the stained carpet you

know the the golds or brass or whatever

Hardware you know these are simple

things to change the pro comes in here

and says I'm not paying for the panels

even though that's the most important

stuff and I want a discount because the

condition's bad you know the carpet's

not stretched anymore the pain sold you

got stains over here you know these are

all the things that send the home buyers

away meanwhile the investor is like this

is the easy stuff so uh those are those

are some new Boost Pro hacks here let's

look outside now you do have a pool here

so this is Market dependent and the pro

knows this is Market dependent if you're

in a market where you're not getting

extra rent for a pool you don't want a

pool uh but if you're in a market where

you can hopefully cover not just the

cost of servicing the pool which this

one needs a little love but also uh

maybe make some extra profit on it in a

market especially like Arizona where

jacket it's got to be over 100 now what

what's our temperature update Mr Jack

no temperature darn it it's still 98

okay feels warmer but anyway because we

just came from 55 degrees in Cali but uh

we flew in for the day so um look this

is uh this is great because it's going

to keep a tenant here longer assuming

it's maintained properly and again this

is where a seller is probably not going

to get the full value for what it would

have cost up with this pool in if this

was let's say a 30 grand pool to put in

with the fountains in that they have

maybe we'd give them 10 to 15 on a comp

basis so easy improvements that a pro is

going to make here and uh really a lot

of mistakes that a noob could make uh

I'm not the biggest fan of what they did

here with the spray foam insulation

Under The French Door I'd like to clean

that up with some kind of molding or you

know think think of something for that

but it's stuff like that that really

bothers home buyers they're like oh it's

just crusty around the edges or whatever

but so inexpensive for for a pro to

handle we've got the newer can lights

out here this is actually nice to

smoother stucco here you do have some

water stains here so you want to check

the roof there although you know what

and that's the other thing is like when

it rains in Arizona it rains uh and then

their AC is a little bit on the older

side here I'll close this door for a

second out of respect for them see all

even just the Crusty paint and all that

we'll sneak over to the air conditioner

here and take a quick glance at what we

got here we also still have the original

Windows of the property some people have

already upgraded from these but they're

dual pain they'll be okay so you could

tell this sucker is probably OG so uh

we're getting to the uh probably point

where uh one of these guys might die on

you in a summer coming up sometimes you

could find a manufacturer date on them

uh sometimes it's a little harder to

find I can't seem to find one now but

it's not the biggest deal it's uh it's

at that point where I would probably be

having it serviced regularly honestly

you probably have to do that anyway

wherever you in Arizona also as a pro

before I would rent this property out I

would make sure that stuff like this

stops happening so you've got rust

appearing at the bottom edge of the

property here I want to know what's

causing that because it's very strange

that that almost feels like it's your

master bathroom and uh that's not good

because I I can't imagine it's these

pumps that are flooding out causing this

but then again they have that pump on

some kind of weird Marble Slab

which implies that maybe they've had to

mess with it at some point in the past

so there's something going on there that

I don't like I'd like to investigate

that this I would get rid of I do not

want to incentivize my tenants to do

this stuff I get it it's cool as a

homeowner I'm a big fan of growing

tomatoes and stuff like that too but I

don't want my tenants doing it they

don't take care of it rats come it's a

disaster so let's quickly look at the

other side see there's a clean out right

there there's your clean out probably

for that bathroom and the stains are

just past that clean out so let's go

investigate as a as a pro should do

what's going on in that bathroom

so as expected here's our bathroom

and it appeared that the clean out would

have been somewhere here so maybe it's

even the other bathroom one over but

let's see if we have any secrets here

um I mean I see some staining but

nothing that would imply so much uh uh

damage over there at least not in this

cabinet if I hop over to this no just

sort of your normal kind of Dripping

under the uh the sink Basin so nothing

abnormal here but why you're getting all

that rusting on the foundation it's

almost as if either water's sitting out

here uh or something's happening but uh

no bathroom here yeah your next bathroom

isn't until here so that's something I

would talk to uh

I'm not going to put much faith in the

homeowner on because they probably have

no idea it probably has to do with pool

equipment so what I would do is I would

talk to the person who's been

maintaining this pool and then get a

full history on that pool equipment it's

probably the pool equipment and

occurring from the outside which makes

sense because quite frankly water

leaking from the inside and rusting all

the way through would be a severe water

problem and that is not indicative of

that so that's coming from the outside

uh so they just had problems with the

pool equipment doesn't surprise me with

how old the AC is but uh you know I mean

the thing this place has is those solar

panels and that could be kind of a nice

free upgrade so Jack what'd you think

about the house

uh I don't really like to poop you don't

like the pool is it too small for you

yeah of course it is if it were bigger

it'd be okay and um

a little nicer like some new paint and

flooring

yeah anything else

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