Before & After(ish) Rental Renovation... HouseHack Mistakes & Lessons.

hey everyone me Kevin here coming to you

with another real estate Renta I feel

like it's been a while since we've

gotten to do one of these and I'm so

excited because we are at a house hack

renovation it's still got work to do so

it's totally renovation in progress but

you're going to get to see some cool

things so you get to see a little bit of

our house hack formula uh remember if

you want to learn more about house hack

go to house hack.com we've got an offer

going for accredited investors you get

paid 5% plus all the upside in the stock

evaluation all the details over at

house.com if you want to invest if

you're accredited now still working on

on accredited so in this video I'll show

you some before images with the

matterport and at the end of the video

we'll talk more about house sack okay

let's get into this so let's learn some

lessons here uh first big fan of curb

appeal you do some grass in the front

and then after you do a little bit of

grass in the front because you don't

want to have too much grass you come in

over here and you get some nice curves

going with mulch really big fan of this

looks really great you're going to

actually see this how we did this in the

backyard as well and okay I love the

Rocks they put in so looks good probably

rearrange love that cuz that adds a lot

of weight in your dumpster too which by

the way if you ever have a dumpster or

you're hauling things away big fan if

one of your neighbors comes over they're

like hey man can I throw something in it

take it you you really want to be doing

good for the community and helping

people out even if it costs you you know

an extra two or three bucks or whatever

it's it's important for your neighbors

to be happy with you I actually like

going up to the painters and uh or so

not the painters I was reading

somebody's truck I actually like going

up to the neighbors and saying hey

here's 's my number if you ever have a

problem hit us up uh and and then now if

there's ever an issue with a tenant or

whatever they they know oh you know I'll

just I'll just hit up the team or

whatever and uh and then they don't you

know gripe on like it's better for them

to feel like they can be involved rather

than not uh I I know that sounds like oh

no then I'm going to get bothered all

the time you shouldn't so especially if

you're renting to good tenants right but

I wanted to walk over here because I

just wanted to say we bought this next

to this place right here and they've got

Tesla solar panels and the Tesla power

wall and they have a sprinter with the

blackout plate which I'm really jealous

of so really gorgeous remodel house over

here uh they got a gorgeous garage too

and the folks across the way on this

property are totally remodeling as well

in fact you can see they're just

starting a big remodel over here which

is exciting because the whole

neighborhood I mean look at this look at

that that looks pretty awesome you got

the Tesla uh Power walls right here

beautiful garage it looks really good so

we're going to be right next to this

let's uh let's go take a look inside and

show you now um I'll throw up some

before as I'm walking around as well so

you can see it from the matterport but

take a look at this right now this is

all just a mess right this is what a

garage kind of look like when you're in

run out I'm going to sneak by hey I'm

going to sneak by really quick if you

don't mind sorry about that there we go

all right I'll get out of your way

thanks man all right there we go okay

we're pouring some new concrete there so

they're just not prepping it uh but okay

so here we are on the inside uh still

obviously work to do but I mean just

look at this and compare it to what it

was so I'll put up what it was on screen

here with the mapor and you can see this

is already vastly different and really

exciting uh and take a look at this we

got the kitchen over here which it's

still going in obviously but it's all

set uh we've got window for the sink by

the front door new window over here

we've got dual paint Windows over here

that are in which is great uh so we've

really upgraded usually I don't go

through and do all the new windows but

these over here were like the 1960s

loued windows and I'll tell you if you

get a place with the 1960s loued windows

I mean unless you got like literally the

best climate in the world and it's just

never hot or cold you kind of got to get

rid of them so does increase the cost a

little bit but honestly some some of

these properties are so high quality

that I is buying especially in the

neighborhoods that they're in we just

want to these forever because it's going

to as long as they keep printing money

the government these These are going to

continue to be a hedge and a great

investment we think extrem you know long

term we're really excited about them by

the way if you want all of my tips and

tricks for renovations I have a

do-it-yourself property management and

Rental Renovations course which will get

you going with Renovations and 10

placement in addition to that I also

have a zero to millionaire real estate

investing course to help you get started

on your first home your first rental

property real estate principles your

second rental property it's really good

so check out both of those courses over

at meetkevin.com sometimes we're also

running coupon codes so watch for those

especially around holidays we're really

excited about them uh but you know we've

got our sparkly actually we didn't go

with sparkly white on this one a little

dirty right now uh but we went with more

of a pure white quartz on this one which

is really exciting sparkly white is what

I always used to go with but we think

we've kind of like grown up to go with

more of a pure white now so You' got

this white on white which is a really

Timeless look uh a noob vers Pro tip

here a noob is going to go for what's in

today but in two years that's out a pro

is going to be thinking what's going to

be in in 10 years so when I go to resell

this or rent this out again in the

future I can easily do that now uh let's

see check we got tamper resistant Outlet

so that looks good I always like the

we've got to get uh our micro Hood in

over here uh so that's still coming and

we've got our can over the sink so it

looks pretty good when it comes to

appliances I love that you can get

appliances pretty freaking inexpensively

I mean this looks great it's a GE and

usually these run somewhere between 6 to

700 bucks you get the oven you get the

range so beats having a wall oven and

then a separate cooktop cuz a cooktop

alone could be 1,000 bucks in a wall is

like 1,000 bucks so then it's two grand

versus like 600 to 800 bucks these are

so easy these box units like this love

these so anytime I have anytime I can

move to these and then I try to just go

base and sort more entry level stainless

good enough easy to replace doesn't

break the bank don't have to go much

more expensive than that so pretty

exciting uh we're going to start going

with a lighter floor after this this

one's fine uh and this has been part of

our formula but we're we're trying to

just always update and so on our next

property we're going to be updating to a

bright uh a more light floor uh and then

of course we still have touch-up paint

this is just really coat number one uh

so uh again it's renovation in progress

right so we just this was a disaster

like you see this on the matterport I

mean this is going to be a crazy before

and after but new verse Pro tip two

things when it comes to bathrooms number

one again follow the rule of the kitchen

do not do what's in now do what is going

to be timeless and what is timeless my

friends the classic white subway tile

and I have to say this Tyler did a

pretty bang up job I mean these lines

Aline I love the choice of the longer

subway tile we've got the blacked out uh

Hardware here so really nice and then of

course you got the tub over here clean

that up but uh really nice put a nice

color curtain in you're done on this one

because it has a sort of Ved seat

ceiling here we tiled it all the way up

to the ceiling which which looks pretty

good uh you know vanities vanities are

surprisingly cheap you just pick them up

off the shelf it's amazing how

inexpensive they are uh you know here's

actually another vanity take a look at

this one off the shelf nice so really

like this uh and then another thing that

I like is I have this sort of rule and

it's sort of a new ver proy

rule if I can tile one bathroom I

fiberglass the other one or two

depending on how many bathrooms there

are I feel like it's a little bit of a

hack but look at this one we still got

to finish the drywall around it but this

is just a basic fiberglass enclosure

compared to the old one that was here

and it just looks brand spanking new and

amazing in this case it was actually

cheaper to just get rid of the old one

because it was so damaged and bad uh and

reinstall new fiberglass enclosure

certainly then it would have been the

tile but also it would have been more

expensive to try to glaze the other one

just because it was in such bad shape so

pretty good then uh you know otherwise

you got your typical Decor Outlets and

switches your bedrooms your ceiling fans

bedrooms are usually pretty easy but I

want to show you the backyard because

the backyard's like this this is so cool

so I'm really excited about this look at

the backyard this place is huge mind you

so this is the back and take a look look

at what it was before complete disaster

and then look at how we pulled this off

we went over here and we went with a

combo of mulch and rock always get the

weed barrier Pro tip Mulch and rock uh

by the way their water heater whoever

did it did it wrong that should be a

rigid exhaust pipe and the exhaust pipe

should be extending at least 2 feet

above the uh Ridge line of the roof but

oopsy dupsies it's okay can't always be

perfect in real estate uh all of my

lumber for the fence is going to get

painted we usually go with a brown we

don't match the house color on it we'll

go with a brown uh and then we're going

to paint this concrete over here uh some

knucklehead that we fired after they did

this painted on our concrete but that's

okay because we'll just we'll you know

we'll etch it and we'll concrete prime

it and then we'll get rid of um that by

just painting but anyway combo of rocks

mulch grass look how nice that is it's

almost like you could have a putting

green back here uh really cool large

private backyard look how nice this is I

mean great for for kids or whatever but

very very very cool so cool mean great

house now the nice thing about houses

like this is they're single family homes

you know 32 42 and a halfs whatever you

get them in really great neighborhoods

where people want to stay and live and

grow up a family or whatever raise a

family tenants don't want to leave so

even if you get a tenant in at a lower

price to start with to get the highest

quality tenant it's easier to move a

tenant to Market over time and raise

rents over time that's not to say like

oh we want to raise rents on tenants all

the time it's just to say let's say a a

house is worth I don't know 4500 bucks

in rent and that's the market rent and

then you put it up for

$43.95 soch technically you're $105

under Market you can make that up with a

little bit of an extra rent increase

every year thereafter and what you've

done now is you've attracted a higher

quality tenant and you've given them a

good deal for the first year as opposed

to the typical thing that you see which

is apartment buildings do this all the

time they'll try to get well we want

$5,000 in rent and then they'll give you

your first free month or whatever and

then you're like why am I paying five

Market's 45 and then they move and you

get turnover turnover turnover we don't

want turnover we want quality tenants

happy tenants we want to be a good

landlord not trying to rip people off uh

just trying to provide a good community

service out there you know America needs

more of that and I get it you know

people are really like anti-corporate

landlord but you know we actually think

that most landlords suck and like

everybody should be anti-ad landlord

we're just Pro good landlord but it's

amazing I mean I see people all the time

they're like oh uh you know I I hit up

my landlord and ask him to repair a

leaky toilet toet or whatever and he

comes over with his tool bag and you

know does a half a job and and then has

to you know come back again and the

customer service is bad because it's

never done correctly the first time you

that those are the kinds of things that

we're trying to stay away from we we

want to do quality work uh we get good

deals on the buy that's where we make

the money and if our Renovations go a

little bit above budget uh hopefully

they average out with the other

Renovations we do which they usually do

uh and if they don't then it's okay we

have long-term great quality assets and

that's really what we're a big fan of

we're a big fan of buy real estate don't

wait to buy real estate buy real estate

and wait and then just huddle you know

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Times or whatever the less debt you have

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house as I show you some more of this

before footage we're kicking butt we own

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