The Great Outdoors - Fixing up My Yard
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You can go back to the Main Page, Fixing Up My House to Sell to find out why I'm doing this. All this on a tight budget and within a year (Sept 2010 target date).
Below here is my list of what needs done on the yard and the outdoors of my house before I can list it to sell. Pictures should be updated as changes/improvements are made - I don't anticipate doing that on this section until Spring and Summer of 2010.
So, what do you think about all this?
...before we go further....
Let's say I still owe 60,000 on this house. If fixed up, this house could sell for 140,000. I have an acquaintance (not a close friend) who said he'd take it as is for 90,000 - maybe in a year, if he's still interested.
My budget for fix up is 20,000 if I get a home equity line of credit NOW. I then have a year to fix it up.
(I want to try RV living for a year, then find a smaller, yardless place to live somewhere else).
Room by Room
- The Main Page - Fixing Up My House To Sell
- This explains the madness of the whole project, with pictures of each room and a list of what needs to be done. There are links to lenses I'm using for guidelines, too....
- Fixing up My Laundry Room
- This is where I started (August 11, 2009). One tiny step for mekind....
- Fixing Up My Kitchen
- Needs the most work - cleaning and sorting...It also has the Pantry, which I am considering making into a 2nd bath, closing off from the Kitchen and opening into the Master Bedroom (such as it is).
- Fixing Up My Living Room
- After the Outdoors - this is the next room potential buyers will see when they enter. It isn't in such bad shape.... but it needs help too!
- Fixing Up My Master Bedroom
- The Master Bedroom - circa 1960's - a bit small - but I'm working on it (or will be)
- Fixing Up My Second Bedroom
- The second bedroom may not need as much work -- but it needs some.. see what it needs...
- Fixing up My 3rd bedroom - guest room - office
- A tiny room, but with many possibilities --this needs a tidying up but most of the work is in the presentation!
Outdoors - To Do List
* Patch Driveway Est $500
* Pond needs work Est $20. DIY and supplies
* Corner "garden" needs landscaping
* Landscape front "garden areas"
* Landscape back yard garden, by the fence - fence also needs hoisting up.
Total Landscaping costs front and back est $500
* Get rid of pile of wood in backyard -Est $20 hauling
* Back porch needs power cleaning and new stain.
* Clean cedar around garage
Est for cleaning cedar and porches, cost of renting one of those power water things and cost of 3 gallons of stain and brushes - paying son $200
* Prune and/or remove dead trees in front yard
* Trim hedges by street on side
* Trim all trees
* Trim bushes around house
Est for all tree trimming and pruning, 300
* Mow Mow Mow - Cost of Gas - $50
* Ideally - replace dog yard with carport (zoning and opening drive in area to backyard would be required) - Est cost 5,000
Some things to help in fixing up the Outside
This kind of stuff is overwhelming1
The Windows I hate and the Front Porch-ette, you can also see the gutter and roof
Walk way with an area that needs to be landscaped...could be really pretty
Front yard - a lilac bush and the walkway to the front door
There are crab apple trees (2) and Cherry trees (2) in the front yard
The small front yard trees in the morning
Side yard shot - my neighbors take good care of their card.
A few to the side from the front porch
Another angle of the backyard... that's the master bedroom window and the pond
Corner lot view from the street and the hated bushes
The backyard -- a view from the porch...
The Pond -- no, there are no fishes or fish bodies in it...
More handy things to help
The view into the porch from the backyard
The dog run - that I'd like to make into a carport
Close up of the dog run..
Just what is needed..
more stuff
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