[keith] orlando, florida.
It's an international vacation destination
And one of the hottest real estate markets
In the united states.
I'm keith ori
And I've been flipping zombies in this city for years.
This is a $10,000 bet that you can repurpose
These cabinets, basically, today.
I recently reunited with my friend, investor peter duke.
Oh yeah, I can see a duct right there, dude.
-That's money, dude. -This guy's all gas no brakes.
[duke] it's a jack and jill bathroom in this house.
[keith] and along with design specialist, alynne cordray.
[alynne] this room's great. I see an opportunity.
Is somebody living here?
Holy [bleep].
We're hunting down dilapidated homes in the orlando area
And restoring them to their old glory.
It's a dirty business.
-Oh. - But we make it look good .
That's gonna add $25,000 to the value of this house.
Surprise.
This is zombie house flipping orlando.
[alynne] so, I got a new chop saw this weekend.
-You got a new chop saw. -I did. I did.
And it can actually do a 12-inch cut,
So I got a 12-inch blade.
That probably really excites you.
It does. It was really funny
Because the guy at the hardware store,
Because I went in there with eddie,
Was really surprised that I was the one excited.
Right! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Did he try and mansplain? -"hey, little lady.
"I don't know, it just might be too much saw for you.
"this might be more saw than you need."
Yeah, so I got an amazing, amazing deal.
Julie found this house.
It was on the market but then it got snapped up,
It was under contract but it turned out
That there was a probate issue
That had to be resolved.
So, the buyer backed out and it came back on the market.
I put it under contract immediately.
[duke] yes, contract first, ask questions later.
You can back out during inspections.
You guys are not going to believe this.
It is a smoking deal in a smoking neighborhood.
We just have to close on it.
So effectively, our visit today
Is going to be our buyers' inspection.
We're going to go in this house, look it over, size it up
And today we're going to give the thumbs up
Or if we're going to catch and release.
I don't think we're gonna catch and release this one.
It's 375,000 to purchase.
That's crazy. Like, the dirt alone's worth that.
Yeah, no, it's nuts, dude.
If the buy-in is 375 and we sell for 675,
Which I think we can, because of the comps and neighborhood,
We could be talking like legitimately 160,
$175,000 net profit so...
Well, I mean, look, 375 for this house sounds good.
I'm really skeptical about the condition this place is in.
-What's this house about? -Here' the bones of the deal.
It's 2,000 square feet plus or minus.
Concrete block, three, two-and-a-half, I think it is,
And it has a pool that is by some margin
The biggest residential swimming pool I've ever seen.
[pete] I really like this neighborhood.
We're close to the lake.
Yeah, we're in waterwitch. The neighborhood right on
Little lake conway right there.
These lakefront houses are multi-million dollar places.
This is a beautiful little enclave.
[keith] waterwitch point is a highly desirable
Family-friendly neighborhood
Just minutes from downtown orlando.
The neighborhood is within walking distance
To little lake conway,
A popular spot for boating and fishing.
[duke] just to be clear, is this house on the lake
Or in the lakefront neighborhood?
[keith] no. It's in the lakefront neighborhood.
I didn't get a full lakefront.
Properties that have lakefront houses,
Even though ours isn't on a lake,
They still go for a higher dollar
Because the houses around are improved for lakefront living.
Well, a rising tide lifts all ships.
Can you guess which house it is?
I think I can guess which house.
The one with dead landscaping.
[keith] that's the ugliest house in the neighborhood.
Guys, look at this.
[alynne] this house is just boring.
I mean, you have one protrusion which is this bay window.
The best thing about this house is what we'll take off of it.
Like these shutters, they have got to go.
At least we have a good landscaper
That can add a lot of pop of color to this house
And that would be one thing that we can do to help it along.
Like, I've never been this excited about anything
This boring in my entire life,
[keith] this ranch-style zombie home
Has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths,
And is 1,933 square feet.
It has a large backyard, featuring a jacuzzi
And a massive junior olympic swimming pool
That measures an incredible 50 feet long by 20 feet wide.
[duke] alright.
-Now, I actually got a key. -Oh wow.
[duke] hey, grandma! We're home.
Hey, welcome to 1985.
We got the popcorn ceiling, we got the blue carpet,
So we got blue everything here.
So we have a dining room.
Not only do we get some sorta cool furniture,
We have the broken glass.
Alynne's already looking at this wall like, "why?".
I know, this wall.
-I hate you, wall. -This is like dead wall walking.
Call the headers.
That wall is not going to end up being there.
There's just no way.
Come on. Let's show you what's on the other side.
Okay, we got the creepy going on heavy in here.
[whistle]
Didn't julie say that this was a new roof?
[keith] even like old water stains.
I think the roof is fine.
Either that stain is seven years old
Or something else's leaking here.
Yeah.
This kitchen does not speak functional to me.
It might have been functional back in the day,
But I think a modern buyer
Really wants to see an island, a window and more open space.
[duke] everything has to go.
Alright, let me show you the bedroom.
This is the green screen room.
[duke] whoa. It's lime time. It's lime time.
This color can go right back where it came from. In the can.
Yeah. I wonder what's next? The blue screen room?
[alynne] butterflies and flowers.
[keith] this is like easter yellow.
[duke] it needs to be past tense.
The windows are all pretty good shape. They're double pane.
I don't think we have to replace them.
Hey, here's the primary.
Oh, guys.
It looks like we have more water damage on the ceiling.
[keith] this is getting frightening.
This roof is from 2015.
Yeah. Well, you know, 2015 was like
Five hurricanes ago, though, so you never know.
And guys, we have the primary bathroom.
Oh, my god.
Guys, this bathroom. This is donesy.
This is getting scraped.
Well, look, wallpaper was still on sale
When they did this thing. So, look at this beauty.
So guys, we have a lot of wallpaper here.
The seashell chic has got to go.
-Okay, it's all gotta go. -Alright.
This is one of the ugliest wallpapers I've ever seen.
You wanna check out the backyard.
Yeah, sure.
Oh wait, you're not gonna believe this.
There is more wallpaper to be seen in this house.
-Yes. -Say it ain't so.
Okay, I already see a problem.
This is the back door to get outside.
-Yeah. -And we got
A little tiny window over here.
Like this room is way too dark.
I see that this room is going to need
Some huge french doors back there.
This does not seem like the right place
-To exit into the backyard. -Well, it is for now.
-Stop making sense.
Oh, yeah, forgot to tell you guys.
-Yeah, there's a spa. -Is this a hot tub?
No, it's built.
Oh, my god. This is a frog tub!
Oh, look!
We get new nozzles for it and stuff like that
And we paint the surface.
We'll just need to level this concrete slab somehow.
We might fix the soffits by just pushing them back up,
But tell you what we're not gonna fix with our hands,
Is that pool.
-[alynne] oh my god. -[keith] yeah.
-[bleep]. Dude, this is a swamp. -[alynne] it's so big.
And so gross.
It's called a junior olympic-sized pool.
Oh my god, this is gonna be so much money to fix.
The deck is all cracked up, the diving board's wasted.
I mean, this is gonna kill our renovation budget.
I don't know what's cheaper? Fix it or fill it with dirt.
Alright. Well, look, we're going to have chris,
Our pool expert, come out and look at it.
Tell us what it's going to cost.
We'll have a better idea after.
But for right now this is the central problem of the house.
The other thing is the backyard.
We got to figure out what sort of
Landscaping situation to come up with.
Look, there's one more space I want to show you.
It's in the garage. I think we can capture some space,
Put it under air conditioning. Let's take a look.
-Where's that other bathroom? -Ah, there we go.
Let's go. Let's go see.
Here we go.
Okay, it's back there.
-A dingy garage. -No, this is not...
Well, hold on, I'm going to make it less dingy.
-Do you guys see what I see? -Laundry station.
Potential interior, square footage,
That is currently exterior.
This is like, 20,000 bucks in value.
But wait, there's more,
This is the missing bathroom.
[keith] we'll just give it another entrance through
Our new framed-in square footage and then update it.
So, guys, this is the deal, it's 375,000.
45 days and we're talking 80 grand.
Even if it's 100, I think it's still a win.
-So you guys are in? -Oh, absolutely.
-Yeah. -Alright, put it right there.
-Buddy. -Yep.
-Alright, we're doing it. -Let's do it.
With alynne and duke on board,
There's no reason to let it sit on the market any longer.
So, I proceeded with my contract
And purchased this house with a hard money loan
For $375,000.
We plan on renovating this house in 45 days
With a renovation budget of about $80,000.
Our agent fees and closing costs
Will come to around 22,750
And the interest on my hard money loan
Will be around $4,000,
Making our all-in budget about $481,000.
Now, comps in the area are around 675,000,
And that's what we plan on selling it for,
Giving us a profit of nearly $194,000.
Even though this house is outdated,
It still has a great footprint, and that means
It's not going to require any massive changes
To the layout on the inside.
We're going to open up the wall
Between the kitchen and the dining room
To give this home a more modern open floorplan.
Then we're moving the entrance to the dining room
Over towards the kitchen,
So there's a more inviting view from the front door.
The kitchen cabinets will then get a more functional layout
To maximize our open floorplan. In our garage,
We're changing the entrance to our half bath,
So that it now passes through our newly added square footage.
Our biggest transformation, though, is taking place
In our backyard with the junior olympic-size pool.
The existing stagnant water will be drained,
And then we'll be removing the old shell and tile,
Replacing it with a new
Miami blue finish, and iridescent blue glass tile.
With our plans all mapped out,
It's time to get in there and get to work.
[alynne] there we go.
[keith] yeah!
-Okay, it's loose. -It's loose.
There we go.
-Lean it up against the wall. -Yeah.
When they launch a new ship,
They smash a bottle of champagne on the bow.
Well, we're here to inaugurate this house's demo day,
Except we're going to smash everything.
-[duke] need a light? -[keith] oh, man.
These are not the... These are...
Do you know what's gonna happen? We're going to turn
-These shuttle-ups... -Yeah.
...And then... And they're gonna,
...The pvc's gonna break.
You see the dilemma?
Okay. Yeah. We...
That's not gonna help. The water's still running.
That■s crazy.
-Yeah. -What we'll do is unscrew these?
The shut-offs are stuck for real?
Yeah. For real, for real, and dude, don't break the pipe.
Oh, I know. I don't wanna bust it.
It's not turning off.
Come on. These stupid stops.
Why do they even make these things?
-Dude, don't break the... -I know, I know.
-You got it? -I think so.
Okay. Then we can undo those.
And three, two, one. Okay, let's take this thing out.
With that out of our system, it's time to let the demo team
Get in here.
Everything in this house has got to go.
After removing the ancient tile in the kitchen,
The team gets rid of the remaining cabinets
So we can prepare for a new kitchen layout.
The bathrooms are losing their dated tile and wallpaper
And throughout the house, we're tearing out the old tile floor.
Who knows what we're going to find underneath it.
With demo complete inside the home,
We're turning our attention to the biggest part
Of the renovation.
The pool.
-There he is. -There he is.
Hey guys, what have you got me into with this pool?
This is a mess.
At least you're not into that messy pool.
Oh my goodness.
It's... It's going to need a lot of work.
We'll drain all this out.
I'll assess the condition of the fiberglass.
See if it's repairable. If we can recoat the fiberglass.
What fiberglass?
This is a fiberglass finish over a gunite shell.
Gunite's basically concrete, right?
Correct.
And then somebody sprayed or somebody laminated
-Fiberglass on it? -They did, yes.
And so over the course of time, that fiberglass
Is going to start to deteriorate.
Just like that.
- That's the deterioration. -That is a souvenir.
Hopefully once we drain this, and it dries,
We'll be able to peel this fiberglass off.
-Okay. -If not,
I have a company that comes in
And they will blast the fiberglass off
The surface of the pool and that exposes
The old finish and then we can start a process from there.
-That sounds really expensive. -It is really expensive.
So what are we really talking about?
It sounds like you're saying
We have to replace basically everything.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, skimmer, tile, finish, light.
We're probably at around $1,000 for the skimmer.
Maybe about $3,000 for the tile.
Mm-hmm.
Depending on what kind of condition this fiberglass is
When we're done, it's gonna be several thousand dollars
To remove it before we even resurface the pool.
It's big bucks, guys.
When I bought this house, the pool was a central feature.
This is the thing that stands out.
If you fill this with money,
Which is what'll happen, it's going to be beautiful,
But getting there is going to take five figures and then some.
-Yeah. -A five-figure pool?
I mean, I've done a million pools out here
And usually rehabbing them
Only costs around eight grand, maybe $7,500.
But this five-figure comment of chris's, that's going to throw
Our whole budget right out of the water.
When we're done, guys, it'll be beautiful.
I'll start with draining the pool.
I'm going to let it sit for a few days.
See what happens with that fiberglass.
I'll get you some numbers on everything else,
We'll put an estimate together for you,
And go from there.
[keith] as chris prepares to move ahead on the pool,
We're improving layout inside the house.
Alynne gets her wish,
And we tear out the wall between the kitchen
And the dining room to create a more open floorplan.
And with that wall gone, we move on
To making a new entrance into the kitchen
From the living room, and then close off
The old entrance to the dining room.
In the garage, we're beginning to frame in
The section near the bathroom to add to our square footage.
It's time to tackle the pool.
Chris let us know it's definitely a five-figure job,
$25,000, to be exact.
And I hoped to stay under 10,000 with the pool repairs
So this number could blow our whole budget out of the water.
And since this is a junior olympic-size pool...
...We're draining around 280,000 gallons
Of filthy water.
Then the pool will need to sit for a few days
And dry before we evaluate
What sort of shape the liner and shell are in.
-Hey. Alright. -[alynne] it's an improvement.
Yeah. Oh, this is great.
We have the living room here. We got the opening.
We got rid of the pocket door that was sliding in the wall.
We got the dining room over here, right.
So it's actually, without that door opening there,
This is like its own discrete space
And we have the kitchen here, the family room in the back
And look what we discovered here.
[gasps] some terrazzo!
[alynne] I know, it's your favorite.
[keith] no, it goes all the way through the house.
Like, it's fantastic.
Fantastic. Yeah.
So when we pulled up the tile,
We found beautiful terrazzo, underneath it
And that's going to save us money,
And as an added bonus, I love terrazzo.
Unfortunately, alynne doesn't really care for it,
But she's gonna have to get on board with this
Because we're going pretty far over budget.
So here's what I was thinking,
Is because this is all terrazzo here,
We can refinish it for four bucks a square foot.
It will be easy, inexpensive,
It would be beautiful. And we just draw the transition
Straight across here.
So it's like a five-foot transition here,
A two-foot transition in the hallway,
Maybe three feet,
And those are all the transitions in the house.
Yeah but we could do one transition,
We could do one over there
And we could have this all be one flooring
And that to me, I would prefer that
Over having the two transitions.
No, it's... This is a mid-century house,
Mid-century modern.
And now, guess what I have to do with the-- the kitchen design,
I have to design the cabinets
To look good with two different kinds of flooring.
Oh, and how happy am I about that?
Not!
We have two different floors in the open layout now
Because we took down that little dividing wall
For the old dining room.
That wall happened be sitting on the split point between
Where the concrete slab ends and the terrazzo slab starts.
Listen, here's the reality of it, right?
The terrazzo is four dollars, a square foot to refinish.
Four dollars. There's no other solution we get to
That isn't at least 50% more than that.
And most solutions are double that, right?
And that pool, we just had a bomb dropped on us
With the pool budget numbers.
We've got to make that up somewhere.
So if we're not going to go with terrazzo
And save our money there,
And still have an awesome product,
Then it means that we got a strike
Frilly stuff and sparkly stuff.
And I know you ain't want to do that.
I get it. I get it. We haven't found out about the roof yet.
And I understand that.
But can we make some kind of deal?
If we do not have to replace the roof,
Will you at least just entertain
All one flooring, and large format tile?
Just for half a minute?
I just wanna have a little bit of hope for just a moment.
Hope is not a strategy.
I'm going to hold off on refinishing that terrazzo
Until we find out what's going on with the roof.
We're already trending over budget anyway
Because of that pool.
A lot more expensive than we anticipated.
And now the roof might need to be replaced
Even though it's seven or eight years old.
So, if we don't have to replace the roof,
Then maybe alynne gets her tile inside,
But otherwise I got to find places to start saving money.
Now that our huge junior olympic pool has been drained,
We got to clear away any remaining sludge and mud.
Then we need to pressure wash it
So we can clearly see what we're working with.
Next, carlos' crew begins chipping away
At the fiberglass finish so we can examine
The state of the gunite shell underneath it.
Now the pool's been drained, all that ick has been taken out,
And the fiberglass has been chipped off,
Alynne are I are gonna get in there and check it out.
-[alynne] okay. -This is 12 feet deep.
It's 50 feet long, it's 20 feet wide.
They said it's the biggest pool they have ever worked on.
Since we're putting so much money into this pool...
-Yeah. -..How's my door coming along
That you can actually see this pool from the inside?
Let's go talk about that.
I know you wanted these with big french doors.
-I wanted big... -A big...
I wanted a big door for a big pool.
Yeah, that's not what we got.
So, we got a door that fits in that opening,
And the reason is, if we widen this,
We're gonna have to do major reconstructive surgery
On the back of the house, that's not just on the outside.
That's the inside, too. Drywall, electric,
All kinds of stuff, right?
So if we use the existing opening,
We're not changing it structurally,
And we still provide awesome access
To the swimming pool from the family room.
This is one of those things I can't argue with
Because the cost is going to half our budget
And we had really some unexpected costs
Here with this pool.
Tada! So this offsets some of it.
-Right. -It still functionally gives us
What we were going for, right?
I mean, it's not ideal. It's not really what I wanted,
But at least you can see the pool from inside.
We're well into our renovation and it's already apparent
That sticking to that $80,000 renovation budget
Is gonna be pretty tough.
We budgeted $80,000 to renovate this home.
So far, we've spent 72,000. Means we only have $8,000 left
To get this place done.
Gonna be pretty near impossible.
So I need to look for places to cut costs.
Outside, we need to make room for our new french doors.
So we're knocking out that window.
And then we're removing the wall below the opening.
In the garage, we've cut a new entrance into the bathroom,
That will connect it to our newly-framed
Additional square footage.
Today, we're meeting a landscape designer
To figure out how to tame and enhance
This massive backyard.
So what do you think?
What do I think? I think it's a jungle and a mess.
The potential is limitless.
I think it'll be a tropical paradise when we're finished,
The potential is limitless. The budget is not.
Let's make that clear at the outset here.
Step one, get rid of everything that we're not going to use
And then trim up the stuff that we are going to keep?
-Yes. -Okay.
We'll clean all this out, the dirt,
And then we'll irrigate it,
Sod the grass areas, some new plants.
We might put some bougainvillea here
Along the fence for color.
No. No. Banish that from the kingdom.
Now we need someone to come check out
If the water stains on our ceiling
Are from old roof problems or new ones.
How's it going? How's the roof?
Uh.... I'm doing better than the roof.
Okay, let's go see what we got going on up there.
Okay.
So, I guess that kind of speaks for itself.
Alright. There's the issue.
We have no water in the pool, but we have...
-All the water up here. -All the water on the roof.
No. Yeah, we need to find an exit point for this.
This has not zero slope, but negative slope.
-It's holding all the water... -Like a bowl.
Yeah it's ponding up here.
You can see the water has nowhere to go.
We can add a slope, an artificial slope
With some plywood down
And it'll, first of all, make all of it flat, uniform,
But then also give it a little bit of slope,
And give the water a direction to run.
-Okay. -So that we can avoid all this.
Okay, so that sounds expensive.
So this is one problem, that's pretty obvious.
But the other issue is these shingles.
Like, seriously.
-They're only eight years old. -They look cracked all over.
-Yeah, I don't... -All dried up.
You think installation issue or manufacturer?
Manufacturer because there's no way that these
Should be looking like this, no matter how it's installed.
Yeah. Then over there, it looks like
Some of the shingles are peeling on the corners.
It's like a piece of paper now.
Look at... Yeah, look at that.
Yeah, look how easily that is.
Now, there's like... Now there's a bubble.
I think it definitely needs a new one.
We have to see what it looks like under there.
What do you think we're looking at to replace the roof
And do the flat section properly?
Um... Roof of this size, including the flat,
And probably some bad decking,
We need to change probably around 20,000.
Oh, my god.
We didn't budget 20 grand into this.
We didn't budget anything for the roof but we got to do it.
Yeah, you have to get it done.
None of this will pass inspection.
Okay, I got to figure out where 20 extra grand
On this flip is going to come from.
Unfortunately for alynne, replacing the roof means
We're not gonna have the money to retile the entire house.
So we're going to refinish that terrazzo to save some money.
And, guys can actually get started on the roof right now.
They began by removing the old defective shingles,
Tar, and rotten wood.
And then they lay down new peel and stick roofing
And brand new shingles
In the garage, the team heads up into the attic
To expand the hvac vents into our new square footage.
Then it's time to drywall the new space
To make it truly a part of the interior of the home.
This house has a lot of unexpected expenses,
Like the pool and the roof to name a few.
Unfortunately, this means we've already used up
The 80,000 we had budgeted
And now we're at 103,560.
This means the 23,560 extra we've spent
Is going to eat into our profit.
The door leading to the pool is finally in,
So I'm taking alynne to check it out.
Yeah, look at that.
I mean... It's a door.
Just wish that it had been bigger.
But this is a major improvement over what was here before
Between this light right here,
That window, and a full light door over there.
I think that this room is going to be
A great entertaining area.
We do have to have a serious discussion
About the terrazzo.
Obviously, the roof had to be replaced,
And with that alynne's dreams of covering
All the terrazzo in the house with new flooring
Out the window.
What we have to focus on now is how to integrate
The tile that we are going to put down
Over the existing concrete
With the terrazzo that we're now going to refinish
And you and I are still at odds over where the terrazzo's
Supposed to start and stop?
I say,
We have concrete there, concrete there,
Terrazzo here, and terrazzo around the rest of the house.
I want to limit the transitions,
Limit the size of the transition,
And the number of the transitions.
So my perspective is that we have one transition going
Straight across here.
So this area, the kitchen, is terrazzo.
That's terrazzo, everything's terrazzo,
And one transition right here, and that's it.
I'm the designer, not keith.
Not everyone is in love with mid-century modern.
We need to appeal to a larger audience,
So he can sell this house as fast as possible.
Yeah, the dining room and the living room have tile,
And the rest of the house is terrazzo.
This is two transitions in logical places
And they're not very long.
But it doesn't mean I like it.
[keith] hopefully, alynne's gonna change her mind
After we get this terrazzo patched up.
Then we sand it to remove the old dulling sealants,
And polish it up so it shines.
In the primary bathroom, the hideous
Old wallpaper is gone.
We've added large porcelain gray tile and some blue glass
Accent tile.
We have to fix that hot tub outside.
The issue we have is that
Half of the concrete foundation under it
Has dropped away by about four inches.
So polylift is going to come in and use a proprietary process
To raise that concrete back up,
So we can fully support the hot tub when it's done.
We can typically lift roadways.
Our product has a very, very dense nature to it,
-As you can see. -So this can go underneath
14 inches of concrete?
It's injected as a liquid,
The two parts go in separately,
They don't meet until they're underneath,
And it's not the force of the injection.
It's the actual chemical reaction causes the lift.
-It expands -it expands.
-And that■s, like, at a predictable rate? -Correct.
You're not going to wind up with the slab on the ceiling.
We go incrementally. It's measured
With that dial indicator there.
I sure hope this works because if this doesn't work...
Yeah, what's the alternative?
What do we do? Like, break it up...
Replace it. So, let's give it a shot.
This is fascinating. I can't wait to see how this goes.
Polylift is about half the cost
Of tearing out all the concrete and repouring it.
Now, I didn't budget for this concrete slab
And with all the expenses from the pool
And now the roof, we really need this to work.
First, the team drills into the cement,
And then using a one-way valve,
So the material can't come back out,
They pump in a liquid foam.
If everything works as it should,
That 14-inch concrete slab should raise up
And allow us to fully support the hot tub.
If not, we're gonna have to rip this thing out
And I'm going to have to come up
With more money I don't have.
Hurray! It worked.
Now the team can patch up the cracks
And that hot tub is gonna be fully supported.
Back inside, it's time to assemble and install
Our white shaker kitchen cabinets
Which alynne picked out because they work
With both kinds of flooring in the kitchen and dining room.
We're also installing new white shaker vanities
In the hall bath.
And to appeal the high-end buyers,
We're adding a state-of-the-art alfi shower wall
To the primary bathroom.
Now, I'm making plans with garage force
To help us level out a hump in the dining room floor.
Yeah, the floor we're putting down...
Hey. So...
-The floor we're putting down... -Yeah.
..Is pretty level sensitive.
And we have this hump. So carlos with garage force,
He's going to help us out by smoothing over
The self-leveling compound,
That answers that question.
But like I just walked by like, there's one appliance
Sitting in the driveway.
Duke was supposed to get all of them.
You didn't talk to him.
-No. -I thought you spoke to duke.
-I haven't spoken to him. -No. -Alright, let's give him a call.
Hey, carlos, thank you.
-I■ll take care of that later for you guys. -Okay.
-Appreciate it. -Take care. -Thank you.
Hey, what's up buddy?
Can you get over here? We only have one of the appliances
You ordered. It's sitting out in the driveway
Like some kind of orphan.
We need tracking and we got to figure out
What's going on with the rest of the appliances.
[duke] I'm not in town right now.
I'm in china.
You're in china?
This is not good.
When are you coming back?
[duke] 20 days.
Can you check in to where those appliances are?
Because we got one. We need a lot more than that.
[duke] I don't have the tracking information in front of me.
How can you leave with all the work
We got to finish on this house, dude?
Duke has a great connection that can get us
Awesome appliances at a low price.
The only problem is it's duke's connection.
Alynne and I don't have access to it.
So we got to go through duke to find out
Where these appliances are at.
[duke] I had an opportunity I couldn't pass up.
Opportunity knocked. I answered.
This is on me, but this is going to work out okay.
We'll handle it. I'll talk to you later.
That means he's not coming back before we finish.
We're just gonna have to handle it.
I want to know where our appliances are.
I got an idea, though.
Remember the other house we did and we had those appliances
That looked like jewelry? And they were able
To get them to us at short notice.
-What was that company? -Yeah, z line.
Z line. They came really fast
And everybody was like going crazy
About how beautiful they were.
I mean that's a good backup plan but...
No, for sure.
But if they're lost,
If we're not going to have them on time,
Let's call z line. Let's figure out if there's
Any tracking information on that box out there.
Our enormous junior olympic pool
Is tiled and then given fresh plaster,
And filled with 250,000 gallons of water.
Then the backyard gets brand new sod.
The front yard gets new landscaping and sod as well.
Then, new light wood, plank flooring
That will match well with our terrazzo floor
Goes down throughout the house.
Up next, it's time for granite countertops
To be installed in the kitchen and bathroom.
With the countertops in,
We add white and blue scalloped backsplash.
Then we get to install
Our beautiful new z line appliances.
For staging this home we're using light and bright colors
To emphasize our more open floorplan
And new and refinished floors.
[keith chuckles]
I feel so bad that duke's not here to see this,
I know. He's not... He's missing all the spoils
Of having it actually come to life.
This yard when we got here it was brown,
And it was almost like tumbleweeds and dust.
[alynne] this is such an improvement.
Even just the trim painted
And fixing everything in the front door.
Adding the modern lights and making
All this landscaping look amazing
In front of the one feature we do have.
-This window up front. -Yeah.
Remember the three cap shingles that were on the roof?
It just wasn't up to the neighborhood standard.
Well, it looks really good and any time you can sell a house
With a new roof, it adds value to the sale.
When we walked up here,
I thought this was one of the most boring houses,
And sometimes there's not really a bunch of things you can do
That are cost-effective.
But I think that what we did, the simple changes we made,
I think are amazing.
But the new lights, the new landscaping.
I mean, in the yard.
The yard is the biggest improvement
-To this... -Out of everything.
Let's go check out the design on the inside.
Wow.
The floor in here was like a carpet.
[alynne] it was that blue carpet.
[keith] oh, yeah.
Well, this whole space is absolutely transformed.
We moved the opening in the wall from there to here.
It's hard to take a older house and give it
A fully contemporary layout
But I think we smashed it.
I love this perspective from right here.
Our new homeowners are going to walk in the front door
And they're going to see this beautiful feature wall
And it's going to like tie it all together.
[keith] blue carpet. That flowed into the dining room too, right?
[alynne] yeah.
[keith] I love how the floors transition right through
Into the dining room.
So this was its own discrete space,
And it had like a doorway going from the kitchen into here.
Now, this is so much brighter.
Lets in all this light from multiple avenues.
I just love the way the dining room
Flows into the kitchen. And, holy cow, what a kitchen.
Do you remember before, this kitchen had
That weird grim pallor to it
[alynne] and there was all that ugly black tile here.
And then there was another peninsula over there.
This is a giant transformation, but in its own right,
This is one of the prettiest kitchens we've ever done.
This is a good wide space and, you know,
Leads us into bedroom number one.
Oh this was the green screen room,
You know, a few changes, obviously.
The terrazzo carried through here where it was tile before.
We have, you know, light walls.
I'd say it's a good space
And then here, I mean, this was that yellow room with
The stenciling around the top of it.
Pulled up the tile.
More terrazzo, refinished up really well.
And this is a really nice size for a primary bedroom.
So the big deal in this room though is that bathroom.
Think about how dark and dingy the space was to begin with?
Check out the tile. It's modern, but it's cool.
It's blue, it's aquatic.
And then we added the same granite
That we used in the rest of the house.
The bathroom came together.
Let's check out the new hallway bathroom.
What we had here to start with was just a horror show.
It was dumpster fire of a bathroom.
It's a huge transformation in a small space.
Now this is fantastic.
Hey, let's go to the family room.
[keith] this was that tile. It was like the cheap...
[alynne] ...'80s medallion type.
And it was super dark in here.
You remember the walls?
This is a big improvement.
[keith] yeah, a dramatic improvement.
And my biggest improvement in this room is those french doors.
Oh, well.
Although I would have liked to see them bigger,
But we did save a little bit of money
By using the existing header.
Yeah, we could have got the doors six inches bigger
Or something but that's perfectly functional.
You can see the pool.
Speaking of which, let's take a look at it.
Wow!
This is nuts.
When we got here, you remember how dark the pool was.
We had no idea how damaged the pool was, how deep it was,
What was down there. Now...
So the dramatic transformation. Buyers are going to
Walk out here and be like, "oh, my god."
My favorite part about this pool, though, is the tile.
[keith] yeah the tile you picked out.
This is gonna be an amazing selling feature
To someone who really loves to host outdoor parties.
[keith] yeah.
[alynne] then there's another room over there.
[keith] before we had this cruddy mess
It was full of frogs and tadpoles.
I love the jacuzzi.
I love what polylift did to lift the slab
Because it was such a heavy slab
And now we have this functioning jacuzzi.
It's a beautiful setup looking out over the backyard.
Let's go see some of your favorite spaces.
Yeah. This is great.
You come from the pool area.
And now you come through this clean garage
And you go to the pool bath.
[keith] it was your typical dingy garage before,
But now it's got a great new floor
Thanks to garage force.
You know, this wall is the major add
That we did to this house.
I mean, we captured, what, like 150 square feet
In the laundry room under air conditioning.
So we not only air-conditioned the pool bath,
We air-conditioned the laundry area,
Which everybody wants, and added square footage.
[alynne] yes, and it fixed the flow.
Alright, so let's get down to brass tacks.
We got to figure out what we're listing this thing for.
There's a lot of moving parts on this one
Because we ran into expenses
That we didn't foresee.
So we're probably right bumping up
On $150,000 in renovation costs
Because we had 25 grand for the pool
And then the roof was 20,
That I still can't believe we had to replace that.
Julie suggested,
That we list it for 699.
I really wanted to reach for a little bit more.
The comps don't necessarily support more than that.
699 is not a bad list price.
Well, no, I agree.
We'll probably get multiple offers on day one,
But it just feels like we should be able to get more
For a house of this quality, right?
Alright, so I'll talk to julie.
We'll double-check the comps
And we got to get a hold of duke
And make sure he's on board with that.
This house was absolutely full of some
Not so pleasant financial surprises.
The roof, the pool. But you know what?
At the end of the day,
I'm really excited with how it came out.
After talking to julie, we intend to list
This house for $699,000.
We originally purchased it for 375,000
And our final renovation budget was about $148,275.
Our agent fees and closing costs
Will come to around 34,950.
And our loan interest is 10,465.
Which means our total cost is 568,690.
And it gives us a potential profit of $130,310.
Look, we spent $25,000 on that pool.
I'll be darned if I'm not gonna get in.
[alynne] now?
Yes!
Geronimo.
I've got to get a picture of this.
You look like an ant in the ocean in that, in this pool,
This is awesome.
It's gonna make a great listing picture.
This feels so good. You ought to get in.
Yeah. Not right now.
[laughter]
Alright, well, I'm going to go and make sure
Everything else is locked up while you do laps.
[keith] see ya!