[Mina] Oh, my goodness. Look at the little smiley face.
[all laughing]
So what did you spend for this?
-[Mina] 145. -[Karen] You look really sad about that right now.
Ah! It's falling!
-[Tad] Oh, God. It's coming Austin. -Oh, my God.
[Tad screaming] Oh, hey. Wait, wait, wait. [bleep]
This isn't making full contact.
The longer you look, it's more like,
"oh, this is messed up, this is messed up, this is messed up."
What's the... [screams in frustration]
Oh, Austin, look what happened.
[chuckles softly]
It's no longer a clock. It's something else.
[Mina] Why did you hit me?
They call me Pistol Pete.
All right. Let's go inside.
[gasps] Wow.
[woman] Beautiful.
-[Mina] Do you love it? -[woman] I do.
[Mina] Mom and I take on some of the nastiest houses you've ever seen.
[Karen] Our team isn't afraid to tackle the worst of the worst.
That is so gross.
Holy cow!
[Mina] Then we turn those run down houses into
some of the nicest homes in the neighborhood.
-[man] Wow. -[woman] I love it.
[yoga instructor] Inhale through the nose.
Come up.
Exhale through the mouth.
Arms reach high and inhale.
[Mina] We are up on kinda the northwest side of Indy.
It's this adorable little farm
that's a great spot to get together
and get our minds off work
and let the kids have some fun too.
They do, like, cheese and ice cream and milk and yoghurt.
And they also do, like, pig yoga...
[pig oinking]
-...goat yoga... -[bleating]
They pair with a rescue, so it'd just be super fun.
[yoga instructor] And let out in a few rounds of breath.
You have a friend there. Aw.
Inhale. Lift and open when you're ready.
Exhale. Take it through the child's pose with me.
[Mina] And then all of the children were very happily distracted
with the one bunny that doesn't move.
It just hunkers down and is happy...
Um, didn't even want a carrot.
But the kids were very excited about that.
I'm gonna get them all loaded up
and back home and then I'll come pick you up in a bit for Iowa?
[Karen] All right. I gotta go home and change.
[Mina] So this house on Iowa,
it's a good location,
it's really close to the office in Bates-Hendricks.
So I'm excited.
-Okay. -[Austin] I'm gonna say I have to go home,
I'm gonna stay here and play with the animals.
-[Karen laughing] -Maybe I'll just leave the kids with you.
[Austin chuckling] I don't know.
-[Karen] This was awesome. -It was very good.
[Karen] This was great. We should start every day with yoga.
[Mina] That was fun. I think the kids had a blast.
[Karen] I knew Austin was like water
but I didn't know that his,
like, water translated to his joints.
I've seen him do splits before. He's very stretchy.
But this guy over on Iowa...
I'm excited about because it's in Bates-Hendricks
on Iowa, just a little bit further south than the store.
I'm always a fan when you get a house in either North Square,
Fountain square, Bates-Hendricks,
Old Southside, but I'm especially partial to Bates-Hendricks.
-Mm-hmm. -It's just a great little neighborhood.
It's a decent size.
[Mina] When you walk in there's a living room,
then three bedrooms off of that, a dining room
and the kitchen and bathroom are in the back
and then there's this odd breezeway add-on thing
that the previous owner built that goes out to the garage.
And then upstairs, there's kind of a loft area
and tons of attic space I think we can work with.
[Mina] Right now, it splits two lots.
The garage definitely straddles it.
So the garage is gonna have to come down.
'Cause the only reason I bought it was because
I'd be able to build on the second lot.
[Mina] But considering I got the second lot
plus the big three bedrooms, one bath house,
I think it was a good deal for 145,000.
If were to do an addition,
I could get, probably, four bedrooms.
Like a really legit main with en suite.
I just need to look at the numbers a little bit more.
Okay.
[Karen] Ooh, a wraparound porch. That makes me very happy.
It's a double lot, which is nice
but the garage is straddling the lots.
Which is kind of a bummer
because the only way to make it make sense is to do two builds here.
-Okay. -So, I think this one we need to
probably do an addition on the back
and then a new construction over here.
-[Karen] Yeah. -[Mina] I haven't been inside
so other than the numbers, that's all I know.
[Karen] Look at the cute little detail on the window.
-[Mina] The little circles. -[Karen] But the trees are gonna have to go.
-[Mina] Yeah. -[Karen] These are Siberian elms.
They've been pruned really badly.
It's also really close to your foundation
and if tree roots start pushing on a foundation, they can damage it to failure.
-[Mina] Yeah. -[Karen] Okay.
-[Karen] I wanna go in. -[Mina] All right, let's go in.
[drilling]
[Karen] Full light door.
[Mina exclaims] Ooh, the door is pretty.
[Karen] Wow. I wonder what was going on in here.
[Mina] Doesn't smell terrible.
-[Karen] No. -[Mina] What's odd to me is how low these windows are.
[Karen] Yeah, that's definitely not original--
[Mina] It's like the whole floor was raised up
or something weird.
[Karen] This is interesting.
Oh, that light fixture is cool.
It needs a new base plate maybe--
-No, that's the way it's supposed to be. -Yeah.
-Okay. That's on my list. -[Mina] Okay.
-[Mina] It's pretty standard. -[Karen] Lovely floor.
I feel like these doors could come back somehow.
-Pantry door? -There's a lock on this side of it.
Yeah.
[Karen] What got locked in here?
-I don't know. -[Karen] Huh.
[Mina] And then we've got a bedroom.
And then that's the dining room I would assume.
So, we got a chimney here.
[Mina] I mean, depending on how big we make the house,
the option would be,
main en suite and then open these ones up
and make it like, kitchen-dining-living, these three spaces.
[Karen] Yeah. Let's take a look around here then.
[Mina] Coming through the kitchen over here.
[Karen] So, kitchen back here
but this you say is coming off.
-[Mina] Yeah. -[Karen] Okay.
It's falling down into the corner.
Totally not worth saving, though, right?
[Mina] It's not terrible, if it were clean.
Oh, that's cool.
[Karen] So, light number two, all right.
[Mina] Ooh, definitely can't keep this staircase.
-[Karen] This is a ladder. -This is a sideways guy.
[Karen] This is nice flooring up here.
[Mina] Look, this is what's funny.
I wonder if this works.
I mean, I'm not moved by it. You didn't seem moved.
No. There's nothing charming or delightful about it
-but if it works-- -[Mina] It'll make a fun demo game.
If it works, we can make it charming.
[Mina] Oh, my goodness. This is funny.
-What is it? -It's just a staircase to the roof.
[Karen] Well, maybe he hung out on the roof.
[Mina] You can get from here all the way over to the garage.
-[Mina] Oh, my goodness. -[Karen] Holy cow.
[Mina] This is so weird.
[Mina] Oh, my goodness. This is funny.
-[Karen] What is it? -It's just a staircase to the roof.
[Karen] Well, maybe he hung out on the roof.
[Mina] Oh, my goodness. Look at the little smiley face.
[Karen] On the roof. [laughs boisterously]
This is probably the best garage that we've ever seen.
[Karen] Who doesn't want that on their roof?
[Mina] I mean, I don't. Maybe they sunbathed out here on the regular.
[Karen] It's nice up here.
[Mina] Yeah. So house...
Garage... And he was like,
"I don't wanna walk in the rain."
-[Karen] Yeah. -[Mina] Let's add this part.
[Karen] Built a little thing.
There's a connecting structure
between the main house and the garage.
I think you could call it a breezeway.
If it were un-boarded, it would be a breezeway.
-It would be breezy. -Yeah.
-[Karen] There's at least four layers on that roof. -[Mina] Yeah.
-[Mina] Shall I? -[Karen] Yeah.
I'd pick those up off the floor.
Okay, so this is the little through thing he made.
-Oh! -[Karen] Look at this.
[Mina] So it was a concrete back porch
that he just closed in.
[Karen exclaims] What?
[Karen] Oh, my goodness.
[Karen] Got lamps out the wazoo.
-[Mina] Mm-hmm. -[Karen] Fantastic.
[Karen] Oh, wait. Is that how we get in?
How do we, how do we open it?
[Mina] Do I need to get my drill?
-[Karen] Yeah. -[Mina drilling]
-[Mina] All right. -[Karen] Oh, we've got a spare toilet.
[Karen grunts] Oh, there we go.
-Oh, that's nice. -[Mina] All right.
Oh, look at that nice little spatula.
So many things. I mean, what is this?
-[Mina] I don't know. -[Karen] I don't know.
-[Karen] I think we've seen what we need to see in here. -[Mina] Yeah.
[Karen] You're gonna need a lot of dumpsters.
So what did you spend for this?
-[Mina] 145. -You look really sad about that right now.
[laughs heartily]
[Mina] Well, after we tear down this garage,
that's straddling the two lots,
we can build a second house sometime down the road.
So that'll make the price tag worth it.
And where the kitchen is now, it's basically falling off.
So, once we can remove that,
we can build the new two story addition with two beds and two baths.
Then off that, on the very back of the house,
we should have room to build an attached garage
with an income suite apartment over it.
A possibility of having some extra income will be really attractive to buyers.
-[Karen] Okay. -[Mina] Yeah.
[Mina] The house and the empty lot I originally bout for 145,000.
So, delegating half of that to this house would be 72,500.
This house is gonna take a lot of work and it's huge.
So, I'm thinking we need to put in about 360,000 to renovate it
and build out the addition and the garage.
But I think compared to the other homes in the area,
we could sell it for about 460,000
which would yield a respectful profit.
But who knows what we'll find
when we start digging into this oddball house.
-[Mina] It's a mystery. -[Karen] All right. It is.
-It's fascinating. -I'll figure it out.
Yeah. Eventually.
♪ Here we go! ♪
♪ Feel like this This, this, this ♪
♪ We got that That, that, that ♪
♪ We got it ♪
♪ Feel like this This, this, this ♪
♪ Here we go! ♪
♪ Feel like this ♪
[Karen] Good morning, gentlemen.
-Sup? -[both] Good morning.
-[Karen] Is this it? -[Tad] This is a lot of firepower.
Yeah. So today the name of the game is main house.
We're gonna start on the interior.
You don't even need to touch the kitchen or bathroom
'cause that will come off with the machine later.
But before we go any further,
there are some things I'm saving.
-Okay. -[Karen] So Austin, there's three lights...
One more thing. There is a dart game on the second floor.
-There's a dart game? -[Karen] There's a dart game.
I don't know if it works,
but I think it's worth bringing down here.
-It's pretty light. -There's one super important thing.
-These are bleached and clean-- -She already washed them.
I found these. There's shorts underneath.
That's a skort.
These are for you and I wanna see this happened right now.
Wait, when you take off the skirt, I'll throw it on.
There you go.
[Tad] Skorts, skirts, not really my thing.
Uh, there's the, you know-- I can rock the long hair,
I can rock the nose ring,
but the skirt's just a little too much for me.
Oh, they still have pockets.
-On your right side... -I still have pockets.
Yeah, you still have pockets. I thought you were gonna lose those.
There's pockets on the inside.
-The freedom that... -It feels good, doesn't it?
This, there's so much freedom here.
-So this is-- -There's this breeze moving through...
It's wonderful.
Okay. Now that we've all had our good dose of fun,
uh, we ready to do some work?
Let's go.
[banging]
[glass breaking]
Okay. Our job is done.
Ah! It's falling!
There we go.
Looks like I need either a flat head or Phillips.
This is pretty sweet.
I know these lights aren't Mina's style
but they are too special to throw away.
So, I'm just gonna take them home
and save them for a future project.
-[Tad] Oh, yeah. -You like that, huh?
[Tad] I love it.
[banging]
[both screaming]
[Tad] You broke the mirror.
Oh, wow.
[Austin] Dude, this thing's kind of sick. I really don't wanna break it.
It's also very narrow.
[Cory] All right, let's lower this down. Hang on.
Okay. So, when you say lower it, whose gonna go down there and catch it?
-You. -Okay.
[Austin] All right.
Going back to Jurassic Park through here.
All right, here it comes.
-Cory. -Tad.
[Tad] Let's go. We're leaning.
-You got it? -[Cory] Yeah.
-[Austin] How is it? -All right. This roof comes off. I'm riding it down.
[Austin] That's fine.
[Tad] There we go.
[grunts] And then I'm gonna turn
and set my end down at the edge.
[both] Yes.
[MJ] Why are we saving this?
[Tad] It's because it's cool man.
I think the dart machine
should go in the trash immediately.
-Sorry. -There's-- No...
[Austin] All right, let it down. So that no one loses their footing.
Oh, God. It's coming, Austin.
Oh, my gosh.
[Tad screaming] Oh, hey. Wait, wait, wait. [bleep]
Watch out!
All right, let it down
so that no one loses their footing.
Oh, God. It's coming, Austin.
[MJ] Oh, my gosh.
[Cory screaming] Oh, hey. Wait, wait, wait.
[MJ] Be careful.
[Austin] Hurry, hurry. Tad?
[Cory] Wow.
How did you bear hug that thing?
Outstanding.
[MJ] Are you guys thinking that this is gonna go back into the house?
-[Tad] Yeah. -Yeah.
[Karen] MJ, put your mind to it and imagine it beautiful.
What would it be if it were beautiful?
Invisible.
It's just big and it's bulky
and it definitely doesn't work.
I don't foresee it working in the future.
I think we just need to give it a little love...
We definitely have to put it back in the house somehow. [laughs]
I don't know how but it's going back in when he least expects it.
[banging]
You're taking a shower, Austin.
[exclaiming]
Okay.
[Mina] There you go.
We've got a great start to demo day.
We still have to remove the garage
and the back of the house
but everything inside's cleared out.
♪ One, two, three You're coming with me Now it's time to see ♪
-[Tad] It's crunch time, baby! -[Mina] There we go.
-MJ goes first. -MJ's first.
[Tad] All right, MJ.
♪ Comin' in hot, yeah ♪
[exclaims]
[Tad] How does that feel?
Real good.
[Tad] I bet it does.
♪ Hey, yeah, poppin' Give you everything I got ♪
[MJ] There she goes.
Look out.
[Mina] Getting the back part of this house and the garage removed
is gonna give us a clean slate
for building our two-story addition
and allow us to parcel off the second lot so we can build
a new house on it down the road.
[heavy footsteps]
Good morning.
[Mina] People think I'm, like, heavy footed.
-That's intense. -Oh, you know,
it's funny you say that because
as I was on the fifth step,
it said, "Are your shoes off?" on the riser
and I was like, "They are now."
Yeah. Because no one takes me seriously.
[Cory laughs] Yours aren't either.
These are my inside shoes.
That's not a thing.
-Yeah, it is. -These are my inside slippers.
-[Cory] All right. So this is Iowa. -[Mina] Iowa, yup.
Um, this-- We've got a lot to unpack here.
This house is a little bit different
'cause not only are we renovating the actual house,
we're building a garage with an apartment over it.
So, ideally someone would be able to rent that.
So, they'll love the house and want the actual house
but I think also a huge selling point
is gonna be that they could offset their mortgage
with the rental income
from the apartment over the garage.
[Mina] Okay. So first floor.
-This front bedroom, pretty much stays as is... -[Cory] Okay.
[Mina] ...but then we do the en suite.
So, now when you walk in, instead of, like, wing walls,
all these walls breaking it up,
we're open living room, into the open kitchen
and then we've got the dining room open to it
but around the corner with our staircase.
-Really opening it up, for sure. -Yeah.
I like this layout. It's cute.
[Mina] The new floor plan really, kind of, modernizes the space.
It makes the floor plan updated for how people live today
'cause that wing wall just chopped the space in half
but it did have a certain amount of charm
and I don't want the property to lose that.
So I kind of like the idea of doing an arched doorway
to bring some of that charm back into this space
while still having this, like,
modern-updated floor plan layout.
Ooh, I love an arched doorway.
It makes it feel like it's not all new construction too.
Exactly.
[Mina] And then back here is where we chop off
the old kitchen and are building our new addition with the garage.
With the separate entrance to the income suite,
and the whole income suite kind of sits above the garage.
[Cory] That's fantastic. I love that.
[Mina] And then upstairs, this is all old construction
and then it's new from here back.
So, we've got a bedroom, bedroom.
[Cory] And we've got two full baths up here.
-I like that. -[Mina] Second living space.
[Cory] This is so cute.
-It's super cozy too. -[Mina] Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's about it. All right.
Let's go see what happens.
-Thank you, sir. -See ya.
♪ I'm bringin' the fire ♪
[Mina] Over at the house on Iowa, they've been framing up
the existing house as well as
the new garage and income suite.
♪ I'm bringin' the fire ♪
[crashes]
[Mina] Mom called it on day one
and knew these big trees out front
were gonna be an issue and she was right.
They're so close to the house
that the roots have compromised
the structure of the porch.
So not only did the trees have to go...
[drilling]
...so does the majority of our charming wrap around porch.
[drilling]
[Mina] It's no small feat rebuilding it
and it's gonna set us back, probably, 10 grand
but it's gotta get done and it'll be worth it to keep
the original charm of this house.
-[Mina] Okay. -[Cory] What is happening?
So, the HVAC guys were here.
And I was like, "How's it going?"
and he said, "I can't set the furnace
because there's no staircase.
And then upstairs, it's just walls standing.
There's no ceiling."
And I was like, "Huh? What are you talking about?"
He's like, upstairs, where my furnace goes, there's no ceiling.
After talking to the HVAC guy, I reached out to the framer
who informed me that
they will not be coming back to the job and not finishing.
And unfortunately, I already gave them their first payment
but it's not even close to being done
nor is anything done right.
So it's gotta all get redone
and that's money down the drain.
So, clearly, framing's not done.
-This is... -It's a mess.
[Cory] This is sad.
-[Cory] This is... -It's a mess.
This is sad.
[Mina] After talking to the HVAC guy, I reached out to the framer
who informed me that they will not be coming back to the job
and not finishing.
When you do that, that whole thing...
-[Cory] Oh, I know. -[Mina groans]
And the fact that these aren't even resting on...
Look how this isn't making full contact
with this beam at all.
[Mina] When you walk through it,
there's like a mash up of old lumber and new lumber
and then just the longer you look,
it's more like, "Oh, this is messed up, this is messed up, this is messed up."
Well at least this wall will be staying since it's fire rated and plywood
-that we didn't need. -What... [screams in frustration]
The new portion of the house
where you would think you would need a firewall
is not fire rated.
And the old portion is fire rated.
Mm-hmm. They did it backwards.
I got about five grand of fire rated plywood
on the side of the house that doesn't need to be there.
[screams]
Oh, my God.
[Mina] I have a dozen jobs going on at any given time
and just don't have the ability to be at every job site all the time.
But we've already booked another crew.
Someone we can trust.
But this mishap is costing us several weeks.
For sure. I mean, we're probably gonna have to
start all new with this new framer
'cause we're gonna have issues.
That's gonna cost us at least $25,000
and then between that cost and the front porch cost,
it-- I'm just bleeding money at this point.
It's okay. We'll get through it.
We just-- Now we have the proper people on our team
to get this done.
[Mina] All right. By Monday, next week, though,
it'll already start to look better.
[Mina] We've got a new framing crew on site
and they promised to actually frame up the whole house.
So, our massive header is going in where our old wing wall was,
which is gonna give us that open concept we want.
Framing on the income suite of the garage is coming along too.
And while that's getting completed,
I'm focusing on the outside,
getting some sage green vinyl siding up.
It's a much more affordable option
from the concrete siding I planned to use.
But we've taken some hits lately
and I need to find some savings where I can.
[Tad] Whoo! Concrete.
[Mina] Our pricey wrap around porch is also coming along
with new concrete being poured.
[Mina exclaims] Oh, so pretty!
[Mina] And with so much framing work still happening,
I took the opportunity to make a few tweaks to the layout.
-[Mina] Morning, morning. -[Cory] Hello.
-Um, you know... -Like the new layout?
Well, I like the new layout but I thought the washer and dryer was going in here.
-It is. Going right here. -Okay.
So, big news. I have a buyer for the house.
She's actually an investor from Brooklyn
and she wants the main house and the apartment
both, to hold as, um, short-term rental properties.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense
since this is so close to Bates-Hendricks
and in downtown.
All the must see events and stuff.
Mm-hmm. Exactly and I think it's gonna work out really well.
Like, doing a couple tweaks to the floor plan
that are actually gonna make the laundry room bigger
because with guests coming,
with, you know, having to do the laundry for multiple sets of sheets...
having a little bit bigger laundry room is gonna be nice.
And this is right below the upstairs closet,
and I wanna do the, the...
-A laundry chute? -Yes.
-Is that the hand motion for it? -Yeah.
Yeah, I had one when I was kid, like, right outside our bathroom,
and it was just a hole in the ground.
We had one of those, too,
and it was actually the laundry chute was in our bedroom closet,
and I got stuck in it one time.
Why did you get in it?
I don't know,
-like, I was the youngest. -You and Brandon decide that was a good idea,
-you're like, "Hey, Toby." -Yeah.
Also handy because,
-I mean, this house is, got some size to it. -Yeah.
And I think, in terms of convenience,
and getting things down to wash your clothes, like, this is perfect.
[Mina] I'll bring Jack back and he can shoot some soldiers down it.
[Mina] Finally, the dry wall's going up.
The main house with all the charming archways
and the garage apartment are all starting to peek shape,
and soon it will be time for all the pretty stuff.
-Yo. -Hello.
Oh, whoa, this reaction's already, "Okay, here we go."
-Um, woof. -Whoa.
-[MJ] Do you even know what we're talking about? -[Mina] No.
-[MJ] What are we doing? -[Mina] These are just ones I like and don't like.
-Don't mind. -[MJ] Iowa.
-This house is huge. -[Mina] Yes.
-It just keeps going on forever. -It does.
We have a lot of room for wow and pow.
-The property, the actual, like, layout... -[MJ] Yeah.
...I'm really loving, 'cause we got the apartment over the garage.
But I do have a buyer, she also wants it fully-furnished.
I listed this property early with just the plans,
and actually had a buyer in New York reach out, who was interested in it.
She's familiar with Indy, she likes Bates-Hendricks,
so knows that these are gonna make really good short-term rentals.
So that is her plan, to rent the main house,
and the apartment over the garage,
even if she does have to manage it from New York.
Well, that's amazing news, now we just have to make sure
that the main house and the apartment are full of durable finishes
-that can stand out to renters. -Definitely.
-We only have lower cabinets, -Okay.
-'cause there's a massive pantry. -Love that.
So that the plates, cups, all the food, everything can go in there.
So I think it's a very unique opportunity to do...
Something cool
-with open-shelving? -[Mina] Something cool with open-shelving...
-Love that. -...and just, like, tons of tile.
Also I have these, kind of, in that grey tone, if that's what we're liking.
You know I'm a sucker for hand-glazed anything.
I like that.
I like, no, I like that one a lot.
-And then if we're gonna do shelving... -[MJ] Yep.
...I don't wanna screw into the tile.
So I love to be able to do something
where it can sit on the counter
-as, like, a piece of furniture almost. -[MJ] Yep.
And maybe bolt it to the ceiling,
-but not drilling through the tile. -Love that.
What kind of countertop?
We could go something, like, concrete-ish looking.
Or butcher block.
You do the island butcher block,
-and the surround something different, too. -[MJ] Love that.
-We can mix it up. -Love that, super durable.
-[Mina] Okay. -Okay.
Everything in there is going to have, uh,
it's gonna be more thoughtful about what we're putting in as far as durability.
There'll be renters in and out,
but you want it to feel upscale for them, too.
So it needs to not just be durable, but a deluxe getaway.
Flooring, I think, is the only thing.
-Probably should have started with that -[MJ] Yep.
I like, too yellow, I like, I like.
[MJ] I love this.
[Mina] I like the softness of the pattern and of, like, the color.
But if we're talking wallpaper,
I think back in the back hallway,
we could do, like, the back entry hallway,
or the laundry, or the half-bath something.
And I like the blue with this.
Mmm-hmm, this is all working.
Are the efficiency suite in the main house,
should they flow or should they be separate?
[Mina] I don't think they have to.
-Okay. -[Mina] Like, these decisions are all main house.
I think the efficiency and the kitchen, it's a weird ceiling line.
-So I don't think a backsplash, necessarily... -In the pitch of the roof?
[Mina] ...yeah, makes sense either.
So we could do counters and, like, just a standard four-inch...
-[MJ] Okay. -[Mina] ...or something like that.
-But I think that's gonna be more of a game-time decision. -Love it.
I think this is all gonna look really good,
but I think it's gonna be super functional.
-Very durable. -Okay.
Um, I'm gonna take this one with me, so I know which one to order,
and we'll rock and roll.
-Love it. -[Mina] Okay.
♪ One, two, three ♪
♪ Everybody's gotta watch out for me ♪
♪ Three, four, five ♪
♪ It's a takeoff, get ready for the ride of your life ♪
[Mina] Our durable deluxe getaway on Iowa
is coming together with our dark blue kitchen cabinets
in the main house,
and then a soft grey going into the garage apartment.
The dark colors not only look sleek,
but it'll hide dirt and stains for short-term guests.
Our sturdy vinyl flooring is going into both properties.
-I could not get this to work. -Okay.
[Mina] And mom and Austin are adding some flair
by re-inventing that old dart board game.
-[Karen] Let's just take it apart, -[Austin] Okay.
-[Karen] and we'll make something out of it. -[Austin] Okay.
[Karen] Today, Austin and I are reimagining the electronic dart game
that we found in the house, and did something new.
Yes, and as we are taking it apart,
we feel that we're finding a bunch of very cool pieces
we think we can make into a clock.
[Karen] Yeah, the black and white parts for the dart board,
the circuit boards that make it work.
-I was thinking dart board part in the middle... -[Karen] Yeah.
-...and then scatter stuff around. -[Karen] Yeah.
I would like them to all be black. I like that.
So we're filling around silicone mold with our dart board parts
to make the facing clock.
Let's see, you can go there.
Everything other maybe. We got some nice symmetry there.
Should we just sprinkle some screws in here, too?
Once we like the arrangement, we'll fill the mold with resin,
which will dry crystal clear, giving us a one of a kind clock face.
Just drill a hole and throw the clock part in.
[Karen] Yep, and tomorrow we'll check back to see what it looks like
once the resin cures.
-Oh, Austin. -What?
Welcome to my den, den of sadness.
-Sadness? -Look what happened.
Uh... [chuckles]
This did some funky things.
[Karen] Oh, Austin.
Look what happened.
Uh... [chuckles]
[Karen] I've never seen anything like this.
-What do you think the back looks like? -[Karen] I don't know.
Yesterday, Austin joined me in my garage, so we made a resin clock.
I mixed up the resin, I poured it into the mold and then I left,
And when I came back, it looked like it had boiled.
We're gonna see what the back looks like,
-got it? -[Austin] Yep.
[laughs] This is buzzed.
-This did some funky things, right? -[Karen] I know.
I don't know, I've never seen anything like it.
Sometimes things just don't work out.
The world may never know what strange chemical reaction occurred
to cause that to happen to that resin clock.
But you know, you don't win 'em all.
I say we just buy a clock and, uh, put is project behind us.
-Deal. -Deal.
[Mina] Outside of Iowa, our wraparound porch has gotten its finishing touch
with these natural wood columns that really warm up the exterior.
Inside the main house our shimmering hand-made backsplash tile
is being installed all the way to the ceiling
to make for easy cleaning after the short-term guests.
And some upscale marble is going into the main en suite bath.
So we've got the floor hole,
we need to then decide where we want the ceiling hole.
And then the ceiling hole and then make the pantry hole.
And then... [exhales] ...chute.
To make this massive short-term rental
just a little bit more functional,
I'm adding a laundry chute, so when the cleaners come to flip it,
uh, they can just shove everything down the chute right to the laundry room.
It'll save a little bit of time.
And most importantly, so we can shoot army men down it.
Oh, it went right in between the two of 'em.
[Cory] Dang, any closer, you'd be point blank range.
Let me see if I can shoot from back here.
I'm pretty, I'm pretty good.
[Mina laughs] You hit me.
-Boom. -[Cory] Dang.
They call me Pistol Pete.
[Mina] I'll clean this all up tomorrow.
[Cory laughs]
[Mina] Put it down the hole.
There we go.
-[Caleb] This is for Iowa, right? -[Cory] Amazing.
these are the shelves going in.
Today, we're checking in with Caleb and Dustin
about our built-in curved shelves for the kitchen at Iowa.
We have two units to build, so... [deep exhale] ...it's gonna take a little bit.
Two of us can roll to raise for the top of the unit,
and then two of us can get this ready to be tacked up.
Fantastic, I love to tack.
-[Caleb] Beautiful. -[MJ] That is a perfect arch.
Well done.
I think I'mma start up here.
All right, we still need to weld these runners...
-[Cory] Mmm. -...on here though.
[MJ] It'd be awesome if we did, uh, wired mesh shelves.
instead of plate.
[Dustin] I have wire mesh...
-[MJ] Is it this? -[Caleb] I got, I brought some brass.
-[Caleb] Yea, not a lot. -[MJ] Yeah, but that.
[Caleb] Oh, my God.
[MJ gasps]
-[Corey] Yeah. -[MJ] That is so sick,
-all powder coated Spanish gold. -[Dustin] Yes.
-[MJ] Love it, everyone on the same page? -[Cory] Yeah.
Love that.
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Feels good to be bad ♪
♪ Trouble to be had ♪
♪ Is there something in the water ♪
Gonna start calling this...
-Oh. -...broken mirror affirmation.
-Yeah. -We'll let Tad go first, and then I have one for you.
Today I got the team here,
we're gonna put in some white azaleas for this income property,
and, hopefully, this is gonna work for our home-owner.
But, um, we're all a little bit tired,
we don't have very much pep in our step,
so we're gonna do some positive affirmation.
All right, dude, [sniffles] you got a girlfriend now,
you've been a little chubby for a little bit, but we still love you for it.
-Sure, we love you just the way you are. -[Tad] Exactly.
-And yet, we can still be better. -[Tad] Exactly.
So try this one, I am physically and mentally flexible.
Uh, I am physically and mentally flexible.
And I can assemble a great team.
-There we go. -[Tad] Boom.
-There it goes. -[Karen] Broken mirror affirmations.
Tad, you're on your second hole?
[Tad] Yeah, yeah.
I'm on my third, baby.
That first one was really tough, it was full of roots.
[Karen laughs]
Oh, Austin.
-[Austin] Setting the edge. -[Karen] Yeah.
-[Tad] Looks great. -[Karen] Simple,
straight-forward, easy maintenance.
Yay.
[Cory] Now you better make sure that you lines up perfectly
Oh, gosh, you guys are making me nervous.
[MJ] This will be the best hung one yet.
[Mina] We're putting the last-minute touches on the laundry room,
[MJ] So the idea is gonna be that you can just drop your clothes
and they go right through this cabinet and into a basket.
[Cory] Mmm-hmm.
[Mina] I'm getting the main house an income suit
ready to show to the buyer.
-[MJ] What do you think of the arches? -[Mina] I freakin' love them.
[MJ] How do we feel about the mesh?
[Mina] I like it, I like that you can see through up there.
This house has come so far from where it was,
like, it's been a total transformation.
And we've got so many fun details like the arches,
and the man-made tile, all the way up to the ceiling
It's just got so much charm and character,
even though it's pretty is, is new construction.
It still fits in with that, like, old school Bates-Hendricks vibe,
and I think guests that are staying there, coming into the city,
um, it's just gonna be great. I think they're gonna love it.
[MJ] Look at these little hangers.
I mean, we don't need to go crazy in here, it's just the idea.
[MJ] Um, this is more than an idea,
that's a hole in the floor that leads to your laundry room.
-I know. -[MJ] Mmm-hmm.
It's just fun.
Tomorrow, we're showing the house to the buyer, Lakwania,
She's flying in from New York with her daughter, Nadine, to sign all the documents.
And, hopefully, they love everything,
and they can start renting it pretty quickly.
Cutest little efficiency.
[Mina] It's, I would 100% love living here if I was like...
-Young professional. -[Mina] ...young professional. Simple, cute.
-Just so sweet. -[Mina] Oh. [laughs] Okay.
-[Mina] Hello. -Hello.
-Hi. -How you doing? Welcome to Indy.
Thank you.
We're showing the house to Lakwania and her daughter, Nadine.
Lakwania owns, uh, several short-term rentals around the country,
so this is gonna be the next one added to her portfolio.
Mother and daughter doing business with mother and daughter.
I mean, what could be better?
What do you guys think?
Wow.
Beautiful, I love it.
[Mina] Hopefully beautiful.
-[Lakwania] I love green. -[Karen] Okay.
[Lakwania] This is gorgeous.
-I love the chairs, it's beautiful. -[Mina] Yeah.
Comes together very well.
[Mina] When I originally bought the property,
it had a massive block garage, which I would've loved to keep,
but it split two properties, so we actually had to take that down.
The porch was a complete mess, so this is all brand-new concrete,
We went a little over-sized on the exterior lights.
I love selecting lighting.
-[Lakwania] It's beautiful. -[Mina] It's probably one of my favorite processes.
[Karen] Great pop.
The story was told you wanted an income property, so I tried to give you simple,
-low maintenance landscaping. -[Lakwania] Thank you.
We've been doing all the talking at your mom,
but she must've brought you along for a reason.
-Like, what's your role here today? -Um, I study architecture.
Oh.
Bringing her up right, good job, Mom.
-I'm trying, I'm trying -[Karen] Good job.
-Thank you. -All right, well, let's go inside.
Okay, are you guys ready?
Wow.
It's beautiful.
-[Mina] Do you love it? -[Lakwania] I do.
All right, well, let's go inside.
Okay, are you guys ready?
[Lakwania] I love the outside.
Wow, It's beautiful.
-Do you love it? -I do.
Really nice, big open space.
You can, kind of, see this T on the ceiling,
and that's where there was walls, closing everything off.
[Lakwania] Oh, really?
[Mina] So we had to completely open up,
and then just added these little arch details.
And it's a small thing but I feel like it just makes it pop.
-[Karen] Yeah, it's, it's charming. -[Lakwania] I love it.
And the flooring is the other thing,
it's a vinyl product, much, much, much more durable.
So, you know, dogs, high traffic.
-Definitely what's needed. -Shenanigans.
They're shenanigans resistant.
[Lakwania] I love the open space,
it'll accommodate a large party, a large family, nice.
-Let's check out the kitchen a little bit. -Makes sense.
My favorite room in this house.
Oh, my God.
-It's mine, it's my favorite room. -[Mina] All yours.
[Lakwania] I love this.
The tile going all the way up, dynamite.
This tile is, it's an artisanal hand-made tile,
and every single's one different.
So you get this cool difference in texture and color of each one.
-[Lakwania] It's gorgeous. -[Mina] The arches are custom-made.
[Lakwania] I love it, it's beautiful.
[Mina] Nice big island. You've got seating here.
You know, your dining table over here that easily seats six,
and it's very social space.
[Lakwania] It is, I love it.
The main en suite being on the first floor,
if you do have people coming through,
that are gonna have trouble with the stairs,
-you've got options on the first floor. -Nice.
-We're going around this way. -You're going that way.
-[Mina] This way, all right, follow me. -[Lakwania] Let's do it.
And your main floor en suite.
My gosh, look.
[Lakwania] Beautiful.
I love the wood, the feel of, of each room.
-[Mina] It's not cold. -[Lakwania] The living room--
-It's not. -[Mina] Yeah.
And then you got your en suite, which also has a beautiful tile,
so if you guys wanna peek in there.
The main bath.
Oh, look at this tile.
-[Mina] We just really tried to make the bathroom. -[Lakwania] Beautiful.
[Mina] It feels like a soft space, like, the rest of the house.
-versus, you know, like a, a functional... -[Lakwania] Beautiful.
-[Mina] ...cold space. -[Lakwania] Mmm-hmm, it is really nice.
-[Mina] So we'll check out the back of the house. -[Lakwania] Great.
-[Mina] You got your laundry. -[Lakwania] Yes, I love the blue.
Nice little laundry cart...
-Oh, nice. -...and then some storage here as well.
There's actually a little surprise in this cabinet
that I'll tell you about when we head upstairs.
-Yeah, I feel like we should go upstairs. -Let's go upstairs.
So you got a little loft space up here.
-Uh, a little cozy nook area, do some reading. -[Lakwania] Nice, yes.
This is you, uh, second floor en suite.
-So we've got a queen bed in here. -[Lakwania] Nice.
Um, kind of, tucked behind that door is a another full bathroom.
Right behind Mina was the door to nowhere.
It's the second story and there was a door there,
and that's where we looked out,
-and we saw the smiley face on the roof. -[Lakwania] Oh, wow.
[Karen] And we also found a giant, old arcade dart game.
[Mina] And then we've got a big walk-in closet over here.
Take that little towel and chuck it down in that basket.
[Lakwania] Oh, look.
Come, Nadine. Nice!
[Mina] It goes straight down into the basket in the laundry room.
-[Nadine] Wow. -[Lakwania] Nice, very nice, great.
Probably, other than the kitchen
my favorite space in this house
is how the apartment turned out.
-Okay, let's go check out the apartment. -[Lakwania] All right, yes.
You've got a nice two-car garage,
and then this is the completely separate entrance to the apartment.
[Lakwania] Mmm, nice.
Okay, and this is the apartment.
Wow.
Beautiful.
It's just like, if I was traveling with my husband,
-this would be great, it'd be just enough. -[Lakwania] Wow.
[Mina] We've got a king-size bed up here.
-[Lakwania] Cozy. -[Mina] And the sofa,
so this is probably where you would put
some kind of entertainment stand with a TV.
We were able to have enough room in this cozy little kitchen,
dishwasher, gas stove, good-size sink, microwave,
-the cutest little baby refrigerator ever. -I know.
Only slightly smaller than the refrigerator I use.
I think it's gorgeous, it's beautiful.
[Nadine] I really like these countertops.
It has a really nice finish with the kitchen, I just love it.
It's beautiful, I'm happy for it, you guys did a great job.
All right, let's head back downstairs.
It was so inviting, welcoming, warm. I just, I didn't wanna leave.
Before we start talking turkey, I have a story to tell you.
-You know how upstairs, I said we found a dart board? -Yes.
[Karen] And it was big, it was this big, huge machine,
and we have this idea that we would deconstruct it and make you a clock.
And so we got all the circuit boards and poured the resin,
I came back a few hours later and it was like it had boiled.
-[sighs] -[Karen] It was just, like, full, it was a mess.
but... [laughs]
...this is what you're getting.
I, I could not give you the clock,
-but there you go. -[Mina] Did you make this or buy this?
-[Karen] No, I bought that. -[Mina] There you go.
-[Mina] We got a clock. -[Karen] Because you know what,
sometime projects don't work out.
-Thank you for the clock. -[Karen] You're very welcome.
You've already got it under contract, you literally close today.
Are you happy with the product?
-[Lakwania] Yes. -Are you like "Yes, this was good, no regrets?"
I am ecstatic, I'm so happy, I'm, I have no regrets, zero regrets.
The house and the empty lot, I originally bought for a 145,000,
so delegating half of that to this house would be 72,500.
My plan was to spend about 360,000,
renovating this massive property,
but after the framing issues, the porch, and a few other problems,
we spend about 410,000.
So all in at about $482,500.
And it's under contract for 485,000. 15 of that is furniture.
So the house itself 470,000.
Learned a lot of lesson, lost a lot of money.
We can move on to the next one knowing that this one is going to good hands,
and is finally put back together.
Even if you held it for a couple years as a short-term,
you'd be in a really place for a resale as far as where Bates-Hendricks is,
and it's already strongly in that direction,
So I hope it ends up being a good addition to your portfolio.
-I think it will be. -[Mina] Okay.
I look forward to it.
Today's closing day, so all you gotta do is sign on the line.
-Yay. -All right, well, let's get out of here,
-I'll show you around the area. -Let's do it.
That's just the reality of renovation.
Um, sometimes you come up short
and lose a little bit of money.
[Karen] But the empty lot that you're gonna build on next door,
will make way more money, because this house is gorgeous.
So you'll make up what you lost,
you'll make the neighborhood better.
So on to the next house.