Bird House Remodel

Here's the eagerly awaited Bird Avenue house update.

We finished the remodeling more or less on time, although some paint got chipped off when the carpet installation took place, so Mr. Chen and crew had to go back in and touch things up. While some of the details are not 100 percent perfect, overall, I'm pretty happy. Mostly it's good to just get it over with and move on to the next phase, which is renting the place out.

So a summary of the "updated" items: completely redoing 2 bathrooms, new interior and exterior paint, new carpet, replacing 2 windows, and patching up an area in the back wall of the house where the redwood had grown too close to and damaged it. Also was suppose to seal up the roof area, but turns out it was very difficult to do due to the way it is done. Although it doesn't look perfect, some was refunded for that, so I guess it's fine.

There are still some minor stuff which I had to take care of on my own. They include changing a few door knobs and putting up some blinds and moving all the furnitures back into the house and generally cleaning up the place up a bit. (Update, I also had to do some touch up on painting and fix the gates and fence in the backyard.) But overall, it's pretty much done! Yay Ya!

Okay, now on to the task of renting the place. Sandy's been taking charge of this task for the most part, posting the ads on craigslist and calling the correspondents. So far, there seem to be a fairly high level of interest. We've gotten about 15~20 calls and basically had an "open house" of sorts for all the interested renters to stop by and have a look this past Saturday. Some of the potential renters we feel pretty comfortable with, others seems a little bit more iffy. Fortunately we had enough that we have a little bit of choice. Unfortunately, seems like the renters for the most part don't actually want the furnitures, which I thought was a plus.. So, I'm going to have to move everything right back out and either donate them or stack them up in Henderson or something..

Oh.. also arranged to have a gardener to come and fix up some of the broken sprinklers and do monthly maintainence, so that the place will look nice and we won't have to worry about the renter neglecting the yard like I did for the past 10 years, haha.. Anyways, will give an update when we get the place actually rented out. It'll be quite a relief when we finally do :)