Cara Hipwell Real Estate: klamath

Showing posts with label klamath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label klamath. Show all posts
Currently, my parents have been trying to decide what flooring to put in and if they should match the flooring with what was already put in. Should they do porcelain tile or ceramic tile, wood floor or concrete floors? What countertops are they going to put in the bathrooms? Other things they need to keep up with is to order rain gutters, to order the high-end TruStile doors, which take about 4-5 weeks to come in because they are made in Denver, Colorado. In the meantime, they have to schedule the San Dimas inspectors to check every inch of the house to make sure the code requirements are met. Currently, the drywall people are putting in drywall, and the electrician is finishing up the electrical stuff. In the backyard they put up a wall about a couple weeks ago, separating the backyards of the neighboring house. In the backyard, my dad has been getting the yard ready to grow grass. Usually, we have done sod for quick and easy grass, but we are going to grow grass because the house will probably take much longer to finish because of the holidays and because the house had to have a lot done to it. The previous owner completed a lot when redoing the house originally, so there were some things already finished like some of the cabinets and the tile in the bathrooms, but that was it.




The History of the House


Hello! My name is Allie Hipwell. This year in English we were told that 20% of the week, one day of the week, we can write about whatever we want. I really wanted to do a blog, but I did not know what I wanted to blog about. I realized that my mom blogged about real estate so I thought I might give it a try! With ideas from my teacher, I was able to come to the conclusion that I wanted to write about my perspective when flipping a house. 


The first house I am going to write about a house on Klamath Court in San Dimas or as we call it, “The Lightning House”. We sometimes call it the lightning house because it was once struck by lightning in 2005. After it was struck by lightning the owner stated to repair the damage, but in May of 2007 she decided to restart the whole house from scratch, so she tore it down completely to build a brand new one. The new layout of the house she created was a similar layout, but it was just bigger than the old one. The lady's husband passed away in 2009 so they had to stop construction on the house, so no one has lived on that site for 14 years, and no one has ever lived in this home! 

While making our journey from La Verne to San Dimas, my parents saw this house and my parents really liked its safe location and neighborhood, view, and layout of the house, but the lady who owned it did not want to sell it. My parents watched the house go on and off the foreclosure calendar, but it never went to auction. They tried buying the house from the owner but they could not work out the details before the house would be sold at auction in May 2019. The house had a lot of tax liens but an investor purchased it at the auction, and my parents were able to buy the house from the investor a little later, free of liens and with title insurance.


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