THANK YOU ONE AND ALL

I'd like to thank everyone that voted on the floorplans for your help. Floorplan #2 won by a landslide (58%) and even though I, myself, prefer the feeling of carpet under my feet, I've decided to do the tile as suggested by the majority vote. Many of you sent comments and emails explaining your choices and I have changed my own bias towards carpet because I can see the wisdom in your reasoning. Wow! Blogging is awesome!! Who knew I'd be the one getting the education by doing this :)

As I mentioned when I started this blog, my purpose behind doing it was two-fold:

First - to encourage all you new investors out there to get as much FREE education as possible. Along those lines I'm planning to begin including links to other blogs and sites that we use to stay informed as well as information on where and how to get tons of information (again, for FREE!) in your own "back yard". And

Second - to chronical the day to day adventures of actually DOING a "flip" (whether it's one you're selling or planning to rent out) so as to help with the details we, personally, just haven't seen in the "guru" packages. Along the way, we'll end up including our advantures as landlords too. Keep in mind, we're newbies ourselves so some of the information we share will be lessons in what NOT to do :)

Now... if only we could get a hold of our contractor to tell him our decision! Haven't heard from him in 4 days now - he's not returning our calls. We're trying to chalk it up to the holiday weekend and TRULY hoping he actually touches base with us tomorrow when the world gets back to "business as usual". Unfortunately, there are problems on the site (besides our contractor not knowing what we've decided to do with the flooring) and we don't speak Spanish... definitely a problem when you're trying to "Flip this House" in Texas. I think tomorrow we may have to go throw our bodies in the way of construction in order to stop any further mistakes from happening until we can get a hold of our general contractor/interpreter! (LOL)


P.S. - learning Spanish is up towards the top of our list of "things to do"!