Love all the new pictures on Flicker!
Beeeeautiful !
A reporter in Dallas attended one of Tarek and Christina’s free seminars on flipping (I got an invite but somehow couldn’t make it 
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$40,000!?! Holy moly.
[Watchdog gets duped when HGTV’s ‘Flip or Flop’ stars Tarek and Christina disappoint](http://www.dallasnews.com/investigations/watchdog/20160825-watchdog-gets-duped-when-hgtvs-flip-or-flop-stars-tarek-and-christina-disappoint.ece)
This happens with almost every group that has a flipping show on TV. It started way back with that Armando guy (I think he was in San Antonio or something). He used to sell ‘bus trips’ to go around and look at flips or something. I know at least 4 groups that do the Get Rich Quick seminars. Tarek and Christina from Flip or Flop, the guy who does flipping shows in Las Vegas, the group of guys that had Flip this House who were in Connecticut and then San Diego. They have a big seminar company with the ex football player called Future Builders, and someone else I cannot remember.
They use the shows to get name recognition and then they go for the big bucks with the seminars. That’s where the big money is
How Not to Flip a House!
I was in Home Depot yesterday and ran into a retired contractor who lives in the neighborhood. He told me about a big mess happening up on the street where he lives. Says some flippers bought a house for $1,050,000 and did a terrible flip job that cost about $250,000 and have been trying to sell the house for 1 1/2 yrs, starting at $2 million. They refinanced it with hard money and now are in foreclosure and walking away.
I looked it up on MLS and I don’t really see anything terribly wrong with the house, not sure it was done really horrible.
1132 Savoy 92107
The house was in decent condition, just slightly dated. It is one of those types of houses that were stuck in between investor buyers and ‘turn key’ buyers. The flippers paid asking price $1,050,000. As far as I can tell they did cosmetic changes like putting in some hardwood floors and remodeling kitchens and baths. House still has exact same curb appeal, etc.
Purchased 4/2014 as 3/3.5 3180sf
For some reason it took until 6/2015 to get it back out to market. First mistake… cannot figure out why it took so long. Maybe there was some type of lease back with the owners
Listed $1,995,000 (ridiculous grab for profit)
Reduced to $1,795,000 after 60 days
Off market for 4 months (have no idea why)
Back on market $1,595,000 4/2016 and still sitting there
still has not sold and they stopped paying their mortgage about the beginning of the year. Notice of default filed 6/2016 and it will go to foreclosure about October
Today’s Design Dilemna
Yesterday the guys finished framing up the Master Bathroom. They framed in the small toilet room exactly to plans. I took one look at it and realized there is no way that the door can open into the room and someone could use the toilet. A nice elongated toilet takes up about 30" of room from back wall. The door to the room is specified at 26" inswing door. The dang room was only 52" long after drywall. Excuse me??? how the heck can someone open up a 26" door into the room?? the door would hit the toilet and never open. Lots of moving things around, visualizing everything, trying to make it work. Only solution is to extend the room out at least 24" and still you would have the issue where door swings in and you have to shimmy around to try to get door closed before you sit down on toilet. Or turn door around to be outswing (requires buying brand new door) which wouldn’t work because the open door would hit the window located on east wall right there and always be covering up the window because we know these doors just stay open 99% of the time.
There just was not a good solution to be found. So, at this moment I have made the decision to make it a toilet privacy nook - with no door. I will keep trying to find a solution. Pocket door is not possible because there is no adjoining parallel wall to slide the pocket into.
Door should swing out or no door for safety. If someone is in the toilet and passes out their body will block the door and there’s no way to get in to help. We have a door that swings out and have no problem keeping it closed.
Toilet nook sounds fine to me. Will it have its own fan?
A privacy nook will be a deal breaker for us even if everything else was perfect. A fully enclosed toilet is a non-negotiable thing for Mr. Any chance a folding door could work?
I have both in my house. My powder room has a privacy nook. My master bath has a door that opens in. I know my H felt strongly about having the door and would still do it the same. But truthfully we rarely close the toilet room door and I don’t think we would miss it if it wasn’t there. I think this is one of those areas where you are going to get plenty of opinions that will probably split 50/50.
I doubt it will make or break the sale. Whoever buys your house will be someone who absolutely wants a ocean view in your price range. They might prefer a privacy door but it isn’t going to stop them from buying the house.
mom60, we passed a great number of great homes, and I am 100% sure it will overshadow the views for Mr. B. 
Have the door swing out.
For showings the door will always be closed and therefore not block the window. If the new owners want to leave it open and block the view, that’s their problem.
Even if there was room for the door to swing in, it sounds like it would have come very close to the toilet anyway, and that makes it pretty awkward to go in there and then get the door open and closed.
In our house my H who likes privacy will close the bathroom door. The toilet room door isn’t enough privacy for him. Heck he doesn’t even like me in the bedroom when he is using the toilet. And my master bath is huge. Isn’t there a door between bathroom and bedroom?
Yes, I am putting in a separate fan tied to the light switch in the nook. There will be a larger quiet fan in main shower area.
There is a large pocket door between bedroom and bathroom.
I think the 26" opening might be too small for a bifold door and i would have to purchase one. Would also have to purchase outswing door. I think I’ll ask my agent for an opinion
If you can’t do a pocket door that goes inside the wall, can you do one of the sliding barn doors that goes outside the wall, that we’ve been seeing a lot of?
Personally I wouldn’t like not having a door, but as someone said, you’ll get a 50/50 split on this one.
Or, a shower curtain? :))
Actually, what about a “split” door? Instead of a door that’s 30" wide, have two small half-doors, each 15" wide, that meet in the middle.
ETA: I just reread cb’s post and realize now that this is a toilet nook in the master bathroom. As far as I’m concerned, if there’s a door separating the master bath from the master BR, I’d be fine with that.
If you get a 50/50 split then you are eliminating 50% of your potential market. The 50% that don’t care if there is a door or not are not going to walk because there is a door but the 50% that do care will pass on this house. The cost of an out swing door is pretty cheap for doubling your marketability!
As I suspected, inspector called me back this morning about drywall and said I was correct. Yes he needs to inspect and he was not happy about what the drywallers. He said he would swing by and check.
I like that Savoy house…except I can’t stand GREEN and they used way too much free for my tastes. Also, I personally think they should have run the wood floor into the kitchen. I’m not a fan of the cooktop on the island…
But it’s a nice house. Something clearly is up with that one.
We have a half wall in our master bath that separates the potty from the rest of the bathroom. There is a door between the master and the bedroom. I can’t see why the toilet needs it s own door. I’m with VH on this one.
Our toilet rooms have always had outward swinging doors.
Inspector swung by about 9:40 this morning. I was not here because I thought he was coming after 10am and I was still at the bank.
He walked right in and went up to my carpenter and said “I’m not mad at you but just want to warn you I’m going to lay into drywallers”. Of course drywall boss wasn’t here but he went into kitchen and laid into the poor workers (who probably had no idea what is going on) about lying to homeowner, inspection required, not listening to homeowner and then forced them to pull out a couple of screws to verify length and show pattern under mud. He then walked over to my permit card and signed drywall in existing house off.
Wheww!! I dodged a bullet. Thank goodness I called him and didn’t have a big issue weeks from now