If you don’t know what a foreclosed property is, it is a property that somebody was financed to purchase, typically a mortgage loan , and for whatever reason they could no longer make their mortgage payment or just completely stopped making it. Because of this the bank ceases the property and puts it in foreclosure. Foreclosure is where the bank comes in vacates and forcefully sells the property in order to recover the money they lent in the initial mortgage.
Foreclosed property cleanups were so rewarding to me. Oftentimes these properties sat vacant for two or more years. The yard would be 6 ft tall and the bushes untrimmed. Sidewalks overgrown and debris scattered throughout the yard and inside the home.
We had to mow the yard, trim the bushes, and haul away anything that wasn’t bolted down. As well as take before during, and after pictures of every square inch of the properties and the work we performed.
They had to look perfect, like they were never vacant and somebody just moved out. Like they were ready to be put up on the market. But before and after pictures were just mesmerizing, incredible, astonishing.
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It wasn’t just as simple as mowing the yard or cutting the bushes back though you could not just mow it and leave the clippings laying there on the ground. You had to rake and haul it all away.
We would mow and rake, mow and rake, mow and rake. It was definitely hard work but it was very rewarding. Oftentimes the neighbors would come and compliment us and the work we performed.
We were required to mow and maintain up to an acre. Anything after that we had to submit a bid for. An acre may not seem like much but when it’s 6 ft tall and you have to mow it down like it’s perfect, it gets big really quick lol.
When we would get done and step back and look at the property, it was always like wow… It looks so good and I did that.
Have you done something where the before and after results are just so incredible? Leave a comment tell me about it.
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