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[quote=Anonymous]My house my prior owner did a lot of work. He hired two young single guys from Portugal at time and put them up his house for a few months, free room and board and paid them a cash salary and they renovated house.

It is beautiful work. Average salary back then was only around 20,000 Euro in Portugal. He told me he paid them $10,000 USD each and the stayed almost five months. There is a lot of taxes in Portugal and he just paid them cash. And since they lived with him rent free and ate meals with him they left with a lot of money.

He has beautiful custom woodwork in house, wired sound systems, they installed cabinets. Funny part nearly everything from Home Depot or Lowes near house. Not high end. He could do a bathroom for like nothing. I saw delivery receipts.

Nothing required permits really. He kept house as is just updated everything. My house had good plumbing and electric as only around 32 years old when he did it. Was all orginal from build date.

But really that is only cheap way to do it.

Also this may suprise you. When I sold my house in NY my realtor recommended a "Flip Crew" they speciality was when people buy a house at a foreclosure auction, estate sale etc to flip they come in and work super fast and get house ready. There rules was no work that requires permits and full access house at all time. My house was empty so they knocked it out to get ready for sale after I moved out in three days.

Anyhow he told me he has been to Potomac and Mclean and Great Falls a few times. I go what. Yea he goes I did a huge house Potomac. Estate sale. We drove up there in two trucks 8 of us. Slept in Basement on cots owner left and stayed for a month and did whole house. Then we took a month vacation. We travel. Once again cash price. These guys fly. Is a price whole job nothing broken out. You get what you get. But man they do home flips and know what looks good and what will pass inspection. My house after they did it sold in a week.

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