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Thanks to everyone who came out to our open house in Fredericksburg to see the results of all our hard work. We received many compliments on all the design changes made to the house, which made it bright, open and modern.

We also got a lot of positive feedback about the benefits of doing a preview open house instead of a traditional open house. With a preview event, all major work has been completed but the finishing touches–such as paint colors, carpet colors, and appliance models– are undone, which gives potential buyers the ability to customize their home so they don’t have to change anything after moving in. And one lucky family is doing just that!

Here are some photos from the open house:

I just can’t help but brag about the amazing transformation going on at Colebrook Road. Take a look at how the unfinished basement looked before we started:

And take a look at this progress photo of our finished basement!

Even the darkest, dingiest spaces have potential if you know how to look at things!

We are making great progress on our full renovation of 225 Colebrook Road in Fredericksburg, VA. And I do mean FULL renovation: from completely tearing out all of the old, worn out interior to changing the layout to now starting to add all the luxury details. Let us know what you think!

We would be happy to give you a tour of the house before we open it to the public. If you’re interested, just email us at deals@prsproperties.com or give us a call at (703) 378-7466.

Having a large room available in the house at 255 Colebrook Road, we decided to create a spacious second master suite, complete with a luxury bathroom and big double-headed shower.

After our personal experiences dealing with elderly family members, we decided to go the extra mile to make the whole suite handicapped accessible. We created a shower that has no step-over threshold. In the event a buyer or family member is in a wheelchair or requires a walker, they won’t have to worry about rolling or stepping over the threshold to get into the shower. For future needs, there is wood blocking installed in the framing of the walls for hand rails and a shower seat.

Having wheeled many a stretcher into homes during my long career in the fire department, we decided to install 36-inch wide doors to the master bedroom and bath in the event the suite will be used for an elderly or infirm resident. You’ve got to start thinking about these things as you get older, or reach the age when you find yourself caring for aging parents.

This foresight adds a bit more time and effort up front of course, but we know how much of a difference it can make to someone’s quality of life in the future, which makes it a no-brainer!

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since last writing. We’ve been working so hard, taking care of business, that I almost forgot to take care of the real business — YOU.

Recently we’ve invested in three properties that need various amounts of renovation. The one I want to speak  about now is our Fredericksburg single family home on one acre. This place was owned by a man who had many difficulties keeping the place up. After he passed away, his son inherited the property and realized that he had neither the time, the resources, nor the energy to tackle the renovation needed to either live in the property or to sell it conventionally. And this guy is even in the building trades, so you can imagine the amount of work we were up against when we got the call to consider purchasing the property!

A careful assessment was completed and a renovation budget was prepared. The potential of this property is awesome, but we knew we would have to roll up our sleeves to tackle this baby! Even with our many years of experience, this one posed a couple of challenges:

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Here are some in-progress pictures of the house at 255 Colebrook Road in Fredericksburg, VA. We’ve finished the demolition phase, have fixed and updated the plumbing and electrical as needed, and have begun rebuilding the interior spaces. It’s amazing how much better it looks just from being cleared out and cleaned up!

The renovation of 14111 Mount Pleasant Drive in Woodbridge is complete and we will be hosting an Open House this weekend: Saturday, Feb. 21st and Sunday, Feb. 22nd from 1-4 pm both days.

A mortgage lender will be on site to offer guidance and answer your questions about the best way to get financing, and help will be available for both English and Spanish speakers.

The house is looking really good!! I will post the final pictures tomorrow. In the meantime, check out the flow of everything from the floor plans below, and feel free to drive by to take a look at the house for yourself.

I hope to see you this weekend!

It’s been a while since my last post with all that is going on. Been looking at a lot of junker bank-owned properties lately, and we are hard at work on a 4-bedroom single family home at 14111 Mount Pleasant Drive in Woodbridge, VA.

Like a lot of homes that went to foreclosure, it was in really rough shape when we first took on the project. But the repairs and renovations are going well, and I’m very excited about how it will turn out. It is a pretty well-constructed single family home, and homes in the area were selling in the peak a couple years ago in a range of $250,000 to over $300,000.

I have got to post some of our project photos, so you can see just how much work goes into renovating one of these foreclosure properties! I keep talking about how taking on these repair and renovation issues yourself is a huge and inconvenient endeavor, but a picture speaks a thousand words. Our construction crew is very skilled and professional, but I still wouldn’t want to live in the house with all of this work going on!

Check back next week for photos…

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