Buy to Let Refurb Tip – Do you need a Feature Wall❓

I thought I’d share a couple of refurb tips I’ve found out since I started investing in property. When I started 10+ years ago,...

I thought I’d share a couple of refurb tips I’ve found out since I started investing in property.

When I started 10+ years ago, I used to watch “Homes Under the Hammer” religiously every Sunday morning. 🔨

Can you remember it?

Where landlords would go to auction, buy a “doer upper”, spend several months refurbing it and then find out if they’ve made any money!

What I used to find ridiculous about it was the profit never took into account any selling fees such as a solicitor or estate agency and the refurb costs were ridiculously low! The investor seemed to do most of it themselves and they could do a 4 bed house for £10k!

Anyway back to the point, back in the day when I watched this – they were always doing cream carpets & magnolia walls. Your standard buy-to-let touch up.

So me being the Homes Under the Hammer biggest fan, on my first purchase a 2 Bed Flat in Bensham, Gateshead I did EVERYTHING wrong!

• Cheap kitchen – fell to bits!
• Cheap boiler – needed replacing 😰
• Did all the painting & decorating myself – got myself some lovely magnolia paint and some cheap cream carpets 😭

What happened? After my first tenancy the walls showed all the dirt and scuff marks and the carpet looked like it had been used as a BMX track!

10 Years later we’ve learnt alot…We now go for off grey carpets and walls (to hide the dirt & scuff marks) and we go for a feature wall in the living room to make the property stand out. This costs very little extra and helps to sell your property to future tenants.

Click on the video, showing a typical refurb. 👇

Our aim is to create sustainable property wealth, for our landlords by using all these tips and tricks we’ve learnt over the years.

If you want us to do the same for you through managing your property – let me know.