Everybody likes a good "after" photo.

My last post was of the little house at 900 N Church that we were working on on our street. This was such a fun house to do! A lot of work, but also an exciting level of work that produced noticeable change in our neighborhood.

When we finished this project, I was so excited to get it online. We had received so much praise and compliments for our work on this house and on our street in general that I couldn't wait to hear everyone's positive feedback. A cool downtown house, fully remodeled from the dump that it was for under $250k- this is going to be fun!

Then we listed it.
Although we don't have Facebook, the photo of our listing ended up making its way to Facebook and that is when the fun really began. Although there were a lot of positive comments from people in the community, investors, real estate professionals and downtown dwellers alike, there was also a flood of negativity. (Which reminded me why I don't "Facebook" anymore) People were calling us names (even though they didn't know who "we" were), people were saying hateful things about the house and that it "looked better before". Literally over 100 comments. I'm not going to sugar coat it- it really hurt my feelings. It made me question what we are doing and the mission we are trying to accomplish downtown. But I didn't stay there, in that negativity. Instead, I decided to read the comments from the people who had positive things to say- the people who were educated in the real estate industry and had true appreciation for the hard work and sacrifice that we make to accomplish this mission. Of course we make money doing this, but we could make money doing a million other things. This is what we love. We love our downtown and we love to see these homes revived. 

Shortly after I got over myself and decided to forget about all the sassy comments, we got a cash offer on this house from some folks who loved it and were extremely complimentary of the work. I look at these pictures today, compared to the "before" pictures from my previous post and I just laugh at the nay-sayers. 

Without further ado, here are the after shots.

<Soon I will have photos of another one we just finished and some news about a new adventure!>

Cheers, friends!