- Buying + Selling, Flipping Houses, Make Money From Your House, Rent A Room As A Vacation Rental, Rent a Room Year Round, Renting, Renting As A Vacation Rental
How To: Prep Your House for Perfect Pictures
Everyone knows the rental homes with the best photos get the most clicks, resulting in the most rentals. But how do you actually get those amazing photos? Read below for a comprehensive guide on everything you need to do BEFORE you hire that professional photographer (or take the photos yourself, iPhones are getting better and better for this). First things first, consider the timing + seasons. Ideally, you will be able to prepare way in advance. Skimming this list about 10 months before your idea rental season starts will give you an idea of what to do when. The best photos are usually taken in spring + summer when the plants…
- Decor + Furniture, Finding Your Style, House Tours, Lighting + Small Pieces, Shopping + Sourcing, Space Tours, Trends
Tour the Farmhouse
Our new farmhouse is our pride and joy! We renovated the entire house last spring just in time for the summer season. And we get to share it each summer with travelers who are looking for somewhere to stay in Montauk. I love hearing our guests’ impressions of our home and the little details we focused on when pulling it all together. One of the ways we afford to have a home in Montauk is by renting it out in the summer. I grew up in this town, but since then, prices have skyrocketed. And the real estate market didn’t really experience the recession as strongly here as the rest…
- Appliances, Awesome Upgrades, Buying + Selling, Cabinets + Pantries, Design, Designing for Small Spaces, Drawing + Planning, Flipping Houses, How Big is That?, IKEA Kitchens, Kitchens, Living In a Flip, Make Money From Your House, Renovations, Sinks + Fixtures, Smart Design
Trailer Kitchen Remodel
We remodeled the whole trailer, but this post focuses on the kitchen. Learn how we approached the task, important measurements & appliance sizes, what decisions we made along the way + why. See what tricks we used to maximize storage in our small space and create an open and inviting area that didn’t feel too crowded. Discover what effected our budget, and whether we felt that to be a good use of our money. Includes details about different features we thought were important to include in a high end kitchen and photos of the entire process, as well as information about which products we ultimately chose and where we bought…
