We moved to Nebraska in September of 2000 to the only property we could find in the Hastings area. It was much larger than our home in Wichita, it was located on 3 acres and it was quiet. We loved the change immediately! The problem was that it was a rented property and the house was an old double wide trailer they had put on a basement in the 70′s. The owners removed the steel frame that the trailer sat on and put it on a foundation which never really worked for it, lol. My husband had to hang the floor joist as the huge staples that held them in were coming out!
We knew from the beginning this house was temporary, the owners were going to tear it down and put their dream home on the great piece of land. When the opportunity came up to buy a cute victorian in Nelson, Nebraska we jumped at it. It needed a lot of work but we had boys just going into their teens and they needed to learn all of those skills. In the mean time our landlord’s sold the property after we had been there temporarily for five years and we bought a beautiful property outside of Trumbull, Nebraska with fourteen acres.
In 2006 a gifted gentleman from Idaho proposed that we go into business with him and have rentals. He had a property in Harvard he had bought site unseen and we had the property in Nelson. Dave and Harold put the LLC together and we quickly bought three more houses, two in Nelson and one in Clay Center. We have been landlord’s now for about three years and we are evolving!
We found that driving an hour to rental property for any reason was to far to drive and was to far to deal properly with renting and renters. We found that we did not want to spend all of our extra time and weekends working on a house we were not going to live in. We are naturally evolving! We are adapting as we learn and have decided it is time to sell the houses that are an hour away!
The following are pictures of our first house in Nelson. It has a new roof, most of the lathe stripped out and is ready for someone to restore it. We are needing seed money for our new ventures so we are asking $2500. for this property.
Here is my Craigslist ad:
Handyman Special 4 bedroom 1 bath House
We bought this 4 bedroom 1 bath house several years ago when we thought our rental would be sold out from under us. We have roofed all but one small flatroof which will be done by time of sale.
This house features:
large corner lot
quiet neighborhood
old victorian trim on the outside
small car garage/shed
4 bedrooms
1 bathroom
large kitchen area
small basement
pine trim
nice wood floors through most of house
half story
Front and back porches
old doors and knobs
The house is structurally sound it just needs someone with the time to bring it back to it’s prime. Must sell!
Much of the house has been stripped of it’s plaster except where wallboard had already been done. The kitchen cabinets were taken out by previous owner.
Any questions, please write. We can also give you the address for more pics
5th and Maple at Maple (google map) (yahoo map)
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Tags: House for sale, investment property, Nelson Nebraska, rental property, retirement property, Victorian house
