PEARL STREET - NOW AVAILABLE!

Welcome home!

Don’t pass up an opportunity to rent our highly sought after Haymount Homes Pearl Street Home! You can see full details on our Pearl Page. Lots to see and pictures galore!!

Easy living with lawn care included in the rent! This beautiful, fully remodeled and lovingly cared for home is located in the fabulous neighborhood of Haymount, in the highly sought after Terry Sanford School district. Fully remodeled with newly installed hardwood floors, fresh carpet upstairs, lovely paint, fully renovated kitchen from cabinets to appliances, this fresh and updated Haymount Charmer is neat as a pin. The kitchen boasts new appliances, stainless hardware, farmhouse custom subway tile backsplash, and dual windows. Enjoy a sunny breakfast in the adjoined dining room, or travel to the back patio through the lovely French doors. This darling home features three large bedrooms with an extra bonus room as well, a full bath with ceramic tile and stainless finishes. The home includes original vintage door handles, decorative fireplace to grace the front room, perfect for relaxing and entertaining. Fully remodeled bathroom, complete with ceramic tile, tub, and hand held spa fixture. Beautiful hardwood floors are featured throughout the first level of this home. There is an enclosed indoor washer and dryer area with storage as well. The fully fenced and landscaped back yard is ready for entertaining, complete with a back patio, walkway, and fire pit area. Mature Japanese Maples offer serenity and beauty to the area, and a place for your little ones or pets to play, while you relax from your rocking chair. Enjoy easy living with lawn care service included in your rent. You'll love the energy efficient new vinyl windows, skylights, brand new dual zone heating and air conditioning system ,and recent roof to keep your cool air in during the warm summer ahead. The attic space offers ample storage as well. Located in the heart of Haymount and voted the best neighborhood in Fayetteville. Only a few blocks from the wonderful General Lee Park, ice cream shops, schools, restaurants, theater and more, the convenient living and location of your new home cannot be beat. Just a 10 minute drive to Fort Bragg. With its classic charm, modern conveniences, top rated schools, and centrally located wonderful neighborhood, this charmer will be a wonderful place to call home. Won't last long so be sure to contact us as soon as possible for a showing. Lawncare service is included in the rent. Pet deposit required for approved pets; pets are by discretion. Application fee for credit check and background check.

PEARL STREET - NOW AVAILABLE!

Welcome home!

Don’t pass up an opportunity to rent our highly sought after Haymount Homes Pearl Street Home! You can see full details on our Pearl Page

Easy living with lawn care included in the rent! This beautiful, fully remodeled and lovingly cared for home is located in the fabulous neighborhood of Haymount, in the highly sought after Terry Sanford School district. Fully remodeled with newly installed hardwood floors, fresh carpet upstairs, lovely paint, fully renovated kitchen from cabinets to appliances, this fresh and updated Haymount Charmer is neat as a pin. The kitchen boasts new appliances, stainless hardware, farmhouse custom subway tile backsplash, and dual windows. Enjoy a sunny breakfast in the adjoined dining room, or travel to the back patio through the lovely French doors. This darling home features three large bedrooms with an extra bonus room as well, a full bath with ceramic tile and stainless finishes. The home includes original vintage door handles, decorative fireplace to grace the front room, perfect for relaxing and entertaining. Fully remodeled bathroom, complete with ceramic tile, tub, and hand held spa fixture. Beautiful hardwood floors are featured throughout the first level of this home. There is an enclosed indoor washer and dryer area with storage as well. The fully fenced and landscaped back yard is ready for entertaining, complete with a back patio, walkway, and fire pit area. Mature Japanese Maples offer serenity and beauty to the area, and a place for your little ones or pets to play, while you relax from your rocking chair. Enjoy easy living with lawn care service included in your rent. You'll love the energy efficient new vinyl windows, skylights, brand new dual zone heating and air conditioning system ,and recent roof to keep your cool air in during the warm summer ahead. The attic space offers ample storage as well. Located in the heart of Haymount and voted the best neighborhood in Fayetteville. Only a few blocks from the wonderful General Lee Park, ice cream shops, schools, restaurants, theater and more, the convenient living and location of your new home cannot be beat. Just a 10 minute drive to Fort Bragg. With its classic charm, modern conveniences, top rated schools, and centrally located wonderful neighborhood, this charmer will be a wonderful place to call home. Won't last long so be sure to contact us as soon as possible for a showing. Lawncare service is included in the rent. Pet deposit required for approved pets; pets are by discretion. Application fee for credit check and background check.

There is a potential for home to be rented furnished. Please contact us if you need this service and we can discuss this.

INTRODUCING THE NEWEST HAYMOUNT HOME - GREENLAND DRIVE

We are so excited to introduce the newest Haymount Home: Greenland Drive. Greenland has an amazing front porch for your sitting pleasure. Add a chair and some sweet tea, and you’ll be ready to relax! The porch was fully replaced and is now sturdy and beautiful richly stained wood. Venture into the back yard and you will have room to roam in the fully fenced space.

Greenland Drive is a 2 bedroom, 1 bath home and has been lovingly transformed. It boasts farmhouse styling throughout, including a shiplap dining room and kitchen!

Greenland Drive has been quite a project but a labor of love. This has been the largest project we have undertaken and nearly every surface of this amazing home has been transformed. I will post more before and after photos for you in upcoming blog posts. I know everyone loves to see how far the home has come. I can promise you that we saved this little gem from years of neglect.

The dining room at Greenland is the hub of the home. Centrally located and accessed from the living room, kitchen, and porch, it will be a gathering space for all your friends and family. The attached living room offers ample space to relax and the gorgeous fireplace is a statement piece. We were able to retain the original mantel and add amazing herringbone tile.

Greenland Drive features hardwood floors throughout the living, dining, and bedroom spaces. The kitchen, porch, and bathroom all have ceramic tile. The brand new kitchen features wood cabinetry from our friends in Southern Pines, soft close drawers, and farmhouse style accents. The amazing black pearl granite countertops offer a honed matte finish and accent the beautiful undermount infinity edge stainless sink. Open shelving finish off the details along with beautiful stainless appliances. Did we mention a gas range? Now your culinary dreams can become reality!

Let’s talk about the porch/mudroom. It’s now beautiful - but oh my, it was not. There is now a lovely enclosed laundry closet, a beautiful tile floor, and amazing sitting area. With easy access to the kitchen and dining room, it is now part of the living space of Greenland.

Greenland Drive features a beautiful fully tiled bathroom, complete with pedestal sink and storage closet. The vintage iron soaking tub has been restored and holds the water temperature for so much longer than a plastic tub insert!

There are two bedrooms in Greenland, both of equal size and both have a closet and two windows. Vintage hardware adornes the doors throughout the home and the doors are solid wood. The home features a new roof and windows for maximal efficiency as well.

Living is easy at Greenland and you will enjoy the vintage charm with updated design. We are so pleased with the outcome and believe it is now a home to love. We would be remiss without thanking the amazing guys that helped us with the project. If you need someone to bring your dreams so life, rest assured that they can help you achieve that goal! You can find their information in the “about us'“ tab on our home page! Special thanks especially to Geo Livingston, Darin Halford, Don Armstrong, Colin Sherrill, Justin Haire, Ricky Hair Jr., Dustin Brewington, Clint Suggs, Kevin Williamson and Ron Geddie on this project; y’all are lifesavers!

Greenland is already home to our newest client. She is a brave soul that reached out to us earlier this year and reserved Greenland as her new home - even in a state of mess and chaos. We were so thrilled that she had the confidence in us and were so delighted to find that she loved her new home as well.

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”

— Alice Walker

We hope you enjoyed this home tour. Forgive the imperfections in the photos - some day I will really know what I am doing! Don’t hesitate to leave your comments below - what did we get right? What did we miss? We love hearing from you!

Until next time, go on loving your home!

-Casey

INTRODUCING GLENVILLE AVE - OUR NEWEST HAYMOUNT HOME

We are delighted to announce the completion (or near completion anyway) of the newest Haymount Home: Glenville Ave.  This 1941 beauty features 2 bedrooms and 1 one bathroom and is on a wonderful street in the heart of Haymount.

This project was a shotgun renovation, featuring top to bottom renovations throughout, and it was completed in less than 8 weeks.  We discovered this home and realized that it needed to be brought back to its full potential and could not wait to get moving on making it shine!

Please enjoy this home tour.  Forgive the fact that everything was not perfectly cleaned up (floors still need cleaning and there are a few little things missing like the smoke detectors that are not in and a few missing outlet covers :)  They will be finalized this week.  There is also a shed that is still under construction and will be renovated as well.  Our focus was on the house for now.  Don't worry - over the next few weeks we will be featuring a bunch of blog posts with before and after photos for your enjoyment. 

Normally we stage all our homes to highlight their beautiful potential, but we were not able to do that for Glenville....because we already have clients moving in!  They contacted us prior to finishing the renovations and fell in love with Glenville.  We could not turn them away and they promised to decorate it beautifully and let us come back for pictures; we are excited to see how they make it their home!

We welcome your feedback on Glenville.  Please drop us a line and let us know your thoughts.  What did we get right? What did we miss? Though Glenville was rented before it even hit the market, there is good news in store: we start our next project at the end of the month, so stay tuned!

“House + Love = HOME”

Hope you enjoyed our tour!  Drop me a line and let me know what you think!  Have a great week!

- Casey and Carl

HAYMOUNT HOMES - WESTMONT DRIVE - AVAILABLE FOR RENT

Happy May!  We are excited to announce the availability of our highly sought after Westmont Drive Property.  Our current clients have received promotions and are off to training (congratulations to you guys!) and they regret having to leave Haymount.  We are going to miss them too, but wish them well on their new adventure.

As a result, this amazing three bedroom, two bathroom home will be available in July.  Everything is fully renovated and ready for your family to enjoy.  Contact us today to schedule a viewing.  You can call or text Casey at 910-818-7045 or email us at casey@haymounthomesllc.com.

There has been fabulous attention to detail placed into each corner of this home. To allow you to enjoy the comfort, full professional lawn care is included in the rent! The kitchen boasts custom cabinetry and back splash with under cabinet lighting, stainless appliances, gas range and quality fixtures.

Enjoy easy entertaining with the gracious kitchen island, seating up to five people at once! Enjoy a sunny breakfast in the eat-in kitchen while overlooking your backyard oasis from your window view and lovely french door. This darling home features three large bedrooms, all with ceiling fans, two full baths with custom tile and a nod to the home's historic charm with the original glazed bathtub.

The home's original wood burning fireplace graces the front room, perfect for relaxing and entertaining. Beautiful refinished hardwood floors are featured throughout the entire home, and the windows are outfitted with decorative curtain rods. The full attic offers ample storage and a cooling fan to enjoy the summer breeze.

The fully fenced back yard is ready for entertaining, complete with a back porch and patio. Beautiful gardens and lush gardens offer a place for your little ones or pets to play, while you relax from your rocking chair. Enjoy easy and secure living with lawn care service included in your rent and an alarm system available. 

Located in the heart of Haymount and voted the best neighborhood in Fayetteville. Only a few blocks from the wonderful General Lee Park, ice cream shops, schools, restaurants, theater and more, the convenient living and location of your new home cannot be beat.

With its classic charm, modern conveniences, top rated schools, and centrally located wonderful neighborhood, this house will be a wonderful place to call home. Longer lease length available for those who wish to embrace southern living and stay awhile!! :)

Our homes rarely hit the market and when they do, they don't last long.  Don't pass up this opportunity to make Haymount your home.  You'll be glad you did.  Contact us today!

Quick evaluation of a potential rental property investment

One common question: What am I looking for when I tour a potential investment home? 

Good question.  There are lots of things to look at when you consider a purchase of a rental home, but let me give you my quick list that I have created for a fast evaluation of a property for purchase.

I tend to focus on the "big guns" first. I look at high dollar items that will quickly add a lot of cost to the transaction.  Here are the things I typically inspect:

ROOF

• How old does it appear? Most roofs last 15-30 years depending on the shingles
• What type of shingles are there? 15 year flat shingles? 20 year? 30 year architectural shingles?  The more expensive the shingle, the longer it usually lasts.
• Do the shingles appear well intact? Any dents? Any ruffles? How is the flashing?
• Roof angles and pitch - the simpler it is, the cheaper it is to redo.

WINDOWS

• Have they been replaced with vinyl?  On historic homes, old windows can be beautiful if in good condition. Equally, they can be a disaster if they are spent.  Drafty, high in cost to maintain, dysfunctional and difficult to use.  They are also fairly expensive to replace.
• How many windows? This can add up quick if there are a lot
• How big are the windows? You guessed it, the bigger they are, the more they cost to replace.

HVAC SYSTEM

• How old is it? Look for a date on the machine.  That date is usually the date it was made, not installed, but it gives you an idea.
• Older homes often have additions. Are they ducted for central heating and air, or are there window and electric heating units?  It costs money to re-duct systems, and often, there are difficulties with tight spaces to do so.
• Does it work? Check the thermostat and see what the response is.

FOUNDATION

• Do a quick round about look.  Do you see crumbling?  Shifting in the brick or blocks? Do you see "step cracks"?  These are cracks that follow the bring stacking line and zig zag up the brick.  These can be signs of serious issues.  Though anything can be repaired, the question becomes what the cost will be?

KITCHEN & BATH(S)

• Surfaces - what countertops are there and what are their condition?
• Appliances - condition, age, functionality, style?
• Shower and Toilet - condition, style, and function (make sure the water is on at the house before testing that)
• These are things that quickly add up to high spending if they are dated.

FLOORS

• Are there hardwoods?  Big bonus if there are. Hardwoods are expensive, but their condition matters too.
• Ceramic tile?  If well done, this material can outlast a lot of other floorings, but can also become dated fast.
• Are they level?  In older homes, you can expect some settling of the floors and this is forgiven.  However, some settling does not equate floors that are all over the map.  Usually, if you see very uneven floors in a home, there is a chance that the foundation is compromised or there has been a water incident in the home and there could be rotted joists beneath the floor. Both are very costly to deal with.

I hope that helps give you some insight in how to quickly sum up a property in terms of financial risk to invest.  Clearly, this is a minor overview, but it is my "go to" list to quickly tally what a house might take to make it a home for someone special.

Seize the day and we'll talk soon!

-Casey