So I have good news! I rented the last apartment at the La Pasada building today! So for now we are all rented! We do have another apartment that needs rehab, but it is no where near being ready. If our rehab on 1st street is approved we would rather move ahead with that than work on #4. But as far as things go this is the reality.
So Jenny you asked for it, Ill give you the whole before and after!
So this is the apartment that I rented today, but four years ago. These first pictures were taken to document why we werent giving the full refund on the deposit.
Well start off with the progression of the kitchen. This was the almost original stove.
A view of the kitchen (and filthy dirty floor)
I believe that I took this picture to show Fran (who could not climb stairs at the time), how the stove and refrigerator was patched with bubble gum. Her father had a habit of doing everything the quick fix way. We took over the building from him when he came down with dementia and couldnt remember where he was driving.
This is a view into the dining area of the kitchen.
The dishwasher when we took over managing
Here is the kitchen a few months later, notice the new stove and dishwasher (which we bought with our Amex miles that we turned into Home Depot Gift Cards).
We also installed this Microwave/Vent fan over the stove. Amex points=Home Depot card
The apartment remained rented from October 2009 until around March of this year. By this time we had a great contractor and enough capital to really fix the place up. Here is the kitchen as I rented it today.
And here is the dining area in the kitchen.
OK back to 2009, here are the living room and the bedrooms. I only have a couple pictures before we fixed the place up in 2009. Notice the carpeting in the second bedroom.
This is the living room, pre remodel.
Again with our HD gift cards, we used Home Depot carpet service to recarpet the place. This is the living room with new carpet. We also painted the place, but we still didnt have a good painter yet. He did a lousy job.
Here is a picture of the bedroom post carpeting.
Now the real reveal, this is the apartment that I rented today. The Living Room.
The first bedroom.
The second bedroom
This is, I think my favorite upgrade. Here is the original pink bathroom from the 1950s.
We replaced the linoleum in the bathroom (again with HD cards).
Here is the bathroom that I rented today.
There are some dishes I've loved more than others but I've never had anything I hated...there is plenty of food over the course of dinner so you won't starve. 
Well I meant that ALTHOUGH it's fine dining at V&As - a la I know it is - I really need to start proof reading my rambling. Or maybe I'm not even following you at all. Could be. 
I LIVE with a vacuum in hand the AFTER floor is exactly what I want You did a beautiful job !
You hired well and the rehab looks so great, no wonder everything rented so quickly. I love pics so thank you posting them. I like to see what we're all talking about. 
