Christian Osgood explains his approach to affordable rental apartments: white appliances instead of stainless steel, glue-down vinyl flooring installed right. The goal is clean, appealing units that keep rents low without cutting corners.
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Functional flipping. You want to get the most bang for your buck in entry-level apartments? You want to have nice appliances. You don't need stainless steel. It actually looks worse when it gets dinged up or dirty. You also want them all to match. This is a perfect example. You got a nice white microwave over a nice white stove with a nice white fridge. Are they fancy? Absolutely not. Do they look good? Are they absolutely serviceable? Absolutely. This is the type of stuff you want to do. You are not a slumlord. You're going to rent nice stuff to nice people. You're also trying to keep their rent down, which means we're trying to save money on appliances, be cost-effective. This flooring, it looks nice, but it's glue-down LVP. This is simple, inexpensive stuff done correctly. This is what a majority of our units look like. They look like buildings just like this. Simple, clean, nice, somewhere that people would like to live, and you are not blowing the budget on every single finish.