RenuHomes In The Press
Featuring our 927 Linwood Avenue Production
This story was covered by Terri Sullivan on on ABC 6 ON YOUR SIDE.
It aired on Wednesday, May 16th 2018.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX/WTTE) — When it comes to buying a house in Columbus, it comes down to price and location.
According to Columbus REALTORS, the average sale price of a home during the month of March in Central Ohio was $219,939. That price is 8.8% more than the same month in 2017.
Local realtors said in the $300,000 price range, the competition is fierce
“A lot of these places are being snapped up with multiple offers,” said Lacey Wheeler with Core Ohio Realty Advisors.
“And people are having to go over asking.”
Homes spent an average of 39 days on the market during the month of March, which is five days fewer than February.
Featuring our 1361 E Rich Street Production
and an interview of Michael Meuret, Founder of RenuHomes LLC
This story was covered by Steve Levine on ABC 6 ON YOUR SIDE.
It aired on Friday, September 25th 2015.
COLUMBUS (Steve Levine) – For more than 50 years, Josie Potts has had a front row view of her East Columbus street. And over the past few years, it’s become filled with vacant and boarded up homes.
“It’s depressing,” said Potts ” I try to keep my house up, and others are falling down.”
Josie and her neighbors on Rich Street are now getting help to fight back against the blight. Developer Michael Meuret recently bought a home across the street from Josie, and is working to renovate it and put it on the market.
“I was a little skeptical at first,” said Meuret. “But I started working and talking with people, and it turned it to be a great street.”
The house, now weeks away from going on the market, looks a lot different than it did just four months ago when the renovations began. And it’s not just the home that’s getting a second chance. Barry Bellinger, who’s been behind bars several times, is one of several ex-cons hired by Michael to turn the house around.
“When I left prison, I couldn’t go back,” said Bellinger. “This gives me more reason not to go back to the streets to do robbery.”
“Suddenly they have a new attitude,” said Meuret, “a future to look up to.”
A feeling Potts also has as she sits on her front porch and watches the rebirth of her troubled street. “When you find something that’s been dormant for a while, you find new life that gives new energy to the community,” she said.
Meuret says he has no plans to be done with the neighborhood when the rehab is finished; he already is looking at buying several other boarded up homes on the street.