Here, people were excited about the neighborhood transforming."Īlong with the new show, Bynum and Thomas also plan to open a retail space to sell some of their own furniture lines and art. "Construction was looked at as a nuisance. "I love Denver and we always will (but) we were a nuisance there," said Bynum. When one house is done, they move to the next.Īnd the neighbors are why they stay in Detroit, both say. To keep costs down, they do most of the work themselves, though they use some contractors, and they also live in their houses while their flipping them. Eighteen houses will be featured on "Bargain Block." Since their start in 2017, they've flipped more than two dozens homes, focusing primarily on one neighborhood at Livernois and 8 Mile and another off M-39, or the Southfield Freeway. Thomas wasn't planning on moving to Detroit but Bynum "is very convincing," he said. For the art community and creatives, Detroit is a mecca." "I love art and I’ve always been into it. "It was always popping up as a cool art spot," said Bynum. It eventually led them to the production company that created "Bargain Block."īut when Bynum visited Detroit to look at houses for the first time in 2017, before any show was in the works, he'd never been to Detroit - let alone Michigan - but the city had been on his radar for awhile. They were flipping houses in the Denver area - a much more expensive market, both say - when a friend asked Bynum to help build a tiny house for another HGTV show. They have a more valuable home."īynum, who is originally from Texas, and Thomas, who is from South Dakota, met in graduate school in Colorado. It's helped the values of the people that live there. "We just sold our ninth house in that neighborhood and the price per square-foot is $126. "At the time, that was the highest in the neighborhood," said Bynum. The duo's first house they flipped in Detroit, which they bought for $12,000, wound up selling for $64,000 after renovations, about $74 a square foot. "We just love being able to offer houses that have a little bit of design for a price that a first-time buyer can actually buy," said Thomas.Īnd ultimately, Bynum said, it's about boosting the values of an entire block. Nearly all of Bynum and Thomas's renovated homes, each of which they give a fun, design-forward style, sell for under $100,000. "Rehab Addict" star Nicole Curtis, a Lake Orion native, has been filming in the city since 2013.īut "Bargain Block" is unique in that it focuses on starter homes, often for first-time homebuyers, and several homes on the same block. "Bargain Block" is the latest HGTV show to shine a spotlight on home renovation in Detroit. "I like to think of it as high design for as little money as possible." We're grabbing as many of them and giving them a design flair on a budget," said Bynum. "The big, unique quality of the show is we're taking forgotten and abandoned houses - a lot of them are on demo lists - and they're in areas that are really hard hit.
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