flipping houses for a living

The majority of people that want to get started in flipping houses have to do so while working a job and taking care of their existing obligations. In a perfect world we could all just decide to do something not have to worry about loose ends or making sure that we can feed ourselves and [...]

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Best flipping houses book

Find out what happened I’ve finally put together the numbers for the deals that we flipped just after the 34 weeks of posts showing everything we were doing… So what made me finally make the numbers public? This is awesome… I’ve been meaning to put together all of those 34 weeks of posts into a [...]

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how to wholesale bank-owned properties

In my last post, I explained how to wholesale a house. That post covered what wholesaling is and how to assign contracts and double-close. That post handled wholesaling as it pertained to working with motivated sellers (buying from private owners, not banks or listed properties). Today’s post is going to cover wholesaling houses that are [...]

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how to wholesale a house

It seems that most people that want to start flipping houses just come into it with the intention of buying, fixing and selling. We tend to focus on the information we are looking for and are not as receptive to things we aren’t looking for. With this being the case, we may not really give [...]

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using Pinterest for rehabbing ideas for your house flips

Hi everyone, Melissa here. I figured since Danny has been working so hard I would step in and give him a break from posting this week . I’m sure by now everyone and their brother has heard of Pinterest. I will be the first to admit that I have spent more than my fair share [...]

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Characteristics of successful house flippers and real estate investors

Do you have these characteristics? Over time, I’ve come to realize that there seem to be certain characteristics that the successful flippers have that others don’t seem to have and I feel it is why they are struggling with house flipping. This led me to want to put some thought into these characterstics and list [...]

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From My House Flipping Notes

The other day I found a file on my computer that I hadn’t opened in a while. The name of the file is ‘REI Notes’ and it’s where I stashed pieces of information that I found worth remembering over the last 10 or so years. After looking through it a little, I realized that there [...]

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Progress of our flips rehabs

What were we thinking? Flip Rehabs Then and Now Melissa and I were looking at pictures of some of the rehabs we had done in the past. Woah. Some of those things were down right terrible! I don’t know what we were thinking. Some of them were even done after we had already had several [...]

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Should investors get real estate licenses?

There are a lot of people that are considering getting started flipping houses that visit the site. One of the questions that comes up often is whether or not they should get their real estate license. I’ve always just said that it wasn’t necessary but didn’t go into much detail as to why it wasn’t [...]

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This is a guest post by my good friend, Mike LaCava from HouseFlippingSchool.com. In today’s real estate market, there exist countless strategies for flipping houses for profit. This is especially true when it comes to the rehab part of house flipping. Some people who flip houses prefer to rehab on their own, some like to [...]

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