When you watch our show, you might get a little bit of a glimpse of how we find properties, but that’s about it. While this part of the house flipping business isn’t very TV-friendly, it’s definitely important to the process. Christina and I spend a lot of time researching leads on flip houses, and that means talking with all types … Read More
How to Get Involved with Your Community to Improve Your Business
When people ask me what the best thing about house flipping is, I sometimes have a hard time answering. It’s not that I can’t think of anything—it’s that there’s so much to love about this business. From spending more time with the kids to feeling like we accomplish something with our work, I really feel like I could not have … Read More
3 Ways Successful Real Estate Investors Think Differently
If you’re like a lot of the new real estate investors that Christina and I have coached over the past few years, then you’ve probably already done your research and you know on some level what it takes to start making money flipping houses. But if you’re being honest with yourself, you just aren’t sure if you want to take … Read More
Student Success Stories: Tim and Melody
We love featuring our talented students on the blog, and this month we are sharing Tim and Melody’s story. Here’s the Texas couple’s amazing story and why they decided to become real estate investors. WHY DID YOU START REAL ESTATE INVESTING? I can’t say that our original plan was to be real estate investors. We did know that we were … Read More
4 Reasons Millennials Should Love the Real Estate Investing Business
If you’re in your 20s or early 30s, you might think that real estate investing is something that older people do when they’ve saved up some extra cash and they want to keep making money after retirement. That might be true for some people, but there’s nothing holding you back from getting started in the real estate investing business now. … Read More
What Things Should I Keep in Mind When Searching for a Contractor?
There is a major pitfall when it comes to flipping properties that most people don’t talk about enough. The problem of properly qualifying and staying on top of contractors. This is a common problem that all who wish to venture into the flipping jungle need to be aware of and not be lazy about. I had a student who was … Read More
The Difficulties of Flipping Houses: How Much Work It Takes
Fixing and flipping real estate correctly for a large profit is work. Even knowledgeable and experienced investors may have a “gotcha” situation they did not expect or see coming. This is not a common occurrence once you have completed a couple of successful fix and flips. Most investors cause their own troubles when rehabbing a property. Their mistakes can be … Read More
The Components to a Successful Real Estate Transaction
As I have analyzed each student who has had a pay day, here are the standards they have in common. Successful students/new investors do the following: 1. Follow the formulas and steps recommend by the coaching team. a. The student/new investor are coachable. b. They follow the direction of the coaching team and not the commission driven real estate agents … Read More
Flipping Houses Successfully Takes Work, but It’s Not Rocket Science
Every week I have the pleasure of hearing from our students who have had a profitable pay day. This is one of the highlights of my week. The students share the good, the bad and the ugly of their transactions and the solutions they implemented to solve the problem they created in the process. When a student follows the direction of … Read More
Student Success Stories: Brian and Pauline
This month’s Student Success Story features Brian and Pauline from Texas. Here’s the inspiring story from Brian of how his life was completely transformed because of real estate investing! BRIAN AND PAULINE’S SUCCESS STORY I started investing in real estate because I saw a Carlton Sheets infomercial when I was 19 years old. I knew immediately that was what I wanted … Read More
