If you’ve been fixing and flipping houses for a little while now—or if you have any experience with remodeling a home at all—you probably already know that no job ever goes completely as planned. Sometimes small things get overlooked, the wrong materials get ordered, measurements are wrong, and all kinds of other things go awry, but if you’re just a … Read More
Habits Holding You Back From Better Real Estate Deals
When you think of some of the really great real estate deals that you’ve missed out on in your career so far, it’s tempting to blame bad luck. You weren’t lucky enough to be the first person to make an offer. It was just bad luck that you couldn’t get the cash together in time to make it happen. It’s just … 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
Do I Need a Business License to Begin Flipping Houses?
A lot of new house flippers tend to be confused about business licenses, but for good reason. The world of business can be overwhelming, especially when you aren’t sure what direction you are supposed to be going in. Consider this. Are you planning on flipping one or two houses a year while still holding on to your full-time job? Or … Read More
How Did Tarek and Christina Learn the Insider Real Estate Secrets That Your Course Teaches?
In 2008, when the housing market crashed, Christina and I decided we needed to make a change in our lifestyle. At the time we were working as licensed real estate agents, but that simply wasn’t cutting it for us anymore. With our real estate backgrounds, we decided to take the house flipping route. And while we didn’t have a lot … Read More
Will I Need to Quit My Job in Order to Begin Flipping Houses?
Investing in real estate when you have a full-time job may sound like quite the feat by itself, but top that off with family, friends and hobbies and you may be wondering how balancing everything is even possible without pulling your hair out. Tarek and I were full-time real estate agents before we stared flipping, which meant we didn’t have … Read More
What are Some of the Biggest Mistakes That People Make When They First Start Flipping Houses?
Believe it or not, Tarek and I started flipping houses with very little experience in investing. We were real estate agents for many years, so we thought we knew the real estate world — including investing — backward and forward. Little did we know, there was a lot we needed to learn to become successful flippers. Needless to say, we … Read More
(INFOGRAPHIC) The Path to Success in Real Estate Investing
As much as we would all like it to be, the path to real estate investing success isn’t quite a walk in the park. Real estate investing requires a great deal of dedication and patience. You will have to learn to overcome failure, and you will have to put in A LOT of time and hard work. Even though it … Read More
How to Pitch an Ugly Flip to an Investor
To me, finding funding for your flip houses is one of the most interesting challenges in the house flipping business. If you’re an entrepreneur in any other business, when you approach investors with a pitch, you’ll show them a product or service, and you’ll be able to tell them exactly what it’s going to look like and how it’s going to … Read More
