By Christina El Moussa Tarek and I sometimes go back and forth about budgeting on our flip houses. I’ve teased him more than a few times about how low he tends to estimate rehabs, and he gets after me about how much money I like to spend on kitchens. In the end, we come to…
By Christina El Moussa If you’ve been watching this season of Flip or Flop, then you know that Tarek’s back has been really killing him lately. Health problems and other unforeseen issues can pop up at the worst possible times, but as a house flipping team, we work together, trading off responsibilities and tasks, to…
By Christina El Moussa A lot of new flippers get really overwhelmed when they think about everything they’ll have to take care of to flip a house. They worry about finding the money to flip a house, finding a good deal, hiring contractors, what to do themselves, permitted construction, which renovations really need to be done…
By Tarek El Moussa Back in 2008, when the housing market was in the dumps and people were being foreclosed on left and right, it was easy to find fix and flip houses. In the years after that, as the economy started to recover, selling those foreclosure homes got easier and more profitable, too. With…
By Christina El Moussa When we talk about flipping mistakes, we usually talk about things like paying too much for a house or not upgrading the kitchen to buyers’ standards…not getting your car stolen. When you flip houses, you’re going to be working in a range of neighborhoods, and some of them might not be…
