It's been the promise of many a TV producer. You can become financially independent by following their advice to fix & flip. Unfortunately, they leave out a lot of details. It takes a team to fix & flip properly, and none of these TV shows will explain how this works!
Flipping real estate properly
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It takes more than a few quick lessons on TV to learn about flipping real estate properly. Do it the way the TV shows tell you, and you'll likely lose a lot of money because of what they leave out.
It's unfortunate because you really can make a lot of money flipping real estate. To fix & flip, you'll need to have a good team behind you. That's what we teach in our real estate investing training courses.
If you have been an avid watcher of the home improvement cable channels, you are undoubtedly familiar with the shows that all but tell you to get out and flip that house! Of course, while you might be busy trying to flip this house, the shows neglect to give you a basic primer on flipping real estate. This leaves you wide open to losing your earning potential and possibly losing money on the deals you make trying to fix & flip !
Pitfalls to flipping properties
Yet there are more pitfalls to flipping properties than you might imagine. First and foremost, if you fail to catch the property at its lowest while the market is on a gradual upswing, you will find that flipping property is not as lucrative as it could be. Secondly, if you are flipping real estate that fell behind schedule while it was being remodeled, you run into the risk of not only catching the tail end of the house flipping boom in any particular neighborhood, but furthermore being forced to assimilate negative cash flow for longer than you bargained for.
Whenever you are out to flip a house, you're not going to make any money unless you've got a really good team of contractors. This is a make or break situation for most deals. People who want to do the work themselves may get pleasure out of the work, but they end up working for pennies an hour. In any home flipping endeavor in which you want to make money, the contractor should take no more than a couple of months.
Don't waste your time with flipping homes if you're not going to do your upfront homework - and your continuted review of your contractors. So much can go wrong that you're in for a hard time if you don't watch out. Absent contractors, stalled supply shipments, inclement weather, and of course labor disputes are the bane of existence for anyone engaged in the business of real estate investing, flipping real estate and also renting.
Think before you flip - real estate is more complicated than you anticipate! Do not simply look at the obvious pitfalls - those that are the ones most commonly rumored to go wrong - but instead focus on the little problems that the "flip that house" shows on TV do not alert you to: the home inspector who will not let you flip this house until you undo years worth of do-it-yourself home improvements that are not up to code. Similarly, your dream of flipping homes will quickly crumble if the property is located in an area that is known for its flood or fire dangers.
Finding buyers for flipping houses
Finding buyers becomes harder in the aftermath of events that garner a lot of news coverage, and while the supply of real estate for flipping houses is plentiful in some such areas, the possibilities of realistically flipping properties in a short period of time are very limited.
Of course, when flipping homes you must know the taxable value of the home. Far too often those engaged in flipping properties do not know how much the home sold for the last time it was on the market, and suddenly home flipping turns into a study of becoming upside down in an otherwise nice home. You should learn how to flip a house properly. Build a team. Better yet, build a business in which you use a team to do most of the work for you. It's easier in the long run, and far more profitable.
Don't waste your time and money, especially in today's tougher market. Start building your real estate investing business today and learn how to fix & flip from people who do it for a living.
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