Category Archives: Flip it Good!

What a journey it’s been, from finding that diamond in the rough, through the entire process of tying it up, finding the money, hiring (and firing) the talent to remodel it, many, many hours of work ourselves including a couple … Continue reading →

Flipping a house isn’t something you do for fun. You do it to create work for yourself, to put your money to work, to make a contribution to a neighborhood and/or a local economy. Above all, you (hope to) do it … Continue reading →

In the last post, I wrote this about having buyers under contract before you finish the project: “…do NOT give up control of your project, its design, its finishes, its colors, etc. Our decision to do so, and I’m sure … Continue reading →

By committing to sell the flip to my clients before we even closed on the purchase ourselves — which I describe in Part 6 of this series — two opposing forces were instantly created: 1) We could relax, knowing that … Continue reading →

Plenty of non-investor types have all sorts of heartburn — especially in this current economic climate — over people who buy houses for X, fix them up or maybe just mow the lawn and pressure-wash the cobwebs, then sell for X … Continue reading →

The Ninja-demo warriors lasted one more day before we fired them in a blaze of glory. The final straw was when we tried pulling them off all demo and gave them the task of prepping and texturing the one bedroom … Continue reading →

Since Tyler and I both work full-time already, when it came to actually doing the remodeling work on our newly acquired fixer-upper, we had a fool-proof plan to hire an army of conscientious, tooled-up, hungry-enough-to-work-for-pennies-on-the-dollar tradespeople to complete ALLLL the work on … Continue reading →

In Part 2, I promised that in this post I’d explain how we almost didn’t — then creatively did — get financing for such a total fixer-upper. This part of the deal almost de-railed it for us before we ever got started, … Continue reading →

To properly kick off this series of “Lessons Learned While Flipping a Bellingham House” posts, you’ll need a bit of backstory as to how Tyler and I ever ended up with this project. Tyler and I share an office at RE/MAX. … Continue reading →

We did it. Well… we’re not quite ALLLLL the way done — we’ve still got one or two tiny items on the punch list. But my buddy Tyler and I’s recent project to flip a Bellingham home is 99.9% complete. … Continue reading →