How weather affects your business model in oregon or washington

[Neal Collins]

I wanted to give a call out to all those investors/flippers in the Pacific Northwest about weather and their business model. This will be my first winter up here and I'm trying to get an understanding of how the rain impacts the lineup, timeliness, and execution of your contractors. Is it just too wet for painters to get to the exterior of a place? It seems like the weather could add some considerable lag time, does anyone have any statistics on how much more time their flips take in the winter vs. the summer?

[Bryan R.]

Exterior work becomes difficult - roofs, landscaping, painting, and foundations/basement. Mainly painting and wet basements. I spend most of the winter being an amateur meteorologist and pissing my painters off by constantly scheduling and rescheduling them. Or standing around in wet basements wondering what to do.

You can still get work done and sell houses in the winter. Just a few more issues to deal with.