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Updated almost 6 years ago,
House flipping as a beginner
Investment Info:
Single-family residence fix & flip investment in Delton.
Purchase price: $20,000
Cash invested: $20,000
Still fixing and working hard
7 days a week on this fixer upper
What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?
To build money to buy more properties on my own
How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?
I saw it empty found out who owned it and it ended up being an 80 year old woman that had renters in it for 30 years and never updated it or touched it and it was in shambles and picked knee high in trash when I first walked in it and i offered her 20,000 and she accepted
How did you finance this deal?
I have a hard money lender that takes 10% of profit and 10% of the materials put into the property
How did you add value to the deal?
I was the branz and the brain and the hard money lender was the money
What was the outcome?
Well in the middle of flipping It and working on it 7 days a week
Lessons learned? Challenges?
Totally gutting a house is very hard to do lots of tedious work pulling drywall nails!
Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?
Nope