All Forum Posts by: Dana Furby

I’m Dana and am excited to start doing some small scale flips this year. I was a flipper in 2001 and did really well until I fell in love with this big country property on a river up north. I was envious of a friends big gorgeous fixers in Arkansas, and I reacted by over-renovating, holding on too long, getting over-leveraged and then 2008 happened and…well enough said. It left me spooked about the risks and also kind of killed my confidence. But I said at the time that one day I’ll be in a position to take advantage of dropping prices, and I think this is the time. I think I’ll start in Sacramento since I know that market pretty well. Ready to soak up some good lessons from y’all and not repeat my past mistakes. 

The horror stories about California are really overblown. I’ve lived here most of my life and while it’s too expensive for sure, that’s is the case for a reason: it’s beautiful and you have every natural element (mountains, desert, beach, forest) within a couple hours drive. San Francisco is a major city with some issues and stupid policies, but that comes and goes in cycles all the time. California is always a good time if you don’t get all bent out of shape about politics. Same with most states. People’s politics are the least interesting thing about them everywhere in my opinion.