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All Forum Posts by: Dennis B.

Dennis B. has started 1 posts and replied 6 times.

Post: New member in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Dennis B.Posted
  • Flipper
  • Southampton, PA
  • Posts 6
  • Votes 7

@Carmen Nasuti thanks looking forward to discussing!

Post: New member in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Dennis B.Posted
  • Flipper
  • Southampton, PA
  • Posts 6
  • Votes 7

Thanks again everyone for the warm welcome!

@Account Closed thanks! would love to connect, DM sent.

Post: Philly Fishtown first fix and flip

Dennis B.Posted
  • Flipper
  • Southampton, PA
  • Posts 6
  • Votes 7

Hi @Damon Lilly That's awesome that you're getting into the flipping game. My strategy is actually reverse from yours. We are doing flips now to raise capital for rental properties in the future. I do flips in Point Breeze, and to be honest, for that ARV, I personally wouldn't go above $150k. Cost overruns happen. Because it is your first flip, try to run worst-case scenario numbers: 12 months length of the loan: ~$24,000 cost; add a 20% contingency cost overrun to the $65k rehab estimate: ~$78,000 cost. what if the market drops ~10% by the time you list for sale: ARV: ~$346,000.

346,000 arv

-219,000 acquisition

-24,000 financing

-78,000 rehab

= 25,000 left over (from this amount, subtract settlement costs on the buy & sell side, taxes, LLC registration, insurance, etc)

Here's a great tool to get a baseline for a margin of safety for rehabbing: https://www.biggerpockets.com/house-flip-estimation-calculator

Post: New member in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Dennis B.Posted
  • Flipper
  • Southampton, PA
  • Posts 6
  • Votes 7

@Jonna Weber thank you!

@Steve Babiak thank you for the tip, looking into it!

Post: New member in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Dennis B.Posted
  • Flipper
  • Southampton, PA
  • Posts 6
  • Votes 7

Hi BP community! I have been listening to the BP podcast for a while, and finally decided to get active here on the forums. Here's a bit about myself:

I was born in Ukraine. My family immigrated to the US (Philly, PA area) when I was 7 years old. I never had a conventional job; at age 16, I bought a small landscaping business and grew it to provide a decent income. Since I was a teenager, I had been interested in real estate investing, and got my real estate license while in high school. While in high school, I decided to focus on the landscaping business instead of real estate. Fast forward 10 years: I sold my landscaping business because I realized it was not my passion. Right away, we started rehabbing/flipping houses with a friend. I have a beautiful wife and 11-month-old twin boys. We live in a suburb of NE Philly.

I have 5 deals this year so far (4 out of 5 are residential rehabs; they are described in my profile info). I am looking for lending partners and equity investors for future/prospective residential rehab acquisitions in the Philadelphia area.

My goal long term is to build a large "passive" rental portfolio. Our strategy right now is short-term rehab flips, because rentals are so overpriced in our market. When the opportunity comes and multi-family rentals sell for a discount to today's prices, we want to be positioned to acquire as many as we can.

It's been a pleasure listening to podcasts, reading through the forums.

Anyone here have any personal-favorite forum posts on the subject of obtaining financing for flips? We want to scale our flipping operation further, we keep getting great new leads, and don't want to pass them up. Of course I will be binge-reading on this topic through the forums in the next couple days, but just wanted to ask if someone already has some great links/pointers. Thanks!

Post: Looking for Philadelphia partners that can bring me rehab deals

Dennis B.Posted
  • Flipper
  • Southampton, PA
  • Posts 6
  • Votes 7

Hi @Matt Donker we are in Philly. We do rehabs, but wholesale out deals that we just don't have time to do ourselves. PM me if you're interested.