All Forum Posts by: Tyler Evans

sorry about that. Each time I tried the app would shut down, my apologies! 

I know easier said than done...but everything is fixable!! It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted on here...and you know life is crazy! Long story short, bought and sold condos in oak grove. Flipped another in Lee’s Summit. Got married, bought and sold a salon, quit my job and started a Contracting Company with my wife. Today we’re sitting in a heated house taking shelter from the wind. We have worked from 8A.M to roughly midnight for the past two months straight. Living off of el Monterey burritos and hot dogs, we even canceled our honeymoon. Why you ask...?!! Bought a house cash and have been completely remodeling from the studs in. This has been our dream for the past four years and as we start this journey together I realized there are so many unforeseen battles that will rage on and beat you down on flips, especially when you tackle vacant homes and decide to bring them back to life! We’ve done everything from rim joist, main water lines, all new plumbing. We moved the dangerous non code complaint electric mast and panel. We’ve ran into snake infestations, termites, mold, and even breakins by the locals. The barn caught fire, we had no plumbing for three months, the list goes on and on. Without telling the entire story we are currently working out issues with our buyers. Starting on the siding and roofing and all the finishing touches, we can’t wait to be done and start our next house which is vacant and demo begins in 3 weeks (follow to see updates) What I’m getting at is, the flipping world is not for the weak, you will get beat down, you will fail but in the end once you finally achieve your goals and jump those hurdles you’ll be sitting in a heating house looking at your accomplishments and realize everything you’ve worked so hard for this past few months is now a reality and it’s time to enjoy it! While there are so many successes stories and get rich quick flipping seminars my wife and I just want to share our stories and hope to be an inspiration to other flippers and real estate investors. We gotta stick together, help each other out in this crazy career choice! Good luck to you all and I’d love to hear some of your guys experiences as well!

I know easier said than done...but everything is fixable!! It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted on here...and you know life is crazy! Long story short, bought and sold condos in oak grove. Flipped another in Lee’s Summit. Got married, bought and sold a salon, quit my job and started a Contracting Company with my wife. Today we’re sitting in a heated house taking shelter from the wind. We have worked from 8A.M to roughly midnight for the past two months straight. Living off of el Monterey burritos and hot dogs, we even canceled our honeymoon. Why you ask...?!! Bought a house cash and have been completely remodeling from the studs in. This has been our dream for the past four years and as we start this journey together I realized there are so many unforeseen battles that will rage on and beat you down on flips, especially when you tackle vacant homes and decide to bring them back to life! We’ve done everything from rim joist, main water lines, all new plumbing. We moved the dangerous non code complaint electric mast and panel. We’ve ran into snake infestations, termites, mold, and even breakins by the locals. The barn caught fire, we had no plumbing for three months, the list goes on and on. Without telling the entire story we are currently working out issues with our buyers. Starting on the siding and roofing and all the finishing touches, we can’t wait to be done and start our next house which is vacant and demo begins in 3 weeks (follow to see updates) What I’m getting at is, the flipping world is not for the weak, you will get beat down, you will fail but in the end once you finally achieve your goals and jump those hurdles you’ll be sitting in a heating house looking at your accomplishments and realize everything you’ve worked so hard for this past few months is now a reality and it’s time to enjoy it! While there are so many successes stories and get rich quick flipping seminars my wife and I just want to share our stories and hope to be an inspiration to other flippers and real estate investors. We gotta stick together, help each other out in this crazy career choice! Good luck to you all and I’d love to hear some of your guys experiences as well!

I know easier said than done...but everything is fixable!! It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted on here...and you know life is crazy! Long story short, bought and sold condos in oak grove. Flipped another in Lee’s Summit. Got married, bought and sold a salon, quit my job and started a Contracting Company with my wife. Today we’re sitting in a heated house taking shelter from the wind. We have worked from 8A.M to roughly midnight for the past two months straight. Living off of el Monterey burritos and hot dogs, we even canceled our honeymoon. Why you ask...?!! Bought a house cash and have been completely remodeling from the studs in. This has been our dream for the past four years and as we start this journey together I realized there are so many unforeseen battles that will rage on and beat you down on flips, especially when you tackle vacant homes and decide to bring them back to life! We’ve done everything from rim joist, main water lines, all new plumbing. We moved the dangerous non code complaint electric mast and panel. We’ve ran into snake infestations, termites, mold, and even breakins by the locals. The barn caught fire, we had no plumbing for three months, the list goes on and on. Without telling the entire story we are currently working out issues with our buyers. Starting on the siding and roofing and all the finishing touches, we can’t wait to be done and start our next house which is vacant and demo begins in 3 weeks (follow to see updates) What I’m getting at is, the flipping world is not for the weak, you will get beat down, you will fail but in the end once you finally achieve your goals and jump those hurdles you’ll be sitting in a heating house looking at your accomplishments and realize everything you’ve worked so hard for this past few months is now a reality and it’s time to enjoy it! While there are so many successes stories and get rich quick flipping seminars my wife and I just want to share our stories and hope to be an inspiration to other flippers and real estate investors. We gotta stick together, help each other out in this crazy career choice! Good luck to you all and I’d love to hear some of your guys experiences as well!

It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted on here...and you know life is crazy! Long story short, bought and sold condos in oak grove. Flipped another in Lee’s Summit. Got married, bought and sold a salon, quit my job and started a Contracting Company with my wife. Today we’re sitting in a heated house taking shelter from the wind. We have worked from 8A.M to roughly midnight for the past two months straight. Living off of el Monterey burritos and hot dogs, we even canceled our honeymoon. Why you ask...?!! Bought a house cash and have been completely remodeling from the studs in. This has been our dream for the past four years and as we start this journey together I realized there are so many unforeseen battles that will rage on and beat you down on flips, especially when you tackle vacant homes and decide to bring them back to life! We’ve done everything from rim joist, main water lines, all new plumbing. We moved the dangerous non code complaint electric mast and panel. We’ve ran into snake infestations, termites, mold, and even breakins by the locals. The barn caught fire, we had no plumbing for three months, the list goes on and on. Without telling the entire story we are currently working out issues with our buyers. Starting on the siding and roofing and all the finishing touches, we can’t wait to be done and start our next house which is vacant and demo begins in 3 weeks (follow to see updates) What I’m getting at is, the flipping world is not for the weak, you will get beat down, you will fail but in the end once you finally achieve your goals and jump those hurdles you’ll be sitting in a heating house looking at your accomplishments and realize everything you’ve worked so hard for this past few months is now a reality and it’s time to enjoy it! While there are so many successes stories and get rich quick flipping seminars my wife and I just want to share our stories and hope to be an inspiration to other flippers and real estate investors. We gotta stick together, help each other out in this crazy career choice! Good luck to you all and I’d love to hear some of your guys experiences as well!

It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted on here...and you know life is crazy! Long story short, bought and sold condos in oak grove. Flipped another in Lee’s Summit. Got married, bought and sold a salon, quit my job and started a Contracting Company with my wife. Today we’re sitting in a heated house taking shelter from the wind. We have worked from 8A.M to roughly midnight for the past two months straight. Living off of el Monterey burritos and hot dogs, we even canceled our honeymoon. Why you ask...?!! Bought a house cash and have been completely remodeling from the studs in. This has been our dream for the past four years and as we start this journey together I realized there are so many unforeseen battles that will rage on and beat you down on flips, especially when you tackle vacant homes and decide to bring them back to life! We’ve done everything from rim joist, main water lines, all new plumbing. We moved the dangerous non code complaint electric mast and panel. We’ve ran into snake infestations, termites, mold, and even breakins by the locals. The barn caught fire, we had no plumbing for three months, the list goes on and on. Without telling the entire story we are currently working out issues with our buyers. Starting on the siding and roofing and all the finishing touches, we can’t wait to be done and start our next house which is vacant and demo begins in 3 weeks (follow to see updates) What I’m getting at is, the flipping world is not for the weak, you will get beat down, you will fail but in the end once you finally achieve your goals and jump those hurdles you’ll be sitting in a heating house looking at your accomplishments and realize everything you’ve worked so hard for this past few months is now a reality and it’s time to enjoy it! While there are so many successes stories and get rich quick flipping seminars my wife and I just want to share our stories and hope to be an inspiration to other flippers and real estate investors. We gotta stick together, help each other out in this crazy career choice! Good luck to you all and I’d love to hear some of your guys experiences as well!

@Steve Vaughan I'd love to see pics! That's awesome it's not easy to refinish floors your braver than I! 

I'm jealous you guys are in the Seattle market!! My brother was hoping to head up there and do some fix and flips but it's expensive to just get into a deal, I know what you mean to completely tear down something you just purchased is a scary and overwhelming feeling. My first day after demo looking what I had done, I panicked haha. But tell yourself your bigger than what's ahead of you and you will come out successful regardless! Feel free to reach out of you run into any hiccups! 

With this post I hope to inspire some of you to take on that project and also I hope to help anyone out there that might be struggling with their current flip, to use me as a resource. Not sure where to turn, stuck because of an unknown issue? Feel free to reach out!

This Flip is actually out of the ordinary, I will state that the work took 2 months of staging, and a heck of a lot of sweat! I believe by self preforming you can save thousands!

This flip was actually a business. I was looking for a Salon that my fiancé could buy and run as her own. We found this deal. 15K was the asking price. This place was barely breaking even each month. It was very outdated and needed some love. After we closed on the deal, we went in got some measurements, took pics, met with the girls that currently worked there and got a plan in mind.

The salon was running itself, so for 2 months we stained wood, built benches and seating, put all of the old equipment up for sale. Drove all over the state to gather supplies. Hand cut over 250 ceiling tiles. Picked up items from the free section on CL and turned them into beautiful pieces. We scheduled the shutdown, and got the proper permits. Our timeline was only 5 days! 

Day 1, the buyers picked up all of the old equipment and we used the cash for emergencies. Started demoing the floor, the person before used an epoxy set, it was not coming up! First major problem! With a tight schedule we rented some massive jackhammers and got the floor up that night. Painted the ceiling, installed the new ceiling tiles, massive drywall work, we ended up pouring 87 bags of self leveler to create a new subfloor which we later sealed. Installed all of our prepped items mirrors, vanities, everything we had worked on for the past 2 months! We met the 5 day deadline!

For materials alone we spent $5200-(+ our $2900 floor that was unexpected) so $8100 for supplies and tool rentals. We also sold the old equipment and products for 3K.

We purchased the salon for 15K. The stylist paid the bills and we broke even for the 4 months we owned it. Total investment $23,100! We later listed the salon and sold it for $120K.

Now I know the hours added up, 3 of my closest friends came to help meet the 5 day deadline, and for 2 1/2 months of focusing our time to this place we still grossed 80K.  If I didn't have my construction background this easily would have been a 30K flip. So moral of the story, do not be afraid to get your hands dirty, Learn a new skill,  if you can do the work or save yourself 2-3k, when starting out that's huge! Good luck to you, and keep my email handy!

With the sale of my 4th flip happening in about a week, I sit here pondering why didn't I start this sooner!? The felling of working your A** off and after uncle Sam gets paid of course, the feeling of making your own money. Words cant describe how amazing that feels! I wanted to do real estate for about 3 years before I actually jumped in with both feet and slowly but surely it is paying off! I'm not writing this to brag about my accomplishments, but the exact opposite. As I get ready to quit my full time job to do fix and flips/rental properties, the only thing I regret is not starting sooner.

So for anyone out there that is on the fence about giving this a try....DO IT! Take the leap, why should we be pawns in someone else's game? Real estate can be mean with one wrong turn.... your money is gone, but that's why we do this! Do your homework, get your contractors lined up, do whatever it takes to get you to that first step. I talked with my realtors for over a year until I finally pulled the trigger. There will never be a perfect time" but if you keep pushing forward, break through and persevere, everything else will fall into place. Six months ago I was working construction- Anything is possible.

If your having trouble, or your in over your head on your first flip, or you need someone to come in and give you a new perspective on your project or you just want someone to help manage it, private message me! If there is anything I can do to help another experience the fix and flip dream, id love to help!