The fact that they shoveled dirt for a ground breaking ceremony means nothing.These types of projects require rounds and rounds of construction financing and many phases over years to create a development this size.

You need a separate crew just to shovel snow. 

Then they'd search courthouse records, drive by, check the MLS and see how much BS the Montelongo's and A&E were shoveling that week.There were houses that were rehabbed on the show that the Montelongo's never owned, houses that supposedly sold on the show but not in real life, improvements and landscaping that were taken out after the show, and a woman that, if I recall correctly, was the mother-in-law one week and the open house buyer another week.All part of "reality shows", I suppose, but Armando made it part of his credibility kit, claiming huge numbers of successful rehab flips despite a lack of evidence in the real world.

What part of FL are you looking at?

And coming from NY you will likely never need use a real coat or snow shovel again. 

Water       – Figure $100/mo for a duplex Sewage – $0.00, included in water bill Garbage – $0.00, included in property taxes Snow Removal – buy a shovel J (luckily the tenants shovel themselves at the rental, and I just shovel after work at my house hack.

My best friends dad was a developer/builder and I spent my teenage summers working for him, shoveling dirt off roads and sewing grass seed. 

3 laborers for 8 hours, 3 shovels, 8 pieces of sock pipe from lowes = new drain field for less than $700.00

Purchase price: $330,000 Cash invested: $170,000 Project #2 in our "Shovel-Ready" ADU Concept.

It's a duplex so they are responsible for yardwork and shoveling, which quite honestly lacks, as the grass is sometimes is a bit overgrown for my liking.