house-flipping

Flipping Houses

Is Your Significant Other On Board With Your Harebrained House Flipping Scheme?

by Danny Johnson | August 8, 2011
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If it weren’t for my wife’s support and willingness to take a chance, we would not be where we are today. Flipping houses requires a certain level of risk tolerance to be able to stand the pressure involved in dealing with large amounts of money. Houses aren’t cheap, ok, maybe we’ve proved that they can [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Lazy Doesn’t Buy Houses: Making Offers to Seemingly Unmotivated Sellers

by Danny Johnson | July 9, 2011
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison Mistakes made and lessons learned seem to be topics that investors are interested in. Why not learn from mistakes of others so that we can avoid them ourselves? I wish I could say that it was [...]

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Commentary

Flip Flop

by Michael Creel | December 6, 2007

In the last few years it seems society has gone house-flipping mad. Every time I turn on the TV there is yet another show illustrating the ease in which anyone with a heartbeat can make a fortune buying a beat-up house and turning it into a beautiful modern-day wonder. Often at the end of these [...]

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