{"id":46493,"date":"2013-07-31T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/renewsblog\/?p=46493"},"modified":"2024-06-17T03:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:06:58","slug":"2013-07-31-how-to-analyze-a-fix-and-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/2013-07-31-how-to-analyze-a-fix-and-flip","title":{"rendered":"How to Analyze a Fix and Flip: A Step by Step Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hate math!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How many times have you muttered that frustration in your life? Even for a math nerd like me, there are times I hate math. However, if you are going to be a successful real estate investor, math is part of the package. This is perhaps most true for those looking to fix and flip a house.<\/p>\n<p>When flipping, simple math errors can result in huge profit losses and discouragement.<\/p>\n<p>It sucks.<\/p>\n<p>However, success is not a mystery. I believe learning how to properly analyze a flip is the first step in a successful and lucrative career in house flipping &#8211; and it doesn&#8217;t have to be difficult or scary.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s post, I created a video to walk you through the exact steps I use to analyze a fix and flip deal and determine how much potential profit could be made. I am going to be using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/flip-analysis\" target=\"_blank\">the new flipping calculator from BiggerPockets<\/a>, but you could do the same calculations with pen and paper if you needed to.<\/p>\n<p>Take a minute and check out the video below for a step by step walk through of how I analyze this property for a potential fix and flip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Analyze a Real Estate Fix and Flip using ALL the Numbers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RR3PE8-4UUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/69615420@N00\/7305951154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Byron Barrett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hate math!&#8221; How many times have you muttered that frustration in your life? Even for a math nerd like me, there are times I hate math. However, if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":170003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flipping-houses"],"acf":[],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}