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Two years is the floor. Is it also the target?
Three deals in, and the ceiling I keep hitting is how many I can run at once. So I've been looking at a live-in flip as a way to get one project working for me on a different cloc…
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A live-in flip combines homeownership with the flip strategy: the investor buys a property needing work, moves into it, renovates it while living there over a period of time, then sells it for a profit.
Log in to followThree deals in, and the ceiling I keep hitting is how many I can run at once. So I've been looking at a live-in flip as a way to get one project working for me on a different cloc…
Something odd came up when I was walking a place last week. The listing agent asked me what my plans were, and I said I'd be living in it and fixing it up over a couple of years.…
I'm planning the first purchase carefully and this is the decision I keep stalling on, before I've even picked a house. On a live-in flip you're the one living with the choices, w…
Twenty-two months of savings is the whole renovation budget on the place I'm circling, which means the work happens at the speed my paycheck allows. That's the live-in flip pitch…
I'm building a list and haven't bought yet, and this argument keeps coming up with everyone I talk to. Side one says do the kitchen first. You're going to be in the house two year…
I'm on a live-in flip where the scope has grown from a kitchen and two baths into moving a load-bearing wall and redoing the whole panel. Original plan was to pull everything as o…
I've been looking at live-in flip candidates for about two months and the two shortlists I keep making are completely different houses. One is the tired 1960s ranch on a street wh…
Running the two versions of this against each other and they don't converge, so I'll put it to the room. Version A is the standard picture. You buy the ugly house, move in, and do…