Everyone has heard of house flipping.
It sounds like an easy way to make money or even to make a living. Locate houses which have good values but sell at a low prices. They often need some makeup, and this is one reason why they are cheap. Clearly the owner did not care much about his property.
Often such bargains can be found from inheritances, as the previous owner was old and owned the house for many years. He had not made any home improvement for a long time. The new owner does not care about this house and just want to get rid of it. Whoever buys such a bargain can renovate the house and sell it at a profit. This is standard house flipping.
One of my roommates used to make a living out of house flipping. He told me that for his first deal, he made 7,000 dollars in one minute and he had no money. What he did was he found a nice property for sale and he also found a buyer for that property, even though he was not the owner. So he made two transactions at the same time (within the same hour). He first bought the property by using his credit card for the deposit, then sold it immediately $7k higher.
This is the ultimate in house flipping and this (normally) never happens. More realistically, let us be honest, you need to do a lot of work to make good money in home flipping. If you are new to all that, beware of all the hidden traps, especially in the current market. This is both a very juicy and very dangerous market.
It is juicy currently because of the housing crisis, which provides a massive flow of desperate sellers who would accept almost any price if they can avoid foreclosure. But it is dangerous because the market is moving fast.
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