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How much does it really cost to flip a house? In this NEW SECOND EDITION, get all the updated costs, upgrade details, and associated values when it comes to estimating your next renovation!How much does it really cost to renovate your investment property? Learn detailed tips, tricks, and tactics to accurately budget nearly any house flipping project and investment property renovation from expert real estate investor and fix-and-flipper J Scott. Discover the tried-and-tested steps of his professional framework and methodology for precisely evaluating renovation costs in hundreds of his own successful rehab projects. Determine how to accurately estimate all the costs you are likely to face during renovation - and get all of your rehab questions answered in a single place! Whether you are preparing to walk through your very first rehab project or you're an experienced home flipper, this handbook will be your guide to identifying renovation projects, creating a scope of work, and staying on budget to ensure a timely profit! Inside, you will learn how to: -Inspect every aspect of a property to create your renovation scope -Decide which upgrade options provide the biggest bang for your buck -Identify the 150 most common renovations you'll likely encounter -See big problems (like mold and termites!) and quickly fix them -Assign accurate prices to every rehab task to build a detailed budget -Determine which contractors are best for certain repairs or projects -Break down the top 25 basic components of a renovation -And so much more! You don't need to be a contractor to flip houses, but you do need to know the fundamentals of budgeting and pricing your renovation - including everything from cosmetic renovations to complex installations and upgrades.
About the Author
J Scott (he goes by "J") is an entrepreneur, investor, and the co-host of The BiggerPockets Business Podcast. An engineer and business guy by education, J spent much of his early career in Silicon Valley (California) , where he held management positions at several Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft and eBay. In 2008, J and his wife Carol quit their corporate jobs, moved back East, got married, started a family and decided to focus on real estate and investing. In the past ten years, they have bought, built, rehabbed, sold, lent-on and held over $50M in property all around the country. J is also a business advisor and mentor to several companies, business owners and entrepreneurs.J runs the popular website 123Flip.com and is the author of four books on real estate investing, including the best-selling, The Book on Flipping Houses. His books have sold over 200,000 copies in the past six years and have helped investors from around the world get their start with real estate.J, Carol and their two boys currently live in Sarasota, FL.
