Deck the Halls with House Flips
With the holiday season now upon us I would first like to say thank you for checking out the House Flipping School blog. This blog began back in May of this year and since then I have met some incredible people and formed some wonderful relationships that I never saw coming. It’s been a great experience!
So needless to say I am really looking forward to 2013. My team and I have some big ideas that we’ll be releasing to you here on the blog throughout the new year-so be sure to stay tuned. Until then I’ll be looking forward to meeting, and helping, aspiring house flippers like you get started on the road to house flipping success.
A Holiday House Flipping Checklist
For me, this time of the year is first and foremost about my family. My house flipping business will continue to truck along, but it will take a back seat to Christmas parties and just spending some Q-time with my wife and daughters. Ladies if you are reading this, be sure to hold me to this! LOL
However this time of the year is also about reflection and setting house flipping goals for the new year.
I will be the first to admit that maintaining balance, and focusing on high impact tasks can be a constant battle. That’s why in this post I am going to share with you a detailed strategy for how you can accomplish your most important and most critical goals for 2013.
“At Last, A Simple Solution to Successful Networking”
It is next to impossible to succeed in flipping houses for profit all by your lonesome. Having a solid network of house flipping contacts is an essential component to any house flipping business.
Thus effective networking needs to be at the center of your own house flipping business plan.
The goal of networking is to establish those key relationships that will help you propel your house flipping business forward.
Yet networking is really just a fancy word for making friends.
Unfortunately we sometimes lose sight of this simple truth, and some folks never seem to "get it."
In my experience it is not unusual to encounter people at networking events who's main goal is to give their card to everyone at the event. We have all been stuck in other people's boastful conversations and may have even witnessed complete strangers arguing over something that doesn't even matter.
Approaching a networking event from the wrong angle will get you nowhere very quickly. A better idea is to approach each and every networking opportunity as if you were simply there to make a few friends.
After all, making new friends is what networking truly is. Wouldn't you agree?
Breakthrough Fear and Achieve your Real Estate Dreams
I am a firm believer that we are all capable of incredible things, whether it be learning how to flip houses or climbing a mountain. I believe that someone's background, education and prior life experiences do not dictate their potential.
Everyone on this planet has the potential to learn how to flip houses and do something wonderful. At least that's what I believe!
Often times in real estate or house flipping, it just takes a little coaching in order to convince someone that this is true. Someone may very well have unlimited potential-however in many cases they just don't see it.
I will be the first to admit that life can knock a person down. Unexpected and traumatic things happen, and it is not always easy to bounce back. Believe me, I too battled fear, doubt and worry when I first began to learn how to flip houses.
However if we take a look around at our family, friends and associates we can Continue reading
Get Rid of Your Fear of Flipping Houses Once and for All
I talk to people all the time about how they want to flip and grow rich - a catchy little spinoff from Napoleon Hill that lots of house flipping pros seem to use these days - but something always seems to stop them...
I was curious. So we did a little survey here at House Flipping School in advance of the launch of our House Flipping School One-on-One Coaching Program to really find out what prevents people from getting dirty and starting to flip and grow rich.
Starting to Flip and Grow Rich...What Stops YOU?
We made the survey pretty much open-ended with a few questions so that people could fill in what they really were thinking.
I'm no professional survey taker, but I figured that would help.
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Conquering House Flipping Fear
Have you ever gotten that awful feeling down deep in your gut? Your stomach turns as a touch of anxiety begins to pulse through your veins?
What I'm getting at here is fear. We all experience fear and we all must figure out healthy ways of dealing with fear if we want to progress in business and in life.
I know I experienced quite a bit of fear when I was first started developing my house flipping business plan. Fortunately I have learned to cope with fear fairly well over the years, however it did not happen magically or by accident.
Conquering fear requires you to take action on your own behalf. I'll be the first person to tell you that making money flipping houses requires a great deal of fear control and management-especially when just starting out.
Creating a Lifestyle that Works for You
The House Flipping Lifestyle
Everyone desires flexibility in their schedule. If you are reading articles and blogs about house flipping and real estate investing, then there is a good chance you desire flexibility in your life. If you are like me, then the regular 9-5 job just won't cut it.
Like a lot of people I spent the early years of my life grinding it out, doing a lot of hard labor and relying heavily on that next paycheck. As I gained experience I was able to run my own flooring company and begin making more managerial decisions, and Ilearned a lot about running my own business.
Flip and Grow Rich | The Master Mind Principle
This flip and grow rich principle can insulate you from failure.
You can accomplish twice as much in a year flipping houses using this principle.
It has been used by every hugely successful industrialist or businessperson in the past 200 years including Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Henry Ford and even Steve Jobs…
Even the United States of America used this flip and grow rich principle to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
Flip and Grow Rich with Other Like Minds
When most people think about going into business for themselves, they usually think of rugged individualism, self determination and a renegade "do it my way" attitude of independence and self-sufficiency.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
To flip and grow rich flipping houses, the key is to partner with people who have similar definiteness of purpose.
Sure, you may need to split the profits with them. You also may need to give up a little control. You may need to compromise. You may need to swallow your own ego a bit at times...
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Flip and Grow Rich | Definiteness of Purpose
Contrary to what many people may think, the single most important factor in house flipping success is not finding the right property...nor is it negotiating the sales price...nor is it containing your rehab costs, nor is it avoiding "the bad deals"...
Although those are all important, the most important factor to house flipping success by far is having the right house flipping mindset.
Although "The Secret" hits on many important aspects of house flipping success, it was not the first book of its kind to discuss the importance of mindset when achieving success. In actuality, "The Secret" borrowed most of its concepts from many other books, including the ones mentioned here.
One of the greatest books I have ever read on mindset and how to flip and grow rich at the same time is Think and Grow Rich
This book hugely influenced my house flipping career - so much that I still refer back to it on regular basis to review its basic concepts to reinforce to me exactly how to flip and grow rich.
Flip and Grow Rich...With Definiteness of Purpose
In the first of what will be a series of "flip and grow rich” posts, today we will be reviewing the first step in this process and how it relates to the house flipping mindset - to set you on the path to ultimate house flipping success.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe...the mind can achieve”
-Napoleon Hill
It is amazing to think that anyone of us put on this earth can achieve incredible success and do amazing things just as long as we Continue reading
“The Secret” to House Flipping Success
One of the movies we advocate our house flipping school students to watch is The Secret.
The movie got a bit too much exposure when it first came out, with the author Rhoda Byrne making the circuit on Oprah, Ellen, Montel, The Today Show...all advocating the power of “the law of attraction”.
It’s not exactly the kind of self-improvement author you’d think of when learning how to flip houses…
The truth is that the movie (and the subsequent best-selling book) is one of the best movies you can watch to inspire you to success when you first start flipping houses.
Aladdin, the Genie and House Flipping
In the fairytale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, a young boy comes across a magical lamp - out of which a genie appears before him.
The genie asks the boy “your wish is my command”.
Whatever the boy asks for, he gets from the genie.
Sound pretty good, right?
What most people in real estate investing don’t realize is that house flipping success works in the very same way…
When it comes to achieving success flipping houses, the first step is to “ask the genie”.
The 3 Step Formula for House Flipping Success
Step 1: Ask For House Flipping Success
The first step is to ask, make a command to the universe – let the universe know what it is that you want.
Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.
Start it with “I am so happy and grateful now that…I make $100,000 per year in profit flipping houses.
You must be very clear on what you want and state it positively; otherwise “the genie” will not know what to bring you.
Likewise if you think and if you ask for bad things, he’ll bring that to you too.
When people do this, sometimes for the first time in their lives, they get very clear on what it is that they really want. If you don’t ask for success flipping houses, how will the universe know you actually want it?
Think of the universe as your personal catalog, and you are just placing an order.
The House Flipping Mindset
It’s been said many times by many success experts that people’s behaviors are driven by just two forces of nature:
- The pursuit of pleasure
- The avoidance of pain
Out of the two...fear is the bigger motivator by far.
You may have seen this before - but Tony Robbins said it best:
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you”
If you are just getting started house flipping as either full time job or just part time, this is the most critical element to conquer before you even consider doing your first house flip.
House Flipping, Pain and Pleasure
Here’s the really strange thing. We make the vast majority of our decisions to do something or not do something based entirely on what we THINK will happen instead of what will ACTUALLY happen.
So in any case, when we are confronted with a decision to either do it or not to it, whether it’s flipping houses or deciding on going to a party, most of us think about what we would LOSE by choosing to move forward with that decision.
We project ourselves into the future and THINK about what these things will feel like in the future. More often than not, this is not based on reality at all.
The reality for most of us is we completely fabricate painful outcomes based on very little data, if any at all.
This “projection” is all about our own twisted PERCEPTION of what reality may actually be.