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Analyze House Flip Deals
Buy boxes, ARV, comps, underwriting, profit projections, and disciplined offer decisions.
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01 The 3 Key Skills Every House Flipper Needs Rather than trying to learn everything, new flippers should first master ARV, recruiting all-arounders, and setting expectations without micromanaging. 02 The 3 Most Painful Lessons I Learned in Real Estate The three mistakes that cost the most money early on: counting on market appreciation, over-renovating past the comps, and trusting your team blindly. 03 5 Habits of Top 1% House Flippers The five compounding habits that separate the top 1% from flippers who spin their wheels for a decade like I did. 04 The 70% Rule Is Just a Ballpark (Here's How to Go Deeper) The 70% rule is a quick-offer shortcut before real math for hold time, interest, points, closing costs, and target return. 05 How to Analyze a House Flip From Your Computer A fast three-step screen for estimating ARV, rehab cost, and a maximum offer before you spend hours visiting a house that does not work. 06 Assessing an A-Class Flip: A Case Study Walking through an A-class flip deal: why downside risk matters more than upside, how higher price points change the renovation, and what to watch for on the walk. 07 The Cash Flow Calculator: What the Math Actually Tells You About a Rental A short walkthrough of my cash-flow calculator and the NOI mistake I caught at the end of the demo. 08 Choosing the Right Market to Buy In Ross treats market analysis as a distraction and argues that a good buy plus a smart rehab matters more to his flips than one year of market appreciation. 09 Don't Buy a House Without Defining Your Buy Box First A clear buy box protects your attention, sharpens your intuition, and gives sellers and deal sources a specific reason to call you. 10 I Tested ChatGPT on ARV. Here's Where It Failed I tested ChatGPT on real ARV questions, retrained it with my comping rules, and found two misses that can wreck a house deal. 11 The Home Stretch: From Deal Math to Closing Use the 70 percent rule as a screen, then calculate the financing, holding, selling, and profit inputs that determine the real maximum offer. 12 How I Assessed a Community Member's Flip A remote first-pass assessment of a community member's potential flip, not a property Ross personally bought or walked. 13 How a Pro Flipper Actually Calculates Profit A three-factor way to set flip profit using price point, risk profile, and a clean separation between lender income and investor income. 14 How to Calculate ARV Like a Pro My five-step ARV method uses three to five sold comps, local neighborhood boundaries, careful adjustments, and a final range instead of a magic number. 15 I'm Using Agentic AI to Close More Deals (Here's My System) Ross calls agentic AI the biggest opportunity of our careers and shows how he uses it for underwriting, comps, skip tracing, analytics, marketing, and CRM upkeep. 16 IMBY: The Buy Box That Makes or Breaks Your First Flip Nine buy-box factors define what to buy, where to look, and which comparable sales Ross uses before he treats a house as a possible deal. 17 How to Find Your Max Offer Price in Seconds Ross's max-offer formula uses the same tool for a flip or BRRRR and shows why rehab cost and target return are the two main levers. 18 Property Walkthrough and Assessment: Live Review A condo walkthrough covering conservative comps, tile and slab choices, cabinet updates, and possible hidden shower damage. 19 The Scale of Livability: The Mental Model Behind a Flip The Scale of Livability links renovation risk to the distance between a property today and the point where it becomes livable and financeable. 20 The 2 Costly House Flipping Traps to Avoid and the 4 Strategies That Actually Work Ross uses the Scale of Livability to separate two beginner traps, the mirage and HGTV dilemma, from four flip strategies he says can work.
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