Home Week in Review: July 23 – 29

Well, once again the Home Blog started and ended the week on similar topics. Three Tips for Staging your Home offered some tips for preparing a home for sale and linked to other articles on staging tricks and techniques. Rounding out the week was “Can You Flip a House?” an article that discussed purchasing property to renovate for re-sale. Rehabbing used to be a popular term for this process but “flipping” seems to be the common description today for buying, fixing, and selling quickly to maximize profit. Staging is a good idea when flipping a home too. Moving on to … Continue reading

Flip That House

Have you heard this term before? Flipping a house? It means buying a house for little money, fixing it up, and selling it as quickly as possible for a profit. The quicker you sell the more money you make. Sometimes, investors don’t even work on the properties they buy. They simply take advantage of a good deal and turn a quick profit. This may be because an owner is motivated to sell because he or she needs money, owes back taxes, or is facing foreclosure. There are various other reasons as well, but investors can make a nice profit buying … Continue reading