Rehabbing properties and managing contractors is a fast game. If
you cant figure out your head from your bottom, you will lose
your shirt or worse yet your shirt will be ripped off your back
while rehabbing your first house. First and foremost we must become
experts at locating and prescreening contractors, quality mature
adult contractors. If this is done right, the probability of the
rest of your rehabbing project being a success increases ten-fold.
When you work with competent people you are able to utilize your
time and leverage your ability while rehabbing.
To truly become an expert in real estate rehabbing one must have
a reference point to every aspect of the house in order to manage
the rehab effectively and efficiently. Having a reference point
to find out essential knowledge, terms and definitions, contractor
management, and most importantly labor and material cost will protect
against bad and/or stupid decisions during the course of your real
estate rehabbing career. Remember, the goal for us as successful
real estate rehabbing investors is to understand and manage the
rehab process, not to teach ourselves to install toilets so that
you can save $50 in labor on each job.
Thats right, by no means do I want people to do work themselves,
I want them to understand how to do the work so they can manage
others to make them money. Would Donald Trump be where he is today
if he actually installed the toilets in his high rise development
projects so he could save on some $$$ on labor cost, of course not.
Donald Trump is smarter than that, so lets hope you are too.
You will not buy, renovate, and sell 100 properties a year by doing
the job yourself to save a couple of bucks. The more rehabs you
can manage, (notice the key word manage) the more money you will
make. So let me ask you, do you want more money? Or do you want
more work? Obviously more money, its all about working smarter
not harder!
In my first year we bought and sold 30 properties; the second year
we multiplied that by two, plus some, and reached 70 projects. By
our third year we had bought and sold 104 properties!! What was
the change you ask? The change occurred with the creation of systems,
working smarter not harder, understanding the three key components
that we had to leverage in order to meet out goals. Understanding
the value of time, utilizing each decision on rehabbing to leverage
your money, and investing in continual education is the key to your
real estate rehabbing success.
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