#2284 - First $1,000: “I watched home renovation shows and decided to try it…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from a listener who flips houses when he’s not at his job in middle management. He learned from watching TLC shows!
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | I watched home renovation shows and decided to try it. |
| 0:14.9 | That's the title of this episode. |
| 0:16.2 | That's not something I would do myself. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm talking about somebody else here. |
| 0:19.4 | We're going to talk about a house flipper, or we're actually going to hear from a house |
| 0:22.3 | flipper. |
| 0:23.3 | A guy who is a manager for a big company by day works in middle management and he decided |
| 0:28.6 | to start flipping houses at night by watching TLC shows and HTTV. |
| 0:34.5 | You know all those shows about like, hey, I thought I would buy a house and renovate it |
| 0:38.2 | and resell it. |
| 0:39.2 | He decided to do that. |
| 0:40.2 | I know some of our listeners have done it as well. |
| 0:42.0 | So we're going to hear his story. |
| 0:42.9 | His name is Dave. |
| 0:44.3 | This is part of a feature we call your first $1,000. |
| 0:47.6 | And you might know if you've been listening for a while. |
| 0:50.2 | It's shockingly descriptive. |
| 0:51.8 | It is in fact about how someone made their first $1,000. |
| 0:54.5 | However, this story today has been upgraded because it is a $10,000 story. |
| 0:59.3 | His first $10,000, I guess if you're going to go through all the effort of buying a house |
| 1:03.1 | and taking some risk there, you want to make more than $1,000. |
| 1:06.3 | So in fact, our caller, Dave Johnson, did that. |
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