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The Ramsey Show Highlights

3 Reason To Never Flip Houses With Borrowed Money

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Business, Investing, Education, Self-improvement

4.5839 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.7

We're looking for advice on what we can do for financing for flipping houses.

0:11.9

We currently use our home equity line of credit for the purchasing and remodeling,

0:17.0

but of course that payment gets a little high.

0:19.1

So we're just looking for some ideas of what to do.

0:23.9

Okay.

0:26.9

I've probably done 1,500 or 2,000 flips in my life.

0:31.5

Okay.

0:31.7

That's what I used to do for a living before I went broke because I borrowed money doing flips.

0:39.6

So for 35 years I've taught people not to borrow money as a primary way to lower risk and create wealth.

0:50.6

I don't borrow money, and so I'm not going to be able to help you borrow money.

0:56.3

Okay.

0:58.0

Then what do you, I mean, do you just straight out advise just cash for flipping a house?

1:03.6

Yes.

1:04.5

Okay.

1:05.2

And here's, there's a lot of reasons why, okay.

1:10.0

When you use financing to purchase a house that you're going to

1:16.1

flip, you're not as careful as when you use money out of your bank account to purchase a house

1:23.4

to flip. When you are using financing to do the renovation on the flip, you're not as careful

1:31.2

as when you're pulling your stinking hard-earned money out of your checking account to do the

1:36.7

renovation, and you end up spending more on the purchase, more on the renovation, thus your

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