3 Reason To Never Flip Houses With Borrowed Money
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 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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