01/21/2026
✨ 2016 — the year that changed everything for me.
That year, I sold my first Fix & Flip.
Here’s how it really started…
In 2015, I walked away from an 11-year corporate career.
Not because I had it all figured out—but because I wanted my time back.
Shortly after, I got my real estate license, not to sell homes at 1st, but to learn. To see if this was something I even wanted to do.
Three months later, I sold my own house and made $100k! 🙈
That moment rewired my brain.
I knew whatever I had just done—I needed to repeat it.
(I’ll share that first home story in another post.)
Soon after, I met my business partner. We decided to put our money together and go all in on flipping.
I spent months studying foreclosures, cash deals, remodels—everything.
Up until then, it was all theory.
We had zero experience, but we had the will to figure it out.
We opened an LLC, funded the account, and I got to work.
Weeks of offers.
No responses.
Constantly outbid.
I was losing hope… until I cracked the code on how to structure the contract.
That same week, two offers were accepted.
I didn’t yet know how to borrow money for flips, so we let one go and took our first deal. It was a small home in Tamarac, a 55+ community.
💰 Purchase price: $80,000
🚫 Condition: filthy… and smelled like cat p**s.
We went straight into demo and decided to add a third bedroom—hands down the best decision we made. It pushed the ARV way up.
I was obsessed with comps and realized we could list at $197,000—a huge stretch since nothing in the community had sold over $120k.
But I had faith.
Four months later, renovation complete.
Walkthrough day… disaster...
An underground hot water leak.💦
I had never felt stress like that before.
We brought in a plumber who rerouted everything without tearing up the house.
Three days later—we closed.
🎉 Appraisal: $197,000
💸 We walked away with a very heavy check.
The buyer? A veteran.
And knowing he moved into a beautiful, fully renovated home—without the cat p**s smell—made it even better.
Continued in the comments…
