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How To Flip A House For Beginners

Hey everybody, we’re here with Jared lichten. in Cleveland, Ohio going through one of his fix and flips one of his rehabs you want to introduce yourself, Jared, what’s up guys? My name is Jared, LinkedIn is this huge car rolls past. I’m a real estate investor from Cleveland, Ohio, I started investing in real estate in like 2012. Right after I got out of law school, works as an attorney for a couple years, and I pretty much started flipping houses on my own quit my job in 2015. I’m a full time real estate investor, me and my general contractor, which I met back in 2017. We basically transition from doing these single family fixin flips into even bigger projects, I do stuff with other investors, I do partnerships, apartments, all sorts of stuff. So I run my own construction company now and I do projects for myself,
I got a lot of stuff going on. So this is my biggest flip in Shaker Heights, Ohio, it’s Belvoir, I bought it for 166,000. It was a private sale, our rehabs about halfway through, so you’ll get a chance to see like what a 5050 flip is like, and then we are putting about 130 $240,000 into it. I know when I say that, it’s probably gonna end up being 150. But you know, it’s just how these things go, you know, construction is very tricky. And you have to have really, really good people working with you. contractors are one of those things, especially starting out, we got to be very, very weary of who you’re working with, especially in a city like shaker, if you’re not bonded and licensed and insured, they’re not going to deal with you. I mean, that houses you can see over there actually go down and rise see that dumpster over there, they got cited by the city and the city turned right around and turn over to our house. And then they started, you know, scheduling inspections with us. So they were definitely working without a permit. We had our permit. But luckily, we had to go through a framing, plumbing, electrical and insulation inspection here that is not typical for something like what you guys might be getting into as your first flip.
Typically, a lot of people, especially in Cleveland, and a lot of these other mid level markets, they’re going to buy something 30 4050 grand, they’re gonna put about 3040 into it, and they’re gonna try selling it for like 121 50. That’s a lot of typical flip numbers on your first deal. And you definitely want to not pick up something this large and extensive on your first one. And especially when you’re working with a contractor for your first time. You want to develop some familiarity and trust with them by like, how they like to get paid and how they like to order materials and to make sure you’re not getting ripped off and that they’re getting a good price and all that quality is always got to be there no matter what, if you’re paying a low price, high price, quality has got to be there. If you’re not, you’re going to get dinged, you’re going to get dinged on home inspection, the home inspection is going to, you know, dictate whether or not you can sell the house in the first place. So your plan is for this home. So you said you’re about 50% way down on the split. Yeah. So as you can see, we had a lot of framing done in here, we actually had to tuck these 12 by twos up into the floor joist and our carpenter who is really expensive, but does great work. Again, like you said, you get what you pay for in construction. This whole entire thing had a wall right here and then you walked right in front of the front door and you walked right in this frickin coat closet. And that’s like such not like his houses built in 65. So like it wasn’t a great use of space. But typically you come in people like their house a little bit more compartmentalised back in the 50s and 60s, which is kind of like when building code started to get a little bit more extensive. You know, this, I just like parquet floors and like just a bunch of other like dated stuff. As you can see there’s older windows here, we’re getting replaced here in a few weeks. It’s just pretty much everything other than, you know, this, pretty much everything in this house. So this is the framing this is the only thing that’s going to stay we’re gonna have two columns. And it’s gonna look really nice because that the whole goal of these high end flips is you want to open up the first floor and really get people allowed to see what’s going on in the kitchen when they’re in the living room. And what’s going on in the dining room and they’re in the kitchen. Just people love that open concept. And if you what I see a lot of people in Cleveland, they’ll pick up something it’s dated, and then when they’re gonna open up, nothing, and they’re gonna leave this compartmentalised kitchen, and they’re just gonna have the formal dining room, which is really stupid in the first place, you know, just a room this size and that you eat in with a wall right here. And there’s going to be no open concept to hear maybe they’ll open up a wall a little bit and do a peninsula. But ultimately, I mean, this is 29 by 48. So like when you are 29 by 40, until you hit that brick wall. But like when you walk in, you’re going to see this like grand was like open like all the all the light from those windows come in here. All the light from the living room in the dining room comes in the kitchen. It’s going to be beautiful. There’s absolutely no lights on right now.
But yeah, this is so bright in here. And it’s not even a sunny day. Yeah. And we still have yet to like rip all these stupid old curtains out so it you know, a lot of the shit is like, you know, not even you can’t even see anything. So, you know, I bought the house was super dated. Typically when you go through rehab, I want to give you guys a little bit of the numbers. So I purchased this house as a private sale. These were family friends of mine. They texted my family and we’re pretty much just like hey, heard your son’s in real estate. We’re looking to downsize into a condo. Do you think you’d be interested in buying our house? I showed up not thinking it’d be a big deal. Like I do a lot of lead generation talking to people about their house all the time. I didn’t think that this would end up being my biggest project. But they were pretty much just like look, we’ve

In the south since the 90s, you know, we’re getting older, I don’t like going upstairs. A lot of people in Cleveland and all these other mid markets are getting older, they don’t like going upstairs, they have a lot more space than they need to take care of like, this is a pretty big house for two people. As you’ll see. We’re just in like one room. And you know, it’s a lot to clean, it’s a lot to take care of. It’s big utility bills, it’s everything. So a lot of people in their 60 to 75 range are kind of downsizing into either a smaller house living with a roommate or friend if their spouse has died divorce, like there’s so many different options to like, get out of a house like this. And but they wanted a quick sale. They didn’t want to work with a realtor, you know, a lot of people, you know, if you’re talking to them about a private sale, it’s just convinced them that hey, do you want to pay five 6% realtor commissions? No. Do you want to pay? You know, do you want to deal with the city and escrowing all this money for repairs? No, you know, Shaker Heights as the point of sale. So I know, you wanted to talk about the point of sale programs, some people may not know what a point of sale is. So Shaker Heights is a suburb within Cleveland, Ohio, explain a little bit what a point of sale is. So the point of sale programs that Cleveland heights and Shaker Heights have a couple of their cities do have it but you want to escrow money, the problem in Cleveland and shaker is you have to actually escrow a portion of funds to the city before you finish the project. So like basically, if the city digs you for 18,000, and repairs, then you’re gonna have to escrow an extra $18,000 to the city, do the project, pay for the rehab, and then at the end of the rehab, you’ll get your 18,000 back. So typically, I have to bring in Capital Partners sometimes to do that. And now I’ve built enough familiarity with the cities where I don’t have to think about escrowing as much money, they’re super lenient with me, after shaker came in and saw the quality of how we did I mean, we had to cut all the floor joists and actually pocket this thing up here. If we didn’t do that, and we were kind of lazy, this would actually be about six inches lower, and you’re gonna actually see the frickin header running all the way down, which is like not as sexy, you typically don’t want as much framing to show, but we’re gonna have to dry all around it, it’ll look beautiful in the end, and it’ll be good support. So and then you can see all the rest of the framing across. We passed all our inspections, ultimately, you know, the city came through their plumbing, electrical, that passed the framing, obviously that passed, I knew it would. And then the installation, which is not that big of a deal. So is that that’s enough about the point of sale, you guys want to talk about like kitchens and bathrooms and stuff a little bit. So what we’re doing here is you have a 12 foot Island, you can see we drew it here, it starts here runs all the way up to here, we got our gas range stove, we’ll have event coming down prep sink, and the island. Over here, I can actually shoot you renderings from the cabinet company that you can actually show on YouTube, about what it’ll look like we’ll have the fridge here, pantry, so you walk into the kitchen, pantry fridge, and then you’re going to have your sink centered against this window. The biggest issue here that we had to figure out is whether or not we were going to actually take this entire window out or elevate it up and keep it so it’s too low, you know, for the kitchen to be part of here that the countertops typically are about this high. And so we have to take this window out, elevate it to be equal to that window. And the city is going to allow us to put in similar windows in a project like this, we can’t do anything different. Otherwise, we have to go in front of the review board, which is delayed, you know, just causes a bunch of delays. And I’d rather just put in cheaper, you know, easier Actually, these windows we’re putting in are a little bit more expensive. If we wanted to go the cheaper route, we’d have to ask the city if we could do delays when you’re flipping a house kill deals. Oh, I mean, you have holding costs and utilities and all sorts of stuff. You definitely look for this particular house. I know the market here it gets super super hot right now because we’re going into a time of Europe what’s today like March 24. So it’s getting warmer now and the snow is melting and people are you know, their kids are still in school so they can still kind of do the thing. A lot of medical industry is running Cleveland, so like a third of the city simply by their UHF Cleveland Clinic and all the doctors get chipped in for their new residency assignments in March. So I just know how the city works and you know now that it’s March, April, it’s March April May is really hot time. Kids are still in school that typically don’t get out till June. And when it’s really hot in the summer you know people go on vacations, they’re not thinking about buying houses as much market still stays pretty good. But I’m really pushing to get this house done by like mid May, if I can get this done in mid may still have like 50 $60,000 more to spend. It’s a really really good thing for me because there’s houses like this high end, it’s going to look beautiful open concept 3000 square foot four bed three and a half bath house. I know about houses like this that are dated, they go on the market, they don’t even go on the market, they get swept up like that because we’re in a really good street we have a really good area right here. And I expect I might even get my realtor to list and like that for 4450 Mark just because I know it’s gonna be that good.

Okay, so when you’re looking at square footage, and the good lesson is to not just check the auditor, you actually want to have your contractor measure the house. If you think that your house is actually bigger than the auditor says the auditor said this house was 2590 and that’s not it said it was 40 feet across. I had my contract your measure, it’s actually 48. So what happens here is let’s go into this parlor area. So we have a den here. There’s a laundry room, half bath and you walk in here, this is really nice. So this is why we’re looking at $24,000 and windows in this house.

got all these old aluminum sliders. They’re not like the right size to be just, we have to basically order custom sliders. So that’s why things are getting expensive here because everything is custom dimensions, we’re gonna put stone over the fireplace to look awesome. There’s our plumbing run for the, for the wet bar right here, we’re just going to put a basic piece of granite lower cabinets, put enough area here for like a little wine fridge. And you know, as you can see, all our plumbing is already complete, our sewer lines are going up top the water is going like this is what good plumbing looks like if you just want to zoom in here and see like how they solder these joints, these l joint like everything looks so perfect and straight. And if you go down there, you can see how they like everything off. It just is. This is what good plumbing looks like. The reason why I didn’t use pecs or anything, or chose to use copper. These are waterlines. So typically, what we’ve been doing, and I, I’m not a plumber. So that’s the great thing about being an investor, you don’t have to know you just have to know what good work looks like and how much it should cost. Like, that’s the best advice I can give you guys, you have to know what stuff should look like and how much it should cost. Like I look at the slider, I’m like, Okay, I’m spending 1400 1600 bucks installed. But unfortunately, it’s too wide. So if I want to spend that 1400 1600, I’m actually gonna have to frame it in a little tighter, and it won’t be as much won’t be as much space. So like, you know, it’s probably something more like 2000 to do something like like, look how big this is, this is like three sliders in one. So like, that’s just too old. If you’re doing this, I mean, I’m looking to list this house for 400. That’s a lot of money here. And like these sliders, I don’t even know if I’ve ever tried to open them. But they’re, they’re old, they have to be replaced. And if you want to get that top dollar, you have to do everything. buyers are super picky. And especially in a market like this where it is hot, but like buyers can be picky and kind of like pick and choose what they want. They say oh, this is not good. This is not good. You can literally spend $200,000 on rehab, and they say, Oh, I don’t really like this color they did right here like it’s, you know, people are, you really have to have a strong stomach and not take offense to things like I sometimes will have 4050 showings before I actually finish out, you get an offer. So like 4050 showings every single time a realtor is going to submit their feedback, they might you might be sitting there for you know, two months on the computer every single time you get a feedback, buyers felt this was too small for them, or the bedrooms are too small, like they didn’t feel like the rehab was up to snuff. Like you are getting those emails constantly until you get an offer. So you have to have a strong stomach, you can’t take things personally, and very emotional decision because it’s their primary residence. It’s not an investment property. Oh, exactly. I mean, the most of the time, this is the only time they’re gonna be buying a house in their entire life, the majority of people buy either one or two houses and they’re done. That’s the most important financial decision they’ll make in their entire life. Because a lot of the times, if they’re going conventional, they’re putting down 10 20%. That’s most of the time their life savings, you know, 4050 $60,000, which is a lot of money for you know, most, one or two couples down here, either if you’re single, or you have a husband or wife.

So anyways, let’s get off the financials for a second. And let’s at least take a look at what we do upstairs. So what we’re looking at upstairs, four bed, three bath, I’m going to start in the smaller bedroom, and we’ll kind of circle around. So what you have here, you when you’re doing flips, you’d always want to be thinking about the floor plan and the flow of the house. And after you do a couple you’ll get a feel for you know, if you take one or two people with you, usually women are way better at it than men about kind of understanding like literally take your girlfriend or your wife through a house or your friend through house and really, really think about if it was your house. That’s the best advice I could say is like when you’re looking at flip Think of it as if you were buying it for your own house. So a lot of natural light in these bedrooms, higher ceilings, you can see they’re kind of like vaulted a bit with the roof because the roof is kind of pitched this way. So they’re textured, which is not as popular but it’s nice and vaulted. So this is what you call an on suite bathroom. It’s connected to the bedroom. And this would be the best example of a guest suite. So like if you have guests come over, they have their own bathroom. It’s connected. And as you can see, you have tub so here’s your plumbing for the tub, shower, head up here, toilet and vanity. Everything’s already plumbed in. Everything’s ready to be drywall the electrics up here for your sconces. And you know a nice little window so this will be like the fourth bedroom. So that’s what I call bedroom number four on suite bathroom important because sometimes you know if someone wants a little bit more privacy, maybe like a teenager or somebody who is staying at a house like a guest. Typically you don’t like to have them share a bathroom with you. They see your toothbrushes and they see all your rags sitting around it’s like not something you typically like to do.

Oh yeah, you’re not mine. Yeah, but couple little things in this house that’s got laundry chute. A lot of people kind of like this stuff. sauce is built in the 60s so it’s got a lot of closet space. As you can see there were two closets in there. You got one here in the hallway. There was a huge, huge set of built ins here. And we actually close this wall off as you can see, this is just fresh drywall. We close this off so you can see You walk into this bathroom from here so the next part of the head and when you’re walking through a construction site you got to be careful. It’s a good thing that you have construction boots on. So be careful to the our nail sticking up. So we’re walking into right now is the two back bedrooms. These actually share what’s called a jack and jill bath and jack and jill being you actually walk through it and more than one bedroom has access to it up here. Again, vaulted ceiling, but they’re not textured. So this is kind of like typically how I like a bedroom to look got a little bit of a roof issue here that like we’re that we had already fixed up, went through demoing out all this closet and smooth things out.

Nice look at this golf, someone must have liked golf.So anyways, this is a shared bathroom. So this bedroom has access to it. And this has access to it really good for if you have a couple kids, if you have maybe you did something bad and you need to sleep on the couch, you need your own bedroom for the night. But again, for this, this is the house for a bigger family. So ultimately a bigger family’s going to buy this house. And these bathrooms are frickin huge. So we reconfigured everything in here. I think the shower used to be back here, the toilet, I don’t even remember maybe is where you’re standing. But basically, we plumbed everything in to have a nice big double vanity here probably 60 or 72 inch double vanity. As you can see our electricians done up here, our electricians done everything. So all the runs are done all the rough wiring for pendants and everything. This is actually the majority of the work has been completed. What we’re standing in here is the shower. As you can see, we got tile samples from our tile manufacturing, we were kind of figuring flooring tile, for all the bathrooms to make sure that it didn’t contrast too much with our vanities that we’re ordering. Because I do order a fair amount of vanities and tile and fixtures and tubs and stuff off house. I don’t know if you guys know how is he zz. I’m in the trades program. So I actually get like contractor grade pricing on a lot of things. And they’ll do that for you. So what we’re probably going to do right here is our vanities are probably this color. And I really like this. But ultimately, if you have a lot of bathrooms to do, even $1 to $1 to difference on price per square foot can make a difference. So we’re probably going to go with something a little bit lighter, that’s going to contrast some of the darker gray vanities because vanities are kind of like this. And I can actually send Marco the links to them so he can actually show you guys what we’re ordering for this house. Maybe we’ll do an after video in about two months here. So we got this. And then what we’re probably going to do, we got advice from our realtor, I actually took it downstairs or to another property. So this is not white, this this color white. But we’re doing these long subway tiles, very popular, I think they’re like three by 12. And we’re gonna just schluter things off right here with like a black metal strip, it’s called schluter. It just makes things look really clean. Buyers really love this basic subway tile, but it’s getting more expensive to work and kind of be longer. And so it looks just really cool. It’s like that rustic modern vibe. It’s when you’re doing a flip the design end of things you really want to appeal to the most buyers, you want to appeal to the masses, you don’t want to feel to what you like, because things like this, like, there’s actually eight different ones of these. And I know this is like very design specific. But these type of tiles we’re going to use for the niche. So like a shower niche here to like put shelving in, it’s going to look super awesome. I know I only have to have the tiles here. But the tile manufacturer is actually going to make us buy boxes of all eight different designs. So it’s like, I can’t really show you these are just two of them. But like it’s going to look so cool contrasting with like the white subway tile, it’ll probably be like right here. And we’ll just build a bench back here. So like, you want to ask people questions when you’re going through flips constantly, like now that we’re at the plumbing stage, we got all everything plugged in. You want to ask Hey, like, where would you rather see the bench, bring your realtor and say, Hey, what do you think about the shower, they say, Oh, we were actually thinking of going diagonal. But I think it might make better sense for us to just do one big slab back here. And everybody does different stuff in the shower might be shaving your legs or smoking a joint or just sitting there watching TV that you want to give people the most comfortable options because in Cleveland, people are a little bit bigger than in California. You know, I don’t know why that is. But you know, people like to eat their vegetables. So as you can see drywall and electrics complete up in here, you walk into bedroom number three, these are big bedrooms, you really want to think about the size of the bedrooms are a really big deal on a flip. If you get into a house where like you feel really compartmentalize and there’s not that many windows. I mean, even right now you can kind of tell it’s the middle of the day, it’s probably about one o’clock. And there’s really nice light coming in here. And after we take out and put new windows in new windows are frickin such a huge deal for a flip. It’s just, it gives that house that like, I don’t know, it’s just something about like, Oh my god, but you can’t have a $400,000 house with these old like 60s crank windows like at the time they don’t even work in the locks don’t work. It’s just, you know, they’re too old. If you were just doing this as a rental, I would say you’re gonna be fine, but taxes and Shaker Heights on this house are $12,000 a year so like 1000 There’s a month in taxes, things get expensive. So walk in through here, I’ll let you go first go to the Master, I just wanna make sure you don’t trip on anything. This is the master show what we did with the ceiling.

This was like this, but we had to frame in this closet. So I’ll show you real quick, beautiful, like, you know, kind of picture so you can see all the way all the way down to the end of the street here.

The the closets here for the master there was like one here and one here. And it was kind of odd how they just didn’t put them both together. So our architects completely reconfigured this to like bump this wall, probably about a foot, foot and a half. And if you walk in through here, you can see where the wall ended like right here. And we took this wall back a little bit and actually built in like a his and hers closet. So I’ll let you go first you walk in his first closet, you know, you got lights in here, big enough closet for you know, a master, especially if you have another bedroom, a lot of guys will typically just give up to the entire closet. And they can have their own closet in another room. But walk in here and you see a double vanity nice enough for 60 inch 60 inch double vanity is more than enough space for two people. Sometimes you can get a 72. But again, two pendant lights above, you got all the this is what’s called a Bluetooth exhaust fan. And I like to do a lot of these more high end fixed finishes and fixtures in these flips, because I know the price point I know what buyers are looking for. So you want this is the shower, obviously. So you walk in here to the shower. And you can have Spotify or Pandora playing on your phone. And it’ll automatically link up to the exhaust fan and it’ll play music. So you can actually walk in shower, listen to ESPN or, you know, just chill music in the morning, listen to news and get in the shower boom, picks right up and you feel like the younger generations of buyers appreciate stuff like that. 1,000% 1,000%. I mean, if you think about the type of things that I’m doing, it’s so easy. It’s so easy to kind of like get these features into a home if you know what you’re doing on like the plumbing and electric side, which is like the foundation for a really good rehab project. So I can tell my electrician, Hey, can you go ahead and pick up some of these Wi Fi lights for the lower level, they’re 70 bucks, and a regular switch set is like 20 $22. So like I can spend 70 bucks, I can order at&t to install internet here. And then I can say I can order Alexa, whatever it’s called off Amazon. And I can link it up to say, hey, Alexa, turn the lights on. And the lights go on. So you want to like

smart homeowners. Yeah, exactly. It’s just, it’s sexy. You can I mean, literally, there’s so many little things that you can do to house like the front door deadbolt, they have Wi Fi deadbolts now where you can literally get a text on your phone when you’re at work, or like the garage doors open at three in the morning, your teenage kid came home and open the garage door. Everything should be able to be linked up to your smartphone. And you know what’s messed up. Like you don’t even have to set everything up for them. You can just show them that you installed that. And you say hey, here’s the app, here’s the thing, you don’t have to deal with downloading all this stuff, you can just say, hey, it’s already hardwired for these type of things. And it’s really, really valuable for people. So you’re almost not even selling them a house, you’re selling them comfort. You’re selling them, you know, feasibility, you’re selling them like a easy life. So it’s a big deal to people and I definitely at least want to do the Wi Fi lights on this house. We’re replacing the front door. So we’ll probably do the deadbolt too.

go down stairs. So again, I’ll go through the numbers real quick on this project. I mean, we spent about 12,000 13,000 just on the plumber, the electrician is probably going to be about 10 we’re going to have four bathrooms I don’t even know how much we’re going to spend in tile. But the kitchen cabinets we ordered the other day which I said I’ll send to you so you can see up there. This is what the kitchen is going to look like. So $13,000 in cabinets with hardware. Where those from if you don’t mind me asking, What do you want me to reveal all my suppliers were there made psvs these are nice yo calm. I mean, it doesn’t really it doesn’t really matter what the manufacturer is because every manufacturer is going to have like high end and low end stuff like the cabin all, almost all cabinets you’re going to get are made in China. And they’re shipped over here and actually built here. And then they sell it to you. So that’s kind of like the way or they’re built in China and like sent in single boxes and shipped over and then it’s up to you to install them. So that’s not an installed price. That’s just the price you get on the cabinets, but you definitely you can tell the difference between what you buy off the rack at Home Depot. And what you get for house like this, you definitely want to go to a cabinet supplier manufacturer for a house like this, because like you’re going to be getting dings in the cabinets won’t get the right if you go to Home Depot, there’s just that you’re not going to get the right sizes and it’s going to come back and all this is backwards. Like there’s so many different issues you can run into when you buy a set of cabinets at Home Depot unless you’re doing it for like a two or three unit property where it really doesn’t matter. If you’re doing it for flip. You know toe kicks and like things coming out and the appliances have to be appliances have to be set in the right like perfect everything the granite or the quartz has to be perfect. You want to make sure that everything flows perfectly for a flip and you can’t think.

Can’t skimp on things like cabinets. You can skimp on things like flooring, you can skimp on things like paint. But ultimately, people are gonna pick your rehab apart if you’re even doing things like not, you know, changing the switch plates. I can’t tell you how many frickin rehabs I’ve gone through where like, look at this thing. They’ll keep this right here as like a switch plate even though it doesn’t match everything else. And like, dude, like, it’s such the easiest thing to, you know, go 99% and not go the whole 100 it’s just laziness. And it all comes down to money. There’s so many people here who are trying to save, you know, they’re trying to cut corners. And I’d rather spend a little bit more money and make a little bit less if I know my house is gonna sell quickly because it’s just energy for my construction company. They just operate quicker. Pennywise pound foolish almost. Absolutely. Yeah. So this is I really appreciate your time. And your honesty in the basement real quick. Oh,

yeah, we got basement. Yeah, well, the art is pretty nice, too. Well, here, let’s real quickly show you the office. This is gonna be like a nice little office area. We didn’t even go back here. Yeah, yeah, so we got a nice little office area back here. We’re gonna build some bookshelves over here. So you can keep and we’re actually gonna have barn doors set here. So everyone loves barn doors. I don’t know why. But you know, it’s just like, you just feel like a king or queen. You know. So we’re gonna set the barn doors up here. Probably 68 inches across, and then it’ll slide all the way out to where the grand it’s gonna end here. So, obviously, the kitchen is gonna look awesome.

So laundry room, no big deal, whatever, but the basement.

Boom, all the drywall and everything. They had awful paneling down here, we got the new electrical panel set over here. With all the runs going upstairs. I paid the homeowner 500 bucks for their pool table. I didn’t have to but I was being kind of nice. So as you can see, they left their pool table and all their pool supplies here. So at the end, I’m going to pay a pool table company that kind of refilled this. I don’t think it’s in great shape. But this is cool. This is like nice little chill place. They have like pinball machines here and like, you know, it’s a cool basement. It’s comfortable. The glass blocks new and like, Oh, for sure. For sure. You know, even if you’re just having an old rinky dink piano or an old you know, we’ll table it really does do numbers do wonders for you. If you want to really look at the mechanicals furnace, your your humidifier, hot water tank. And as you can see, they ran all new copper for all this up here. Hot and cold water. Here’s the old HVC. And then what they had to take out was all set here. They had like a sprinkler system for the front yard. Went out this way. They had all the old copper running right around here. So we took that out and every like look at how, how intently this has to be cut in order to like that is what you get when you pay really solid money. I can’t tell you how. How many times I’ve seen things done the wrong way. So that’s Belvoir, it’s a beautiful house. You can end up in the laundry room and you didn’t even see one of the bathrooms. We got a half bath down here. I will say this like this is really important. You want a half bath, you definitely want at least a half on the first floor. Because when you’re entertaining and you’re having guests over, you don’t want to have people ask where the bathroom is. And you say, Oh, it’s upstairs. Go ahead and look at where all my towels and toothbrushes are. You want a nice guest bathroom where just you know it’s comfortable and clean and all they need is a toilet and sink anyways.

We’re in here in the laundry room. That’s it. Very nice Beauvoir the garage over there. Not too sexy. You want to see it? Oh, yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. So we are doing a dog shower here. Dog shower. Yeah, it’s basically it’s a shower basin with tiled up with like subway tile, probably to about here. It’s like, it’s like a little wash patient with a wand. So like people can come in from the outside. Here’s a side door. They come in from the outside, wash their kids muddy boots off. they wash their dog off from running around in the mud. And it’s a huge, huge selling point. It really is. I found that like when you do stuff like that, you know, people hate to say it on your YouTube channel. People care more about their dogs and their own children. Yeah, so that’s exactly that’s, I think that’s a good point to end on. So yeah, man. Anything else you want to run through? find you on social media? Are you on Instagram? Nope.

No, I’m on Instagram and YouTube at Jared LinkedIn keyed up here on the screen. I do a lot on Instagram. I’m putting a big focus on putting out a lot of content there. It is very hard to be as busy as I am and without a D ROC following me around maybe I can hire you for a few weeks. But yeah, man, I just put a focus on putting out really cool free valuable content. There’s a lot of real estate investors out there that have some bs course or you know mastermind they want to pull you into where you know, you’re not getting the value. Like most of the real estate stuff. You can find either online for free or on bigger pockets.

I’m self taught. I’ve never had to buy a course or anything. Obviously I went to law school so I understand contracts and stuff, but like real estate family, nope, nope. Nope, no one of my family’s in real estate. I just got to prove to get my broker’s license in California. So I’ll be a broker attorney investor, you know, I’m 30 I’m 32. So I’m just getting started, man, I got fire under my ass.
Yeah, for sure. Thank you very much. Absolutely. And we actually update this once everything’s remodeled once you come back. So typically what Jerry has been doing is flying in from California, maybe once a month, once every couple weeks. Would it be cool if we ran through this once everything’s updated? Hell yeah. We got a bunch more videos to make, I think. Yeah. And if you want to have any questions about real estate or investing in my company, just DM me on Instagram, follow me, you know, totally cool. Perfect. Thank you so much. See ya.