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Ep 2: The Wall That Changed a Beaverdale Flip Budget

One piece of drywall turned a $25-a-square-foot rehab into $50 a square foot. What's hiding in your next flip that you haven't priced yet?

Most flips don't go sideways over the purchase price. They go sideways over the rehab number, a guess wearing a dollar sign, borrowed from the last house instead of pulled from the one in front of you.

Neil Timmins just relearned that in Beaverdale, where a bungalow that looked like paint and floors turned into knob and tube wiring behind the basement drywall. One wall changed the whole budget.

The fix is order, not optimism. Mechanicals first, then…

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