Maybe you’re an HGTV addict.  Perhaps you’ve attended a ‘teaser’ seminar, and don’t want to spend $30,000 on a training course.  Or maybe you’ve always been interested in making old houses beautiful again… whatever the case, you’re ready to flip a house in Grand Rapids!

This is great.  Fixing up house, increasing it’s value, and making the neighborhood more beautiful can be very satisfying.  However, if you’ve never done this before, the process may feel overwhelming.  There are a lot of steps to a successfully flipping a house, and it can be helpful to have some guides along the way.

Here are some great resource books to get you going.  We have read each of these, and aren’t being paid to ‘shill’ these… they are just good resources to help you on your journey.

 1.  FLIP – By Rick Villani and Clay Davis

This is an excellent book, which will walk you through the entire house flipping process.  There are solid sections on finding and analyzing properties, running the project, selling strategies, and more.  Some sections are extremely detailed, while others have a wider focus.

This is a book you can read once front to back, and then refer to consistently.  It has very nice diagrams, examples, bulleted lists, and more to make it digestible.

This is a thick book, and the sheer amount of information in it can feel overwhelming.  However, don’t let that scare you!  This book is built to be comprehensive, and you don’t have to learn everything in a week.  Just take your learning (and your flips) one step at a time, and refer back to the book as necessary. Continue reading “4 Great Books to Get You Started Flipping Houses in Grand Rapids” →