Is Flipping Houses Dead? Is Cash Flow Once Again King?
The Flip is Dead: New Rules of Real Estate Investing
No More Flipping Houses? Are Real Estate Investors going back to the fundamental Buy-and-Hold strategy?
The real estate market is still dominated by foreclosures, pre-foreclosures and other distressed properties, and as opportunistic investors, we can’t ignore short sales, foreclosures, and defaulted note buying. One thing seems to have changed and that topic is about flipping houses for a quick profit. Whereas the preferred exit strategy used to be flipping a property or note for a quick profit, that strategy no longer works in many cases, due partly to new federal rules such as HAFA and HAMP, restrictions on same-day transactions, seasoning requirements, and general market factors.
Cash(flow) is King Again
However, there are other reasons that aggressive investors are looking beyond the quick flip–and that’s because buy-and-hold returns are so good right now. All of a sudden, investing for cash flow never looked so good. (Robert Kiosaki is smiling and nodding…)
Like everything, the current situation creates new winners and losers. The real winners seem to be well-capitalized investors who can pounce on these distressed properties–either by buying at auction, buying REOs, or by acquiring non-performing notes with the intent of getting access to the underlying assets. (This last strategy, a favorite among hedge funds, is probably the least understood method of picking up distressed real estate, and we’ll go deeper into in a future article.)
The losers may be individual investors who know the local market well but who either don’t have ready investment capital or who can’t let their cash get tied up for months or years in a buy-and-hold scenario. Solutions for these investors may involve teaming up with private investors as “bird-doggers” or partners. Plus, it’s an exaggeration to say that house-flipping is absolutely dead. It’s not. It’s just getting harder and harder, and the returns often aren’t as good as they were in 2008 and 2009.
What do you see happening out there? Are you still able to flip houses profitably? Or is the Flip dead as a viable Real Estate investing strategy? Add your comment to the pile below…
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The super quick flip is dead as long as every time a property changes hands and a new mortgage is taken out. This is because lenders and the FHA is requiring that a property and/or loan be held for a period of time before it can be sold again.
If you are a property locator it doesn’t change how you work. It may just mean there are fewer investors that are in the game today.
I agree with @Jack. I was never a big fan of quick flips.. However its just me, not everyone thinks like that in my office.