Throughout your rehabbing career, especially if you’re in drier, sub-tropical states, you will encounter outdoor kitchen.

In some cases the kitchens are still on good condition. In most cases though, you can actually do away with them because they simply suck. They were awfully planned and designed – if and if they were planned at all – and they will only cost you money. But take note that they can boost your rehab home profit if done right.

Here are two ideas you can use when rehabbing or creating an outdoor kitchen. The first one is making sure water and electrical lines are working. You cannot spend too much time, effort, or money repairing pipes and electrical cords. Plumbing is expensive and electrical lines require pros because of the danger involved. If they are a mess and repairing or installing them would be too much of a burden, Fred and family would have to do with the indoor kitchen.

The other idea for rehabbing outdoor kitchens is installing a new grill. What’s the use of an outdoor kitchen without barbecue? It can do without an expensive, two-door, stainless steel fridge but never without a decent stove and a grill.

And as a final reminder (so that makes them 3 ideas! Sorry, my bad) you can use an outdoor fire pit to complement your rehab homes. Although not a replacement for a grill, it can be used as a focal point of the outdoor kitchen during summer nights.

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Yours truly was reading an article about some top hotel castles. The pictures were amazing, complete with all that chivalrous feel and guess what? Moss. And moss is something that belongs in castles, not in your home rehab.

Such was the inspiration for this entry on cleaning mossy roofs. A home rehab, in some cases, needs a little cleaning on its crowning glory. No need to replace those shingles. But moss is definitely not a turn on and thus, you should take it away from the picture. If you’re going to use a cleaning solution, use non-toxic oxygen bleach. Mix it with water and apply it on the roof. Leave it for 15-20 minutes and grab a brush. If some of it is left, repeat the procedure.

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The business of flipping properties is more or less about finding the right deals. If you don’t have the right deal in hand, the house won’t sell no matter how cheap your asking price is.

That is why you should strive to learn more about getting flipping property leads. Leads, as you know are the name and email address, and possibly phone number, of the people who visit your website. It basically is the “spark.” It is the start of a probable deal.

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Before the free flipping home tip, there’s this thing about Durham, N.C. Yahoo! Calls it a “retiree Mecca.” And the site indeed has basis for doing so.

Let it be clear, in the spirit of full disclosure, that yours truly is not from Durham and does not sell properties there. But based on what Yahoo! says, the place might be a good farm for those who are fixing and flipping houses targeting retirees.

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Before the home rehab blah, I just want to get this out. Just read something about American households failing to recover their wealth and this is something dear to yours truly.

According to the news, households had a net worth of $53.5 trillion in the second quarter of the year, down by $1.5 trillion. Some experts said households would have to acquire 23% more of their current net worth – which is assets less debt – to be able to reach their pre-recession peak. Now I’m not saying it’s all possible through rehabbing houses.

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Here at Rehab-Real-Estate, we emphasize giving your business a brand as early as the opening days. That’s because we believe that branded businesses actually go far. That goes not only for house rehabbing but for any other business.

Take the case of Coca-Cola, this year’s No. 1 in the Top 100 Global Brands list by Interbrand. “They are ruthlessly consistent in the way they deliver their brand. They are a fantastic case study about how to do it properly,” Interbrand group CEO Jez Frampton said. And boy is he right. This applies to rehabbing houses.

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Flipping homes in Austin, Texas, seems to be really exciting. The city is known as the state capital and a host of a numerous international musical events. The ATX, however, could be known in the near future as the city of most affordable monthly mortgages.

If mortgage is low in Austin, then it is an attractive place to be flipping homes. Whether wholesaling houses or rehabbing homes, the city shows promise; at least if we look at the monthly mortgage. According to an online report by U.S. News, the monthly mortgage in Austin, taking the home price median of $197,000 as an example, would be $782! Of course, that’s after making a down payment of around $39,400.

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As of this writing, internet is down in the office and yours truly is typing on a new Word document. There’s a temporary broadband outage and might as well take this time to rant something about making a back-up plan for your fix and flip projects.

In real estate investing, pros call it an exit strategy but really it’s just a back-up plan. Sometimes Plan B. Basically, it’s something that you can effectively do to save the deal from being a total wreck. And when you’re in the fix and flip business, or even just in wholesaling houses, you should have one or two exit strategies.

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Ever wondered what it meant when seasoned pros say that “for rent” signs can actually serve as leads for your fix and flip business?

This is one method of lead generation that is often overlooked by investors, especially those who lack courage to talk to other people. But when you are in the fix and flip business, or rehabbing in other words, you must explore all possible sources of deals. Landlords are actually some of them.

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In real estate investing, they say the “perfect strategy” actually varies from market to market. And when you’re flipping a house near one of the world’s most beautiful college campuses, well, let’s just say you have a “library” or options to choose from.

Here at Rehab Real Estate, as you may have noticed if you’re a follower, surveys about colleges always come out here. Although not directly related to real estate investing and flipping a house, it’s undeniably one of the strongest driving forces for investors – their children’s education that is. And recently, there was this feature on the World’s Most Beautiful College Campuses. And at the end, you’ll see some of your options when investing in these areas.

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