Before and After House Flip on a Disgusting Foreclosure With All the Numbers 

He left his safe...that he kept his drywall in. 😂 Your delivery of some things is just freaking hilarious!!

It starts at 6:47. You're welcome

"See, I got a haircut" hahahaha! I love these types of videos. Not often you see people be SO transparent when it comes to house flipping! Keep up the great work!

This ones pretty bad...but I had one worse back in 2017. It was a foreclosure, vacant for 3 years with squatters living in it, before that was a hoarder house for 30 years. Had to gut it down to concrete floor and block walls...everything else including roof gone, total of 4 roll-offs filled and it was under 1000 sq ft. Paid $50,000..renovations about $65,000... (Total investment) $115,000. Current value $185,000. But, keeping as a rental going for $1100.00 per month.

Great job with the restoration. I’m sure someone out there will buy this little house, but for me it’s a big NO. First a bathroom directly inside the front door, a washer and dryer in a tiny breakfast nook and a CREEPY door in the floor of a bedroom leading to the basement. Um, no.

Wow! I didn't think it could ever look that nice when I watched the before video. Good save!

“ he left us a very beautiful safe......which he kept his drywall in “ 🤣🤣🤣

Amazing transformation, inside and out. Good job. Thanks! :)

I love these videos and cost breakdowns

It turned out better than I expected. The colors flowed really well!

Wow what a difference for $25K! Looks fresh, and the owner got a good deal out of that, also. Extreme before and afters are so satisfying.

Haha when you said 30-40k in the first part of the video I thought you were tripping. I was thinking 60k and I really appreciate the sharing of the true cost of the “flip”.

What a beautiful transformation! I love it. It looks amazing! :)

Mark, you are a good scout! Leave it better than you found it. I admire your ethics. Take awful, to so so houses and turn them into real, lovely homes. Happy holidays!

You got new subscriber!Love your videos. Very helpful.

If I bought that house sight unseen, I would cry when I saw it and then walk right out. My OCD is going crazy right now. Nasty house, how can anyone live like that?

Grat video, thanks.

Great flip!!

Do you ever use bio hazard services? My own house was dirt cheap for you-guess-reasons and it wasn't as bad as this one here, exception being a blood splattered bedroom wall, but still, before I put so much as a key in my new house, I brought in bio-hazard. Using bio-hazard services left me assured my home was habitable, bug free, drug free, disease free, etc (removing all carpets, heating the house and drying it out was part of their week-long work, no stone unturned).

It never ceases to amaze me how some people actually live !! The amount of junk and crap all over the place sometimes just shocks me that someone could live like that.

Thank you for your videos Mark. I really don't know how people can live in such squalor, how they can be so dirty...

Absolutely awesome!

I will never understand how someone can live in squalor. 🤢

Nice work.

I like Before and Afters, and real numbers. And the haircut! Wow there is hoarding, and then there is filth hoarding.

I'm a legal secretary at a law firm which handles foreclosures for the largest bank in our county, and we almost never encounter 3rd-party bidders at foreclosure sales in our area. It's much easier for us and our clients if the would-be 3rd-party bidders make arrangements with the bank after the bank gets title to the property. We've had a few foreclosed houses in similarly sad shape to the one in your video, and it always amazes us that the defendant didn't move out a lot sooner, given the poor condition of the house.

I'm amazed by the price differences in various places in the US. Where I live, this house would fetch a high range of $95K. Amazing.

Oh my god! Ypur flipping houses in colorado!? I'm in greeley so these are awesome videos to see the numbers on!!

Sad that people live like that! Move the exterior back door in the nook....

I love that detached garage

A shame you had to put laundry hook up there ... and thus losing that sunny little breakfast nook. May have been better to adjust kitchen to fit washer/dryer in that hallway to back door.

Well you did a fantastic job on the flip. Looks great on the inside, not crazy about that basement floor. Though I lived in a house in St. Paul,MN that had the basement door in the kitchen. The house is small and the cost was ok but who knew that in Colorado way out in the boonies real estate could cost that much. Glad you made your modest but clear profit. Tom in Minneapolis, MN 9/13/19 Full moon and Friday the 13th.

I love the bathroom off the livingroom

Very odd layout. Turned out phenomenal considering.

Nice Soundblaster box at 9:52 I wonder if the card is still in there

Great job on the rehab. But the bathroom right across from the front door is a little weird. Actually, my parents house the hallway door and bathroom door all lined up.

Surprised someone didn’t light the house on fire since it was a dump

You should come to Dalton Georgia and fix up some of these houses, you could get them cheaper honestly! Please think about it we need our town to get back on its feet.

You should have fixed up the basement

My house has water damage. set empty 10 years now. Got it 3 years ago. Trying to fix some of it this year. I am not a well person and it is out of Texas where I am now. It is in Missouri.

It's very strange what people do with stuff, like keeping drywall in a safe? A very expensive safe... Whatever floats your boat I guess. Anyhow, great vid, the house looks fantastic after you got it done. Although, that basement access is really weird.

Why not just put the washer hookup next to the dishwasher for an under the counter unit? If you put a washer/dryer where you installed those hookups, you have nowhere for a table. That bulkhead for the plumbing for the dryer also looks massive! What was preventing you from removing that awkward wall in the kitchen? Why not just remove that back door and do stacked units in that spot if you couldn't remove it?

I guess you couldn't take down the wall between the kitchen and the breakfast nook. It would have opened up the kitchen quite a bit. The refurbished house is so much nicer, although it's strange that the access to the basement is in the second bedroom, but this is not the first time you have shown us a house with the access to the basement in a strange place.

Jesus H Chr!$t a person lived like this????!!! It would be better to put a washer/dryer combo where the dishwasher is going so you’d still have an eating area. I can’t imagine somebody putting a child in that room with access to the basement. House looks amazing, but if it wasn’t a flip it really needed to be stripped to the outer frames & redesigned. The bathroom off the living room is weird, & of course the stair placement.

Omw it's filthy, how can people live in such filth. Can just imagine the roaches and the smell.🤢🤢🤢🤢 Not surprized that there were animals living under the roof, with the amount of rubbish that was inside the house.

Public auctions at the sheriff's office were a lot of fun. We bid on 5 different properties at 3 different auctions. Unfortunately, we always wound up getting beaten by someone else, so we stopped going. Regardless, it was a lot of fun. Also very easy to get caught up in the adrenaline of the situation and bid more than you are willing to pay in your normal emotional state. I recommend to anyone wanting to buy from auction to go to a few in person to watch the process and ask questions before going to actually bid on a property. What he said about every jurisdiction being different is true. And even within the same state, foreclosure sales can be different from county to county. For instance, here in dirty Jersey, Ocean County lists the upset price on their sheriff's list and also allows up to 30 days to pay off the full sale amount, but you have to put 10% down at auction date. In Camden County, the lists do not display the upset price. Camden County requires 20% down at auction and also the 30 days to pay off the remaining. Also, in Ocean County, if there are known liens/judgments on the property, the bank attorney will read them off prior to the auction commencing. However, that is only known liens/judgments. You are obligated to resolve those that may come up later. Camden County doesn't read them off even if the bank attorney or county knows about them. Doing your due diligence for auction properties is RIDICULOUSLY important. Last thing you want is to buy a property at a great deal expecting to make about $30K after flipping only to find you are now saddled with $8K of outstanding liens/judgments you should have known about had you done your homework.

Someone forgot to paint the wall were the dishwasher goes, look like mold

Jan, I enjoy seeing you in your natural elements, enjoy your recipes & girl, you could be my sister. I put my hair up as you do & am into simple recipes. Thankyou for your program. Never mind those "Nay Sayers." Love you.

Hey Mark, have you heard of Ben Mallah and the show he's on: Life For Sale? I think you'd love it!

I wonder what it would have cost to add an extension to the house that just served as an entry to the basement to get that door out of the bedroom.

Looks like a teardown

The front door really needs to open the other way. I understand why you did the washer hook up the way you did but it blocks that area just enough to make it unusable. Better to turn the whole attachment into a laundry area by moving everything closer to or under the windows.

Holy cow, I was born in weld county, lived in Eaton

It looked like another avenue to that bathroom would have been a priority...

I passed my class test now waiting for my certificate for my state test

You do know the washer or drier would be siting on top of an hvac vent right?

Damn! Turned out nice! You should just do remodeling!

That bathroom sink and toilet are absolutely disgusting . I am not a clean freak by any means but my sinks and toilets have never looked like that.

LOL This is definitely not as bad as the Potter's House but congrats. And the gun safe at 11:30, I think the previous owner trashed the safe's interior drywall when leaving it out of spite instead of trying to move it.

The 10% rate interest paid. Is this 10% prorated to 5 months out of one year?

Such an odd layout! I mean, the bathroom is the first thing you see and so far from the bedrooms. Even weirder is the new laundry and dining and kitchen!

Trying to get into this business, question for ya. Will you always know the leans on the house? Someone told me if you buy the foreclosure they won’t disclose if they have any money due and you have to miraculously take on the expenses after agreeing to buy it. How true is that? Sounds odd to me.

If it was me, I would of torn out that useless wall between the back door and the breakfast nook. It is wasting space and and would give the breakfast area a more open feel. Just look at it again.

Where the washer/dryer hookup is so odd, but that being said, there is no way I would ever go into the downstairs area so the hook ups had to be moved upstairs. Good call on that, it is just such an inconvenient place.

How long did it take to sell ? But I still say that’s still a good way to flip money

Do you recommend to use vinyl plank for the bedroom floor?

I thought you have to short sale to get the difference back? Maybe differentiates by state?

I can’t believe someone would buy this house like this it crazy so glad I don’t live in this area. You could never sell this property in my area.

How do people live live like this ?.. no pride !!

That toilet before 🤭🤢😳

Wait a minute... wait a minute... what??? Someone was living here right before you bought it??? Wtfff that is sooooooo gross how the hell do people live like this???

HOW CAN PEOPLE LIVE LIKE THIS!?! This is why you can’t trust people, like you would never know. 🤢

couldn't that short wall between the back door and the nook/laundry room have come out? Also what was with the ceiling in the spare bedroom, looked really rough?

Was that a shelf for a train set in the living room? Why didn't you keep it? LOL.

Mark, this is off topic, but you mentioned Frederick in the video and that made me wonder... Last year the Watts case happened. What happens to houses when a terrible tragedy happens. Will someone buy it cheap? How does it affect the property? And would you buy it to flip or would you pass?

I hate where the washer and dryer is now!! Also in the bathroom where the sink is, looks like it's in front of the toilet... THOSE TWO THINGS I WOULD DEFINITELY FIX!!!!

133k for that sounds insane. im from the midwest....

Was the wall in the kitchen structurally important why you kept it?

I personally would have put the washer dryer hookups in the room with the stairs and made it a laundry room with linoleum, not carpet. Would have made way more sense.

Can we just talk about the sink with all the brown stuff in it 🤢

I think I got hepatitis just looking at that toilet!

I'm glad you kept the tree. The place looks nice. If I lived there, well, I'd do a lot things, but I'd I make the small bedroom into a utility room, and move the laundry hook-ups over there.

Why did not you just close that basement hole and made another one somvere else? It is a wooden floor from what i saw.

What is that big empty space as you enter good for? Why didn't you knock out the wall on the left and extend the bedroom? Only 800 square feet and you waste a good 40 or 50 on a glorified mud room.

Nasty! How can people live like that!

Do you/can you do a 1031 tax free exchange so that you don't have to pay capital gains??

Repairs $42,000 only for all that damages? is it a normal price for anyone or Experts investors knowledge and contracts with special fixing companies? thank you for answering my question

One topic you fail to mention is the Capital gains tax for selling property with a non-homestead status. Capital gains taxes is something you can't avoid paying. The government has toget there share.

There's a cat walk near the ceiling.

Whats the reason they dont let Anyone see the house before bid?

Yeah he ended up making $30K in five months from one property, that's about $6K per month. That's I assume after paying his staff.

Very odd having the bathroom opening into the living room. Could you have rearranged the living room and bedroom?

Is that the drywall from the hole in the bedroom?...maybe he was hiding evidence in the safe.

Mark. How do you get animals out the roof.

I want to buy a house I'm Brazilian and married to a Spanish man. Is there any way I can buy with the passport as documentation

Feng shui in that house is a -3/10

These type of people need to live in a assistant living place, they can’t take care of themselves!

House shows up at 6:36

Am I weird because I can actually SMELL it as he walks through?? 🤣🤢😷.

8:37 someone named Kyle must of lived there