Did I Lose On This Deal? 🤷♂️ | Wholesaling Real Estate
November 10, 2022
What's up guys? My name is Graylan Stewart virtual whole cellar flipper buying the whole guy innovations, Creative finance. We'll see investor. So, thanks for joining me. This is a video I did about this house several months ago about potentially losing money. Now I refuse to lose money on the deal. So, the only real way you lose money on a deal is, if you bought it and then you're in it for more than it's worth and you sell it for that for a loss. Right? well, I'm not selling it. I definitely am at this point in it for more than it's worth. Sorry, motorcycles passing by. Don't mind me just YouTube video. No problem. okay, so as you can see it's fully remodeled now the outside looks amazing.
we are in November now, what is today? It's like the eighth or so 10th. I don't even know we're close to mid-November. At this point, I bought this house of June of 2021 so we didn't technically started until January, but nevertheless, it's taken us almost 11 months to complete this project. Now there was a lot more to it than anticipated originally because at first I thought I could get the deal done for about 50,000.
So, here's the numbers currently and I'm not done spending money all the way, especially since it's actually gonna be an Airbnb. So, there is ongoing costs. However. at this point, here's the numbers. Okay so I bought it for 100 and 1000 plus closing costs. I wasn't for +103 after closing And at this point I put about 148 into it.
So, do the math on that a minute for I don't know to 60 Is that right? Yeah about 2 60 or so. Somewhere in that ballpark. Now a few months ago as you know today the market is changing right? It has changed it's going down right? Not a ton but it's changed at least 20% in this area. So, I think this house was I could have pushed $300,000 A. RV probably at one point. But as of now probably lucky if it's 2 42 to 50 right now. And theoretically honestly the the actual Air B when I compare this out about three months ago was about to 68 or so.
Somewhere in that ballpark. So basically, I was at a break even then but now that the market shifted a little bit, it's probably closer to 2 40. Somewhere in there. If I'm lucky now I have a private money loan on this property for the first year was only 3%.
So, I had it really low Once it rolled over she did it for seven but only six months the second time.
So, I rolled it over in June obviously this year. So basically, I have till the end of this month before my note expires again. So luckily we are 99.9% done with this house ▪ ▪ Located 99.9 still got some things in the backyard since it isn't Airbnb making fun ▪ loud truck, ▪ ▪ trying to make it fun back there, got a horseshoe game set up, got three different wind sales, got outdoor furniture, got a grill, got cornhole set, so it's gonna be a fun, you know backyard, just a little destination three bedroom, two bath house. So originally I like I said I thought I could do this deal for 50 grand but I didn't realize that the back add on was completely terribly done wrong and incorrect. So, we literally tore that down all the way rebuilt it from foundation up and the rest of the house, it was the old school plaster, you know, I probably could have just dealt with it but the contractor I use is really particular and ancient lee slow, I don't know if that makes sense but he's super slow and it just took way longer than it ever should have.
So nevertheless, we ended up stripping it down mostly to the studs and I mean the finished product looks amazing. so, he is the best contractor I've ever used. He's literally three times more than I've ever spent on any contractor and he's probably at least three times slower. So that's a bad combination. Three times more and three times slower means six times more expensive I guess. So yeah, I spent 100 and 48 or so out of pocket. So far actually that's not even right. I spent 100 and 48 this year. I spent about 20,000 on it in 2021. So, I think I'm in it for 1 68 plus the +101103 after closing. So there you go. I'm in it for actually 1 70 is I think or 2 70. But either way I have a, you know local bank willing to do refi,so he's gonna come by Friday and just check it out just to see what all I've done.
And who knows where the appraisal will come in because the way the reef eyes work at least with this bank will give me 80% of the value. So, if he values it, you know, at 2 50 I can't do that math in my head, but to 50 10% of that 25 50 grand would be 20%. So yeah, so if you invited it to 50 I would get 200 loan right. Which means I could pay the 103101 loan back and I would pocket about 100 which isn't everything, you know the goal in this business when you do the bird strategy by rehab rent, refined, repeat ▪ the whole goal in doing the bird strategy is to get all of your money back, you know, or have very little in the deal if possible. It's very rare that I ever have any money left in the deal.
In fact, I don't know that I've, well I just re fired one earlier this week and I've got, I've got money left in that deal because it's one of those other deals, market change stuck with the flip now it's a rental instead. Nevertheless, you know, getting 100 of my money back is better than none of it at least. That's more money I can put to work and I can pay my lender off to because I sure don't want to roll it over again. I've already extended six months. So that's the goal. Hopefully by this weekend he'll be able to do the appraisal and then get the refi situated hopefully about a week later. And worst case scenario closed by the end of November and then, and then, you know, start renting it out. So, the goal is to get it because it'll be done by tomorrow, you know, within the next day I'll finish the backyard. I'm doing it myself. I drove down to Oklahoma City because it seems like the only way I could get these contractors to do work. So, if I'm here pushing them. So, I showed up and you know, got to crack the whip, make sure they're doing their job and not cut corners because I definitely found some things that they didn't do right or that they skipped over.
So, I made them do it right, I wanted to be here for the finish line, right? So, they do have to come back tomorrow to fix a little, you know, blue tape stuff, just touch ups and little odds and ends and then early Friday. So, I'm getting professional cleaning day after tomorrow and then professional pictures Friday morning. So, I hope to get it rented for thanksgiving weekend. That's my goal. And I think I will, it's in a good area where everybody wants to be. It's a three bed two bath house. Really nice 2022 standards. It's got all the fun things for kids. So, I think it'll turn out good. So, the moral of the story is, yes, I am in it for more than it's worth at this point, but I'm not gonna lose money because I'm keeping it, so I'm actually gonna make money, you know, I'm not getting all my money back on the refi, but I'll make my I'll make more, you know, in the long run.
Obviously, Airbnb make more than a rental because I could probably rent this for you know, 16, 1700 a month. And by the time I put a mortgage on it, it's probably gonna be around that price as well. So that's not really worth doing a traditional rent in this scenario. I might be able to push the rents to close to 2000 maybe.
But nevertheless, it's not a great cash flow property at this point unless the Airbnb and Airbnb was a goal all along since I do a lot of business in Oklahoma, have a lot of family in Oklahoma. So, it gives me a place to stay when I'm in town as opposed to having to do you know, hotels and things like that every time. So actually, stay with my son a couple of times as well. But it would be nice to have my own place that I can utilize when I'm here and hopefully make a few $1000 per month in the meantime. So, I'll let you know how that is. But I'll do a full video of of this entire property and break down the real numbers after I refi but then give you the entire before and after pictures and videos because it's a huge transformation.
I mean giant. I'm talking like this was probably one of the worst houses as far as design and layout goes and now it's fully functioning. Great house for any family that would want to stay in Oklahoma City would would love to stay here. So anyways, thanks for joining me. I appreciate you listening to me, let me know your thoughts on this. Do you think I'm doing the right thing? Obviously, I don't want to lose money. I refuse to lose. Never lost an ideal. And I'm not gonna lose on this one, so just gotta keep it for the long haul. And that's the goal anyways, Right? So anyways, thanks a lot. Please like share and subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you guys next time.