Welcome to Our First Blog!
This is our first blog post! We’re so excited to be able to document this journey, and have all of you along to hear it!
We will update this blog twice a week and we hope to make it as interactive as possible. We’re excited for you to be apart of this with us!
In the past couple months we have had a lot of business brewing.
We just finished our first flip ever in August and are ready for someone to call it their forever home.
At the time we started this first project, we thought it was a lot to take on, but our business has grown and we’re ready for more.
What We Have Been Up To:
This month we are starting work on two houses! That’s right two houses.
We thought we better kick it up a notch and that’s exactly what we did.
The first one we have named cozy cottage it’s such an adorable house and we have so many ideas for it.
The second house, which we just closed on on the 7th, is named boho.
This one has a lot of really cool features and you’re going to want to take a peek as soon as its finished.
We’re also working on a house in Underwood, North Dakota.
We’ve named this one Rustic Home and are excited to be finished with this one as well.
Along with those three houses, we bought a condo in Orlando, Florida.
We have started renting it out as an AirBNB, so if you ever need a place to stay in the area, give us a call.
We’d love to have you.
So as you can see, we have our work cut out for us, but we just know they’re all going to turn out great.
Maybe one day Cozy Cottage will be yours. Or maybe The Rustic Home is more of your style.
Either way, we’ll be here to make sure that this house is your dream home.
Follow along for more detailed blog posts about each one of our projects.
Thanks for coming along!
Trip to California
As many of you saw, we recently took a trip to Costa Mesa, California for the weekend to meet our Homeschooled mentors Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa!
This was the greatest experience!
We got to meet Tarek and Heather Rae as well as hear from them live!
We also got to meet some of our classmates and friends we have met through Homeschooled.
It was intense training with a ton of really cool information.
We came home with so many more ideas and so much motivation to start them!
We are so thankful to Tarek for this amazing program and what we have learned through the mentorship so far.
We came back to lots of snow, very sad, but predictable in North Dakota.
And we got to work finishing up our two houses in Bismarck!
From our latest posts you’ve seen that Cozy Cottage is done, and the Boho Home is well on its way too.
We’re excited to experiment with our upcoming homes, with the tools that we learned while in Costa Mesa.
Check back for exciting updates soon!
Snow Day!
Well if you guys didn’t hear, which probably wouldn’t be possible unless you don’t live in North Dakota, it snowed!
And not just a little bit, but a lot!
In total we got a little bit over 20 inches.
Because of this all of the roads were closed, which means we had to put our plans on hold.
We have made progress on a couple of our houses and were planning on taking pictures of them for you guys, but we couldn’t do that.
We also had some plans in store for remodeling those couple houses, but since we could not get to those houses, we had to put that on hold as well.
It was definitely very frustrating at first, but the long weekend turned out to be a well deserved time to relax for us.
We do have some exciting news however, we accepted an offer on one of our houses!!
We cannot wait to give you guys all of the details and we are so excited to be selling this house.
Much much more to come, stay tuned!
Recap
Well, 2022 was definitely a year!
There were many ups and many downs and a lot of difficult decisions that we had to make.
But it lead to so many amazing things for our business, and at this time all we can say is that we are so proud of what we have made over this last year.
We thought that with 2022 coming to a close, we would go over all of the amazing things that we accomplished this year!
The first thing that we ever did, that was actually in 2021, was buy our first house. But we really didn’t get to start working on it until early 2022.
This house was so challenging, the most challenging out of all of the properties we’ve bought yet.
And it was only the first one!
It taught us many lessons about how we need to run our business and the difficulties that would come up.
This house was also the most difficult to sell, but in early December, it finally sold!
The second was our second flip, Cozy Cottage.
This project moved very quickly, and because of that we were able to make this house the second one sold!
Along with Cozy cottage, we also purchased the Boho house, and the Modern Farmhouse.
Those are still being worked on but are coming along very quickly!
The third thing that we did was buy an AirBNB property in Orlando, Florida!
This property has been very fun so far as we get to experiment and be much more creative in this home.
And we get to hear all of the different feedback from our guests!
This is helping us learn how to design more than just the AirBNB but also the homes that we plan to sell.
With everything that we have accomplished this year, we are still hoping and planning for more.
In fact, we have so many things in store for 2023.
Stay tuned to see all of the exciting things, let’s see just how far we can go!
Sold Our House!
This weekend we had some exciting things happen.
A family decided to buy our first ever flip!
We loved working on this house, and have given it a lot of love but it is time to hand it over to a loving family.
This house was the start to our whole business and all of the success that we’ve had.
We owe so many things to this project and will always find ourselves reminiscing on this home.
There are so many more things to come for Flipping Dreams and we cannot wait to have you all along with us!
Thanks for being here!
Celebrate!
As you may know if you have been keeping up with our facebook or instagram, we very recently just sold the first flip we ever did!
And no, this is not the first flip that we have sold, but this is the house that started it all.
We are so proud of it and owe this house so much.
But for now, we are headed down to Cabo in Mexico to celebrate!
We didn’t originally buy our plane tickets just because we sold this house, but it was very good timing, so why not!!
We’ll be sure to update you all on our trip and share pictures with you all!
Thank you for your support!
Homeward Bound
We had a wonderful time celebrating in Cabo this past week!
While we were there we got the official news that our first flip is completely out of our hands.
It has gone to a lovely family and we couldn’t be more proud of the work we’ve done. But now we are on our way back home to the blizzardy tundra of Bismarck.
We truly are excited to be back, because we have work to do!
Our 2 houses in Bismarck and our one house in Underwood need some loving.
So be ready to get back to hearing all about our updates with the homes.
Thank you for sticking around for all of it, and we’ll get back to you soon.
Potential Properties
We recently finished renovating all of the homes we own.
With the Modern Farmhouse being sold and the Boho House being rented out, we’re in need of a new project.
This past week we looked at two potential homes to rent out once renovated.
The first was a two plex with a roomy backyard, and the second was a fourplex with a fully furnished unit.
We promise that if we end up purchasing these homes we will have lots of pictures for you all to see.
We liked them both so far and we are currently weighing our options!
If you have a home that you’re looking to see or to rent out let us know!
New Projects!
In our latest blog post we told you that we were looking at two potential homes.
Well a little update on that, we did not get the 4 plex as we were hoping for, but we did get the 2 plex!
We are not sure how much we will be updating on the 2 plex, as there are tenants at the moment.
But we will definitely be working on that in the future.
If any of you see anything in the Bismarck area that you think we would do a good job with, feel free to message us!
We are eager to get a new project started soon!
Homeschooled By Tarek Conference
We are currently on our way to Arizona!
We are attending our program’s conference!
We work with Tarek El Moussa in his program called Homeschooled By Tarek.
You might have seen this hashtag in our instagram posts.
But this weekend we are going to meet up with our friends we’ve met through this program, and learn more to build better houses!
We will be sitting in with Tarek and listening to all of his pointers and tips to help us create a better home, and it is our hope to take it back with us!
We are so excited for this trip and all of the cool things that will come from it!
Conference in Arizona
Well, as you probably know if you’ve been following along with us, we just got back from a trip to Scottsdale, Arizona.
We were attending the Flip Summit with our program Homeschooled By Tarek.
We were there for 4 days and it was so fun! We learned a lot of new techniques, people skills, marketing skills, and much more!
We also got to connect with our friends through the program, who live states away.
We are making connections and drawing up plans for investments in the future.
Speaking of investments, we have another 4 plex that we are going to look at soon!
Fingers crossed that we start working on a new project soon!
We’ll update you all later, thanks for tuning in.
Decisions Decisions …
Well, as you probably know, we have been on the hunt for new projects.
With the interest rates going up, it has been difficult to find a house to flip, so we are leaning towards rentals.
We have looked at a couple of different 4-plexes so far, and we are making some decisions on those tonight.
But our goal is to find a new home to fix up for a new buyer.
If you see any home in Bismarck that you want to see fixed up, give us a call!
And if you know someone with a house that needs to be fixed up, or you are that person, reach out!
We buy as is, all cash and on your timeline.
We will update you soon! Thank you all!
New House!
We have made the decision to purchase a new home.
Well, more like 4 homes… We bought the 4 plex!
We were looking a a couple different ones, but we had our heart set on the one in Central Bismarck.
It is cozy and laid out very well, with a surprisingly spacious kitchen area!
We cannot wait to show you photos, and even more, get started on the project!
We are thinking of doing a mid-century modern style for this property.
This will be taking it back to our roots with our first ever home! We are excited to be able to perfect this style, and make this a home for many people to come.
Check back soon! We will update you later.
Slowly But Surely
It has been a little bit slow lately with progress in our houses.
We have been focusing on our Rustic Farmhouse especially, along with the new apartment complex.
If you haven’t heard, we named our new apartment complex Mid-Century Modern.
Unfortunately, we will not get to start working on it until the end of this month.
But! We are already drawing up the plans, and getting things moved into place for a speedy renovation.
We are also so close with the Rustic Farmhouse!
Hopefully just a few finishing touches left until we can rent it out!
We will try to get things moving, and we promise to update you all soon.
On the Lookout!
We have had a couple of opportunities to go look at houses recently.
We saw a lot that we liked, as well as a few things that we just weren’t sure about.
We have had to pass on a couple of houses for a few different reasons, and we are on the hunt for a project that will work out!
If you or anyone you know is planning on selling their house, reach out to us!
Comment down below or click our contact us button below.
We would love to get to take a stressor off of your hands if possible.
We are super excited for what is to come, and we promise to update you as soon as possible!
