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So this is one of the barges right here that landed in somebody’s yard look at this a hoarder house this all right I got a mask up you got the door open and then essentially Beyond um what the roads I had a guy that came out here to

Do uh the junk out he walked in here was like peace and he walked out so you’re trying to navigate how to buy a house and you’re wondering what side not buy the houses to never buy so in this video I’m going to talk about that and if you

Watch my last video of houses to never buy I think it was like 200,000 views so I had to go in depth on this because I know y’all are out there trying to figure out all the landmines that can happen and buying a house and it cost you thousands tens of thousands of

Dollars if you mess up got to make sure you have good quality guidance on this and I’m here to help you so let’s get right to it so go back and watch the last video if you have not I talked about the type typ of houses as in

Structure builds that you shouldn’t like that you shouldn’t go after like for example flat roof houses Mobile Homes can be tricky modular homes can be tricky it’s all an insurance game houses are Insurance games I talked about some of the flood issues fire hazards that you can run into the structure stability

Of certain houses and kind of know what you’re looking at and knowing when to walk away so the first one I want to talk about right here right now is going to be flood zones and this can be a lot of different types of flood zones this

Could be you live in a water a basin you live on the beach you live uh in some type of flash flood environment something with the the core of engineers uh has floodgates that they randomly let open uh any type of situation where they might have to disperse water and you

Happen to be in that area mortgage is going to force you to carry flood Insurance in some of these situations especially like on the beach or living near the water near the river things like that you got to be aware of these things that you might have to carry

Flood insurance on top of your home Insurance’s yard look at this washed up from over there all the way from the three mile bridge this is the same type of barge that took out a three mile bridge The garon Point bridge H the nas bridge and almost took out the I 10

Bridge that is nuts can’t believe they let that happen and know that at any given time whether you’re AE or any of those type of flood zones that your house could wash away and knowing that what the 500e flood Mark or whatever is in your area is

Important cuz you could wake up and be staring at water coming up your front door I have seen here on the Gulf Coast literally water up to people’s door knobs I’ve seen it uh happen in an instant we got a rain one time and it flooded half of downtown Pensacola I

Think got like 30 in in like 24 hours randomly just on a random you know Summer Night came down and just flooded over I think it was summer it could have been more my point is that it was just a random event flooded a lot of houses it

Was unexplainable so you got to understand these things before you buy go to the FEMA map scroll around look at the address and see and have an idea of whether you’re going to have to carry that insurance or if that insurance is going to be enough hey it’s one thing to

Carry flood insurance recuperating from a flooded house is totally different okay yeah you got a check in your hand but you don’t have anything else and you got to think about that the Gul Coast living by the water on the beach it’s a big deal and when you’re steering down

The barrel of a cat 3 hurricane it is a big question mark to whether your house is going to stand up for it are you offgrade do you have a seaw wall is a seaw wall in good shape if the seaw wall buckles is a the sand going to melt away

Is the water going to float through your house or around your house is it lots of things to think about and these are the situations that you got to be cognitive the next one I want to talk about is new builds okay new builds new builds new

Builds can be like wow I am defly afraid of buying a new build for myself and I’ll tell you why because I have sat there and watched some of these Builders throw these houses up and they set open for weeks months and sometimes you see them and they’ve got straight up mold on

Them and they’re closing the walls in or they’ll frame it out and then throw a roof on it and it rained the day prior and then they throw the walls up and you know that all that humidity is trapped in that house or that you see the wood

That they’re framing is so soft that the nails are literally splintering the wood CU they’re putting so many nails in it there’s just so many things that I’ve seen in some of these new builds that just frighten me and that the Builder will always try to scare you in into oh

You don’t need a home inspection or oh we won’t let the home inspector on the roof or oh we won’t have this or we won’t do that you’ve got a year to tell us all the things that are wrong with it do not do that okay make sure you go

Through a stepbystep process if you’re looking to build buy a new build go out there and kind of walk the area prior to buying the property like when it’s getting framed and then once it’s together make sure you get a home inspection if you can get a a pre closed

Wall inspection like before they put the sheetrock on that’d be great and then a post um make sure you go through all the process of making sure it is dressed right dressed CU I tell you you don’t know what’s in those walls after it’s up and then once you close and that builder

Takes off or goes out of business or goes bankrupt or they re uh organize their structure you might never see them again and you’ve got this $400,000 hunk of junk that nobody is willing to really help you with I’ve seen many many home builders that there’s a sinkhole or

There is some type of erosion problem in the neighborhood and sometimes they throw these these new builds up on some pretty random random uh ground like like like here in Navar like a lot of that’s a swamp Okay Gul Breeze a lot of is a swamp you got to know where you’re

Buying these new bills it doesn’t mean that it’s correct I’ve seen many septic tanks uphill from from the actual house itself and those can call Pro cause problems make sure you do all your inspections on new builds make sure you have a good agent and don’t just go to

The the Builder agent on duty and think you’re not going to be taking advantage of those contracts for new builds are built for the Builder to win not you I highly suggest you have your own agent in the deal don’t just go with the other side cuz the Builder will pay for the

The agent as in the buyer’s agent so just be conent of that have your own counsil and if you’re trying to buy a house that’s different like a concrete sphere the UFO house some of these odd different houses A-frames some weird A-frames insurance companies just don’t

Like to do and they can be hard to bind Insurance because they’re different insurance companies don’t like to take risk on different things sometimes the ability to replace it rebuild it refix it is tough like let’s it’s a complete concrete house and it catches fire and let’s say the concrete cracks or

Something to be able to fix that concrete sphere correctly uh with the rebar in and everything that has to happen like let’s say a barge hits it don’t laugh because at the beginning of this video you saw a a bar sitting in somebody’s front yard that was a real

Situation here in pensaco when it hit all our bridges and it landed in people’s yards and it hit people’s houses uh uh there was actually a big lawsuit about it pretty sure it hit actually somebody’s house may or may not don’t sue me for that I’m just saying that is possibility during Hurricane

Sally a sailboat landed right here in the front of our houses so uh if let’s say it hit one of these odd structures it’s hard to fix it um like some of these concrete dome houses you see around Pensacola um insurance companies didn’t really want to touch it because

Of the things I’m explaining and made financing them very tough so when you go to resell it being that most the properties on the beach are financed it can be tough even though it’s probably bulletproof and it’s probably the way you should build a house it’s hard to

Convince the underwriter this also I want to say on this video I am not a home inspector or I’m not a contractor I’m just a guy that does Real Estate a lot and has been in a lot of deals and these are the things I’ve seen and things that I’ve actually

Come upon and I know these answers cuz I’ve actually had to pay for the advice and I’m just trying to help you out uh on your journey here because nobody else is going to tell you these things and I’m here to tell them to you and for

Those out there that don’t like my advice well uh don’t sue me but I’m just trying to help somebody hire your own professional hire your own advice hire your own lawyer hire attorney hire a home inspector do your own research but do your research and you can base it off

Of the things I’m trying to tell you houses that are offgrade with uneven floors I’m going to give you a breakdown on that real quick go to the bathrooms anywhere water is near and look and see if there’s any broken tile crack sloping softness sponginess weirdness anything

Out of the ordinary might mean you could be a lot of random things either be termite damage it could be water damage it could be just wood rot it could just be the house settling a lot of times in old houses you’ll see houses have settled and you will have uneven floors

These are all things that you need to look for if a house shouldn’t have a major slope cracked walls like not hairline cracks like plaster cracks but like like like within like a good you know weird difference when you see that crack I mean it’s defined especially around doors around especially around

Bathroom doors uh around outside doors any door that sticks be weird out by that there’s a reason why the door is sticking you know either the frame is changed or the door is changed or the floor’s Chang something’s changed not unless it’s just it’s been painted 25

Times but just be cognitive of weird Force especially like here’s one on slabs like if you go into a property and it’s on like a sloping Hill or the backyard’s real spongy or it was built kind of like around a creek bed or something sometimes you can see slabs

And like I went in one the other day and there was tile in in the hall and there was a hairline crack down the entire Hall on the tile I knew that there was something wrong with that Foundation I saw another one last year where there

Was two giant oak trees to the left and right of the house and and I got a rule of thumb is you never buy a house with a giant oak tree directly by the house because if you mirror those those limbs underneath the house the the giant oak

Tree uh roots are underneath your house and they will crack your slab I don’t care what anybody says sooner or later your slab is going to be jacked up and this house had been fractured right down the center of the hallway all the way into the living room and the agent swore

Up and down there was nothing wrong with I’m like bro I can see a giant crevice in the floor and so when you see these things make sure you take a step back you either walk away get it for a reduced price or you make sure you have

A good home inspector or engineer come in and check that floor I mean there’s sometimes you can if you’re a a pretty Savvy investor you can can wind up getting these things for a deal and you can fix them but I don’t say that for the normal person just trying to buy a

House like you got to be an expert some of this stuff but with that just be careful structures and Floors can be your worst nightmare mare it can cost you tons and tons of money okay houses on bad Geo Landscapes okay we’re looking at massive sloping uh Lots whether it’s

To or from or let’s say your house is here and and the house in front of you is like up here and then the rest of the houses are above you all that water is going to come down on you if it has not been engineered properly and I saw a

House the other day where all the water came down into the backyard straight into the house and and there was nowhere for the water to go it either came in the house or diverted around the edges of the house and if you ever been in a hurricane and seeing 30 inches of rain

Come down in a day that’s going straight in your house and you got to be cogntive of this even if you’re not on a flood zone you can get some weird anomalies with rain and you’re going to get wet especially it could go in your garage it

Could it could erode the yard to the point where the house could be unstable I saw one the other day I see a lot of weird stuff I saw one the other day where the water came off the roof down a gutter and it was going underneath the

Slab of the driveway and it wound up roding underneath the slab of the of of the driveway and cracking the driveway and then it had started working its way underneath the house because the house was on a d dramatic decline into a golf course I mean it was like the water just

SW kept sweeping underneath the side of the house to the point where it could like actually settle the house liquefication is a really big deal I think that’s how you pronounce it where the sand gets so liquefied in a storm that the house will just start sinking I

Saw another one in East Hill during uh the storm start to sink the tree started sinking you we parked a truck in the in the the the dog on yard and it sank because it was just so much water coming down at one time so be cognitive of of

Sloping yards sloping driveways water coming in on that slope water goes downhill and if you’re at the bottom of that Hill you are going to catch it and vice versa okay here’s one that I wanted to talk about it list Street Pharmaceuticals I don’t want to say the d word because they’ll

Demonetize me here on YouTube If there has been narcotics in the house and they are hard n narcotics as in the fumigating kind as in ones with start with M ones start with c those type of bad narcotics don’t buy the house because the fume especially if they were

Cooking it in there is in the walls it’s in the air conditioning unit it’s in the vents it’s in the duck systems it’s in everything if you go in there and you find a new y you know what pipe somewhere and you know it’s you find one

Under the house around the house just don’t buy the house I know some of the flippers are going to comment down below and if you are capable of doing that buy that pull that off you do you but for me I don’t buy those houses because of the

Reasons I just stated you will never get those chemicals out of that house it’ll be a danger for the next person um if it’s in the air duct system like you’re going to have to rip that stuff out of there to do it correctly especially if

Somebody has died in the house try not to buy a house that somebody has died in and uh decomposed in believe it or not that happens a lot got quite a few buddies that have had people die in one of their houses they didn’t find them

For weeks month okay and they had to cut all the air system out repaint the house cut the floor out had to do a lot of things cost a lot of money cost him $25,000 to bring that house back up to where it should be you couldn’t get the

Smell out I’ve been in a lot of houses as a real estate agent where I know somebody died in the house you can smell it and then they don’t want to tell you because in some states they don’t have to tell you kind of like fire don’t buy

One that’s been on fire I talked about that in the last video but if there has been narcotics in the house to the point where it was a one where they went to use the drugs um you will uh have a lot of problems people get

Sick in the house just don’t do it don’t buy that house don’t buy that house ones where they were selling drugs in it don’t um if you’re going to move into that house here’s another one here’s another one people gonna hate me on this one know this video is way too long but

Um if there was a lot of drug traffic can’t believe I just said that there was a lot of the word d there was a lot of Narcotics being done in the house the cops probably have a history on the house and they’re going to think you did

It for a long time sorry for your law enforcement but they keep a history on these houses and you got to deal with that too you got people coming back to the house months years later thinking they can purchase from the house there’s a lot of issues um you know just be

Cognitive of it if you find bullet holes in the house okay you cogn of that buddy had Bullet Hole go through one rentals the other day you know bullet went right flying through it so these are all indicators to be be very careful of and they happen not trying to here I’m just

Trying to educate I’m here to educate you I am not an insurance agent I am here to help you out these things I have seen and they cost people a lot of money and I’m trying to save you from having those problems so uh be careful of that

That you walk into a house you’re not the Air’s not on you don’t know the the air system is default of or or there’s been chemicals in the uh the vents and the air duct and you might wind up having to tear the whole thing out or

You wind up getting sick and you can’t figure out why okay so the next one houses that have termites or have had termites or could have termites I mean if you see things like dust around window seals like around you see the little tubes going up the sides of the

House get a wdo inspection and hold them to the fire now sometimes if they’ they’re in the walls like behind the sheetrock it’s hard to see them maybe you could hear them wo inspectors have their way but they get in the walls and they’re really hard to find until you find them

Um they can come up the most weird places like like uh we I’m plumbing and make their way up underneath stuff you could have one piece of Ivy hanging down and they make their way up um and then once they’re in they do weird stuff they can totally destroy a house quick now

Some termites take a long time and they could be just one part of the house like a corner or whatever or they could be the ones that work real fast and destroy an entire house really fast um and it can be timec consuming to fix and like

Let’s say if they get on the main joyes sometimes you got to get you got to cut the whole floor out and and redo the joist so be cognitive of wdos you’ll see polar beetles um which usually I know people going to argue with me about this

But if they’re not too too bad uh your House’s fine just look like little pin holes in the wood but uh I’ve bought a couple houses with polar be beetles and it takes a long time for them to really like hurt a house but but uh just have

It treated move on um but have it inspected and make sure the damage isn’t too too bad now roaches rats squirrels and raccoons things like that squirrels can destroy your wiring woo don’t you try to bite me don’t you try to bite me son open the door samanth he’s going

Outside thought he was going to stay he thought he was going to stay they are kind of cute I look at that tail though holy smokes in your house destroy your uh your hxs um real fast and it is wild they will just just I mean you look like

20 grand 15 20 grand to redo an HVAC system the ducking um and uh they’ll just tunnel through that stuff and take up you know a cool spot in your attic you know and uh squirrels bad Rats the the the urine and the feces that get in

The walls you got to cut the sheetrock out and suck it all out and and it smells terrible and then they eat stuff up they’ll eat your uh peex pipes they’ll eat the wiring like they do gnarly stuff so be cognitive of rat problems because that smells tough to

Get out cats okay I’ve had probably three houses where there was 20 or 30 cats in these houses and and the the the urine the musk the the everything in it you can’t get the smell out of the house I’ve seen whole houses have to have their floors cut out from cats

Destroying the floors and the walls spraying on the walls and everything look I’ll I’ll run the video right here this one right here this is what that’s from that this was from cats cat food the lady was a hoarder it was like 30 cats in the house this house had to be

Reduced to almost the ground if you want to lose a property value fast have bad neighbors okay bad dogs bad neighbors drugs violence screaming and shouting people that are just like you’re just like oh my gosh nothing will scare off a buyer faster than that so your resale

Value is going through the floor and you don’t want to live next to that right I mean unless you get the property really cheap and you’re trying to Leverage The Bad Neighbor to get it at a cheap price and then try to get rid of the bad

Neighbor that rarely works okay uh I I usually bad neighbors are there either they’re a tenant and the landlord is vacant and distant and doesn’t care and he got it for stupid sheep and he just lets them stay there but they will make your life a living Nightmare and they

Can be dangerous and you are not going to be able to resell that property when there is a giant you know whatever in the front yard and uh trash everywhere and smells and and they’re not cutting the grass and all these things be wary of bad neighbors whatever it may be they

Come in all types but if you go to a property and you look to the left or right and and your spider senses go off that happens for everybody else that comes up there and your resale value if they’re still there is going to be very hard keep that in mind bad neighbors

Will lose you tens of of thousands of dollars fast not di mention your sanity okay I’m going to make a whole video on this one mobile homes modulars mobile homes are really tough South Florida is a lot of them up here in Northwest Florida we don’t do a whole

Bunch of them um some mortgage lenders some lenders they don’t like to lend on mobile homes you you got a difference between single wise double wides you got big single wides you got big double wides you got small single wides you’ve got them strapped down lock down on

Pilings on slabs like there’s a lot of different things that can happen with a mobile home you got roofs that are weird you got insurance companies that don’t want to buy sometimes the the the price Point’s so low that they don’t want to give a loan for it or the insurance is

Tough because of the price point it’s hard to get an insurance agent to actually write the policy they can just be tricky and you got to know how to navigate that and know how to finance it and if you’re buying it with cash that’s a different story that’s all on you but

Know when you are going to buy a mobile home that resell is going to be tricky because like I just said all those things that I just said apply for when you go to sell it and the buyer has to do the same thing as they get older they

Don’t tend to hold their value as long so you got to know these things mobile homes are tricky and you got to know a lot about mobile homes especially if you’re an agent out there trying to sell mobile homes they are a big learning curve and South Florida has a lot of

Them but it’s totally different than what we have up here um we deal with mostly actual single family stick built block built you know Etc houses beach houses so just be cognitive if you’re buying a trailer or a trailer park that you’re going to have to figure these things out

What lenders like and what insurance agents like because ultimately they’re the game and they hold the cards they set the market add to the weird Landscapes if you live in a fire zone if you live in a Mudslide Zone if you live in a sinkhole area if you live in any of

These places that have some type of environmental risk it’s kind of like flood zones same thing and you got to be cognitive you’re buying in a fire zone or you’re buying into a mud zone or a water zone or a snow Tornado Alley all these things know that you could have these problems

I know I could get hit by a hurricane I know I could hit by a tornado I know that I could get hit by a lot of things nothing I can do about it but I know the risk I didn’t go into it not knowing the

Risk do you live on Nar Beach or you live on some of these little like Uno Island you know that Dolphin Island you know that you could get crushed real fast by or get caught out there with your family I know a lots of people that

Rode the storm out on Pensacola Beach so be cognitive of this okay so the next one I’m gonna say gut jobs when people say gut jobs I’ve done some gut jobs they’re dirty they’re nasty they’re timec consuming and if you’re not handy with a gut job like let’s say you’re

Just a normal husband wife with no experience and you want to gut a house and flip it you’re in for a learning curve because you’re going to find electrical that you didn’t think about I call it the 10% rule going to find plumbing that you didn’t know about

You’re going to find termites you didn’t know about you’re going to find a lot of things and and you got to know how to frame you got to know how to fix electrical even if it’s just minor electrical got know how to fix plumbing and in most municipalities like you can

Go if you own it in your name go pull your own permit and do this work and the inspector will tell you if you’re wrong you can go do that and I don’t care what any of these people say you can go pull your own permit as a homeowner in most

Places you can learn it on YouTube you can go do it do it correctly have an inspector come behind you and see if it it’s correct and you save yourself a lot of money but you got to kind of be able to do this with these these large gut

Job projects or you’re you’re going to be in a money pit so stay away from gut jobs if you’re not really uh uh Savvy or if you want to get Savvy do one I mean when I bought this house I didn’t know how to do anything and I bought it to

Learn and I got to where I could do it all and then the next one was easier and next one easier and you know when contractors are bluffing you or or blowing smoke up your butt because they will take you for a song If you don’t know what you’re talking about

Ultimately you got this is a learning business real estate is a learning thing constantly and you always got to stay a step ahead of everybody else and you got to know more than everybody else to be good at it and that’s what I had to do

So stay away from gut jobs unless it’s already gutted and you can walk in and tell what’s wrong with it um because the demolition can be dirty nasty and dangerous so we to talk about seaw walls I talked about it in the geographical one but seaw walls can come in a lot of

Different ways they can can actually be like a Land wall like with a backyard you got an uneven drop off and you built a wall and you filled in the dirt and and that um be cognitive of that as if you get a big storm or whatever those

Things can wash away and your whole yard can go off a cliff um be cognitive of seaw walls on the beach if it’s your Mainline of defense that your entire front yard could just wash out to see be cognitive of that those things are expensive to build and you know some

Places have permitting and Estuary and environmental like things around what you can build as a seaw wall you got to be cognitive of that stuff just got to know when you see a seaw wall have it inspected if you don’t know what you’re talking about have a uh you know know

Everything about your seaw wall you really have to be Savvy on some of these properties or have a great team real estate agent engineer like all these people in place home inspector to know what you’re looking at because sometimes water can just come in and just take

Things away I mean if you saw what happened on prto key after Hurricane Ivan it went turned you know 20 foot Dunes into a a sand slick you could see for six miles cuz there wasn’t one hump in the ground just wiped the whole thing

Out so just know this and know that seaw walls can get damaged build a good one figure out how you would fix it if something did happen and uh do your best okay if you go into a house and it’s missing walls where walls used to be be

Very aware of that like like let’s say you know people remove the kitchen wall or people remov the living room wall or all things like this and you were on an off-grade house no that that weight has to be spersed somewhere else right well they’re on pilings and all weight goes

To the ground so know that when you took a wall away you destabilize something in the house and if you don’t replace that with a beam or something like that that that house is now weak weaker and in a hurricane your house does like this you

Know and it flexes and if that house was meant to have a wall there well do the math that’s why you start seeing walls or ceiling starting to Sag you start seeing cracks in the ceiling if you walk into a house these random cracks in certain places or you see sheetrock

That’s not quite patched properly you know there used to be a wall there be cognitive of it like you’re not always going to see a permit for them doing this have it inspected and and do your due diligence and if it’s not sagging and there’s not

Any like you don’t see any problems on the top or even if you crawl underneath it be cognitive of it that maybe it was done correctly because there’s no way really on an old house to find a permit for some of this stuff like in state of

Florida after 10 years permits just kind of went away and they’re trying to add them back but good luck with that you got to just look at the house and be like okay it looks right okay we did our inspections there’s no humps in the floor cracks in the floor cracks in the

Ceiling the opening is not sagging okay we’re probably good but be cognitive if there’s a wall missing was it structural am I going to have a problem later ask these things and you should be good all right so to wrap this video up I’m going

To give you my list of things here that I have come upon that keep me up at night when I buy a flip okay Chinese drywall go and research Chinese drywall if you walk into a house that smells like sulfur might be Chinese drywall if

You walk into a house and you see the electrical panel box and it’s rusted might be Chinese gwall it has like a sulfuric thing in it comment down below if you know about this than me but if it has a like some type of sulfuric whatever in the sheetrock and uh it came

From China it was faulty and a lot some houses were rehabbed with it and it cost you thousands of dollarss okay to resheet rock a house and uh sometimes you don’t know it unless your home inspector catches it so just be if it’s in that year group of of Chinese drywall

Be cognitive because that could be your water Li okay uh there was an insulation I think it’s called UPI um that was used for a short amount of time it was sprayed in walls um that stuff is like really toxic they B it in Canada band United States if you see

Like spray foam and older house like just question it um I know they’re spray foam and everything now and they’re probably going to find the same thing out about that stuff later but uh I I’m not sold on the whole spray foam insulation because you can’t get it back

Off but uh be careful of that um it uh it can be a surprise and same thing with as Festus right as Festus is one of those everybody wants to argue about we have a lot of Festus siding houses here um which I don’t have a problem with as

Fest as sided houses as long as you don’t break it it’ll last a long time I’ve owned a few of them um you can encapsulate it with vinyl siding instead of ripping it all out but um a lot of insurance companies don’t like it so there’s really you know it’s that

Whether it’s safe Cool insurance company doesn’t like it’s kind of like aluminum wiring where yeah it works and it’s been there a long time but insurance companies just don’t like it sometimes they catch on fire sometimes they don’t also know the difference between multi Strand and single strand aluminum

Because service wires versus not totally different ball game with aluminum some people don’t know that and sometimes it cost you thousands I told a story about that where home inspector didn’t know the difference between multi Strand and single strand aluminum and they tried to get it make it to where we couldn’t get

Insurance on the house fault stucco okay that was another one like was this faulty stucco years ago so don’t buy a house with that because uh you’ll have you’ll be in for it so Vault stco Google that one can’t talk about all this in a 20-minute video bad Windows talked about that too

Uh bad Windows uh insurance going be a problem within 2 miles of the water and or like the gulf and your heating bill is going to be through the roof and everybody’s like oh I like them because they’re old and beautiful no no okay resell ability good Windows storm

Windows insulated Windows they are awesome they keep the sound out they keep the heat and AC in they’re worth the investment sometimes insurance companies going to make you do it anyways cuz there’s no like wind mitigation there’s no they’re just going to make you replace the old glass to

Like really strong hurricane windows they’re they’re worth it here when you stare down the barrel of 130 mph wind hitting your window okay like this guy right there on that window coming down that road storm windows are worth every penny I saw mine flexing and I thought the wind the the

The window was going to blow out and it was 130 mph winds out there okay that is scary when you’ve got your family in the living room so get good Windows just do it they’re expensive and try to buy a house with good windows so you don’t have to pay

For that okay bad lots and uh weird weird housing layouts those two ones with a half this and a half that and they’re dirt Dober on as my mom would say be be aware of those okay because the resell is going to be wo and then if

You ever have to fix stuff like plumbing and stuff like that and there’s this wonky whatever just be cognitive that you’re buying a property that’s different than all the rest and sometimes different than all the rest is not great and especially with weird lot lines like

Like spherical W with with with a hard angle and you don’t have enough setback to really build anything like a porch or a garage and when you go to resell that property the next person is going to ask the same questions if they’re worth their salt their agent’s going to ask

Those questions so be cognitive of that and it’s hard to talk about about all this in in 20s something minutes but that’s really uh the the the gist of it I got a whole list here I wish I could talk more about it but uh just do your inspections don’t buy odd properties

Don’t buy ugly properties Don’t Buy Ugly Houses and people say well what is the definition of ugly house you look at it and it just looks like huh you know like what like and the Lots like weird and every it’s different than all the other houses just don’t buy those unless you

Get them super super cheap I mean well below cash flow value okay then you can buy those but and i’ I bought one one time and I made money on it but I bought it so stinking cheap why did I buy it stinking cheap because it was

Ugly so just be cognitive of that comment down below if you’ve got anything to add to this so everybody can understand this because buying a house is tricky especially right now when they’re so expensive everything’s so expensive it just keeps going up and up and up so don’t forget to like And

Subscribe comment down below and I’m going to make some more never buy videos like on the beach and in the mountains and things like that hopefully this helps you out I’ll see you guys later

24 Comments

  1. Never buy a house with a shared driveway. I had the neighbor call the police on me because the house I rented had a shared driveway, and I wanted to use it. He thought I had no right to use the driveway because I was a renter.

  2. I owned a house that was in the 500 year flood zone. It was over 80 years old and had never been flooded. Five years in and a fluke flood reached 4 ft shy of the roof.

  3. We have built 3 new houses in the last ten years. We always use our realtor, with us in the sales office, the builder pays them and they are our professional,advocate. If you don’t have a realtor, the builder does not knock the 3% off the price (we have asked), so it’s expert advice that costs you nothing. They have helped tremendously with advice on builders, neighborhoods, codes, options, you name it. We will never sign anything with a builders agent without our realtor there.

  4. When he says “cognitive”, he means “cognizant”. Have your internal translator running while you watch the video.

  5. Yak, you provide very interesting, educational information in layman's terms, which we need (amazing). Just subscribed and I'll be on the edge of my seat watching everything you put out. THANK YOU

  6. I am looking at some really cheap houses in Michigan. They’re all old with good bones, some just need a new roof from the looks of it and by what real estate says. I am a disabled single mom of four. I don’t have much money. I was scammed by movers when I escaped my abusive ex-husband and lost over $30,000, which is what I was going to use to restart my life. I had to rely on the kindness of others for a while to get back on my feet, but I have a little set aside and a retirement account that I was told that I could cash out early if it was to buy a home, so I can buy the house for cash.

    Do you have a website with maybe a list of things I need to do to do my due diligence? Do you have any recommendations? Would you mind helping me and walking me through what I need to do?

    I am in Texas now and going to fly out in a couple of weeks to look at some of the houses in two different towns, but I think I’m pretty much settled on one of the towns. I’ve talked to a lot of the people in the area that have been so helpful and already welcoming to me.

    I just can’t afford to get scammed again and I want to make sure I have enough left over to do any repairs and I want them done right and as close to period as possible. No way am I going to go in and get an old house and just open it all open and make it look institutional. I want a beautiful old home with character. It’s been my lifelong dream and it’s finally within reach.

  7. My dad used to work with disaster relief for the government. ALWAYS GET FLOOD INSURANCE!!!!! The people that needed the help over and over again were in areas supposedly without a flood risk and with climate change and crazy weather patterns we have seen the past couple of years you can’t rely on 500 year flood marks or 1000 year flood marks. That means nothing. It isn’t that much more and it can keep you from losing everything.

  8. All great advice! Banks are financial investment developers and back building developers hiring low ball contractors. The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, as reported by the Committee, repeals the provisions of the Glass- Steagall Act that restrict the ability of banks and securities underwriters to affiliate with one another. Supposedly, after the 2008 bank crash things have changed requiring third party appraisals by AMC- appraisal management companies. Although it appears that municipal property assessors (tax) also do an appraisal. A labyrinth of checks and balances that appears to do neither for the consumer. IDK, tell me I am wrong. Not even a pre-sale inspection can reveal all the dirty deeds. So not even due diligence by the prospective buyer is a guarantee. This system leaves the consumer blowing in the wind.

  9. We had a squirrel cause $5000 damage under our family room addition. The contractor had skipped a step of cementing in by the added fireplace. The squirrel brought thousands of walnuts under the room. Peed and pooped and then died! It wasn’t until it died that we were aware of something being off. We had to pull up flooring down to the studs and have some poor dudes clean out all of the destroyed insulation and nuts and poop. The smell haunts me to this day!
    My husband is handy so he did most of the project himself. It would have been $30,000 if we had hired out all of the repairs and new fireplace.

  10. new build apartments are the same, stay away, not only do they throw them up, but omg they dont even bother to use mold-resistant primer & gloss paint on the walls — this place had flat paint — FLAT PAINT — berlin maryland at ocean city maryland…….talk about palms getting greased……..

  11. Wife and I bought a '59 ranch (with basement) in colorado in '05. It's solid but, oh my, we've made a lot of remodeling changes with contractors and DIY. It's been quite a learning curve and I would recommend not trying to do everything at once. Bits a bobs as the Brits might say.

  12. I have been trying to buy a home for years. There have been many times issues have cropped up on properties and I decided to pass. Off times I though maybe I was just being overly picky. Then I watched your two videos. Thank you for making me feel good about my choices. All these houses had at least one of reasons you state for not buying it. Your videos have been the most helpful I have watched. I can continue looking with a bit more confidence I'll make a good choice. Have a great day and thanks again.

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