BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast - Making Money 7 Different Ways on Each Property (Without Even Owning It!)

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

This investor makes six figures in profit without putting a single dollar into her real estate deals. Using a new real estate investing “model,” Chauncey Pham has cracked the code to make as much profit as possible from a single property. It’s so genius, we’re surprised no one has come up with it before, but today we’re sharing it with you. Chauncey has always been good at sales—clearly, when she replaced her W-2 income in the first three months of being a real estate agent. She saw her investor clients making money hand over fist, and thought, “If they can do it, why can’t I?” So her husband quit to help her try flipping houses. The first deal netted a $60K profit.  That was it. It was time to go all-in. But then Chauncey realized something crucial. In every house flip, dozens of people are getting paid. The buyer’s agent, the seller’s agent, the lenders, the contractors, the stagers, and the title company. This was six figures in expenses that she could be collecting. So, she created a new “model,” what she calls “turnkey house flipping,” that allows her to make six figures without putting a dollar into the deal. This is exactly how she does it. In This Episode We Cover How to make six figures with zero dollars invested in your real estate deals (Chauncey’s investing “model”)  Why Chauncey thinks every investor should heavily consider becoming a real estate agent  The perfect seller script when buying off-market real estate deals (real example) Chauncey’s exact house flipping numbers and how much she makes off of each deal Investors: you need to understand this before you talk to an agent (crucial!)  And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠h⁠ttps://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1256 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

She makes money seven different ways on every real estate deal and never even owns the property. Most real estate investors think in deals. They think buy a property, renovate it, sell it or rent it out. One revenue stream per house. In 2022, Chonzi was flipping houses and accumulating rentals doing 20 deals per year. To make more money, she needed more capital and more contractors and more tenants. And that means more headaches. So she built an entirely new model.

Now she runs a vertically integrated real estate operation. Her clients put up the capital and they keep the profits, but Chauncey takes a cut at every stage of the project, which can often even be more profitable without all of the risk. This business gives Chaunce a unique view of the entire real estate investing ecosystem. Today, she's sharing the lessons she's learned from this rare real estate perspective. What's going on, everybody? I'm Henry Washington. Oh, yeah, and Dave's here too. What's up, Dave?

Don't sound so disappointed. I'm excited to be here. This is going to be a fun conversation with Chauncey today. Yes, I'm super excited too. And honestly, there's probably a lot of real estate investors out there who have the skills and resources to do something like this. And they probably just haven't done it. Today we're talking with Chauncey Fam, an investor in the Dallas market. And we're talking about building wealth through real estate ecosystems, not just properties.

Chonzie's going to show you how to think about real estate as a business with multiple revenue streams, how to source deals creatively without relying on wholesalers, and which pieces of the process you can start monetizing today, whether you're flipping, buy rentals, or doing any other strategy. So let's bring her on. Jansy, welcome to the Bigger Pockets podcast. Hi, thanks guys for having me on. Let's start this off the same way we start off every show. Won't you tell us a little bit about your background and what you were doing prior to real estate? So my background is hardcore, one-call closed-type sales. And then I end up transitioning. into a marketing role. I was an account executive for a marketing firm where I worked with a lot of

C stores and fashion chain. So BCBG, BB, C, Circle K. And I essentially was the liaison between their marketing departments and my company who actually created all of their point of purchase marketing. And so it was really, really cool because I learned the psychology behind marketing in that role. And while I had that job, my husband and I end up buying and selling a couple of primary residences. And our loan officer was like, you'd be really freaking good if you got your real estate license. So I got my license, but I legit got my real estate license because I wanted us to go to Disney World and ball out with the VIP passes and pass. That's why I got my real estate license. So you're like, if I sell one house, then I could go to Disney World?

I can go to Disney World and fall out. And so that's why I got my license. But because I had the sales background and the marketing background within three months of getting in the business, I'd made my entire annual salary in commissions. And so I quit my job and it was off to the races from there. So what year was this when you got your license and then decided to do your actual first real estate deal? So I got my real estate license in 2016. And I just was a traditional realtor from 2016 until I picked up my first investment deal in 2019. So after a year of having my brokerage, which by the way, the root word of brokerage is broken. That's what the hell I was for the whole year and a half at it, because realtors don't sell anything. Okay, let's just, let's get 90% of it don't know nothing. And so I essentially then

move my brokerage, shut it down, and went over to the national brokerage that I'm with now and became the top recruiter within the first year that I was there, brought 400 agents underneath me in that first year was making money off of all of their sales, which then allowed me to get out and start investing. So I started doing that in 2019. Chauncey, we get this question a lot about becoming a broker, real estate agent, before becoming a real estate investor or in tandem with becoming a real estate investor. So what is your advice to people who are considering that path? I 100% attribute my successes and my mindset in being an investor to the fact that I was a

realtor first. Really? 100%. And I would recommend to anyone that wants to be an investor to at least explore getting their real estate license, not so that they can go and sell houses, but so that they can understand the basics of the real estate transaction from the consumer perspective. Because when I started flipping, I knew what it was like to take a buyer to see eight, 10 houses in a day. And at the end of the day, ask them which one they want to put an offer on, and how 90% of

them were completely forgotten because they were all just white, gray, same floor, same trim, same thing. It's all the same thing. They didn't remember any of them. And I knew, I knew. what made them tick emotionally. So I always said, if I start flipping, I've got to find a way to be strategic in creating a product that's going to be memorable for clients and be something that people actually seek out. And 100% that is what has set me apart from everyone else that's in my market. I don't 100% agree with you on the getting your real estate license first thing, but I totally understand that perspective. And I like the perspective of like understanding both sides of the transaction, because you're absolutely right. A lot of investors.

purely numbers focused. The amount of times I've heard flippers say just get a spec sheet and flip the same house to the same spec sheet, same colors, same finishes because it's better for business drives me up a wall. Every house we do is about what we think the buyer in that neighborhood or that particular market wants. And that's what's going to help your houses sell faster. So that perspective on why you should get your real estate license, I think is a pretty cool and unique perspective. and I agree with you. Investors need to learn more about what your customers want. And sure, there's probably some happy medium between like systems processes and repeatability and then still having some form of individuality. But you've got to do it properly. Correct. Correct. I'm assuming as you were doing these real estate transactions as a as an agent, you were like, hey, these investors seem to be making some money. How are they doing this? Like what made you decide I'm going to take the risk and do my own real estate deal? Because it sounds like you were killing it as an agent, right? Yeah. So what made me kind of pivot from just being an agent to an investor is I had an

investor client. He reached out to me. He had a flip that was in a neighborhood that I had sold quite a few listings and was like, hey, can you just go and give me some feedback on this property? It's been sitting on the market and not getting any showings. Let me know. So I went, called him the next day and I said, you know, here's my advice. Here's what's going on. He called me then the next day and said, all right, I've got good news and I got bad news. The good news is I don't have to deal with the realtor that had my house listed. And the bad news is I don't have to deal with her anymore because I fired her. And if you don't take my listing on, then I'm screwed because all my money is in this house. And so I took his listing on and I sold it the very next week

over asking. And from that point on, I became his agent. So I helped him with acquisitions. I helped him on the consulting side. And then when his flips would go on the, they're ready to go on the market, I actually, you know, listed the properties. And I would see every single time that we went to the closing table how much money he was making versus like what my mission was. And I also learned his process. He didn't have a duplicatable process. He literally just was like luck deals were falling into his lap and then he would get it and take it down. And when I would ask him, what's your process of getting these houses?

He had zero processes. And so for me, I said, if this guy can do it and he's making this money, then I definitely can create a duplicatable process and system. And plus, all of these lips are kind of ugly. So I can do it and I can do it better. And so I actually talked to my husband who was basically a C-suite executive. He was our breadwinner, right? I was making great money, but he has the insurance.

He got the job. And I'm like, babe, quit your job and join me. in real estate. And you can open our investing side. And he was like, all right, bet. And he did.

Really? And he did. That's it. Just like that. Literally, it took him a couple of months. He's a sales expert. Yeah.

That's true to him. Yeah. He didn't even know what it's coming. And he's a sales guy too. So we always argue about who's the best closer. And I'm like, who's the best closer now? And so,

yeah, got him to quit the job. And he started our investment company in November of 2018. and January 2019, we had our first deal. All right, we've got to take a quick break, but when we come back, we'll hear more from Chauncey right after this. As a host, the last thing I want to do,

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This particular property, we went out and walked it. And long story short, we were able to pick it up for $125,000. The lady just wanted enough to pay it off and have a little bit of money to walk away. We bought it for $125.25. There was nothing wrong with the house. We were going to put about $20,000 into it and sell it at like the $215.15 mark. But instead, I threw it on the MLS in Coming Soon and had an investor that was looking for rentals in the neighborhood, put it in for coming soon at $192, went under contract. sold it two weeks later at 186 and did absolutely nothing to it. So it was basically a hotel deal.

And I was able to take that 60,000 and then we just kind of kept rolling from there. Obviously, that sounds incredible, Choncy. People are probably wondering, like, is that possible? Is it possible anymore? Or is that kind of like a, that kind of deal, a relic of a different time in the market? I don't think that her situation was unique. The way that we were able to capitalize on that was she had previously had the house on the market with a realtor. And it had gone under contract. Oh, okay. And when it had gone under contract, the title company popped up with a lien. And it was a consumer debt lien. And so when we talked to her, she was like, last year, tried to sell my house, but this lien is on here. If you guys can just get this lien gone

and just get me this much money in my pocket, like you can have the house. And so I think that what was unique about that situation wasn't necessarily unique. It was the fact that we understood how to how to solve a problem. And so are those types of deals still out there where you just need to be a problem solver? Yes. All day long. That's what all of them are. And I just think that far too many people are in the game and they're not looking at themselves as problem solvers. Rather, they're going in with kind of a one-trick pony. Because even when we went to her, it was, it was not let me just buy your house. It was, I can buy your house. I can list your house because I'm a licensed realtor. That's another reason you should probably get to real estate license.

I can renovate it if you want. And then, you know, take the cost of the renovation, just put a lien on it. and then we can sell it on the market, whichever solution is best for you. And so I definitely think those deals are out here. Yeah, those deals definitely exist. I have one under contract right now that we're, I think we're paying $180. It doesn't need any work.

We're going to clean it up, throw it back on the market for $250. It's the situation that's causing us. You know, it's called the lady is about to lose it in foreclosure. And so we're going to buy it. She's going to make some money instead of just lose it. And then we're going to turn into the house. The house was built like three years ago.

So it's about, looking for situations, right? Chonsey, can we play a game? Yeah. I'm going to put your skills to the test. Okay. We're going to role play. I'm going to be a seller.

I like that. So I filled out your website. I have a house on 1, 2, 3 Main Street. You get the lead and you're calling me. And I answer the phone. And what do we say? What do we do? Hey, there, Henry.

How are you? Oh, I'm doing great. How about you? I'm doing pretty good. Hey, you're the owner, right? Over at 1, 2, 3, Main Street? Yes, I am. Absolutely.

All right. Cool. Well, I got your information. from my website, it looks like you are looking to sell this thing really quickly. So tell me this, before we even get into the conversation, if I could wave a magic wand for you, get this thing sold exactly the way that you want to. How does the situation play out in your head? I would love to get it sold and get it sold quickly because I really need to unload this property so I can get the money I need to move on to my next property. Okay. So number one, how much money do you

need to move on to your next property? And number two, why do you need to sell so urgently? Yeah, I need to sell urgently because I found a house that I really want to buy. And this one has too much work that it needs for me to get done. So I just need it. I just need out. Okay. So you need out. And how quickly are you looking to close? At least 30 days or less. If you can go faster, that'd be great. Okay. Awesome. And so then at that point, I would typically do some sort of analysis with them and start pulling up, you know, the comps on the property. And at that point, I would start really poking the bear at the pain. Right. So I would ask. ask them to send me any pictures or possibly FaceTime me. Let's do a quick video walkthrough of the property. So then I can compare it to what's on the market. In this way, this can expedite me getting an offer. I don't even need to come out to the house. FaceTime me real quick. Get me on Zoom. Let's walk through it right now. I can get you an offer right now on the phone. and I'm going to also at that same time pull up some other properties and have him pull it up and acknowledge the fact that his property is nowhere close to those so that when I come with my low-ass number, he's not offended.

So you understand your house doesn't look like 1-24 Main Street that's right up the street. This one, look, this one has granite countertops. We just walk through yours has for Micah, and I'm going to have to replace all of that, right? You understand that? And so I typically walk them through all of that. And then I'll even normally ask them a question. So Henry, based on these. houses that I just showed you, how much money would you personally think needs to be put into your

house to get it up to that level? I love this question because I do it all the time. I would say somewhere between $25,000 and $30,000, which in seller talk means what to do an investor. Yeah. Now, Henry, how are we going to get $25,000, $35,000 done on there? You think I'm doing the work or I'm going to hire someone? I have to hire you a lot, right? So that's not going to work. Realistically, this is looking like about $100,000 that I'm going to have to put into it. So let's back these numbers out. So you want to walk away with XYZ. And in order to do that, I would have to give you this number. But if I attack $100,000 on top of it, when I turn around to sell it, I don't have any money. So let's work out something that's fair. Does that work? I can solve your problem in the

time frame that you need it solved, but I'm also solving a problem for myself. Like, let's make some shape. And that's typically how I level with them. That's, and that's the investor standpoint. Now, when you make those offers, are you also offering them a solution where you're the agent? Correct. At the same time? So typically if they are offended by the investor offer, well, look, look, you don't get both at the same time. You can't be out of time and want more money. Okay. So if you want to tell me right now that you're not out of time, then I have another solution for you. And that solution is we can come in, we can maybe do a little bit of work on the property for you. I own my own construction company, so I can come in, I can do the work for you.

We can get paid on the back end so we can work out a deal that way. I'll list it for you. I'll control that part of the transaction for you. Make sure that your fees and all of that are really good on that end. We'll take care of the construction for you. And then we get it sold and get you that higher number. It's going to take a little bit more time. So which one do you want?

Want time? You want money. I love it. I do a version of the same thing. But what you were essentially doing when you asked me what I wanted was you were trying to figure out which solution makes the most sense, right? If you're saying you're saying you need to move quickly, then you're thinking as an investor. And if you're saying, I have all the time in the world and my house looks in my house is in great shape, then you have an option as an agent to list that property.

And I think that that's what investors need to learn is like your job isn't to sign your contract on your next deal. Your job is to figure out what does that seller need? What do they really need? Because they're obviously going to hold something back, right? because they think they think that we're here to swindle them and get this best deal possible, right? And so they're holding these cards close to the chest. But as you ask questions, you can start to figure that out and you can start to present a solution that actually works for them. And I think what you're saying is as a licensed agent, I now have more options to help somebody than somebody who is not a licensed agent.

Because all they can do is make a cash offer or maybe do something from a creative financing aspect. but they can't list a property and they can't do some of these other things. And so I do think that licensed agents have a superpower, but I don't know that they all know how to use it. So you did your first flip about how many flips did you do in a given year and for how long did that last? So our first year, 2019, we did exactly 10 flips. Wow. Yeah. So we did 10 our very first year.

So that $60,000 kind of gave us a little confidence, you know. And we built the little process out. And then we bought our second property. And then after the second one, we had the opportunity to pick up three more. So we were running four at a time right after our first one. And so by June of that year, because we picked up our first in January, by June, we'd completed like five or six. And then it kind of kept snowballing from there until our highest year we did 21. Oh, my God.

That just gives me so much anxiety. I can't even think about that. But it's awesome. I mean, it's incredible. But can you tell us a little bit about them, Chansy? Like, how much were these deals? What were you paying for them? How were you financing them?

And how big of the renovation were you doing? Because you were doing so much volume. When we first started, we were buying in the high ones, low twos. And then we were doing around like $60,000 renovations and selling in the mid-threes to high-threes. we continue to progress and obviously here in the Dallas Fort Worth area. So did the prices. I mean, that doesn't exist anymore. And so now we're acquiring pretty much all across the board, but I would say that our sweet spot is acquiring somewhere in the threes,

doing around $150,000 renovation and selling in, you know, sevens, high sixes or seven. Wow. Like one deal that I just completed, we're able to pick it up at first. 405, we did $190,000 or so renovation, and it sold at $860. Wow. Amazing. So those numbers, the original numbers, the purchasing the ones, renovate for about 50 to 60, selling the threes. That's about what my market is now. And you seems like you're focused more on a higher price point purchase. Is that the same home that you were buying when prices

were different or are you specifically looking for a higher end type of deal? So our goal is not necessarily to buy a house at a particular price point. We always like to look for houses that are standouts, that when on the market, they have something cool or quirky about them. So whether it's the layout, it's something architectural about them, it's the lot. And it just always tends to be around that price point. But realistically, the specs of the homes that we're buying right now are about the same as they were.

When we first started back in 2019, the prices are. just so much more expensive. I like this approach. I just have to say, I think I like the idea of looking for something different. In my opinion, though, like, there is a part where it goes too far, right? Like, how quirky are we talking? Nothing crazy. But I just refuse to do just standard gray or white walls with more. Like, I just, I need something interesting. We go for large skylights, cool entrances, you know, funny, you know, layouts. We do a lot of, you know, sunken living rooms, a lot of... Very 70s, yeah.

Yes. Yes. And we keep those elements where most flippers would go in and probably try to make everything, you know, look like everything else on the market. We find the houses with old character and we try to preserve it. I assume it limits a little bit who you sell to, but are those people more interested then? Like you get people who are like really passionate about the homes because there's something that they get attached to.

Yes, correct. So essentially my marketing background, even... just doing marketing online will tell you that your job as a marketer is to create an offer that's so irresistible that the consumer can't not buy. They feel stupid for not buying it, right? And to almost create raving fans to your product. And that's kind of the approach that we take. And so, yeah, we are normally getting multiple offers, but we're not getting 15. We may get three or four. But those three or four people that want the house and the one that ultimately ends up going under contract will do anything. to make sure that they stay under contract

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So you've talked a lot about flipping, but have you ever thought about doing rental properties or any other strategies alongside flipping? Yeah, yeah. We have some rentals out in East Texas. So we have a portfolio of 17 rentals in East Texas. But what I found here in Texas is that it's very difficult to cash flow anything in the Dallas-Fort Worth market simply because taxes and insurance is so expensive on top of the acquisition costs. So the market that we're in is like Texarkana, Tyler, Longview. I'm actually from Texas. Texarkana. So you're able to buy properties there for really cheap. A lot of people rent forever there. And you'll get, you know, good cash flow, $500, $700 a month. But the problem is the value of those houses, they don't increase. So, you know, you're cash flowing. But if you go to sell it 10 years later, you're lucky if, you know, the value has gone up $20,000 or so. So I'm not really hardcore

interested in the building of rentals. We really like to leverage doing things that get us a lot of capital in hand and then taking that and kind of, you know, investing in other outlets. So it sounds like you used your market expertise kind of as an agent to understand where I can buy for cash flow and where I can buy to increase my return so that you can strategically buy rental properties. But it sounds like the flipping. business is what's really generating the income. But the market changed. The price points shifted, and that means risk shifted. Is there anything else that you did do or have done to help you mitigate the risk and the change of the market that that has happened over the 2025,

2026 market? Because a lot of people fell on their face in 2025. So how are you staying profitable? Absolutely. So really excited about this new kind of model that we've been. built out and it's our turnkey model where we essentially are operators. So instead of going in and actually owning the properties, we have clients that are liquid, typically at least $150,000 or so. And they are interested in getting a return on their money through flipping, but they don't have anything except for the money. And instead of doing what a typical flipper would do, would just take their money and then go and buy a flip and then give them a fixed return on it, instead, we're actually, we've built out all of the verticals around flipping houses. So you've got to find it,

you got to fund it, you got to fix it, you got to furnish it, and then you got to flip it, right? So I own all of those parts of the transaction. So we're sourcing the deals. We are the lender. We broker out money and then we have our own commercial line of credit that we loan out. We own the construction company. I have the staging inventory. I, because of the real estate brokerage that I went to, I have, you know, hundreds of agents underneath me. So we're listing the property. So essentially, we're able to go to our clients and say, hey, I've got this house. I've got it for, you know, you can pick it up for $200,000. Here's the scope of work. It's going to cost approximately XYZ. It's accurate because I own that part of the process. Here's the design. You know, here's

everything that has to do with. Here's the average days on market. Here's the ARV. And so your potential profit when it sells will be XYZ. Do you want to take it down or not? And if so, then we start that process and I'm making money in every single one of the steps of that process that that person would have otherwise had to gone out, find a house, get a lender, find a GC, hire a designer, hire a staging company, find a realtor. I'm all of those things for them and I'm able to make six figures on each deal with zero money out of my pocket. And so I'm leveraging my skill set in house flipping to have now become a. an operator and built out a highly profitable business without me having to technically own the

asset. I mean, that sounds incredible, both from your perspective, but also from a flipper, if you're not a professional at this, it sounds like you're offering a lot. But if you're making six figures, what are the margins for the flipper? It depends, but I mean, they're typically making 20%, 20%, 25%, somewhere in there. Okay. But are they like running the project? Are they doing it? No, they do nothing. They're completely hands off. They do nothing. They do nothing. Okay. They do absolutely nothing except for sign on the dotted line and acquire the property and sign when it closes. So you're not worried about making money as the investor. You're worried about your company's making money all along the way. Is that? Correct. Correct. Okay. So walk me through kind of what that looks like from an investor's standpoint.

So what's a typical deal look like for you as the business owners and the investor? They all look different because I own the different pieces of the process. There's no set fee for each part, if that makes sense. So some houses, if I'm able to acquire it really low, then I can front load it and I can make more money on the acquisition. So if I'm able to acquire a property that's worth $350,000 for $85,000, then obviously I can offload that to my client at maybe a $150,000. So now I've made a big chunk on the front end, right? Versus a house that, you know, I'm not necessarily acquiring really, really low, but I know it has extensive construction, then I can ultimately structure the deal where I'm making more money on the construction side or, you know, in the design. So, so there's no set numbers. We underwrite them differently. Every single house is completely different, but our goal is to make sure that our turnkey clients are coming back. So our goal is to make sure that they're making money. And so I'm going to structure the deal in a way that every time they're getting more money than they would in any other

way and putting their money in the market in any way. And so as long as I can do that, and they're not doing anything and they can call themselves a house slipper, they get the ego of being able to say, I'm an investor with being hands off, but then getting a 20, 25, sometimes up to 35% return on it, then they're happy as clams. I'm just trying to understand the risk reward profile here because it's like other turnkey properties, right? Like normally, you know, if you go and buy a turnkey rental property, you're giving up some of your upside to lower your overall risk. Right.

And that's kind of what this seems like. You're giving up some of your upside in a flip to lower your overall risk. So I'm just trying to understand what the risks are for the flipper. They're owning the property. They're still liable for cost overruns. So those are important considerations for people who would consider this model. Yeah, absolutely. But the cost overruns aren't the we went over and you just have to.

pay it. This is a decision that as a real estate investor you need to make. And ultimately, when we're underwriting these properties, we are extremely conservative with our numbers. So we are calculating everything as if everything has to get fixed. We're talking all of the MEPs, everything cosmetic. So if there happens to be an overrun, then that's typically because we've seen some sort of upside. So the house across the street just went on the market and it has an extra bedroom and we have the opportunity to convert a space here to a bedroom if you want to achieve that number. So then at that point, you get to make that decision. It's not just an arbitrary, sorry, we went over. You got to pay this extra money in construction. Like, it's not that type of thing. So they get what the full scope of

work is before they even make the decision to acquire the property and they know what all in that looks like. And it sounds funny, but like you said I'm making more than them, but you're making more than them across several different businesses. Correct. And this is all money that an investor pays to other companies anyway. Like this is what I do anyway. Like everybody always makes more money than me. It's just what I get to walk away at the end of the day.

I pay my contractors. I pay the title companies. I pay the real estate agents. I pay the project managers. And then I get to keep what's left. The process doesn't change. It's just that in this particular niche in this particular market, you own all these businesses. So you're mitigating your risk by taking your profit margins through your

companies and not having to own the real estate asset and you're still making money flipping houses. You're just not the one owning the asset and you get to offer essentially a turnkey product to your seller. That's a pretty cool perspective. Vertical integration is, I think, important to most businesses, but it's an intimidating thing to take on. Like how did you take that bite of the elephant to where you started to own different parts of the process that weren't the typical buy the house, renovate the house. Yeah. So it actually started with this mastermind that I'd gone to for real estate. And they had us do this exercise where we wrote the word realtor in the middle, circled it. And then we had to come up with who all in a transaction

made money. And at the end of the day, I think we came up with like 45 different people in a real estate transaction, make money from something out of a realtor brings. So then when we, found ourselves on a television show flipping houses and getting more and more demand for needing to get more houses. We were like, man, I don't really want to buy more houses. How can we leverage what we know? How can we? And I just had this thought and I told my husband, I'm like, we did this exercise when I was a realtor. Let's see all of the different parts of flipping a house. How many people are making money off of that? And instead of, you know, us going out and always buying more houses, why can't we just leverage our skill set in this and leverage our expertise and make money off of all of the different parts?

Because ultimately that's what people have the most problems with is implementation. So if I can implement things for people that I've already become an expert at and I can just make money, then that's how I'll do it. So it really was kind of born from, again, this idea that I learned being a realtor and then out of necessity of, you know, just continuing to need to buy more houses on the television show. and right at the tail end of that. And I'm like, I'm tired of having to buy more houses. We finished and wrapped production with the show. And we were like, let's try this turnkey thing. Enough people now know us.

We have the credibility. We have, you know, the processes built out. And so then we just started doing what we were already doing. So then it was pretty simple. We were already sourcing deals. So we just made that a legit process. We already understood hard money lending. So then we looked at what it would take.

to get a line of credit that we could loan out and broker for other hard money lenders. We already had our own construction company, so that was already set in stone. But then we got our tax resale certificate, and then we set up accounts with all of the wholesale suppliers for the materials. We then bought, you know, the staging inventory and set that business up. So it was things that we were already doing. I think you start to get into the weeds with vertical integration when you're trying to reinvent the wheel instead of looking at what you're already doing, who you're paying money to

and then seeing how you can kind of bring that in-house, which is ultimately what we did. It makes total sense. I mean, this money is going out. You might as well get some of it if you have the capacity to do it. It's impressive, super impressive that you're able to run all these businesses. Did you start all of them? Did you acquire them?

Or is all this from scratch? No, we started. Wow, that's awesome. We started them all from scratch. Very cool. Just one by one. And they're not running independently. I'm not marketing all of them.

So it doesn't seem daunting. Like, yeah, it's not like you're doing staging for someone else. You do it for yourself. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That makes total sense.

So you're marketing turnkey and then everything else flows from there. Correct. That makes sense. And occasionally, you know, we get the one-offs where someone just wants, you know, a retail construction job. We'll take it. You know, I do design jobs for other people. But that's not my focus and that's not what I market.

But I do have the ability to do that. So as the market changes, I'm in the position. to make money in a ton of different ways when other people aren't. Well, I commend you. You're braver than me because the amount of times I've thought, man, I should just start my own construction company because I'm running all these crews anyway and just haven't pulled the trigger to do it.

You are my inspiration that this is absolutely possible, especially with the level of experience. Totally doable, dude. It's so doable. It really is. All right, Chauncey, thank you so much for coming on the Bigger Pockets podcast and sharing a literal wealth of experience.

And so I wish we had more time to be able to dive into all of the things that you have experienced and have experience in in the real estate world. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me, guys. Thanks, Chaunce. Also, guys, if you learn something from this episode, then I recommend you checking out Bigger Pockets Podcast episode 1160. That's back from August 2025, where Dave and I both shared some of our favorite cheap and

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